Cultivation: Beginning with the Heart Reflecting Heaven and Earth

However, in the end, Lu Qian put down the two cultivation techniques and continued to cultivate the Zhou Tian Xing Qiao.

He took out a Qi-Nourishing Pill and swallowed it, continuing to convert his true energy at a much faster speed than before.

This Qi-Nourishing Pill is the kind of pill needed for the mid-stage of Qi Refining. After he indicated that his cultivation had reached the mid-stage of Qi Refining, someone specially delivered his monthly quota.

In the Canghai Sect, if you want any kind of pill, you have to find a way to get it yourself. But in the Holy Land, these are just basic pills, and someone will automatically deliver them to you. You don't have to worry about it at all. The difference in treatment is too great.

However, the Canghai Sect recruits tens of thousands of outer disciples each time, and Lu Qian is only an outer disciple in the Canghai Sect, so naturally he doesn't receive any special treatment.

Moreover, the inner disciples of the Canghai Sect receive much better treatment than the outer disciples, which shows that the Canghai Sect is not stingy in training its disciples.

As for the Holy Land, it recruits only geniuses. As the overlord of the East Sea cultivation world, it has a much easier time acquiring resources than the Canghai Sect, so it is naturally more generous in cultivating disciples.

The protective pills that were delivered were the same as before; they were still the Qingling Pills. The Qingling Pills were very useful throughout the entire Qi Refining stage, but their effects would weaken in the later stages of Qi Refining.

During a break from his cultivation, Lu Qian returned to his inner world. The surrounding scenery suddenly changed, and he found himself on a small boat. The sky was filled with wandering egrets in the misty marshes, ice-scaled crocodiles roamed beneath his feet, and in the distance, a dark-backed toad puffed out its mouth, poised to pounce...

After the usual fierce battle, this time he was more experienced. He first released palm lightning, killing several Misty Swamp Herons that dared to pounce on him. Then he jumped into the water and used the Ice Scale Crocodiles to block the poison spray from the Ink-Backed Toad. After killing five or six Ice Scale Crocodiles, he was eventually surrounded by the remaining monsters...

"This should be my limit. Relying solely on brute force is useless in the water, and the palm lightning's killing efficiency is too low to stop so many demonic beasts from rushing at me..."

After leaving the Tower of Ten Thousand Laws, Lu Qian would occasionally simulate the scene of the first level and then conduct trials in his inner world, but the results were not very good.

This also made Lu Qian realize that until he learned new methods, he would always find it difficult to pass the first level of the Myriad Laws Battle Tower.

"Let's learn the Turbid Waves Corroding Spell first, and also the Ninefold Waves of the Vast Ocean. Once we've mastered those two, clearing the first level will be a natural progression!"

Lu Qian first began to study the Turbid Waves Corroding Bone Curse, which was quite mentally taxing. When he was feeling dizzy and lightheaded, he then went on to learn the Nine Waves of the Vast Ocean, which was more physically demanding.

He stretched out his finger, and a point of spiritual light flickered at his fingertip. He silently recited the incantation and activated the spell. Under the stimulation of his true energy, the spiritual light transformed into a crystal dewdrop in the next moment.

Before Lu Qian could even feel happy, the dewdrop disappeared quickly after shaking a few times.

"The mechanism of the Turbid Waves Eroding Bones Curse is actually to imitate the legendary Weak Water. I've never actually seen the Weak Water; it's all based on my imagination. If someone who has learned the Turbid Waves Eroding Bones Curse could demonstrate it to me, that would be great..."

Weak Water is not ordinary river water or common water; it is the innate spiritual water source of the universe, which is extremely yin, soft, cold, and malevolent.

On the Weak Water, nothing can float, heavy objects will sink, spiritual power will dissolve upon contact, and ordinary spiritual energy, magical artifacts, and spells will be eroded and dissolved when they come into contact with the Weak Water.

The Turbid Waves Corroding Bone Curse is certainly not comparable to the real Weak Water, and the Weak Water is not something that cultivators in the Qi Refining stage can access. However, as a Qi Refining spell, the Turbid Waves Corroding Bone Curse is powerful enough.

However, the Water and Fire Daoist arts only contain some descriptions of the Turbid Wave Corrosion Curse and some information on how to cultivate it. It would be quite difficult to successfully learn the basics based on just these few words.

Lu Qian originally felt that his comprehension had improved a lot after opening his mind, but after practicing the water and fire Dao techniques, that familiar feeling returned.

"The arts of water and fire are inherently very difficult and require a high level of comprehension. Although I can learn them by constantly experimenting in my inner world, that would be a waste of time."

"Instead of doing this, let's call in reinforcements!"

He immediately made up his mind and sent a talisman to Mu Xue, because Mu Xue had the earth and water spiritual roots and also cultivated water and fire magic, and the first one she cultivated was the Turbid Wave Corrosion Curse.

It's actually best to find a tutor for this kind of thing, like a private tutor that everyone has, who is responsible for answering these kinds of questions.

However, when Tao Pili arranged for Xie Xunzhen to be with Lu Qian, he did not expect that Lu Qian would cultivate water and fire magic. Therefore, for a while, Lu Qian could not find a suitable person to answer his questions, so it was better to ask an acquaintance first.

However, even though he could exchange a few words with the Mu siblings at school, Lu Qian didn't know if they were acquaintances. He wasn't a truly innocent and naive boy, and he knew that relationships between people could sometimes be very superficial.

It's fine to greet them when you meet, but it's not really an option if you actually need their help.

"I hope it's not too perfunctory!"

Next comes the training mission. Lu Qian will decide based on the situation whether he can select a few reliable teammates. If not, he would rather act alone.

Not long after, the array in the cave was activated, and Lu Qian was immediately startled, "They replied so quickly?"

When Lu Qian reached the door, he discovered that there was another person outside the cave – Mu Xue.

"Why did you come over here?"

Lu Qian was only slightly surprised, but quickly activated the formation and invited Mu Xue over. "You just need to share your thoughts; there's no need for you to come all the way here."

Mu Xue's fair face was slightly flushed, perhaps because she had rushed over too fast and was a little out of breath, but she still tried her best to maintain a calm demeanor. "How can you explain something like this? You have to demonstrate it in person."

"When I was practicing the Turbid Waves Corroding Bone Curse, I specifically studied several kinds of spiritual waters from heaven and earth, all of which were corrosive and cold in nature, in order to quickly master the basics!"

Of course, Mu Xue's earth and water spiritual roots are also indispensable. Otherwise, if one could master the basics with just a few kinds of heaven and earth spiritual waters, the Turbid Wave Bone-Corroding Curse would be too easy.

This is where spiritual roots come into play. In addition to improving cultivation level more quickly, they also allow for faster mastery of spells corresponding to the spiritual root's attributes.

Lu Qian was somewhat puzzled. "Do I still need spiritual water from heaven and earth? I have seen similar descriptions before, but that was after one had mastered the Turbid Wave Bone-Eroding Curse, where one could refine certain spiritual waters from heaven and earth into the seed of power to enhance its strength. So, one has to comprehend it when starting out?"

Mu Xue nodded solemnly, "Of course! However, most people don't have that kind of opportunity, so they can only comprehend it on their own. They can only consider such things after they have mastered the spell! I haven't refined any spiritual water yet, but I can show you my Turbid Wave Bone-Corroding Spell first!"