I am going to live forever in the world of mortals

Chapter 23 Cultivation
In the prayer pool...

The little tortoise swam into the bottom of the pool, and inhaled the smoke and smoke from the cloud-patterned jade pendant into its mouth.

The scroll of mountains and seas appeared again, and as a wisp of turbid air submerged in it, various memory fragments emerged on the scroll.

Master Ning Zizhen's memory fragment...

When I was a Xiaodao boy, I met Zhang Yangming, who was also a Dao boy. Facing the intelligent and high-spirited senior brother, the girl secretly fell in love.

The two have known each other for many years, and they have reached the point where they are talking about marriage and becoming Taoist couples, but they are suddenly bound by the so-called 'fairy fate'.

The fate of the two is also like two lines that originally intersected but diverged, drifting away as time goes by...

All kinds of twists and turns are embarrassing...

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The manifested memory fragments on the scroll of mountains and seas gradually dimmed, and some small ancient seal characters emerged instead: get a wisp of 'Red Dust Fire and Fire Qi', dip in the seven-level karma of the immortal character, and give a piece of 'Xian Yuanguo'.

Zhang Xiuyuan inexplicably had a fruit shaped like a white pear in his hand, and then he realized something, and he also knew the magical effect of this so-called 'Xianyuan Fruit'.

Eating it can wash the essence and cut the marrow, and improve your cultivation!

He secretly sighed in his heart, he was still worrying about his lack of cultivation in the middle of the night, and now he has a 'Xianyuan Fruit' that can improve his cultivation, what is really missing.

He looked at the 'Xianyuan Fruit' in his hand, but he didn't rush to eat it, but put it in his bag carefully.

It's not that he doesn't want to eat it, but that he doesn't have the method of cultivation now, not to mention the method of eating qi in the immortal way, even the method of practicing internal and external skills in the martial arts!

Taixu Temple originally had many excellent martial arts skills, but they were all in the quiet room of the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Now the Hall of Mental Cultivation was burned by the master, and those martial arts skills were also lost.

And the 'Xianyuan Fruit' has the effect of purifying the essence and cutting the marrow and improving the cultivation base, so it is obviously not a vulgar thing. Now that he doesn't even have the method of cultivation, how dare he eat it in his stomach?

Just like a glass of water, his current situation is that there is no cup connected to the water. If he pours water directly out of thin air, wouldn't his improvement be as good as rootless duckweed?

Wouldn't it be a waste of fairy fruit?

Thinking of what his aunt had said before he left, he would send a few articles on how to breathe energy for him to practice after returning home, so he didn't get too entangled.

Just wait a few days...

Five days passed in a blink of an eye...

He had just taken over Taixu Temple, and there was no one under him to use, so he had to clean the inside and outside of Taixu Temple with the Wugou dust whisk, implying that the blemishes and filth would be washed away, and the willows would be brightened.

At this time, under the big banyan tree...

Zhang Xiuyuan raised his head and looked at a bird's nest built at the top of the tree at some time, in which there were two larks chirping and playing.

He lives alone in this huge Taixu, like an old man in a lonely nest, so he still welcomes this new little neighbor.

And the two larks on the tree are not afraid of people, they will hook their heads to peek at the people under the tree from time to time...

Suddenly, there was a high-pitched cry from the sky.

The two larks on the big banyan tree seemed to be frightened, and flapped their wings and flew away.

Just after they flew away, a big white crane fluttered its wings and fell from Qingming gracefully, with a bookcase hooked in its paws.

Seeing this, Zhang Xiuyuan also knew that his aunt had brought something, so he walked over and cupped his hands and said with a smile, "Please trouble Aunt He."

The big white crane understood human nature and understood what he said, stretched its neck and pushed the bookcase on the floor towards him, and croaked twice as if to signal to him that the things had been delivered.

"Thank you, Aunt He..."

Zhang Xiuyuan saw the big white crane dotted arrogantly, as if it was about to fly away, so he hurriedly called out: "Crane Gu stay here, the poor will give you a gift."

The big white crane fluttered its wings slightly, and looked at him with its slender neck hooked. There was a bit of human doubt in its eyes, as if it didn't understand what his "gift with courtesy" meant.

"Aunt He, please wait here for a while..."

Zhang Xiuyuan smiled, and then trotted all the way to the Yisheng Garden in the backyard of Guanzhong. In that garden, there was a vigorous apricot tree with a large crown and hanging branches. The tree was full of golden-colored and plump apricots.

This big apricot tree is the same age as the big banyan tree in the front yard, and they were both planted during Taixu Guan Li Guan, hundreds of years ago.

Although the apricot trees in this Yisheng Garden are not as spectacular as the big banyan tree in the front yard, they still bear fruit around June every year, and the fruits they hang are all mellow, fleshy, and delicious. Sweet, very delicious.

Zhang Xiuyuan found a bamboo basket, put the picked apricots into the bamboo basket, and then returned to the big white crane with the bamboo basket.

He took a ripe apricot and broke it, removed the core, put the soft and sweet flesh in the palm of his hand and handed it to the big white crane. , but it’s rare to come here, why don’t you taste the flavor of this world?”

The white crane also seemed to be attracted by the strong fruity aroma, stretched its slender neck, looked around at the apricot in his palm, then opened its beak and took a taste of the fruit.

After eating it, the eyes are a little brighter, and it seems to be convinced by the sweet and soft taste of the apricot.

Immediately, he looked at the apricots in the bamboo basket again, and croaked softly, as if asking: "Are these all for me?"

"It's all from Aunt He..."

Zhang Xiuyuan smiled when he saw this, and wanted to break another apricot to feed him, but he never thought that Baihe stretched his neck and put it in the bamboo basket, picked up the apricot and put it in his mouth, and spit out a fruit pit like cracking melon seeds .

Maybe it was not satisfying to eat, so it ate an apricot in the same way after eating the pulp.

Seeing Zhang Xiuyuan's strange expression, Bai He seemed to realize that he had lost his grace in "eating apricots" this time, so he croaked like a tsundere girl, and then flew away.

It's just that when it flew away, the crane claw took the apricot and the bamboo basket away.

The white crane fluttered its wings and went to Baiyun Guan, glanced back, saw that no one had noticed, stretched its slender neck to pick up an apricot in the bamboo basket, and then spit out the core...

Seeing that the white crane had gone away, two little larks flew back chirping from nowhere.

Zhang Xiuyuan moved the bookcase under the big banyan tree. While sitting under the tree to enjoy the cool air, he also took out the ancient books in the bookcase and slowly read them...

There are more than [-] ancient books in the bookcase, among which are not only the method of nourishing qi needed for practice, but also some practice experience, basic knowledge of the practice world, anecdotes about the practice world, miscellaneous travel notes, etc.

These ancient books are not from the picture scrolls of mountains and seas, and the content in the books will not directly penetrate into his mind as spiritual light. He needs to study slowly to understand the true meaning.

After reading an ancient book called "The Essence of Convincing Qi", he has a general understanding of the practice of Qi refiners.

In addition to "refining Qi to transform Qi", "refining Qi to transform God", "refining spirit to return to the virtual", "refining the virtual to join the Tao" and the legendary "true immortal" realm, in fact, before practicing, there must be " Hundred Days Foundation Building and Grain Refining and Essence Refining are two small stages that are not considered realms.

Hundred Days Building Foundation, as the name suggests, means 'laying the foundation'...

The key to building a high-rise building on the ground is to lay a good foundation. Only when the foundation is laid can the building be built. If the foundation is not solid, even if the building is built, it will collapse.

The same goes for practice...

The hundred-day foundation building is a process of searching for Qi, opening up the two veins of Ren and Du, and penetrating the hundred veins.

The "hundred days" in it is a function word, it does not mean that one hundred days will definitely be successful, some people may be able to build a foundation in one day, and some people may be struggling for a lifetime and will not be able to find the Qi mechanism to build a foundation.

The length of time varies from person to person, and is roughly related to factors such as xinxing, understanding, physical condition, age and so on.

Refining grain and refining essence is also just as the name suggests, which means to have enough food.

During the cultivation period, if you haven't even reached the minimum level of "refining grain and transforming essence", if you don't have experience, what realm can you imagine to reach?

Without essence, or dissatisfied with essence, what can I use to complete the next step of "refinement and gasification"?
Most people who practice martial arts eat a lot, and this is also the reason...

As for bigu, it appears at the stage of 'full of qi and not thinking about food', that is to say, bigu is a natural manifestation after the success of 'refining and transforming qi'.

Zhang Xiuyuan closed the ancient book pensively, and muttered: "Eat enough, look for Qi mechanism to build a foundation, this matter is easy..."

(End of this chapter)