The Path to Sainthood from Fairy Tail

As the basic inheritance of Qingyun Sect, the content of "Qingyun Sword Technique" has been deduced to the extreme by our predecessors.

This sword technique is divided into three levels: floating clouds covering the sun, changing winds and clouds, and rising straight into the sky.

Reaching each of these three levels can greatly improve one's combat power. After reaching the peak, one can even fight against cultivators of higher levels.

After completely rehearsing the sword technique in his mind, Li Xuan slowly stood up and walked towards the courtyard.

He stretched out his hand, then thought of something. Instead of continuing his previous action, he found a similar branch and held it in his hand.

Then, he began to practice the Qingyun sword technique in the courtyard, raised his sword, and slowly performed his sword skills.

At the beginning, Li Xuan's movements were very slow. He was trying hard to control his body to ensure that he could practice the entire set of sword techniques without any error.

During the process of performing the sword technique, Li Xuan found that his true energy was being consumed at an extremely fast rate, and he was unable to sustain it until the moment when he completed the entire set of sword techniques.

But he still gritted his teeth and continued. Without the support of spiritual energy, his own physical strength was rapidly depleted.

Gradually, Li Xuan's speed became faster and faster, and he was able to reach the walking speed of a normal person.

He swung his sword more and more accurately, but his true energy had been exhausted. His next swings were just practicing sword moves, but he could not bring out the true lethality of his sword skills.

But what's wrong with this?

Li Xuan continued to swing his sword like this, day after day, until the strength of this body was about to be completely exhausted. He mobilized all the strength in his body and swung out the last sword heavily.

Snap!

The branch broke with a sound, and Li Xuan fell to the ground weakly.

It was already the third day since they arrived at the Immortal Tomb.

Just when Li Xuan wanted to get up and eat something, he found that he could no longer move. His body felt as heavy as if it were filled with lead, and his lips were chapped due to lack of water.

"You look really embarrassed like this."

The sound of Jie Lu came from far away and got closer.

Unlike Li Xuan, he looked refreshed and energetic, and even his skin was rosy, unlike that of an ordinary person.

Li Xuan swallowed hard and asked doubtfully, "Did you succeed?"

"That's right, I've now officially embarked on the path of cultivating immortality. I feel like my whole body is filled with strength. This spiritual energy is much more practical than true qi. I feel like my body is getting stronger every moment!"

"How did you understand the book "Gui Qi Jue"? It clearly doesn't even tell you how to absorb spiritual energy?" Li Xuan asked in disbelief.

"Haven't you read the book 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique'? The first page explains how to draw Qi into your body. If you don't have any spiritual energy in your body, how can you absorb the surrounding spiritual energy?"

Li Xuan gently patted his forehead. He had subconsciously overlooked this basic setting. His mind was filled with scenes of great cultivators devouring spiritual energy, and he had actually forgotten the most important step in cultivation.

At the same time, he was also curious about how Jie Li came up with this idea.

"Isn't this book the work of a clerk disciple? Where did you find it?"

Xie Li said as a matter of course, "Isn't this technique in your room? I found it under a table leg. It might have been left by the previous disciple."

"To pad the table legs..."

Li Xuan was a little amused and helpless. Even this kind of martial arts practiced by menial disciples would cause a bloody storm if it were placed in the mortal world, and might even be recovered by people from the Qingyun Sect.

Such a skill can only be used as a table cushion here.

"So that's it."

Li Xuan slowly raised his hand and said, "Hurry up and help me up. I'm exhausted."

With the help of Jie Li, Li Xuan finally returned to his room and sat down.

Li Xuan, slumped in his chair, slowly opened his mouth and said, "Brother, help me find something to eat. I really can't move."

Xie Li looked at Li Xuan in surprise. Just as he was about to take something out of the system space, Li Xuan stopped him and said, "Wait a minute, find something from the sect. We're new here, after all, so we don't need anything too sumptuous. Just enough to eat."

While Li Xuan was speaking, he pointed his finger upwards.

Although he couldn't be sure, he had reason to suspect that someone from Qingyun Sect might be spying on them.

This situation is not for lust or anything outrageous, but to observe their character, ability and whether they can practice diligently.

These things are quite common in the world of immortal cultivation. After all, some idle bosses like to use their spiritual sense to observe the younger generation around them when they are not practicing.

If you're lucky, you might see something interesting.

Jie Li also understood what Li Xuan meant. After nodding, he prepared to go out to find food.

But just as he took a step forward, Li Xuan called out again, "Wait a minute. There's one more thing!"

Jie Xu narrowed his eyes and turned around, as if to see if Li Xuan had anything else to say. If this matter was not important, he might have taken action.

"Let me have a look at your copy of 'The Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique'. I don't have any table legs to pad."

Jie Xu: ...

"Wait."

After saying that, Jie Li left Li Xuan's room.

After a while, Li Xuan was still in a daze when a black shadow quickly flew to the table next to Li Xuan.

If you look closely, you can find that it is a book. On the gray-brown cover, it is clearly written: The Five Elements Qi Gathering Art.

The four corners of this book have been rounded, exuding an ancient atmosphere from top to bottom.

Li Xuan looked at the exercises on the table and couldn't help but shake his head and laugh at himself: "Inducing Qi into the body, such a simple thing, I didn't even think of it, it's really funny!"

Because his body was indeed exhausted, Li Xuan could only control his fingers to slowly open the cover. As expected, the method of drawing Qi into the body was clearly written on it.

Drawing Qi into the body is the foundation of cultivation and is well known to everyone in the world of immortal cultivation.

After all, every practitioner has come this way.

Some practitioners may be gifted and have spiritual bodies at birth; some may come from wealthy families and have elders paving the way for them; and some may have supernatural powers, and the moment they receive the inheritance, they are able to draw Qi into their bodies.

Drawing Qi into the body can be said to be a primer in the body, used as an advance preparation for absorbing spiritual energy. It can also be said that drawing Qi into the body is to completely activate the spiritual roots.

Generally speaking, this process is not very difficult and only takes a few attempts for geniuses.

But for those who have no spiritual roots or whose spiritual roots are very mixed, drawing Qi into the body is the first hurdle on their road to becoming immortals.

After Li Xuan understood the process, he didn't care that his body was in a state of exhaustion, and started to draw Qi into his body according to the method in the book.

It is indeed different to figure things out on your own by having a method. Following the above method, Li Xuan immediately felt his spiritual roots become active, as if they were extremely eager for the spiritual energy outside.

Suddenly, Li Xuan's body was like a valve opened, and the surrounding spiritual energy rushed into his body, quickly completing the step of drawing the energy into his body.

He did not stop and started practicing the "Returning Qi Jue" directly.

Sure enough, the feeling this time was different. With the guidance of spiritual energy, Li Xuan quickly began to continuously absorb the surrounding spiritual energy.

It was not until Jie Li came back with a pile of food that Li Xuan came out of his cultivation state.

"What are you..."

Li Xuan smiled happily: "Yes, I did it!"

Jie Li nodded and put the food he brought back on the table.

He sat down on the other side of Li Xuan and asked, "Now that we've gotten started, shouldn't we consider what we're going to do next?"

"After all, we can't keep it like this forever."

Li Xuan, who successfully reached the first level of Qi training, has recovered to his peak condition.

He answered truthfully, "We are only at the Qi training level right now. Although we can be called immortal masters in those dynasties, our combat power is actually not as good as that of an innate warrior."

"In my opinion, it would be best if we could first raise our cultivation to the Foundation Establishment stage, so that we can have a greater chance of success!"

Xie Yu asked in return, "But do we have so much time?"

Li Xuan was silent for a while, he didn't know the answer either.

They knew nothing about the rules within the Immortal Tomb, not even whether there was a time limit.

If the world needs to meet certain conditions within a certain period of time, then they simply don't have that much time to develop.

"No matter what, we are still too weak. Let alone walking in the human world, we are unable to complete the sect's mission!"