The ice cave was deeper than he had expected.
The entrance was narrow, requiring one to squeeze in sideways, but after walking a dozen or so steps, it suddenly opened up.
The cave was not large, just enough to fit a pill furnace and a person sitting cross-legged. Several icicles of varying lengths hung from the ceiling.
The cave walls, formed by the pressure of millennia-old glaciers, have a faint blue hue. As light shines through the cave entrance, the entire wall glows subtly.
Chen Chen took the food pouch out from inside his coat and poured it into his palm.
The alchemy furnace landed on the ground with a muffled thud, and the furnace feet pressed three shallow dents into the ice.
First, a simple array was set up inside the cave entrance.
Several carved array stones were pressed into the ice crevice. The array materials in a one-person world are not as good as those in a mortal world. This set of array stones was modified by him using the ideas of the Divine Machine Hundred Refinements. Its function is very basic.
Back inside the cave, he sat cross-legged and cleaned the furnace.
He ran his fingers along the fire-controlling runes on the inside of the furnace wall, checking the depth of each engraving.
After cleaning up the furnace, bundles of medicinal herbs were taken out of the food bag.
Acorus calamus, bamboo sap, and bamboo juice are all key ingredients for clearing the mind and refreshing the spirit. There are also some ingredients he found on the black market for strange people. Their quality is not very good, but their medicinal properties are sufficient.
The medicinal herbs were arranged in categories on the ice, with those closest to the stove taken first and those furthest from the stove taken later.
"One person practicing is enough."
Since I've mastered the art of fetal breathing, not eating for a few days no longer puts much strain on my body; the key is to stay hydrated.
There is snow outside the cave entrance; if you're thirsty, just grab a handful and put it in your mouth.
The fire-controlling runes lit up and moved down the furnace wall, converging into a dark red circle at the location of the fire-gathering array. The furnace should be started steadily and the temperature should be raised evenly.
These are just ordinary medicinal herbs that cannot withstand intense heat; their medicinal properties are too weak and they will dissipate if the heat is too strong.
The calming pill helps to quiet the mind and aid in entering a meditative state.
Chen Chen accepted the limitation that the medicinal materials available to him were limited, making it impossible for him to refine higher-grade products.
After several rounds, they stayed in the ice cave for more than ten days.
The original dark blue light on the ice wall melted slightly near the furnace due to the continuous baking of the fire, and then turned milky white after refreezing.
Finally, the most crucial batch before going into seclusion.
This batch is not for refining elixirs.
All the refined pills were sorted again, and the highest quality Tranquility Pills were selected. The rest were crushed and put back into the furnace for refining.
The powder was repeatedly pressed under high temperature in the furnace, eventually coagulating into a fist-sized brown paste.
When Chen Chen took it out, the ointment didn't have a strong medicinal smell, only a faint sweetness.
This thing is not for eating.
Chen Chen kneaded the ointment into a small round piece and placed it on the ice next to the alchemy furnace, waiting for it to cool naturally.
Everything is ready.
Chen Chen sat down cross-legged in front of the alchemy furnace.
The fire in the stove had gone out, but the residual heat from the stove walls still gently warmed his back from a distance of a few steps.
The blizzard outside the cave had stopped sometime ago, and the ice shell sealing the cave entrance was now completely sealed.
"The transition from Yin to Yang is a critical juncture. It's time to turn the tide."
The cultivation of both body and mind in Quanzhen Taoism is a very long path.
When one's sexual cultivation reaches the pinnacle of the Yin spirit, one can briefly leave the body during meditation, but the Yin spirit cannot travel far or touch objects.
It must be refined into its true form.
The transformation from Yin spirit to Yang spirit essentially involves purifying the Yin essence within the primordial spirit.
This process requires not skills, but accumulation and time.
He has already accumulated his talent through the accumulation of the original space; time cannot be saved, but the environment can be used to compress it.
Extreme cold is the perfect furnace.
The external environment is a kind of pressure that forces the body to contract, the meridians to tighten, and the Qi to sink inward.
In this state, the sea of consciousness becomes clearer than usual, and the outline of the primordial spirit becomes more distinct than usual.
Pick up the round piece of ointment and hold it under the back of your tongue.
The bitter taste first spreads from the root of the tongue, followed by a warm current that travels down the throat and into the chest cavity, where it splits into two paths: one rushes upwards to the Baihui point (crown of the head), and the other sinks downwards to the Dantian (lower abdomen).
The medicine is concentrated and takes effect quickly.
However, it can only be used to assist in the circulation of Qi.
The Qi in the meridians is like a stream that has been stirred up. It starts from the Dantian, goes up along the Du meridian, passes through the Jiaji, Dazhui, and Yuzhen, circles around Baihui, and then goes down along the Ren meridian, passes through Tanzhong and Qihai, and returns to the Dantian.
a circle.
Two laps.
After countless cycles, the external sensations in the body begin to fade.
First, the coldness in my feet disappeared, then the sensation on my knees and the ice gradually faded, and then the feeling of my fingers resting on my knees also gradually disappeared.
The body is still there, but the senses have been stripped away.
The sea of consciousness opens.
It was a space without boundaries.
The absence of light, depth, and boundaries creates a sense of space.
In the center of his mind, a human-shaped outline slowly emerged.
This is the Yin spirit.
Facial features were blurred, and the edges of the body spread out slightly like ink stains in water, as if it might melt into the surrounding darkness at any moment.
Looking down, the soles of my feet connect to the bottom of my sea of consciousness, as if they were growing out of the mud.
This is a very accurate perception.
The key issue with Yin spirits is "sinking".
It has no real weight, but in the subjective perception of a practitioner, it feels as heavy as if it were weighed down with lead.
This feeling comes from the residual yin essence in the primordial spirit; the heavier the yin essence, the more obvious the sinking sensation.
Chen Chen stood still from the perspective of the Yin God.
The medicine was still circulating in his body, and he could vaguely feel the heat through the boundaries of his consciousness, like the sound of drums coming from afar.
The Quanzhen School's practice of cultivating both body and mind diverges here.
After one's life cultivation reaches a certain level, the strength of the body's meridians is sufficient to support the astral projection of the Yang spirit. However, if one's sexual cultivation is not in place and the Yin essence is not thoroughly refined, the Yang spirit cannot emerge.
Conversely, if one's sexual cultivation is advanced but one's life cultivation is insufficient, the meridians cannot withstand the impact when the spirit leaves the body, and the person will be directly torn apart.
He had already established his foundation in sexual cultivation while he was at Baiyun Temple.
While browsing through ancient texts in the library with Lu Linglong, the girl got sleepy after just a couple of glances, so he copied the Quanzhen alchemy classic from beginning to end.
For the next ten years or so, he cultivated both body and mind, taking each step very steadily.
The multiple synchronizations in the Origin Space further boosted his talent.
Now the Yin spirit is standing at the threshold of the Yang spirit.
All that's left is to completely refine the Yin essence.
Within his sea of consciousness, the Yin spirit's body began to tremble slightly.
After the medicinal power penetrated to the edge of the sea of consciousness, the darkness around the Yin spirit began to fluctuate slightly, the Yin matter was disturbed, and the layer of shadow attached to the Yuan nerve network began to loosen.
Chen Chen had been waiting for this moment.
The Yin spirit raised its hand and turned its palm upside down in front of itself.
The yin essence begins to seep outward from the meridians in the palm.
It was neither liquid nor gas, but more like a transparent medium of different density being squeezed out from inside the primordial spirit.
With each drop of seepage, the outline of the palm becomes clearer.
The previously blurry palm lines gradually emerged, the outline of the fingertips became distinct from rounded to clear, and the edges of the nails became sharp.
The muscle lines of the forearm emerge after the pubic tissue has faded, and the origin and insertion points of each muscle fiber are clearly distinguishable.
Elbow joint.
Upper arm.
Shoulder.
The yin essence is like a layer of wax being slowly scraped away; with each layer that peels away, the surface of the primordial spirit becomes brighter.
An inner sense of clarity spontaneously emanates from within.
It's like having your eyes covered for a long time suddenly being ripped open, and everything you see is so sharp it's blinding.
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