Chapter 41 Can I pinch your skin?
"The realms of Daoist cultivation are divided into body refining, foundation building, radiant illumination, enlightenment, fusion, heart movement, spiritual silence, golden elixir, primordial infant, out-of-body experience, Mahayana, spirit transformation, and tribulation transcendence. Each realm is divided into nine levels, and each level is further divided into the beginning, middle, and end stages. The ninth level often has an additional level of great perfection."
"The division of physical cultivation is relatively simple. Just like the realms that Master mentioned before, each realm is roughly divided into three stages: beginner, intermediate, and final. As for which stage you are in, it depends on your perception."
The master paused at this point and looked at her meaningfully. "If there is no spiritual energy blessing, judging from the body alone, the third stage of physical cultivation is equivalent to the Dao cultivation body to Xuanzhao, the solid stage is comparable to Kaiguang to Lingji, the flesh forging stage corresponds to the golden elixir and primordial infant, the bone tempering stage is out-of-body, killing the body is Mahayana, and turning is the spirit transformation. In other words, if you are now in Minglan Sect's Xingfeng or Guishan, I am no match for you."
Tao Zi asked knowingly, "Master, what if I have spiritual energy blessing?"
He smiled and replied, "I can defeat you even at the early stages of foundation building. Ah Zi, with the same attack, a Taoist cultivator can block nine levels with spiritual energy, but you can only rely on your body to resist. In other words, when a foundation building cultivator's spiritual energy is exhausted, his body may still be intact, while you will be covered in wounds, or even on the verge of death."
This is also one of the reasons why people in the world do not like to practice Taoism.
She didn't show any disappointment, nodded, and then asked, "If that's the case, then physical cultivators should also have some attack techniques to improve their combat power."
"Of course there is." The master smiled and took out a book and handed it to her, "Take it and study it yourself. Others all start learning from the Body Refining Stage, but you started at the Solid Stage. You are already behind others, so you should be more diligent."
"Disciple knows."
She took the book and returned to her room. The first thing she did was not to look through it, but to call it out: "Come out."
It appeared beside him with a lazy look on its face and said, "It's rare that they actually let me out on their own initiative."
"You are different from other demons. You are very special."
Its face was filled with disdain: "Of course, those low-level demons are not worthy of comparing themselves to me."
"Then do you know what's wrong with me?"
It asked in return, "Do you mean spiritual energy or physical cultivation?"
"How's the spiritual energy?"
"I don't know."
"So what if I cultivate my body?"
"I still don't know."
Hearing this provocative answer, Tao Zi said expressionlessly, "Then you can get out of here."
"I'm not someone you can just call and send away, Xiao~A~Zi."
Hearing the name being called out in a delicate voice, Tao Zi got goosebumps all over her body.
"Are you sick?"
"No, I'm just in a good mood and want to imitate that Widow Li."
She thought about it and said, "She is much more natural than you."
It rolled its eyes and changed the subject: "Didn't you practice physical training a hundred years ago? Maybe it's because of that time."
Tao Zi recalled the events of a hundred years ago and found that her memory had become particularly fuzzy. She frowned. She could remember things from two hundred years ago, so why couldn't she remember things from a hundred years ago?
The inner demon lazily reminded him, "You decided to let Xing Zhan do the physical training, but you were worried, so you tried it yourself first."
As she listened to it, the memory gradually became clearer, but it still wasn't right. She frowned and said, "But the spiritual energy in my body automatically protected me at that time, so the attempt was unsuccessful."
"You later took the spirit stone to Xingfeng, and succeeded that time." Its expression grew increasingly disdainful. "What kind of memory is this? Your spirit vein is broken, and your brain is useless too?"
Tao Zi finally remembered everything, but something still seemed off. She had only tried twice that time, so she hadn't reached the late stage of physical cultivation. The inner demon noticed her thoughts and said, "Can you think of any other possibilities? Besides, isn't it normal for a Taoist cultivator like you to make rapid progress in physical cultivation?"
Is that so? There seemed to be no other explanation, so she would just believe it for a while.
"Okay, it's okay, thank you, you can go now."
After hearing this, its face darkened: "What do you take me for?"
"Inner demon."
The inner demon suddenly appeared in front of her and said through gritted teeth, "Do you think your attitude is like that? At least be a little more fierce like you were just now!"
She glared at it and replied, "Didn't you come to me to chat before? This time, it's my turn to come to you, isn't it okay?"
"Nonsense! Who would chat with the inner demon? Your servile attitude insults me. Please respect the inner demon!"
Tao Zi looked at it strangely: "I don't understand, what kind of brain does it take to respect the inner demon?"
"That's not what I meant!"
"oh."
Tao Zi ignored its temper, packed up the books, opened the door and walked out.
Xi Jing and the other two were squatting in the kitchen, huddled together, seemingly discussing something.
She walked in puzzledly: "What are you doing?"
"Big Sister!"
The three of them jumped up at once, and Han Yueshan spoke first, "Big Sister, can I ask a favor?"
"you say."
Xi Jing reached out to cover his mouth, but failed: "Junior brother, can I pinch your skin?"
Tao Zi looked at him in confusion. Even the inner demon that had been chattering away shut up and looked over in shock.
Xi Jing was even more shocked than her and asked, "So that's what you wanted to say?"
Han Yueshan said as if it was a matter of course: "This isn't your first time seeing a physical cultivator. Do you want to see what their skin is like? Doesn't it feel like iron?"
Tao Zi hesitated for a moment, but still chose to believe him and extended the back of her hand.
He pinched it carefully and blurted out, "It feels so tender!"
She clenched her fists expressionlessly, and Han Yueshan immediately took a few steps back: "Senior Sister, I'm not teasing you, I really am not teasing you, calm down, I'm really just curious about the skin of the body cultivator, really! Senior Sister, don't do it, you might kill me with one punch now!"
Tao Zi was speechless and said, "That's impossible. My strength is at most a little stronger than before, but not much stronger."
What she said was true. This time she was trying to make a preliminary change to her physical condition, and she needed to train her strength.
"But you were just discussing this?"
Xi Jing immediately shook her head: "How is that possible? Not everyone is as wretched as Second Senior Brother. We are discussing who will cook Senior Sister."
Um? ? ?
Tao Zi was even more shocked than before. What was cooking?
"Didn't Master tell Senior Sister? Because Senior Sister's advancement was so sudden, she's left with a lot of sequelae. She needs to take medicinal baths every once in a while. But because Senior Sister's body is stronger than that of an ordinary person, the temperature needs to be very high. Someone has to add wood to ensure the temperature, just like boiling soup."
She understood, but couldn't the temperature be ensured by using the warming talisman? But then she thought, Master is only in the Foundation Establishment stage, so it's normal that he doesn't know many talismans.
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