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Chapter 91 Fire Control Technique (7th update, please vote)

After returning to Tiger Hill Cave, Xia Dong did not stop, but went straight to the spiritual field he had cultivated outside the cave.

He took out the small bag of Spirit Blood Vine seeds that he had bought in bulk at the auction from his storage bag.

This Spirit Blood Vine not only assists in martial arts body tempering after it matures, but its growth characteristics also make it an excellent defensive barrier.

According to ancient records, mature Spirit Blood Vine vines are covered with dense, hard thorns and hooks, as hard as iron.

If ordinary wild beasts or low-level demons dare to force their way in, they will be instantly slashed and their flesh torn apart.

Xia Dong planned to plant them around the edge of the spirit field. Once they grew, they would form a natural protective wall to safeguard the precious medicinal herbs.

Xia Dong rolled up her sleeves and began to sow the seeds methodically.

He first took a wooden bucket, filled it with mountain spring water, and then carefully used his magic to force out a drop of Xuan Yin Divine Water, which dripped into the bucket.

The Mysterious Yin Divine Water has the miraculous effects of harmonizing and creating. When ordinary spring water is infused with this drop of divine water, it instantly radiates a layer of dark and profound spiritual light, transforming into a bucket of specially made spiritual water full of vitality.

Next, Xia Dong walked to the outermost edge of the spirit field and silently began to circulate the "Spirit Farming Technique".

He pressed his hands down slightly, and the magical power within his body flowed into the soil through his palms, precisely channeling the faint earth veins underground.

Under his magical guidance, the originally compact soil undulated like breathing, quickly becoming loose and breathable, and the spiritual energy contained underground was also drawn to the surface.

Xia Dong strolled slowly along the perimeter of the spirit field. Every three steps, he would gently poke a shallow hole in the soft soil with his finger, place a dark red spirit blood vine seed in it, and then carefully cover it with the surrounding loose soil.

Once all the seeds had been sown, they formed a complete circle around the spirit field.

Finally, Xia Dong picked up the bucket of specially prepared spiritual liquid, scooped it up with a wooden ladle, and precisely and evenly poured it onto each small mound of soil where the seeds had been buried.

The moment the spiritual liquid touched the soil, it quickly seeped in and was greedily absorbed by the thirsty seeds. With his divine sense at the peak of the sixth level of Qi Refining, Xia Dong could even clearly perceive that the seeds beneath the soil were rapidly radiating strong vitality under the nourishment of the spiritual liquid, as if they were about to break through the soil at any moment.

After finishing all this, Xia Dong patted the mud off his hands and looked at the spirit field that was beginning to take shape, feeling a sense of peace in his heart.

After planting the Spirit Blood Vine, Xia Dong did not rush to leave.

He stood quietly by the edge of the field and silently began to practice the "Spirit Farmer's Skill" once again.

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He channeled his magic power into the ground through his feet, carefully sensing the direction of the earth's veins. Before long, he found an excellent spot in the northwest corner of the spirit field where the yin energy of the earth's veins converged.

It was early winter, and the wind in the deep mountains carried a biting chill.

Xia Dong sat down cross-legged directly above this yin point of the earth vein.

This is the perfect time to cultivate the "Mysterious Yin Scripture".

He opened his mind and body, actively drawing in the pure, cold energy from the earth, and then absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, refining it together with the cold energy, continuously transforming it into his own profound yin power.

In this way, not only did his magical power improve rapidly, but he also became like a bottomless vortex, absorbing all the biting cold air around this spiritual field, thus alleviating the frost damage to the spiritual plants in the ground and protecting their vitality.

While meditating and cultivating her Qi, Xia Dong set up a stance next to the spiritual field and began circulating her martial arts Qi and blood.

He is now at the peak of the Inner Strength Realm, with abundant and robust Qi and blood. Once he fully activates his power, his entire being is like a burning furnace, with wisps of white mist even rising from the top of his head. This scorching and domineering Qi and blood surges through his limbs and bones, instantly dispelling the lingering cold Qi deep within his meridians after cultivating the Profound Yin Scripture, and instead nourishing his powerful physical body.

In the alternation of extreme cold and extreme heat, Xia Dong's body underwent a very subtle and profound tempering, as if it had been hammered and refined on an anvil.

Deep within his dantian, the gray-black "Netherworld Hibernation" talisman seed, in accordance with the "winter hibernation" principle of all things in the world, quietly began to operate. It silently released the profound meaning of "stealing the subtle," stealing the extremely difficult-to-detect traces of life force that lingered in the desolation of the harsh winter and incorporating it into Xia Dong's body.

Nourished by this vitality, the minor injuries that Xia Dong had sustained in his muscles and bones from forcibly trying the Vajra King Technique were gradually smoothed out and healed.

Time stands still in the mountains.

Xia Dong smoothly passed through the cold winter in this daily routine of taking medicine, refining qi, and circulating qi and blood.

There was no desperate struggle to break through the barrier, nor any sudden enlightenment on the verge of life and death.

One morning, as he was breathing as usual, his consciousness naturally broke through the barriers and steadily entered the seventh level of Qi Refining.

This means that his divine sense has truly stepped into the threshold of the late stage of Qi Refining.

At the same time, the profound Yin power within his body also accumulated and was able to break through to the sixth level of Qi Refining.

Winter has passed, and spring, when all things revive, has arrived as scheduled.

With the perfect cycle and complementarity of magic power, divine consciousness, and vital energy, coupled with his unwavering practice of absorbing the lunar essence drawn by the great serpent every full moon night, Xia Dong finally replenished his original essence.

The small portion of "innate essence" that was drained dry by the ancient bronze bell in the mine has now been completely restored and is even more abundant and substantial than before.

Xia Dong stood by the vibrant Lingtian field, facing the gentle breeze of early spring, and exhaled a long breath of stale air.

This daily farming life may seem monotonous and tedious, but he knows in his heart that he is also using himself as a spiritual field, silently carrying out a kind of "cultivation".

Although his absolute cultivation level did not undergo a dramatic transformation, he could clearly feel that the fertility and foundation of his human "spiritual field" had become much deeper than before.

His foundation is so solid that it would be difficult to find another person of his rank.

Flowing water does not compete for the first place, the contention is endless.

While his current cultivation speed cannot compare to those cultivation geniuses with different spiritual roots or heavenly spiritual roots, he has the potential to surpass them in the future through gradual accumulation.

Xia Dong sat quietly outside the cave, his eyes slightly closed, and his consciousness circulated throughout his body.

Within the Qi Sea, the gray-black "Netherworld Hibernation Talisman Seed" lay dormant; in the chest, the Breath Concealment Talisman, integrated into the flesh and blood, operated smoothly.

He slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, carefully examining his own condition. He felt that his energy and spirit were perfectly complete, and he was in the right state, which could be described as "full of energy and spirit".

"That's about it."

With the trump cards for self-defense now prepared, the most urgent task now is to begin cultivating the [Basic Fire Control Technique] in preparation for refining the "Spirit-Attracting Pill" in the future.

After successfully preparing the Spirit-Guiding Pill.

With ample medicinal power and the assistance of artificially created miniature spiritual acupoints, advancing to the later stages of Qi Refining was a natural progression.

At the same time, the "Changchun Xingjue" will surely benefit greatly from the nourishment of the Spirit-Guiding Pill, allowing his foundation to reach a new level.

The core of all this lies in fire control.

Xia Dong took out a specially made fire tumbler and lit a small pile of dry wood in the open space in front of him to start a campfire.

In the common knowledge of the cultivation world, this [Basic Fire Control Technique] is not a spell that allows cultivators to conjure real fire out of thin air.

The Fire Control Technique of Qi Refining cultivators is essentially a "fire manipulation technique," which involves using a sophisticated combination of magical power and divine sense to separate, guide, and control existing flames in the outside world.

This technique may seem simple, but the conditions for its cultivation are extremely rigid and demanding.

First, it requires cultivators to possess the divine sense of the seventh level of Qi Refining to perform subtle manipulation of the fire; second, it requires at least the profound magical power of the sixth level of Qi Refining as the foundation for guiding the fire; in addition, because "wind fuels the fire," cultivators must also have a certain understanding of the "mysteries of wind."

These three hurdles, stacked together, have blocked countless low-level cultivators who were trying to advance further in the Dao of Alchemy.

But for summer and winter these days, these conditions are practically tailor-made.

He held his hands flat in front of his chest, his dry fingers flying, quickly forming an ancient hand seal.

His divine sense instantly pierced through his body, probing into the leaping orange-red campfire in front of him without any hindrance, gently enveloping the raging flames.

Immediately afterwards, pure magic flowed out from his fingertips.

Because Xia Dong had already cultivated the [Wind Control Technique] to perfection, he had long since mastered the laws of wind flow and the subtle changes in Qi.

At this moment, the magic power transformed into extremely weak yet extremely precise invisible whirlwinds, accurately cutting into the invisible fluctuations of the flames.

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As Xia Dong gently flicked his fingertips, the flames on the ground seemed to come alive instantly.

Under his divine sense, a wisp of flame was easily separated by an invisible wind and suspended in mid-air.

Xia Dong slightly bent his fingers, and the wind shifted.

The wisp of flame was instantly compressed into a thin, long line of fire, radiating a concentrated and stable high temperature; with another flick of the finger, a breeze suddenly blew outwards, and the line of fire immediately expanded, transforming into a gentle, warm flame.

Wind and fire, through the interplay of his divine sense and magical power, achieved an extremely perfect balance.

The entire cultivation process was smooth and effortless, without the slightest awkwardness or stagnation.

Xia Dong didn't even feel much mental exertion; on the contrary, he found the experience of manipulating the wind and fire quite pleasant.

The flame hovered above his palm, as docile as an extension of his arm, moving at will and striking wherever he pointed.

Feeling this effortless control, Xia Dong was delighted.

With such masterful control over the heat, the refining of the Spirit-Inducing Pill can be said to be more than halfway to success.

However, as the wisp of flame that had been separated burned quietly in mid-air, it only lasted for a few dozen breaths before it quickly dimmed due to the loss of the support of the dry wood and firewood, and with a "poof" it turned into a wisp of smoke and went out.

Xia Dong watched the lingering warmth dissipate from her fingertips, her mind clear.

To truly master the Basic Fire Control Technique, one must completely break free from dependence on mortal firewood and instead use one's own pure magical power as firewood, ensuring that the firewood remains burning even when removed from the body.

This is not only a requirement for alchemy, but also an essential step for advancing to the Foundation Establishment stage and cultivating "True Fire" in the future.

Haste makes waste.

Xia Dong wasn't in a hurry. He poked at the campfire on the ground again, and his divine sense and magical power reached out as easily as his own arms and fingers, repeating the actions of peeling, pulling, and gathering over and over again, accumulating a feel for the technique little by little through practice, turning it into a bodily instinct.

In the midst of the monotonous yet pleasant repetitive practice, Xia Dong's thoughts drifted slightly, and she couldn't help but recall the deduction hints previously given by the ancient bronze bell in her sea of ​​consciousness.

His [Wind Control Technique] has already reached perfection. If it can be combined with [Mysterious Yin Divine Water], it can be sublimated and transformed into a "Heavenly Gang Technique" with unpredictable power.

Unfortunately, the medium required for this kind of limit-breaking deduction is an extremely rare "superior spirit stone".

At the bottom of the cultivation world, low-grade spirit stones are hard currency, while mid-grade spirit stones are already rare.

As for high-grade spirit stones, the spiritual power they contain is not only extremely vast and pure, but they are also often strictly controlled by powerful forces.

Even ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators might not be able to possess one.

To date, he has not encountered even the slightest opportunity to acquire it.

Xia Dong pondered to himself that if he really couldn't find a way to obtain it in the future, he might have no choice but to use up that precious favor and ask Senior Gu Yue of Qixia Immortal Sect for a piece.

But he dismissed the thought as soon as it crossed his mind.

A high-level cultivator's favor is an invaluable life-saving trump card; using it to ask for a high-grade spirit stone is a huge waste.

Moreover, Master Guyue's cultivation is unfathomable, and his methods are difficult to fathom.

Facing this high and mighty senior, the invisible pressure emanating from him always made Xia Dong, who was used to hiding and lying low, feel a little instinctively scared and uneasy.

He harbors too many secrets, so the farther away he is from these high-level cultivators, the safer he will be.

"No rush, take your time."

Xia Dong muttered to himself, completely severing these somewhat far-reaching distractions from his mind.

He took a deep breath, and his mind returned to calm and tranquility.

Xia Dong calmed his mind, gathered all his wandering thoughts, and focused his gaze on the campfire in front of him, continuing to meticulously practice the basic fire control technique.