Then all my cultivation as an immortal has been for nothing?

Chapter 12 Is this energy-generating machine a legitimate machine?

Upon arriving at Public Practice Room 101, Wang Yi saw the legendary practice machine.

It looks like an electric massage chair, the kind you see in shopping malls. You scan a code, pay, and get a massage for several tens of minutes.

At this moment, Instructor Li stood directly in front of Wang Yi: "New guy, does the training machine look like a massage chair?"

Wang Yi answered truthfully, "Yes."

“That’s right,” Instructor Li nodded. “It does look like a massage chair on the outside, but it’s completely different inside. You’ll understand immediately once you sit down and experience it. It’s the culmination of thousands of years of experience accumulated by powerful cultivators and quantum physics!”

What the hell?
Wang Yi couldn't help but say, "Once you bring up quantum physics, you start to smell like a conman selling physiotherapy devices."

Instructor Li burst into laughter.

Wang Yi vaguely heard Pang Jianming snort, probably thinking that Wang Yi was ignorant.

"Alright, you'll know once you experience it. I've looked at your file. With a spiritual root of 22, you might not be able to feel the flow of qi at first. That's okay. Once the training machine automatically guides the flow of qi in your body for a while, you'll feel your dantian start to heat up."

Good heavens, this explanation sounds more like a lie.

While inwardly complaining, Wang Yi sat down on the training machine that Instructor Li had pointed out.

"Plug your phone into the USB cable and connect it to the training machine," Instructor Li reminded him.

Elsa stood to the side with her arms crossed, as if she didn't intend to interfere with Instructor Li's work.

Wang Yi picked up the USB cable hanging next to the exercise machine, connected it to his phone, and the machine started humming as soon as it was turned on.

"Lie flat, let your body fully embed itself in the exercise machine, relax." Instructor Li instructed while gesturing with his hands.

Wang Yizhao did it, relaxing his whole body and lying in the machine for more than ten seconds.

However, he still couldn't feel any flow of Qi, so he had to give up and wait for his so-called dantian to heat up.

At this moment, Elsa spoke up: "I can tell from his expression that he doesn't feel any energy."

Instructor Li, resting his chin on his hand, said, "His spiritual root is probably too weak. There's nothing we can do but wait. What cultivation method did he choose?"

Although it was a question, Instructor Li picked up his tablet to check Wang Yi's information as he spoke, and exclaimed in surprise, "How come it's the Nine Transformations Heavenly Record? Doesn't this technique require 200 points? Oh right!"

The instructor slapped his thigh.

"He killed a monster yesterday and got 200 points. That's terrible. The reason we set this technique to require 200 points to exchange is to prevent newbies from seeing its cool name, reading the description and thinking it's a powerful late-game technique, and then starting to cultivate it directly."

Why didn't you stop him!

Elsa: "I tried to stop him, but he was very quick and exchanged it in a flash."

"Then apply for another cultivation technique that doesn't require points, and force him to practice it!" Instructor Li raised his voice.

"Oh right, you can do that too." Elsa suddenly realized.

Instructor Li sighed, "It's also my fault. I didn't watch what he chose. The first nine levels of this Nine Transformations Heavenly Record are extremely difficult to master, and the benefits are low. It's perfectly normal that he can't feel the flow of Qi now."

"His spiritual root strength is only 22."

Wang Yi, sitting inside the training machine, heard everything clearly.

When he chose to exchange for the Nine Transformations Heavenly Record yesterday, he mainly thought that this technique could automatically recharge the "battery".

Wang Yi quietly turned his arm and glanced at the battery pattern.

Then he noticed that the percentage on the battery icon had changed from 0 to 0.000...01.

Holy crap, can you really charge your phone just by using your powers?

But what does the ellipsis in this string of zeros mean? 0.00001% is low enough, and then there's an ellipsis in the middle. Does that mean I can't tell which decimal place it is?
The percentage figure ignored Wang Yi's thoughts and silently changed to 0.00...02.

Wang Yi decided to spend three hours working on it to see if he could remove the ellipsis in the middle and know exactly which decimal place it was.

So he closed his eyes and decided to rest until the automatic exercise machine had run for three hours.

Instructor Li: "Don't think you can get through it by taking a nap on the training machine. Although taking a nap won't affect the machine's automatic training, you won't be able to break through the first level no matter what."

"You must feel the flow of Qi yourself, learn to guide Qi yourself, and gradually form muscle memory so that Qi is flowing according to the exercise at all times."

"Once you reach this level, we can consider you to have mastered the first level."

Wang Yi thought to himself, "Is it that I don't want to feel it? I just can't feel it."

Feeling indignant, Wang Yi looked at the battery symbol again and saw the number change from 9 to 1.

However, because it was a number after the decimal point, and the ellipsis concealed the exact number of zeros, Wang Yi would have likely mistakenly thought the number had reverted to 01 had he not witnessed the change.

Then the last two digits changed to 011, and a new round began.

This Nine Transformations Heavenly Record does indeed slowly "charge" once it's running, but the charging speed is extremely slow now, even slower than eating candy.

Wang Yi made up his mind that he would use his basic points next month to exchange for 10 candies and eat them all, at least to charge the battery to half full.

Next month, I'll be able to fully charge my battery, giving me a backup plan in case of danger.

As for now, let's try to capture the so-called flow of Qi.

Wang Yi felt it for a while longer, but still gained nothing. However, his dantian really did get warm, just as Instructor Li had said.

He quickly told the instructor, "I feel warmth in my lower abdomen."

A few laughs came from the other side.

Instructor Li: "Stop laughing! Practice your skills properly! Look at Pang Jianming, he's already in a meditative state! That's how you increase efficiency!"

Wang Yi then realized that Pang Jianming was indeed not among the laughter just now.

He didn't care about anything else and continued trying to catch the traces of Qi circulation. At this moment, Elsa whispered, "Don't rush. Since your dantian is warm, it means that the Qi circulation mechanism is guiding you to circulate your Qi. Sometimes you may not be able to catch the Qi with your conscious mind, but your body will circulate it on its own under the influence of your subconscious."

In other words, I may not have mastered it through practice, but my subconscious mind did.

Subconscious mind, please help me!

If Wang Yi had truly activated his internal energy subconsciously, he could tell by the charging percentage displayed on his hand.

He looked at his arm again and found that the number had carried over once more, and the last two digits became 02, followed by 021.

It's really slow.

Wang Yi sighed and decided to let things take their course, no longer obsessively searching for traces of Qi.

all will be good.

At this point, Instructor Li said, "Depending on the basic exercise you choose, there will be different incantations. These incantations were compiled by the Cognitive Intervention Department and can be used to assist you in practicing the exercises through psychological suggestion."

“Normally, you don’t need to use these mantras when you’re sitting on the exercise machine, but if you can’t catch the movement of the Qi, you can try reciting the mantras silently.”

Wang Yi quickly grabbed his phone, looked at the incantation of the Nine Transformations Heavenly Record, and began to recite it silently in his mind.

He didn't know how many times he recited it, but he still couldn't feel the so-called flow of qi.

This stalemate was broken by a sound that sounded just like the school bell from my school days.

Instructor Li: "Very good, the morning training session is over. The basic training room is open to you at any time, but you need to apply and wait in line."

"If any student is not worried about revealing their five-dimensional values ​​and cultivation techniques, they can reserve a training machine in this public training room to practice."

As Instructor Li spoke, several monks in company uniforms pushed open the door and entered.

"Hey, Instructor Li, are we going to extend get out of class time?" a cultivator greeted Instructor Li. "Shall we go to the cafeteria for lunch first?"

"No need, the new students' classes are over this morning." Instructor Li waved his hand.

At this moment, the monk who entered saw Elsa: "Huh, Elsa's here? So the newbie who survived the monster yesterday is here too? Let me see what kind of peerless genius she is who managed to kill a monster transformed from a D-rank monk without learning anything..."

As they were talking, the man arrived in front of the machine where Wang Yi was sitting and immediately saw the spiritual root value displayed on the machine screen.

"A spiritual root of 22?" he exclaimed in surprise.

Elsa chimed in, "Yeah, aren't you envious? I've found a long-term meal ticket, so I can stay in the safe humanitarian dimension for five years."

"Ah? Oh, is that so?" Elsa successfully diverted the monk's attention. "Well, congratulations?"

Elsa unplugged Wang Yi's phone from the machine and threw it at him.

The machine's screen suddenly went black, and the displayed spiritual root strength and five dimensions also disappeared.

Elsa: "Let's go, what are you still lying there for? Let's go to the cafeteria for lunch, I'll treat you to the earthworm set meal."

Upon hearing this, Wang Yi immediately got off the machine and followed Elsa.

He heard voices behind him: "A level 22 spiritual root is weaker than the level 27 one we saw last time."

"I remember that Old Zhang from the Bureau of Geology had 28 spiritual roots. Fortunately, his fire spiritual root score was relatively high, and he had been in charge of the furnaces in the Fire Engineering Department of the Bureau of Geology for 100 years."

"I've heard that too. When Old Zhang was young, he even tended the stove for Lu Xun."

Who did you work for?

Is it also in charge of warming wine?

Just then, the old man who had argued with Elsa before class approached with his apprentice: "Young man, you're so pitiful, being used as a meal ticket! When you were choosing your cultivation method yesterday, she must have deliberately not stopped you, so that you could waste even more time in the Qi Refining stage!"

Wang Yi wanted to say that Elsa wasn't that kind of person—that kind of demon—but then he thought that he had only known her for a day and it wasn't appropriate to make that judgment.

At this moment, Elsa said, "No, I did forget that I could also exchange for a free cultivation technique and force you to learn it. After all, this is my first time leading a newbie, and I have no experience."

"Now that you've started practicing your cultivation technique, there's no way to change it. No matter how strong a newcomer's resistance is, they can't withstand the negative effects of changing their cultivation technique. They can only change it when they can inject first-tier spiritual medicine to advance to the mid-stage of Qi Refining."

Wang Yi said "Oh," and after learning that this technique could indeed passively recharge the battery, he had no regrets about his choice.

The key is how to sense the Qi and then make the exercise run automatically.

Wang Yi glanced at the battery reading while thinking this.

Ok?
Still adding?
He patted Elsa on the shoulder: "I...didn't you just say that in very rare cases, a person can't sense the Qi, but their subconscious can already circulate the technique?"

"Yes, that's very rare. In most cases, the cerebellum develops muscle memory, turning exercise into an instinct like breathing and heartbeat."

Wang Yi: "Is there any cultivation technique that, even without using internal energy, still has passive effects?"

"No. The passive effects of cultivation techniques only occur when the technique is in operation." Elsa blinked at Wang Yi. "What, you can feel the technique circulating in your body? Is your dantian still warm?"

Wang Yi felt a cool sensation in his dantian.

Elsa squinted at Wang Yi for a long time: "I can't see any spiritual energy flowing around you, so you probably haven't started practicing yet. Don't think about it, these things can't be rushed."

Wang Yi said "Oh," and checked the percentage symbol again—it was indeed increasing, though perhaps a little slower than when he was on the exercise machine.

A hypothesis emerged: Could it be that my cheat system can automatically circulate energy? Just not as powerful as a training machine?
However, at this stage, Wang Yi has no way of being certain of this, since he can't even sense the qi.

You still need to practice until you can see the qi (vital energy).

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