Cultivating Immortality Starts with Rubbing a Computer

Chapter 41 Explosion
Seven days later, inside the blacksmith shop.

Fang Jun sat cross-legged in front of the refining furnace, his expression focused. He poured bags of ordinary sand into the furnace, clasped his hands together, and his magic power surged, igniting the fire of the earth veins.

The fire in the furnace was blazing, the sand was gradually melting, and the spiritual energy was drawn into the furnace. According to a special operating method, the essence of the sand was circulated, gradually transforming it and refining it into spiritual sand.

"After taking the pill, my spiritual energy control level has dropped to level 4.88, and I have completely lost the possibility of breaking through to the fifth level of Qi Refining on my own." Fang Jun thought to himself.

The so-called spiritual energy control level is Fang Jun's quantification of the accuracy of spiritual energy control.

Level 1 aura control accuracy, the minimum accuracy of aura control is 100 microns.

This means that the range of spiritual energy that a cultivator can influence through his spiritual consciousness is as small as 100 microns.

Level 2 is 90 microns.

Level 3 is 80 microns.

Level 4 is 70 microns.

Level 5 is 60 microns.

Only those who have reached the fifth level of spiritual energy control and are at the fourth level of the Qi training period can be considered to have pure magic power and have the possibility of breaking through the realm without taking elixirs.

Taking too many pills and accumulating too much poison will reduce the level of spiritual energy control. When using spiritual energy for cultivation, you will not be able to control the spiritual energy accurately, and thus lose the ability to break through independently.

"At its worst, my spiritual energy control level even dropped to 4.85. Although it has recovered slightly now, it's just a drop in the bucket."

"This also proves that monks actually have a certain ability to eliminate the poison on their own."

"As long as you don't take too many pills, you can recover."

"This can be seen from the magic power recovery pills he normally takes."

"The pill that restores mana only acts on the Dantian. It does not deeply participate in the cultivator's life evolution. The elixir poison is not deeply corrosive."

"So the monks don't care much about the poison caused by taking pills that restore mana."

Dantian can essentially be said to be an additional biological organ unique to monks, and some biological self-repair functions do exist.

However, this function should have its limits and cannot be restored indefinitely, otherwise the harm of erysipelas will inevitably not exist.

"call--!"

Fang Jun opened his mouth and spit out a stream of magic power, and the fire in the earth veins instantly surged, enveloping the refining furnace.

The furnace fire roared, and the lid was lifted, releasing wisps of silver spiritual sand. Fang Jun quickly gathered them up: "That's enough, today's mission is complete."

[Energy: 21.25 | Mana (212510/240000)]

"According to the current progress, when my mana reaches 24 strands, my spiritual energy control accuracy will fall below level 4. By then, let alone a breakthrough, even daily practice will become difficult."

"Well, of course it's also because I took too many pills. The average cultivator's recovery period is longer than mine."

"However, I possess the Red Cloud Sword Intent, which to some extent has enhanced my ability to eliminate the poison from the pills, thus offsetting the negative effects of taking too many pills."

"Unfortunately, without large-scale data, we cannot know what the situation of normal monks is like."

Fang Jun had tried to use the Red Cloud Sword Intent to eliminate the poison these days.

This kind of thing, which slightly involves the ability of the foundation-building level, is very effective against first-level elixir.

However, the effect is still not enough.

At least it cannot satisfy Fang Jun's desire to take drugs like taking candy.

"It's probably due to the wrong application method, just like a primitive man mistaking a rifle for a hard wooden stick and not finding the right technique to use it."

"I heard that foundation-building sects like Yunyan Pavilion and Dahe Sect already have secret methods to eliminate the poison."

"Given the size of the Red Cloud Sword Palace, there should be some. Unfortunately, I didn't get it."

"It seems that I still have to take the Qingling Pill in the end. According to the hexagram, there will be no serious problems after taking it."

"But according to the monks at Dan Pavilion, the best time to take it, according to my classification, is when the spiritual energy control level is 4.5."

"One Qingling Pill costs one hundred low-grade spirit stones. I need to take about three, which means three hundred low-grade spirit stones."

"That's really expensive. A blacksmith in a blacksmith shop only makes two or three hundred dollars a year at these prices."

"Even if they don't have to take so many Qingling Pills, their entire yearly income is invested in pills, so their cultivation speed is only about the same as before the Extraterritorial War, but it's even harder and more tiring."

"Thinking about it this way, this immortal cultivation is not very interesting."

However, cultivating immortals is like a prison. People inside the prison want to get out, and people outside the prison want to get in.

There are endless cultivators in this world of immortal cultivation.

There are definitely more mortals with spiritual roots than cultivators, but most of them are buried in the mortal world for various reasons.

But there are still a small number of people who will get the opportunity and embark on the path of immortality with a sincere heart.

Then he became an old hand in the blacksmith shop, drinking, gambling and visiting red-light districts.

What's more, everyone has been drafted now, and it's impossible to quit.

Anyway, no cultivator has dared to disobey the orders of the Mountain Sect so far.

It was also repeatedly emphasized by the monks of Yunyan Pavilion that the act of evading conscription would result in being wanted, and wanted by Tianji.

Even if you escape to the mortal world where there is no soul, it will be of no use in the deep mountains and old forests.

"boom--!"

Suddenly, there was an earth-shattering explosion. Fang Jun stood up suddenly, rushed out of the blacksmith shop, and flew into the air.

To the east of Hongsha City, a cloud of dust rose into the sky and the power of the earth veins surged violently.

"Is this... an earth vein explosion?" Fang Jun was shocked.

"boom--!"

A figure rose into the air from a nearby room. Old Man He's mouth was bleeding as he cursed, "Which bastard blew up the earth vein? I got injured while refining the spiritual sand!" Fang Jun noticed that Old Man He's hands were shaking. This was not because of injury, but because -

fear!

Not all monks are brave and aggressive.

As a production-oriented monk, he does have combat power, but it is definitely not outstanding.

It is impossible not to be terrified when facing the Red Sand City, which has been peaceful for a long time but suddenly suffered an unexpected disaster.

Especially sensitive matters like extraterritorial wars.

"Boo! Hah! Hah!"

More and more monks took off into the air. Not only in the blacksmith shop, but in the entire Hongsha City, all the monks who were still alive and safe had flown into the air.

"What the hell is going on? Why did the ley line explode out of nowhere?"

"Tsk tsk, with an explosion of this magnitude, I wonder how many people will die. At least ten monks will die."

"Look, that direction seems to be the tinsmith shop. They are the manufacturer of Yuntong. They are probably working overtime to refine spiritual materials like us. I guess if there is an explosion, they won't have time to run away."

When these words were spoken, all the members of the blacksmith shop felt a sense of empathy.

"Wait, why did the earth power explode? This has never happened before!"

"Who knows? Maybe it's the periodic fluctuations of the earth's veins. The earth's veins are alive, not dead, so it's not surprising to see earth dragons occasionally rise up."

"What nonsense are you talking about! Hongsha City is suppressed by formations, especially with spiritual veins. How can the power of the earth veins be so active! Besides, if the earth veins were active in the past, it would be impossible to build a city here!"

"Then tell me what's going on! Otherwise, someone else is stirring up the earth veins."

"Maybe..."

The conversation ended here, probably a private conversation.

The monks were all intelligent people, so how could they not make connections? Although they had never experienced war outside the realm, could everything really be smooth sailing?
Sometimes wars in the mortal world involve back-and-forth fighting.

The sudden change in Hongsha City, which had been safe for many years, was not a good sign no matter how you looked at it.

For a moment, the atmosphere seemed a little heavy, and everyone's interest became even lower.

"Boo! Hah! Hah!"

More monks flew into the air, but these monks were all wearing Yunyan Pavilion uniforms and headed towards the center of the explosion.

Another cultivator from the Yunyan Pavilion announced, "Hongsha City is under martial law! No one is allowed to leave their post until the accident investigation is complete!"

The monks landed one after another.

Old Man He found the shopkeeper and said with a bitter face, "Shopkeeper, I was injured in the earth vein explosion. I'm afraid I can't complete today's mission."

The shopkeeper sighed helplessly: "What should we do? This mission comes from the sect, we can't refuse it."

Old Man He said, "But I can't complete the task this way."

The shopkeeper said, "Well, you pay the fine. After you pay the fine, one spirit stone, I'll go and negotiate for you with the higher-ups."

Old Man He's face turned bitter when he heard this, but he finally took out a spirit stone.

Then, the shopkeeper said to the other members of the blacksmith shop, "Each of you should complete a little of Old Man He's quota. That's it. Don't overthink it. Just finish today's tasks quickly so you can rest."

Fang Jun doesn't care about this.

However, his hexagram showed that the situation inside the city was "peaceful", while the situation outside the city was "ominous".

This immediately made him more alert.

"The hexagrams cannot be fully calculated."

This is a sentence that can be found in any divination book.

Its meaning is very simple. Don't use hexagrams to make every decision at every moment. If you do this, your calculations will become less and less accurate.

Simply put, there is a daily quota for fortune-telling. Once the quota is used up, the fortune-telling will no longer be accurate.

Although this is very strange, this is the physical fact of the way of heaven.

No one can disobey.

Fang Jun hasn't used up all his data for today, so his divination should be accurate.

Even though this hexagram is a bit counterintuitive.

Because the underground veins in the city are exploding, it should be more dangerous, but it turns out that the danger is outside the city.

But it is possible that the source of danger is outside the city, just as the hexagram shows.

In other words, the hexagram is actually wrong. There must be an expert who dares to blow up the earth veins. It is possible that even the divine secrets have been disturbed.

Therefore, it is also said that "those who are good at fortune-telling will eventually be killed by fortune-telling."

If you rely on the hexagrams and fall into suspicion and repeated doubts, you will eventually be confused by the hexagrams and cannot see the future clearly.

"Forget it! Who cares about the divination or not? At least the Shanyue Sect will not let go of any of the monks who are recruited."

"Running away is the worst option."

Fang Jun decided to stop saving money and stop worrying about the poison. He increased the dosage of the pills and used Yuanshen No. 3 to practice while working.

Shorten the time it takes to reach the fifth level of Qi Refining.

Tianjun Sword and Yuanshen No. 3 also need to speed up their realm improvement.

The analysis of the Red Cloud Sword Intent must not be relaxed either, as that is the turning point for the growth of one's overall strength.

"Red Cloud Sword Intent Analysis Progress: 13.68%… 13.69%… 13.70%…"

(End of this chapter)