Primordial Qi

The moon outside the window is very bright. It is the beginning of spring, and such a bright moon means that tomorrow will definitely be a sunny day.

Gu Chenyu lay in bed for a long time, unable to fall asleep. He was reluctant to leave the place where he had stayed for six years. He knew every place in this small village clearly, and he couldn't help feeling strange emotions when he suddenly had to leave.

"I thought I was not from this world, but I didn't expect that I had unknowingly gotten used to this kind of life." Gu Chenyu said.

I don't know how long it has been, and I feel heavy sleepiness. In my dream, my memory of Blue Star is getting more and more blurred. Several blurry figures become more blurred, and at the moment when they dissipate like smoke, a huge black shadow roars loudly: "If you are not assimilated by this world, how can the world give you power? Come, forget the past..."

"Hoohoo!"

Gu Chenyu was breathing heavily, his lips were dry, his breathing felt suffocated, sweat was pouring down his forehead, his blue shirt was soaked with sweat, and he was still in shock.

"Why do you have such a dream?"

I glanced out the window and saw that the sky was just getting brighter.

Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Gu Chenyu washed himself. He couldn't fall asleep as he still felt the palpitations.

He arrived at the village entrance early, carrying a bag on his back. It was a package of neither too big nor too small, and inside it was everything he had.

Most people in the village got up early, and there were cries coming from a few houses. They joined the sect to practice, and they might not have the chance to come back in this lifetime. The key to practicing Taoism is to cut off from the worldly affairs and not be affected by the cause and effect of the mortal world.

Joining a sect means the difference between immortals and mortals. One seclusion can last for ten to eight years, and those at a higher level can even spend a hundred years, while the lifespan of mortals is no more than a hundred years.

Some were happy and some were sad. The happy ones were admitted into the sect and received twenty spirit stones, so they would have no worries about food and clothing in their lives. The sad ones were that some people had mediocre qualifications and were not selected, and the extra places were not selected either.

Goudan wiped his tears and choked up all the way. He was selected. He had good qualifications and had a spiritual affinity that was different from ordinary people. He had reached the state of nourishing qi without any training, so at the age of ten, he could lift a heavy hoe and cultivate the fields.

"Brother Bird, I don't want to go to any sect to practice. I want to stay at home with my mother. Does my mother not want me anymore? Wuuwuwu..."

Goudan's tears and snot were all over his body. Gu Chenyu wiped them away for him and said, "Your mother can't bear to let you go."

"Then why did she ask me to follow him and never come back?"

"It's for your own good, too."

Gu Chenyu didn't know how to answer, so he thought of changing the subject and asked, "Have you chosen a name? If you go to practice, you must have your own name."

"I don't want a name, I want my mother." Goudan is very dependent on his mother and doesn't want to go out at all.

Just when Gu Chenyu didn't know what to do, Li Danqing came out.

"Don't cry. Only when you go to the sect can you say that you have truly traveled through this world. If you follow me to the sect, I will accept you as my personal disciple. When you have achieved success in your cultivation in the future, you may come back to visit your parents." Li Danqing said.

"Your parents are not in good health. How about this: you come with me to the sect and become my disciple. I will give them these two longevity pills." Li Danqing took out a jade bottle, and a scent of pills emanated from it, which made people feel refreshed.

After coaxing Goudan, the rest of the people had almost arrived, eight in total.

"Starting to practice cultivation means that you will never see each other again in this life. These spirit stones can be regarded as compensation." Li Danqing took out a lot of spirit stones and gave them to the families of these selected children. The old village chief naturally took the two hundred spirit stones, so that his descendants would not have to worry about anything.

Li Danqing got a huge boat from nowhere, which was just big enough to take these people. Then he formed a seal and cast a spell, and the boat flew up. Gu Chenyu's eyes widened. There really was someone who could fly. The knowledge he learned in his previous life could not explain it at all.

"It will take about three days to get back to the sect. Now let me tell you what this world is like. The place where we are..."

Li Danqing was explaining the situation of this area, as well as the sect and the realm of cultivation. His words sounded like a dream and several people were fascinated by his words.

It turns out that this is just a small land, called Moon Star Continent. Why is it small? Because there is a larger empire next to it, called Dawu Dynasty, and Moon Star Continent is just a subsidiary continent of Dawu.

At this time, Gu Chenyu couldn't help but think of that small country in his mind, and the world map appeared in his mind. Fortunately, Li Danqing said that this was a subsidiary of the southwestern island of the Dawu Dynasty, otherwise he would really have to commit suicide now.

The Izumo Sect is a low-ranking sect. All sects in the world are divided into four grades: Tiandi, Xuandi, Huang. Huang is the lowest grade, which is further divided into three levels: elementary, intermediate and advanced.

Below it are three levels: first, second and third rate. The Izumo Sect is just a bottom-rate sect, probably at the second-rate level, not even at the yellow level.

However, there are only a few Xuan-level forces within the Dawu Dynasty. In this place far away from the dynasty, the highest forces are only four low-level Huang-level sects. The upper sect that Li Danqing mentioned is the Lingmu Sect, which is good at refining pills and medicines.

Li Danqing explained a lot, most of which they had never heard of. During the period, he also talked about interesting things such as the sect competitions, which aroused the children's curiosity.

As they were talking, Gu Chenyu very timely poured Li Danqing a cup of tea to moisten his throat. Li Danqing then talked about spiritual practice.

The path of martial arts is so vast that some of the terrifying existences recorded in the book are enough to destroy a continent. Those unrealistic realms are not explained, but only a few realms that are possible to achieve in this lifetime.

The first is the most basic Qi-nourishing realm. Generally, you can get started after practicing for half a month. You can sense the Qi in your body, and then retain the spiritual energy and transform it into spiritual power that can strengthen your body. This is the process of condensing the spiritual energy. Generally, you need to reach the sixth level before you can impact the next level. You can reach the sixth level after practicing for about half a year. Those with good talent can reach the ninth level, or even higher.

In this way, it will be faster and simpler to break through to the next realm, so many people will continue to endure in the Qi Nourishing Realm until they reach the ninth level or above before practicing to the next realm.

In the Meridian Opening Stage, people are born with eight meridians. The more meridians that are opened, the faster the cultivation will be, and the more spiritual power the body can store and absorb. If one wants to reach the next step in cultivation, at least six meridians must be opened.

Then comes the Spirit Gathering Realm. This realm is the true beginning of the path of cultivation. Spiritual energy becomes liquid and builds up in the Dantian, which can be transformed into a sea of spiritual energy.

Only at this time can one truly communicate with the spiritual power of heaven and earth, and directly utilize the spiritual power of the outside world to perform powerful spells. It changes from consuming the spiritual power in the dantian to directly drawing spiritual power from heaven and earth. However, it is still necessary to continuously refine spiritual energy. After all, the spiritual power of heaven and earth is not solid.

Next is the Grandmaster Realm, also known as the Core Formation Realm. In this realm, the spiritual fluid solidifies and forms a tangible object like a thumb-sized pill. Most of one's cultivation is based on this inner pill. When the soul enters the Dantian and constantly cleanses it, the color of the formed pill fades and turns into a glittering gold, then one enters the next realm, the Venerable Realm, also known as the Golden Pill Realm.

After that is the realm of heaven and man. In this realm, the golden elixir is broken, and the soul is born from the golden elixir. As long as the soul is immortal, it is not considered truly dead. Even if the physical body is gone, the soul can continue to survive in the world by taking over another body.

When one reaches this realm, he or she will be at the level of the leader of some inferior sects. He or she can found a new sect and truly gain a foothold in this world. The three founders of the Izumo Sect were at this realm and their lifespans were as long as a thousand years.

"As for the later realms, you will know them when you embark on the path of cultivation." Li Danqing felt a little smoke in his throat. He only talked about this part. The rest will be understood after practicing for a period of time. There is no need to say it all.

"Our continent is relatively large for mortals, but for cultivators, it is indeed not big enough. Compared with the Dawu Dynasty, we are far from being able to compare. In our country, mortals will never be able to come into contact with these mysterious techniques in their entire lives, but it is different in the Dawu Dynasty. Techniques are everywhere, and there are even improved basic techniques for ordinary people to use, so their combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of ordinary dynasties. Originally, our Chuyun Sect had some foundation, but after a trip to the Dawu Dynasty and buying this basic practice technique, I realized that our foundation is really nothing." Li Danqing said, yearning for the Qianyuan Continent where the Dawu Dynasty was located.

As he was talking, Li Danqing took out a book called "Five Elements Qi Training Secrets". This book was the most basic practice in the Dawu Dynasty, covering the two realms of Qi training and meridian opening. It was more than enough to practice Qi training to meridian opening. Practicing this practice, the Qi training realm can generally reach the ninth level, and the speed is amazingly fast. All five elements of spiritual roots can be cultivated.

"Almost everyone in the Dawu Dynasty has a copy of this technique, but to practice the more advanced techniques, one must work hard for the royal family."

Li Danqing felt very regretful, as this type of technique far surpassed his own sect's Qi-nourishing Technique and Meridian-opening Technique techniques. Many inferior sects also regarded this as their introductory technique, as it was too practical.

After saying that, Li Danqing explained the formula to everyone. Even someone like Gu Chenyu who had no qualifications could learn from it.

He was confused by what he heard, but fortunately he understood the key points. Just starting out, Gu Chenyu felt tremendous pressure. It seemed that this practice was very difficult.

According to the settings in the immortal cultivation literature, the Grandmasters and Venerables are all masters in the Jindan stage, and the celestial beings should correspond to the Yuanying stage. In novels, these people are at the level of ancestors in the human world, but here they can only be the leader of a low-rate sect.

Wouldn't the Dawu Dynasty be even more terrifying? Who knows if there are any more terrifying beings above the dynasty?

There are four levels of sects in the world, but the Dawu Dynasty only has a Xuan-level sect. How powerful must the Tian-level sect be? The more Gu Chenyu thought about it, the more scared he became. He felt that the world was too vast and he was really just an ant.

After explaining for a while, Li Danqing asked everyone to feel the energy in their bodies to pass the time on the spacecraft.

According to Li Danqing, Gu Chenyu also meditated and absorbed energy. He soon felt the thin spiritual energy in his body. He tried to practice martial arts to retain the spiritual energy and transform it into spiritual power. Unfortunately, the spiritual energy still left his body lightly in the end.

Gu Chenyu was the first among these people to open his eyes. He was unable to store spiritual energy, so naturally he could not practice this technique.

"Don't be discouraged. This is how the path of cultivation is. Without aptitude, it is too difficult to get started. Some people can only reach the Qi Nourishing Stage in their entire lives and cannot even prolong their life." Li Danqing comforted.

Gu Chenyu bowed to Li Danqing to show that he was learning from him, and his eyes were fixed on the people who were still practicing. Goudan also closed his eyes, as if he was struggling with something.

Goudan had a domineering name, Li Tianjun. His grandfather had read the book to pieces before giving him this name, hoping that he would have smooth sailing on his path of cultivation.

At this moment, Goudan was sitting cross-legged and absorbing spiritual energy. Spiritual energy gathered around him. After several hours, the people around him opened their eyes one after another. They all returned empty-handed, but they did feel the spiritual power in their bodies. Only Goudan was still stabilizing himself.

boom.

It was as if something exploded next to everyone's ears, and they actually heard a sound like bones colliding.

"The third level of the Qi Cultivation Realm?"

Li Danqing was stunned. This child was really talented. He saw three blue circles of spiritual energy beside Li Tianjun, which was the sign of entering the third level of Qi Nourishing Realm.

Direct disciple, this must be my direct disciple. I didn’t expect that I would pick up a treasure when I went out.

Li Danqing's heart was pounding. Regardless of how much reward the sect would give him, it was his dream to train a powerful disciple. When the disciple became stronger than himself in the future, wouldn't it be easier for him to break through to the next level?

The most important thing is a talented disciple, who can be a great force for the sect if trained. Li Danqing thought of the scene when several elders and even the sect leader were fighting for the talent, and they were all glaring and refusing to give in.

He couldn't help but think: If you don't teach, some people will. Such horrible remarks made him sweat coldly.

"Lord Tianjun, tell me, how do you feel in your body?" Li Danqing asked. Before he could finish the entire formula, Goudan figured out how to transform spiritual power on his own. It can be said that he is extremely gifted.

"I feel like I have endless energy. When I go home, I can plow dozens of acres of land. I am stronger than the old ox at home." Li Tianjun said, and clenched his fist to show that he is very strong.

"Very good, very good. When you arrive at the Izumo Sect, you will definitely be given the focus of training. Practice well. Your master will be waiting for the day when you shine." Li Danqing praised.

Time passed quickly, and three days went by in the blink of an eye. Gu Chenyu did not forget to practice diligently, but he could not even retain his breath, and Gu Chenyu was very helpless.

The Izumo Sect has a total of more than 4,700 disciples, including about 1,000 menial disciples and registered disciples, 3,000 outer disciples, 700 inner disciples, more than 80 elders, and three head masters in the heavenly realm.

The highest realm of a yellow-level sect is only the celestial being, but they have an ancestor who sits in charge of the sect, and their cultivation is above the celestial being. Sects without an ancestor in charge are all inferior sects.

New disciples all start as menial disciples or registered disciples, and live on several side peaks of the main peak. They need to become inner disciples before they can go to the main peak.

Looking at this sect that seemed to be connected to the clouds, Gu Chenyu's eyes widened. He had never seen such a high mountain in his previous life. The top of the mountain was hidden in the clouds and was difficult to see.

"There are many mazes on the top of the mountain. No one is allowed to enter unless they have reached the level of inner disciples." Li Danqing said. His cultivation has now reached the Venerable Realm, which means he has been in this realm for a long time. However, he is still an apprentice elder and needs to wait three years to become a real elder.

New disciples need to go to the top of the mountain to pay homage to the headmaster for the first time, and then they will be assigned suitable accommodation. This is also to let them feel the power of the main peak and motivate them to practice hard in other peaks and join the main peak.

The spaceship went straight into the sky, the clouds and mist gently caressed the body, and taking a deep breath actually made people feel more energetic.

There were hundreds of disciples holding swords and practicing martial arts in the sky. The scene was quite spectacular. There was a divine bird circling in the sky, with spiritual energy fluctuating from its golden wings. In Gu Chenyu's eyes, it was simply a divine beast.

When Li Danqing's flying magic weapon reached the sky above the martial arts training ground, several disciples flew up directly on their swords. The leader clasped his fists and said, "We have been waiting for Elder Li for a long time."

"Lead the way." Li Danqing nodded, waved his sleeves, and the spaceship continued to fly forward.

Is this the world of cultivating immortals?