"Master, are you inside? Your disciple has some cultivation-related confusions and wishes to ask for your guidance."
As Song Wen spoke, he also observed his surroundings from the higher vantage point of the second floor.
The small building was built against the mountain, with a sheer cliff tens of meters high to the west. The cliff was bare, without any vegetation, making it extremely difficult to climb.
Above the cliff was a mountain hundreds of meters high, with dense vegetation and steep terrain, making travel difficult.
The other three sides were surrounded by high walls, guarded by sentries. Even if one managed to get past the walls, it was still Tian Sha Gang territory, with a large number of Tian Sha Gang disciples coming and going. Escaping through the other three sides would be by no means easy.
The only escape route at present was to cross the mountain and flee from Tian Sha Gang.
Ji Yin's deep voice suddenly came, interrupting Song Wen's observations, "Come in."
Song Wen pushed open the door and saw Ji Yin sitting cross-legged on a futon, holding a book and flipping through it.
Song Wen did not dare to look around, went straight to Ji Yin, bowed and saluted, "Disciple greets Master."
Ji Yin nodded and said, "Hmm, sit."
After Song Wen sat down cross-legged, Ji Yin continued, "What problems do you have with your cultivation? Just ask directly."
"Master, your disciple has recently noticed that his cultivation progress is slow. I would like to ask Master if there is any way to resolve this."
"When you circulate your energy for cultivation, where exactly does it feel unobstructed?"
"After spiritual energy enters the meridians and returns to the dantian, only a small portion can be successfully refined, and most of it cannot be retained."
This question was not something Song Wen just made up; it was his genuine feeling during cultivation.
Ji Yin did not answer directly, but instead asked, "How do you understand 'entering the Mud Pill, descending to the Qi Cavity'?"
"Your disciple believes..."
A quarter of an hour later, under Ji Yin's explanation, Song Wen understood the errors in his cultivation.
He wanted to get up and bid farewell, and at the same time, his gaze began to survey the book in Ji Yin's hand.
Since he was sitting opposite Ji Yin, he could just see the name of the book,
"Detailed Explanation of Low-Grade Spiritual Herb Cultivation"!
The book looked somewhat incomplete, with not much content, only a few dozen pages.
Ji Yin also noticed Song Wen's gaze, he said.
"What, interested in this book?"
Song Wen was immediately a little nervous, he was afraid that Ji Yin would see that he was deliberately probing,
However, Ji Yin did not think in that direction. He said indifferently.
"If you want to read it, I'll let you take a look."
As he spoke, Ji Yin handed over the book.
Song Wen took the book, and the first thing he saw was an introduction to a spiritual herb called 'crimson blood vine' and its cultivation essentials, along with a drawing of the crimson blood vine.
The crimson blood vine is a vine plant, it likes warmth, light, drought resistance, dislikes water, dislikes cold...
A moment later, Ji Yin asked, "What do you think about cultivating the crimson blood vine?"
Song Wen was a salesman at a traditional Chinese medicine company in his previous life, so he had some understanding of traditional Chinese medicine cultivation. He combined his knowledge from his previous life and replied.
"Your disciple believes that the crimson blood vine should be planted on the sunny side, away from water sources. The soil must be loose, preferably sandy soil, to facilitate drainage after rain. Our Yan City has cold winters, so it needs to be kept warm during winter..."
Song Wen tried his best to make his answer valuable. If he showed some special value, perhaps Ji Yin would not make him test the medicine.
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After listening to Song Wen's answer, Ji Yin's eyes flashed with joy, and he nodded slightly.
"I didn't expect your cultivation aptitude to be poor, but you have some talent in spiritual medicine cultivation."
Ji Yin was also pondering. He had been stuck at Qi Training Stage Three for several years, unable to find a way to break through.
The first three levels of Qi Training belong to the Qi Training Initial Stage. Cultivators at this stage are basically not much different from mortals, while Qi Training Stage Four belongs to the Qi Training Mid-Stage, where the distinction between immortal and mortal gradually becomes apparent.
Ji Yin possessed two spells that could only be cultivated at the Qi Training Mid-Stage.
Moreover, and most importantly.
According to the information Ji Yin obtained, although the spiritual power cultivated by Chang Sheng Gong is vast and righteous, it has no attribute bonus and is not good at fighting. However, there are quite a few cultivators who cultivate Chang Sheng Gong, especially those with poor aptitude and rogue cultivators.
Firstly, Chang Sheng Gong is widely circulated and easy to obtain. Secondly, Chang Sheng Gong has an enticing characteristic: longevity.
It is said that there was once a rogue cultivator who cultivated Chang Sheng Gong to Lianqi (Qi Condensation) level 9 and lived to be one hundred and eighty years old.
One must know that the lifespan of mortals does not exceed a hundred years. During the Qi Refinement Stage, the physical body of a cultivator has not yet transcended the realm of mortals, and the general maximum lifespan does not exceed 120 years.
And this person lived to be one hundred and eighty years old, extending his lifespan by one-third, which was only sixty years less than the two hundred and forty to fifty years of a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator.
This couldn't help but make many cultivators who felt hopeless about Foundation Establishment flock to it.
And according to the experience of predecessors, the first three levels of Chang Sheng Gong have no longevity-extending function; its longevity-extending function only gradually appears from the fourth level onwards.
This made Ji Yin even more eager to break through the bottleneck of the Qi Training Initial Stage. He believed that as long as he broke through to Qi Training Stage Four, he should be able to advance to Lianqi (Qi Condensation) level 6 in his lifetime. At that time, Qi Training Late-Stage might not be an impossible ambition.
Blood Qi Pill is a type of elixir that stimulates the human body's potential and helps cultivators break through bottlenecks. It is a common breakthrough elixir used by rogue cultivators in the Qi Refinement Stage who have poor aptitude.
It took him two years, but Ji Yin finally managed to barely refine the Blood Qi Pill through his own exploration.
But he did not dare to take it lightly. He was originally just a small pharmacist. One day, he went up the mountain to collect herbs and accidentally entered the cave of a deceased rogue cultivator, obtaining inheritances such as cultivation techniques, elementary talismans, Blood Qi Pill prescriptions, and spiritual herb cultivation, thus inadvertently beginning his cultivation career.
Throughout his entire cultivation career, he had never encountered other cultivators, relying entirely on his own exploration.
The Blood Qi Pill he refined was vastly different in appearance from the description in the prescription, and the cautious Ji Yin dared not take it rashly.
Therefore, he thought of a way to find someone to test the medicine.
As expected, after a year of testing, he had already killed seven disciples. All these young people died within a few days after taking the Blood Qi Pill, due to severe depletion of vital energy and varying degrees of aging in various organs of their bodies.
Under his continuous improvements, Er Niu was the first person who did not die after taking the Blood Qi Pill.
This made him see hope for success.
Previously, the work of cultivating spiritual herbs and refining elixirs was mostly done by Ji Yin alone, which made Ji Yin's daily work quite busy.
Song Wen's performance just now gave him the idea of training Song Wen specifically to cultivate spiritual herbs.
With Er Niu's success, Ji Yin felt that the refinement of the Blood Qi Pill was within reach. This was a time when he needed to concentrate his energy, and Ji Yin did not want to spend too much energy on spiritual herb cultivation.