Mysterious mirror hanging high

"what?"

Seeing the change in the gray-robed young man's expression, Wang Queqiao's heart couldn't help but rise. She thought to herself, "Is this dried meat okay? Did I accidentally take the piece with the knockout drug?"

But at this moment, Jing Yu closed his eyes and felt the situation inside his physical body. The dried meat went down the esophagus into the stomach and was instantly decomposed and absorbed by the powerful digestive ability of the [Ku Du Treasure Body]. It turned into an extremely surging body refining essence and seeped into every part of Jing Yu's body. He even felt that the strength of the [Ku Du Treasure Body] had actually increased slightly.

"What kind of precious body-refining medicine is this?"

Jing Yu stared blankly at the remaining dried meat in his hand.

Now his [Kudu Treasure Body] is about to step into the [Second Level of Alien Realm], and it is still a long way from perfection. As the [Kudu Sutra] progresses, the resources required become increasingly huge. Low-level body-refining treasures are naturally still useful. After all, this technique is said to be able to ascend even if one eats dirt for tens of millions of years, but the effect on him is actually minimal.

This dried meat allowed him to clearly feel the improvement in his physical cultivation. It was at least a physical medicine for the foundation-building level!

"Is there any other food?"

Wang Queqiao quickly said, "Yes... I was inconsiderate. Eating this dried meat alone is indeed a bit salty."

Then he took out an ordinary pancake and handed it to Jing Yu.

Jing Yu took a bite of the pancake without hesitation and swallowed it in one gulp. Sure enough, he felt that the pancake he swallowed turned into a rolling body-refining essence, nourishing his body.

"Is this just ordinary dried meat and pancakes?"

Wang Queqiao raised his hand and swore, "Senior, did you notice something wrong with what you ate? I bought all this dry food from the market in the nearby Wangbei Pass. I haven't tampered with it in the slightest. If I'm lying, my whole family will be wiped out..."

"No wonder the warriors here who have reached the fourth or fifth level of physical training are not ranked among the top martial arts masters..."

Jing Yu held the dried meat in one hand and the pancake in the other and thought, "In this world, even ordinary dry food like this is a precious medicine for the body-building stage. Even a pig can be fed into a body-building pig!"

"But why?"

Although the effects of precious medicines for practicing Qi and refining the body are different, except for a very small number of special precious materials, most spiritual medicines need to be nourished by pure spiritual energy to mature.

This world was a land devoid of spiritual energy, devoid of any spiritual energy. How could any decent spiritual wheat or a demonic beast imbued with vitality grow there? What about the body-refining essence contained in these pancakes and dried meat?

Suppressing his doubts, Jing Yu sat on the tribute platform beneath the statue and crossed his legs. "Tell me, those people were chasing you for some secret immortal manual. What exactly is that secret immortal manual? And what use is it to you warriors?"

"Senior, the secret manual of the immortal family does exist... I stole this manual from the imperial palace of Dali. Somehow, the news leaked out and those people got to know about it. That's why they hunted me all the way. They were so persistent that they even chased me from the Central Plains to the borderlands."

After saying that, Wang Queqiao took out a thread-bound book with a blue cover from the package and presented it respectfully with both hands.

Jing Yu took the secret book and looked at it carefully. On the cover were four large characters: [Small Changchun Kung Fu]. He flipped open the cover and glanced at it casually. Then he threw the secret book to Wang Queqiao and said casually, "Fake."

"what?!"

Wang Queqiao was filled with disbelief. He clutched the secret manual tightly in his hand and gritted his teeth, saying, "Senior, this is impossible! I stole this immortal secret manual from the imperial palace after risking my life. It absolutely cannot be a fake..."

"The thing is old, but the skills inside are fake."

Jing Yu laughed and said, "This [Small Changchun Gong] is indeed a Qigong method. It contains all the techniques for drawing Qi into the body, breathing in and out the spirit, and circulating the Qi. However, the key points have been altered beyond recognition and turned upside down... If someone practices according to the methods in this secret manual, they will definitely suffer a reverse flow of spiritual energy, burn their internal organs, and may even explode and die!"

"I was wondering how a mediocre thief like you could steal the secret manual from the heavily guarded imperial palace. If the Dali Dynasty is truly a unified dynasty that pacifies the world, there must be at least a few supreme masters within the palace, right? How could they allow a little girl like you to steal right under their noses?"

"I'm afraid this harmful thing was deliberately released to cause chaos in the martial arts world, yet you treat it like a treasure."

Wang Queqiao's limbs were cold, his body softened, and he sat down on the ground: "I was actually tricked by that old guy..."

"You haven't answered me yet. What use do you warriors have for this immortal secret manual?"

Jing Yu asked, "Not to mention that you need spiritual roots to draw Qi into your body, it's still hard to say how many spiritual roots there are in this small world... Even if you do have spiritual roots, you won't be able to cultivate in this place without any spiritual energy?"

Wang Queqiao said respectfully, "I've only skimmed through this immortal manual. It's true that spiritual energy is needed to practice. Although the Dali Dynasty is currently a place with depleted spiritual energy, it will be very different in a few days!"

"Da Li...every two hundred years, the spiritual energy will revive for a full ten years. During these ten years, you can practice the secrets of the immortal family, draw the energy into your body, and build the foundation of immortality!"

Wang Queqiao's face was filled with longing: "If I can cultivate to the legendary [Foundation Building Stage] in these ten years, I can immediately extend my lifespan to three hundred years!"

"You must know that even a Grandmaster of the Ultimate Realm has a lifespan no different from that of an ordinary person! How many people in this world can resist the temptation of three hundred years of freedom?"

"We Dali people call this ten-year period of spiritual energy revival the 'Ten Years of Prosperity'!"

"Now, if we calculate the time, there are only a few days left until the golden age."

"From ordinary to building an immortal foundation in ten years?" Jing Yu frowned: "How is this possible?"

It should be noted that for cultivators, the Qi training stage is a foundation-laying realm. It is extremely urgent to train Qi from the first to the ninth level, otherwise the foundation is likely to be unstable when building the immortal foundation.

Therefore, even a cultivator like Ye Xingyun, who had outstanding qualifications, a Nascent Soul background, and great blessings, took a full twenty-three years to complete the Qi training and build the foundation of immortality.

Although he had cultivated himself to a certain level, even if he pushed the pace, or even practiced quick magic techniques, it would still take at least ten years to build the foundation. Jing Yu had been practicing for so many years, but he had never heard of any cultivator who had built the foundation of immortality at the age of sixteen or seventeen.

"It's possible." Wang Queqiao said with a confident look, "In every prosperous era, there are always a few people who can build the foundation of immortality and become land immortals who can enter and exit the azure sky and roam the world for three hundred years."

"So theoretically speaking, there should be cultivators in Dali who reached the Foundation Establishment stage during the last [Golden Age] alive today?"