Daodaofeng, Qianbu Cliff.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the sky had just turned white, and the forty-five new disciples of Lingdao Academy gathered on the top of the cliff.
There is a huge square stone on the top of the cliff, which is thousands of steps long and horizontal, hence the name Qianbu Cliff.
The disciples sat cross-legged, closed their eyes and lowered their heads, feeling the spiritual energy surrounding their bodies through the spiritual root nodes in their spines.
At this time, the spiritual energy is the purest. Although it cannot be absorbed, it can sense its existence and then generate a "qi sense" to prepare for the subsequent opening of the pulse.
In fact, logically speaking, spiritual energy is like water, flowing everywhere, and the spiritual energy on Xuanyuan Continent should be evenly distributed, but in reality this is not the case.
There is spiritual energy in the earth veins, which is called spiritual veins.
Wherever there is a spiritual vein, there are monks gathering.
In order to prevent spiritual energy from leaking out and dispersing, monks will arrange spiritual gathering circles around the spiritual veins, which results in uneven distribution of spiritual energy.
It also corresponds to the saying: If the mountain is not high, there will be "immortals".
According to the amount of spiritual energy, spiritual veins are divided into levels one to five from low to high, and each level can be further subdivided into three levels: upper, middle and lower.
There is a second-level high-grade spiritual vessel in Hanchi County, which is enough to support a thousand monks.
"I heard the elder's tone at the end of his sermon yesterday. I guess my pulse will be opened today."
The red sun rises, everything revives, and turbidity gradually arises. Zhao Lin slowly opens his eyes.
In the blink of an eye, it has been seven days since he joined Chenghua Sect. What he feels most these days is two words: freedom.
You can go wherever you want as long as you are within the scope of the jade sign. Lingdao Temple teaches scriptures for an hour every day, and you can use the rest of the time as you like.
Although the elders and the brothers who teach the practice are responsible, they never restrict the disciples too much, let alone give instructions. Everything depends on their own consciousness.
No wonder people say that cultivating immortals actually cultivates two things: one is freedom, and the other is immortality, both of which are indispensable.
With so much free time, Zhao Lin continued to practice martial arts in addition to observing and learning everywhere.
There is a Tao performance stage in the Performance Pavilion of Lingdao Academy. Senior brothers Chuan Gong sometimes demonstrate spells on the stage. Senior brothers who entered Lingdao Academy a year or two earlier often compete in martial arts competitions here.
The power of spells is indeed extraordinary and far more magical than martial arts.
Take the most basic wind knife as an example.
A warrior in the Blood Realm can condense his energy into a sword, and a warrior in the Yuan Realm can gather his sword and release it.
However, no matter how strong the martial arts is, it can only attack a distance of three to five feet at most, and after the wind knife is sent out, I can no longer control its direction.
But the magic "Aura Knife" is different. The attack distance can reach tens of feet, and it can be controlled at will, making it difficult to guard against.
In terms of lethality and flexibility, the two are not on the same level at all.
If the distance is within three feet, Zhao Lin is confident that he can compete with the monks in the middle stage of Qi Refining.
It's just that... having such thoughts puts oneself in a weak position.
As for the monks in the later stage of Qi refining, they basically have no chance of winning.
Because at the advanced stage of Qi refining, one can instantly summon a body-protecting spiritual energy shield, so there is basically no chance of a successful sneak attack.
Even so, Zhao Lin was not ready to give up martial arts.
Before entering the later stage of Qi refining, martial arts still has its uses, at least as a trump card.
And Zhao Lin feels that when the body is filled with spiritual energy, the strength of martial arts will also rise with the tide.
"Seven days after joining the sect, you must have understood how to practice Taoism and have a thorough understanding of how to introduce spiritual energy into the body. It's time to open your meridians!"
After returning from Qianbu Cliff, Elder Wu said solemnly in the transfer hall.
Zhou Hongfang, the head of the courtyard, and Nie Kui, the Taoist governor, were also sitting nearby.
When the disciples heard this, their faces showed nervousness and excitement.
Once the pulse is opened, he will leave his mortal body and officially become a monk. How can these young people not be extremely excited?
In the past few days, the elders who have been spreading the power have clearly explained the method of opening the pulse.
The human body is a world of its own, and Taoism still focuses on meridians and acupuncture points.
For people like Zhao Lin who have experience in martial arts, the truth is easy to understand, but most teenagers who have never practiced martial arts understand it without much effort.
There is no fool who is gifted with spiritual roots.
Elder Wu picked up a jade box at hand and opened the lid lightly, revealing dozens of brown pills.
Pulse opening pill!
Opening the meridians is the beginning of spiritual practice. Simply put, it is to introduce spiritual energy into the body, cleanse the meridians, and condense spiritual consciousness.
Originally this step would take several days, or even ten days and a half, but with the help of the Pulse Opening Pill, it can be completed in less than half a day.
As long as those with low-grade spiritual roots or above take the Pulse Opening Pill, they can almost 100% break through to the Qi Refining Realm.
However, ordinary spiritual roots only have a success rate of 20 to 30%, which is why low-grade spiritual roots are the watershed between whether one can practice Taoism or not.
The Pulse Opening Pill has such an effect, but it is not precious.
Because even without taking the Pulse Opening Pill, a monk can break through to the Qi Refining Realm, it just takes a little longer.
Moreover, the level of the elixir is related to the realm. The higher the realm, the higher the level of the elixir.
Taking the Pulse Opening Pill is just to enter the Qi Refining Realm, which is far less valuable than the "Foundation Building Pill" that can help monks break through to the Foundation Building Realm.
And the "Rising Dragon Pill", which can increase the success rate of Foundation Establishment monks to break through to the Purple Mansion Realm, is even more valuable.
"Come here, take one each."
After Elder Wu finished speaking, the disciples stepped forward one by one and received a pulse-opening pill.
Zhao Lin held the elixir in his hand and smelled it carefully, keeping its taste in mind.
He still doesn't know much about the spiritual herbs in the world of immortality, and can only smell about twenty or thirty different medicines.
The disciples returned to their respective positions, and the hall became quiet, with only the sound of breathing audible.
Elder Wu nodded slightly and said in a deep voice: "It's time to start. I'm here to protect you, so there's no need to worry, just do your work boldly!"
Most of the disciples were a little nervous and looked around, wanting to wait for others to take it before taking it themselves. Some disciples were more straightforward and simply swallowed the pill in one gulp.
Zhao Lin ignored others, calmed down, held his breath and concentrated, allowing himself to enter a relaxed state, and then swallowed the Pulse Opening Pill.
There was a sound of swallowing in the Chuan Gong Hall.
The elixir enters the abdomen and its power is slowly released.
Zhao Lin followed the guidance method taught by the elder, guided the power of the medicine to the Qi Sea, and then continued to exert pressure on it.
With the help of the medicine, the Qihai Point suddenly collapsed, then suddenly expanded, naturally generating a suction force.
This suction force reaches directly to the spiritual root node in the spine, and the surrounding spiritual energy begins to move.
Zhao Lin couldn't help but secretly marvel at the power of the elixir here.
The spiritual energy gathers near the spine, but cannot enter.
Zhao Lin was not in a hurry, and just followed the formula to repeatedly squeeze the air sea, collapse, and expand, and so on.
After about a quarter of an hour, a cyclone emerged from the Qihai Cave.
There seems to be a small bead under the abdomen that is constantly spinning.
Zhao Lin has been practicing martial arts for many years, but this is the first time he has experienced this feeling.
The beads spin faster and faster, the cyclone slowly enlarges like a vortex, and the suction force becomes stronger and stronger.
After another half a cup of tea, it finally came true. The spiritual energy squeezed out the "Mingmen" point on the spine and poured into the body. It then traveled from the Du channel to the Ren channel and merged into the sea of qi!
Different from the strength and vitality gained through martial arts training, spiritual energy is as condensed as fat and full of vitality. Although it gurgls like a thin stream, it has the meaning of being as vast as the sea.
When the Qi Sea Point was full and bulging and could no longer hold a trace of spiritual energy, Zhao Lin knew that the time had come, and the Qi Sea rotated in the opposite direction, pushing the spiritual energy into the meridians.
Spiritual energy circulates in the meridians, going round and round, washing back and forth over and over again.
After the forty-nine revolution of the week, there was a sudden "boom" sound.
Zhao Linyintang exploded with a bang, like an enlightenment. It was gray at first, and then became clear and clear, giving birth to a huge sea of consciousness.
I felt refreshed and refreshed, as if a pair of heavenly eyes had been opened, and every detail within a radius of ten feet could be seen.
Pulse opening successful!
Zhao Lin was the first to successfully open his pulse. The headmaster and the two elders immediately sensed it, but there was no look of surprise on their faces.
Martial arts practitioners are good at this, so it makes sense to be the first to open the pulse.
Stepping onto the threshold of cultivation, there was no joy on Zhao Lin's face, because there was another important matter next: attacking the acupoints.
There are more than 400 acupoints in the human body, but not all of them can be used for cultivation.
Only one hundred and eight of the innate acupoints can sense and contain the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and are also called "qi acupoints" and "spiritual acupoints."
Open the Qi orifice, absorb the spiritual energy, and turn it into your own magic power.
Qi refining realm monks practice these eight orifices. Each time a Qi orifice is opened, the magic power becomes stronger.
And every time twelve qi orifices are opened, quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes, and the cultivation level rises by one level.
Therefore, the Qi refining period is divided into nine levels. Levels one to three are the early stage of Qi refining, levels four to six are the middle stage of Qi refining, and levels seven to nine are the late stage of Qi refining.
When the pulse is first formed, it is when the body is most active. You must take this opportunity to attack the Qi orifices. The more the better.
But at this level, Zhao Lin encountered obstacles.
It was the same situation he encountered when he was in the Xiantian realm: after practicing martial arts for many years, the acupuncture points had been tempered and tempered countless times, making them strong and strong, and extremely difficult to attack.
At this moment, he finally understood why Wuxiu became a separate faction.
In the past, he thought that since he had cultivated his spiritual roots and practiced the same technique, the next path should be the same as that of ordinary monks.
In fact, the acupoints of ordinary monks have not been tempered in this way, so it is much easier to attack, but martial arts cultivators change their paths midway.
What was an achievement in the past has become a burden now.
But there are also benefits: the martial arts cultivator's acupoints have been expanded and deepened to accommodate more spiritual energy, which means that at the same level, the martial cultivator's mana is stronger!
"It seems that we have to take a different road after all. Fortunately, we are not alone on the road."
Just when Zhao Lin was attacking the acupuncture point with all his strength, Lin Chaoran successfully opened his pulse for the second time, and the director and others all looked at him.
As the only Earth Spirit Root disciple, after Lin Chaoran opened his pulse, his body made a soft "chi" sound and opened a Qi orifice without any pause.
Then came the second, third...
The momentum continued unabated all the way to the tenth qi aperture!
Zhou Hongfang, Nie Kui and Wu Chuanchen looked at each other with surprise in their eyes.
The spiritual root level is only a rough estimate of cultivation talent, and there are still many variables. The more Qi orifices opened when opening the pulse, the better the cultivation talent is!
Having opened ten acupuncture points, he is already the best disciple in recent decades. Can he go further?
The three of them unconsciously closed their palms and clenched them into fists.
Lin Chaoran did not disappoint them, eleven, twelve... until he opened fourteen acupoints, he ran out of spiritual energy and suddenly stopped.
Zhou Hongfang and others looked at each other in shock.
Next, disciples started to open their pulses one after another, but no one said anything so as not to disturb their fellow disciples who were doing the exercises.
The disciples looked at each other, and they all felt that the other person had become refined and refined, and his temperament had changed greatly. They wished they could find a mirror and look at themselves to see if the same was true for themselves.
Generally speaking, those with higher spiritual root grades will open their meridians first, followed by middle and lower grade ones.
However, Zhao Lin was special. When all the disciples finished their exercises, they still sat with their eyes closed.
Some disciples were puzzled, and some shook their heads secretly.
After waiting for a stick of incense, Zhao Lin finally opened his eyes.
When the disciples saw it, they immediately started making noises and asked about how many Qi orifices others had opened.
Lin Chaoran ranked first, opened fourteen qi orifices, and entered the second level of qi refining.
Apart from him, the best person only opened eight Qi orifices.
For the rest, most of the lower-grade spiritual roots only opened two or three Qi orifices, the middle-grade spiritual roots had four or five, and the upper-grade spiritual roots mostly opened six or seven.
Zhao Linchong opened three qi orifices and ranked in the middle and lower reaches, but he did not feel disappointed in his heart.
I originally had no spiritual roots, so I was lucky enough to be able to practice Taoism. Now that I have entered the realm of Qi refining, there is nothing dissatisfied about me.
Besides, the road is long, so don’t worry about it for a while, the road is still long!
(End of chapter)
