Chapter 1134 The Difficulty of Cultivation
Looking at the grapes on the shelf, Qingyang was satisfied. This thing is a rare treasure. When he first arrived in Jiuxian City, Qingyang only ate most of it, and his cultivation successfully reached the level of perfect foundation building, improving half a small realm, saving five or six years of time. It can be seen how much help this grape can help cultivators improve their cultivation.
Now that Qingyang has become a Jindan cultivator, the effect of grapes is probably not as great as before, but a bunch of grapes can still save seven or eight years of hard practice. If other Jindan cultivators need forty or fifty years to improve their cultivation, then Qingyang only needs five or six bunches of grapes.
Of course, this is impossible. First of all, the yield of grapes is not that large. It takes an average of three years to mature a bunch, and there are not so many grapes for him to eat. In addition, this kind of thing that helps to improve cultivation can be used to assist cultivation, but you can't pin all your hopes on it. Without the usual accumulation and tempering, relying on external objects to improve cultivation will sooner or later burst.
Qingyang once talked to Yu Mengmiao about cultivation. According to Yu Mengmiao, the meridians of Jindan cultivators grow. Although they absorb spiritual energy faster than foundation-building cultivators, they need more energy, so it takes longer for Jindan cultivators to upgrade their cultivation level.
Without external assistance, if there is no cave with sufficient spiritual energy, it will take about fifty years for ordinary Jindan cultivators to upgrade their cultivation level. The life span of Jindan cultivators is only four hundred years. Those who can break through Jindan are generally over a hundred years old. The remaining two hundred years are not enough. This is why many poor cultivators cannot reach the late Jindan stage in their lifetime.
If you practice in a place with sufficient spiritual energy for a long time, such as a blessed cave or a spiritual vein with a gathering spirit array, the speed of practice will be improved, but the improvement is also limited. It can save about one-third to one-half of the time, and it may be possible to practice to the late Jindan stage.
Another way is to use pills to assist. The most commonly used pill for Jindan cultivators to improve their cultivation is Juyuan Pill. Qingyang often refined it when he was in Wantong Pavilion. Frequent use of Juyuan Pill to assist cultivation can greatly improve the speed of cultivation, and even shorten the time to improve the level of cultivation from fifty years to ten years.
But this also has a flaw, that is, the pill is too expensive. A Juyuan Pill is worth a hundred spirit stones, and it takes almost hundreds of Juyuan Pills to improve the level of cultivation. It is okay to take some occasionally, but if you take it frequently, no one can afford it. Even if some individuals can afford it, there is not such a large supply on the market, and it is useless if you can't buy spirit stones.
Of course, there is another way to improve cultivation, that is to use spirit stones directly. The speed of this cultivation is the fastest, but the flaws are also greater. The main reason is that the conversion rate of spirit stones is too low, and the energy is wasted too much. The efficiency is several times lower than that of pills, and no one dares to be so extravagant.
Therefore, the cultivators of large sects often use various conditions in combination. They find a cave with sufficient spiritual energy in the sect, set up a gathering array outside to speed up the gathering of spiritual energy, and get some elixirs to assist when conditions permit. If they can't get elixirs and are in a hurry to improve their cultivation, they will use spiritual stones more lavishly, so that they can make the most of their resources.
Qingyang has a lot of things to do and it is impossible for him to stay in one place for a long time, so it is not suitable for him to use the conditions of the spiritual vein cave. Fortunately, he has outstanding alchemy skills and can refine the Juyuan Pill by himself, and the success rate is very high. In the case of no shortage of pills, he can increase the speed of cultivation to the fastest.
Of course, buying materials requires a lot of spiritual stones, but Qingyang is a senior pill king, and the success rate of refining Juyuan Pill is much higher than that of ordinary pill kings. With the same materials, he can sell part of the refined pills to continue buying materials, and the rest can be used by himself. However, in this case, refining pills will waste a lot of time. The key depends on how Qingyang balances it.
As for those grapes, Qingyang didn't plan to eat them all by himself. Using elixirs has greatly improved the speed of cultivation. If he used all the grapes to improve his cultivation, Qingyang was worried that his strength would increase too quickly, which would cause an unstable foundation and eventually cause trouble like this breakthrough of the golden elixir.
He planned to use part of it himself, give part to the iron-armed monkey and the alcoholic bee, and use the rest to make wine. After adding grapes, the quality of the wine was greatly improved, which could maximize the effectiveness of grapes. Last time in Jiuxian City, he won the favor of the sloppy Taoist with a jar of wine, not only in exchange for a large number of wind and fire orders, but also a life-saving talisman. Even if he couldn't drink so much of the wine for the time being, it would always be good to have more.
Unconsciously, he thought too much. When he came under the grape trellis, Qingyang finally saw Yu Mengmiao. The situation was urgent at that time. Shi Ruyu had already attacked him. Qingyang was afraid of hurting Yu Mengmiao. He didn't have time to think and directly sent Yu Mengmiao into the Drunken Immortal Gourd with his divine mind. He didn't even have time to take a look at the Drunken Immortal Gourd.
After not seeing each other for a year, Yu Mengmiao was still exactly the same as when Qingyang sent her into the Drunken Immortal Gourd before. She had white hair, wrinkles all over her face, and looked haggard, like an old woman in her eighties or nineties, lying quietly on the ground. Moreover, she was now completely breathless and her body was cold, as if she had died long ago. However, if you sense it carefully, there seemed to be a trace of life deep in her body, like a candle in the wind, a lonely boat in the waves, which seemed to be extinguished and capsized at any time.
Qingyang sat quietly next to Yu Mengmiao, looking at her blankly, recalling bits and pieces of the past. She was innocent and innocent when they first met her. After the accident, she grew up rapidly. In Liangzhou City, she stood up at a young age. She made a vow and said she had grown into a beautiful woman when we met again. She cried with joy when they met again in Luanmo Valley. When they met again in Jingfeng Mountain, she gave everything she had. After decades of separation, she still misses him.
She thought that the lover she met this time would eventually get married, but she didn't know that things are unpredictable. In order to repay her kindness, she actually took the wedding pill and gave all her cultivation to herself. Such a kind-hearted woman had to face such a desperate situation. , such a good woman has to suffer such hardship.
Suddenly, tears fell from Qingyang's face, and for a time countless emotions filled his mind. Some were touched, touched that Yu Mengmiao was so affectionate to him, some were heartbroken, and he was heartbroken that Yu Mengmiao didn't know whether he was alive or dead now, and some were pity, pity that Yu Mengmiao didn't know. It’s only been a short year since he had to endure such suffering and longing for her, but Qingyang felt like he had been separated for half his life.
Of course, there is also regret, regret about why I didn't notice the abnormality in the first place. If time could be turned back, Qingyang would definitely find a way to stop Yu Mengmiao. Even if he didn't form a pill in this life, he would still stop Yu Mengmiao from doing stupid things.