Primordial Qi

The martial arts realms of ordinary people are divided into: Qi realm, Ming realm, An realm, Hua realm, and Tian realm. The Qi realm is to cultivate one's own Qi. The Qi of the great cultivation is dozens of times that of ordinary people. The Qi is gathered in the body, and one punch can leave a mark on a boulder. For people who practice Qi, their own Qi can resist the Qi realm, even the flames transformed by spiritual power can be resisted. This is their own Qi.

The bright realm tempers the flesh, the dark realm acquires true Qi, the transformation realm has already reached a state of perfection, and in the heavenly realm, spiritual power is born from within, and the method of cultivation also changes from refining Qi to refining the spirit.

“To practice this kind of skills, you need perseverance. Entering the Heavenly Realm is actually just the Gathering Spirit Realm, but your combat power is comparable to that of a Grandmaster,” said Li Tianxuan.

"Heavenly realm, I thought it could be compared to the gods, but I didn't expect it to be just the Gathering Spirit Realm." Gu Chenyu replied as if he understood.

"Heavenly being, that is a great cultivator whose soul emerged from the golden elixir, and whose life span is more than a thousand years. For a mortal to be able to cultivate to the heavenly realm is already the limit. Moreover, once one reaches this realm, he is no longer a mortal." Li Tianxuan said unhappily. How could the path of cultivation be so simple? Children are just children, they think too simply.

"What is your cultivation level, senior?" Gu Chenyu asked curiously.

"I don't have any cultivation." Li Tianxuan said indifferently.

"What?" Gu Chenyu was already confused to begin with, and now he couldn't understand anything at all.

“When I was in the human world, I had reached the great perfection of the transformation realm, and I once kicked a dandy young man in the gathering spirit realm to death with one kick.” Li Tianxuan said nonchalantly, as if it was a trivial matter.

Gu Chenyu said that the seniors were amazing and that the juniors should study hard, but he couldn't help but complain in his heart that the old guy was obviously showing off.

"Then why do you have no cultivation now?" asked Gu Chenyu.

"Because I have found my own path, there is no more true energy to transform into spiritual power."

"My own way? What is that way?"

"The body becomes holy." Li Tianxuan said word by word.

"Sanctification of the flesh?"

“Do you know that there are students in the world who study the books of sages for hundreds of years and attain enlightenment one day, becoming literary sages and mastering the laws of heaven and earth? There are also alchemists who have been refining medicine for countless years and can also become medicine sages,” said Li Tianxuan.

"Senior, are these based on facts? Or are they recorded in ancient books?" Gu Chenyu asked. He knew that the strongest was only at the Heavenly Man Realm, similar to a cultivator in the Nascent Soul Stage.

“Ah, how should I put it? There are records in ancient books, but no saint has been born in the world for a long time.” Li Tianxuan sighed. He has broad knowledge and is not just an old man who grows medicine. He has seen many ancient books and classics, all of which he saw in a secret realm or a small world.

"Have you ever heard of ancient ruins? There are records of many things from a hundred thousand years ago. Our Lingmu Sect used to be a Xuan-level sect, and it is inseparable from these ancient ruins." Li Tianxuan told Gu Chenyu about the ancient ruins and the birth of the small world. The two of them were preparing the spiritual liquid while chatting nonsense, just like a pair of grandfather and grandson.

The so-called ancient ruins are the relics left behind by the great sects that disappeared one hundred thousand years ago. Because they have been around for a hundred thousand years, they are called ancient ruins.

Among them, many sects were powerful and left behind many Taoist traditions. Most of these sects disappeared strangely. They were not destroyed on a large scale, but were hidden underground or in the void.

The Lingmu Sect inherited a sect dojo, from which many ancient books were excavated, including exercises, pill recipes, and many medicine furnaces and flames. The spiritual fire from 100,000 years ago is still terrifying today. The founder of the sect was able to dominate the Xingyue Continent with just a few spiritual fires, and even after the liquidation of the Protectorate, most of the combat power was retained.

As for the small world, it is a space opened up by a strong person who has cultivated to the level of a god and has initially mastered the laws of space. As for its size and the survival status of creatures, it is related to the strength of the main developer.

At present, no sect masters have opened up a small world to accommodate living things. Survival is a problem, let alone cultivation. There is another kind of small world, which was created for unknown reasons. It may be opened up by ancient masters, or it may be naturally generated by heaven and earth, or it may be caused by some treasure. It is full of strange laws, but the opportunities are huge. It is a place full of spiritual medicines and spiritual treasures. Similarly, there are monsters, prohibitions and other dangers.

There is a small world in Lingmu Sect, which is also left by the ancient ruins. There are countless spiritual medicines in it, and even the law of time is involved. The small world opens once every sixty years, and the duration is as long as half a year. The spiritual medicines looted are extremely precious, and some of them have a medicinal effect of up to thousands of years.

A yellow-level sect cannot hold on to such an opportunity, so every time a small world is opened, the Protectorate will send people to take away some of the high-level spiritual medicines, and also provide protection. As long as the Lingmu Sect does not commit suicide, with the protection of a behemoth like the Dawu Dynasty, nothing will happen.

"Old man, can you really achieve sainthood in the flesh?" asked Gu Chenyu.

"No, it's impossible in this lifetime." Li Tianxuan shook his head: "To achieve sainthood in the flesh is not something that a mortal like me can achieve, and I feel like something is missing."

"What's missing?"

"I don't know. I'm not sure. It just feels like something is missing."

Gu Chenyu scratched his head. This old man was so mysterious and beating around the bush. He had no idea which of his words were true and which were just bragging.

"You don't need to ask me about this. I have shown you many ancient secret manuals in the sect. You can't have forgotten them all."

"The things inside are too wonderful, many of which are beyond my imagination. I just read it as a story. These books are better than those that study spiritual medicine." Gu Chenyu said embarrassedly. These ancient books were hard to come by, and Gu Chenyu did not read them carefully.

"That's right. Neither of us has spiritual power. We are just mortals. I was inconsiderate enough to read these. But, I think you should read them. I know you won't take them seriously. It can broaden your horizons and will be helpful to you in the future." Li Tianxuan said.

Gu Chenyu nodded seriously. He felt that time was not enough. He worked for four hours during the day and had to practice and study. As soon as he opened his eyes, he came to the spiritual medicine field to cultivate spiritual medicine. He lived like this for three years. Now he got the Qi-refining technique of Tyranny. He finally understood why in the novels about cultivating immortals, a person would be in seclusion for decades or even hundreds of years. It was not enough. Time was not enough.

Humming a little tune, the preparation of the elixir was completed. There was no need to work after distributing it. At this time, Li Tianxuan usually took Gu Chenyu to the old man Bai Yansha to rub the pills by hand.

This kind of alchemy is a common alchemy in the mortal world. It is not like the alchemy method he has heard of, which uses mercury or excessive mercury content. Instead, it uses a variety of medicinal materials with different medicinal properties to make hand-rubbed pills. Some are spiritual liquids, some are colloids, and some are powders. Finally, after 9981 processes, they are developed into hand-rubbed pills. Most of these spiritual medicines were picked secretly, but they were in accordance with the procedures, so even if they were discovered, they could not say anything.

"No? Old Bai, is this stuff really edible? It's black, even blacker than the dirt you wipe off your body." Gu Chenyu had a look of disgust on his face. He had eaten a lot of pills given by this old man in the past three years. He didn't know how effective they were, but the taste was really bad. Except for the pill for strengthening yang and nourishing the kidneys, he had eaten a lot of the others and threw them away after just tasting them.

"Huh? You bastard, if Old Li hadn't begged me, I wouldn't even want to move my old bones!"

The old man was so angry that he blew his beard and glared. This guy even made personal attacks. He must find a way to teach him a lesson.

"I've thought about the medicinal bath for tonight. I'll prepare some strong medicines for you. I'll hurt you to death."

"Old Bai, you are so cruel."

Gu Chenyu hid behind Li Tianxuan. He was not afraid of the old man Bai at all. He just liked to see him puffing out his beard and glaring, which made him treat him badly in the first place.

"Okay, okay, Old Man Bai, are you sure about what I told you?" Li Tianxuan asked.

"Yes, yes, it depends on whether this little guy can make it." Bai Yansha patted his chest, but he used too much force and couldn't help coughing: "I'm old, old, really old."

"When the secret realm is opened, I will find something for you to prolong your life." Li Tianxuan said.

Bai Yansha nodded, kept saying yes, and then drank the white wine again.

Bai Yansha had put no idea how many strange medicinal herbs he had put in the medicine barrel, including scorpions, black blood and the like, and even two black snakes. Gu Chenyu was most afraid of this thing in his previous life. Fortunately, it was dead, otherwise he would have fainted.

The shivering Gu Chenyu was frightened by these horrible medicinal herbs. The originally emerald green spiritual liquid now turned black, and even bubbles came out. He could feel the water temperature rising.

Gu Chenyu even suspected that he had just angered the old man, so he wanted to kill him in various ways. He had been rude to him in the past, but this had never happened even when he took a medicinal bath once a week. Bai Yansha kept muttering about the effects of the herbs as he placed them. He wished that the poisonous creatures were alive, and it would be best if they could bite Gu Chenyu twice, so that the elixir he brewed would be more effective.

"Don't worry, it's just the beginning. Come, take some pills." Bai Yansha said, with quite a few pills in his hand, and he fed them all to Gu Chenyu.

There were also several barrels filled with spiritual liquids of various colors, and several pots boiling unknown spiritual medicines. This scene did not look like a medicinal bath.

"Do you remember the Tyranny Technique I gave you?" Li Tianxuan asked.

"I remember. I can recite the first few chapters by heart now." Gu Chenyu answered confidently.

"Your memory is so good?" Li Tianxuan was shocked. He immediately took Bai Yansha's wine and poured a lot of it to Gu Chenyu. Then he asked, "What about now?"

"forgotten."

"who are you?"

"have no idea ."

Looking at Gu Chenyu like this, Li Tianxuan nodded with satisfaction. It was no big deal if he drank too much and forgot everything.

"let's start."

After Li Tianxuan finished speaking, Bai Yansha ignited the fire source at the bottom, and the temperature of the room rose a lot.

Gu Chenyu was sweating profusely and his face showed pain, as if he was in a sea of fire.

"Do you know how to refine Qi?" Li Tianxuan said.

"I know." Gu Chenyu replied.

"You know it but you still don't start. Do you want to be cooked?" Li Tianxuan rolled his eyes. He was usually very smart, but he became stupid after drinking some wine.

"I can't remember." Gu Chenyu said suddenly.

"Then wait for death." Li Tianxuan said unhappily.

Gu Chenyu sat cross-legged in the barrel, the medicinal power being absorbed by his body crazily. He didn't know how much spiritual power was absorbed. Every pore in his body was opened, and many impurities were discharged.

Li Tianxuan felt relieved after seeing this scene. He did not give too much time to Gu Chenyu to practice the Tyranny Technique. His original intention was to let him know the principles of Qi refining so that he could find his own way.

"How does it feel?" Li Tianxuan asked.

Although Gu Chenyu was sitting cross-legged, his body was floating, with just his head exposed.

"Great, much easier than practicing spirit."

"Refine essence into Qi, refine Qi into spirit..." Gu Chenyu muttered to himself and entered an unconscious state of cultivation.

"Good boy, you are really a freak."

Bai Yansha drank a lot more wine and said, "Why? Could he be your grandson? You are so nice to him. Did you take him in as your apprentice or something?"

"I want to see which possibility it is." Li Tianxuan's face was indifferent, as if he was trying to verify something.

"Never mind you, let's just see how this kid practices Qi first." Bai Yansha said.

The two of them looked at Gu Chenyu who was gradually beginning to practice normally, and they seemed to be expecting something.