My Optimized Immortal Life

After returning to his residence, Chen Qing hurriedly faced the wall to reflect on his mistakes. He was not at the stage where he could indulge himself yet. The road to immortality was long, and how could a cultivator like him bow down to a woman?

After putting aside all distracting thoughts, Chen Qing secretly made up his mind that after I build my foundation, I will come back to meet these little goblins, and then I will make sure they can't turn over.

Of course, given Chen Qing's current condition, it is actually very difficult for him to cultivate to the foundation-building stage. This is related to the fundamental spiritual roots of cultivating immortals.

Putting aside those mutated spiritual roots like wind, thunder and ice, spiritual roots are usually divided into five elements, namely gold, wood, water, fire and earth. As long as you have one spiritual root, you can practice. Among them, spiritual roots are divided into low, medium and high grades according to their degree of growth. It is said that there are also earth spiritual roots and heaven spiritual roots, but Chen Qing has been in Maple Valley for so long and has never heard of the existence of cultivators with these two kinds of spiritual roots, so let's not mention them here for now.

As a cultivator, Chen Qing naturally has spiritual roots in his body, but he only has four spiritual roots. The five elements lack water, and among the four spiritual roots, the fire spiritual root is the best, which is of medium quality, and the rest are of low quality. If you look at it this way, then Chen Qing's qualifications should be considered acceptable, but spiritual roots cannot be judged by the quality of only one type.

Because the spiritual energy that a cultivator needs to absorb during cultivation is determined by his spiritual roots. The higher the quality of the spiritual roots, the more spiritual energy he absorbs. This means that when he cultivates, he will not only absorb the four kinds of spiritual energy: fire, wood, earth, and gold. However, the Fiery Power he practices only requires fire spiritual energy. In this way, he also needs to expel the other three kinds of spiritual energy from his body, so a slow cultivation speed is inevitable.

The original body suffered greatly from this. It took it two months just to cultivate to the first level of Qi Refining. Then it took more than half a year to cultivate from the first level to the second level, and more than a year to cultivate from the second level to the third level. Then it was stuck at the third level of Qi Refining until now.

Thinking of this, even though Chen Qing possessed innate abilities, he couldn't help but feel overwhelmed. Furthermore, his current cultivation level wasn't the perfect third level of Qi Refining, but rather the initial stage of Qi Refining. Now, he had to cultivate to perfection again before he could even attempt to break through the bottleneck of the middle stage of Qi Refining.

There are ten levels of Qi Refining, and every three levels form a small realm, which is the so-called early, middle and late stages. If so, then there is no such division. The most important thing is the bottleneck. The purpose of cultivating immortals is to seize the fortune of heaven and earth and perfect themselves, so the bottleneck naturally exists.

There is a bottleneck every three levels in the Qi Refining Stage. The better the aptitude, the easier it is to break through the bottleneck. But for someone with aptitude like Chen Qing, if he wants to break through on his own, he can only rely on time. If he wants to break through quickly, he has to rely on elixirs.

The elixir for practicing Qi Refining is the Qi He Dan, which is sold in only one place in the entire Fenglin Valley Market, the Danding Building, and costs twenty spirit stones per pill. However, you cannot buy just one pill there, you have to buy a whole bottle, which contains three pills, or sixty spirit stones. If you were the original body, you would have to farm for three or four years to buy one bottle of it, and with the original body's qualifications, one bottle might not be enough, you would need two bottles.

With this calculation, farming really has no future.

Chen Qing shook his head. Even though he could earn spirit stones by making talismans now, it would take him five or six months to save up 120 spirit stones. After all, he had to consider the market. There were a total of three talisman makers in the entire Maple Valley Market. The number of talismans that could appear on the market at any given time was actually about the same. Chen Qing did not want to reveal his ability to make talismans too early.

This is actually acceptable. After all, it will take some time for Chen Qing to cultivate his skills back to the third level of Qi Refining, and it will also take some time for him to display his ability to make talismans.

Time. Chen Qing sighed. This body of his was only nineteen years old this year. He did have a lot of time, but in the world of immortal cultivation, the generally accepted limit for foundation building was around sixty years old. After sixty, the Qi and blood declined, and the physical fitness declined. It was not so easy to break through the foundation.

By this calculation, he only has forty-one years left, and he is still seven levels away. Roughly speaking, it will take him six years at most to break through one level, unless he can find a way to maintain his physical fitness or find a way to improve his qualifications.

Still have to work hard.

Chen Qing sighed, then took out the talisman-making tools from his storage bag and started working.

Time passed in the blink of an eye. One day, after Chen Qing came back from buying a batch of materials for making talismans, he finally met Taoist He, whom he had not seen for a long time. The latter was still wearing a Taoist robe, with a head of white hair that was a mess, but his eyes were exceptionally bright, as if they could emit light.

"Xiao Chen, I feel like I'm not far from refining the He Qi Dan. Give me another two or three months and it will be almost there."

Taoist He stared at Chen Qing with his bright eyes and said with confidence.

Chen Qing felt a chill run down his spine from being stared at. Could this Taoist Master He have gone astray in his cultivation? To avoid provoking him, Chen Qing, for once, refrained from mocking him, instead offering his blessing.

"Then I wish you can refine the Heqi Pill as soon as possible, Old He. Don't forget to give me one when you do."

"You kid, you're always trying to find ways to get some good stuff out of me," He Laodao sneered, then said, "Well, if I really refine it, I'll give you one."

"Thank you very much, Old He." Chen Qing was holding some materials for making talismans in his hands. It was difficult for him to bow, so he could only bow to show his gratitude.

"Have you been learning how to make talismans recently?" He Laodao glanced at the talisman materials in Chen Qing's hand and spoke.

"I can't plant in the spiritual fields anymore. Fortunately, I got the method of making a talisman before. Now I'll see if I can make it. If I can, I can change my current situation." Chen Qing said helplessly.

It was those few words in Chen Qing's words that touched He Laodao, but a hint of emotion appeared on his face, and he murmured, "Making talismans is not much different from refining pills..."

As he was speaking, He Laodao turned around and went back to the wooden house. His voice became softer and softer, and finally could no longer be heard.

Watching He Laodao's back disappear behind the door, Chen Qing's nervousness suddenly receded like a tide. He wiped his back and found that some cold sweat had seeped out.

This Taoist He really seems to be possessed.

Looking at the wooden house that was still as quiet as before, Chen Qing felt an indescribable darkness emanating from the shadow of the wooden house, which made him feel a chill running through his bones.

I hope I'm overthinking it.

There was a glimmer in Chen Qing's eyes. He stared at He Laodao's wooden house for a while before he slowly walked back to his own house.

In the following days, He Laodao often went out to the market to buy elixirs needed for alchemy. Chen Qing also talked with him several times, but he no longer had the same feeling as before. This made him feel relieved, but he did not dare to be careless and still kept an eye on He Laodao.

It is better to be safe than sorry. After all, being possessed by the devil is extremely dangerous. In the past, there have even been cases where possessed monks directly started killing people in the market. Chen Qing doesn't want to rely on luck for his life.

And on such a day, the management monk of the Black Water Sect also came to Maple Valley.