Chapter 70: Half a Year of Hard Training
After Shi Xuan returned to the cave and put away the dry food, he was not in a hurry to practice, but adjusted his breath and concentrated his mind to restore the whole person to the best state.
Picking up the Wanxiang Wuying Sword, looking at the flying sword that was like a breeze in his hand, Shi Xuan was very satisfied. Although it could not be refined to the sixth level of the prohibition for the time being, it should be enough before he formed the pill.
The jade slip of the sacrifice technique provided the "True Method of the Wind Prohibition of the Existence and Non-Existence", which is an extremely powerful prohibition true method. At the beginning, Taoist Yuyang planned to refine a replica of the magic weapon Invisible Sword because he got this prohibition true method.
Unfortunately, Taoist Yuyang has died in a cave in the Western Wilderness. The "True Method of the Wind Prohibition of the Existence and Non-Existence" provided now only has the first two levels, which can only refine the flying sword to the perfection of the second level. No wonder this flying sword can't be sold! You must know that the "True Method of the Wind Prohibition of the Existence and Non-Existence" is only available in the four major sects of Luofu Xianpai, Yingzhoupai, Guanghan Sect, and Penglaipa, and it is not allowed to be learned by non-inner disciples.
But Shi Xuan didn't care about this now. When the whole jade slip was used as a flying sword, he had anticipated this situation. Otherwise, the complete jade slip of "The True Method of the Wind Prohibition of the Formless and the Unformed" could be sold for dozens of high-grade spirit stones, and it was still the kind that was in short supply.
Shi Xuan carefully read the prohibition and refining method of "The True Method of the Wind Prohibition of the Formless and the Unformed", and pondered it several times, and then he slowly penetrated his mind into the flying sword according to the instructions of the jade slip.
As soon as he entered the flying sword, he could feel the sharp and piercing sword energy from all directions. Fortunately, the original owner's mark had been erased, otherwise with Shi Xuan's current cultivation, he would most likely have been shattered by the sword energy. After all, this sword is a top-grade flying sword except for many restrictions.
According to the refining method of "The True Method of the Wind Prohibition of the Formless and the Unformed", Shi Xuan visualized the divine will of the invisible wind, and used this divine will to command the divine will entering the flying sword, and slowly left his own mark in the center of the flying sword's restriction.
Half a quarter of an hour later, the Wanxiang Wuying Sword held in Shi Xuan's hands shook lightly, making a crisp sound, and then slowly rose up and floated in the air more than two inches above Shi Xuan's hand.
Shi Xuan pointed, and the whole sword turned into a pale blue glass-like sword light, circling and stabbing up and down in the cave. Unfortunately, Shi Xuan had just left a mark and had not had time to master the restriction. The flying sword was extremely clumsy, and the shadowless style was not brought into play.
Strike while the iron is hot, Shi Xuan began to master the restriction that had been sacrificed before. Mastering the restriction is just to cooperate with the mark left in the center of the restriction. When visualizing, you only need to visualize the entire layer of restrictions again. The time used is about one-tenth of the time of refining the restriction or even less. Therefore, Shi Xuan mastered the first layer of restrictions in less than a quarter of an hour.
At this point, Shi Xuan can use the Wanxiang Wuying Sword as easily as using his arms and fingers, but the power is not great.
After putting away the Wanxiang Wuying Sword, Shi Xuan did not intend to master it all at once. First, his own practice was more important, and he only needed to take time out every day to practice it. Second, he was in the cave, and his safety was greatly guaranteed, so he did not need to master the Wanxiang Wuying Sword in a hurry.
Feeling that his soul power had been consumed a lot, Shi Xuan thought for a while, took out the bottle of the Soul Condensing Pill, poured out a pill in his hand, and planned to try the medicine first, and also provide a reference for future use to restore soul power.
The Soul Condensing Pill is a jade-colored pill, which exudes a faint fragrance of hundreds of flowers. When taken into the mouth, it immediately turns into a stream of sweet water.
"Huh." Shi Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. After taking the Soul Condensing Pill, the internal energy was stimulated by the power of the medicine, and it ran faster. There were also some strange substances mixed in it. Under the nourishment of the internal energy and these strange substances, the soul will recover 70% faster than normal visualization.
But Shi Xuan didn't like this feeling very much. The uncontrolled internal energy and the uncontrolled strange substances made him feel that this was not his own body. He couldn't stop even if he wanted to. It seems that in the future, it can only be used as an emergency in the process of fighting and being hunted, and it cannot be used as a regular method to replenish soul power after normal practice or refining magic tools.
When the effect of the medicine wore off, Shi Xuan gradually calmed down and began to practice today. First, he used the Qingfeng Mingyue Zhaoshen Zhenfa to nourish the soul and remove impurities. While improving the soul cultivation, he also improved the control of the soul.
After doing the Qingfeng Mingyue Zhaoshen Zhenfa, Shi Xuan began to visualize the "Five Directions Thunder God True Form Diagram". This time it was a process from the inside out of the soul sensing the five internal organs and five gods, and the five internal organs and five gods sensing the flesh.
In this process, the soul that has already left the body has a clear sense of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but how to pass this sense to the five internal organs and five gods, and then the five internal organs and five gods pass this feeling to the flesh?
This is a slow and steady process. On the one hand, you need to increase the cultivation of the soul so that you can feel the spiritual energy of heaven and earth more clearly. On the other hand, you need to improve the control of the soul so that you can effectively transmit the feeling of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to the physical body through the mysterious connection established by visualizing the "True Form Diagram of the Five Thunder Gods". Both are indispensable.
Step by step, you need to improve the physical body's feeling of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and finally reach a limit, completely breaking the barrier between the physical body and heaven and earth, and also breaking the barrier between the physical body and the internal organs. This is the Qi-inducing period.
After receiving the guidance of Daoquanzi, Shi Xuan's soul cultivation broke through the bottleneck period, and his body's induction of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth also changed from none at the beginning to the present. It will take about ten years to reach the limit. By then, he can break through to the Qi-inducing stage without taking the Supreme Induction Pill. But this is because Shi Xuan is practicing the supreme method and has the "True Form Diagram of the Five Thunder Gods". Normal cultivators without good methods and pills will need decades, and many will not be able to break through until they die.
After finishing this training, Shi Xuan sat on the stone bed, but he remembered what Ming Qingyue mentioned. At this stage, he also needs to temper the body, internal organs, and meridians to improve their tolerance. However, his body has reached the limit of this stage. How can he temper the body, internal organs, and meridians?
After thinking carefully for a while, Shi Xuan had an idea and crossed his legs again to enter the visualization, continuing to visualize the "True Form Diagram of the Five Thunder Gods". However, this time, it was no longer to transmit the soul's induction of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to the five internal organs and five gods, but the soul communicated with the five internal organs through the established mysterious connection, allowing them to start moving on their own.
Slow! The soul transmitted this idea to the five internal organs, and the five internal organs immediately slowed down, and even the heart beat very slowly. Fast! The five internal organs immediately moved quickly, and the heart beat banging.
Under the command of the soul, the process of strengthening the body from the five internal organs to the meridians, and from the meridians to the flesh began from the inside out. The tempering step by step was just the opposite of the first stage of Qi training, but it played a tonic role, pushing Shi Xuan's body, which was originally thought to have reached its limit, to a higher level.
After a period of practice, Shi Xuan discharged a lot of black liquid, and his internal organs felt refreshed. After a round of boxing, it was indeed a bit more powerful than before. Of course, this was the first time to temper the body so that there would be such obvious progress, and the effect would be much worse later.
I didn't expect that the "True Form Diagram of the Five Thunder Gods" could be used in this way. Why didn't it mention it in the "Baolu"? Could it be a simple usage that doesn't need to be mentioned? Shi Xuan almost burst into tears when he thought of this. It's so sad that he doesn't have a master.
In the process of tempering the body from the inside out, not only the tolerance of the internal organs, the body, and the meridians has been improved, but this kind of visualization practice has also greatly trained the ability to control the soul. It's really a pleasant surprise. Shi Xuan overturned his previous idea. I'm afraid it will take less than ten years. Six or seven years should be enough. Of course, everything is just Shi Xuan's own speculation.
More than five months later.
A ray of clear light circulated in Shi Xuan's cave, sometimes there and sometimes not, but the hard stone table could not stop it at all. It passed through without any effort and returned to Shi Xuan's hand, but a small hole was left on the stone table.
Looking at the Wanxiang Wuying Sword, which had become a beam of light and was circling back and forth in his palm, Shi Xuan nodded with satisfaction. He first spent more than a month to completely master the sixteen layers of restrictions that had been refined, and then spent another four months to refine the seventeenth layer of "The True Method of the Wind Restriction of the Existence and Non-Existence". This flying sword has now become a rare weapon in the Out-of-Body Stage.
The Soul-Bewitching Banner has been refined to the thirteenth layer of restrictions. The power of the foul mist is more than twice as strong as before, and the range has also expanded to a radius of twenty feet. The ability of the black light to brush people and make them dizzy has also reached the point where the Out-of-Body Stage cultivators will be directly stunned when they are not prepared, and the defense can withstand the second-level top-grade magic.
The most gratifying change is that for the cultivators in the Qi-Nourishing Stage and the Body-Forging Stage, the black light can directly brush their souls out of the flesh, with a 50% chance of being blown away by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and a 50% chance of being imprisoned in the Soul-Bewitching Banner by the black light. The Soul-Bewitching Banner finally showed some ability related to life and death, which was worthy of Shi Xuan's use of the restriction of the magic weapon "Life and Death Plate" to refine it.
During this period of time, Shi Xuan, in addition to eating delicious food once a month, has been practicing hard in his own cave. Not only has he refined two magic tools, but his own cultivation has also made great progress. At least his control ability to cast spells and innate minor magical powers has become stronger, and he can cast them more times. Originally, with Shi Xuan's soul power, if he simply used Shangqing Hand Pivot Thunder, it would have been used up after about twenty times, but now it can be used more than thirty times.
This shows that Shi Xuan's soul control and strength have been greatly improved. Although he did not take elixirs, his soul strength is much slower than those cultivators who rely on elixirs to improve their cultivation, but his control ability is much stronger than them.
Why does Shi Xuan know what the situation is for those cultivators who rely on elixirs to improve their cultivation? That's because Ming Qingyue has come to Shi Xuan whenever she has the chance for the past five months. This is not because she likes him, but because as the youngest in the family with the lowest cultivation, it is rare to find a guy with a sincere and humble attitude, lower cultivation than herself, who listens to her advice and has no covetous thoughts about herself. Ming Qingyue really feels like a master.
Shi Xuan is of course happy to have someone to guide him. In the past five months, his cultivation has improved a lot, and Ming Qingyue has also made a great contribution. It's a pity that she was sent to Penglai Island by her father a few days ago, otherwise Shi Xuan would have planned to treat her to a banquet to express his gratitude.
Tomorrow Shi Xuan will leave Chaoxifang and take a boat to Penglai Island. Shi Xuan originally thought that he could take the teleportation array to go there, but who knew that when Ming Qingyue found out, she laughed at him and directly gave up this idea.
Because of the several months of instruction, Ming Qingyue was not so polite to Shi Xuan. At that time, she laughed and said, "Don't you think about it? Which sect would build a formation that others can be teleported to at any time? Wouldn't they worry about being attacked by the enemy? Senior sister tells you that there are only a few secret teleportation formations on Penglai Island that can directly reach the main island. The other teleportation formations go to other surrounding islands, and then drive magic tools or take a boat to go there. And Mingyue Island is one of these other surrounding islands."