The Weird Way of Immortality: My Taoism Progress in One Day a Year

Chapter 10 Casting Spells
Li Yan put all the things into the storage bag, and then set out again to attend the Palace God Ceremony.

Along the way, Li Yan and Liu Yingying rode in the same carriage, and Li Yan took the opportunity to ask Liu Yingying for knowledge related to cultivation.

As he continued to ask questions, he learned a lot of knowledge about practitioners from Liu Yingying, filling the gaps in his own knowledge about cultivation.

Liu Yingying said: "When practitioners use their life energy to cultivate their souls, they can bring out the functions of the seven souls."

"The dog spirit wards off evil, the arrow spirit strengthens the body, the sparrow spirit thunders, the thief spirit swallows the divine power, the poison spirit jades the body, the filth spirit golds the body, and the stinky lung spirit has spiritual thoughts."

"From lighting up one soul to seven souls, it takes 17 to 77 years of practice respectively, a total of 196 years of practice."

Li Yan was shocked when he heard this.

Due to his previous lack of understanding of cultivation, he had already used eleven life energies to light up the first soul.

After listening to Liu Yingying's explanation, he realized that he seemed to have taken the wrong path. He could have lit up the second soul long ago.

"What would happen if more than seven life energies were used to light up the first soul?"

Li Yan asked nervously.

Liu Yingying looked at Li Yan with a strange look, and seemed to understand why Li Yan asked this question.

"That's not a problem. Some practitioners will even use a lot of their own Taoism to light up the same soul."

"If you do this, the function of the spirit that is lit up will also be enhanced."

"If you use more than seven life energies to light up the Corpse Dog Soul, your Corpse Dog Soul's power to ward off evil will be stronger than that of an ordinary cultivator."

"The ability to restrain demons, ghosts, and evil cultivators will also become much stronger."

"Some mages who specialize in the cultivation of corpse dog spirits can compete with great demons and evil spirits that have cultivated for 500 years with only 20 to 30 years of cultivation."

"If you just do this, you will need more skills to reach a higher level."

"So unless you don't want to light up the next soul, it's better to break through the realm according to the minimum requirements of each soul."

Li Yan finally understood the reason and breathed a sigh of relief.

With his speed of cultivation, wasting a few years of practice is not worth mentioning at all.

Liu Yingying continued, "It's better to break through as soon as possible if you can light up the next soul."

"Because only by cultivating to the latter realm can one prolong life and achieve immortality."

"The fifth soul is not a poisonous soul. It can be cultivated into a jade body and extend life by twenty years."

"The sixth soul removes the filthy soul and cultivates a golden body, which can extend life by forty years."

"The seventh soul, the stinking lung soul, can extend one's lifespan by sixty years if it is cultivated into spiritual consciousness."

Li Yan's heart moved and he nodded vigorously.

Most practitioners seek immortality, so many of them will not waste time in the first few realms.

For an ordinary person, if he can cultivate one life energy in a year, he will already be considered a superior person. However, if he does not have the resources to support him, even if he has been practicing since childhood, he can at most enter the Four Souls Realm.

Because the older you get, the slower you cultivate your vital energy.

Before the age of sixty is the best time for practitioners to practice.

After the age of sixty, even with the help of elixirs and spiritual materials to assist in cultivation, it is difficult to break through the realm.

With Liu Yingying as his teacher, Li Yan eagerly absorbed the knowledge about cultivation.

On the way, they also met many vendors pulling carts heading towards Yuehua Temple.

Li Yan noticed that Liu Yingying was staring at a vendor selling candied haws on the road, and he specially bought a plate of candied haws as a thank you.

Then he began to study magic under the guidance of Liu Yingying.

Of the three spells he obtained, Cleansing was the simplest and could be used to remove dirt from the body. Water Walking allowed one to walk on the water, which was considered a very good auxiliary spell.

As the only offensive spell, the Golden Needle Technique is very powerful. It only requires the refining of various metals such as gold, silver, copper, and iron. The rarer the metal, the greater the power of the Golden Needle Technique will be.

Li Yan could only practice cleaning skills for now, and under Liu Yingying's guidance, he made rapid progress.

He quickly found the trick, pinched his fingers together, chanted a spell, and felt the life energy in his body suddenly flow out from his fingertips, forming a veil that enveloped him.

This veil is like a filter.

The dust and dirt on his body brought by his riding just now were all filtered out by the gauze.

The spell was successfully performed, and Li Yan felt refreshed all over, with a happy smile on his face and he was very excited in his heart.

This was the first spell he cast!
Liu Yingying's eyes were bright. She held the candied haws in one hand and took a bite of it with her rosy little mouth. She said indistinctly, "All the finger gestures and spells of magic are to assist the life energy to weave magic according to a specific rhythm. When you have mastered the magic, you can use magic with just a thought, even without finger gestures or spells."

"Also, even if you use finger gestures and incantations to cast a spell at the beginning, you may only succeed once or twice out of ten times. When you can achieve 100% success, this spell can be considered to have reached a minor level of success."

Li Yan nodded, and started to make finger gestures and chant the spell again, but as expected, he failed.

After using the cleansing technique for more than ten times in a row, the life energy in his body was consumed.

He meditated for a while and soon recovered his vital energy.

Every time a practitioner refines a wisp of life energy, it will leave a mark on the body, and this mark is the realm.

Even if this bit of life energy is consumed, as long as the mark is still there, it can be restored quickly.

Unless there was a backlash from the spell, or some forbidden spell was cast, or some other reason, the imprint of this ray of life energy was erased.

In this way, the lost life energy cannot be replenished and can only be refined again.

For example, the evil cultivator suffered backlash, which caused the imprint of his own life energy cultivation to be erased. It was impossible to recover and he could only start cultivating again.

Most practitioners are very careful when using spells and basically will not use spells that would damage the vital energy imprint.

All we can say is that the evil cultivator was too reckless. It would have been fine if he had only lost his cultivation level after failing once, but he was still stubborn enough to use spells the second time.

Before Li Yan could make a move, his magic backfired, destroying all his skills and putting his life on the line.

Li Yan took this as a warning and decided to stay away from spells that could damage the life energy imprint.

The carriage continued along the way and soon arrived at Yueyin Mountain.

Yueyin Mountain covers an area of dozens of miles, but is only a few dozen meters high. It is a small hill with a very gentle slope, and horse-drawn carriages can go directly up the mountain.

Yuehua Temple is located on Yueyin Mountain.

At this moment, a large number of people gathered at the foot of Yueyin Mountain, buying and selling goods, or collecting sandalwood according to their household registration and going up the mountain to burn incense.

This process will last for more than ten days.

Many people go up the mountain to burn incense devoutly.

Seeing this scene, Li Yan couldn't help but ask Liu Yingying, "Yingying, does this Hengjiang Mansion God really exist?"

In his previous life's memories, he had an impression of the Hengjiang God, and his second sister took him to worship the Hengjiang God.

The god of Hengjiang Prefecture is named Hengjiang Dragon Lord. He was canonized by the imperial court in the sixth year after the founding of Liang State, which is more than a hundred years ago.

Although the Hengjiang God has many believers, he has never shown his power.

But even so, there are still a large number of people in Hengjiang Prefecture who believe in the prefecture god.

That's why he asked.

(End of this chapter)