I fly with a sword in the magic academy

Chapter 41 Cultivation of body and mind

"You are now a fellow practitioner of magic and immortality. Do you know the difference between the two?" Before the corpse of the monster was roasted, Shi Daohan found a topic and asked Kalman.

Kalman thought seriously for a moment and said, "There is a big difference, but I can't tell."

"A monk, a Taoist who senses the spirit of all things, understands the way of heaven and earth, draws the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into his body, tempers his body, transforms his mortal body into a fairy body, and can directly perform spells without the help of other media, because we It is the best medium in itself.”

"But magic is different. Although it is equally profound and sophisticated, it also has obvious shortcomings. It relies too much on magical weapons such as magic wands. During the battle, I only need to knock out or take away the magic in your hand. Staff, you will basically lose your ability to fight."

Shi Daohan turned the barbecue rack with one hand and grilled the monster meat until both sides were golden and the meat was fragrant and mouth-watering.

"Of course, I am not belittling your Western magic. After all, in our Eastern China, there are talisman cultivators similar to yours. They communicate with the gods of heaven and earth through talismans, magic wands and other instruments and borrow power from them, but In my opinion, borrowed things are ultimately not as good as those made by oneself, and have factors such as uncertainty and uncontrollability.”

After saying that, Shi Daohan raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

A wild grass not far away suddenly changed, but in the blink of an eye, it became as big as a towering ancient tree.

Kalman was stunned and speechless for a long time.

"As the saying goes, you rely on everyone to run if you rely on the mountain. In my opinion, only by firmly holding the power in your own hands is your greatest reliance."

Shi Daohan had a dagger in his hand and cut off the roasted animal meat piece by piece. He tasted it himself first and was very satisfied. Then he put a piece to Kalman's mouth and continued talking.

"After all, you are competing with heaven for creation. If you are not careful, you may suffer backlash. It may range from hemiplegia to paralysis on the spot, or your body and mind will be destroyed on the spot. Therefore, the sages of the past have always emphasized that cultivating immortals must first be accomplished. Cultivation of body and mind.”

"What is self-cultivation? Does it mean to repair the body and heart?" Kalman was confused and couldn't quite understand the meaning of these words.

Humans are not machines, so how can they be repaired?

Shi Daohan was not surprised that Kalman could not understand the meaning of these words. After all, the other party had just been in contact for a short time, so it was normal for him not to understand.

"You can understand our body as a container and aura as scalding boiling water. What will happen if you pour scalding boiling water into a plastic bottle?"

Shi Daohan did not answer directly, but asked such a question.

Kalman thought seriously and said: "Well... plastic bottles cannot withstand high temperatures. Although they will not melt, they will at least be severely twisted and deformed."

"That's right." Shi Daohan snapped his fingers and said, "The so-called self-cultivation means tempering and strengthening one's physical body so that one can better absorb and refine the spiritual energy of the world."

Speaking of this, Shi Daohan asked again: "Now that you have opened up the heavens in your body, you can introduce spiritual energy into your body and refine it. Tell me how you feel these days."

Kalman told the truth that he had been trying to absorb and refine the spiritual energy between heaven and earth these days, but he only absorbed a little bit every time. He didn't know why.

He was sure that he did it exactly as Shi Daohan taught him, without neglecting a single step, but the effect was minimal.

"When you open up the heavens in your body, the spiritual energy you have absorbed and refined has reached the limit that your body can bear. The cup is only so big. What will happen if you add more water to it?"

"It's going to overflow."

"When water overflows, it means your body can no longer handle it."

"What will happen if it becomes unbearable?" Kalman asked nervously.

"The body exploded and died. It exploded with a "bang" like that. There might not even be any bones left."

Shi Daohan cut off a whole thigh from the monster's corpse, held it in his hands and started chewing it, speaking indistinctly.

"So scary?!" Kalman was shocked. Thinking that he had been constantly trying to absorb spiritual energy in the past few days, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Seeing his appearance, Shi Daohan burst out laughing and stopped teasing him.

"You don't have to worry. After the heaven and earth are opened up in the body, there will be a protective mechanism in our body. Once it exceeds the critical point that our body can withstand, it will no longer absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth."

After hearing Shi Daohan's explanation, Kalman finally breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that no wonder he could only absorb a little bit of spiritual energy despite all his attempts in the past few days.

"So self-cultivation is to make plastic bottles stronger and bigger, right?" Summarizing all Shi Daohan's words, Kalman finally understood.

"It can be understood this way, but this is only the preliminary stage. After your cultivation reaches a certain height, you can also use the power of heaven and earth to temper your soul and limbs, shed your mortal body and shape your immortal body, and reach the realm of transcendence and sainthood."

Shi Daohan said unhurriedly.

"Master, have you reached that level?" Kalman looked over with curiosity.

Shi Daohan shook his head. Even her cheap master was far from reaching that level, let alone her.

Kalman took a big bite of the barbecue and then asked what cultivation of the mind was.

"Cultivation of the mind, this is a bit troublesome to explain. Generally speaking, it is your own state of mind. You will understand this by yourself later."

Shi Daohan waved her hand, and it took her a long time to explain just one thing about self-cultivation. If you want Kalman to understand what self-cultivation is, then you have to explain it until dawn?
Not long after, they had eaten the whole corpse of the monster beast. Shi Daohan burped, his eyes fell on an open space not far away, and murmured to himself: "It's empty anyway, but it's empty." It’s better to get a magical medicine field and plant some magical herbs and medicines.”

Thinking of this, she looked at Kalman with a wicked smile.

Seeing her mean look, Kalman suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

Shi Daohan pointed to the open space not far ahead and said, "Go and dig up that land."

"Ah?" Kalman was stunned for three or four seconds, and then frowned: "I'm not a farmer!"

"Are you going?" Shi Daohan said in a deep tone.

"No!" Kalman had a tough look on his face. After all, he was also the young master of the Pearson family. He was asked to put down his identity and dig the ground with a hoe, but he said nothing.

"Okay." Shi Daohan nodded and said calmly: "Don't blame me for not reminding you, what you just ate was a fourth-level demon beast. The abundant spiritual power contained in its flesh and blood is absolutely It's not something you can bear. If it doesn't evaporate as soon as possible, not even me, not even the gods can save you."

Kalman was shocked when he heard this. It was about his own life and safety. He couldn't calm down immediately, but soon he seemed to remember something.

"You are scaring me. You just said that there is a protective mechanism in my body. Once it exceeds the critical point, it will no longer absorb spiritual energy." "That's right, but you seemed to have eaten it just now." Shi Daohan said His eyes narrowed into a crescent-shaped smile, and he said: "The spiritual power contained in the flesh and blood of the monster beast was forcibly swallowed into your body, not absorbed by you."

"You!" Kalman was angry, annoyed and frightened, and it took him a long time to say: "You bully people!"

"Go quickly, it's too late, it's really hard to save the gods."

Shi Daohan looked like his trick had succeeded. He took out a hoe from the storage ring and threw it over. He discovered that he would have another kind of fun in the next three years at Horagaka College, which was to tease his own child. Little apprentice.

Kalman waved the hoe in his hand with a depressed look on his face and began to dig the soil in the open space.

"It's a pity that Yunxi's soil was not brought over, otherwise we could have grown fourth-grade elixirs and above." Shi Daohan muttered in a low voice.

In their Eastern China, the grades of elixirs can be divided into eighteen grades, namely from the ninth grade, to the ninth grade, from the eighth grade, to the eighth grade, and so on. The higher the grade of the elixir, the more valuable it is. As rare as they are, almost all of them have a price but no market.

Shi Daohan has the spiritual spring eye given to her by the head of Qingxu. If it is added with Yunxi soil, she can grow elixirs of the fourth grade or above, but it is a pity that she did not bring it.

By the time Kalman turned over all the soil in the clearing, the sky was already misty and bright.

He was lying on the ground covered in sweat, with a look of despair on his face.

Shi Daohan ignored him. He caught a clear spring water in the eye of the spiritual spring on Shengdaga Peak, irrigated the fields, and then planted several ancient medicinal plants that he had found in Wang Yun's battlefield.

Kalman glanced over here. Although he didn't understand elixirs, looking at the few sapling-like plants in the field, which were as crystal clear as jade and filled with radiant colors, he could tell at a glance that these were not ordinary plants. .

"I don't want you to work in vain, how about teaching you a little magic?" Shi Daohan raised his eyebrows and smiled at Kalman, who was lying motionless in the field, as if he were dead.

"Okay!" Kalman did not hesitate, brushed off the dust on his clothes, and ran over in a hurry.

"Be still and concentrate, and use your thoughts to stir up the spiritual power in your body..."

Kalman was very serious. After seeing Shi Daohan make fire out of thin air without using any spells, and make the weeds become as tall as trees, he would definitely be lying if he said he was not impressed.

"Gather the spiritual power in the palm of your hand, then imagine the scene where you hit a strong wind with one palm, and slowly release the spiritual power gathered in the palm of your hand."

Shi Daohan patiently guided Kalman on how to do it.

Kalman's spirit was highly concentrated, and he could clearly feel a warm current flowing from his chest and abdomen to his arms, and finally gathered in the palm of his right hand.

After that, he began to imagine the scene where he hit a strong wind and blew it into a group of trees.

"call!"

As the spiritual power in his palm was released, a strong wind roared past, swaying the surrounding trees, but that was all. The trees were not uprooted as he imagined. , just a large piece of leaves falling "swish".

"After all, it's just your first attempt, and your current spiritual power is still very weak. It's already good to be able to do this. Keep up the good work in the future." Shi Daohan encouraged with a smile.

"Yeah!" Kalman nodded heavily, not discouraged at all.

"Simple little methods like these only require the use of spiritual power with your mind. For more complex and advanced methods, you need to combine handprints and scriptures, just like this."

After that, Shi Daohan demonstrated it himself.

I saw her hands forming seals and pinching, and an extremely terrifying energy wave spread out in all directions with her as the center like water ripples.

"boom!"

Five sacred mountains appear in the sky, like five majestic gods. Four magnificent, undulating rivers are like dragons taking off, surrounding the five mountains.

The five mountains and four mountains form a large seal, giving people a strong sense of oppression and intimidation.

As Shi Daohan lifted it with a flick of his hand, the big seal disappeared out of thin air, as if it had never appeared before.

After a long while, Kalman recovered from the shock and screamed again and again.

Not to mention the visual shock, for just that moment, he felt like he couldn't even move, or even breathe!

"Can I do the same thing as you?" Kalman looked fascinated.

"Maybe you can do it if you work harder." Shi Daohan said with a smile.

At the end, she added another sentence, saying: "Cultivation of immortals, such as flying to the sky and the earth, controlling the wind and rain, these are just the most basic. The most important point is that you can live a long life. It is no problem to live for three to four hundred years."

"What?! Three or four hundred years?"

Kalman's eyes widened in disbelief, wondering if he heard correctly.

Three to four hundred years, what is this concept?One can almost look at the entire history of their Empire on which the sun never sets. Can one person really live for such a long time?
"Isn't it so strange? If you successfully shed your mortal body, build an immortal body, and reach the realm of transcendence and sainthood, it wouldn't be surprising to live for six to seven hundred years."

Shi Daohan shrugged disapprovingly. Although her cheap master looked only 50 or 400 years old, his actual age was over [-] years old.

And there are many people like him in Eastern China.

"Master Donaldson seems to be over 100 years old now. He is a great magician. He should be able to live for more than 200 years, right?" Kalman thought of Master Donaldson.

Shi Daohan nodded: "Master Donaldson is considered a powerful person even in China. If there are no accidents, it should not be a problem to live for more than 200 years."

Kalman was really shocked. He had never thought that a person could live so long. He often calculated it as one, two hundred, three, or four hundred years. This was like a fantasy and seriously broke his understanding. Know.

"Ha, the night passed before I knew it. I have to take a bath first, and then sleep comfortably." Shi Daohan stood up and stretched.

Because the small town of Sirfe is located in the extreme north of the Empire where the sun never sets, the climate is very cold, so people there do not have the habit of taking a bath every day. It is not easy for Shi Daohan to be special while living in a tavern. Now he returns to At Horagaka College, it is natural to take a comfortable bath in the spiritual spring pool.

(End of this chapter)