Anti-fraud manual for the cultivation world

Li Gu and Zhang Yi sat cross-legged, their five hearts facing the sky.

Then, the spiritual energy stored in the Purple Mansion is slowly drawn out, flowing along the Hand Shaoyang Meridian to the hand, and then gathering on the index and middle fingers.

The next step is to let the spiritual energy leave the body!

This is where the biggest difference between the Qi Refining stage and the Foundation Establishment stage comes into play. The Qi Refining stage can also release spiritual energy from the body, but once it leaves the body, it can only shoot out straight out, either shooting out finger winds similar to the Six Meridians Divine Sword or shooting out palm winds similar to the Splitting Palm. However, without exception, once the spiritual energy leaves the body, it loses control and can only fly straight forward.

But once you reach the Foundation Establishment stage, the first thing you need to learn is how to control the spiritual energy that has left your body, turning it into your own arms and letting it move freely according to your own will, instead of just blindly flying forward.

Li Gu condensed his spiritual energy into threads and slowly released them from the tips of his index and middle fingers.

It didn't work at first; as soon as it was released, it flew straight ahead.

But after more than an hour of effort, his spiritual energy strands were finally able to bend after leaving his body, like the long tongue of an anteater, twisting and turning in mid-air at will. If you told him to go left, he would go left; if you told him to go right, he would go right. He could even tie a knot in mid-air and then untie it.

Only then did he allow his spiritual energy threads to adhere to his iron ruler magic weapon.

With a gentle tug from his index and middle fingers, the strands of spiritual energy "grabbed" the iron ruler artifact, slowly lifting it off the ground and causing it to rotate gently in mid-air.

Li Gu finally understood why, in many TV dramas, when the protagonist is flying on a sword, he always pinches three fingers together and only raises the index and middle fingers to make a "sword finger" shape to guide his flying sword.

It turned out that the spiritual energy threads shooting out from the index and middle fingers were manipulating the flying sword.

That's pretty stupid to fly on a sword like that. What if you break your finger?

Oh, after flipping through the later manuals, it turns out that after reaching the Golden Core stage, one can emit spiritual energy threads from anywhere on their body to control a sword. After reaching the Nascent Soul stage, one no longer needs to rely on spiritual energy threads; controlling a sword with divine sense is also possible. When the 【Combined Edge Sword】 technique is mastered to its final chapter, even flying swords and magical artifacts are no longer needed. One can directly condense one's own spiritual energy into ten thousand swords unleashed simultaneously. At that time, the concept of spiritual energy threads would be nonexistent. The airspace around a cultivator would be filled with spiritual energy, vast as the sea.

After Li Gu had practiced controlling the flying sword with spiritual energy threads for a while, he wanted to show off. With a flick of his finger, the iron ruler spun twice in mid-air and unleashed four or five sword strikes. However, when the ruler spun, the angle was wrong, and it actually severed the spiritual energy thread connected to him with one sword strike.

The iron ruler fell from mid-air and landed on the ground with a thud.

Li Gu laughed at his own stupidity, then gathered his spiritual energy again and picked up the iron ruler magic weapon from the ground.

He felt stupid, but the people around him didn't think so.

Zhang Yi, Zheng Xiaodong, and Meng Ting all stared wide-eyed in astonishment: "Junior Brother Li, you can fly on a sword so quickly?"

Li Guqi exclaimed, "Huh? So fast?"

Zhang Yi smiled wryly: "Soon! Look at me... my iron ruler is still lying on the ground, not moving at all."

Li Gu turned her head and realized that Zhang Yi was still sitting cross-legged on the ground, with the iron ruler lying flat in front of her without moving. She was trying her best to release the spiritual energy from the tips of her index and middle fingers and use it flexibly, but she couldn't. As soon as her spiritual energy left her body, it lost control and she couldn't move it at will.

It can only be said that there is indeed a huge difference in learning ability between people.

Li Gu said, "Senior Sister Zhang, since you can't achieve separation from your body in a short time, you can try practicing flying with a magical artifact first. When flying, your feet are on the artifact, so the spiritual energy doesn't need to leave your body too far. Think of the iron ruler as an extension of your feet. How about trying it?"

Zhang Yi nodded and stood on the iron ruler.

Following Li Gu's advice, she treated the iron ruler as an extension of her feet. With this in mind, it became much easier for spiritual energy to enter the iron ruler. On a whim, she tried to make the spiritual energy "rise," and the iron ruler began to slowly rise into the air. The moment it rose, Zhang Yi almost fell off, but fortunately, she was flexible and had good balance, so she immediately regained her footing and avoided embarrassment.

The iron ruler carried her slowly into the air, lifting her to a distance of three feet off the ground...

"Don't raise it any higher!" Li Gu quickly said, "It wouldn't be good if it went above the wall and people outside could see it."

Zhang Yi had obviously thought of this as well. She nodded, stopped rising, and began to control the iron ruler, flying slowly forward. At first, it was very slow and she was very clumsy. She fell off several times, but this thing was like practicing skateboarding. She became more and more skilled and faster and faster.

Two hours later, Zhang Yi was able to fly around the courtyard in circles, and even perform fancy maneuvers such as circling trees. The next step was long-term practice, and the more he practiced, the more proficient he became, and the faster he could fly.

As dawn broke, Zhang Yi stopped practicing and turned to look at Li Gu. He then discovered that Li Gu's flying ruler magic weapon was now as flexible as if he were holding it in his hand. It could perform various actions in mid-air, such as stabbing, slicing, chopping, splitting, and spinning. Moreover, it could no longer sever its own spiritual energy threads.

Li Gu even began to reread the first chapter of the manual, which was the sword moves for disciples in the "Body Refining Stage" and "Qi Refining Stage". After learning these sword moves, he would be able to perform more tricks when controlling his flying sword in mid-air.

Zhang Yi shook his head, thinking: Ordinary cultivators have already mastered the sword techniques of the Qi Refining stage before reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, so after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, they only need to learn spiritual energy sword control, and they can naturally use those sword techniques that they already know by heart. But my junior brother Li, after learning spiritual energy sword control, still has to go back and learn the sword techniques of the Qi Refining stage... It's really... I don't know what to say...

A long way to go!

There's still enough practice to go.

"Junior Brother Li, it's dawn! Time to report for duty." Zhang Yi called out, "You didn't sleep all night, how's your energy level?"

Foundation Establishment cultivators do not need to replenish their energy with sleep like ordinary people. They can replace sleep with meditation, which is more efficient. However, Zhang Yi, who had just entered the Foundation Establishment stage, still habitually referred to meditation as sleeping.

Li Gu put away the flying ruler and laughed, "It's alright. After roll call, we'll meditate in the Six Doors. From now on, we might have to stay up all night to practice. Not just swordsmanship, but also sabers, fists, palms, lightness skills... There are so many skills we need to improve. We can only rest during the day and practice at night. There's no other way."

Zhang Yi shook her head. She knew that Cai Xinzi wouldn't care if they slacked off at work now, but her principles couldn't stand this kind of behavior of taking advantage of their status as "family members in the mortal world" to get by and collect their salary for nothing.

"Junior Brother Li, although we're going to be demons, there are demons who are upright and those who are utterly rotten," Zhang Yi said matter-of-factly. "I hope to be the former."

Li Gu shrugged: "How could I not wish to be the former? Sigh! Alright, I'll rest as I please, but once there's something important to do, I'll immediately give it my all. I have to live up to the benefits we enjoy and not just take advantage of the court without doing any work."

"That's right!"