I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 561: Seven Days to Pass
Facing Zhang's temptation, Zhang Chen hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and rejected it: "No! If we take the initiative to curry favor with her, it will be like trying to take advantage of her. We are going to Jiangnan to recognize our relatives. If we can recognize our relatives, that would be great. If not, then we will just go our separate ways, and people will not think we are taking advantage of them."

To be honest, if it wasn't for the news about his mother and father, and if his mother hadn't left him something, he wouldn't have felt that he had to acknowledge this relative. He just wanted to find a quiet place to hide and grow. As long as he was given time, he could easily enter the twelfth level. Before that, he didn't want to cause trouble, nor did he want to be noticed. He had enough ability, even if he didn't rely on anyone, he could make his mother and little sister live well.

After hearing this, Zhang did not try to persuade her further. Now all family affairs were decided by Zhang Chen. Since Zhang Chen made the decision, she had to obey it.

This was something Zhang Chen had not expected. He did not want to be involved with Jiang Nan, but the development of the matter was not up to Zhang Chen.

Just two months later, Zhang Chen was sitting in front of the mast, fishing with a fishing rod in his hand. Zhang Fei and Zhang Taowei, standing beside him, also held a fishing rod each and paddled in the water with excitement.

Zhang Chen wore a bamboo hat to avoid the scorching sun in the sky. As he got closer to Jiangnan, the sun in the sky became hotter and hotter. Zhang Chen felt that the air was extremely hot and dry, an indescribable feeling of heat that made him feel a little upset.

Zhang Taowei and Zhang Fei were sitting next to Zhang Chen. Zhang Chen took a look at Zhang Fei and felt that the little fat man had gained a lot of weight, so he asked, "How is your martial arts training going?"

Zhang Fei's expression changed when he heard this. He glanced at Zhang Chen quietly, then whispered, "Brother, I have a question in my mind."

"What's your question?" Zhang Chen asked.

"No matter how hard we practice martial arts, even if we practice to the highest level, it's just that. If we want to see the incorruptible spirit and ignite the blood and qi, there is no hope at all without thirty to fifty years of hard work. We can easily gain strength with the power of our bloodlines, and as we grow older, our strength will become stronger and stronger in the future, especially since we have acquired the method of visualization, which is the great way and has infinite potential. Why should we still practice martial arts? With the time to polish our body, I can achieve the Yang God in thirty to fifty years, or at least the Yin God will be immortal. Why should I continue to practice martial arts and suffer that hardship?" Zhang Fei couldn't bear the hardship of martial arts. It was extremely difficult to set aside five or six hours a day to practice martial arts.

It is extremely difficult for normal people to stick to daily exercise, let alone asking people to practice martial arts for five or six hours every day?
In addition, after getting on the boat, the food was not good, and the fat boy began to feel lazy.

Zhang Chen looked at the fat on the little fat man's body and raised his eyebrows: Good guy! No wonder he gets fat just by eating Wowotou every day, it turns out he is just being lazy.

Zhang Chen glanced at the little fat boy and said nothing. Instead, he turned his head to look at Zhang Taowei. The other's fair and tender face also had a little more baby fat. Obviously, this girl was also lazy, so Zhang Chen asked without any fluctuation in his voice: "Do you think so too?"

Zhang Taowei scratched his head and said, "Brother, the effect of physical training is too slow, it is not worth wasting our time. If we have the time to practice martial arts, we should practice Yin Shen Fa, which is the most cost-effective. After practicing martial arts for ten years, if it is not as good as one or two years of Shenhun Dao, what is the point of practicing martial arts? Besides, we still have blood power. Practicing Yin Shen Fa can promote the development of blood power. It is most cost-effective for us to specialize in Yin Shen Fa. And when we reach the realm of seizing a body, we can exchange it for a powerful body. Wouldn't it save us countless hard work? Asking others to help us practice martial arts is the real cost-effective. Others practice martial arts while we practice Yin Shen. When Yin Shen becomes powerful, we can directly rob others' bodies. This is the right way."

Hearing what the two kids said, Zhang Chen frowned, his voice full of seriousness: "Nonsense! You have just started practicing, what do you know? Although the Yin Shen method can take over the body and replace the body, how can someone else's body be as good as your own? It involves the harmony of qi and blood, as well as the imprint of the flesh, there are all kinds of disadvantages and it is extremely troublesome. Your idea is absolutely not acceptable!"

Zhang Chen's voice was a little angry at this time: "You have just started practicing, and you are already preparing to take shortcuts. This is simply unreasonable. Martial arts practice is the most important key. No matter how strong your bloodline and supernatural powers are, no matter how powerful your methods are, there will eventually be an opponent of equal strength. At that time, no one can do anything to anyone. Your physical body is your weakness. Others practice martial arts, and you don't. When they come to compete with you in physical strength, what will you do?"

"Brother, our Zhang family is born with the ability to control the power of the soul, so the situation you mentioned will not happen. I have already thought about it. With the improvement of the soul, the power of blood will also increase. With the superposition of blood power and Yin Shen Fa, we will be invincible among our peers. Who can be our opponent? Who can compete with us in physical body?" Zhang Fei opened his mouth to refute Zhang Chen's words.

Zhang Chen was already annoyed by the hot weather when he heard Zhang Fei's words. Zhang Fei's words were like adding fuel to the fire. He became angry: "Nonsense! There are thousands of methods in this world. Even I dare not say that I am invincible at the same level. How dare you say that you are invincible at the same level?"

"What you said is only a minority of cases. How can there be so many invincible and difficult people in this world?" Zhang Fei muttered, with a look of disapproval on his face: "Besides, I can plunder other people's souls to protect my way. How can I be so unlucky?"

"You have practiced for a few days, and have seen many strong men. How dare you say that you are invincible at the same level?"

As he spoke, Zhang Chen slammed the fishing rod in his hand onto the deck: "Have you become so independent that you don't even listen to me? Now you have your own ideas, and even I can't control you?" It was noon, and the sun was at its highest. With the fire rising in his heart, it seemed to have stirred up a strange energy from the outside world. Zhang Chen suddenly shuddered, and some unknown changes occurred in his three souls and seven spirits. An indescribable energy rose in his body.

The third level of Qigong has three levels: the Yin Fu of advance and retreat, the temperature of civil and martial arts, and the concentration of the primordial spirit.

However, there are two hurdles in condensing the primordial spirit. Of course, these hurdles are not the realm of cultivation, but the nodes that need attention.

The first node is the enlightenment of the elixir.

After the Qigong practitioner has refined the Jade Liquid Dan, he will begin to refine and nurture the three souls and seven spirits, making the three souls and seven spirits aggregate and transform, and nurture according to a certain law. The process is like embryonic development, and the Jade Liquid is like embryo nutrition, the body is like the placenta, and the three souls and seven spirits are like the embryo in the placenta. In this process, the Yin Fu, the civil and military fire are constantly advanced and retreated, and the three souls and seven spirits undergo mysterious changes.

After the 'placenta' inside is conceived, it still needs to be enlightened by the elixir, otherwise the 'placenta' that is conceived will be a dead fetus, a mass of dead flesh that is completely useless. Only after that key enlightenment can the 'dead flesh' be brought back to life and the soul can undergo a qualitative change.

This is the first key to concentrating the primordial spirit.

The second trick is to pass the test in seven days.

What is the seven-day clearance?

Although the soul was ignited and "alive", and a qualitative change occurred, its consciousness was blank, like a blank slate. What Zhang Chen had to do was to infuse his ego's thinking consciousness into the soul, so that the consciousness and the soul would merge. This process took seven days, and within seven days, the body and consciousness would merge, and the entire body would lose all perception of the outside world, just like being dead.

The physical body dies but the soul lives, turning into a state of the living dead. The mind becomes silent and free of thoughts. Only in this way can one become one with the Tao and complete the integration of consciousness and the soul.

In the past, Li Xuan, one of the Eight Immortals of the Upper Cave, turned into a living dead because he failed to pass the seven-day test. His body was then burned by his disciples, and he finally turned into Li Tieguai.

Although the third realm has three levels of hurdles: advancing and retreating Yin Fu, civil and military fire, and condensing the primordial spirit, all three levels can be practiced together.

Ever since the Blood Sea Avenue came into the world, Zhang Chen seemed to have been blessed by some unknown source, and his cultivation progressed rapidly. In just two months since the blood sea phenomenon occurred, the gestation of Zhang Chen's soul has been completed. Today, the embryo of his soul has been completed, and it is naturally attracted to the point of true yang in his mysterious consciousness, just like two magnets. Zhang Chen's soul is a yin magnet, and Zhang Chen's point of true yang is a yang magnet. Then the yin and yang exude a huge attraction, and before Zhang Chen can react, that point of true yang has automatically fallen from his consciousness into his soul, and then his soul nerves are nourished by the true yang, like the finishing touch, and the whole person's yang soul is completely alive.

As mentioned in the previous article, Zhang Chen's cultivation of the third realm's advance and retreat Yin Fu, civil and military fire, and condensation of the primordial spirit were practiced together, and the enlightenment of the elixir and the seven-day pass also happened at the same time. Now that the enlightenment of the elixir has begun, the seven-day pass must naturally begin as well. Otherwise, if the opportunity is missed, the primordial spirit will not be able to receive the infusion of consciousness and will turn into an idiot.

Zhang Chen had no chance to react at all. He only felt a buzzing in his head. Before he could react, everything went black in front of his eyes. He looked at Zhang Taowei, trying to say something, but no words came out. The next moment, he fell to the ground, his body quickly turned cold, his breath stopped, his heart stopped beating, and he completely turned into a living dead, no different from a dead person.

Zhang Chen was a self-taught cultivator, and he had no master to teach him. How could he know that all this would happen so suddenly? He wanted to give them a last-minute warning, but it was too late. Before he passed out, Zhang Chen had only one thought in his mind: "Could it be that my body was refined away like Li Xuan's?"

(End of this chapter)