Primordial Qi

Gu Chenyu under the water can condense two or even three spiritual energies by practicing the Five Elements Qi Training Technique once, which is much faster than the usual one.

The spiritual power circulated very quickly, and soon gathered thirteen. In an hour, it should be possible to condense thirty. Gu Chenyu's originally tired body also became light at this time, and spiritual energy also entered his body through his pores.

No wonder Zhao Dahu could break through so quickly after taking the medicinal bath. If he practices here for half a year, it would not be a problem for him to reach the ninth level of the Qi Nourishing Realm.

Gu Chenyu was not in a hurry to condense spiritual power. Instead, he first used eight spiritual powers to cleanse the eight meridians and break through some blocked places. After it stabilized, he condensed another four spiritual powers to cleanse the body. Layers of mucous membrane appeared on the surface and were absorbed by the formation under his buttocks. At the same time, a lot of spiritual power was introduced.

Perhaps it would be possible to gather twenty-four spiritual powers and double the amount of practice.

Thinking of this, Gu Chenyu accelerated his concentration speed so that he could adapt to the faster pace of cultivation.

Underwater, there is no need to breathe. Can the transformation of spiritual power also replenish a certain amount of oxygen? Gu Chenyu was puzzled, but soon he also felt suffocated and had to come out for a breath every half an hour.

After exhaling a breath of foul air, Gu Chenyu felt relaxed all over. This was cultivation. Perhaps he could take the path of physical cultivation and cultivate his body, but without spiritual roots, he still could not store spiritual power.

The medicinal bath only lasted for three hours. Gu Chenyu only felt that he had taken a few breaths before the time was up. A lot of impurities were discharged from his body, and the speed of absorbing spiritual energy was much faster. The speed of practicing in the pool was almost three times faster than usual.

A layer of mucous membrane produced on the surface just shook randomly and the body was washed away by the water. The suction of the spiritual power formation at the bottom could be felt, like a small whirlpool, and the impurities shaken out of the body were directly sucked away.

Fortunately, it was running water. The water in that huge water tank was constantly flowing. Otherwise, Gu Chenyu would have doubted his life. After all, there were many fellow disciples who were also practicing...

After returning to the room, Gu Chenyu chose to continue practicing. He did not interact with anyone and just kept practicing the Five Elements Qigong Technique, day after day.

He had been in Chuyun Sect for three full months. He had never stopped working day and night. He had gone from barely being able to reach the top once to three times a day. He had gone from being unfamiliar with the sect to being familiar with it. He had learned about cultivation, integrated into cultivation, and immersed himself in it. Unfortunately, he had not been able to contain the spiritual power in his body. The people who had come with him had already reached the Yangqi realm. I heard that Goudan had already reached the thirteenth level of the Yangqi realm. After some time, he might break through to the Kaimai realm. Even Zhao Dahu had reached the seventh or eighth level of the Yangqi realm.

Most of the disciples of the Chuyun Sect can reach the seventh or eighth level of the Qi Nourishing Realm in about a year, but it takes quite a while to break through to the Meridian Opening Realm. People like Zhao Dahu, who has three kinds of spiritual roots and can maintain an extremely fast cultivation speed, are basically the result of diligent study and hard work.

If one can gather spiritual roots in three years, he can be considered a genius, or an extremely talented genius. Such a person is generally a cultivator with two spiritual roots, while those with three, four or even five spiritual roots cannot achieve this speed at all.

Gu Chenyu has been listening to teachings in the Chuyun Sect for more than ninety days, and has a better understanding of this world. The path of martial arts is not only about gathering spiritual energy to temper oneself, but also about learning techniques to kill enemies and protect oneself, and these are just the basics.

Refining medicine, elixirs, weapons, and spirits, these are branches of the path of cultivation. Some people are not good at martial arts, but they are proficient in refining these external things. A pill can attract the nine-day divine thunder, and a weapon can cut through space.

Not to mention that there are other career paths such as spirit array master, talisman master, painter, etc., which all require a certain level of martial arts. So, practicing martial arts is just the most basic existence among thousands of avenues, and if people want to step into martial arts, it is difficult to achieve anything without the erosion of time.

I still remember one day, a drunken white-haired venerable was preaching, and he burped and said, "The myriad phenomena of the mortal world are but a drop in the ocean. Venerables like me have only wasted two hundred years more in this world than ordinary people. It's time and fate."

Even someone as powerful as the Venerable would actually drink alcohol and become depressed because of the hopelessness of a breakthrough. According to the novels I have read before, this Venerable is in the Golden Core Stage and has a lifespan of more than 500 years.

Gu Chenyu was silent in his heart. If one day he found that his road was blocked and he could not reach that state in his entire life, would he be the same? But it seemed that he had lived like this in his previous life, and had been mediocre all his life.

Walking on the small path of the sect, some disciples walked together with smiles, and some female disciples covered their mouths from time to time to hide their laughter, but Gu Chenyu was like an outsider. No one talked to him, and no one made him sworn brothers with him. He didn't know where Chu Tian, whom he had just met, had gone. Sometimes they would meet and say hello and chat. He was considered a friend of his. He had been almost alone for three months, and sometimes he would talk to himself, asking the sky what was wrong with him.

Putting aside all distractions, Gu Chenyu came to the medicinal bath pool again. This time he was ready to try again after failing for the 81st time. This time he went deeper and had already reached the place where entry-level disciples practiced. Anyway, no one would recognize each other after taking off their clothes, so he might as well sneak in.

A few days ago, Gu Chenyu was able to condense hundreds of spiritual powers in half an hour, but he still couldn't store the spiritual power. The time it existed in his body became shorter and shorter. As the number of times he washed his meridians increased, his body consumed more spiritual power. He could only condense 600 spiritual powers in three hours, and 70% of it was consumed just for cultivation. When he woke up, the spiritual power disappeared again. Now, Gu Chenyu only gathered spiritual power without practicing, so that he could condense spiritual power to the maximum extent.

After taking a breath, Gu Chenyu sat cross-legged to absorb spiritual energy. After three months of practice, he had mastered the Five Elements Qigong Technique to perfection. A large amount of spiritual energy was condensed and then transformed into spiritual power.

The Izumo Sect's medicinal bath is actually a pool of spiritual power. No one knows how many spiritual medicines are refined in it and finally turned into essence to form this medicinal pool.

There are more than a thousand spiritual powers in his body, and a small vortex has formed around it. There are nine circular streams of water surrounding Gu Chenyu, each of which is filled with spiritual power.

The disciples who were practicing downstream increasingly felt that there was something wrong with the sect's medicinal bath. For some reason, the spiritual power was no longer as pure as before. In the past, they could feel the spiritual power rushing into their bodies while lying on the water, but now it was better and they had to practice their own skills.

The impurities were discharged from the surface, but Gu Chenyu's body continued to cultivate autonomously. His spiritual power seemed to have opened a gap and was leaking out madly, but Gu Chenyu did not give up. He still relied on his powerful spiritual gathering speed to resist the loss and finally controlled it to more than 1,400 spiritual powers.

As time passed, a ring of spiritual energy appeared faintly beside Gu Chenyu, as if it was about to condense into shape, but also as if it would disappear at any time.

Blood flowed from the corner of Gu Chenyu's mouth. He was unable to break this balance. His body also suffered some damage and was under too much pressure.

Soon, this balance was broken, and the spiritual power flowed away like water. The spiritual power overflowed from Gu Chenyu's whole body. He spread out his palms and felt the spiritual power flowing out of them.

"Hahaha, hahaha."

Gu Chenyu couldn't help but laugh at himself. He didn't expect that he would fail in the end.

It turned out that the time for the medicinal bath was up, and the spiritual liquid made from the spiritual medicine had stopped flowing out, so Gu Chenyu could not absorb such pure spiritual energy. Obviously, the breakthrough failed.

Can't even reach the Qi-nourishing state? His eyes went dark, and Gu Chenyu fell into the water. He didn't faint from exhaustion, but simply didn't want to face it. He closed his eyes and floated to the surface, just floating with the current.

"Look, another one collapsed during practice." Someone said on the shore. It seemed that quite a few people were like this, collapsing and then floating on the water.

"Of course not. The entrance examination for new disciples is about to begin. It will be held every four months. If you are lucky, you will be able to become an entrance disciple soon and choose a sect, instead of doing menial labor here every day."

"Well, we have been practicing a lot lately. This is a chance for us, the menial disciples, to become registered disciples without entering the Kaimai realm."

"Stop talking. It's not your turn or mine. It's been a year and I'm still on the seventh floor. I don't know how those perverts practice."

The sound of conversation on the shore reached Gu Chenyu's ears. He had no intention of understanding the entry test. He had not even reached the Qi Cultivation Realm. He would be beaten if he went up, and his life would be ruined.

Gu Chenyu, who felt like he had lost all hope in life, suddenly felt a pain on his head, as if he had hit something. He opened his eyes and saw a man with a body as hard as steel looking at him sideways. It turned out that he had just hit someone on the back with his head.

"Kid, don't let me see you during the entrance examination, otherwise I will beat your intestines out." The man said viciously.

Gu Chenyu knew at first sight that this guy was not someone to be trifled with, and he went ashore dejectedly, feeling even more depressed. This guy's body was so strong that he thought he had hit a wall just now.

I don't know if everyone has to take the entrance exam. If they do, I'll definitely be beaten to a pulp if I meet this big guy. This place doesn't have so many rules. Whoever is stronger has the final say.

Although I haven't interacted with others much in the three months since I joined the sect, I have heard about those people who were crippled or disabled during the entrance examination and had to be menial disciples for the rest of their lives.

There was also a duel in the martial arts arena, where a disciple was beaten so hard that all his eight meridians were broken, and there was no hope for him to reach the spiritual realm in this life. Gu Chenyu did not have any great opportunities, but fortunately his luck was not so bad that he encountered the disgusting disciples in novels who came to bully him.

On the small road back to the residence, Gu Chenyu saw a wretched figure hiding behind a rock and grinning evilly. Upon closer inspection, it was Chu Tian, the eccentric guy.

"Brother Chu, what are you doing?"

Gu Chenyu patted his shoulder, and Chu Tian was so scared that he jumped three meters high.

"Damn, who is it? Who dares to plot against me?" Chu Tian cursed, looking around for a long time before he spotted Gu Chenyu standing beside him.

"It turned out to be Junior Brother Gu. I thought there was a bad guy trying to harm me and he almost seriously injured you." Chu Tian looked as if he hadn't held back, you would have been in big trouble.

Gu Chenyu was speechless. With that kind of reaction time, he wouldn't even notice if someone stabbed him in the back with a knife, and yet he still claimed that he was seriously injured.

"Thank you very much, senior brother, for showing mercy. I wonder if you have something important to tell me that you are waiting here at this time." Gu Chenyu asked.

"Important matter? It is indeed an important matter. Isn't the entrance examination coming up soon? I plan to find a beautiful junior sister to spend a night with and talk about love and romance. Guess what realm I am in now, the ninth level of the Qi Nourishing Realm, hahaha." Chu Tian said proudly, revealing nine spiritual power circles and showing off his muscular lines.

"Brother, you don't have to do this."

Gu Chenyu expressed that he couldn't bear to watch this guy, who had been in the Qi-nourishing Realm for so many years but was only at the ninth level. No one knew how he cultivated, but he had become one of the most senior and experienced veterans among the menial disciples.

"But what exactly is the entrance examination?" Gu Chenyu asked. In fact, he just wanted to confirm whether everyone had to participate.

"We, the menial disciples, have an entrance examination every three months. New disciples do not have to participate, and they will be beaten if they participate, but they must participate in the subsequent entrance examinations." Chu Tian said, and indicated that as a new disciple who had not yet cultivated his qi, there was no need for him to know so much.

"What if I fail the test?"

"Not very good, just continue to be a menial disciple." Chu Tian said.

“Won’t they be driven away?” Gu Chenyu asked puzzledly.

"Drive him away? Why? Are you going to do evil in the mountains? Just be a good errand disciple and do your job." Chu Tian said, as if he saw Gu Chenyu's doubts, and added: "Not everyone can enter the sect. Being selected means that you have severed your ties with the world. The sect is your home. Any sect disciple can cultivate to the Gathering Spirit Realm. It's just a matter of time. And when you become an outer disciple, you will have to go on missions. If you are not careful, you might die outside or offend someone. You can't let your relatives suffer..."

Chu Tian said a lot. In fact, after so many years, he missed home, but there was nothing he could do. Since he chose to become an apprentice and learn martial arts, he could not go back.

"The sect is very good. They will not drive you away just because you are ordinary. Those medicinal baths are not available in the mortal world, and you only need to clean and move things every day to enjoy them. The greater your ability, the greater your responsibility, and the things you are responsible for are also different. Once you become a registered disciple, you can choose a hall and start to make some contributions to the maintenance of the sect." Chu Tian rambled a lot again. The sect was his second home. It was not that good, but it was not bad either.

Gu Chenyu listened to Chu Tian's inner thoughts and couldn't help but ponder. Indeed, it was not that good, nor that bad, but he couldn't feel any sense of belonging. He knew that he would leave sooner or later, and he couldn't say what the environment would be like in other places.

"I won't talk to you anymore. My favorite junior sister is here. I'm going to show my courtesy to her." Chu Tian ran to a young and beautiful girl and asked about her well-being.

Gu Chenyu shook his head upon seeing this and went back to his small room to practice.