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Shi Chen walked out of the waterproof membrane and put away the monster skin, and the waterproof membrane behind him also disappeared.

He ascended over twenty feet and discovered that many cultivators were searching for something in the Thousand Poison Pond. Shi Chen also pretended to be searching for spiritual objects, slowly ascending to the surface and landing on the shore.

"Fellow Daoist, you just came out of the Thousand Poison Pond. Have you found anything?" A cultivator standing on the shore looked at Shi Chen and asked.

"I found nothing, not even a spiritual object. I've been in the mist for quite a while now. I'm going back to the Immortal City to rest."

After Shi Chen left, more cultivators came to the Thousand Poison Pond.

Upon returning to Poison Pond Fairy City, Shi Chen learned that over half a month ago, a beam of light had appeared from the Thousand Poison Pond, shooting straight up into the sky, alarming even the city lord. Rumors were rife that a treasure was about to be unearthed from the Thousand Poison Pond, and everyone was searching for an opportunity.

The female cultivator in the cave was still in a coma and showed no signs of waking up.

After resting for three days in the Poison Pond Fairy City and recovering his spirit, he originally wanted to go to the Thousand Poison Pond mist to practice, but there were too many cultivators searching for treasure now, so it was not suitable to go in. Moreover, the time agreed with Huang Qi and his sister was about to come, so he could only return to Qishafang City first and come back later.

On the flying boat heading towards Qishafang City, Shi Chen asked for an ordinary single room this time, which cost him three hundred low-grade spirit stones.

There were two Jindan cultivators stationed on the flying boat, which made it much safer. The boat had a smooth journey without any accidents.

Seeing Shi Chen return to Qishafang Market, Huang Qi and his sister finally felt relieved.

The first thing Shi Chen did when he returned to Qishafang City was to apply for the spiritual knowledge and magic formula from the sect.

Over a month had passed since the sect's reply arrived. The sect's reply was simple, offering two options: one could return to the sect to practice under the guidance of a transmission elder; the other was to be given the formula and practice on one's own without guidance.

Shi Chen's cultivation level was at the fifth level of Qi Refining, which was still quite a distance from the sixth level. At his current cultivation progress, it would probably take another year and a half.

The Qingxuan Sect's restrictions on spiritual consciousness and magic techniques are not strict. As long as one is a disciple of the Qingxuan Sect, no matter if it is an inner sect, outer sect or menial disciple, and his cultivation reaches the middle stage of Qi Refining, he can apply to practice spiritual consciousness and magic techniques.

Practicing spiritual awareness techniques requires a contemplation object, usually a handwritten copy of a sect elder, a calligraphy piece, a portrait, or a spiritual object of divine charm, to guide the spirit. This method of contemplating objects is the most common and universal method.

Another way is for the sect elders to use their own spiritual consciousness to guide and help the disciples cultivate spiritual consciousness. This is the fastest way, but few people can do this.

The last option, as Shi Chen had chosen, was to have the sect provide the Dharma formula and practice it on one's own. This self-study method of cultivation was the slowest, relying entirely on one's own understanding.

Shi Chen really didn't want to go back to the sect. With his current level of cultivation, there were not many resources allocated in the sect, and he would have to spend a lot of time and effort to complete the sect's tasks.

Now he manages a pill pavilion in the market town. It is easy for him to complete the annual tasks of the sect. The resources he obtains from refining pills on his own are far more than what the sect provides.

Therefore, he chose to practice the spiritual techniques on his own.

Ten days later, a senior brother who had established his foundation brought a jade slip of magic formula.

After Shi Chen practiced the spiritual consciousness technique, he discovered that when he practiced the soul-tempering technique in the cave under the Thousand Poison Pond, he was actually cultivating spiritual consciousness, but there was no detailed description of the introductory cultivation of spiritual consciousness.

The foundation of cultivating spiritual consciousness is that once the object of observation exists in the mind, it should be nurtured until it breaks out of its cocoon, and then spiritual consciousness will be born.

Generally, when a cultivator develops spiritual awareness, the initial sensing range is only one foot around the body.

Only by practicing the magic formula of spiritual consciousness day after day and constantly nourishing the spiritual consciousness can one gradually transform, and the sensing range will slowly expand, from one zhang to three zhang, and then to ten zhang, and a hundred zhang.

Foundation-building cultivators can usually sense within a range of fifty to one hundred feet. The range of sensing underwater becomes much smaller, and even smaller underground. Many foundation-building cultivators cannot even sense more than ten feet underground.

Shi Chen got started with the spiritual knowledge technique very quickly and succeeded on his first try.

While sitting cross-legged in meditation, he found a light in his mind. The secret of spiritual consciousness said that as long as one can imagine an object in his mind, keep it and nurture it slowly until it breaks out of the cocoon and becomes the foundation of spiritual consciousness.

Initially, it will emit a faint light, gathering energy and nourishment, and will slowly become solid.

The light of spiritual consciousness is released outside the body, and it can feel and recognize everything.

A cultivator with divine consciousness sees things very differently from one without it. Divine consciousness is like a human body scanner. Without divine consciousness shielding, it can sense the state of an object in all directions, including temperature, humidity, hardness, hollowness, solidity, smell, structure, and so on.

In his spiritual scan, the things he saw were very different from before. Before, he could only see the surface of things, smell the odor, and see the color and shape.

After possessing spiritual awareness, the corresponding skills will also experience explosive growth.

The strength of spiritual consciousness is mainly strengthened through the cultivator's own cultivation, or through corresponding spiritual refining methods.

The Soul Tempering Method that Shi Chen learned was a practice method to enhance spiritual awareness.

After cultivating his spiritual consciousness, he did not dare to start practicing the Soul Tempering Technique immediately, as he still remembered the pain from last time.

The jade slips sensed by spiritual consciousness contain the real spiritual consciousness cultivation method, which is divided into the tempering method, the nurturing method, and finally a spiritual consciousness secret technique that can condense spiritual consciousness and hone it into a physical object. Except for the practitioner himself, others can hardly perceive its existence. It can cause spiritual damage when attacking the enemy. The greater the difference in spiritual consciousness strength, the greater the power.

With divine awareness, Shi Chen found it very simple to refine first-grade elixirs, and he could even start researching and practicing the foundation-building elixir.

As for the refining of the foundation-building pill, Shi Chen considered starting half a year later. He had just cultivated his spiritual consciousness, so he needed to wait until the strength of his spiritual consciousness became more solid.

You can start to slowly polish Yu Chenzi's ring.

It contains the foundation of all arts and the Five Elements Sect's cultivation manual "The Secret Book of the Five Elements".

Using his spiritual sense to remove Yu Chenzi's spiritual mark, he realized the huge gap in strength between the spiritual sense of a Nascent Soul and his own spiritual sense at the beginning of Qi Refining. Using his current spiritual sense, it would take more than three years to erase the mark.

Shi Chen has the Soul Tempering Technique. Through the nurturing method in it, he can nurture his spiritual consciousness for a period of time, and then practice the tempering method. The strength can be improved quickly, and the time required to erase the imprint of the spiritual consciousness will be shortened a lot.

Three months later, Shi Chen's alchemy skills improved rapidly. His Soul-Enriching Pills produced a high rate of high-quality pills. Sometimes, a full slab of pills would contain no low-quality pills, but mostly medium-quality ones. This led to more people seeking Shi Chen's help in refining pills.

Among the ten furnaces of elixirs, six have successful pills, and each furnace has six to ten pills. Moreover, alchemists who can regularly produce mid-quality pills are hard to find in the sect, so the alchemy service in Qishafang City has become very popular.

In the past few months, more and more independent cultivators have come to Qishafang City. Many elders from small families have come to order custom-made pills from Shi Chen. Some disciples of the Qingxuan Sect within 500 miles have also come here to make pills.

Shi Chen's reputation as an alchemist gradually spread within a radius of a thousand miles.

The fees for refining pills for others were also different. He had a sign that read: "Ten furnaces of pills, 60% chance of producing pills, 20% to 30% chance of producing mid-grade pills." The fee was three spiritual herbs, or spiritual stones, spiritual herbs, or spiritual objects of equal value.

The business of refining pills for others is very popular. Shi Chen only refines ten furnaces of pills every day. He spends the rest of his time studying alchemy, practicing magic, and improving his cultivation.

After three months of cultivating his spiritual consciousness, Shi Chen can now release his spiritual consciousness at a distance of ten feet, which is different from the empirical explanation in the spiritual consciousness method.

Generally, when a cultivator first begins to cultivate his spiritual consciousness, the strength he can cultivate in a year is only three meters, and the maximum sensing distance of his spiritual consciousness can be released is three meters. However, he can reach a sensing distance of ten meters in three months, and a distance of four meters in a year.

This is the difference between practicing the Soul Tempering Technique, and its strength is obviously different from that of others.