Chapter 302: Different Spiritual Roots, Pitfalls Everywhere

Gu Dan sat cross-legged on the cushion and began to practice the "Qingxuan Zhenjun Soul Saving Method" silently.

This method of cultivating the immortal way was originally given to him by Qingpingzi.

It’s a pity that there has never been a chance to use it.

Now that I finally have spiritual energy, I can finally show my brilliance.

Gu Dan did not use the Qingmu Liquid directly, but first experimented with his own qualifications to see how fast he could practice.

As Qingxuan Zhenjun's Soul-Transferring Method was put into operation, the thin spiritual energy around him was drawn in and gradually sank into Gu Dan's body, nourishing his body.

After about half an hour, Gu Dan opened his eyes.

He raised his palm and with a thought, a tiny beam of light, less than the thickness of his thumb, appeared faintly, weak and empty.

"this"

Looking at the results of his practice, Gu Dan was somewhat speechless.

If we continue at this speed, let alone cultivating the Qi training realm to its limit and then breaking through to build a foundation, how many years will it take just to cultivate to the first level of Qi training?

If the cultivation speed of low-grade spiritual roots is only this fast, then all the cultivators with low-grade spiritual roots in the six immortal pavilions will be considered successful if they can enter the late stage of Qi training before they die of old age!

"The spiritual energy here is a little too thin."

Gu Dan frowned slightly.

You can't always look for reasons in yourself.

Is there any spiritual energy here?

have.

But, not much!

It's no problem to embark on the path of cultivating immortals by relying on these rather thin spiritual energies, but wanting to continue moving forward is nothing but a fool's dream.

Just looking at these six immortal pavilions, it is extremely unlikely that there are more than thirty people who have established their foundation.

There must be some tricks here that he doesn't know about.

Gu Dan calmed down his mind temporarily.

This time, he no longer used his own skills to operate and absorb spiritual energy, but instead focused his attention on the green wood liquid that was curled up into a ball in his dantian.

There was no spiritual energy in the mortal world before, so the Qingmu Liquid was not visible and he did not discover it.

If it weren't for the incident on the Immortal Test Platform, I don't know how long it would have remained hidden.

Gu Dan held his breath and concentrated.

"Qingmuye, let me see how many surprises you can bring me."

Concentrate your mind on the Qingmu Liquid and stop practicing your skills.

One breath, two breaths, three breaths.

Suddenly, the thin spiritual energy in this small stone room seemed to be inspired and rushed into Gu Dan's body!

That speed was much faster than Gu Dan's Kuhaha's running method. It didn't seem like he was pursuing spiritual energy, but rather the spiritual energy was pursuing him! Even the originally invisible and colorless air was faintly emitting a trace of subtle spiritual light, which was a slight ripple caused by the rapidly surging spiritual energy.

In Gu Dan's dantian, the green wood liquid condensed into a spherical shape kept shrinking. The spiritual energy that poured into Gu Dan's body was completely absorbed by it, and then the impurities were expelled. Drops of extremely condensed yet extremely thin spiritual energy were injected into Gu Dan's body during the shrinkage.

About a quarter of an hour later, Gu Dan suddenly opened his eyes.

A ray of green light flashed in his eyes, and he raised his hand again, and a ray of pure spiritual energy that was much more condensed than before appeared in his palm.

"I'm afraid even a person with a Heavenly Spiritual Root can't match this speed?!"

There was a hint of shock in Gu Dan's eyes.

If you compare yourself to others, you will die; if you compare goods, you will be thrown away.

He had practiced hard for half an hour, but his gains were not as great as those in this quarter of an hour.

Moreover, there is no need to practice the exercises carefully and consume one's mental energy. As long as one immerses his mind in the Qingmu Liquid, he can naturally absorb the spiritual energy from the outside world.

It seems that for Qingmuye, this matter is just like a normal person eating, drinking water and breathing, it is the simplest instinct, unlike the monks who need to use the method of cultivation to attract spiritual energy! Compared with each other, it is simply a world of difference.

According to the information Gu Dan had inquired on the way here, over the past seventy years, some of the talented immortal seedlings who joined the Immortal House did possess superior spiritual roots, but these immortal seedlings were truly cultivated as successors and outsiders had no access to them at all.

As for spiritual roots? Sorry, I don't have any.

But even so, the cultivation speed of the upper-grade spiritual roots is three times that of the lower-grade spiritual roots! One day can be equivalent to three days! Don't underestimate this point. Cultivation is like sailing against the current. The further you go, the greater the gap will be.

Can the speed of absorbing spiritual energy in the early stage of Qi training be compared with that in the later stage of Qi training? Although the difference is also three times, one step ahead, one step ahead!

The first-mover advantage will cover all aspects, but now we still have the Grandmaster to support us and the years are still short, so it is not obvious yet.

A truly smart person would definitely understand that after a few dozen or even a hundred years, the ones who would truly have the say in the Immortal Square would definitely be those talented and strong people who had accumulated a lot of experience! It was not an exaggeration to say that whoever had more top-grade spiritual root cultivators in the six Immortal Squares would have greater future benefits.

Originally, Gu Dan could only envy, but after all, he had the ability to live forever, so the worst that could happen was that he could make up for it by spending several times more time.

But now, the situation of offense and defense has changed!

If we compare the speed of one's own practice with that of practicing with the help of Qingmu Liquid, let alone the high-grade spiritual roots, even the heavenly spiritual roots may not be enough to fight!

Discussion: What should we do if the immortal is also gifted with extraordinary talent, even unrivaled in the world?

“Try again!”

Gu Dan suppressed the joy in his heart. He had experienced many twists and turns, so he was not so confused in an instant.

This time, Gu Dan’s mind was completely immersed in the Qingmu Liquid.

Qingmu Liquid was as easy to use as usual.

As his mind was immersed in it, the sphere formed by the green wood liquid began to shrink and swell like a beating heart.

The spiritual energy in the stone chamber was drawn again and poured into Gu Dan's body, but it didn't even look at him and directly sank into the green wood liquid.

It was then naturally refined by the Qingmu Liquid, removing impurities, and the extremely pure spiritual energy was fed back to Gu Dan.

During this operation, Gu Dan felt the ultimate comfort, which was higher than any enjoyment in the world, just like being immersed in amniotic fluid as a baby and absorbing nutrients.

But vaguely, he had a feeling of something being missing, which rose up involuntarily.

That sense of imperfection does not come from the outside world, but from oneself. To be precise, it comes from Aoki Liquid!

If his mind had not been completely immersed in it, Gu Dan himself would not have noticed this.

Once again breaking away from his cultivation, Gu Dan frowned.

Aoki Liquid? Disadvantages?

Where does it come from?

He thought carefully.

At some point, a flash of inspiration came to me.

Suddenly I understood.

Qingmu Liquid. No increase or decrease!

As long as he doesn't use the Qingmu Liquid, the Qingmu Liquid will always remain safely in his body, neither increasing nor decreasing with the passage of time.

If he used up the Aoki Liquid but did not consume it, he would be able to sense the general direction of the Aoki Liquid that was thrown out. The closer the distance, the clearer the perception.

Only after the Qingmu Liquid he had used up was truly consumed, would his Qingmu Liquid gradually return to its original state at a rather slow speed! No increase or decrease, a natural constant, that's the truth.

However, the Qingmu Liquid in his body now is actually not complete.

Before leaving the Xia Dynasty, he not only left more than ten drops of Qingmu Liquid for Mo Qiu, but also for Cang and Xun Ke, but they couldn't handle so much.

So it goes without saying that the Qingmu Liquid in Gu Dan's body was not complete before it was consumed or dissipated.

But even the imperfect Green Wood Liquid had already given Gu Dantian a huge surprise. Its speed was no less than that of a cultivator with natural spiritual roots, and was even slightly faster.

If the Qingmu Liquid is used to complete the spiritual roots, it will be a truly perfect state. Wouldn't it be invincible? If the aptitude is quantified, 100 is the limit, low-grade spiritual roots are at 20, medium-grade spiritual roots are at 40, and high-grade spiritual roots are at 60. The personal limit is only 80, which is a genuine heavenly spiritual root.

According to Tao Shushan, a person's highest talent stops at his spiritual roots.

As for truly reaching a hundred and the speed of reaching the pinnacle of cultivation, the legendary "exotic spiritual roots" are simply not something that humans can possess.

Only the miraculous creatures created by heaven and earth, the special creatures that are favored by heaven and earth, can do this. Even when the world of immortal cultivation is at its peak, it may not be possible to encounter one in thousands of years.

The problem is, how can Qingmu Liquid be considered as the creation of heaven and earth or the love of heaven and earth? He cultivated this thing step by step, so he is very familiar with it.

The original Qingmu Liquid was just an ordinary internal breathing technique.

What is so admirable about inner breathing techniques?

Even in the land of Dayue, Gu Dan could easily find more than twenty methods of cultivation.

But the problem is that this thing didn't show any benefits at all in the early stage. It was only after he had invested five hundred years of his life into it that he finally had enough internal energy that could be barely used.

A lifespan of five hundred years is nothing to him, but even in the immortal world, it can only be possessed by people at least at the Golden Core or even Nascent Soul level.

Five hundred years in exchange for the ability to heal people's illnesses and injuries is such a loss. If a cultivator really reaches that level, there are plenty of ways to achieve the same effect.

It is impossible for a normal person to practice inner breathing techniques like him. Even if they do, if they don't have enough years of practice, it will be completely useless.

I can't use the things I envy, and I don't like the things that are useful, so I'm stuck there.

nondescript!

Gu Dan thought so too.

If he hadn't accumulated a lot of lifespan, it would have been just sitting there, and it would never have been his turn to use the Qingmu Huasheng Jue.

But now, Gu Dan found out that he was wrong.

Totally wrong.

It turned out that all the weakness and unfitness shown before was only because the true veil of Qingmu Huasheng Jue was not revealed.

A lifespan of 50,000 years in exchange for an extraordinary spiritual root, the ultimate speed of personal cultivation!

When Gu Dan used the Qingmu Liquid to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy, the spiritual energy could not keep up - it was absorbed too quickly, and even though the spiritual energy rushed in, it seemed a little slow, and there was often a feeling of "stuck".

The external spiritual energy replenishment cannot even keep up with the absorption speed of Qingmu Liquid!

This is still an imperfect Aoki Liquid.

The first thing that came to Gu's mind was not joy.

Instead, there was confusion, and even a hint of imperceptible fear.

For the first time, he felt that the Aoki Liquid was beyond his control.

Thinking back to the last time he had this feeling, it was the mysterious innate realm.

Now, in Gu Dan's opinion, the mystery of Qingmuye is enough to be ranked on par with the innate realm.

What secrets does this inner breathing technique, which he has been practicing since he was the weakest, have that can easily reach the cultivation speed of a person with a natural spiritual root or even an extraordinary spiritual root? Gu Dan thought carefully. As an immortal, even if there is a huge benefit in front of him, he must think clearly and carefully.

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He has no tolerance for mistakes. When it comes to matters of immortality, one cannot afford to be reckless.

"There were only two times when the Qingmu Liquid took effect on its own without my prompting!"

Memories were turned over and Gu Dan recalled every detail.

The first time, he wanted to try to practice other internal breathing techniques.

However, as soon as the first trace of breath of other internal energy techniques was born in his body, it would be immediately strangled by the internal energy of Qingmu Huasheng Jue, leaving no room for any chance.

All the internal energy techniques he collected, no matter which one, were not recognized by Qingmu Huasheng Jue. As long as they dared to appear in his body, there would be a fight to the death.

Even if he had used up all the internal energy of Qingmu Huasheng Jue in advance, it would be useless to practice any other internal energy techniques. Qingmu Huasheng Jue would rather plunder the vitality in his body than destroy other internal energy techniques.

That was the first time he came up with a bold idea, and it almost cost him half his life.

The Qingmu Huasheng Jue, who always showed great vitality, would go completely crazy once he sensed the presence of other internal energy in his body, and would no longer obey his control. He would even rather hurt him than kill the intruder first! The second time was when he took the initiative to stimulate it on the Immortal Trial Platform, wanting to absorb spiritual energy.

If the first time was because the technique of internal breath was a life and death struggle of 'either me or you'.

What was the second time for? If Qingmu Liquid had not taken any action, it would have taken him a long time to discover the wonders of Qingmu Liquid.

What on earth is the Inner Breathing Technique? !

Gu Dan once again sighed in his heart.

He was not overwhelmed by this sudden joy.

In the face of true immortality, these external aids can be put aside for a while. If the Green Wood Liquid really threatens his immortality, then he would rather give it up. Time is enough to make up for the losses.

No matter when, Gu Dan always remembers his true roots and confidence.

It's not the outstanding talent in martial arts, nor the help from external objects, but the biggest trump card - immortality.

Good things were about to happen, but Gu Dan was actually a little upset.

This unexpected surprise that was beyond his control made him feel uneasy and upset.

Subconsciously call out the panel.

【Lifespan: 126/299 (+257692)】

[Qingmu Huasheng Jue: 50087/1000000 (+257692) So-so]

Gu Dan stared at the one million years of life that was needed for the next breakthrough of Qingmu Huasheng Jue for a long time.

The 50,000 years of Qingmu Huasheng Jue advancement had unknowingly given him an 'exotic spiritual root'.

What kind of changes will happen to the Qingmu Huasheng Jue that has been around for millions of years?

Gu Dan felt a rare sense of confusion and hesitation.

He knew very little about this vast universe.

When people are unlucky, they usually start to have wild thoughts.

But if something great happened to him, who knows if he wouldn't have the same thoughts? After confirming the current effect of Qingmu Liquid, Gu Dan's brows were deeply furrowed. Surprisingly, he didn't have the idea of ​​continuing to practice peacefully, but was restless.

"Let's go out for a walk."

Since he was in a state of unrest, Gu Dan forced himself to stop his wandering thoughts, opened the door of the stone chamber, and decided to calm down first.

"Daoyou just arrived?"

As soon as Gu Dan walked out of the door, he saw a man standing outside his door, bowing with a smile.

The man looked like an old farmer in his sixties or seventies, even his beard was completely gray, but his smile was quite friendly.

"Who are you?"

Gu Dan was a little surprised.

If he was not mistaken, this person should be waiting for him in front of his cave door.

But he had just joined Ningfang and had changed his appearance. How could he have any acquaintances? How come all of them gathered here? "I am a cultivator from Cave 13433. When I saw that this cave had become owned by someone, I knew that a neighbor had arrived, so I waited here for a while."

The man noticed that Gu You seemed to be in a bad mood, so he explained, "My name is Lin Cheng, how should I address you?"

"Kong Zhai."

Since they were neighbors, Gu Dan greeted them and they were considered to be acquaintances.

"Friend Kong, you just arrived, right? I see you have a worried look on your face, and your brows are frowning. I think you must have discovered it."

Lin Cheng stroked his gray beard and said with a smile.

"Um?"

Gu Dan raised his eyebrows slightly.

Lin Cheng said confidently: "Yes, this ordinary cave is given to us for free, but the spiritual energy contained in it is extremely thin. A cultivator with low-grade spiritual roots living in such a cave with scarce spiritual energy may not be able to cultivate to the late stage of Qi training in a hundred years, let alone break through! Even a cultivator with medium-grade spiritual roots living in an ordinary cave may not find a chance to break through after a hundred years of hard work. Free things are useless, just a place to stay. If you really want to practice immortality, staying here is no different from waiting for death!"

Gu Dan: “.”

You may not believe it, but what I am worried about is not that the absorption is too slow, but that it is absorbed too fast, so fast that I am a little scared.

But there was no need to worry about words, Lin Cheng said naturally: "If you want to truly practice, you must find ways to absorb spiritual energy. Although the ordinary cave is given to us for free, we cannot make any modifications at all, let alone ask others to install a spirit gathering array. Otherwise, once discovered, there will be severe punishment!

The only way is to accumulate spirit stones and buy the yellow-level cave dwelling opened by Ning Fang himself, which is barely enough for cultivators with low-grade spirit roots to use. However, it also takes a lot of time to practice, so where can I earn spirit stones?"

"oh?"

Gu Dan raised his eyebrows slightly. He actually didn't know there was such a trick here before.

If he continued to use Qingmu Liquid to practice in the mansion without any care, the managers inside Ningfang would probably soon notice that the speed at which spiritual energy was consumed here was completely abnormal, and then they would suspect that he had made private modifications.

His momentary annoyance and confusion helped him avoid a big pit, so he didn't have to move to another place just after joining.

"Yellow-level cave?"

Gu Dan showed some interest and said, "Please tell me more about it, fellow Taoist."

"This is not something that cannot be explained. In fact, these caves given to us for free can only absorb the thinnest spiritual energy, but after all, they don't need anything from us, so it's okay to be patient.

But if you want to make progress in your cultivation, you must find a way to get out of here, at least you have to move to a yellow-level cave. But if you rent a yellow-level cave, you need at least one spirit stone a month. Many Taoist friends who have just arrived here are short of money and can't do anything.

Above the yellow-level cave dwellings, there are also earth-level cave dwellings, which are almost non-saleable. Even if there are spirit stones, Ningfang may not be willing to sell them. Only those who have made contributions to Ningfang can be rewarded.

For example, the lucky monk who found the spiritual rice was specially rewarded with a ground-level cave, which made countless monks envious. Even if we don’t talk about the female monks who kept throwing themselves at him, the speed of cultivation alone was more than five times that of an ordinary cave!"

Lin Cheng said angrily.

More than five times! This gap is even bigger than the gap between lower-grade spiritual roots and different spiritual roots! Just because of the different caves, there is such a huge gap, just because the concentration of spiritual energy is completely different.

If one can live in a earth-level cave, even if one has low-grade spiritual roots, they will not be inferior to those with special spiritual roots living in ordinary caves, and may even be better.

No wonder Lin Cheng seemed quite angry when talking about this.

Obviously, he was dissatisfied with Ning Fang's attitude of imprisoning spiritual energy and even selling it as a resource.

Gu Dan also showed surprise at the right time and said, "The gap is so big!"

“Exactly!”

Lin Cheng also nodded and said, "Perhaps you and I have no difference in talent, but because we live in different places, there is a huge gap between us, and this gap is widening every day.

If we continue like this, remaining unknown, I am afraid that by the time they start to break through to the foundation-building stage, we will still be struggling in the middle stage of Qi training, without making any progress!"

"That's absolutely true!"

Gu Dan also nodded in agreement. This difference in environment would lead to a difference in cultivation speed, which was unbearable.

Why should they be inferior to others just because they are all in Ningfang?

They are all cultivating immortals, but they are just oxen pulling the plow, while others can ride fast horses?

I'm afraid anyone with a little ambition would not be happy about it.

Either find a way to get in, or no one should play.

But seeing how peaceful and tranquil Ningfang is now, I'm afraid everyone would like to try every means to get among it.

"Fellow Daoist, you are waiting outside the door. Why are you suddenly telling me this? Is there something you want to tell me?"

One must always be on guard against others. Gu Dan didn't think that Lin Cheng, whom he had never met before, came to wait outside his mansion out of kindness to tell him the news.

As expected.

Lin Cheng smiled shyly and said, "If you want to live in a ground-level mansion, it is indeed a huge task. But in a yellow-level mansion, as long as you have enough spirit stones, you may be able to live in one! Daoist friend, you are new here, and you may not know how to earn spirit stones, right? Here is an experience on growing spirit rice, which is the result of decades of hard work. It will definitely be of great use to new Daoist friends and can save a lot of trouble! Daoist friend, are you interested? I don’t want ten spirit stones, I don’t want eight spirit stones. Since you are my neighbor, I only need three spirit stones today, and you can have a look!"

(End of this chapter)