The booklet is richly illustrated with both text and illustrations. The first page of the first level of Qi Refining is a diagram of the human meridians, with the various acupuncture points marked. Next to it is another diagram that depicts the route and sequence of spiritual energy after it enters the body, explaining it in considerable detail.
The fundamental purpose of the first level of Qi Refining is to allow a mortal to learn to breathe in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. However, spiritual energy is insufficient in most places in the mortal world, making cultivation extremely slow, and even success may not be achieved after years or even decades.
Therefore, if you want to practice smoothly, you must have a constant supply of spirit stones to provide spiritual energy.
Some people's slow cultivation doesn't necessarily mean they're not talented. It could be because they don't have enough spirit stones, which leads to low efficiency and being surpassed by others. Or it could be because they've encountered a bottleneck in their cultivation but don't have enough spirit stones to break through.
For example, the upgrade of each level in the Qi Refining Period, the impact of the tenth level of Qi Refining on the Foundation Establishment, the impact of the late level of Foundation Establishment on the Golden Elixir... all require a large amount of spiritual energy support. If there is a high-quality and sufficient supply of spirit stones, the chances of breaking through the barrier will naturally increase.
Unless a novice cultivator had the support of a powerful cultivator or had a fortuitous encounter, they were always short of spirit stones. Even if they joined a sect, the low-grade spirit stones they were given each month were far from enough to cover their expenses.
Even the Foundation Establishment cultivators and Core Formation cultivators were no exception. Although they would obtain more low-grade spirit stones, their consumption was also greater, and most people were still stretched to the limit.
Even if one becomes a Nascent Soul, they still cannot escape this vicious circle. At the Nascent Soul level, generally speaking, there is no shortage of low-grade spirit stones. Even if one becomes an elder or guest official in a sect, they can obtain a lot of low-grade spirit stones.
However, when one reaches the Nascent Soul stage, what is needed is no longer ordinary low-grade spirit stones. As one's own level of cultivation improves, the spiritual energy content and quality of low-grade spirit stones are far from meeting the Nascent Soul's cultivation requirements.
Nascent Soul cultivators need to use mid-grade spirit stones to practice in order to keep up with the pace of cultivation, but mid-grade spirit stones are also difficult to obtain, so Nascent Soul cultivators also lack spirit stones!
The first level of Qi Refining is mainly about absorbing spiritual energy into the body and accumulating as much spiritual energy as possible in the body. After the spiritual energy accumulates to a critical point, it will explode, thereby changing the mortal's physical constitution and having an effect similar to the marrow cleansing in the Book of Changes, laying the foundation for long-term practice in the future.
Yuanxiao assumed a meditative posture, fished out a few purified low-grade spirit stones, and placed his hands flat on his lap, with the stones resting between his palms. He stared at the spiritual energy flow chart spread out before him, attempting to follow the path of spiritual energy flow, urging it to flow throughout his body.
Previously, in the selection test, Yuanxiao's spiritual energy circulation speed was rated orange, and the spiritual energy absorption rate was over ten stars.
The reason why Yunhaimen set up this testing program is because the speed at which a cultivator's spiritual energy circulates and the amount of spiritual energy absorbed have a great impact on the cultivation effect of a cultivator.
In just a moment, the spiritual energy had circulated in the body many times along the predetermined route. At the same time, as it flowed through the acupuncture points and meridians throughout the body, the spiritual energy was continuously absorbed by the body.
Fortunately, Yuanxiao had several spirit stones in his hands, which continuously provided new spiritual energy into his body, thus preventing the spiritual energy in his body from being cut off due to continuous absorption.
Yuan Xiao soon noticed that the spiritual stone in his hand had turned from white to dark gray due to the depletion of spiritual energy. Yuan Xiao threw the spent spiritual stone to the ground. The dark gray spiritual stone had become so fragile that it broke into several pieces with just one throw.
So this is how spirit stones are consumed during cultivation! Yuan Xiao was amazed. He then placed his finger on another spirit stone and continued to absorb spiritual energy.
After an incense stick, only the last of the several spirit stones in his hand remained, but Yuanxiao still hadn't experienced the feeling of fullness in his meridians described in the Qi Refining Level 1 formula. So Yuanxiao took out several dozen low-grade spirit stones again, placing a few new ones in his hand and piling the others in front of him for later use.
Yuanxiao didn't know that if other people in the sect knew what he was doing, not to mention the outer disciples, even the inner disciples and even the foundation-building elders would probably be furious.
Outer disciples can only get one low-grade spirit stone every two months, inner disciples can only get three low-grade spirit stones a month, and even the foundation-building elders in the sect can only get about a hundred low-grade spirit stones a month. It is inevitable that they have to be stretched to the limit and live frugally.
Because of the lack of spirit stones, cultivation inevitably had to be interrupted and interrupted, making it impossible to maintain a continuous flow. How could their progress not be slow? How could they be like Yuanxiao, who could produce dozens of low-grade spirit stones on his first practice? And dared to use them all up in one go!
If all the disciples of Yunhai Sect were gathered here right now and were allowed to witness Yuanxiao's first training session, perhaps more than half of them would violently beat him up. For no reason, simply out of envy and jealousy! Jealousy would completely distort their minds!
Yuan Xiao didn't even know that he couldn't feel the effects of the Yijing marrow cleansing at the first level of Qi Refining. This was because the Apocalypse Pearl had already helped him perform a perfect Yijing marrow cleansing, and its effects far exceeded the physical transformation effects of the first level of Qi Refining.
Therefore, Yuanxiao has not experienced any broken meridians or pain all over his body even after practicing until now. However, the painful process of body reshaping is something that other practitioners must go through.
Yuanxiao's physical condition was already pure and flawless, waiting only for future careful refinement. Currently, Yuanxiao only needed to absorb enough spiritual energy. Once the concentration of spiritual energy in her body reached a certain limit, it would burst forth, breaking free from her physical constraints and taking the first step towards cultivation.
After spending 10 spirit stones, Yuanxiao finally felt his meridians were a little full.
After spending 20 spirit stones, Yuanxiao felt his meridians were full.
After spending 30 spirit stones, Yuanxiao felt that the meridians in his body were surging, and every acupuncture point through which the spiritual energy flowed began to swell in his body.
It was not until the 36th low-grade spirit stone that Yuanxiao suddenly felt that the meridians and acupoints in his body began to throb. Suddenly, there was a bang, and it felt like a shackle in his body was opened, and then the 36th spirit stone in his hand shattered directly.
Yuanxiao stood up, his composure restored. He clenched his fists and immediately felt a surge of strength he had never felt before. He walked out of the room and with a light leap, he unexpectedly jumped to a height of three meters and landed five meters away.
He picked up a fist-sized stone and squeezed it hard. Although it didn't break completely, it left five clear fingerprints.
It turns out that just after entering the first level of the Qi Refining Stage, he is already comparable to the martial arts masters of the mortal world. In addition, immortal cultivators can also use various spells and spiritual tools, so it is difficult for ordinary martial arts masters to compete with immortal cultivators.
Especially since immortal cultivators have unlimited potential in their later stages, while martial arts masters are constrained by the constraints of their physical bodies and will stagnate after reaching a certain level of martial arts. Therefore, most mortals admire immortal cultivators.
I really can’t believe that one day I can become a martial arts master!