I can gather experience beads

After Guangyuan entered the world of immortal cultivation.

I have only been to one place where immortal cultivators gather, and that is the Changyuan Immortal Cultivation Market.

However, Guangyuan did record several sects that existed near the State of Xiao.

'Spiritual Beast Sect', 'Cloud and Water Sect', 'Miaoyin Temple'.

Guangyuan had seen the monks from these sects from afar.

The notes record the envy of the monks from these sects.

Unfortunately, these sect monks look down on independent cultivators and are unwilling to have much contact with them.

The sect was protected by a mountain protection formation, and independent cultivators were not even allowed to approach their sect.

Therefore, Guangyuan didn't have a deep understanding of them.

Due to the lack of spirit stones, Guangyuan did not stay in Changyuan Immortal Cultivation Market for long and returned to the mortal world to practice alone.

Occasionally, he would obtain a spirit stone and then return to the Xiuxian market for another year.

so repeatedly.

After spending his entire life, he could only cultivate to the second level of the Qi Refining Stage.

Finally, he found this cave and shut himself in, hoping to break through to the third level of Qi Refining.

He failed to break through and died of old age in the cave.

From this point of view, Cao Rui's cultivation level of the sixth level of Qi Refining Stage can be considered a pretty good level of cultivation.

After all, not everyone can absorb the innate true qi repeatedly like Cao Rui.

"My talent for cultivating immortals may be even worse than Guangyuan's. I have been able to cultivate to my current level entirely due to my own diligence and continuous accumulation of experience points." Cao Rui thought to himself.

That giant octopus monster was the original owner of the cave.

Guangyuan relies on its strength to share the cave with it 'peacefully'.

There was not a single spirit stone left in Guangyuan's storage bag.

Fortunately, there is a booklet containing several spells.

In addition, there is also a book of exercises for the Qi Refining period.

A 0-level magical sword.

A 0-level talisman.

A few empty pill bottles and a few empty spirit stones.

An empty spirit stone is a spirit stone whose spiritual energy has been used up.

Because it can perfectly store spiritual energy, it is an excellent tool for cultivators to store information and data, so the empty spiritual stone is also called a jade slip.

"Well, why does Guangyuan's Qi Refining Stage technique only have nine levels?"

Cao Rui discovered a big problem.

Cao Rui carefully compared Guangyuan's Qi Refining Stage exercises.

It can be found that the Qi Refining Stage techniques of Light Source are generally simpler, and the ninth level can be used to build the foundation.

Cao Rui looked through the notes carefully.

Finally, in a corner of a passage, Cao Rui discovered Guangyuan's casually written sigh.

It turns out that in ancient times, the Qi Refining techniques of immortal cultivators all had twelve levels.

At that time, the world of immortal cultivation was rich in spiritual energy, there were many spiritual veins, and spiritual objects were everywhere, so it was easy to cultivate immortality.

But in today's world of immortal cultivation, spiritual energy has shrunk, spiritual veins have faded, and it is difficult for ordinary immortal cultivators to cultivate to the twelfth level of Qi Refining.

If one continues to cultivate to the twelfth level of Qi Refining and then advances to Foundation Establishment, then there will be only a few people who can actually establish a foundation.

With no successors, the immortal cultivators are even on the verge of collapse.

So a great monk took the lead and changed the Qi Refining Stage exercises into nine levels.

With the help of external objects such as foundation-building pills, one can also advance to the foundation-building stage.

Since this move, the originally declining world of immortal cultivation has regained its vitality.

The ninth level of Qi Refining Stage has become the mainstream today.

The ancient Qi-refining technique Mingyu Gong that Cao Rui practiced was when Guangyuan was in seclusion and broke through to the third level.

I wanted to try this as a last resort to see if this ancient Qi-refining technique could help, so I tried practicing it.

So I would carry it close to my body at that time.

Unexpectedly, by some strange coincidence, it became Cao Rui's entry-level method of cultivating immortals.

"It's not a bad thing for me."

"The magic power cultivated by the ancient Qi-refining method is more refined, and the magic power of the same level is deeper."

"With the help of my experience beads, I may be able to cultivate it to the twelfth level."

Cao Rui had no intention of switching to practicing the current Qi Refining Technique.

Decided to continue practicing Mingyu Gong.

“I don’t know what my talent for cultivating immortals is like.” Cao Rui learned about the test divisions for cultivating immortals’ talent from his notes.

If we strictly and carefully divide the talents for cultivating immortals, they actually include many kinds of talents, such as spiritual root talents, magic talents, and various talents such as alchemy, talisman making, and weapon refining.

However, the talent for cultivating immortals generally refers specifically to the most important spiritual root talent.

After all, spiritual root talent is directly related to whether a person can practice immortality.

Cao Rui wanted to know his spiritual talent.

However, one needs to advance to the late stage of Qi Refining and give birth to spiritual consciousness before one can clearly see the spiritual roots.

Cao Rui could only conduct a spiritual root test after he was promoted to the late stage of Qi Refining.

From the notes, Cao Rui could know that spiritual roots were divided into the following levels.

First of all, most ordinary people have no spiritual roots and cannot cultivate immortality at all. They are called ordinary roots.

Mixed spiritual roots: spiritual roots that contain multiple five elements attributes, but each attribute is not strong. Conflicts are likely to occur during cultivation, making it difficult to specialize and progress is limited.

Pseudo spiritual roots: On the surface, it seems that one has spiritual roots, and the attribute conflicts are not intense, but in fact the effect of cultivation is minimal, almost equivalent to nothing.

Inferior spiritual roots: Spiritual roots with a single or a few attributes are relatively clear, but the quality is not high, and the cultivation speed is slow. It is a more common qualification in the world of immortal cultivation.

Medium-grade spiritual roots: The quality of the spiritual roots has been improved, the speed of cultivation has been accelerated, and the ability to perceive and absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has been enhanced. Under perfect conditions, it is sufficient to support the cultivator to reach the foundation.

Superior Spiritual Roots: An extremely rare talent, the spiritual roots are pure and powerful, cultivation can be twice as effective with half the effort, progress is extremely fast, and is the object that all major sects are vying to recruit.

Heavenly Spiritual Root: A spiritual root that almost only exists in legends. It has a single attribute that is extremely pure, and its cultivation speed is astonishing with almost no bottleneck. It is a peerless genius in the world of immortal cultivation.

Mutated spiritual roots: More rare than natural spiritual roots, the properties of the spiritual roots mutate and may combine multiple attributes or possess special abilities such as thunder, wind, ice, etc.

Cao Rui estimated that he was most likely a mixed spiritual root or a pseudo spiritual root. Apart from the steady increase in experience points during his normal practice, it was almost impossible to see any improvement in his cultivation.

Cao Rui put the notes back into the storage bag.

Then he took out the 0th-level talisman and looked at it.

The spell sealed on the talisman is a 0th-level spell - Fireball.

After activating the talisman with mana, you can launch a fireball attack.

Talismans are a type of weapon used by high-level cultivators who use their own magical powers to seal their spells on the talisman.

When Cao Rui uses it, he only needs to consume a small amount of mana to activate the talisman to attack the enemy.

The fireball spell recorded on this talisman can be used a total of five times.

After being used twice by Guangyuan, there are only three times left.

This talisman is useful for Guangyuan, but not very effective for Cao Rui.

Having entered the middle stage of Qi Refining, the cultivator has sufficient mana to practice 0th-level spells on his own.

Put away the talisman.

Cao Rui took out a 0th-level magical sword and a booklet recording spells.

A 0th-level magic weapon is a magic weapon specially provided for use by cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage.

The requirements for use are not high, so the power is naturally not strong.

Cao Rui concentrated his magic power and easily refined this 0-level magic weapon that had been ownerless for several years.

Looking at the magic sword floating gently in front of him, Cao Rui was also quite happy.

Although a 0-level magic weapon is 0-level, generally only cultivators in the late Qi Refining Stage have the capital to purchase it.

But I don’t know where Guangyuan got it from, and it is not recorded in the notes.

After putting away the magic sword, Cao Rui's last glance fell on the book that recorded the magic spells.