Chapter 43: Condensing the Roots of Heaven and Earth
The more Li Fan read the description of the way of immortality in "The Five Senses Qigong", the more creepy he felt.
Before the Jindan stage, it was relatively normal, absorbing the spirit of heaven and earth, imitating the wonders of heaven and earth, and peeping into the laws of heaven and earth.
After reaching the Nascent Soul stage, the style of painting gradually became crazy.
Seize the essence of heaven and earth, extract the marrow of heaven and earth, and sacrifice the soul of heaven and earth...
Even to the final principle that goes against heaven and earth.
Just reading these words can make people feel frightened.
The way of heaven is high above, giving birth to all things.
For the immortal cultivators to practice in this way is tantamount to going against heaven and committing treason.
What does this mean? Don’t the immortal cultivators know it?
However, this method of practice makes progress too fast.
The book records that since the Immortal Venerable began to preach, a large number of mortals who were originally unable to practice cultivation have emerged in just a few decades.
Practitioners with the levels of Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and God Transformation emerged one after another like mushrooms after a rain.
The world of immortal cultivation was so prosperous at that time that golden elixirs were everywhere and Nascent Souls were worse than dogs.
As for the immortal cultivators who originally insisted on cultivating immortals using ancient methods, seeing their cultivation levels being easily surpassed by mere mortals, how many of them can still stick to themselves and not try the methods of the immortals?
As a result, the traditional practice gradually declined, and the new practice gradually replaced it.
A thousand years after the new method became popular, the prosperity of the immortal cultivation world also reached its peak.
Unfortunately, as the law of nature shows, everything that prospers must decline.
Countless cultivators plundered the resources of heaven and earth like wolves and tigers greedily and without restraint.
Even the increasingly frequent heavenly tribulations could not suppress the increasing number of cultivators.
So, finally one day, the counterattack of heaven came.
The world is changing dramatically, and a catastrophe is coming.
From now on, the immortal arts cannot be practiced together!
The prosperous and developing world of cultivating immortals was like being hit hard by a heavy blow.
In order to survive, the monks fell into endless killing each other.
For a long time, the world of immortal cultivation has been in a state of decline and decay.
It took thousands of years for the situation to slowly ease.
Today's cultivators have become accustomed to the malice of heaven and earth.
They summed up their experiences and lessons, and established a completely new order of cultivating immortals in the wasteland of cultivating immortals after the great catastrophe.
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The origins of today's world of immortal cultivation have been introduced, and the rest of the content in the book is the method of "Five Spirits Qi".
If a mortal who has eliminated the miasma cannot easily draw Qi into the body, he can nourish his own five spirits, forcibly absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and then refine it, breaking through to the Qi Refining Stage.
The so-called five spirits refer to the five emotions that people are born with.
Greed, fear, rage, hatred, and egoism.
These five emotions are hidden in the human heart and are inexhaustible and ever-present.
The Five Spirits Qi uses these five spirits as fuel to cultivate the [Root of Heaven and Earth] in the Dantian.
The Root of Heaven and Earth connects the cultivator's Dantian with heaven and earth. Once formed, the cultivator can use it to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and use it for his own benefit.
Compared with the ancient method of cultivating immortals which depends entirely on aptitude, the method of using the five senses to generate energy emphasizes stability.
Those with excellent aptitude can cultivate the roots of heaven and earth in just one day and one night and embark on the path of cultivating immortals.
Even if a person has no talent for cultivating immortals, he can, through hard work day after day, form his own root of heaven and earth within ten years at most.
After mastering the method of drawing Qi into the body, Li Fan stayed at home and practiced the Five Spirits Qigong Method every day.
Even though he has been mentally prepared, his path to becoming an immortal may not be so smooth.
But day after day, three years passed and Li Fan still failed to succeed in drawing in the Qi.
Li Fan is very clear about his talent in cultivation. He is just an average person, not a genius, but definitely not bad either.
There is actually another reason for the current situation.
"The Xuanhuang Heart Refining Mantra...it's really hard to predict whether it will be a blessing or a disaster." Li Fan felt helpless.
These five kinds of spiritual energy need to be fueled by the five emotions to drive the formation of the roots of heaven and earth.
However, when Li Fan practiced the Xuan Huang Lian Xin Mantra, the accumulation of these five emotions was very small.
Even if he didn't practice the Heart Refining Mantra deliberately, he would still spontaneously crush the negative emotions in his mind as if by instinct.
It is equivalent to moving forward with a heavy load, which also causes Li Fan to make extremely slow progress.
Li Fan also tried to draw Qi into his body without using the root of heaven and earth.
But he obviously didn't have the talent that Xiao Heng had.
The spiritual energy outside his body seemed to be completely indifferent to him.
Without any guidance from others and relying entirely on his own exploration, Li Fan had no idea how long it would take to draw the Qi into his body.
Therefore, Li Fan decided to honestly use the Five Senses Qigong Method to break through to the Qi Refining Stage.
It is a bit slow, but it is stable.
What Li Fan lacks the least is time.
At the beginning of the three years, He Zhenghao occasionally sent people to inquire about Li Fan's cultivation progress.
However, after Li Fan had not made any progress for a long time, he rarely sent people.
On the Tianbao Tower side, because of Li Fan and Xiao Heng, although it no longer has the Wanhua Chamber of Commerce as a backing, its business conditions on the surrounding islands have improved instead.
No one wants to offend a business that may have a Taoist background, so they try to avoid conflicts with Wanbaolou as much as possible.
As a result, Wanbaolou vigorously expanded its market in the past three years and was thriving.
Yin Yuzhen became even more confident and was ready to return to Yelan Island to regain control of Tianbao Tower headquarters.
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Li Fan only occasionally cares about external things.
Most of his energy was focused on cultivating the roots of heaven and earth.
Unfortunately, this matter cannot be rushed.
Li Fan estimated that if nothing unexpected happened, it would take him about two years to succeed.
Li Fan had been stuck at home for a long time. One day, he felt like going out for a walk.
Without disturbing anyone, he changed his clothes, put on a felt hat, and came to the market on Liuli Island.
Nothing seems to have changed here compared to three years ago.
The sounds of bargaining, shouting to attract customers, and playing and joking can be heard one after another.
Here, Li Fan felt the long-lost "human touch".
All kinds of thoughts in my mind popped up in large numbers like dry saplings being watered.
At this moment alone, his progress in the Root of Heaven and Earth was greater than that of his three days of hard practice at home.
Li Fan suddenly realized.
For ordinary monks, seclusion and meditation are necessary, because ordinary people do not lack the five spirits that serve as fuel.
But Li Fan's situation was special. The mantra was always running in his mind, and these distracting thoughts turned into nourishment to strengthen his own spirit.
However, this Five Spirits Qi-boosting Method is obviously not as advanced as the Xuanhuang Heart Refining Mantra, so one cannot snatch much and can only pick up some leaks.
Li Fan is currently unable to change this situation. If he wants to speed up the formation of the Root of Heaven and Earth, he needs to increase the number of distracting thoughts that arise in his mind every day.
It is obviously not enough to retreat into seclusion every day; one needs to engage with the world.
After understanding this truth, Li Fan couldn't help but feel a little happy.
It seems that it may not take two years for him to enter the Qi Refining Stage.
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"Elder Li?" At this moment, a familiar voice came from behind.
Li Fan turned his head and saw the other person's face clearly. After a moment, he remembered who it was.
It turned out to be Zhang Haobo, the captain of the Cangyuan ship of Liuli Island, whom I had met once before.
(End of this chapter)
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