For more than ten days in a row, Li Changsheng's life was uneventful. Apart from the daily work of chopping wood and carrying water, he had no other gains. He also didn't dare to bring the small incense burner with him, for fear that Immortal Sun would notice his secret.
Three months passed by in a hurry. On this day, Li Changsheng was working hard to chop firewood. Suddenly, he felt someone behind him. Looking back, he saw Li Zhu, wearing a gray robe and followed by several people. One of them he knew was Chen Fei, but he had never seen the others.
Li Zhu looked down at Li Changsheng with a sarcastic smile on his lips. He said, "Hey, who is this? It turns out to be a boy from the Li family. It really embarrasses our Li family!" He turned around and said to several other people, "Look, it's him. You have all worked hard." He is different from those who passed the examination and entered the Yunmeng Sect. Did he enter the mountain through bribery, or did he just become a registered disciple, hahaha!"
After Li Zhu laughed, he said: "Why are you standing there! Don't you know how to salute? You are just a registered disciple!"
Seeing this, Li Changsheng could only clasp his fists and say: "Registered disciple Li Changsheng has met Brother Li." But before he could finish his words, Li Zhu interrupted him arrogantly: "I am now at the third level of Qi Condensation. You should call me I am an immortal! You are not from our Li family, you have no right to call me Brother Li!"
Li Zhu's tone was full of disdain and anger, and he continued: "You, an outsider, have actually taken a place in my Li family. You are so desperate that you can slap me!"
When Chen Fei heard the order, he immediately stepped forward and slapped Li Changsheng to the ground.
Li Zhu said coldly: "For your first offense, I will give you a slap in the face to make you remember. Remember! Next time you see me, you must call me an immortal! Do you understand? You loser!"
Li Changsheng clenched his hands tightly into fists. He suppressed the anger in his heart, got up from the ground, cupped his hands and said, "Registered disciple Li Changsheng has met Li Xianren and Chen Xianren."
Li Zhu laughed loudly after hearing this, and said with disdain: "You are like this, and with your qualifications, you are still cultivating immortality?" Several people looked at Li Changsheng with contempt and walked away.
After Li Changsheng waited for them to leave, he ignored the strange looks around him and continued to chop wood. He said silently in his heart: "I, Li Changsheng, will remember today's humiliation in my heart, and I will repay you twice as much in the future! To cultivate immortality, I must become an immortal!"
After Li Changsheng finished chopping the firewood, he went straight to the medicine garden without eating. As soon as he entered the medicine garden, he saw Immortal Sun walking out of it. This was the second time he saw Immortal Sun, so he quickly bowed his hands and said, "I have met Immortal Sun."
Sun Xianren looked at Li Changsheng with a satisfied smile on his face. He said: "You have done a good job in taking care of the medicine garden. I am going out for a trip in the next two days, and you have to take good care of the medicine garden while I am away. You can't make any mistakes, do you understand?"
Li Changsheng replied respectfully: "Don't worry, Immortal Sun, I will definitely take good care of the medicine garden."
Sun Xianren nodded and then drifted away.
Li Changsheng was ecstatic while watering the herbs. He can bring the incense burner to test it out in the next few days. After finishing the work in the medicine garden, he did not go back to the dormitory to rest. Instead, he went to the fire room to continue chopping firewood. By the time he finished chopping all the firewood, it was already midnight.
When he returned to his residence and saw the food on the table, Li Changsheng was very moved. After coming here for so long, everyone he met was cold, and Zhang Han was the only warmth he could feel.
Li Changsheng finished eating and went to sleep. When he got up, he saw Zhang Han getting ready to go out. He said hello and expressed his gratitude. Zhang Han left with a smile.
Li Changsheng carefully wrapped the incense burner, put it in his arms, and then went out. He came to the medicine garden and called "Sun Xianren" several times, but did not get any response. This made him feel relieved, knowing that Sun Xianren had left.
The medicine garden is a place with a lot of spiritual energy. Li Changsheng placed the incense burner in the medicine garden and covered it with some sundries. When he went to fetch water, he always finished it as quickly as possible, and then immediately returned to the medicine garden, not daring to leave even a step. He removed all the blocking objects and exposed the incense burner to the air so that it could better absorb the aura of the medicine garden.
At noon, Li Changsheng opened the incense burner and saw that there was obviously spiritual energy inside. Although these gases have not yet condensed together, Li Changsheng is already very excited. He knew that as long as the incense burner continued to absorb spiritual energy, the gas would eventually condense into small balls.
So he waited until night again. When he opened the incense burner again, he found that the spiritual energy had condensed into small balls. Sure enough, where the spiritual energy is stronger, the incense burner absorbs it faster.
Li Changsheng must go down the mountain now, because registered disciples cannot stay at the place where outer disciples practice at night. There are many rules that registered disciples must abide by, which is also a cruel reality on the road to immortality. In this world of immortality, talent has already determined most people's path to immortality. The greater your ability, the more resources you can get.
Li Changsheng left the medicine garden and came to the back hill of the thatched house. Zhang Han once told him that almost no one would come to this place because there was no aura at all. Li Changsheng sat quietly under a big rock in the back mountain for half an hour. After making sure that no one was there, he took out the incense burner.
He first inhaled half of the spiritual energy, and then began to meditate. According to the breathing method in the classics, he adjusted his breathing and guided the spiritual energy throughout his body. This time, the numbing sensation came again, and there was even a feeling of being bitten.
After absorbing the spiritual energy, Li Changsheng opened his eyes and found that his body was completely wet with sweat, and there was a yellow water film on the surface of his body. According to the classics, this is formed by removing impurities from the body after spiritual energy enters the body. It can change the physique and allow the body to better absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Changsheng didn't have time to clean himself up, so he immediately absorbed the remaining spiritual energy, and then started practicing again. Several hours later, he was still very energetic and did not feel any fatigue. He felt a white ring faintly appearing in his Dantian, and secretly guessed in his heart: Is there any hope of breaking through the first level of Qi Condensation in the future?
Seeing that it was getting late, Li Changsheng packed up and returned to the thatched house. He took a shower and saw food on the table when he entered the room. Li Changsheng looked at the sleeping Zhang Han and couldn't help but sigh: This is really the only place where he can feel warm after coming to Yunmeng Sect.
