Chapter 72 Penance and Choice

"Okay, let's not talk about these bad things. We haven't even joined the Immortal Sect yet, so it's too far away to think about building a foundation." Xia Kun immediately stepped in to smooth things over when he noticed that his junior sister was in a bad mood.

Several of Dude's fellow apprentices also quickly spoke up.

"That's right, the Shenhu Immortal Gate is so big, maybe there are opportunities in it that we don't know about."

After a round of joking, the atmosphere finally eased a lot.

Chen Luo looked at the time. The sun was setting outside. The time for practicing Qi in the True Immortal Scripture was approaching. After a few simple words with a few people, he stood up and walked out of the room.

He doesn't have time to waste here.

Instead of spending time thinking about other things, you might as well think about how to improve yourself.

"Brother Chen, have you always been so withdrawn?" Looking at Chen Luo leaving the room, Zhang Dingchao beside Xia Kun finally couldn't help but speak.

He really couldn't stand Chen Luo.

In his opinion, this guy named Chen is just pretending.

He only has three spiritual roots, not a genius with two spiritual roots, but he really thinks himself to be a big shot.

"Maybe I haven't adapted to it yet."

Dude and the others also looked a little embarrassed. Xie Shuang glanced at the door, then looked at Dude and the others, and finally chose to stay.

Walking out of the room, Chen Luo found a relatively secluded corner and sat down cross-legged.

It was quiet all around.

Apart from Chen Luo, there was basically no one outside.

The cold wind blew gently, Chen Luo closed his eyes and began his daily breathing practice. Strands of the breath at dusk followed his breathing and were slowly refined and absorbed into his body. Since he started practicing, Chen Luo had never stopped for a day.

He didn't know how other people practiced, but for him, practice was about accumulation. This was the common understanding of the mummy's brain and all the jianghu's brains.

Whether it is martial arts or Qigong, you need to be able to endure loneliness. You can't just see the glory of others at the peak moment, but you should also see the decades of hard work behind them. No one is strong overnight. A tall building is built from the ground. If you can't even endure the boredom of the most basic practice, how can you pursue a higher realm?

Cultivate immortality and practice.

It's nothing more than this.

The breath entered his body and slowly circulated according to the route of the True Immortal Scripture. Chen Luo could feel the changes in his body. These spiritual energies were slowly changing his body. At this time, the three-attribute spiritual roots were like filters, constantly purifying and refining the spiritual energy entering the body, excluding useless energy and leaving useful energy.

The flying boat is still moving forward.

A few days later, the flying boat left the territory of Sheguo and appeared in the sky above another country, where the Shenhu Xianmen also had two bases for recruiting disciples.

The foundation-building cultivator in charge ignored these newcomers and went directly to the top of the flying boat.

Five days later.

Chen Luo opened his eyes in the room.

"This is the third immortal text."

He spread his palm and three immortal characters flashed by.

Under the intuitive induction of the mummy's brain, Chen Luo's cultivation speed was very fast. Before leaving the Yue Kingdom Tomb, he had also absorbed the "greeting gift" spirit stone given to him by Master Xinhuo. With this spirit stone, he successfully raised the number of immortal texts he mastered from one to three, and his realm was also raised from the first level of Qi Refining to the second level of Qi Refining.

"It is indeed easier to cultivate in the outside world than in Yue State. Without the interference of the great tomb, it is very easy to break through."

During this practice, Chen Luo had never thought that he could achieve a breakthrough. In his understanding, a breakthrough in realm was a very difficult thing. Elders like Changqing Zhenren and Xinhuo Daoist had spent countless spiritual stones in their lifetimes, but they were only at the second or third level when they were old. However, when it came to him, he broke through with just one spiritual stone.

This also made Chen Luo react.

After leaving the tomb where Yue State was, the world was really different. This difference was not only in the concentration of spiritual energy, but also in many changes that he could not observe at his current level.

However, after reaching this stage of cultivation, "True Immortal Scripture" is almost obsolete.

Chen Luo picked up the booklet of Shenhu Xianmen and searched for a technique suitable for his subsequent breakthrough.

The booklet was left by Senior Brother Fang for the disciples with medium spiritual roots after the aptitude test that day. The one in Chen Luo's hand was brought back by Xie Shuang for him.

'Thunder Art, Water Gathering Art, Yimu Heart Technique.'

The techniques that Chen Luo mainly looked at were in the water, wood, and thunder attributes. The spiritual roots he had tested were these three. According to the instructions on the booklet, he would get bonuses when practicing techniques of these three attributes, and his speed of refining qi would be appropriately faster than other attributes.

With Xie Shuang's four spiritual roots, she has one more direction to choose from than him, but at the same time, the difficulty of her practice will be much higher than Chen Luo's.

Thinking of Xie Shuang, Chen Luo paused for a moment.

Since the last meeting, Dude and the others had rarely come to see him. Their ideas were different from Chen Luo's, and they did not think that wasting these few days would have any impact on their own progress in cultivation.

Perhaps they saw Chen Luo's character, so they interacted less with each other.

Just like young people who come to the city to make a living, they will take care of each other on the road, but after entering the city, they will gradually become strangers due to differences in time and concepts. Except for Xie Shuang who occasionally comes to see him, other people basically don't come over much.

Two days ago, Xie Shuang came to see him and told him about what they were doing recently. Dude, Xia Kun and the others made a lot of new friends, and the number of people has expanded to more than 30. They also contacted the two geniuses who boarded the ship from Shenfeng County and recognized each other as leaders. Now it seems that they have formed a "Sheguo Fellow Cultivator Association", and promised to share what they have and make progress together after entering Shenhu Xianmen.

Chen Luo didn't say much about this.

Everyone has his own path, and we cannot deny others just because of different ideas. Moreover, Dude and the others are from the same hometown as me, and they have never offended me.

"With the second level of Qi Refining and three immortal texts, I can now perform the spells that my teacher taught me."

Chen Luo recalled the magical powers passed down to him by True Man Changqing.

Although Chang Qing Zhenren was only at the third level of Qi training, this did not mean that Chang Qing Zhenren was weak. He was able to cultivate to the third level of Qi training even under the blockade of the tomb. According to Chen Luo's calculations, Chang Qing Zhenren's qualifications were probably superior spiritual roots, and he might even be a top genius with a single spiritual root.

"Genjin Sword Technique."

Chen Luo took out a sword from his bag and scratched the blade with his index finger.

The aura flickered, and a stream of Gengjin aura instantly emerged from the sword, raising its sharpness by several levels. In the secular martial arts world, it could definitely be considered a divine weapon. However, this sharpness enhancement was not permanent, and the effect would disappear when the aura was exhausted.

Chen Luo didn't really want to practice sword, he was just practicing the three new immortal characters he had learned.

After the energy dissipated, Chen Luo sat cross-legged again.

After estimating the consumption just now, I have a general understanding of my current strength.

"Ning Ling said before that foundation building is related to age, and fifty years old is a watershed. According to my current improvement speed, I can reach the third level of Qi Refining in half a year at most, and then I can strive for the fourth level of Qi Refining and become a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining."

Chen Luo calculated silently. The more he understood, the more he realized the difficulty of building the foundation.

(End of this chapter)