"Well, that's fine. Anyway, there is still a lot of time. You should focus on practice these days. At least before you leave my school, you don't need to worry about the cost of practice." Li Ming also agreed. He nodded, and pointed at the booklet in Tianjihong's hand and said, "Okay, I've talked to you enough for today. There's still a little time left for me to explain the contents of this health-preserving formula to you word for word. Half an hour Then we will begin to prepare for the night action. At that time, I will use my soul consciousness to slowly wake up the old man outside the door. You two only need to extinguish the candles and go to bed to sleep. The teacher will also pretend to stay in the house to rest. That old seventh man didn't dare to easily enter the house to deal with the three of me alone, so he could only choose to take advantage of me and escape outside to find his companions."
"Then you two just stay in the house and don't go anywhere. You don't have to worry about anything because I'm taking care of you. I'll take care of the rest. If you're lucky, I'll be able to take care of you at dawn. The gang was caught in one round, and the whereabouts of their boss was forced out." Li Ming's tone still sounded very relaxed, and he didn't look like someone who was about to break into the tiger's den alone. It looked like he didn't let the bandits go at all. In the eyes.
Tian Jihong could only lament in his heart that a skilled person is brave, and then devoted his incomparable enthusiasm to the health-preserving formula in his hand. He secretly imagined that one day he could be like his master, with such a confident demeanor in his movements.
"...Guarding the Dantian of the heart, concentrating Qi into one body, regulating the two rituals, breathing in and out from beginning to end, is to achieve great success in cultivating the body..." Under Tian Jihong's hard reading, half an hour passed quickly. With Tianjihong's talent, it is not difficult to memorize Huang Jie's simple mental method such as the body-nurturing formula. During this period of time, with Li Ming's help, Tian Jihong had roughly browsed through the ten-plus pages of thin text. Except for the few few things he didn't understand, after asking Li Ming about the rest of the content. Tianjihong seems to have a clear understanding of everything. At this time, Tianjihong, through the study of health-nurturing techniques, could clearly sense the traces of spiritual energy flowing in the air around his body. At this time, he just waited for him to complete the breathing and breathing according to the subsequent steps mentioned in the book. It seems that Going up does not seem to be as difficult as outsiders said at first.
But when he confidently tried to absorb the spiritual energy from his whole body with the encouragement of Master Li, Tianjihong finally understood the gap between reality and theory mentioned by Li Ming. It only took Tianjihong nearly ten minutes to absorb the first thin ray of spiritual energy, which was only as thick as an index finger, into the body. During this period, there were many instances of induction interruption or spiritual energy blockage, and he needed to seek advice from Li Ming from time to time. In these ten minutes, he asked his master more questions than in the more than half an hour of studying the mental method before. In the end, Tian Jihong, who was sweating profusely, almost succeeded in absorbing the first ray of spiritual energy. Tired, he collapsed on the couch.
"Okay, you kid, stop looking so sullen." Li Ming couldn't help laughing and scolding when he saw this scene, "Cultivation is not as simple as you think. The description of the internal skills and mental methods is just an introduction. It is the fundamental method of practice. To apply the method reasonably and completely in actual practice, you need to constantly try and adapt. Under the guidance of the master, you, this kid, can absorb the first ray of spiritual energy in a quarter of an hour. This is already a very amazing efficiency, and the efficiency of the second practice will be significantly improved in the future. But now is not the time to rest, you should get up quickly and use your mental skills to refine this spiritual energy and transform it into spiritual power in the meridians. When After the spiritual energy circulates throughout your body, your fatigue will naturally disappear."
After hearing this, Tian Jihong had no choice but to drag his almost exhausted body and sit cross-legged on the bed. He closed his eyes slightly under the curious gaze of his younger brother and began to urge the first ray of spiritual energy to circulate in the meridians as described in the body nourishing technique. . At this time, he was surprised to find that, just as the master said, when the spiritual energy containing the power of heaven and earth irrigated his whole body, his body suddenly felt as if he had been bathed in a hot spring, and an indescribable sense of comfort spread from his Dantian. , until the whole body becomes soothed.
And after the spiritual energy passed through the tendons and was continuously compressed into more refined spiritual power, Tianjihong only felt that he was radiant and energetic at this time. He could even clearly feel the increase in strength in his body, as well as the flesh and blood all over his body. The bones have become stronger under the washing of spiritual power, and the healing rate of wounds suffered in the previous battle has also been significantly improved.
Tianjihong just heard his master say that the absorption of the first ray of spiritual energy is the most critical. This not only means that he has found a method suitable for his own cultivation, making it easier to absorb spiritual energy again in the future; at the same time, the first ray of spiritual energy has the most obvious effect on the baptism of mortals. At this moment, he feels like he has been reborn, which is unprecedented in his life. experience. He even felt that the fatigue he had spent half a day between life and death had turned into smoke. He was afraid that his body could maintain such vitality all night long. No wonder Master once said that after a monk reaches a certain level of cultivation, cultivation alone can replace the time he spends sleeping every day, and he can also burst out with more energy.
However, the appearance of none of the above without soul power made Tianjihong even more excited. When the first ray of spiritual energy reached his head under the operation of the technique, Tianjihong could clearly feel that his sea of consciousness seemed to be opened by a key, and the things in front of him became clearer in an instant. His mind seemed to have a new understanding of the outlines and details of everything in the world. Needless to say, what this aura brings to Tianjihong is the activation of soul consciousness. Compared with the recovery of physical strength in the body, this is the main reason why Tianjihong feels energetic.
It's just that the monk's soul power, like his spiritual power, requires continuous practice. After this moment of relief, Tianjihong's soul power did not continue to improve. At this time, he had not yet learned how to practice soul power, and he did not know how to lock the location of the outside world through soul consciousness like other monks. But it was this moment of sublimation that really made Tian Jihong understand the difference between monks and mortals. The former's way of stimulating soul consciousness to see things is completely different from the way mortals observe through vision.
Even in Tianjihong's view, monks and mortals are basically two levels of beings. Thinking back, whether it was Lao Si whom he had fought against before or the Rabbit and Rat King he met today, their real strength was still far from that of a real monk. Judging from my current feelings, it would be a miracle for a mortal to go retrograde and defeat the monks with just strength. At least, I am absolutely not sure that I can take advantage of any moves with the soul detection of a real monk. At most, You can only rely on your own physical fitness to deal with the opponent.
This rebirth-like transformation made Tianjihong feel extremely greedy, and he wished he could sweep away the spiritual energy in this room and take it all into his body. But just when Tianjihong tried to use his skills again to absorb more spiritual energy, Li Ming, who saw that his mind was unstable, stopped him in time and said sternly: "Be careful to keep your mind and your heart! You kid must remember that cultivation is very important. What is important is calmness and unity of mind and spirit. The absorption and circulation of spiritual energy is not only an exercise for the body, but also a polishing of one's own state of mind. If there are distracting thoughts in the mind while breathing in and out, the spiritual power transformed will also hide a bit of violence. It will take a lot of effort to get rid of it in the future."
"Now that you are starting to practice for the first time, it is understandable how you feel about condensing the first spiritual power, but haste makes waste in practice. After you have just completed your first practice with all your efforts, even if you are physically exhausted It can be resolved by spiritual power, but the violent mental fluctuations are no longer suitable for cultivation. Today, my teacher advises you to give up here and calm down first to think over and over again about the process of breathing in spiritual energy this time. It will be late. It’s time to calm down and start over again.”
This timely reminder was like a basin of cold water poured on Tian Jihong's head. As smart as he was, he immediately realized that he was just as the master said. At this time, due to the greed in his heart, he began to become eager for quick success. If such practice continued, it would only achieve half the result with half the effort. So after slowly exhaling a breath of turbid air, Tian Jihong opened his slightly closed eyes and cast a grateful look at the master. Then, under the latter's prompting, he began to think over and over in his mind every place he had just absorbed the spiritual energy. Details, and at the same time slowly clearing away many distracting thoughts in the heart, preparing for further practice in the future.
Seeing that the apprentice on the couch had listened to his teachings, Li Ming also showed a satisfied look, and silently took Tianji Fei, who was stubbornly refusing to leave, outside the house, leaving Tianjihong a quiet space to complete the subsequent tasks. meditation. It was almost midnight, and under the bright moonlight, the seventh child in the courtyard of the two men had begun to twitch slightly. Li Ming knew that it was time to take action. After giving some brief instructions to Tianji Fei, he once again released a stream of soul consciousness from the air towards Lao Qi, who was about to wake up. According to Li Ming's estimation, this guy should gradually regain consciousness within a few minutes.
Immediately afterwards, the two people quickly extinguished the lights in the house and closed the windows tightly to create a scene where the people in the house had fallen into a deep sleep. However, in order to prevent the seventh old man from taking risks and breaking into the house alone to start killing people, Li Ming deliberately left a gap in the door facing the bright moonlight, and moved a chair in the house to sit on it, pretending to be a Meditate into a state of concentration. In this way, even if Lao Qi outside the house intentionally attacks the people in the house after breaking free from the rope, he will still be able to clearly see his appearance through the crack in the door before entering. Li Ming knew that the seventh man would never dare to act rashly in front of the monks, and the only way left for him was to turn around and run away.
