Longevity: Starting with an infant's innate growth potential

Chapter 34 Accelerated Cultivation (Seeking further reading, monthly tickets, and recommendation votes)

Afterwards, Zhou Ling poured a bowl of wine for Chu Xing and Zhou Shan respectively, and then went back to his room.

Inside the hall, Chu Xing and Zhou Shan continued to discuss their upcoming trip into the mountains.

"This time, we have to prepare so many things; it seems we're going to go to a much farther place."

"With Father's cultivation level, he shouldn't have entered the inner mountain in the first place!"

Hearing the conversation between the two people outside, Zhou Ling sighed.

These weren't things he should have been worried about, but now that he was able to refine first-grade low-level magic weapons, he wanted to share some of the burden with his parents.

My mother was always terrified, especially every time she went into the mountains.

He watched, and felt a pang of sadness.

"By the way, if we can successfully refine one more Thunderfire Pearl this time, it will be a great guarantee for Father!"

At this moment, Zhou Ling had an idea.

Master Lu gave him six artifact beads.

Once three are refined, the mission will be complete.

The rest is yours.

Therefore, as long as the success rate is increased, I can earn more.

Thinking of this, Zhou Ling sorted out the lightning and fire spirit inks and arranged the spirit paper.

However, due to the repair of the thick earth shield, the spiritual power in his body is now less than 20%.

Zhou Ling scratched his head and muttered, "It seems I won't be able to continue drawing the Thunderfire Inscription this afternoon!"

Although there were still two hours until nightfall, Zhou Ling's current meridian strength limited his ability to circulate his cultivation techniques and absorb spiritual energy each day.

Practicing for two or three hours a day is already the limit.

But Zhou Ling didn't want to waste time like that.

How to do it?
"Oh right, Fireweed!"

Zhou Ling then took out the two Fire Cloud Grasses that Chu Xing had just given him from his bosom.

Fire Cloud Grass is an auxiliary spiritual item for cultivating the Spirit Flame Technique.

I have been practicing the Spirit Flame Technique for three years now. I started by circulating the energy for one cycle, and now I can circulate it for seven cycles at once.

However, since they have never used any auxiliary spiritual objects, the overall progress has been slow.

Now that we have Fire Cloud Grass, let's see how much it can enhance the Spirit Flame Technique.

Let's also take a look at what kind of talent attribute is [Elixir Stress].

Zhou Ling immediately activated the Spirit Flame Technique, holding the Fire Cloud Grass in his hand, and began to try to absorb the spiritual energy contained within it.

Under the refinement of the spiritual power of the Spirit Flame Technique, Zhou Ling quickly absorbed wisps of fire-attribute spiritual power from the Fire Cloud Grass into his body.

As soon as it entered his meridians, Zhou Ling felt waves of burning pain in his meridians.

The medicinal power of this Fire Cloud Grass is exceptionally domineering, like a small fiery snake writhing wildly through his meridians.

The burning pain in his veins lasted for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. Zhou Ling was covered in sweat, but he gritted his teeth and circulated the Spirit Flame Technique, using his spiritual power to refine the spiritual power of the Fire Cloud Grass that he had just absorbed.

[You are absorbing Fireweed, resilience +1, Spiritual Energy +3]

[You are absorbing Fireweed Grass. Herbal Stress +1, Fireweed Grass Power +1]

As the notification sound rang out, the burning pain in my veins gradually subsided.

The spiritual power contained in the elixir was also completely refined.

Subsequently, the spiritual power within his body gradually increased.

Soon, the spiritual energy within his body surged, like a bottle filled with water.

The next moment, there were two "plop plop" sounds.

The immense medicinal power was released instantly, spreading throughout the meridians and transforming into extremely pure spiritual energy.

Under the impact of the Fire Cloud Grass's spiritual power, two spiritual acupoints were opened in the meridians within just a few breaths.

This brought Zhou Ling's spiritual acupoints to twenty-four, taking a big step closer to the fourth level of Qi Refining.

"This is the benefit of Fireweed!"

"No wonder it needs the assistance of spiritual objects to cultivate; it makes progress much faster!"

After his spiritual energy had completely stabilized, Zhou Ling opened his eyes, exhaled softly, and looked delighted.

It has been more than two months since he entered the third level of Qi Refining, and he has only opened one more spiritual acupoint.

He is now almost eight years old.

At this rate, reaching the fourth level of Qi Refining before the age of ten will not be easy. In particular, the third and fourth levels of Qi Refining are still a bottleneck.

Breaking through is not easy.

This first attempt at refining the Fire Cloud Grass unexpectedly activated two spiritual acupoints.

Zhou Ling could feel that the spiritual energy that had been greatly depleted had now been fully restored, and even increased considerably.

"The fact that it achieved such results this time is largely due to the talents [Resilient to Adversity] and [Medicinal Stress Response]!"

Zhou Ling reflected on the situation just now and thought to himself.

At the same time, he was also thinking about the attributes of the two talents.

The talent of "the more setbacks you face, the stronger you become" means that no matter what adversity you face, as long as you are indomitable, you can unleash even greater potential.

Just like the pain of the Fire Cloud Herb's power burning your meridians, if you can't bear the pain, give up refining the herb's power.

Then you'll gain nothing.

As for the [Medicinal Stress], judging from what we just saw, it means the medicinal effect is enhanced.

I only absorbed the medicinal power of two Fire Cloud Grasses just now, but under the effect of [Spiritual Herb Stress], the actual amount of medicinal power absorbed will be twice as much.

"With this effect, I need to earn more spirit stones and buy Fire Cloud Grass as soon as possible!"

Zhou Ling thought to himself.

Looking out the window, it was still bright outside, and the hall was quiet. It seemed that Chu Xing had already left.

Zhou Ling drank a few sips of water and then picked up a towel to wipe the sweat from her forehead.

After calming down a bit, I started drawing the lightning and fire array again.

Pick up the inscription brush, dip it in the spiritual ink, and begin to write.

This time it went incredibly smoothly.

As he finished writing, a thin, elongated bolt of lightning seemed to flash across the spirit paper.

In an instant, a lightning and fire inscription condensed on the spirit paper.

[You are currently creating a Thunderfire Inscription. Innate Talent +1, Inscription Proficiency +1]

[You are currently drawing an inscription; Precision control +1, Inscription Proficiency +1]

"It's finally done!"

Zhou Ling was thrilled.

However, Zhou Ling soon frowned again as he felt the depletion of his magical power.

Although the drawing was successful, about 50% of the mana in his body was still consumed.

Zhou Ling had no choice but to temporarily abandon continuing to draw.

I left the room and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

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That evening, he successfully drew another lightning and fire inscription on the spirit paper. As his proficiency increased, the consumption of spiritual energy also decreased significantly.

As his proficiency with inscriptions increases, the difficulty of changing these inscriptions is constantly decreasing for him.

The following day, which was also a day off, Zhou Ling continued to draw two more lightning and fire inscriptions on the spirit paper during the day.

Feeling he had a good grasp of the process, Zhou Ling took out the Thunderfire Pearl tool and began the formal drawing process.

Because drawing on the tool consumes significantly more spiritual energy than drawing on spirit paper.

Moreover, it is even more difficult to control.

The first Thunderfire Inscription ended in failure.

Zhou Ling could only activate the [Basic Analysis] talent and earnestly summarize his failures.

I had a good rest that night.

The next morning, they began to try again.

This time, I finally succeeded in drawing it.

Over the next few days, he attended classes at the Taoist academy during the day and refined thunderfire balls when he returned home at night.

Three more were successfully refined within four days, while one failed.

Of the six artifact beads, four were successfully obtained, which greatly pleased Zhou Ling.

In addition to earning seven spirit stones, I also gained a Thunderfire Pearl.

Based on market prices, it should be worth at least ten low-grade spirit stones.

(End of this chapter)