Jinfeng Mountain.
Among the misty mountains, surrounded by mist, and amid the lush green, elegant palaces and pavilions are located.
In a majestic hall at the top of the mountain, a ball of golden light flickered slowly, emitting a soft light like breathing.
The spiritual energy of the nearby heaven and earth pours directly from the sky and is injected into the golden brilliance. It is absorbed by it like a long whale sucking water, digested into nutrients, and strengthens its own light, making the golden light even more fierce and dazzling.
After a long time, the spiritual energy falling between heaven and earth gradually receded, and the golden light engulfed the last ray of spiritual energy. Then, with a slight flash, it penetrated into the body of a young man in white clothes in the palace and disappeared.
"Yes, the energy of the metal element has grown a bit stronger. According to the current progress, in another three to five years, I will be able to cultivate this energy to perfection, and I can try to separate the third element of the water element from it."
After Lu Yuan calmed down the growing mana, he opened his eyes and felt the increasingly perfect golden energy in his body, and he couldn't help but feel happy.
The realm he is in now is the great realm called Five Qi Chaoyuan.
In this great realm, monks need to cultivate the five qi of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth in the five internal organs of the body, and then from these five qi, a total of five rays of five-element fairy light will be produced in sequence.
In this process of condensing the five elements of fairy light, each time a fairy light is condensed, it is counted as a small realm. After the monk breaks through, his mana and soul will skyrocket, and his cultivation will become more and more advanced.
Among the five small realms, the three realms of condensing one qi, condensing three qi, and condensing five qi will refining the monk's soul and body. This refining is called by the monks to fade away from the mortal body.
When condensing Qi, the monk's original mortal body is cleansed by the magic power of spiritual energy. The turbid Qi in the flesh and blood in the body is cleansed away. The body turns into a fairy fetus and officially steps into the immortal gate.
The state of condensing two qi further deepens this process, and thoroughly cleanses the turbid qi in the flesh and blood that cannot be completely washed away in the state of condensing one qi, so that the monk's body can reach a state of clear skin and flesh, that is, the state of ice and muscle. body.
When the ice muscle body is formed and the monks have accumulated enough, they can refine the body's bones, remove the turbid mortal energy deeply rooted in the body, and replace the mortal energy in the bone marrow with the fairy spirit's clean energy.
After completing this step, the monk will reach the state of condensing the three qi.
Condensing the four qi is the same as condensing the two qi. It is a further refinement of the bones and marrow of the body, so that the fairy qi can completely replace the turbid mundane qi, so that the body can reach a state of clear bones, that is, the body of jade bones.
Once the body of ice, muscle and jade bones is completed, the monk can be regarded as cultivating an immortal body in terms of physical body, and can be called an immortal.
On the road to becoming an immortal, you can count as getting a ticket.
At this time, the monk can try to continue to condense the fifth energy and start to refine his last shortcoming, that is, his soul.
This step is the most dangerous.
After all, the human soul is so fragile and precious. If it is slightly damaged, it will cause a lot of resentment, and it will either end up as an idiot and crazy, or it will die directly.
Therefore, when every monk is in this state, he is very careful and does not dare to be hasty and reckless. He can only spend a lot of time cultivating his soul and slowly tempering and polishing it bit by bit.
Use time to slowly refine your soul, shed its mortal aura, and turn it into an immortal soul.
In the process of soul refining, some monks have slightly different structures of souls than ordinary people depending on their own qualifications. They can more easily accept the refinement of fairy spirit and complete the transformation process faster.
Therefore, many immortal sects in ancient times were willing to select disciples with good qualifications, because in the process of refining the soul, they could complete the transformation of the immortal soul more easily than those with poor qualifications.
But even so, the role of a monk's qualifications only goes so far.
Because this process is extremely time-consuming and there are no shortcuts, even the most qualified immortal species will spend at least a hundred years polishing it before they can condense the four qi and break through to the realm of condensing the five qi.
For those monks with only upper or middle qualifications, the time spent in this process is calculated as two hundred or three hundred years.
Although in theory, there is no bottleneck in the process of condensing four qi and breaking through condensing five qi. All it requires is hard work.
But often the most free ones are the most expensive, and the more you pay.
It will take more than a hundred years for the best-qualified immortal species to break through a Five Qi Dynasty, and even two to three hundred years for those who are less qualified.
These time consumption cannot be covered up by simply saying "time flies".
We must know that a monk can only live for two hundred years by condensing one Qi, three hundred years by condensing two Qi, and five hundred years by condensing three Qi.
It only takes six hundred years to condense the four qi.
In this short period of six hundred years, regardless of those hard-to-find qualifications, one may not be able to find one immortal seed among hundreds of millions of people.
Other more common monks with high or medium qualifications, after they have condensed the four qi, they have to spend two or three hundred years of their limited lifespan to break through and condense the five qi.
This also means that monks with superior qualifications must break through and condense the four qi before their life span reaches four hundred years.
Monks with medium qualifications need to break through and condense the four qi before their life span reaches three hundred years.
It doesn't sound too difficult for a monk to complete the journey from condensing one qi to condensing four qi within three to four hundred years.
For example, a monk with superior qualifications has four hundred years. On average, he will have one hundred years to break through to a certain realm, which is extremely abundant.
But is this really the case?
Just look at Lu Yuan and you will know.
He practices the way of luck. Although this life-burning method consumes a monk's lifespan very quickly, his life elapses more than ten times faster than that of a normal monk.
But in return for paying the price of longevity, Lu Yuan's cultivation speed was seven to eight times, or even eight or nine times faster than that of normal monks.
Although the reward is still not as good as the life lost.
But just from the perspective of quick success, his cultivation speed is also extremely impressive.
But even Lu Yuan, who was so fast, started practicing Taiping Taoism in the seventh year of Hongdao, and it was not until the fifth year of Shenwu that he could gather his strength.
It took eight years to officially enter the immortal gate.
If calculated based on the cultivation speed of about eight times, it would be sixty-four years for an ordinary person.
The reason why it took so long was mainly because condensing Qi was the immortal level, the first gate for mortals to go to the immortal road.
Therefore, if a monk wants to break through this realm, it takes a lot of time and energy beyond imagination.
Take martial arts as an example.
Starting from the second-rate realm, martial arts practitioners began to come into contact with the mysterious and mysterious spiritual realm, and began to try to polish their spirits.
This is considered the first level of martial arts.
Once you pass this level, you will move from a third-rate martial artist to a second-rate master, and you will be able to make a name for yourself in the world of martial arts.
After the martial arts reaches the top level, it is necessary to start a second breakthrough to refine the body and soul, and then reach the innate state.
This is the second level of martial arts.
After passing this level, the warrior has initially broken through the limits of mortals and can live to be one hundred and fifty years old.
However, due to the various flaws and shortcomings of martial arts, when the innate master breaks through, the refinement of his body and soul is actually extremely limited.
If the immortal monk's breakthrough in condensing one qi and refining the physical body and soul are incomplete, he still needs a state of condensing two qi to complete it.
Then martial arts innateness is the imperfection among imperfections, and the gap is far worse than the refinement of the immortal monks in the one-qi realm.
This can be seen from the fact that one of them can live to be two hundred years old, and the other can only live to be one hundred and fifty years old; the immortal monks who have just cultivated their magic power can rival the martial arts innates, etc.
Therefore, after the innate realm of martial arts, there is a second realm that accumulates the first realm, and then in the third realm, the body and soul are refined for the second time.
This is the third level of martial arts.
In this way, the master of martial arts can barely compete with the monks in the realm of immortality in terms of the degree of refinement of their body and soul.
Therefore, when one reaches the realm of martial arts master, his lifespan is correspondingly increased to two hundred years.
Judging from the above three levels of martial arts, it is simply unimaginable how much energy and effort it takes for a warrior to climb from the bottom to the top of the Grand Master.
As for the immortal monks, although they are a little better than the martial arts warriors, they are not much better.
Immortal monks who want to complete the accumulation from scratch have to spend energy, hard work, and time to finally achieve the transformation of body and soul and condense one energy.
In the ancient world of immortality, those who practiced hard for most of their lives did not achieve immortality until they were fifty, sixty, seventy or eighty years old, and finally transformed into immortals.
It can be said that they are everywhere, and you can catch a lot of them.
It took Lu Yuan sixty-four years to complete this accumulation process, which can only be said to be ordinary.
After all, he had tested his own qualifications and found that they were only average, not comparable to those superior or immortal geniuses.
But it is much better than the inferior qualifications that simply have no hope of becoming immortals.
At least in the history of the Kyushu Immortal Cultivation World, there are not many examples of people who achieved Immortal Fruit with intermediate qualifications, but they are not unheard of.
In ancient times, there would often be one or two cases every thousand years, which was not uncommon.
Not to mention, Lu Yuan's lifespan is infinite, and the impact of his qualifications on his cultivation speed is almost non-existent, so he doesn't even care.
As long as you don't even have the qualifications to practice, you can still achieve immortality by relying on time.
So he was in no hurry.
Therefore, after the breakthrough of condensing one qi in the fifth year of Shenwu, Lu Yuan spent another six years, and it was not until the eleventh year of Shenwu that he completed the breakthrough of condensing two qi.
Converted to the time of ordinary people, it is almost equivalent to forty-eight years, or maybe fifty years.
It takes less time than breaking through to gather energy, and the reason is very simple.
Because condensing two qi is only a supplement to condensing one qi, it is not a major state, so it naturally takes less time.
Therefore, it took Lu Yuan a total of fourteen years from the time he started practicing Taiping Taoism to break through the realm of condensing one qi and two qi. If calculated as an average person with moderate qualifications, it would take one hundred and twelve years.
However, Lu Yuan calculated it based on eight times his own cultivation speed. Under normal circumstances it might be higher, and occasionally he had to calculate it at nine times his speed.
Therefore, taking into account these fluctuations and calculating based on this, and counting the age of ordinary people when they came into contact with the immortal way, a monk with medium qualifications is about 120 to 140 years old.
Well, a medium-qualified monk who has condensed one qi can complete the breakthrough of condensing two qi when his lifespan has just passed two-thirds.
The subsequent breakthrough of condensing two qi and condensing three qi is an important level in the realm of Yuan Dynasty with five qi.
To break through this state, the accumulation time required is comparable to that of breaking through and gathering energy, or even more difficult.
Unexpectedly, Lu Yuan has been in the realm of condensing two qi for fourteen years, which is equivalent to one hundred and twenty years for ordinary people with the same qualifications, but he still has not been able to break through this realm.
According to his estimate, it will take another three to five years, which is about 20 to 40 years for ordinary people, to complete this accumulation.
Calculating this way, it would take an ordinary person with the same qualifications about one hundred and fifty years to go from condensing two qi to breaking through to condensing three qi.
In addition to the time it took to break through the first two realms and the life span of three hundred years to condense the second energy, ordinary people with moderate qualifications would probably need to be between 270 and 290 years old to break through to condense the third level. gas.
It can be said that he stepped on the limit of longevity and achieved a breakthrough by luck.
As for the breakthrough from condensing three qi to condensing four qi, Lu Yuan has not yet entered this state, and the specific time it takes is not clear.
But based on my own experience and the records in the classics, it should take about one hundred and ten years for a monk with intermediate qualifications.
Based on this calculation, by the time a monk with moderate qualifications breaks through and condenses the four qi, in the most ideal state, he should be 380 years old, or even 400 years old at the worst.
Based on the life limit of 600 years of condensing the four energies, a monk with moderate qualifications who has broken through to this level will only have 200 to 220 years of life left to use.
Well, according to the average qualification, it takes three hundred years to complete the training of the immortal soul. A monk with medium qualification who breaks through at this normal speed can basically be considered to have no hope of immortality.
However, in ancient times, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was abundant, and the world of Kyushu contained quite a lot of treasures of heaven and earth.
Some of these spiritual objects can assist monks to complete the process as quickly as possible when breaking through the realm of condensing Qi.
Just like the effect of divine blood pills on martial arts warriors, in ancient times, there were also some immortal spiritual objects that had a similar effect on monks who had just stepped into the gate of immortality.
So at that time, for a monk to break through and condense his Qi, the accumulation process that might have taken fifty, sixty or sixty to seventy years could be shortened to within ten years at the fastest with the help of spiritual objects.
The time saved lasts for fifty or sixty years.
In addition to various spiritual objects, the techniques of some major immortal sects with profound foundations are also helpful for monks to improve their cultivation.
Some have also mastered some secret techniques to break through the levels, which can help the monks break through the levels faster.
These can save about twenty or thirty years of time.
Adding up the two items, as long as the resources are sufficient, it can also help monks with moderate qualifications save another eighty or ninety years.
In this way, plus the remaining two hundred and twenty years, a limit time of three hundred years, it is almost completed.
As long as the monks can complete the accumulation of immortal souls within this limit time and before the end of their lifespan. Naturally, he can break through and condense the five qi, his lifespan can break through eight hundred years, and he can live another three hundred years.
However, all of the above is only theoretically possible.
How difficult it is for a monk to avoid accidents throughout his life, ignore secular affairs, concentrate on cultivation, and at the same time have enough resources to support him!
Except for those who have a background, are particularly valued as second-generation immortals, third-generation immortals, or those who have unparalleled luck, basically don't expect to receive this kind of treatment.
Even these proud men, even if they have these conditions, if they get injured in a fight or suffer an accident, their path to immortality will be cut off after a few years or more.
It can be seen from this how difficult it is for monks with intermediate qualifications to achieve this state.
On the other hand, for those monks with superior qualifications, it is much simpler and easier for them to break through the realm of condensing five qi.
Because even if they follow the cultivation speed of medium-qualified monks and climb all the way to condense the four qi, the remaining two hundred years will be enough to complete the transformation of the immortal soul.
Not to mention, monks with higher qualifications must complete the cultivation of the first four qi realms faster. Basically, they can break through and condense the four qi in about three hundred years old.
Therefore, after they have refined their immortal souls and broken through to condense the five qi, including the increased longevity, they will still have four hundred years left to condense the Dao Fruit and attack the realm of immortals.
The monks condense the five qi, and when the five elements are formed, they can start the five qi towards the origin.
The five qi are what monks have learned throughout their lives.
Those who lived in the Yuan Dynasty were the fusion of what they had learned throughout their lives.
The Five Qi Dynasty means that a monk transforms what he has learned throughout his life into the Five Elements, and then integrates the Five Elements to finally condense the Tao Fruit and achieve the immortal position.
At this point, the monk has truly transformed from mortal to immortal, becoming a true immortal, or a real person.
Once you reach this state, you have officially entered a higher state, that is, the state of three flowers gathering at the top.
Therefore, every step a monk takes in the realm of the Five Qi Chaoyuan is laying the foundation for the future achievement of the fairyland of Three Flowers Gathering at the Top.
What Lu Yuan is doing now is to perfect his first level of transformation in the Five Qi Dynasty Yuan Realm. First, he must completely wash away the turbid mortal energy in his skin and muscles, so that he can cultivate an ice muscle body and initially develop an immortal body. .
At this point, he is almost finished.
"Behind the ice muscle is the jade bone; behind the jade bone is the immortal soul.
If all three are present, the monk's magical powers will have a foundation, and he will have the appearance of becoming an immortal.
Then you can gather the Dao Fruit and hit the path of immortality. "
Lu Yuan recalled the summary of the Five Qi Chaoyuan Realm in the classics, and he couldn't help but feel proud.
Nowadays, he is about to pass the first level of Ice Muscle, Jade Bone, Immortal Soul, and Immortal Road. The remaining two levels are just a matter of time and are just around the corner.
The only trouble is the lack of spiritual energy.
But based on Lu Yuan's further exploration and investigation of the aura of the sky over the years, he has become more and more convinced that the aura left in the sky is definitely enough to complete the transformation of the three levels of the Immortal Road.
As for the remaining five Qi Chaoyuan and condensed Dao Fruit, he is still not sure whether the remaining resources are enough to complete this step.
But even if it's not enough, it's not bad if you can refine the body and soul of an immortal.
The posture of an immortal is better than that of a mortal body, isn't it?
Moreover, with these accumulations, Lu Yuan only needs to change to an environment with abundant spiritual energy in the future, such as ascending to the immortal world, and he will not become an immortal in minutes.
Broad prospects are in the future, so naturally you will be happy.
