Martial Arts and Longevity: Starting from the Spiritual Beast Picture

Establishing a foundation is the most important thing for any Qi-refining monk with a little heart.

Only when the foundation is successfully established can one break through the mortal body, greatly increase the lifespan, fly in the air, and become a "fairy" in the eyes of mortals.

"Building a foundation is not easy!"

Liang Song sighed, a gleam of worry flashed across his brows.

"Brother Liang is on the sixth level of Qi Refining. This speed of cultivation is considered very fast in the sect, right?"

Zhao Lin could probably guess the reason why Liang Song was worried, but he still asked, wanting to hear his opinion.

Liang Song didn't speak, just lowered his head and took a sip of the spirit wine, and said after a while: "The sixth floor of Qi refining sounds like it's not far from the ninth floor, but it's actually far away!"

"In the early stage of Qi refining, it only takes a few months to break through a layer, and at most no more than a year. In the middle stage, it starts to be counted in years."

"As for the later stage, it will take longer, two or three years, seven or eight years are possible."

"I have been in the sect for seven years, and it is not too slow to cultivate to the sixth level of Qi Refining. The problem is..."

Having said that, he glanced at Zhao Lin and hesitated to speak.

"You're getting older, aren't you?"

Zhao Lin understood, and directly stated the words.

The best age for foundation building is before the age of 40, after which the success rate begins to decline.

The function of the Foundation Establishment Pill is to increase the success rate of Foundation Establishment. If one is too old, one will lose and the other will grow, and taking the Foundation Establishment Pill will not make much sense.

Liang Song is 35 years old this year, three years older than himself. He has this worry and Zhao Lin empathizes with him.

"The two of us are suffering brothers and sisters, both of whom belong to older monks."

Zhao Lin smiled, brushed off the topic, and asked, "How much good deeds have you accumulated?"

Liang Song thought for a while and said, "About 5000."

"So many, half of the Foundation Establishment Pill came out!"

Zhao Lin was quite surprised, and wondered if he had accumulated good deeds so quickly in animal husbandry, so he would forget about doing this in the future.

"No, what I'm talking about is that I have accumulated a total of [-] good deeds, but most of them have been used up, leaving less than [-] good deeds."

Liang Song shook his head and explained earnestly: "The early stage of Qi refining is to lay the foundation stage, there is no need to take pills, it is best to rely on one's own ability to improve one's cultivation."

"But from the mid-stage of Qi refining, pills are necessary. Condensing Yuan Pill, Buxue Pill, Gupei Pill, Huanggu Pill, Chalcedony Liquid, Rongling Pill..."

"There are pills for daily use, and there are pills that help break through levels and small realms."

"It's okay to take daily elixir, the sect will distribute it regularly, and if it's not enough, you can buy it yourself, but the only breakthrough elixir is the spirit stone, and you have to do good deeds!"

"A bottle of chalcedony liquid is worth three spirit stones, plus three good deeds. Without good deeds, no amount of spirit stones can buy you!"

After a pause, he said again: "Don't talk about pills, it's Lingmi. If it exceeds the limit, you have to use good deeds to buy it."

Zhao Lin frowned, wondering why this good deed sounded similar to the food stamps from his previous life?
Is it due to the lack of resources in the sect, to achieve relative fairness in this way, or is it intentional to encourage monks to contribute to the sect?
Regardless of the reason, he couldn't just stare at Zhu Ji Dan.

It can be seen from this that cultivating the Tao and practicing martial arts are the same principle, both need a lot of money, but the money is exchanged for good deeds and spiritual stones.

"Hearing what you said, it's really not easy to accumulate enough good deeds if you want to cultivate to the ninth level of qi refining."

"Oh, who said no..."

Liang Song joined the sect six years earlier than Zhao Lin, and knew more about cultivation. His own brothers were not polite, so Zhao Lin asked about all kinds of cultivation matters to prepare for the future.

All cultivators suffer from a disease: cultivation base anxiety, or time anxiety is more appropriate, for fear of being one step behind.

Everyone from the golden elixir to the qi refining has suffered from this kind of disease, and the disease is not serious.

The two chatted until late at night, and fell asleep.

……

The days passed quickly, and it was almost a year since Zhao Lin joined Cheng Huazong.

He has broken through 24 qi apertures and reached the peak of the second level of qi refining.

The second level of Qi Refining...the peak.

Zhao Lin thinks this name is a bit strange, but the common name is true, the peak of each layer is when the last air hole is opened.

Only when all one hundred and eight innate air orifices have been broken through can it be called the peak of the Qi Refining Realm.

The Lingdao Academy does not strictly control the disciples, and there is only a small assessment at the end of the year.

First look at the cultivation base, and second look at the spell.

After a year of practice, the disciples have broken through to the second level of Qi training, two disciples with high-grade spiritual roots have broken through to the third level of Qi training, and Lin Chaoran of the earth spirit root has reached the fourth level of Qi training.

Not being able to rank at the top, there is a little gap. When he was practicing martial arts, he was always far ahead.

However, he knows his own affairs. If he hadn't absorbed the spirit of Pipa Catfish, he might still be wandering in the initial stage of the second level of Qi Refining.

In terms of magic, no one can compare with him.

The rock armor technique, the ice knife technique, and the flame flow arrow have all been practiced to the proficiency level, and they are the only ones among the disciples.

Originally, the actual attainment of Rock Armor Art was a minor success, but Zhao Lin deliberately suppressed it to the level of proficiency when demonstrating the spell.

He asked the brothers who passed on the skills, and in the past 20 years, no disciple has been able to practice spells to a small degree in the first year.

There was indeed a disciple who did it many years ago, but that disciple only practiced one spell a year, so Zhao Lin decided to take it easy for a while, letting people know that he had the talent to practice spells.

After the assessment is over, there is an even more important event: the performance of the three courtyards!
The three-house performance meeting refers to: Nanhezhou, Xiniuzhou, and Juyanzhou. The Lingdao Academy of the three states conducts a joint Taoism exercise every year.

The reason is that the disciples have practiced for one year at the beginning and began to choose Taoism in the second year.

Although each Spiritual Dao Academy can teach more than a dozen or even dozens of Dao arts, and there are elders and senior brothers to give pointers, but after all, there are hundreds of Dao arts, and it is impossible to be proficient in all of them.

The spiritual dao institutes in several states are united to cover a wider range of dao arts, which is beneficial for disciples to have a deeper understanding of dao arts. If necessary, disciples can even temporarily go to other spiritual dao colleges to practice.

The three states are geographically adjacent and have some historical connections, so at the end of every year, the spiritual temples of the three states conduct a joint performance.

The above is the original intention of the three courtyards' performance meeting.

The performance will involve a competition between the Spiritual Dao Institutes, and there will be rewards such as good deeds and spirit stones, but these have nothing to do with the new disciples, they are only responsible for watching and learning.

This year it was the turn of Juyan Prefecture's Lingdao Institute to be the host. The disciples stayed in the county all year, and it was rare for them to travel far away. After learning about this, they were very excited.

Zhao Lin is also looking forward to this trip, choosing Taoism is one aspect, and at the same time, he also wants to see more spells.

There are still five blank spaces in the spiritual training map, so if you encounter a suitable spell, find a way to include it.

"When you are in someone else's territory, pay attention to the etiquette and don't cause trouble."

"Play well in the competition and save face for us in Nanhezhou."

"Watch carefully if you don't compete, and learn with an open mind."

The Lingdao Academy attaches great importance to the performance meeting, not only Zhou Zhangyuan, Elder Nie and Elder Wu all accompanied him, but also brought all the disciples who taught the exercises.

After some explanations, Zhou Zhangyuan was the first to board the flying boat, and waved: "Let's go!" (End of this chapter)