The Long Journey to Immortality

The materials used to make the spirit sword are two pieces of thunder bamboo that have been growing for at least fifty years.

Thunder bamboo is a relatively rare spiritual material, and its cultivation method is quite complex.

Most magical artifacts made from thunder bamboo are of the metal or wood attributes.

These two spirit swords happen to be one made of metal and the other of wood.

The golden sword, with its vibrant gold color, is a divine sword suitable for wielding sword techniques. Gold generates water; if Feng Bailu were to master one or two lightning control techniques in the future, he could further unleash the hidden power of lightning within them for combat.

The wooden sword, with its dull color, gives off a withered, lifeless feel, making it suitable as a medium for casting spells. Water nourishes wood; if Feng Bailu, with his pure water-attribute spiritual root, uses this wooden sword to cast spells, he can conserve a considerable amount of spiritual energy while maintaining the power of his spells.

The two spirit swords are a pair, both of which are top-grade magic weapons.

However, when these two magical artifacts with metal and wood attributes are combined with Feng Bailu's spiritual root attributes, their power is absolutely comparable to that of a regular first-grade magical artifact.

Feng Bailu repeatedly drew the two spirit swords from their sheaths and put them back, playing with them for a while before reluctantly putting them into the first storage bag.

Only after she opens the first spiritual meridian and regains spiritual power will she be able to use the weapon control technique and spells to see if these two spiritual swords are as powerful as she predicted based on Xiaoyaozi's memories.

"Let's call you Thunder Bamboo Sword Pair." Feng Bailu wasn't good at naming things, so he casually gave the spirit sword he had just acquired a very ordinary name.

Sheathing his spirit sword, Feng Bailu picked up the fiery red feather robe.

Upon receiving the feather robe, Feng Bailu felt as if his hands were in contact with water.

"It looks beautiful, and it feels even smoother than silk."

Perhaps because of her gender change, Feng Bailu's first notice was not the efficacy of the feathered robe magic item, but its appearance.

Considering that he was currently soaking wet, Feng Bailu did not rush to put on the feather robe. Instead, he seriously studied the feather robe through Xiaoyaozi's memories.

The feathered garment in Feng Bailu's hand is made from the feathers of a bird that inhabits the East China Sea Islands.

This bird is called the Flaming Fierce Bird.

The bird that made the feather robes was a fire-attribute demon beast, so naturally, the feather robes and magical items made from its feathers were also fire-attribute.

Although water overcomes fire, wearing this beautiful feathered robe can still provide some assistance to Feng Bailu.

“The specific functions still need to be studied,” Feng Bailu said with a smile, feeling the warmth in his palm. “At least, if I had been wearing this outfit when I entered the third stone chamber, I certainly wouldn’t have been shivering from the cold.”

Using the puddle on the ground as a mirror, Feng Bailu made a simple comparison between her "Yan Yu Ni Chang" outfit and her own figure.

“It’s a little big,” Feng Bailu said, his gaze falling on his chest. “But after recognizing its master and injecting spiritual power, this will no longer be a problem.”

After simply folding Yan Yu Ni Chang and putting it into the first storage bag, Feng Bailu then looked at the third treasure.

That throne was rather unremarkable compared to the Spirit Sword and the Rainbow Robe.

Touching the throne, a slight coolness seeped into Feng Bailu's skin.

“This throne…” Feng Bailu gently stroked the throne, “It should be made of Xuanbing ore mixed with some spirit stones containing water-attribute spiritual power.”

A rather complex magic array was engraved on the throne, and ten low-grade spirit stones were simply cut and embedded into the throne to serve as the array's core.

"It's probably a spirit-gathering array. We'll know once we try it."

She set off, placed the spirit stones on the spirit-gathering array on the Dharma seat, and sat on the Dharma seat. Enduring the chill coming from her bottom, Feng Bailu, whose sense of energy was exceptional after reincarnation, keenly sensed that the spiritual energy in the air was surging towards her body.

He suppressed the urge to use the cultivation techniques he had practiced to absorb spiritual energy.

After patting his bottom, Feng Bailu looked at the unassuming throne again and felt that it was the best magical artifact in the third storage bag.

“With it, my cultivation will definitely be twice as effective. Maybe…” Feng Bailu boldly predicted, “In combination with pills, I might be able to reach the tenth level of Qi Refining in three years, or even less, and meet the requirements for Foundation Establishment.”

However, this is just talk. The path of cultivation is full of uncertainties, and the predictions about Feng Bailu are not very accurate.

Not to mention that the moment Feng Bailu successfully reincarnated, she made up her mind that she would open at least two hundred acupoints and twelve spiritual meridians to reach the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, laying a solid and profound foundation for her future.

After storing the cold throne in his storage bag, Feng Bailu reached his icy hand into the last storage bag.

"This time it should be a cultivation technique, right?" Feng Bailu felt that all of this was perfectly reasonable.

Feng Bailu, who answered the first three questions correctly, only got half of them right this time.

The fourth storage bag did indeed contain a set of martial arts techniques, but besides that, it contained mostly women's items.

Including but not limited to women's clothing, women's shoes, jewelry, cosmetics, etc.

Of course, the most numerous items were various kinds of clothes suitable for female nuns to wear.

Wearing it inside, wearing it outside.

Formal attire and casual wear.

Glamorous style, understated style.

……

Categorized and sorted, nearly a hundred pieces of clothing were packed into the fourth storage bag.

Seeing the ample preparations Xiaoyaozi had made for "her", Feng Bailu didn't know what to say.

Without even a thought of trying on the clothes, Feng Bailu immediately put them away, leaving only a white shirt that matched her image of a female cultivator, which she planned to change into before leaving the cave via the teleportation array.

After carefully putting away the clothes that made her blush, Feng Bailu picked up the cultivation manual from the fourth storage bag.

Looking at the two books in his hands and the three jade slips used by cultivators to store information, Feng Bailu subconsciously read out the title on the cover of the first book.

"The Great Circulation Water Condensation Technique?"

Chapter Thirteen: Cultivation Techniques, Good Deeds

Judging from the name alone, the cultivation method that Xiaoyaozi prepared for "himself" is nothing special.

The name is neither imposing nor difficult to pronounce, and it doesn't give people any sense of a top-tier cultivation technique.

However, Feng Bailu knew that, judging from the spirit stones, pills, and magical tools that Xiaoyaozi had prepared in the previous storage bags, this cultivation technique called "Great Zhou Heavenly Water Condensation Technique" was definitely the most suitable cultivation technique for cultivators with top-grade water-attribute spiritual roots among all the cultivation techniques that Xiaoyaozi could collect.

"At least judging from the name, it is a water-attribute cultivation technique."

Feng Bailu muttered something under his breath and quickly opened the first cultivation manual.

The two books and three jade slips correspond to the five levels that a cultivator needs to go through during their cultivation.

The cultivation methods for the Qi Refining stage and the Foundation Establishment stage are recorded in two separate books.

When a cultivator advances to the Golden Core stage and is able to activate their divine sense, the jade slip becomes the carrier of the secret manuals for the next three stages of cultivation, for others to consult.

Feng Bailu did not forget the instructions given by Xiaoyaozi's remnant soul after his reincarnation.

This time, she merely perused the manual, memorized and pondered its contents, without intending to begin cultivation directly in the cave.

In 99% of the cultivation methods in the Central Plains region, cultivators in the Qi Refining stage increase their spiritual power by opening up acupoints and spiritual meridians in order to advance to the Foundation Establishment stage.

The Great Circulation Water Condensation Technique did not take a different approach or come up with a unique method of improvement.

What are the differences between different cultivation methods?

It lies in the number of acupoints opened, the routes of spiritual veins established, the methods of breathing to absorb spiritual energy, and some accompanying techniques and secret arts recorded in the cultivation method.

The first two things are the key to distinguishing the superiority or inferiority of different martial arts techniques.

Lower-grade cultivation techniques often provide very limited spiritual meridian pathways. Even those who cultivate to the Great Perfection of the twelfth level of Qi Refining can only open up seventy or eighty acupoints.

Thus, in terms of the amount of spiritual energy in their bodies alone, they are inferior to cultivators of the same level.

Not to mention that the acupoints are not only different in name, but each acupoint can also provide different kinds of help to the cultivator.

A widely circulated cultivation technique in the Central Plains called "The Heaven-Stealing Technique" only opens 64 acupoints and ten spiritual meridians during the Qi Refining stage. Moreover, 14 of these 64 acupoints, once opened, can increase a cultivator's lifespan. It is a technique specifically designed for cultivators of mediocre talent who wish to achieve longevity through cultivation.

The biggest difference between the "Great Circulation Water Condensation Technique" and other cultivation methods lies in which acupoints to open and which routes to take to open spiritual veins.

Upon seeing the route for opening the first spiritual vein recorded in the cultivation manual, Feng Bailu immediately understood why Xiaoyaozi had chosen this cultivation method as his own method for rebuilding.

Looking at the first spiritual meridian in the ancient text, which runs through the entire body and requires opening 54 acupoints to be fully opened, she exclaimed, "This is the cultivation method prepared for the most talented of the most talented."

The Great Circulation Water Condensation Technique is a cultivation method that emphasizes building a solid foundation and progressing slowly at first.

If one cultivates according to the "Great Zhou Tian Condensing Water Technique", when Feng Bailu reaches the first level of Qi Refining, a spiritual vein will form in his body that connects all 56 acupoints throughout the body and passes through the dantian.

The longer the spiritual vein, the more acupoints it passes through, and the more spiritual energy it can store.

Moreover, of the 56 acupoints through which this spiritual vein passes, 48 ​​acupoints are highly beneficial to cultivators' practice.

Seeing this, Feng Bailu couldn't help but admire the ambition and genius of the predecessor who created this technique.

It's important to understand that opening up a spiritual vein is not like building a road, where you can build it wherever you go.

Whether acupoints can communicate with each other through spiritual veins is something that requires countless attempts and reference to other cultivation manuals to find out.

Finding a spiritual vein that passes through 56 acupoints is already difficult, let alone the fact that most of these 56 acupoints are beneficial for cultivation.

It has many benefits, but it is also quite difficult.

Without considering the attributes of the technique, if one were to cultivate with this technique, it would take Feng Bailu almost a month of arduous practice to open up a single acupoint.

To open up a spiritual vein with 56 acupoints would take at least four and a half years.

Not to mention that these acupoints that are helpful for cultivation are extremely difficult to open.

If one were to truly cultivate, it would probably take Feng Bailu five or even six years to go from a mortal to a cultivator at the first level of Qi Refining.

No wonder that after reading the first half of the first volume of the cultivation technique, Feng Bailu judged that this was a cultivation technique prepared for "geniuses".

"Looks pretty good," Feng Bailu muttered to himself as he closed the book after finishing the first volume of the manual. "Upon reaching the Great Perfection, in addition to opening twelve spiritual meridians, 301 acupoints will also be fully activated..."

"This 'Great Zhou Heavenly Water Condensation Technique' is definitely a top-grade cultivation method."

"Since it is a cultivation manual prepared by the Nascent Soul stage cultivator Xiaoyaozi for himself, then I will use it as my main cultivation method in the future and start cultivating again."

Having made his judgment, Feng Bailu did not rush to look through the Foundation Establishment section of the cultivation method, but instead focused his attention on the two corpses that had begun to decompose not far away.

Without the extreme cold brought by the Mysterious Pearl, the two corpses, which had been there for decades, began to slowly decompose.

Upon arriving at the bodies, Feng Bailu did not intend to help his two "senior sisters" find a place to be buried and laid to rest.

She had her sights set on the storage bags on the two corpses, hoping to make another small fortune.

Unfortunately, compared to the wealth left behind by Xiaoyaozi, the resources in the storage bags of the two "senior sisters" seemed rather pitiful.

That Foundation Establishment stage "senior sister" was quite wealthy, with more than thirty low-grade spirit stones and an eighth-grade spirit sword magic weapon hidden in her storage bag, barely enough to catch Feng Bailu's eye now.

The "senior sister" who was only at the Qi Refining stage could only be described as penniless.

"A low-grade spirit stone, four taels of silver, a toy peach wood sword, a pair of wolf skin gloves..."