Mythical Cultivation

After breakfast, the four of them saw a large crowd gathered at the courtyard gate. Wu Ming and the other two pulled one over to ask, "Why is it so lively?" The person, initially looking annoyed, smiled and said, "I heard the courtyard posted a notice saying there will be classes every day, so everyone's gathered here." Then he hurried off, presumably to tell someone he knew.

"I hate going to class the most. Why do I have to go to class even when I come to the sect?" Wang Xiaohu said.

Wu Ming understood that no one liked attending classes. During his two years at the village private school, everyone attended classes. He hadn't expected to have to attend classes even after joining a sect. But after reading the Qi Refining Technique last night, Wu Ming finally understood. Without someone to teach you, even if you're a learned scholar, what good is it? You might know every word in the book, but you won't understand it when you put it together. Thinking of those people in novels and TV shows from a previous life who learned by themselves through picking up secret manuals, Wu Ming felt insulted by his intelligence.

"I wonder if you, Xiaohu, read the booklets distributed last night?" Wu Ming asked.

"I have read it. The various rare treasures in the Guide to Immortality made me drool. I wonder when I can get some of them. I took a look at the other books, but I really couldn't understand them." Wang Xiaohu touched his head and said.

"Those books are essential for future cultivation. We can't understand them. If no one teaches us, how can we cultivate in the future? So we have to take this course, and we have to take it well. This is related to our future cultivation." Wu Ming said. He still hoped that the four of them would get better and better in the future.

"Wu Ming is right. You can be more relaxed about other things, but you still have to be more attentive when it comes to cultivation," Li Fei said. Wang Xiaohu was quite convinced by Li Fei and nodded quickly to show that he understood.

"Achuan, you too, remember not to be careless." Wu Ming said to Ishikawa who was silent on the side.

Over the next few days, Wu Ming and his companions began their daily school life. In the mornings, they learned the basics of the cultivation world and the fundamentals of cultivation. In the afternoons, they studied the Qi Refining Technique. After two weeks, Wu Ming finally understood how to practice the Qi Refining Technique.

The Qi-Intake Technique helps cultivators who have reached the Perfection of the Body Tempering Realm sense the external primordial energy of heaven and earth and absorb it into their bodies. After a long period of practice, a cyclone eventually forms in the Dantian, but that's where it ends. The Qi-Refining Technique, on the other hand, involves continuously compressing the absorbed primordial energy of heaven and earth, forming one cyclone after another, thus continuously increasing one's strength.

Within a few days of understanding the technique, Wu Ming successfully transitioned it to the Qi Refining Technique. The vortex of energy in his dantian also shrank, and Wu Ming felt his strength grow again. The Qingyun Sect truly reigned supreme in Qingjiang County. Wu Ming felt that his rate of absorbing the vital energy of heaven and earth was at least ten times faster than when he was in Lijia Village. At this rate, becoming an outer disciple would only take a year or two. The difference was so significant, no wonder everyone aspired to join a major sect. At this rate, he'd be able to return home to see his grandfather in a few years. He wondered if Wu Ming would still be so naive in a few years.

Since the new disciples learned the Qi Refining Technique, their training shifted to cultivating the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation. While increasing one's own strength was paramount, external resources couldn't be neglected either. Furthermore, cultivation required a significant investment of resources. Where did these resources come from? Simply relying on chance encounters with immortals wasn't enough, so they needed to invest their own resources.

The cultivation of the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation can not only enhance one's own strength, but also obtain many resources, so most practitioners have more or less one or two of the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation.

Alchemy, weapon forging, formations, and talismans are among the major categories of the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation, and most cultivators choose to learn from these. Wu Ming and his companions, on the other hand, began learning the basics, hoping to become apprentices after becoming outer disciples. After all, everyone was currently at the initial stage of Qi training or at the first level, and with that level of skill, they couldn't qualify as apprentices. They had to first solidify their theoretical foundation.

Besides the hundreds of arts of cultivation, the most important subject is magic. This is what everyone will use the most in the future and is closely related to their strength. Magic is divided into several levels: elementary, intermediate, advanced, and spiritual. Wu Ming and his friends naturally learned elementary magic. These include water arrows, fireballs, earth shields, entanglements, light bullets, blinding spells, lightness spells, and small palm thunder.

This was also everyone's favorite class, with everyone focusing their energy on practicing magic, after all, it was the only way to experience the charm of the Immortal Sect. And for a long time to come, magic was what everyone would use to fight, so your proficiency in magic indirectly represented your strength.

As the days passed, everyone's strength didn't grow noticeably, but their knowledge was growing day by day. No one felt bored at the academy anymore; every day they saw something they had never seen before, allowing their knowledge and reserves to grow day by day. This was the benefit of a sect. If you were a casual cultivator, there would be no one to teach you many things, and you would have to rely on yourself to understand many things. You wouldn't know how many treasures you would miss on the road of cultivation.

The lotus seed mark on Wu Ming's chest could only hold about one-tenth of its original size, so there was no rush. During this time, Wu Ming also figured out the origins of the items in his storage bag. Qi Gathering Pills were used in the early stages of Qi training, before reaching the fourth level. Qi training is divided into nine levels: the first to third levels are the early stages, the fourth to sixth levels are the middle stages, and the seventh to ninth levels are the late stages. Qi Supplementing Pills were used in the middle and late stages of Qi training, and there were only three bottles in the storage bag. The hundreds of spirit stones in the bag were low-grade spirit stones, each with a different color representing a different attribute. They were generally of the five elements: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. The green spirit stones absorbed by the lotus seed mark were wood-attributed.

Therefore, if Wu Ming wanted to activate his mark, he could only trade with others for wood-attributed spirit stones, or earn them outside. As a reserve disciple, he could only move around on the mountain of the Newcomer Academy, a mountain filled with newcomers like Wu Ming. There was no money to trade with, let alone earn. Wu Ming didn't have the courage to trade with the teachers or dean, fearing that he wouldn't be able to explain himself clearly, and who knows what kind of trouble he would get into if others discovered his secret.

So, although Wu Ming was anxious, he could only put it on hold for now and think of a solution after becoming an outer disciple. For now, he could only study hard and practice well. Fortunately, there were a lot of Qi Gathering Pills in his storage bag, and he also received five Qi Gathering Pills every month as a benefit for reserve disciples. So Wu Ming's progress in practice was also very fast, and he thought it would not take long for him to become an outer disciple.