After a stick of incense passed, his vision became clearer and clearer. After checking that there were no foreign objects around, Zhou Yang returned to the tree hole and dragged the wolf's legs into the cave, and then brought in withered grass and other objects. He had been unconscious for an unknown number of days and was already starving. .
Only cultivators in the Tianyuan realm can be fasting, and he has only been in the Kaiyuan realm. He doesn't have the fasting pill, so he can't stand a day without eating. But he has never eaten roasted wolf legs. It must not be as delicious as roasted lamb legs.
"If we light a fire in the cave, how will the smoke be discharged?" Zhou Yang frowned and thought to himself.
"Most low-level monsters are not interested in smoke and are somewhat afraid of it, but it would be troublesome for cultivators to see it. However, they can't control much now. They can't eat wolf meat raw."
Zhou Yang no longer hesitated, found a few stones, cut off several pieces of wolf meat with a long sword and placed it on top, then rested for a while, gathered the little energy in his body, and reluctantly used the fire technique to ignite the dead trees and weeds, Start grilling.
The flames were huge, and the surrounding area was illuminated brightly red.
He felt that the bursts of smoke did not float towards the entrance of the tree hole, but drifted towards the surrounding rocks in strands. After a while, they disappeared into one side and even the flames entered the rocks in strands.
It's really strange. He often wanders alone in deep mountains and forests, and he has never noticed anything like this when making a fire.
He looked carefully at the rocks and surroundings by the firelight, but found nothing unusual.
But what surprised Zhou Yang even more was that if his body was close to the rock where the flames were drifting, the energy in his Dantian would actually feel like it was leaving his body, but if he was a little further away, this feeling would disappear. what happened?
Zhou Yang looked carefully at the rock wall on that side, but it was not much different from ordinary rocks, except that the color was slightly darker. Could it be that the formation gave the rock suction?
His realm is so low that even if he has a formation, he can't find it, let alone the reason. After thinking for a while, he simply stopped looking for it.
In order to avoid being discovered, he originally planned to strictly control his food intake and grill meat once every two days when it was safe. If there were special circumstances, he would have to bite the bullet and eat raw meat. But looking at it now, it's not necessary. Besides, you can't be hungry when you should be full.
He patrolled around again to make sure nothing unusual happened, and then began to barbecue in earnest.
The wolf meat had a strange smell, but because he was hungry, Zhou Yang didn't notice it. He began to eat it in large chunks when it was half-cooked, and it was delicious. While eating, he thought it would be better if he had a pot of wine.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye. During these three days, he spent most of the time meditating and adjusting his breath to heal his injuries.
The technique Zhou Yang practices is Xuangang Jue, which was created by ancestor Zi Yuan. It is not only for practicing the technique, but it can also assist in the recovery of injuries.
Because of the serious injury, he could not operate the Xuan Gang Jue smoothly. When the energy reached the damaged meridians, there were bursts of tingling pain, and he could not function for a week.
The so-called meridians determine life and death, adjust deficiency and excess, and cannot be blocked. If the damaged meridians are not restored as soon as possible, the consequences will be much more serious than the trauma.
"Young master, I'm so poor! If there are two more healing pills, the recovery time will definitely be much faster. I only asked the sect for five days' leave this time, but I don't know how long it has been. Now I'm afraid I will be expelled from the sect, alas!" Zhou Yang felt sad when he thought about the consequences of being expelled.
Zhou Yang is an outer disciple of the Ziyuan Sect in Tuyan City. He is sixteen years old this year and has been a member of the sect for five years. He has just entered the fourth level of Kaiyuan and is a low-level cultivator in the sect.
Cultivating Yuanli is a sign of entering the Kaiyuan realm, and it is also the first step to becoming a Taoist. Yuanli is not transformed by absorbing the vitality of heaven and earth, nor is it spiritual power transformed by the spiritual energy of the five elements.
The Taoist Scriptures say: Great Qian Yuan, the beginning of all things.
Yuanli comes from Yuanqi, and this Yuanqi is Qianyuan Qi, which is the original Qi, the vitality of heaven and earth.
This Qi is the essence of the way of heaven, which can nourish all things and benefit all directions. Later, a powerful person discerned the way of heaven and realized the method of cultivating with this Qi. Based on it, the current cultivation system was formed and used by people all over the world. , until today.
The real vitality of heaven and earth exists in the sky, and low-level practitioners cannot feel it at all. Only high-level practitioners above the Tianyuan realm have the opportunity to directly absorb it.
However, after countless years of evolution, part of the vitality of heaven and earth slowly moved down, blended with all things, and gradually evolved and mutated into the five elements of spiritual energy and semi-spiritual energy. The so-called semi-spiritual energy is the imperfect evolution and mutation of the vitality of heaven and earth, and its functional efficiency is worse than that of spiritual energy. On many.
The Kaiyuan realm is the entry-level cultivator stage. The ability to absorb and transform the five elements of spiritual energy is very weak, but it is extremely sensitive to half-spiritual energy and has a strong absorption ability. It can directly incorporate the half-spiritual energy into the body and transform it into Yuanli for your own use. This is the stage of spiritual practice.
Yuanli is a mysterious force between the inner strength of a warrior and the spiritual power of a cultivator. Therefore, the Kaiyuan realm is also a transition from a warrior to a cultivator, but it is already out of the category of a secular warrior.
Because as long as you enter the Kaiyuan realm, you can practice various mysterious skills or spells, and your lifespan will also increase a lot. Moreover, these skills and spells are like fairy magic in the eyes of mortals. Therefore, in the eyes of mortals, The ascetics are all immortals.
The first step to become a cultivator is to cultivate Yuan Power. If you want a cultivator to develop Yuan Power, you must first sense spiritual energy or semi-spiritual energy. Generally, there are two ways:
One is that top secular warriors follow the cultivation method and after years of hard training, they sense the semi-spiritual energy around them and absorb it, gradually transforming their internal energy into Yuanli.
The second is that the descendants of cultivators use the inherited introductory skills to realize semi-spiritual energy or even spiritual energy, and then develop Yuanli.
And Zhou Yang belongs to the second type.
Of course, in addition to these two ways, it is not excluded that people with special physiques and special experiences can become practitioners.
Not all secular warriors can cultivate Yuanli. Only those with extremely outstanding qualifications and extremely tenacious minds can achieve success after a long period of hard training. Even so, the probability of entering the Kaiyuan Realm is extremely small, non-existent.
This probability makes secular warriors shake their heads and sigh. They give up one after another after practicing hard to no avail. Only a few can persevere, and those who succeed are even rarer.
It is difficult to be a cultivator in the mortal world, but it is different in the world of cultivation. After male and female cultivators form Taoist couples, most of their descendants can enter the Kaiyuan realm after hard training. This is the power of blood.
The more powerful a cultivator is, the stronger his bloodline will be, and the stronger the power he will pass on to his offspring. Some of his descendants will be suitable for cultivating Taoism at birth, and will progress much faster than ordinary people.
There are ten levels of Kaiyuan Realm. The first three levels are the early stage of Kaiyuan Realm, the fourth to sixth levels are the middle stage, the seventh to ninth levels are the late stage. The tenth level is the peak of Kaiyuan Realm. If you break through the tenth level, you will reach another realm.
In addition to gaining semi-spiritual energy or spiritual energy through hard training, the fastest way to replenish Kaiyuan cultivators' energy is with spiritual stones.
Spiritual energy and semi-spiritual energy are scattered in the boundless world, so they are very thin, so their perception and absorption are naturally much slower.
Spirit stones, however, are spiritual energy or semi-spiritual energy accumulated under special circumstances over countless years. They are rich in content and easy to be absorbed by practitioners. It can be said to be a special gift from nature to practitioners.
The rich spiritual energy or semi-spiritual energy in the spiritual stone can be converted into elemental power in the body after being absorbed by Kaiyuan Mirror cultivators, which is much stronger than absorbing it after hard training and enlightenment.
As an outer disciple of Kaiyuan Realm, Zhou Yang can receive twenty first-grade spiritual stones per month as a rule. It sounds like a lot, but it's not nearly enough. He needs at least one first-grade spiritual stone to practice every day, and two to fully absorb it.
Moreover, purchasing elixirs, materials, magic tools, etc. also requires spirit stones, which is obviously far from the monthly rules.
For him, there are not many ways to earn spiritual stones.
The first is to receive sect tasks or contribute to the sect, get the sect contribution value, and then use the contribution value to exchange for spiritual stones, elixirs, magic weapons, magic spells, etc.
The second is to collect spiritual herbs and elixirs yourself or hunt monsters to exchange for the above items from the market.
Zhou Yang entered the Kaiyuan Mirror two years after joining the sect, and it took him nearly three years to break through to the fourth level and reach the middle stage of Kaiyuan. It was not that he had poor qualifications and the sect did not want disciples with poor qualifications, but that it was extremely difficult to earn spiritual stones.
Without spiritual stones and other materials, no matter how good your qualifications are, it won't work.
He was not from a wealthy family, nor did he have a powerful elder from his sect to back him up, so he had to figure out his own training materials and elixirs.
After finally risking his life to get some monster materials or elixir, he still had to fight wits and courage with the profiteers in the market, bargaining for a long time, which was more tiring than killing a low-level monster.
With his strength, the spiritual stones he earned were barely enough to sustain his practice. It took him half a year to save the fire charms and healing pills, especially the healing pills, which are essential items for cultivators to go out. Even if you miss a few meals, you have to exchange them for spare ones.
Bigu Pill is also something that many cultivators always keep when going out. Taking one pill can help you avoid eating for more than ten days. However, it is expensive, so he cannot afford it with his wealth.
It’s hard to practice, but it’s even harder to earn spiritual stones!
"When I return to the sect, there is a high probability that I will be expelled. The sect rules cannot be violated. Are you going to ask Master Zhong? But Master Zhong is only the deacon of the outer sect, so I'm afraid he doesn't have enough face. But where will he go after he is expelled?" Zhou Yang's head Even though he was already a big man, he really had nowhere else to go in this huge world of cultivation.
"Forget it, I'm afraid of birds. It's not bad to be a casual cultivator. Young Master, I am more unfettered and at ease!" He was also removed from the list. It was useless to think about it, so he could only comfort himself.
Moreover, although he is in the sect, he is not much better than the wanderers outside. The sect's supplies are pitiful, so he can only rely on himself to work hard.
In addition to working hard, he also often hangs out in the market to earn some spiritual stone flowers, so he is not particularly afraid of becoming a casual cultivator.
On the one hand, it's fair to think about it, but then again, life as a casual cultivator is even more difficult. Without a sect to back you up, you can imagine the situation.
Moreover, if you leave the sect, your monthly salary of twenty spiritual stones will be gone. Once you leave the sect, you will really have no home.
Zhou Yang didn't have a family to begin with. His parents were originally the guards of a small family in Tu Yan City, and they were also cultivators.
His father went out for training with the young master and never came back. After his mother found out, she searched everywhere like crazy, but to no avail, and later died in depression.
He had just remembered things at that time, and his memory was very vague, but later he often thought of his parents' kind eyes.
