Cultivation Kill

Shen Zige has eight spirit stones and eighty-three taels of silver left.

This is enough for six months of normal eating and drinking.

“The Mad Fish is quite delicious,” Qin Jing said. “There’s no such fish on Earth.”

"It just doesn't feel like something's missing without rice," Qin Jie said. "I still prefer to eat vegetables with rice."

“I saw steamed buns for sale outside, but very few people were buying them,” Shen Zige said. “I guess the people of Zhuguo don’t like to eat these.”

The three of them stopped talking, finished their meal in silence, and returned to the inn to rest.

Shen Zige closed the door to room 303, and without even changing her clothes, opened two books.

Although there were diagrams for the basics of Spirit Condensation, Shen Zige couldn't understand 99% of the text, so he first opened the diagrams comparing common characters to learn the characters.

"So this is how this character is written..." Shen Zige turned the pages one by one.

This book is quite thick, with over nine hundred pages. It includes not only illustrations but also concise explanations. The author's name is Cangjie, and he lived thousands of years ago. The first page contains a brief biography of him.

"So Cangjie was an ancient person from this world. The book says that five thousand years ago he was caught in a spatial rift and disappeared without a trace. More than two thousand years later, Cangjie reappeared, compiled this book, and then passed away." Shen Zige exclaimed in surprise, "The spatial rift five thousand years ago must have been connected to Earth. Cangjie went to Earth and invented writing as well. No wonder..."

However, Cangjie lived for more than two thousand years, so he must have been a cultivator. I wonder how he came back from Earth.

Learning the local script wasn't difficult for Shen Zige. Although it was in traditional characters, he only spent three days learning it completely. After all, only the shapes of the characters were different; everything else was roughly the same. It wasn't hard for Shen Zige to learn, but if a foreigner were to learn it, it would probably be extremely difficult!

Shen Zige was certain that foreigners had been drawn into this world because he saw many Western dishes on the menu; perhaps the foreigners hadn't actually ended up in this arena.

For the past three days, he has been paying Qin Jie to bring him food. The innkeeper was very unhappy that the three of them were bringing food from outside, but there was nothing he could do, since the inn did not have a rule that guests had to eat the food prepared by the inn.

The locals in Zhuguo love to eat a food that looks like mud, called black steamed buns.

Shen Zige had eaten it once. Although it filled his stomach, the taste was strange. It was one of the staple foods of the locals, but he didn't like it. The inn only had this kind of staple food, which made him wonder if he had chosen the wrong inn.

"Finally, I can start learning the basics of Spirit Condensation!"

Shen Zige was afraid of misunderstanding, so she only began to learn the basics of Spirit Condensation after she had fully mastered the Bamboo Kingdom's script.

Heaven and earth possess a spirit, which disperses throughout the four directions. By sensing it with one's thoughts, it floats on the distant sea, reflecting acupoints, refining the vital essence and strengthening the foundation...

Shen Zige sat cross-legged in the central hall of the room, silently reciting incantations.

During his stay in the Bamboo Kingdom, he saw envy and hatred in the eyes of many locals. There was only one reason for this: people from Earth were too talented, and their chances of becoming cultivators through spiritual condensation were a thousand times higher than those of the locals!

Why are Earthlings more gifted than others? Shen Zige had Qin Jie find out indirectly that it was because of their spiritual power, or what the locals in the Bamboo Kingdom call divine sense.

Most Earthlings possess extremely strong divine sense, and condensing spirit requires powerful divine sense!

The first step in spiritual cultivation is to understand what divine thought is and how to utilize it.

In terms that Shen Zige and the others could understand, divine sense was spiritual power. Unlike on Earth, in this world, one could concentrate and sense vague spiritual energy. With her eyes closed, she felt a tingling sensation in her pineal gland, as if she were in a thick fog...

As if drawn by something, the thick fog gradually approached Shen Zige, clinging to his skin and seeping into his pores—

Shen Zige gritted his teeth, his brows furrowed; he had already used all his strength.

As if a taut string had snapped, he instantly lost all his strength and collapsed to the floor.

"Not even close."

Shen Zige had a splitting headache, and her vision and consciousness were both blurred, so she had no choice but to climb onto the bed and lie down to rest.

Several hours later, there was a knock on the door.

"Zige, dinner's ready." Qin Jie's voice came from behind the door.

Shen Zige snapped out of her daze and was about to reply when she realized she was too weak to even speak. Her earlier attempt to guide a spirit into her body had been more exhausting than running a marathon!

She could still crawl at first, but she didn't expect to be unable to move after lying down for a while. Shen Zige remembered seeing someone fall from a building before. At first, they could still move, but after a while, they couldn't move anymore.

Was she going to die too? A strange thought popped into Shen Zige's head.

"Has Shen Zige gone out?" Qin Jie muttered to herself at the door. "Then I'll leave the food at the door."

There was a faint sound coming from outside the door, then silence.

Qin Jie has probably already left.

It wasn't until late at night that Shen Zige regained some strength. He endured the headache, got out of bed, crawled to open the door, and finished eating the already cold food while still lying down.

"Ah."

After drinking the animal bone soup, his spirits improved, and he was able to stand up with difficulty.

After closing the door, Shen Zige went to the hall to reread the Fundamentals of Spirit Condensation.

"The book says that after the spirit enters the body, the divine thought propels the spiritual power upward from the Foot Shaoyang acupoint, through the Qihai and Tanzhong acupoints, to the Baihui acupoint, and then downward, through the acupoints of the five internal organs and six bowels, to the Foot Shaoyin acupoint, which is called circulating one cycle." Shen Zige observed the human acupoints on the next page and simulated circulating one cycle in his mind.

After the simulation was completed, Shen Zige thought he could try again. However, the previous failure had left a shadow on his mind. After hesitating for a moment, he resolutely sat down and continued!

If you're afraid of even this little bit of pain, then there's no need to cultivate immortality; just lie there and wait to die!

Shen Zige believes that cultivating one's Daoist mind is like building a house; it requires laying bricks one by one, and there is no way to achieve it overnight.

A firm mind can strengthen one's spirit. After resuming meditation, Shen Zige quickly entered a meditative state and effortlessly reached the level of spiritual possession she had experienced before.

Gather!

The spiritual energy seeped into his pores. This time, Shen Zige was prepared and did not faint. He felt as if his whole body was on fire, and his body temperature was rising rapidly...

Get moving!

The spiritual energy must be circulating; even if he doesn't die from the pain, he will be burned to death by the escaping heat.

Move, move, move—

Shen Zige kept shouting in his heart, forcing out his potential in the face of death, and the spiritual power entering his body slowly gathered towards the Shaoyang acupoint on his foot.

The Shaoyang acupoint on the foot, where the spiritual energy was located, was icy cold. This coldness gradually rose, flowing through various acupoints. When it circulated for one cycle and returned to the Shaoyin acupoint on the foot, Shen Zige's body temperature had returned to normal.

It turns out that the first time spiritual energy enters the body, it will cause the whole body to feel hot. This is not mentioned in the book. I don't know if the author of the book on the basics of spiritual energy gathering did it on purpose or accidentally forgot it.

If someone tries to guide a spirit into their body for the first time but doesn't have the strength to complete a full cycle, they will surely die!

Peng——

Shen Zige's body exuded a powerful aura, and the air around her distorted as if it were above flames.

Spirit Condensation Successful!

Like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, or a fish leaping over the dragon gate, one is destined for greatness!

Shen Zige transforms from a mortal into a cultivator!