Time flies by, and in the blink of an eye, six years have passed.
In a cave on the bank of a stream halfway up Yuquan Peak, a heroic young man sat cross-legged, his eyes closed, and his breathing even and long.
Wisps of aqua-blue breath gradually converge from the mouth, nose, skin, etc. to the twelve main meridians, then pass through the eight extra meridians and enter the Guanyuan point three inches below the navel.
Guanyuan point, also known as Dantian, is the root of spiritual practice.
Half a quarter of an hour later, a burst of Qi energy burst out from his body and spread around. At this time, the young man had opened his eyes, his face was full of joy, and he said to himself: "The hard work paid off, and I finally broke through to the fourth level of Qi training."
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The young man is Wang Daoyuan. He is over sixteen years old and has just broken through the fourth level of Qi training. Thanks to his "jump start", he is considered to be above average among his peers.
After breaking through the fourth level of Qi training, you can start cultivating your spiritual consciousness.
The so-called spiritual consciousness is the power emitted by the soul. The power of spiritual consciousness is innate. The strength of spiritual consciousness is closely related to the strength of the soul. Cultivating spiritual consciousness is also a process of strengthening the soul.
As a practitioner, even if you do not deliberately cultivate your spiritual consciousness, as your spiritual realm improves, your spiritual consciousness will gradually improve. Of course, if there is a method of cultivation, your spiritual consciousness will improve faster.
The relationship between the cultivation of spiritual consciousness and the soul is like the relationship between the cultivation of spiritual power and the physical body.
Wang Daoyuan grew up in Yuquan Peak. For more than ten years, all he has learned and seen is the knowledge of cultivating immortals, so he naturally knows the importance of spiritual consciousness. Therefore, after consolidating his realm a little, he went straight to the Sutra Library in a hurry.
The Sutra Collection Building is located on the west side of Yulong Spring, which is where the spiritual eye of Yuquan Peak’s spiritual veins is located. The name of Yuquan Peak also comes from Yulong Spring.
By the Jade Dragon Spring, there is a thousand-year-old pine tree, and the Buddhist scriptures building is under this pine tree.
In front of the door of the Sutra Library is an old man with white hair and beard, lying on a recliner and taking a nap.
The old man's name is Wang Jize, he is Wang Daoyuan's great-grandfather, the supreme elder of the Wang family, and the only remaining descendant of the Wang family.
The descendants of the Wang family are in the fiftieth generation. Even the youngest successor is over one hundred and twenty years old and has long since passed away.
Ordinary people have a life span of less than a hundred years. During the Qi training period, monks have smooth meridians, strong Qi and blood, and will not get sick. Therefore, their life span is slightly longer than ordinary people, which is 120 years. For monks in the foundation building period, it is 240 years. For monks in the Zifu period, it is 500 years.
Years, golden elixir monks for thousands of years...
Wang Jize is in a special situation. It is said that he was once a foundation-building cultivator. When he was out, someone plotted against him and he was almost crippled. He was seriously injured and tried his best to escape back to his family. In the end, he saved his life. However, his cultivation dropped to the peak of Qi training and he could not make any progress.
Although he does not have the strength of a foundation-building monk, he was once a foundation-building monk after all, and his lifespan is longer than his Qi training period, so he is still alive now.
However, this grandpa had a ruddy complexion, bright eyes, and a calm and long breath. He did not appear to be seriously injured.
After Wang Jize's realm fell, he has been guarding the Sutra Library and not concerned about worldly affairs.
The monks in the family, regardless of their level of cultivation, only respect their elders and younger ones when they meet.
Facing the elders of his great-grandfather's generation, Wang Daoyuan naturally did not dare to neglect him. After tidying up his clothes, he walked up to Wang Jize and saluted respectfully: "My dear Wang Daoyuan, I have met your great-grandfather."
"It's you little guy." Wang Jize opened his eyes and said kindly, "Yes, you have broken through the fourth level of Qi training. Your breath has just stabilized, but there is no sense of emptiness. The foundation is very solid. It seems that you have worked hard.
The way to practice is to have good talent, but the road is easier to walk. How far you can go depends on perseverance and opportunity. Although you have poor qualifications, if you can work hard, you may not be unable to achieve something."
Wang Daoyuan bowed his luggage again: "Thank you Grandpa for your teaching!"
Wang Jize waved his hand and said: "You don't have to be so formal. You have just broken through the fourth level of Qi training. Are you looking for a way to cultivate your spiritual consciousness?
Our Wang family is a small family, we don’t have any powerful skills, and there is only one way to cultivate spiritual consciousness, and it’s here with me. Write it down, practice it when you go back, and remember not to spread it to others.
Learning this method requires one hundred family contribution points. You are not an adult yet, so you can waive it."
After that, he took out a jade slip and handed it to Wang Daoyuan.
Family contribution points are the currency used within the Wang family. They are issued according to the contribution made by clan members to the family. They can also be exchanged for spiritual stones. One spiritual stone can be exchanged for one contribution point.
Wang Daoyuan placed the jade slip between his eyebrows. After a moment, a scripture appeared in his mind, called "Soul Forging Technique".
Holding the jade slip in both hands, he handed it back to Wang Jize. He saluted again and said, "Young man, I've written it down."
Wang Jize put away the jade slips and said: "You are learning a spiritual talisman. For you, spiritual consciousness is more important. The strength of spiritual consciousness directly affects the success rate of refining spiritual talismans. Go back to Haosheng to practice, but you have doubts
You can come here and ask me."
After the children of the Wang family reach the age of fourteen, they must learn the various arts of cultivating immortality without affecting their cultivation.
Clan members with Wang Daoyuan's qualifications have no hope of building a foundation. Most of them focus on cultivating immortals and various arts to earn resources and prepare for the next generation.
Wang Daoyuan was no exception. At the age of fourteen, he began to learn the various arts of cultivating immortality from the elders of his clan.
After learning several crafts, Wang Daoyuan is quite talented in alchemy, talisman making, planting, etc. However, people's energy is limited and it is impossible to learn multiple crafts.
After some weighing, Wang Daoyuan finally chose to learn to make talismans. Although the benefits of making talismans are far less than those of alchemy, the talismans can directly increase one's own fighting strength.
He knew very well that with his talent, if he wanted to be qualified to build a foundation, he could only do his best to improve his cultivation. He didn't have much time to practice spells, and his own combat effectiveness was not very high, so he could only make up for it through external forces.
Spirit talismans are the only means that can directly improve combat effectiveness without relying on one's own cultivation. Using spiritual talismans only requires a little power of divine consciousness or spiritual power. Even a Qi-training monk can easily use a second-level attack with power comparable to that of a foundation-building monk.
Talisman.
Moreover, compared to refining elixirs, refining weapons, and making talismans, the cost is much lower, which is suitable for poor people like Wang Daoyuan.
After making his choice, Wang Daoyuan followed the elder of the clan who was good at making talismans - Jiu Shugong Wang Zhide to learn how to make talismans.
In the past two years, he has learned to use several kinds of spiritual grass to make talisman paper, use monster blood or cinnabar to make spiritual ink, recognize various common first-level runes, and practice drawing talismans.
Of course, practicing drawing talismans only uses mortal pens, inks, paper and inkstones. Talisman paper and spiritual ink can be sold for money, so naturally they cannot be squandered by apprentices.
Wang Daoyuan is not an obedient baby. After a year of study, he learned to make talisman paper and spiritual ink, and basically mastered the common first-level runes. He also asked a tribesman who was out on business to buy a low-quality talisman pen and officially started
Make talisman.
Perhaps because he had learned to draw talismans from an old Taoist priest in his previous life, Wang Daoyuan's talent in spiritual talismans was much stronger than imagined. In just three days, he successfully produced a first-level low-grade spiritual talisman...
Wang Daoyuan returned to the cave and immediately began to comprehend the "Soul Forging Technique". After all, it is related to how far he can go on the path of spiritual talismans in the future, so he must not ignore it.
There is not much recorded in the jade slips, only about 5,000 words. The first 1,000 words describe some basic knowledge and usage techniques of divine consciousness, and the next 1,000 words are the main text, which records the specific methods of cultivating the divine soul. The following are
About three thousand words, it is the cultivation experience of the elders in the clan.
This is also a reflection of family heritage. With these insights, practitioners will avoid many detours.
After browsing, Wang Daoyuan gathered his mind and began the first step of spiritual cultivation - looking inside.
The human soul is hidden in the Niwan Palace between the eyebrows, which is also called the Sea of Consciousness. The practice of spiritual consciousness is all carried out in the Sea of Consciousness.
Therefore, before cultivating spiritual consciousness, you must first look within the sea of consciousness and find a place for cultivation.
According to the method recorded in "Soul Forging Technique", restrain your mind and focus on guarding the Niwan Palace.
Within a moment, Wang Daoyuan saw a gray world. Looking in all directions, there was gray everywhere, as if there was no end. This was the legendary sea of consciousness.
Looking up, he suddenly discovered that the ancestral bead of his previous master was actually in his sea of consciousness.
My spiritual consciousness explored the bead and actually entered the inside of the bead, which actually formed a space of its own.
This is a hemispherical space, with about ten acres of land on the ground, and there is thin spiritual energy in the space.
Outside the space, there is a gray mist everywhere.