Longevity: Starting with an infant's innate growth potential

Chapter 17 Qi Refining Level 2 (Please read and add to your favorites)

Two months passed in the blink of an eye.

"I've finally mastered the Spirit Flame Technique!"

At night, on the wooden bed, Zhou Ling sat cross-legged, slowly opened his eyes, and exhaled.

At this moment, he circulated the wispy magical power within his body and felt a scorching aura.

As soon as he started learning, he felt the power of the Spirit Flame Technique was exceptionally intense.

This is the magical power condensed by the Spirit Flame Technique!
Zhou Ling could sense that this thread-like magical power was significantly more abundant and powerful than the magical power he had previously absorbed through the Five Elements Breathing Technique, and its endurance was much stronger!
"Fortunately, I have the talents of 'resilient through setbacks' and 'born with talent'."

Zhou Ling couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

Otherwise, it would take forever to comprehend this technique, let alone cultivate any magical power.

It takes one or two years, or even two or three years, to understand it.

By then I will be seven or eight years old.

Even if one enters the second level of Qi Refining, the next two years of cultivation may not be enough to reach the fourth level of Qi Refining.

At that time, it will be time to leave the Taoist temple.

Without the resources and foundation of a Taoist academy, one is destined to be a lone cultivator, with a very slim chance of reaching the Foundation Establishment stage.

Thinking of this, Zhou Ling took another deep breath, focused his mind even more, and continued to cultivate the Spirit Flame Technique.

Strive to reach the second level of Qi Refining as soon as possible.

The area between this level and the second level represents a minor realm.

Without the aid of elixirs, it would be very difficult to break through using only magical power.

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Two more months have passed in a flash, winter has gone and spring has arrived.

[You are absorbing spiritual energy. Spiritual affinity +1, spiritual energy +3]

[Cumulative number of times spiritual energy was absorbed: 51090/100,000]

That night, Zhou Ling was sitting cross-legged, cultivating the Spirit Flame Technique.

With each breath Zhou Ling took, it seemed as if faint ripples spread around him, and strands of spiritual energy were drawn into his body.

It then slowly flows into the meridians and merges into the spiritual acupoints.

Zhou Ling noticed that with each breath, his spiritual energy became more abundant.

After Zhou Ling continued cultivating for half an hour, he felt a tingling and slightly swollen sensation in his meridians, realizing that his spiritual energy points were full.

Immediately afterwards, the spiritual energy within the meridians, guided by the Spirit Flame Technique, slowly stimulated the meridian acupoints, like peeling away layers of an onion.

Soon, there was a muffled thud.

"Finally, the tenth acupoint has been activated!"

Zhou Ling let out a breath; he had waited for this moment for almost half a year.

Of course, this is mainly due to the nature of the cultivation method.

Although it took a while, it was all worth it.

Choosing to cultivate a low-grade Yellow Rank technique might be faster.

However, the subsequent cultivation speed may not be as fast as that of the Spirit Flame Technique.

Zhou Ling scratched his head, then continued to circulate the Spirit Flame Technique, trying to absorb spiritual energy, and found that he absorbed twice as much spiritual energy as before.

Although it's only a small upgrade, the speed has already increased so much.

Zhou Ling was overjoyed and continued cultivating for about an incense stick's time to stabilize his cultivation.

At this moment, he found that the spiritual energy in his body was significantly more abundant, and even his still-developing divine sense had become stronger.

"You've reached the second level of Qi Refining!"

Zhou Ling was overjoyed.

It took me more than fifteen minutes to calm down my excitement.

Reaching the second level of Qi Refining means becoming a true cultivator.

Next, you can start practicing various skills.

Zhou Ling began to carefully consider her next plan, hoping to learn a skill as soon as possible.

To help ease the burden on the family. "Tomorrow is the first day of the new school year, so I can go to the Taoist academy to borrow books on basic inscription cultivation and learn how to refine inscriptions as soon as possible!"

Zhou Ling thought to himself.

He picked up the cup from the small wooden table and drank a few sips of water.

"Let's tell Mom and Dad, so they can be happy too!"

Zhou Ling thought to himself.

The faint light of the flint lamp shone through the crack in the door and into the room.

Zhou Ling knew that her parents were probably still awake.

Although Li Ru and his wife had high expectations for him, they also knew that cultivation should be done step by step and not with eagerness for quick success.

Laying a solid foundation is very important.

He didn't put any pressure on Zhou Ling normally.

As Zhou Ling approached the door, he peered through the crack and saw his father sitting on a wooden chair, sipping spirit wine from a ceramic bowl, with a small dish of roasted peanuts beside him.

His already somewhat weathered face looked even more haggard in the dim light.

The mother sat on a low wooden stool near the flint lamp, sewing shoe soles for herself, occasionally yawning slightly.

Seeing this, Zhou Ling's excitement gradually dissipated.

He is now over five years old.

Unbeknownst to him, he had grown from a baby who could only cry loudly into a cultivator at the second level of Qi Refining.

This speed is already very fast for ordinary independent cultivators.

However, in these five years, my parents' cultivation has not improved at all; it has stagnated.

Zhou Ling knew the main reason was that they had given him all the resources.

Li Ru put down the needle, took out scissors from the winnowing basket, cut the thread, looked up at Zhou Shan and said, "Husband, let's not go into the inner mountain this year."

Zhou Shan shook his head. "Right now, the outer mountains only have ordinary spiritual herbs. My spiritual sense is low, so I can't find good herbs. If I encounter a demon beast and get injured, then this month's work will basically be for nothing."

"Although the monsters in the inner mountain are stronger, it's worth it if we can find one or two mid-grade first-level spiritual herbs."

Li Ru looked at Zhou Shan and said gently, "Once Ling'er has exchanged for her main cultivation technique, you can use the remaining spirit stones at home to buy spirit sand."

"Let's see if I can break through to the late stage of Body Refinement!"

Zhou Shan took a sip of the spirit wine and shook his head, saying, "Ling'er will choose to cultivate a new technique, and later he will need to use spirit objects to assist him. This will cost a lot of spirit stones, so let's save it for him."

"At my age, I don't expect to make any great progress in my cultivation."

"Father, Mother, I've reached the second level of Qi Refining!" Zhou Ling opened the door, walked into the hall, and said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Shan and his wife were stunned for a moment, and then they both looked at Zhou Ling with joy.

"Son, you've already reached the second level of Qi Refining!"

Li Ru hurriedly pulled Zhou Ling in front of her, looking him up and down in disbelief, before excitedly exclaiming, "Husband, our son has really reached the second level of Qi Refining!"

"Good! Good! My Zhou family is really going to produce a Foundation Establishment cultivator in this generation!"

Zhou Shan was also filled with relief and excitement, and couldn't help but drink the remaining wine in the earthenware bowl in one gulp.

The couple never expected that their son would reach the second level of Qi Refining so quickly.

At this rate, there's a good chance he'll continue cultivating at the academy until he's ten years old.

In the future, they may even become inner disciples of the Taoist academy.

"Father, Mother, I've taken care of the cultivation technique. As for the academy tuition, you don't need to worry about that anymore!"

"This year, the academy started separating students into different streams. As long as I rank in the top ten in the assessment, I won't have to pay tuition, and I might even receive a bonus from the academy!"

Zhou Ling said.

Originally, Zhou Ling didn't want her parents to know about these two things, especially the assessment.

But I really didn't want my father to risk going into the mountains.

That's why I brought it up first.

After all, he wasn't entirely confident that he could make it into the top ten of the Dao Academy's assessment.

(End of this chapter)