Tai'an Island, within the island protection formation.
"Bottleneck? Disaster from heaven?" Li Fan looked at the "Miscellaneous Notes on Practice" he purchased and frowned slightly.
Since returning from Ten Thousand Immortals Island a few days ago, he has not stopped practicing for a moment.
I originally wanted to strike while the iron is hot and break through to the late stage of Qi refining in one fell swoop.
However, he clearly felt that he was not far from a breakthrough, but no matter how hard Li Fan practiced, he still felt that he was just a little short of it.
It was this seemingly small gap that stood in front of Li Fan like a chasm.
After reading "Miscellaneous Notes on Practice", Li Fan finally confirmed that he had encountered a bottleneck.
In ancient times, there was a saying about the bottleneck of practice.
During the cultivation process, your cultivation may get stuck at a certain node and you may not be able to make any progress.
In today's world of immortality, bottlenecks have a greater impact on monks.
Starting from the middle stage of Qi refining, every immortal cultivator will inevitably encounter bottlenecks when breaking through each small level.
This bottleneck cannot be overcome by hard work alone.
You must find the opportunity in your own unconsciousness before you can eliminate it and successfully break through.
This opportunity may be seeing a painting and drinking a cup of tea.
It may also be a temporary epiphany, a flash of inspiration in the midst of a life-and-death struggle.
It may also be the casual remarks of others or the careful guidance of seniors.
In short, there is no rule to follow, you can only depend on the "number of days".
The existence of this bottleneck undoubtedly suppresses the cultivation speed of immortal cultivators to a great extent.
It's like a disaster sent from heaven, blocking the immortal cultivators from practicing.
Therefore, the monks called it a disaster from heaven.
In short, this disaster has now befallen Li Fan.
His plan to make a breakthrough in a short time came to nothing.
After sitting in the formation for several days, Li Fan didn't feel at all that he had a chance to break through.
Knowing that he couldn't force this matter in a short period of time, he was not impatient, and temporarily put aside the practice of "Xiao Yan Shui Jue" and started practicing "Qianji Yuhuan Golden Chapter".
"Qianji Yuhuan Golden Chapter" has five levels, which in ancient times corresponded to the five realms of innate, qi refining, foundation building, golden elixir, and Yuanying.
The innate realm is a relatively special type of existence in certain sects’ practices in ancient times.
What is important is to expel all the filthy air contaminated after birth and return to the state of innate purity.
Those sects believe that it will be easier to understand the way of heaven if you start practicing from the innate realm.
Both the speed and upper limit of cultivation will far exceed that of ordinary monks.
Tianji Sect is one of the sects that advocates that all cultivation begins from the innate world.
But since the new law replaced the old law, the monks have plundered the heaven and the earth and no longer pay attention to the unity of heaven and man.
Naturally, there is no such thing as Qi returning to nature.
But the most basic part of the entire Qianji Jade World Golden Chapter is the innate realm.
So what Li Fan has to do is to use Qi refining instead of innate to complete the first level of practice.
Generally speaking, if you replace a low realm with a high realm, it will naturally be downward compatible, and it will often be easier to practice.
But when it comes to the differences in practice systems between ancient and modern methods, it is not that easy.
In particular, Li Fan is only a beginner who has only been practicing for a few years, and his relevant knowledge reserves are seriously insufficient.
This is also the reason why it took Li Fan a long time just to get started.
This is after taking the Glazed Pill and having the bonus of understanding.
Now, when Li Fan reached a bottleneck in practicing "Xiao Yan Shui Jue", he began to practice the second level of "Qianji Yuhuan Golden Chapter".
He plans to practice both techniques at the same time to the middle stage of Qi refining to see if he can break through the bottleneck.
After all, martial arts are precious in this era, and ordinary monks like him who can practice many martial arts together are really rare.
According to the description in "The Golden Chapter of Qianji Yuhuan", after you successfully practice the second level of the technique, you will be able to master the magical power of "distinguishing opportunities".
The so-called "discrimination of qi", as the name suggests, is the ability to distinguish and sense the various qi movements between heaven and earth.
This is also the foundation of "Qianji Yuhuan Golden Chapter".
Only by first distinguishing and sensing the qi mechanism can we capture and refine it later.
The difficulty of practicing the second level of exercises is even beyond Li Fan's imagination.
If "Xiao Yan Shui Jue" tells you how to practice in a simple and clear way, without any nonsense.
So this "Qianji Jade World Golden Chapter" hides how to practice in a bunch of mysterious words, allowing you to guess and figure it out yourself.
Not only that, but from time to time it is also mixed with some insights into the way of heaven, anecdotes from the ancient practice world, etc.
All kinds of chaos were mixed together, making Li Fan feel dizzy and his blood surged.
After reading it once, I seemed to understand it. It was only when I started practicing that I realized that I actually didn’t understand anything.
Fortunately, Li Fan is not someone who gives up easily.
Even though there were many difficulties, Li Fan remained patient and studied every word to understand.
Another year has passed in Li Fan's hard practice.
There has been almost no progress in the cultivation of "Qianji Yuhuan Golden Chapter".
Li Fan was not discouraged.
When I went to Wanxian Island for the second time to receive the agent reward, I used all the 800 contribution points and the 5 Tai'an fruits accumulated over the past two years to exchange for some ancient skills training experience.
Afterwards, Li Fan started the auxiliary training mode in the Tianxuan Realm.
I didn’t practice the exercises, I just read these insights and compared them with my own experience over the past year.
Like an enlightenment, all the questions that I had never been able to figure out before were now answered.
Seeing the wonderful things, Li Fan couldn't help but dance with joy.
At this moment, Li Fan finally understood the so-called Taoism in the morning and death in the evening.
Five days passed quickly.
After realizing something, Li Fan hurried back to Tai'an Island and began to retreat again.
When I started practicing again this time, I was really different from before.
All the obscure aspects of the practice have been clarified, and there will be no obstacles to practice.
Li Fan quickly became immersed in it.
You don’t know the years of practice.
On this day, a golden mist-like aura that was completely different from the water-attribute aura suddenly appeared in Li Fan's Dantian.
Li Fan suddenly opened his eyes, his face beaming with joy.
"I finally completed the second level of "Thousands of Machines and Jade World Golden Chapter"." Li Fan let out a long sigh of relief.
After stretching his slightly stiff body, he turned his head and looked at the time, feeling a little dazed for a moment.
Unexpectedly, this retreat actually lasted for a full year.
In Li Fan's senses, he just felt like he had slept.
Fortunately, hard work always pays off.
Li Fan's heart moved, and as the golden spiritual energy gathered in his eyes, he performed "Discrimination of Opportunities".
"Let me see what the so-called qi mechanism of heaven and earth is like." Li Fan was a little excited when he tried his magical power for the first time.
He looked towards Tai'an Island.
But he saw a picture that made him feel frightened.
Thick black death aura, like dense dark clouds, shrouds the entire Tai'an Island!
The thick death aura is almost like substance, making Tai'an Island in the daytime look like the underworld!
Remove the spell and cast it again.
After reading it several times, Li Fan was sure that he had read it correctly.
"How could this be?" Li Fan was surprised.
Suddenly, he seemed to finally remember something, and quickly used the Water Mirror Technique to look at himself in the mirror.
Only see,
Li Fan in the mirror, the death energy gathering on his head is a thousand times higher than that of the mortals on the island!
This chapter has been completed!