Chapter 12

Spiritual Root Qualification

"Qi refining is the foundation of cultivation. The first step is to draw the qi into the body. Only those with spiritual roots can sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and absorb it into their own body..."

"There are many distracting thoughts in the human brain. The first step to entering into a state of concentration is to clear the distracting thoughts, adjust the breath, and breathe evenly. The second step is to run the spiritual energy through a small and a large cycle according to the route of the exercise, nourishing the meridians and finally gathering them into the dantian..."

"After the spiritual energy enters the body, it needs to be refined into vital energy. After successfully converting the first wisp of spiritual energy into vital energy, you can successfully advance to the first level of Qi Refining..."

"The speed of Qi refining depends on the aptitude of the spiritual roots and the comprehension. The higher the aptitude and the better the comprehension, the faster the Qi can be drawn into the body. Comprehension is unpredictable and varies from person to person. The aptitude can be tested with a spirit plate or spirit stone. There are four grades: heaven, earth, black and yellow. Each grade is divided into three levels: upper, middle and lower..."

Yan Qingyan closed the "Introduction to Cultivation Secrets" in her hand and thought carefully about her situation.

After her Dantian was repaired, she couldn't wait to draw the Qi into her body.

As she recalled, the first time she drew Qi into her body, it took her half a month to sense where the spiritual energy was. But now, it's just like breathing. As long as she sits cross-legged in meditation, she can feel the spiritual energy entering her body at any time.

Growth always happens unconsciously. Everything that you thought was difficult will become easy to use after you learn and master it.

After refining the first level of Qi, Yan Qingyan did not stop practicing, but continued to circulate and refine the spiritual energy that entered her body.

Soon, she realized something was wrong.

"In the past, my wood spiritual roots were of the lower Xuan grade, and my water spiritual roots were of the middle Huang grade. The difference was not big, and there was not much difference when practicing. But now my wood spiritual roots have been upgraded to the Tian grade, and my practice has been very fast. In just one hour, I have already touched the threshold of the second level of Qi Refining. But the water spiritual roots..."

Yan Qingyan looked inward and couldn't bear to look at it.

According to the aptitude of this water-type spiritual root, she would not be able to advance to the second level of Qi Refining even if she practiced for another seven days and seven nights.

According to the common sense of cultivation in the Tianxuan Realm, only when the cultivation progress of all spiritual roots has reached the critical point can one break through the realm and advance to the next level. This is true for both the larger realm and the smaller realm.

She had fully witnessed the difference in cultivation speed between heaven-grade spiritual roots and yellow-grade spiritual roots.

"call--"

Yan Qingyan opened her eyes and slowly exhaled.

"No, after seeing the speed of cultivation of heavenly-grade spiritual roots, it would be too hard for me to cultivate according to the speed in my memory." Yan Qingyan clenched her fists, feeling anxious.

She thought of the level 5 zombie that killed her, of Elder Yan Shi who mocked her for being useless, of the reckless Yin Sichen, of Xiang Jiu who was fierce and decisive, and of the Nascent Soul Patriarch of the Biyue Sect behind Yin Sichen...

The desire to become stronger is particularly strong in my heart.

After calming down her restless emotions, Yan Qingyan was suddenly stunned for a moment, thinking to herself, "My character is not good enough. Could it be that the memory of the end of the world has made me more violent, and I have already started to be impatient in the early stage of Qi Refining?"

Yan Qingyan had mixed emotions. She had never been so impatient before her dantian was repaired, but after she started practicing, she couldn't calm down.

"Dao heart, Dao heart, on the path of cultivating immortals, Dao heart must never be lost, concentrate and calm down, I must seriously cultivate that water element spiritual root to the second level of Qi Refining!"

The cultivators in Qingyang City don't seem to have much concept of Taoism. When it comes to cultivation, the most discussed topics are spiritual roots, aptitude and resources.

But she had read many novels about cultivating immortals in her previous life, most of which emphasized the importance of the heart of Tao.

It also deeply influenced her ideas about cultivating immortals.

Yan Qingyan took a deep breath and sat cross-legged again.

Cultivating immortals is going against heaven, and she wants to go against this heaven!

The spiritual energy in the space was much denser than outside. Yan Qingyan sat in the exquisite wooden house. The spiritual energy surrounded her in a vortex, slowly absorbed into her body, and circulated along her meridians over and over again.

......

Seven days later.

Squeak——

Yan Qingyan opened the door. The living room was empty, but very clean, without a trace of dust.

Cleansing technique.

It seems that Ling Mochen has come out.

In these seven days, she spent six days advancing to the second level of Qi Refining. In the remaining day, the wood spiritual root had reached the critical point of the third level of Qi Refining, but the water spiritual root...

It’s better not to say anything.

Yan Qingyan began to think about improving her qualifications again.

She felt that God had given her a useless yellow-grade spiritual root, and allowed her the wood-type ability to elevate the wood spiritual root to the heavenly grade, just to let her know how big the gap in qualifications was, and to entice her to think about improving her qualifications.

Well, in that case, she would follow the will of heaven and find a way to improve the qualifications of her water-type spiritual roots!

"What are the natural treasures that can improve the aptitude of spiritual roots?" Yan Qingyan murmured.

"Qingyan, you really dare to think so."

Ling Mochen came back from watering the fields and heard these words just as he reached the door.

Yan Qingyan turned her head and saw Ling Mochen pushing open the gate of the house and coming back carrying a wooden barrel.

Yan Qingyan:......

She almost forgot that there were seven acres of land outside.

Ling Mochen put the tools in the backyard, skillfully performed the cleaning technique on himself, and walked over to sit down opposite Yan Qingyan.

Yan Qingyan sensed the other party's cultivation level, which was the second level of Qi Refining, the same as her.

"I was looking for you, but I didn't expect you to be out. I have also reached the second level of Qi training." Yan Qingyan said with a smile, her eyes curved like crescents.

She had only heard that Ling Mochen was a genius favored by the Ling family and that his aptitude should be much better than hers. It seemed that the training environment of the Lingquan space would be of great help to her.

"We are in the process of re-cultivation, so the speed of cultivation will be very fast in the early stage. It is already very fast to cultivate to the second level of Qi Refining in seven days. It took me a whole month to cultivate to the second level of Qi Refining for the first time." Ling Mochen chuckled.

Yan Qingyan:......

How long did it take her to reach the second level of Qi Refining for the first time in her life? It seems to be half a year.

"I remember that you are a genius of the Ling family, with a heavenly spiritual root. It only takes one day for you to cultivate to the second level of Qi Refining." Even without an excellent space for cultivation environment, her heavenly wood spiritual root could reach two levels a day.

Yan Qingyan asked with some confusion.

"My spiritual root with the worst aptitude is of intermediate wood grade. It can be said that most of the immortal cultivators have such aptitude and are not geniuses. The Ling family has been vigorously promoting my spiritual root of heaven grade just to build reputation." Ling Mochen replied indifferently.

Yan Qingyan:......

After eating half of the melon, she realized that she remembered it wrongly.

It is of intermediate level of wood element Xuanpin, just like her wood element spiritual root before it was sublimated.

"I have a yellow-grade spiritual root, and I must improve its aptitude no matter what."

Yan Qingyan asked in a firm tone, "Do you know any natural treasures that can improve the aptitude of spiritual roots?"

If she doesn't improve her water spiritual roots, at this rate, how long will it take her to reach the foundation-building stage? !

"Are you serious?"