Dragon Devouring Cultivation

Chapter 27 Gift
A strong sense of frustration arose in Li Zhen's heart. He had never imagined that the gap between his swordsmanship and Director Zhang would be so great.

Just now, Director Zhang did not use his late Qi training strength to bully him, but he used his swordsmanship.

"You don't have to be depressed. You have only learned swordsmanship for a few days, and you have only learned the basic swordsmanship. There are also intermediate and advanced swordsmanship above it!" Director Zhang took back the practice sword and comforted him.

"Do you know how many mistakes there were in that sword strike you just made?" he asked.

"Please give me some guidance, Director!" Li Zhen asked sincerely.

"You didn't hold back any strength when you swung your sword. This is the first point. I admire your fearlessness in the face of high-level monks, but you were still affected when you attacked. This made your swordsmanship less agile and more deliberate. This is the second point. You didn't make good use of your advantage in reaction speed. This is the third point." Director Zhang explained.

"Thank you for your guidance, Director!" Li Zhen bowed and expressed his gratitude.

"You have a good talent for swordsmanship. If you are confident that you can be admitted to a good university, I personally suggest that you focus on the elementary swordsmanship of the Immortal Kingdom. You can learn the intermediate swordsmanship of the Immortal Kingdom in high school, and the advanced swordsmanship of the Immortal Kingdom in college. This set of swordsmanship is a complete system from melee swordsmanship to long-range flying swordsmanship." Director Zhang gave careful guidance again.

Li Zhen didn't expect Director Zhang to say that. Han Wenqin and Yu Nan had introduced stronger sword techniques to Li Zhen before, but he thought that he hadn't even mastered the basic sword techniques, so he refused.

Little did he know that Director Zhang overestimated him.

I thought he wanted to follow the path of orthodox academic swordsmanship, which is to learn the elementary, intermediate and advanced swordsmanship taught in school.

This set of sword techniques may seem simple, but in fact it was carefully compiled by many great sword masters, making it easy for cultivators with average talent to master it.

But the biggest problem with this set of sword techniques is that it is easy to learn but difficult to master. If one wants to become a swordsman through this set of sword techniques, one needs extremely strong talent in swordsmanship.

Director Zhang himself was stuck at the peak of elementary swordsmanship and had made no progress for many years. He also did not follow the orthodox academic swordsmanship.

Under the guidance of Director Zhang, Li Zhen felt that many of his problems in swordsmanship had been answered.

He benefited a lot from today's one-hour guidance class.

Of course, Director Zhang cannot guide him every day. From now on, Director Zhang will only find time to give him a lesson once a week.

Li Zhen was extremely satisfied with this. Director Zhang's class was far better than Coach Wu's many days of classes.

It was getting dark when Li Zhen returned home. He found that there were many more patrolling security guards on the streets, all of them carrying rune pistols.

He was wearing the monk class uniform, so he was not stopped, but he saw many people being stopped and checked by the security guards.

He also knew that the closer it got to the Jiutian Group's annual auction, the more outside cultivators would come. However, although the inspections had been strict before, they had never been so strict to this extent.

When he got home, he saw Mr. and Mrs. Li watching the news.

"Yunxi County cracked down on the ghost market last night. Multiple murders occurred near the ghost market. This is a provocation to the Public Security Bureau. The Public Security Bureau takes it very seriously and has promised the public to protect people's lives and property!" The news anchor looked solemn.

The screen shows a ghost market, many people being arrested, and finally many corpses, including the bodies of two robbers killed by Li Zhen.

"Zhen'er, let your father pick you up from the Yiqian Hall in the future!" Li's mother said worriedly after reading the news.

"Mom, don't bother Dad. The road I take from the Yiqian Hall to my home is a main road. Who dares to do anything on this road!" Li Zhen quickly refused.

In fact, his strength has long surpassed that of Father Li. Even if he does not use the dragon's power, his combat power is far beyond that of Father Li just by relying on his swordsmanship.

Even though he asked Father Li to pick him up, he was still worried about Father Li's safety.

"Then you must also pay attention to safety and report to the Public Security Bureau if anything goes wrong!" Li's mother thought about it but still gave the instructions.

"Son, look what this is!" Father Li smiled and took out a bottle of medicine and placed it in front of Li Zhen and said complacently.

Li Zhen had just sensed the spiritual aura on his father's body. After seeing this bottle of elixir, he felt extremely complicated.

He knew where this bottle of medicine came from. It was purchased from the ghost market by Li's father at great risk of his life.

If he hadn't been with him last night, Father Li might not have come back. Recently, the public security environment in Yunxi County has been extremely bad.

Many foreign monks came to participate in the annual auction, which brought great instability to Yunxi County.

Take yesterday's investigation of the Ghost Market as an example. It wasn't just the two robber cultivators who targeted Li's father. There were many other similar incidents.

Among those bodies killed in the news, only two were killed by Li Zhen, and the others were either people who were robbed and killed, or the robbers who fought back.

Li Zhen took the pill. On the pill bottle was written "Intermediate Grade Qi Inducing Pill", which was the same as the one the school rewarded to Cheng He.

He didn't know how many credit points Father Li had spent, but thinking about what Mother Li had said, Father Li had originally planned to buy the realm-breaking pill.

"Dad, I will definitely get you a realm-breaking pill in the future!" Li Zhen promised his father seriously.

"Your dad doesn't want any realm-breaking pills. Don't listen to your mom. I saved up credit points to buy realm-breaking pills just for the sake of wishing about it. Even if there really was a realm-breaking pill in front of me, I wouldn't take it!" Father Li said with a smile and shook his head.

"Why?" This time it was Li Zhen's turn to be confused.

As far as he knew, Father Li was stuck at the peak of the third level of Qi training and couldn't break through. If Father Li took the realm-breaking pill, there was a high probability that he would be promoted to the middle level of Qi training.

By becoming a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi training, not only will Father Li’s strength greatly increase, but his social status will also be greatly improved.

"Do you know why your father and I can grow spiritual rice safely in the city? All cultivators in the middle stage of Qi training have to go to the front line of the Demon Country to participate in the war every year, unless there are special reasons. We are spiritual farmers and have not learned combat skills. It would be even more dangerous if we really want to advance to the middle stage of Qi training!" Mother Li explained for Li Zhen.

Li Zhen now understood that since he was able to sense the spiritual power of cultivators, most of the cultivators he discovered were cultivators in the early stage of Qi training.

He previously thought that the number of cultivators in the early stage of Qi training was large, but now he realized that many cultivators in the middle stage of Qi training were not in the city.

Li Zhen now doesn't know whether he should take out the realm-breaking pill. In fact, Li's father and mother are living a very good life now.

Of course, his current strength is too weak. If he had the strength of the Foundation Establishment Stage, he could use a large amount of elixirs to improve the strength of Li's father and mother. The stronger the cultivator, the longer his lifespan will be, and there is no need to worry about putting Li's father and mother in danger after their strength is improved.

"These are ten mid-grade Qi Inducing Pills. Although the poison in the mid-grade Qi Inducing Pills does not cause much harm to the cultivator's body, one still needs to wait five days before taking one!" Father Li said, turning the topic to the mid-grade Qi Inducing Pills.

"Dad also knows the dangers of erysipelas!" Li Zhen said with a little surprise.

The dangers of elixir poison were rarely known among low-level cultivators, and Li Zhen even suspected that the elixir company was intentionally suppressing the news.

"Before purchasing the elixir, I consulted many people about the various taboos regarding elixirs. Besides, didn't your classmate have an accident not long ago due to an overdose of elixirs? What I purchased was a mid-grade Qi-Inducing Pill. Since the school can use this as a prize, it means that there is no problem for students to take this kind of elixir!" Father Li said with some pride.

"Look what you can do!" said Li's mother, who couldn't bear to see Li's father showing off.

Seeing that his father and mother were about to argue, Li Zhen hurried to the practice room to complete his daily practice, and then returned to his room.

He had no intention of persuading Mr. and Mrs. Li. This was the way they got along.

He first let the Dragon Heart Space swallow three low-grade Qi-Attracting Pills, and three balls of pure energy floated in the Dragon Heart Space.

He sat cross-legged on the bed, practicing the 'Seventeenth Edition of Basic Qigong' to digest and absorb the pure energy.

He thought he could keep practicing and absorb all three balls of pure energy in the Dragon Heart Space and convert them into spiritual power.

But when he had absorbed half of the second ball of pure energy, he found that he could no longer sustain the practice.

"I have to re-plan my practice time in the future!" He understood that this was due to excessive mental exhaustion.

Every time you practice 'Basic Qigong Practice 17th Edition', it will consume a certain amount of energy, and the consumed energy can be restored after a few hours. Therefore, if you want to practice 'Basic Qigong Practice 17th Edition' more often in a day, you must arrange your practice time reasonably to allow your energy to recover.

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