You think I have mixed spiritual roots? I became an immortal through a spirit gourd, so what are you

"I got lost, and Senior Sister Qin brought me here to register," Chen Huai'an said after a moment's thought.

"Are you familiar with Senior Sister Qin?" the disciple pressed.

Chen Huai'an didn't know how to answer, but he knew the saying that too much talk leads to mistakes, so he stammered and gave a vague answer, leaving people with endless imagination.

Even so, those disciples who were eavesdropping looked at Chen Huai'an with envy.

After all, in a cultivation sect, who wouldn't want a powerful backer?

The living quarters of the miscellaneous disciples of Qingyun Sect were connected stone houses, with each person having their own room.

There are tens of thousands of miscellaneous disciples, and their group alone numbers in the thousands.

To Chen Huai'an's surprise, he actually heard news about Su Wanying.

Su Wanying possesses a top-grade water spiritual root. Her appearance caused quite a stir within the sect, even alarming the sect leader of Qingyun Sect, who accepted her as his closed-door disciple.

Su Wanying, the disciple of the Qingyun Sect's leader, has risen to prominence in one fell swoop, making many people envious.

Chen Huai'an couldn't help but sigh, this was what they called the cruel twist of fate.

They were childhood sweethearts, inseparable since they were little, and even had a betrothal arranged between them.

Now, however, their situations and future paths are worlds apart.

Thinking of this, Chen Huai'an felt a bitter taste in his mouth. He took a sip of water from the purple gourd at his waist and found that the water was sweet, like honey, with an unforgettable aftertaste.

"Huh, this water is so sweet." Chen Huai'an had taken a few sips of the stream water in the forbidden area behind Qingyun Sect while filling his container, and it definitely didn't taste like this.

After drinking the water, he felt warm all over, as if all his pores had opened up, and he felt completely comfortable.

"This gourd is definitely a treasure." After finishing his water, Chen Huai'an touched the purple gourd in his hand, a look of shock appearing on his face.

Not only can this gourd hold things, but the water inside seems to have mutated.

It's refreshing and sweet, and it makes you feel comfortable all over after drinking it.

It has to be said that he really has a connection with gourds, after all, his adoptive father left him a purple jade gourd pendant as a keepsake before he passed away.

Chen Huai'an subconsciously reached out and touched his neck, only to find that his chest was empty, with nothing there.

"No, where's my pendant?"

Chen Huai'an's brows furrowed once again: "Could this gourd in my hand be the gourd pendant my father left me? But that doesn't make sense. How could a pendant the size of a thumb grow so big? Could this thing possibly change size?"

Just as Chen Huai'an was pondering the origin of the gourd, his vision suddenly went black, and the next second he found himself in a misty world.

"Huh, where am I? Holy crap, what's this pool of water?" Chen Huai'an noticed that the water was a bright green color. He couldn't help but reach out and touch it, then tasted it with his thumb. The water was very sweet, leaving a lingering aftertaste.

This water tastes the same as the spring water I just drank.

Through observation, Chen Huai'an discovered that this mass of water resembled a spring.

"Could it be that I've entered the Purple Jade Gourd?" When Chen Huai'an was studying in Huai Shu Village, he would read some strange and supernatural picture books. In addition, now that he was in Qingyun Sect, he wouldn't find it strange if anything strange happened to him.

The space wasn't very large, roughly an acre in size. It was surrounded by a layer of gray mist, so thick that it was impossible to see clearly. When you reached out to touch it, you were blocked by an invisible wall of air.

"How am I supposed to get out of here?" Chen Huai'an wandered around in this strange space but couldn't find any other way out. He didn't know how to leave.

Just as Chen Huai'an was thinking about how to leave, he suddenly felt dizzy and then returned to the stone house where the servant disciples lived.

Looking at the purple gourd in his hand, Chen Huai'an became more and more certain that he had just entered the gourd's internal space. Only in this way could he explain why he had been pretending to sleep in this gourd for almost an hour and still couldn't fill it up.

He just couldn't understand how he had ended up inside so confused.

"I wonder if I'll be able to go in again next time." Chen Huai'an wasn't studying the purple gourd space. What he needed to do right now was to cultivate quickly. If he didn't reach the first level of the Body Refinement Realm within a year, he would be expelled from the Qingyun Sect.

The gourd was in his hands and couldn't run away. He would figure it out slowly after he reached the Body Refinement Realm.

Perhaps it was because he had drunk too much water earlier, which made him feel warm and comfortable, but now he felt a bit hot and restless, and he wanted to find an outlet to vent his frustration.

Chen Huai'an paced back and forth in the stone house, then took out a body-refining manual issued by the Qingyun Sect.

This body-refining manual has ten levels, teaching how to use internal force to temper the body according to the practice route recorded in the basic body-refining manual.

Chen Huai'an had never practiced martial arts techniques in Dahuaishu Village, and he was completely confused about the Qingyun Sect's body-refining techniques.

Chen Huai'an felt increasingly uncomfortable as he looked at the screen, feeling as if his body was about to explode, and he couldn't calm down at all.

In the end, he could only try practicing some peasant martial arts moves that ordinary people practiced in the house, throwing punches and kicking to expend his energy. After completing a set of peasant martial arts moves, Chen Huai'an did not feel tired at all; on the contrary, he felt energetic, and similarly, he felt that his strength was much greater than before.

Chen Huai'an came to the conclusion that the water in the purple gourd should not be drunk indiscriminately; drinking too much of it would cause a feeling of fullness and discomfort.

But there's no denying that both the gourd and the mutated spring water are good things!

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The next day, Chen Huai'an and the other disciples went to the dining hall on the Miscellaneous Service Peak for a meal.

Through conversations among several menial disciples, he learned that the first step in body refinement was to draw qi into the body and temper the physical form.

These menial disciples weren't particularly talented; the best they had was a mid-grade spiritual root. But even so, their perception of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was many times better than his mixed five-element spiritual root.

They all looked arrogant and looked down on Chen Huai'an, who had mixed spiritual roots of the five elements.

He was also unresponsive to his questions.

After observing and inquiring from various sources, Chen Huai'an learned that they had also failed to draw qi into their bodies to temper their physical forms.

If it were so easy to draw qi into the body and temper the physical form, there would be countless immortal masters in this world.

After making some inquiries, Chen Huai'an was somewhat dejected.

This spiritual practice is incredibly difficult! It's as difficult as ascending to heaven!

Even the most talented disciples in the outer sect need at least two or three months to be able to draw qi into their bodies and reach the body-refining realm.

Many outer disciples need external help to draw qi into their bodies, such as body-refining pills, which enhance physical activity and accelerate the process of sensing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

New disciples, whether outer disciples or menial disciples, will receive two Body Refining Pills to assist their cultivation and strive to draw Qi into their bodies as soon as possible.

To quickly enter a cultivation state and accelerate cultivation speed, a large amount of cultivation resources are required.

Yesterday, because he drank the water from the purple gourd, Chen Huai'an felt extremely hot and didn't have time to take the elixir.

With only seven days left, he didn't have much time, so he had to work on it carefully.

He must reach the top three; he needs time to cultivate, not to do hard labor.

After leaving the dining hall, he returned to the stone house.

For those seven days, he risked his life to sense the presence of Qi.

Poor aptitude, old age, even a slow bird must start flying first.

Otherwise, they would have to do dirty and tiring work at the Qingyun Sect, and they wouldn't have any extra time to cultivate!

The Body Refining Pill is about the size of a peanut, dark in color, and has a burnt smell like the bottom of a burnt pot. It also has a medicinal aroma. This is the lowest grade of the low-quality Body Refining Pill.

After swallowing one pill, Chen Huai'an did not experience the pain of his meridians being torn apart. His body felt a little warm, and then, he quickly became still.

"No way, could this Body Refining Pill that my sect bestowed upon me be fake?" Chen Huai'an exclaimed.

The feeling of consuming this low-grade body-refining pill is not as strong as drinking the water from the purple gourd.

Chen Huai'an had heard that when ordinary people take the Body Refining Pill, their whole body will feel swollen and hot, as if their body is about to burst. Then, they can use this force to calm down and use the medicinal power to open up the meridians throughout their body, making it easier for spiritual energy to enter the body.

That sounds a lot like how I felt after drinking gourd water yesterday.

There was one Body Refining Pill left, but Chen Huai'an didn't rush to swallow it. Instead, he put it into the purple gourd.

Chen Huai'an wanted to see what would happen if he put the pill into the purple gourd.