Searching for the best path, starting from Renjia Town

Chapter 100: Refining Qi into Spirit, Yang Shen is expected

Two days later, General Bian sent someone to the inn and delivered the promised reward of ten gold bars.

"this is yours."

As agreed before, the profit would be split 50-50, so Taoist Qianhe immediately took out five sticks and handed them to Li Kunshan.

"Thank you, uncle."

Li Kunshan didn't hesitate and took it quickly.

Minister Wu had said before that Li Kunshan and the others had bravely protected the young prince, and that this would be reported to the emperor and he would give them extra rewards.

Where's the reward?
The Qing dynasty died long ago, and the so-called emperor is nothing more than a captive mascot, with all his expenses coming from the Republic of China. He's already living in such a state, so what reward is there for him?

Li Kunshan smiled and said that one should not be too greedy. Having five gold bars was already very good.

"Uncle, I'm going out for a while."

Li Kunshan put the gold bars directly into his arms, said something and walked out of the inn.

Watching Li Kunshan leave, Dongnan, Xi and others blinked their eyes and suddenly realized.

No wonder Li Kunshan didn't go out before, it turned out he was waiting for gold bars. Yes, even if you are visiting Beijing, the situation is completely different if you have money or not.

Full of envy, he couldn't help but look at Taoist Qianhe eagerly.

"Master, don't you also have five gold bars?"

"I heard that the chef at Zhengyanglou used to be the imperial chef, and the president is a frequent visitor there. Let's go and try it."

"Yeah yeah."

"It's a ghost! Taste your head!"

Taoist Qianhe gave each of them a slap on the face and then snorted coldly.

"Hurry up and pack your things. I have an appointment with Master Li to help him with Feng Shui this afternoon."

"Ah? We have to work again."

Dongnanxi and Xi were all in tears. They had originally thought they could have some fun in Beijing, but they didn't expect to have to start work so soon.

I have to say that Taoist Qianhe's sales ability is really good. In just two days, he actually got business in the capital city where many experts gather.

Ignoring Taoist Qianhe and the others, Li Kunshan walked alone on the streets of the capital, his eyes constantly scanning the shops on both sides.

About an hour later, we stopped in front of a big drugstore.

There were five doors leading in and out, each with a plaque inscribed with the characters "Baicao Hall." On the doorframes, a couplet read, "May the world be free of illness, why worry about the medicine on the shelf gathering dust?"

"That's it."

Li Kunshan nodded and walked into the pharmacy.

An hour later, Li Kunshan came out of Baicaoting carrying a sack, and a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties sent him to the door.

Watching Li Kunshan walk away, Mr. Bai Qi sneered and took the gold bars to their Bai family's old store to purchase more goods.

Fortunately, he has been continuously filling the fine material storage in recent years, otherwise this time he would have been really embarrassed.

"That should be enough."

Carrying a sack of precious tonics, Li Kunshan was very happy. He spent four gold bars, which should be enough now.

He sighed again, it was worthy of being a well-known old brand. If he went to another drugstore, even if they could provide tonics worth four gold bars, they would probably only be ordinary varieties, the amount of which would have to be transported by a cart, and he couldn't carry it away in a sack.

But why does Mr. Bai Qi look so unhappy?

Forget it, Li Kunshan didn’t think much about it. Maybe Mr. Bai Qi was just like that.

After returning to the inn, Li Kunshan asked the waiter not to disturb him and went back to the room to close the doors and windows.

"start!"

Ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, deer antler, a whole sack, all kinds of precious medicinal materials that were originally placed in brocade boxes were poured directly onto the ground.

Li Kunshan sat cross-legged in the middle, took a deep breath, closed his eyes slightly, picked up one at random, and stuffed it into his mouth without caring what it was.

Buzz~!

When the tonic enters the stomach, it is instantly digested into a ball of essence under the effect of the gluttonous stomach.

Li Kunshan did not delay at all and used the method of taking medicine to refine his essence and transform it into qi.

As the medicinal herbs around him continued to decrease, the energy in Li Kunshan's body continued to increase, and his realm improved accordingly.

An hour later, he broke through to the seventh level of refining essence into qi.

Three hours later, he broke through to the eighth level of refining essence into qi.

After eight hours, he broke through to the ninth level of refining essence into qi.

"It's done."

Li Kunshan opened his eyes and smiled slightly.

Looking out the window again, it was already pitch black.

Although he finally achieved his wish and reached the ninth level of refining essence into qi, Li Kunshan was not too excited, and was even quite calm.

After all, he had anticipated this moment.

"It finally works."

After stuffing the remaining 40% of the tonic back into the sack, one has to admit that it is indeed a time-honored brand, the medicinal properties are really strong, and Li Kunshan broke through to the ninth level of Qi training before he had used it all.

Immediately afterwards, Li Kunshan took out the Huangting Neijing Sutra from his bag.

Previously in Maoshan, Xuanyi Zhenren gave the "Huangting Sutra" as a reward, which is divided into two volumes: external view and internal view.

Xuanyi Zhenren said that one should first study the external scene, and then study the internal scene after success.

The Huangting Waijing Sutra contains the method of refining essence into qi. Li Kunshan speculates that the Neijing Sutra may contain the method of refining qi into spirit.

As for the success of external scenes, it should be the ninth level of refining essence into qi.

After all, only when one reaches the ninth level of refining essence into qi can one move on to refining qi into spirit.

So before this, Li Kunshan had always carried the Huangting Neijing Sutra with him, but had never looked through it.

Now he has reached the ninth level of refining essence into qi, and it is finally time for him to practice the Neijing Sutra.

"Before the Supreme Purple Cloud Emperor, the Jade Morning Lord of the Great Dao, in his leisure time, composes seven-character poems in Ruizhu, dispersing the five elements and transforming into myriad gods..."

Regardless of the darkness, Li Kunshan couldn't wait any longer and opened the Huangting Neijing Sutra to start reading.

The entire Huangting Neijing Sutra has a total of 239 sentences and 1,673 words.

Li Kunshan concentrated on reciting. Since he had a foundation in the Outer Scene Sutra, it was easier than before and he could recite it once in about an hour.

After reading it once, there was no reaction.

Li Kunshan was not in a hurry and continued to recite it for the second time.

In this way, the sky in the east gradually turned pale, and by the time the sun was high in the sky, I had read it about ten times.

【Learn the Huangting Neijing technique! 】

"There is."

When the system prompt sounded, Li Kunshan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Although there have been examples of external scene sutras before, we cannot be at ease until the system authenticates the internal scene sutras.

"Hoo~!"

Taking a look at the personal panel, the Huangting Neijing Sutra has appeared in the martial arts section.

Li Kunshan took another deep breath and continued reading.

Learning the Huangting Neijing Sutra is not the goal. The key is to understand the method of practicing Qi Refining and Spirit Transformation from it.

Inferring from the External Scenery Sutra, if one cultivates to the third level, it is possible to obtain the Dharma from the derived supernatural powers.

So, now is just the beginning.

After that, Li Kunshan never left his house. The waiter would deliver his meals to his room every day, and he would gulp them down in a few gulps while reciting the Huangting Neijing Sutra. He didn't care about day or night; he would just sleep when he felt tired and continue when he woke up.

This inn was arranged by General Bian, and it was agreed long ago that Li Kunshan and his group could stay as long as they wanted, and all expenses would be borne by General Bian.

The corpse transportation deal has been completed, but since I have come to the capital with great difficulty, how can I go back now?

Taoist Qianhe simply took over the business in the capital, and it seems to be doing well.

In this way, after more than a month, the Huangting Neijing Sutra was successfully promoted to the third level.

"In this one move."

Li Kunshan had a serious expression and took several deep breaths before opening his personal page.

Go directly to the Huangting Neijing Sutra to check out the derived magical powers.

[Refining Qi into Spirit: Qi and Spirit are refined together, Qi returns to Spirit, breaking Yin and refining Yang, when Yin is exhausted and Yang is pure, the Yang Spirit can emerge.]

"Great!"

When he saw the words "Refining Qi into Spirit," Li Kunshan's face was filled with excitement, and he almost jumped up. Inner alchemy is divided into three stages: foundation building, refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, and refining spirit into emptiness.

Corresponding to the Huangting Waijing Sutra, when the Neijing Sutra was cultivated to the third level, it indeed gave rise to the third stage of practice method of Neidan!
In this way, Li Kunshan can continue to practice his inner alchemy.

"That's great."

It was not until a moment later that Li Kunshan muttered to himself and gradually calmed down.

Although everything went as expected, it was still hard to contain the excitement when it actually became a reality.

"Wow! The air is really nice."

After obtaining the method of refining qi and transforming into spirit, Li Kunshan did not practice it immediately. Instead, he opened the door and went out for a walk.

For the sake of this method, I have been quietly reciting Huangting Sutra behind closed doors during this period of time. Although I don’t feel tired physically, I feel somewhat depressed mentally.

After all, locking a person in a room all the time is a form of punishment for the prisoner.

Li Kunshan's current state of mind is not at the level where he can easily retreat for a year or two.

So he wanted to go out for a walk, relax and adjust his mood.

He took a bath in Qinghua Pool, changed into dry clothes, and then went to Zhengyanglou to order a table of delicious food and a pot of good wine. Although his gluttonous stomach can digest everything, it does not mean that Li Kunshan has no appetite.

It was not until the evening that Li Kunshan returned to the inn. He felt much refreshed from the inside out and began his second retreat.

After giving instructions to the waiter, he began to practice refining qi and transforming the spirit.

"Qi returns to the spirit..."

As the third stage of inner alchemy, refining qi into spirit has similarities with refining essence into qi. Refining essence into qi is the combination of essence and qi, and guiding essence into qi, while refining qi into spirit is the combination of qi and spirit, and guiding qi into spirit.

The ultimate goal is to practice qi and practice spirit.

Compared with Qi, the so-called spirit is actually the soul, which is more mysterious. Therefore, refining Qi into spirit is more complicated and difficult to carry out.

In fact, refining qi and transforming it into spirit is already a high level of inner alchemy. Throughout history, not many people have been able to reach this level.

In today's era, there are no more than ten seniors in the Quanzhen Sect who have reached the level of Qi Refining and Spirit Transformation.

Even if we include the Zhengyi side, there are only about twenty or thirty people in total who have been granted high-level skills and whose divine power is comparable to that of those who have refined qi and transformed into gods.

The difficulty of refining Qi and transforming it into a spirit can be seen from this.

Even if many people reach the ninth level of refining essence into qi, they often cannot move on to refining qi into spirit. This is not a simple threshold, but a chasm!

"That's it……"

Fortunately, through the purple entry [Inner Spirit], Li Kunshan's understanding of Taoism far exceeds that of ordinary people.

In fact, even without the bonus of the entry, Li Kunshan would continue to practice until he succeeded.

Since you are pursuing the great way, the great way is right in front of you. Just walk on it, no matter how difficult or easy it is.

However, Li Kunshan's state of mind is exactly suitable for practicing Taoism.

Next, Li Kunshan focused on refining his Qi and transforming it into a spirit.

The soul is mysterious and fragile, so if you want to guide Qi into it, you need to be extremely careful. Therefore, you can't do it directly, but instead use a more gentle method.

First, a palace is constructed with qi, and the soul is placed within it. Since the palace is constructed of qi, qi is constantly escaping from it, and this escaping qi slowly seeps into the palace to nourish the soul.

This palace is called the Purple Palace, and the soul that resides within it is the Yuan Shen.

"I see."

Using Qi to construct the Purple Palace, this step is still the application of Qi, which is actually not difficult.

Li Kunshan only understood at this time, no wonder that only after reaching the ninth level of refining essence into qi can one refine qi into spirit.

Because only when you reach the ninth level, the Qi in your body will be enough to build the Purple Palace.

Then he brought the soul into the Purple Palace. This process was a little troublesome, but not impossible. Li Kunshan was able to do it in two days.

Finally, use the purple energy in the purple palace to warm and nourish the soul.

It wasn't simply a matter of letting things take their course; there were specific methods and approaches. The precise location at which the emanating purple energy merged with the soul, and how it flowed, was meticulously detailed.

This step is the stage of refining Qi into spirit, and ninety-nine percent of people are stuck at this step.

Li Kunshan was not in a hurry. He kept trying every day, but failed again and again.

"It's not that easy."

He couldn't remember how many times he had failed, but Li Kunshan's mood remained calm and he just continued to practice step by step.

As the saying goes, hard work pays off, or perhaps the time has come.

Buzz~!

Late that night, a faint humming sound emanated from deep within his body, and the soul within his purple mansion momentarily emitted a faint glow. Although it looked no different from normal afterward, Li Kunshan knew that this soul could now be called a primordial spirit!

"Success!"

Just now, I succeeded in returning Qi to the spirit, which is to refine Qi into spirit.

After the fusion of Qi, the strength of the soul increased instantly, as if it was reborn.

Li Kunshan could clearly feel the qualitative leap between the primordial spirit and the ordinary soul.

At the same time, everything around became extremely clear to the senses, so much so that even a speck of dust in the air could be seen clearly.

"The divine consciousness has increased."

Li Kunshan's heart moved and his face was full of joy again.

Refining Qi into Spirit mainly improves the cultivation of the Primordial Spirit.

And divine consciousness is the energy released by the primordial spirit.

If refining essence into qi is to increase the amount of qi, then refining qi into spirit is to increase the intensity of thoughts, at least this is the case for the first three levels.

"Great!"

After a little attempt, Li Kunshan became excited again.

Divine thoughts may seem illusory, but in fact, most spells involve divine thoughts.

For example, the Thunder Art, the range that lightning can reach, the degree of accuracy, and even the deformation and manipulation of lightning are all determined by divine consciousness.

The same is true for talismans, such as the puppet talisman. Divine thoughts are not only needed when casting the spell, but even when manipulating an inanimate object, divine thoughts are extremely important.

The stronger the spiritual power, the more precise and flexible the control, and the larger the range!

According to intuitive data, before he reached the stage of Spirit Refining, Li Kunshan's puppet talisman could only control a dozen or so peach wood swords, which were only within a hundred meters around him. After he reached the stage of Spirit Refining, although he had just broken through, the number of swords he controlled exceeded twenty, and the range reached two hundred meters.

With subsequent practice, the spiritual power will continue to grow stronger, and it is not impossible to take the enemy's head from thousands of miles away!
To put it simply, Qi determines the quantity and thoughts determine the scope.

It’s like modern warfare, Qi is the ammunition and spiritual thoughts are the radar.

Of course, refining Qi into spirit is not that simple. As your realm improves, it will have more magical uses.

After the fourth level, one can transform spiritual thoughts into substance and directly attack the souls of others.

After the seventh level, one can even reach the state of leaving the body and travel freely among the mountains and peaks on the wind!

If the ninth level is perfect, as mentioned in the introduction, when the yin is exhausted and the yang is pure, then it is the Yang God!

"what?"

After a while, Li Kunshan calmed down a little and checked his personal page.

Sure enough, in terms of Taoism, he has already reached the level of Qi Refining and Spirit Transformation.

But surprisingly, instead of advancing to the first level of Refining Qi into Spirit, the words "Ninth Level of Refining Essence into Qi" are still there. Are the two listed on the same level?
　Name: Li Kunshan

　　Taoism: Nine levels of refining essence into qi, one level of refining qi into spirit

　　Granting of the talisman: The Great Three Fives Dugong Sutra

　　Clergy: Water Department Tongpan (Sixth Rank)
　　Exercise:

　　……

　　Thunder Technique Level 2098: 3000/
　　[Thunderbolt: Using its own magnetic field, it can trigger the Nine Heavens Thunder at any time to instantly strike the target!]

　　Huangting Exterior Sutra Sixth Layer: 1/6000
　　[Refining Essence into Qi: The primordial essence and primordial qi are combined and transformed into light, clear, and immaterial qi. This qi, along with the movement of the river cart, is refined into the elixir embryo.]

　　[How to take: Use external elixir to cultivate internal elixir, absorb the essence of the food you take, and use it to refine essence into qi.]

　　Huangting Inner Scenery Sutra Level 1: 600/
　　[Refining Qi into Spirit: Qi and Spirit are refined together, Qi returns to Spirit, breaking Yin and refining Yang, when Yin is exhausted and Yang is pure, the Yang Spirit can emerge.]

　　Spell:

　　Puppet Talisman Level 29: 6000/
　　[Division of Spirit: One breath becomes the Three Pure Ones, one thought creates all things, and can control multiple puppets at the same time.]

　　[Attached Mind: Split a strand of divine consciousness onto the puppet, allowing for more precise control of the puppet and gaining its senses.]

　　……

　　Miscellaneous knowledge:

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　　Items: Heaven Rewards Diligence (Gold), His Blood is Dark Yellow (Orange), Gluttonous Maw (Orange), Inner Spirit (Purple), Rebirth After Lost Arm (Purple), Lightning Rod (Purple), Steady as a Rock (Purple), Knowing the Heart (Purple), Corpse Talker (Blue)
　　
　
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