"So serious?" Xu Qian was startled. He had no chance to swallow a large amount of Qi Yuan Dan. Even if he had a lot of money now, he only ate six pills in two days as a last resort. Could it be that his stingy temper saved his life?
"I've taken six Qiyuan Pills in the past two days, so it's not too much."
"It's not too much?" Old Man Qin looked at Xu Qian with strange eyes, "If it's not too much, what am I talking about? Didn't I just say that I have never seen anyone take pills like you? It’s like eating chocolate beans.”
"But I don't have any bad feelings now!" Xu Qian subconsciously looked at his body. "By the way, Lao Qin, since you think I ate too much, why didn't you say anything before?"
Old Man Qin lifted up the steamed bun Xu Qian gave him, "Isn't it because you gave me the steamed bun?"
Xu Qian was furious for a moment. Sure enough, this old man Qin was still very hateful.
"Hahaha, it's just a joke. Generally speaking, how can cultivators not know the dangers of taking too many elixirs? This is common sense. Even a ten-year-old child knows it. Our primary school textbooks in Datang I mentioned it a little bit, but I didn’t expect you didn’t know about it at first.”
Xu Qian thought badly, would this reveal that he was not from the Tang Dynasty? So he persisted: "Children still know that drinking too much is bad, but adults often get drunk when they drink? It's one thing to know, but it's another thing to do it."
Xu Qian's trick of secretly changing concepts can be said to be perfect. Drinking too much alcohol will rarely lead to death, unless there is a hidden disease, the most common ones are fragmentation or vomiting. But if you take too much elixir, you will have a narrow escape from death. Unless there are seniors from the sect with sufficient cultivation around you, who may be able to save you in time, you will basically end up either dead or in ruins.
Who is Qin Zhao, and how could he be fooled by Xu Qian with just a few words? But he did not care about these problems, but said: "I have been paying attention to your situation, but I found that you have always been normal and don't seem to be uncomfortable."
Xu Qian scratched the back of his head and said with a smile: "I just want to make a breakthrough, so I don't care about that much."
"Cultivation has its own rules. If you take pills vigorously, you can continuously improve. There are so many children of wealthy families in the Tang Dynasty. Aren't there still a lot of strong people?"
"They must have quite a few strong men." Xu Qian was not convinced by this point. As far as he knew, the children of the rich and powerful families of the Tang Dynasty had a much higher chance of becoming strong than ordinary civilian martial arts cultivators. He himself had always felt that cultivation was ultimately about fighting for resources, and the acquisition of resources, The most important means are money and power.
Old Man Qin thought for a while, sighed and said: "It's like studying with classmates. It doesn't necessarily mean that your family can afford the most expensive teacher, that you can enter the most famous school, and that you can afford the most comprehensive study books. The most important thing is the students themselves. Today's cultivation world is also affected by this trend of eagerness for quick success. In fact, this is the most harmful thing."
Xu Qian didn't expect Old Man Qin to suddenly sigh like this. Indeed, money can solve many problems, and cultivation resources are also of great help to cultivators. But when you calm down, everyone understands that these are just external objects, not the cultivators themselves. Even if the same resources are applied to two different practitioners, the final results will still be different.
"The immortal cultivator takes the elixir, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is purified and merges into the sea of qi, and his realm is improved. The martial cultivator does not have the sea of qi and cannot absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth independently. He can only swallow the elixir. After the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the elixir passes through the slow time, It is absorbed by the body and achieves the power of body refining. But no matter which one, it does not involve the spiritual level. If a mortal wants to be the top in any field, the spiritual level is absolutely indispensable, let alone cultivating the Tao?" Old Man Qin? He didn't look at Xu Qian, but at the sky outside the small window.
When Xu Qian heard this, he felt like he was enlightened. He understood that the spiritual power that Old Man Qin was talking about did not refer to spiritual consciousness, but a very complex thing. It was a collection of many mysterious and imaginary things such as will, mind, spirituality, understanding, and concentration. Invisible, but real.
Old Man Qin changed the subject, "Countless years ago, in the era when the immortal civilization was at its most prosperous, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was much richer than it is now, but the spiritual energy contained in the elixir was almost the same as now, so at that time, like Pills like Qiyuan Pill are as common as jelly beans. For thousands of years, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has been exhausted, and it is difficult for immortal cultivators to absorb enough spiritual energy of heaven and earth, so they have to resort to the power of pills. Over time, the cultivation world relies on pills. The popularity of medicine has become more and more popular, and until now, it seems that practitioners can no longer practice without medicine."
"How do you know that there was a prosperous period of immortal civilization in the past?"
Old Qin felt that Xu Qian couldn't grasp the key point. Is this the core of what he said? However, he immediately responded: "Without that period, where did the cultivation techniques, combat skills, elixirs and spiritual weapons come from?"
Xu Qian expressed the doubts he had always had in his heart, "But in the long history of mankind, when has there ever been a record of that period? If that period is real, no matter how much it is hidden and destroyed, it cannot be completely submerged in the rolling tide of history." Among them. However, research on human history has made it very clear that the period of primitive man millions of years ago, and even the age of dinosaurs hundreds of millions of years ago. Could it be that a civilization that cultivated immortals was interspersed in those eras? This is impossible Bar."
Xu Qian had a brief understanding of the history of China and the Tang Dynasty. Before the Tang Dynasty, the history of the two worlds was basically the same, so when Xu Qian mentioned it, there would be no cognitive barriers at all for people of the Tang Dynasty.
Old Qin looked at Xu Qian blankly. In fact, this question has always been faced by everyone who comes into contact with the cultivation world. But since he can't figure it out and has no way to deal with it, he can only accept it. There are many similar academic mysteries. In addition to professional researchers who have been exploring them, ordinary people can only let them go even if they consider them, because life has to go on. You can’t live without understanding how humans originated. Bar. For practitioners, if they can’t figure out where the source of cultivation is and how it came about, they will stop practicing?
"What you are talking about is no longer the content of ordinary conversations. I am also surprised that you are interested in these. If we can return to the Tang Dynasty in the future and meet again, we can discuss such issues together." Qin Zhao It seems that he deliberately avoids continuing to discuss the topic of the origin of cultivation.
Xu Qian also felt that he had gone too far, so he said, "I have heard about the exhaustion of spiritual energy more than once. What is going on?"
Old Qin seemed relieved to see that Xu Qian no longer dwelled on the previous topic.
"During your practice, did you feel that the description of the method was inconsistent with your personal experience?"
Xu Qian nodded fiercely. Old man Qin was so right. This was what he had been doubting. My own cultivation speed was much slower than what was described in the "Magic Book". It was not until I had the cultivation resources later, such as the Star Source Stone, Qi Yuan Dan, Lin Qiaoni's spiritual plant, etc. that I gradually caught up with the "Magic Book". process described in the Code. It made him even doubt whether his qualifications were too poor.
"The problem of the depletion of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is actually recorded in the earliest cultivation documents we can access. Over the past thousands of years, almost all immortal cultivators have made similar sighs. If the illusory and prosperous cultivator The period of civilization is called the ancient age of cultivating immortals. In every aspect, it far surpasses our modern age of cultivating immortals. Ultimately, the problem lies in the depletion of spiritual energy."
Old Man Qin suddenly smiled lightly, "However, we live in an era that is not so bad."
"A time that wasn't so bad? How do you say this?"
"Perhaps your cultivation time is still short and you haven't noticed yet. In the past few years, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has shown signs of recovery. It has become several times stronger than before. This is something that has never happened in thousands of years!"
"This is real?"
"It's absolutely true! All the major sects have confirmed it, and there will be no lies. It's just that we don't know yet how long this spiritual energy recovery can last, or to what extent it will ultimately reach. But in any case, this is a good thing and is a form of cultivation. A great joy for the world. We have even communicated with the Chinese side, and the spiritual energy of both worlds is recovering. This news has been spread in the cultivation world of the Tang Dynasty, haven't you heard?"
Xu Qian looked embarrassed. He had heard that it was a piece of cake!
