Cultivating Immortality in a Family: I Prove Immortality Through the Chaotic Dao Realm

Chapter 10 Cultivation and Advancement

In the spellcasting section, Chen Qian selected "Complete Guide to First-Order Spells" and "Introduction to Five Elements Spells"...

In the Immortal Cultivation Arts section, grab "How to Learn Weapon Forging Step by Step," "Introduction to Herbalism and Alchemy Preparation," "Complete Guide to First-Order Talismans," and don't miss "Array Formations and Earth Veins"...

Essays and biographies section: "Witnesses of the Dragon Tail Domain", "The Kingdom of Li and Its Neighboring Countries", "My Views on Cultivating Immortals, Demons, Ghosts, Monsters, and Body Refinement"...

You may only choose one cultivation technique, and you must sign a spiritual pact under the witness of the Second Elder, promising never to pass it on to anyone else. You must then copy it on the spot, and the original cannot be taken away.

There are no restrictions on other types of books; as long as they haven't been borrowed by anyone, you can borrow them.

However, there are time constraints.

Books on magical arts should not be borrowed for more than three months, and must be returned after six months if needed for the next borrowing.

The techniques that can be learned on the first floor are basically the types that are widely circulated in the cultivation world, and there is no fear of them being spread outside.

The key to magic is proficiency; it's not that you can use it well just because you've learned it. You can't do it without putting in hard work and practice.

Books of miscellaneous notes and observations can be borrowed for more than six months, but must be returned after one year to be borrowed again.

This is mainly to prevent certain books from being hoarded and not returned for a long time. If you really think it's good, a few months is enough time to copy it down.

Back in the courtyard, Chen Qian adjusted his state and immediately entered the meditation room to begin studying the cultivation technique.

Heaven and earth were not clearly distinguished; yin and yang existed within them. In the beginning, chaos filled with the primordial energy, and from this open and humble state, all things came to life.

The primordial unity of the five elements is both tangible and intangible, containing the creative mechanism of Yin and Yang, from which all things are born through opening, closing, gathering, and dispersing.

Chen Qian's comprehension was only considered good, not genius, but this technique was indeed very suitable for his physique.

Moreover, due to the transformation of his body and the opening of his sea of ​​consciousness, although he has not yet begun cultivation and his spirit is not yet manifest, his brain has been greatly expanded.

This unexpected coincidence allowed Chen Qian's comprehension to be aided by divine intervention, and he quickly reached a considerable level of understanding of the technique. He also rapidly entered a meditative state and began to try to guide Qi into his body.

The scattered spiritual energy quickly gathered around Chen Qian's body, flowing through his pores and acupoints into his meridians.

Even when he wasn't practicing any cultivation techniques, Chen Qian's body would passively absorb spiritual energy, which would automatically gather in his dantian.

Now, with the guidance of the cultivation method, it's like scattered soldiers have been transformed into a disciplined army, accelerating the process of gathering spiritual energy countless times.

After the spiritual energy gathers in the dantian, it circulates through all the meridians involved according to the cultivation route, and then returns to the dantian, which completes one cycle.

The spiritual energy that circulated throughout the body naturally became Chen Qian's magical power.

This process repeated itself endlessly, incredibly smooth, a completely new experience that left Chen Qian utterly mesmerized.

"So this is what cultivation is like. No wonder the cultivators in novels and TV dramas used to spend years or even decades in seclusion."

"Who wouldn't be able to stick to something this comfortable?"

When practicing for the first time, the meditative state is easily broken. Due to his turbulent emotions, Chen Qian's practice was interrupted.

Although he was a novice in cultivation, he understood that cultivation could not be rushed and that he had to adjust his mood and state of mind.

Unable to enter a meditative state immediately, Chen Qian wasn't in a hurry. He first picked up a book of miscellaneous notes and anecdotes that he had borrowed and began to read.

After reading for half an hour, Chen Qian's worldview was refreshed once again.

It turns out that the Li Kingdom, which seemed incredibly vast to Chen Qian, was merely one of hundreds of countries in the Dragon Tail Domain.

Moreover, the Li Kingdom is only a medium-sized country and does not rank among the top in the Dragon Tail Domain.

Most countries do not share a direct border, and their borders are generally blocked by high mountains and dangerous terrain, where monsters and beasts roam, and some even have rare alien races.

Among the countries surrounding the State of Li, only the State of Jiangyin to the west was connected to it. The State of Wu to the north was the second closest, but they were still separated by tens of thousands of miles of wilderness.

This book, "Travels in the Dragon Tail Domain," doesn't clearly describe the size of the entire Dragon Tail Domain, only using the phrase "vast and boundless." The author was a Great True Person who reached the peak of the Core Formation stage thousands of years ago. He claimed that while traveling was fine, if one were to explore the entire domain in detail, even a lifetime wouldn't be enough to traverse it all.

It should be known that even a Grandmaster at the peak of Core Formation can easily travel 100,000 li a day while traveling and having fun.

It was truly terrifyingly large, astonishing. But what left Chen Qian speechless was that this unimaginably enormous Dragon Tail Domain was merely a small corner of the southeastern part of the continent known as the Eastern Abyss.

Once I have achieved sufficient cultivation, I will definitely travel the world and venture beyond the Dragon Tail Domain to see the world, only then can I say that I have lived a worthwhile life.

Chen Qian made up his mind; the world was vast and captivating.

After resting for a while, Chen Qian finally returned to a state of cultivation.

Strands of spiritual energy re-gathered in the meridians, and the innate true energy that had been surging within the body was also continuously transformed into new magical power under the influence of the spiritual energy.

This accelerated Chen Qian's cultivation speed once again. There was no one else in the meditation room. If someone with high cultivation were nearby, they would have noticed that Chen Qian's cultivation speed had far surpassed that of cultivators with top-grade spiritual roots.

three days later.

In a quiet room.

Chen Qian felt a jolt throughout his body, and a new power seemed to emerge in his mind, making him exceptionally clear-headed.

Chen Qian closed his eyes and sensed that, apart from the small gray bead, his previously empty sea of ​​consciousness now contained a wisp of illusory golden mist.

This wisp of mist is the manifested divine soul.

This also means that Chen Qian has officially become a cultivator at the first level of Qi Refining.

The newly formed soul is still very fragile, unable to leave the body, and unable to emit divine consciousness, but it can already perform internal vision.

Chen Qian looked at his dantian and saw a small vortex in the very center. At a glance, there were at least hundreds of strands of magical power, thinner than a hair, slowly rotating.

Within the meridians of the entire body, there are also wisps of magical power circulating. Some of this magical power is absorbed by the body as it wanders, while some is drawn into the sea of ​​consciousness between the eyebrows and sinks into the small gray bead and the soul.

The small gray beads and the mist of the soul would slowly release faint specks of light, sprinkling them onto the dried seabed of the sea of ​​consciousness below, where some parts of the seabed had already become slightly damp.

Chen Qian knew that this was a process in which his physical body, soul, and sea of ​​consciousness were gradually growing stronger and more powerful under the nourishment of magical power.

The little gray bead also secretly intercepted the magic power, accumulating energy to grow.

Of course, these interceptions are only slightly better than nothing. Relying on them to achieve global growth would likely take tens of thousands of years.

It can only be said that Little Gray Pearl was really starving and would eat anything.

For the past three days, apart from cooking himself a meal of spiritual rice between 7 AM and 9 AM each day, Chen Qian has basically devoted all his time to cultivation.

Even sleeping is a state of deep meditation.

Other cultivators in the Qi Refining stage have bodies and meridians that are too fragile to withstand prolonged exposure to external spiritual energy, and can only cultivate for a maximum of three or four hours a day.

Moreover, the speed at which he absorbed and refined spiritual energy was vastly different from Chen Qian's.

Chen Qian, who possessed a chaotic spirit body, felt no pressure whatsoever.

It should be noted that Chen Yunzheng, who possesses a superior spiritual root, took a full month from the first time he introduced Qi into his body to advancing to the first level of Qi Refining.

This is under the condition that all aspects are perfect, plus the aid of elixirs and medicinal baths to solidify the foundation of the physical body.

Chen Qian, however, only took three days.

It's easy to imagine how astonishing this speed is.

What he didn't know was that his Qi Refining Level 1 cultivation level was far more powerful than that of other cultivators at the same level.

Even cultivators practicing Qi Refining still need to eat every day. The physical body is the foundation of cultivation, and daily food intake is crucial for enhancing Qi and blood.

After three days, Chen Qian was getting a little tired of the wolf meat he had brought with him into the valley. Now that he had officially advanced to the first level of Qi Refining, he was feeling restless and decided to visit the Hundred Storage Pavilion in the valley to buy some other kinds of food to improve his life.

The Internal Affairs Hall provides free, basic-grade spirit rice, so you won't go hungry. But if you want better food, you'll have to spend spirit stones.

(End of this chapter)