Chapter 24 Breakthrough in Cultivation
After handling the items in Liu Tianlong's storage bag, Song Qingming continued walking south for a few days and entered a somewhat desolate hilly area. Seeing the sun setting in the west and the sky gradually getting dark, Song Qingming stopped.
After observing the surroundings, he found a mountain wall and released the Fierce Sun Sword to hit the mountain wall. After spending a while, he finally dug out a small cave and then arranged a simple Five Elements outside the cave. After placing a piece of spiritual stone in the Lost Tracing Formation and activating the formation, he walked into the cave with satisfaction.
Since the last time he was chased by a high-level demon crocodile, he would rather take more detours in the past few days, try to walk on the barren mountains and plains, avoid the deep mountains and swamps where the demon beasts are infested, and find a cave after night to go out. Arrange the formation before falling asleep.
Lighting a bonfire, Song Qingming took some spiritual rice from the storage bag and boiled it. During the Qi refining period, monks were not yet able to live without food and needed to eat every few days. Fortunately, he still had a lot of spiritual rice with him, so he could still eat it for the time being. Don't worry about food rations.
After dinner, Song Qingming rested for a while, then took out a qi-nourishing pill and drank it, then started to use the Kunyuan Art to slowly release the power of the elixir.
It has been almost a month since I came out this time. I have never been able to cultivate my spiritual energy in the deep mountains. I can only rely on the spiritual rice I carry with me to absorb a little spiritual energy. My cultivation has not improved much. Fortunately, today I have finally reached the peak of my spiritual energy. It’s time to take the elixir every month.
After practicing for half a week, Song Qingming suddenly felt that the bottleneck of the fifth level of Qi refining in his body seemed to be loosened. He thought that this might be because of his own cultivation, and it was time to break through.
Originally, according to the normal speed of cultivation, it would take at least two or three years for Song Qingming to break through the fifth level of Qi refining.
However, since he got the residual map, he has accumulated a lot of spiritual stones by making talismans in the past two years. He has already exchanged five or six bottles of elixirs for improving cultivation from Gao Yuyao. In addition to taking two bottles of Qi-nourishing elixirs to the family collection The Golden Pavilion exchanged some talisman-making materials, and kept most of the elixirs in his own hands. In the past two years, by constantly taking elixirs, his cultivation level has been raised to the peak of the fourth level of Qi Refining.
Taking out a Pure Heart Talisman and attaching it to himself, Song Qingming then crushed a dozen low-level spiritual stones in his hand, and a large amount of spiritual power instantly filled the small cave.
When a monk breaks through his cultivation level, he needs to inhale a large amount of spiritual energy. The best place to break through is in a spiritual vein with abundant spiritual energy. Unfortunately, in this barren mountain and wilderness, Song Qingming can't find the spiritual vein at once, so he can only use the spirit vein in his hand. The spirit stones came to provide spiritual energy. Although he now had a lot of spirit stones in his hands, such extravagant behavior still made him frown a little.
With this spiritual power, Song Qingming increased the speed of the exercises in his body, and felt that the fifth spiritual point in his body gradually began to vibrate non-stop.
Song Qingming was secretly happy when he saw this, and patiently continued to absorb spiritual energy and pour it into his Dantian. Finally, an hour later, the spiritual energy in the meridians in his body was like a curve of clear water flowing into a river, and he successfully opened the fifth spiritual acupoint, and his cultivation level was upgraded to Qi Refining. At the fifth level, the mana in the Dantian within the body has also increased a lot.
Unexpectedly, he could break through the fifth level of Qi Refining so smoothly this time. Song Qingming felt happy. He had practiced Taoism for twelve years and was now twenty-two years old. His cultivation had finally caught up with most of the monks in his clan.
For Song Qingming, who has been practicing cultivation for more than ten years, nothing makes him happier than a breakthrough in cultivation. He does not have a strong enough cultivation, and no matter how many precious spiritual stones he has, he cannot protect them. If he didn't live there, he would make wedding clothes for others, which he always knew clearly in his heart.
At the age of twenty-two, he had reached the fifth level of Qi refining. He was considered a fast cultivator in Qinghe County. If the items in Liu Tianlong's storage bag could be successfully exchanged for cultivation resources, Song Qingming would already have a glimmer of confidence in Liu Tianlong's cultivation. He has cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining before he was ten years old, and with the water spirit fruit in his storage bag, he can get it from Xiaoyao Sect in exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill. His current path suddenly becomes very bright.
After the breakthrough in cultivation, Song Qingming did not rush out of the cave. He slowly circulated the spiritual energy dozens of times again, warming the newly opened spiritual cave. It was not until five days later that his cultivation was completely stabilized that Song Qingming walked out of the cave.
After putting away the magic circle, Song Qingming continued on the road, using the Light Body Technique, and felt that his magic power was much stronger than before.
After Song Qingming climbed over a high mountain, he suddenly found several figures appearing in the valley below the mountain in the distance. From time to time, there was a roar of monsters, and a surprise smile appeared on his face. Song Qingming had been walking alone in this dangerous mountain range for almost ten days since he was swept into the pool by the black-feathered python. When he finally saw someone appearing in front of him, he couldn't help but feel a little excited and quickly walked down the mountain.
After getting closer, I found that several monks were encircling and suppressing a giant bear. The leader was a burly man with a high level of cultivation. He was already in the late stage of Qi Refining and had always been the main force on the battlefield. The other three auxiliary attackers were all Refiners. The mid-Qi monks and a woman who had only reached the third level of Qi refining did not participate in the battle. They had been standing not far away and watching the surroundings of the battlefield.
Seeing this situation, Song Qingming did not show up immediately. He stopped on a nearby tree and watched from a distance. It was not until the high-level giant bear was knocked down by these people that he jumped off the tree trunk and walked towards them.
"Stop, who are you?"
As soon as Song Qingming reached a dozen feet, the burly man with the highest level of cultivation spotted him first and shouted loudly, with some unkindness in his tone.
Several people on the side were still collecting materials from the giant bear. As soon as they heard about it, someone came over and quickly released their magic weapons to guard the surroundings, fearing that Song Qingming's arrival was not good and there were other accomplices.
Seeing that these people were very wary of him, Song Qingming hurriedly stopped, spread his hands and explained:
"Don't get me wrong, fellow Taoists. I am a casual cultivator from Qinghe County, and I am also here to hunt monsters. We had bad luck a few days ago. Our monster hunting team encountered a second-level monster. We accidentally killed it while escaping. My teammates got separated. I didn’t bring a map with me. I walked in the mountains for several days without finding my companions. I just happened to meet you today. I would like to ask some fellow Taoists which direction Pingyang County is and how far away it is. "
"It turns out it's a fellow cultivator. I was shocked. Fellow Taoist, don't be surprised. I thought you were one of those bastards from the Fire Wolf Gang." Seeing that Song Qingming was the only one around, the leading man let down his guard and let the few The companion put away the magic weapon in his hand.
This burly man seemed to be an outspoken person at first glance. Song Qingming had been living in Caolu Mountain for two years, and he really liked dealing with this type of person.
"This is some distance from Pingyang County. It's about five or six days' walk to the southeast. If you don't have a map in your hands, it might be a little difficult to walk. I think it's better for you to wait for us at the mountain pass behind you for a day. I'll wait. I’m going back to Guiyunfang tomorrow, so I can take you along.”
The speaker was one of the middle-aged Confucian scholars, with fluttering Confucian robes and a green sword in his hand. He was at the fifth level of Qi refining. His face was filled with the aura of a scholar. He spoke in a leisurely manner. He could tell at first glance that he was in a state of confusion. The owner who has the goods.
"Okay, I would like to thank you fellow Taoists first." Song Qingming nodded. As long as he could get out of the dangerous Fuyun Mountains faster, it would be okay for him to wait one more day.
Several other people, including the man with the highest cultivation level, heard that the middle-aged Confucian scholar wanted to take Song Qingming with him, and they did not object. It was obvious that although this Confucian scholar was not high in cultivation level, he was the one who kept his word among the five.
After parting with a few people, Song Qingming walked outside the valley to the east for a meal when he saw a big red tree more than ten feet high appearing in front of him, which was the meeting place he had just agreed with the Confucian scholar tomorrow.
Song Qingming found a few dead trees nearby, borrowed some branches and leaves from the big tree, and built a simple hut under the big tree.
In the early morning of the next day, Song Qingming was practicing meditation in the hut. Suddenly he heard a wave of spiritual power coming from the magic circle outside the hut. Song Qingming went out and saw a girl in green clothes in front of her, holding a flying sword in her hand. There was a burst of hacking in the mist, and a few low-level spells were released from time to time.
This woman was about twenty years old. She had a sapphire hairpin in her head, combed into two black pigtails and placed behind her back. She was wearing a green skirt. She was the same group that she met in the valley yesterday. The girl who is in the third level of Qi refining.
But at this moment, the woman seemed to be trapped by the formation, and her face looked a little panicked. Several of her companions were standing not far outside the formation, seeming to be discussing how to rescue her.
Seeing this situation, Song Qingming also smiled bitterly. He arranged this formation to guard against attacks by monsters in the mountains. Who would have thought that this woman would be so careless and plunge into the formation and be trapped by it all of a sudden. . It would be difficult for a person like her who was not familiar with the formation to get out of the formation on her own in less than two or three hours.
Song Qingming quickly made a few gestures and put away the formation. The fog surrounding a few feet below the tree instantly dissipated between heaven and earth, revealing the red tree in the formation and Song Qingming under the tree.