Immortals Step into Heaven

In the past six months, Zheng Yuan worked as a blacksmith during the day, and went to study with Ling'er, Ergou, and Daxiong at noon. Now Zheng Yuan is very hardworking in learning Old Man Zhang's ancient characters, and often pesters Old Man Zhang to study together.

At night, he practiced the Earth Spirit Technique. The reason for this was that the Earth Spirit Technique offered one more spell than other techniques during the Qi Refining stage. After reaching the middle Qi Refining stage, one could practice two spells: Earth Escape Technique and Stone Escape Technique. Stone Escape Technique required the late Qi Refining stage, and Zheng Yuan, with his limited mana and not yet at the fourth Qi Refining stage, couldn't even practice Earth Escape Technique.

For example, the Water Spirit Technique only has a water escape technique, the Gold Spirit Technique only has a gold escape technique, the Wood Spirit Technique has a wood escape technique, and the Fire Spirit Technique has a fire escape technique. The spells of these Five Elements Techniques are all used for escaping and none of them are for attacking.

Zheng Yuan was also puzzled. Could this Five Elements Technique be a method for escaping? He was right to think so. Mastering each technique in the Five Elements Technique took quite a while. Mastering five techniques wouldn't take five times as long as others. Perhaps the creators of these techniques didn't want their descendants to waste their time practicing magic.

Zheng Yuan thought it would be better to practice one technique first and think about other techniques later! After practicing the Earth Spirit Technique for a month without any results, Zheng Yuan thought he couldn't practice the Earth Spirit Technique!

Fearing he hadn't understood the Earth Spirit Art and was practicing it incorrectly, Zheng Yuan repeatedly studied the art contained in the animal skin scroll. After another two months of perseverance and effort, he finally felt a faint spiritual energy entering his body. This subtle spiritual energy entering his dantian brought a sense of joy to Zheng Yuan.

He practiced even harder, and after three months of continuously absorbing the free spiritual energy between heaven and earth into his Dantian, he finally succeeded in entering the first level of Qi Refining, which was the first step towards cultivating immortals.

After breaking through the first level of Qi training, Zheng Yuan clearly felt the changes in his body. He felt that he could generate a thousand pounds of force with a wave of his hand by circulating the magic power in his body, and his body was also extremely sensitive.

It took Zheng Yuan half a year of practice to reach the first level of Qi Refining. This was only possible because he had eaten the green spiritual fruit. If he had practiced normally, it would have taken at least one or two years, which would have been impossible.

The spiritual energy required for later practice is also more, and may increase exponentially. It doesn’t take long to practice to the second level of Qi training.

Zheng Yuan stretched out his palm and looked at the weak magic power in his palm. It was time to go to the cave to take a look. Zheng Yuan opened the door and came to the yard. He saw Xiao Hei still sleeping. Zheng Yuan did not disturb him and went out.

Returning to the cave, Zheng Yuan found nothing new inside. He found the spot where he had buried the treasure. Grabbing a wooden stick, he began digging, uncovering the broken sword, storage bag, jade box, and disc. He took the jade box, removed the seal, and opened it. Inside was an earth-yellow bead. The bead's surface shimmered with light. This was the earth-attributed spiritual object left by Senior Li. It was indeed a valuable item!

Let's call you Earth Spirit Pearl! This Earth Spirit Pearl is a top-level earth attribute natural treasure recorded by the Five Elements Spirit Body. I wonder if this earth attribute pearl is the same as the Earth Spirit Pearl recorded by the Five Elements Spirit Body.

Hey! This animal skin scroll only has text, no pictures, and Zheng Yuan is not sure. He closes the box and picks up the storage bag.

The restrictions in the storage bag had long since vanished with the death of its owner, so opening it was easy. If the owner of the storage bag were still alive, the restrictions wouldn't have dissipated so quickly. With Zheng Yuan's current meager mana, he couldn't open the restrictions left on the storage bag by a living Jindan-stage cultivator.

Zheng Yuan dumped the contents of his storage bag onto the ground, and the items piled up into a small hill. He then simply classified the items, finding dozens of pill bottles and hundreds of jade boxes.

There is also a jade slip, a token of the elder of the Tianlei Sword Sect, a round spirit plate, and thousands of jade stones with spiritual energy. These should be the spirit stones that Senior Li mentioned!

Zheng Yuan looked at the storage bag. It was about ten feet long. Was it just this little thing? Zheng Yuan shook his head and looked at the pill bottle and jade box on the ground. He opened them one by one and counted them. The more he counted, the uglier his expression became, until he finished counting the last jade box.

Zheng Yuan was stunned. These dozens of pill bottles, hundreds of jade boxes, were surprisingly! Surprisingly! All empty! There was nothing there. Zheng Yuan had hoped to strike it rich by obtaining a Jindan cultivator's storage bag, but to his surprise, nothing happened. It seemed Senior Li, even in the Jindan stage, was short on cultivation resources!

Zheng Yuan had no idea how a sect like Li Wufeng could be so poor! It was just that he had used up all the elixirs and spiritual herbs when he was escaping, all the spiritual stones were used to restore his mana, and all the magic weapons were used to self-destruct and stop the enemy. Otherwise, how could he be so poor?

There were about three thousand spirit stones. The jade slip was Senior Li's main cultivation technique, but Zheng Yuan wasn't interested. He hadn't even figured out his own Five Spiritual Techniques yet! He knew the principle of "too much will spoil the pot," so he'd wait and see.

This spiritual disk is a bit useless. It is recorded in Senior Li's travel notes that it is a special spiritual weapon. This spiritual disk is called the Spirit-Seeking Disk. As long as you input magic power, the Spirit-Seeking Disk can sense whether people within a radius of ten miles have spiritual roots. It can only sense the spiritual roots, but cannot determine what kind of spiritual roots they are. It can be used to see if there is anyone in the village who has spiritual roots.

Picking up the nearby spirit stone, Zheng Yuan sensed the abundant spiritual energy within it, far exceeding the spiritual energy within the universe. Thinking that cultivating with this spirit stone would be faster, Zheng Yuan quickly activated the Earth Spirit Technique, absorbing the spiritual energy from the spirit stone. He felt a surge of pure spiritual energy flowing into his body.

When it entered the Dantian, it was refined into magic power by the Earth Spirit Technique. The magic power of the Dantian was also slowly growing. This was more than ten times faster than absorbing the spiritual energy from the heaven and earth. Such a fast speed made Zheng Yuan very surprised. If only there were enough spirit stones!

It’s just around the corner to reach the middle stage of Qi Refining. It seems that if you want to reach a higher level, you will need more spirit stones and resources. There are no resources in this village!

It seems that the only way is to go out and explore, to find more opportunities! I need to quickly cultivate to the middle stage of Qi training, I am only at the first level now.

I don't know anything and haven't practiced martial arts. It's hard to protect myself outside. When I reach the fourth level of Qi Refining, I can practice Earth Escape. If I can't win, I can always escape! Put the spirit stone back into the storage bag, and put everything else into the storage bag. It's much more convenient with a storage bag. I don't have to worry about having too many things. I packed up my things.

Zheng Yuan looked at the cave. It seemed like a good place for cultivation. After entering the first level of Qi training, he also felt that the spiritual energy in the cave was much richer than outside. But Zheng Yuan still needed to eat! He couldn't go without food! He would starve to death. If he stayed here, he wouldn't be able to explain to his family. It seemed that he could come here to cultivate at night and go back in the morning.

It was almost noon when I got home. I ran into Ling'er on the way. She was playing with Xiao Hei, chasing each other and having a lot of fun!