Reincarnation Girl Becomes Immortal

"The Qi cultivation method in this sword manual is significantly different from the previous Qi Cultivation and Spirit Absorption Technique... Perhaps it is the difference between Dharma cultivation and physical cultivation."

The spiritual energy in the "Essential Techniques for Nourishing Vitality and Gathering Spirit" mostly flows through the lungs and internal organs, enabling people to live long and prolong their lives.

This sword manual will stimulate a large amount of spiritual energy to flow into the muscles and bones, and even stay there for a long time to nourish them, similar to the flow of blood and qi in ordinary martial artists.

"Perhaps martial arts techniques were inspired by this type of body cultivation technique, hence the similarities," Xi Heng guessed.

According to the historical records of the Great Zhao Dynasty that she had read, military personnel had made significant progress in the last thousand years.

A thousand years ago, there were no traces of martial artists, only many legends of immortals.

The cultivation system of ordinary martial artists can be considered a kind of cultivation system that gradually developed after the world lost its spiritual energy, and it is not very perfect - at least that is the case in Great Zhao.

"In that case, my choice to switch from martial arts to body cultivation should be the most suitable one." She nodded slightly, first reading through the Qi cultivation section of the manual, and then flipping through a few more pages of the inner cultivation method.

Once he was certain there would be no future trouble, he drew his Phoenix Pattern Sword and went to the courtyard to practice his already highly proficient moves several times.

He then sheathed his sword and went to sit cross-legged in a wooden pavilion on the side.

Close your eyes and calm your mind, focusing your gaze on your nose and your mind on your heart, reciting the Crimson Phoenix Sword Sutra mental cultivation method, and indirectly drawing in external spiritual energy through your breathing.

The spiritual energy flows into the body's meridians and begins its circulation.

It flows through all the muscles, bones, skin, and acupoints, and then through the internal organs, gradually transforming into one's own spiritual energy, which is then transferred into the dantian and calmed down.

The reason why it was so smooth and natural, without any obstacles, is that Xi Heng had already gone through multiple steps and perfected the process of absorbing spirits into his body when he first entered the Fire Hell in his previous life.

Now that you can repeat the breathing exercises, you no longer need to repeat the previous tedious steps.

Just like when you turn on a new phone, you need to complete the settings before you can use it normally. After that, you only need to click once.

Spiritual energy enters the body and flows and transforms.

During the circulation of spiritual energy, Xi Heng could clearly feel that the strength of his muscles and bones, which had not improved for a long time, was being nourished by the spiritual energy and was gradually being slightly improved.

Although the improvement is extremely small and weak, as long as it actually exists, it will enhance her overall strength.

She had assumed that since she already possessed the actual combat strength of the mid-to-late stage of Foundation Establishment, her strength would not increase during the early Qi Refining stage; at most, she would only master some more spells and techniques.

Only after consuming the Foundation Establishment Pill and achieving Foundation Establishment can one's strength be improved to a certain extent.

It now appears that as long as one uses the breathing techniques of body cultivation to inhale and exhale spiritual energy, one can increase the strength of one's physical body.

Once she progresses through each stage and reaches the mid-to-late stage of Qi Refining, her overall strength will improve significantly.

"My current strength is comparable to the late stage of Foundation Establishment. Once I truly establish my foundation, I will be comparable to the peak of Foundation Establishment, right?" the girl murmured to herself.

"Perhaps the next level will be the highest realm in this world, along with the vengeful flames..."

"With such strength, do I have a chance... to become the Lord of the Pure Fire Realm?"

She stopped thinking and continued to immerse herself in a state of tranquility and emptiness, continuously breathing in and out spiritual energy, circulating it throughout her body, and returning it to her dantian.

Gradually, within the dantian, which only contained a golden-red elixir, wisps of unique energy began to swirl around it.

The mass of energy gradually grew larger, eventually filling the entire dantian as time passed.

The lower abdomen alternates between hot and cold, the meridians tremble slightly, and there is a feeling of floating and swirling energy at the Tanzhong acupoint in the chest.

The Qi vortex descends and converges into the Dantian (lower abdomen), causing the Dantian to expand.

The spiritual energy rippled and swirled with the descending vortex, transforming into a vortex shape.

After that, the vortex in his dantian began to spontaneously gather spiritual energy; although the suction force was weak, it had already taken shape.

Xi Heng slowly opened his eyes, and the scene in the courtyard before him had changed from daytime to the twilight of midnight.

She paid no attention to the changes in the outside world, only focusing on the circulation of spiritual energy within her body, and whispered:

"In the end, he has begun practicing Qi cultivation and become a cultivator..."

The formation of a vortex of Qi in the Dantian is a sign of achieving the first level of Qi Refining.

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Volume 1: Chapter 183 (Chapter 176) - Third Level of Qi Refining

The moonlight emerged once more from the dark sky, casting its bright light across the earth.

The city, painted in platinum and gold, reflected the faint light of the full moon. The glazed tiles on the houses, the crystal or amber decorations on the white walls, and the beaded curtains carved from round jade all shimmered under the moonlight, like countless stars in the sky.

The girl, who was sitting cross-legged in the round pavilion in the front yard, gently exhaled and calmed her spiritual energy. When she finally stood up, she saw the tranquil courtyard.

The buds of the unnamed white trees surrounding the flower bed slowly opened under the moonlight and night, revealing their delicate stamens and tiny petals. A gentle breeze would blow, and they would tremble and close again as if stimulated.

Xi Heng approached lightly, stretched out his fingers and flicked the branches and leaves beside him.

After admiring the pale yellow blossoms on the tree for a while, I half-closed my eyes and focused on sensing my own body.

In particular, the dantian area, which is now faintly radiating warmth.

Although I often felt a similar heat in my dantian during martial arts training in the past, that heat was rather rough and piercing, and it was quite different from the warmth of the spiritual energy flowing through it.

Even after reaching the Dantian stage, when the energy flows through the meridians, there will still be a feeling of muscles tightening.

She had always thought that cultivation was just like this, until today when she embarked on the path of immortality and switched to using spiritual energy for cultivation, she realized that there were some differences.

Allowing spiritual energy to flow freely within the body will be smoother and gentler, like a delicate hand gently caressing the skin with silk. There will be no tension, but rather relaxation.

Furthermore, when the physical body absorbs spiritual energy, it does not cause a feeling of bloating or increased blood pressure, unlike when the blood and qi are forcibly squeezed.

Furthermore, practicing martial arts requires training internal organs and muscles, which inevitably involves enduring a certain amount of pain.

Cultivators, on the other hand, directly nourish their internal organs, muscles, and bones with spiritual energy, which allows them to enter a state of mental and physical well-being during cultivation.

When you breathe in spiritual energy and circulate it throughout your body, it's as if you've been soaking in a medicinal hot spring after a period of exhaustion, and you feel completely comfortable.

"It's much more comfortable than practicing martial arts," Xi Heng muttered to himself.

At least that's how it is during the cultivation process.

This reminded her of the handwriting she had seen in the "Blood Sea Great Law" years ago:

Martial artists train their physical strength, while cultivators train their spiritual energy; the two are vastly different…

However, practicing martial arts does have some advantages; it allows one to refine their physical body and blood to achieve extraordinary abilities even in places devoid of spiritual energy.

Once a cultivator loses their spiritual energy, the power within their body will inevitably gradually disappear with each use.

Physical and martial arts cultivation is fine, but if one only cultivates magic, in order to maintain their powerful advantage, they will need to find other ways to obtain spiritual energy.

That would bring disaster.

……

In the courtyard, Xi Heng placed his left hand on his lower abdomen and closed his eyes to sense his dantian.

The spiritual energy in the dantian had already swirled into a vortex, firmly holding the spiritual energy within the body.

Within the Spirit Locking Array, the spiritual energy that has been refined and integrated into the body will not fluctuate or drift like it does outside.

However, given the weak suction force of the vortex within her body, it should dissipate quickly once she leaves the spirit-locking array.

"Slowly cultivate the spiritual energy vortex within your body, and once you reach a certain level, you shouldn't have to worry about the spiritual energy wandering away... Later, when you have time, you can ask other cultivators about the specific level at which you can lock in your spiritual energy."

"But there's no need to think about that now, anyway, it's definitely impossible right now."

She half-opened her eyes and raised her hand to touch the light gray tree trunk in front of her.

As her fingertips slid across the screen, the girl pondered:

"There should be plenty of free time in the next ten years or so. It would be best to reach the Foundation Establishment stage during this period..."

Even if a cultivator cultivates for sixty years, they may not be able to reach the threshold of Foundation Establishment.

However, her talent is only slightly inferior to that of a Heavenly Spiritual Root, and her current physical age is the perfect time for cultivation.

Legend has it that cultivators with celestial spiritual roots can typically begin cultivating at the age of fourteen or fifteen, reach the Foundation Establishment stage at twenty, and the Golden Core stage at forty or fifty.

With a little effort, she should be able to reach the Foundation Establishment stage within a decade or so.

"Along the way, I will also need to learn array formations, and at least get acquainted with the other three arts of cultivators... I also need to hone my skills in magic, swordsmanship, and so on, and further improve my strength."

“You could also try to explore the later stages of sword intent…” Xi Heng muttered to himself.

She had been stuck at the Sword Heart stage for quite some time, and could vaguely sense a higher realm of sword intent.

Although I don't know what's so special about that realm, or how to reach it.

But she could also genuinely feel that that realm truly existed.

Just like a climber who has seen the higher part of the mountain, he must continue to climb. There may be brief pauses along the way, but he will eventually reach the summit.

"Thinking about it that way, there is indeed quite a lot to do next."

"Let's do it one item at a time."

As for now, Xi Heng, who has been cultivating for almost two days, wants to take a nap first.

Although there is a certain amount of meditation and relaxation during focused practice, drowsiness will not accumulate.

But she just wanted to sleep, and no one could stop her.

So the next thing to do is, naturally, sleep until you naturally wake up in this house where you will live for many years.

The girl raised her slender fingers, rubbed her still-not-so-drowsy eyes, and yawned softly.

Turn around and go to the small bedroom where the bedding had already been laid out.

……

Time flies by.

On the fifth day in the Fire Hell, Xi Heng went out to buy some things that would help with his cultivation.

So he first opened the inventory in the hall, poured out the blue spirit stones, and slightly modified these identical spirit stones to make them slightly different from each other.

Then take half of it and put it in the package.

He then left the place and went to the middle of the city's commercial street, where he found a money exchange for spirit stones.

Her own azure spirit stones were much larger than the standard spirit stones of the Fire Hell, and one of them could be exchanged for four Fire Hell spirit stones.

After exchanging half of the spirit stones, you will have 280 Fire Hell standard spirit stones.

Including the gifts she received while accompanying Yin Wanluan shopping, she now has a total of 350.

As for the remaining half of the large spirit stones, they will be kept for future use.

After exchanging the spirit stones, Xi Heng left the money exchange and went to the Spirit Pill Shop across the commercial street.

She had barely had a chance to enjoy the hundred spirit stones she had just received before exchanging them for fifty Qi Gathering Pills to improve her Qi cultivation efficiency.

After taking the Qi Gathering Pill, the cultivation efficiency of a Qi Refining stage cultivator can be doubled in a short period of time.

However, as the frequency of use increases, the body will gradually develop resistance, and the efficiency will decrease accordingly.

Fifty Qi Condensation Pills are generally considered the most cost-effective quantity by Qi Refining cultivators.

Incidentally, she also purchased ten fasting pills for Qi Refining cultivators for five spirit stones, each of which could sustain her for fifteen days.

After leaving the spirit medicine shop, he bought a small energy-gathering array plate and some materials needed for drawing a simple array from an old cultivator at a roadside cultivator's stall.

One trip out and back to his own courtyard—and he had spent two hundred standard spirit stones from the Fire Hell.

"It seems that no matter where you are, you still need money..."

In the mortal realm, gold and silver are needed to exchange for money before Xi Heng can enter the Red Thread Sword Academy to learn martial arts.

In the realm of cultivation, one needs a sufficient amount of spirit stones to ensure a continuous increase in one's cultivation efficiency.

After arriving at the Fire Prison, Xi Heng cultivated for five days without the aid of pills or spirit stones.

It was indeed quite comfortable at first, and the experience was much better than practicing martial arts.

But as she gets used to the warm and soothing sensation of spiritual energy, she will gradually start thinking about how to improve her Qi cultivation efficiency.

Xi Heng did the math—if she didn't use any aids and relied solely on spiritual energy to cultivate, she probably wouldn't be able to achieve Foundation Establishment even after the Fire Prison was engulfed by resentful flames more than ten years later.

Just now, when she was discharged from the hospital and buying treasures, she also asked the shopkeeper what level of cultivation was required to resist the loss of spiritual energy outside the spirit-locking array with her own spiritual energy vortex.

The answer was: Generally, only by achieving Foundation Establishment and completely liquefying the spiritual energy in the body can one lock in spiritual power and prevent it from leaking out.

Otherwise, without special talismans or magical artifacts, it would be difficult to maintain the stability of the spiritual energy within the body.

At that time, the spiritual energy in the cultivator's body will be slowly absorbed, making it difficult to use spells.

To achieve Foundation Establishment before the Fire Prison perishes, one must spontaneously resist the dissipation of spiritual energy.