After dividing the harvest, Old Man Zhao Zhuan began to comprehend the "Spirit Control Art" together with Zhao Qiong and Wu Qianqian.
Su Rui, carrying the square bronze tripod, found a secluded corner and began to absorb the golden spirit energy from the tripod to restore the Gengjin true qi in his dantian. The tripod was large enough and the golden spirit energy was sufficient. Su Rui spent half an hour to restore the Gengjin true qi in his dantian to its previous level, and then began to refine new Gengjin true qi.
Time flies by, day and night. When Su Rui came back to his senses from his practice, the sun had already started to set.
After several hours of absorbing, the bronze tripod had become a little dimmer.
Seeing that it was getting late, he took Wu Qianqian to say goodbye to Zhao Zhuan and his daughter.
Before leaving, Old Man Zhao Zhuan handed back the Taoist book containing the Secret of Controlling Spirits, saying that he had copied several copies, enough for everyone to have one, and there was no need to use the original volume.
Su Rui collected the scroll and left Shi Yi's courtyard with Wu Qianqian. On the way, Wu Qianqian excitedly told Su Rui about the "Spirit Controlling Technique," and explained the content of the "Spirit Controlling Technique" that the three of them had discussed today and her personal cultivation status. When Su Rui heard Wu Qianqian say that she had cultivated a wisp of Spirit Controlling Qi, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised, thinking, "Could Wu Qianqian be a rare immortal cultivation prodigy?"
But seeing her honest look, it didn't seem like that, and I thought, could it be that this "Spirit Controlling Technique" is particularly easy to master?
Now, even he became interested in the "Spirit Control Art".
After sending Wu Qianqian back to the inn, Su Rui returned to the county government office. He first completed his evening exercises—drawing on the power of the stars to practice the "Mori Golden Light Pupil." After completing his exercises, he suddenly felt inspired to practice the "Pure Yang Boy's Kung Fu," which he hadn't practiced in a few days. He immediately felt a surge of internal energy. His Pure Yang Boy's Kung Fu unexpectedly broke through three levels, reaching the sixth level. His internal energy had increased eightfold compared to the third level.
For a moment, Su Rui felt that he could smash a mountain with one palm.
In terms of skill alone, he had already reached the standard of a quasi-first-rate expert, capable of tearing a tiger apart and splitting a leopard apart without a problem. Once he reached the seventh level of Pure Yang Boy's Kung Fu, he would be at the standard level of a first-rate expert. If he reached the ninth level, he would be a true top-tier expert. If he broke through the Xiantian realm of martial arts, he would have surpassed the realm of ordinary warriors and taken a step towards becoming an immortal cultivator!
Ever since he developed the Gengjin True Qi, Su Rui had not practiced internal energy much. Today he just did it out of interest, but after the breakthrough, his interest faded and he stopped.
Seeing that it was still early, he took out the "Spirit Control Art" and read it carefully. After reading it once, he suddenly had an inspiration: "All living things have spirits, so can the spirit-controlling true qi cultivated by the "Spirit Control Art" be used to perform the "Ghost Control Art"? "
Thinking of this, he tried to practice according to the "Spirit Control Art". After a while, he really managed to cultivate a wisp of Spirit Control Qi. But before he could be happy, that wisp of Spirit Control Qi was "surrounded" by the Gengjin Qi in his body. Su Rui couldn't help but feel like crying.
He had always believed that a person could cultivate multiple types of Qi, but facts proved his belief to be wrong. In fact, this was a well-known law in the cultivation world: after cultivating Qi, if one wanted to cultivate another type of Qi, one had to either create an external incarnation or disperse the Qi and start over. It was just that Su Rui was a wild cultivator, not yet exposed to the cultivation world, and therefore didn't know this law.
Of course, every rule has its exceptions. In the world of cultivation, there's a kind of true qi called Wanhua Zhenqi, unique to the Wanhua Xiangong sect. This qi possesses a myriad of properties, capable of transforming into whatever properties the practitioner desires. However, there's a downside to this Wanhua Zhenqi: the resulting qi, like the difference between genuine and counterfeit, will always be less potent than the specialized qi cultivated through proper cultivation.
Su Rui refused to believe it and gathered another wisp of Soul Controlling Qi. However, the Gengjin Qi in his body quickly rushed towards him like a thief breaking into his home. Su Rui knew that this wisp of Soul Controlling Qi would not be spared. Just then, he saw an ant passing by, and without thinking, he injected the Soul Controlling Qi into the ant...
“…I’m so hungry…”
When Su Rui was about to see if there were any changes in the ants, a childish voice with a hint of haziness suddenly sounded in his mind.
"Who?"
Su Rui's hair stood on end. He quickly stood up and looked around, but found nothing unusual.
"Could it be..." Su Rui suddenly remembered the wisp of soul-controlling qi that he had just injected into the ant: "Could it be the voice of that ant?"
In order to verify this conjecture, Su Rui found the ant again, condensed a strand of spiritual energy again, and poured it into it.
"Hey, it feels so comfortable. Why am I not hungry anymore all of a sudden..." The hazy and tender child's voice sounded in his mind again.
Su Rui was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out of his head, thinking that this spirit-controlling Qi was too mysterious!
However, a wisp of Spirit Controlling Qi seemed to be only enough for one breath. Su Rui wanted to see the limit of the ant's ability to absorb Spirit Controlling Qi, so he simply used the "Mori Golden Light Pupil" to fix the ant's small body, and then continuously condensed Spirit Controlling Qi and poured it into its body. When he poured the tenth wisp of Spirit Controlling Qi, a black light suddenly flashed on the ant's body, and its body grew from the size of a sesame seed to the size of a grain of rice. Moreover, its original bright yellow shell had now turned dark black.
"Hey, is this evolution?" Su Rui asked in surprise.
"Evolution? What evolution..."
A hazy, childish voice suddenly came over, and Su Rui was frightened again. He thought to himself, "Could it be that I have formed some kind of connection with this ant, so that we can communicate through our minds?"
"Human, are you talking about me?" The little ant's childish voice came again.
"Do you still want a gift? If so, call me master!" Su Rui thought to himself.
"Master, come quickly..." A child's voice sounded in my mind.
“It’s true!”
Su Rui was not stingy and continued to infuse it with more than ten streams of Spirit Controlling Qi, but unfortunately, there was no change in it.
"Okay, let's stop here today. Come to me again at this time tomorrow night if you still want to evolve!" Su Rui released his control over the ant and instructed in his mind.
The ant paused for a moment without responding, then ran away on its six long, thin legs.
Su Rui did not stop it. It was just an experiment done on a whim. If it comes tomorrow, he will continue the experiment. If it doesn’t come, then forget it!
After the ants left, Su Rui went outside to find a toad and tried it, but he was not able to have a mind-to-mind conversation with it like the ants.
He couldn't help but sigh. His Soul Controlling Technique might only work on certain spiritual insects and animals. Like the ant just now, it might be a relatively spiritual insect, while the toad's spirituality might be a little less, so the Soul Controlling Technique didn't change. Of course, there was another possibility: with his cultivation level, he could only control an ant!
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