Chapter 16: Performing the Magic Chapter
Chapter 16: Demonstrating the Magical Dharma and Talking about Cultivation
With a flick of his wide sleeves, Taoist Fu Guang pointed his fingertips at the void, and a surging sea of clouds spread out. Sparks of fire danced in it, and dozens of fire crows flew through it. Chu Tai knew that this was Taoist Fu Guang preaching to him.
The rolling sea of clouds represents the ups and downs of magic power, the dancing of fire crows represents a magical power of flying, and at the same time different fire crows represent the cultivation concepts of other magic techniques. At a glance, Chu Tai understood several different ways of performing fire magic.
Then, the fire crows circled and gathered together, fire vapor rose, sunlight condensed, and the shadow of a three-legged golden crow appeared and disappeared in the center of the fire crows, shining like a big sun slowly rising.
This change not only contains the highest essence of sublimating Nanyan Yunhua's Qi into Nanyan Cave's Fuxiyao Zhenqi, but also hides some of the ideas of Taoist Fuguang who practiced hard for a hundred years in the past, trying to further sublimate it and push himself to break through the fifth level.
Chu Tai watched carefully, silently taking note of the experience accumulated by these predecessors, but the Golden Crow's shadow became more and more lively, and its eyes gradually contained spirituality, as if it had consciousness. At the same time, a wisp of black gas appeared very abruptly, surrounding the Golden Crow, causing black spots to appear on the sun that was gradually solidifying.
The Golden Crow let out a piercing scream, spread its wings, and raging flames. Chu Tai retreated to the rear and looked back at Taoist Fu Guang. He saw black air rolling on his face and yin energy surging. Two golden lights, one bright and one dark, were entangled with each other, controlling the spread of the black air.
Slowly, the black gas gradually dissipated, but the Golden Crow in the sea of clouds also lost its charm, and turned into a fireball and fell back into the sea of clouds, generating a large black fog containing sparks, which swallowed up nearly a hundred fire crows around it.
"Cough cough!"
Taoist Fu Guang started coughing violently, and Chu Tai hurried forward to help him swallow three Bai Yun Ying Xia Dan pills. A faint white mist flowed on Taoist Fu Guang's face, and with each breath he exhaled a few wisps of black mist filled with a cold and gloomy aura.
The grass around was covered with a little mist, and some were frozen, eroded, or turned yellow, as lifeless as a broken branch exposed to the scorching sun for dozens of days.
Taoist Fu Guang's eyes dimmed. "The Nine Springs Yin Jing Mengbo Qi is indeed the Yin Jing Sect's unique fourth-grade true Qi. To this day, I have not been able to completely eliminate it. In addition, in the past two years, I have restored my true Qi to the innate Qi, and most of my eight hundred years of cultivation have dissipated, making it even less useful. In this state, I still forcefully interpret the true meaning of the technique and cause such a mess. It is really embarrassing."
"Teaching me magical skills is a great favor, so why should I say it's embarrassing? Besides, your previous demonstrations are enough for me to understand the mystery of the Southern Flame Cloud Hua Qi, and I am even confident that I can directly condense the Southern Flame Cave's Fu Xi Yao True Qi."
Chu Tai said it lightly, but in his heart he was secretly amazed at Taoist Fu Guang's profound cultivation and the hard work he had put into his past practice.
Whether it was his so-called half-century of cultivation, or Taoist Fuguang's so-called hundreds of years of cultivation, in fact, it was a way used by most cultivators in this world to distinguish between personal cultivation and combat effectiveness before True Lord Taiyi established the nine-grade system.
This way of classification originated from Qingshi Zhenjun, a senior immortal who was as famous as Taiyi Zhenjun. According to the records in the Jinhua Sect's ancient books, he was the senior immortal who had practiced for the longest time in the world today.
According to records, True Lord Qingshi has been specializing in the refinement of his own vital energy since the beginning of his practice. He refined his own vital energy from invisible and intangible to invisible and substantial, and then from invisible and substantial to invisible and intangible. He refined it repeatedly for 9981 times. During the last nine tempering processes, he absorbed a large amount of Daluo Tianguang, and his properties were even better than the innate Qi. Therefore, the Tao Fruit he achieved was called the Innate Qi Tao Fruit.
Before he achieved the highest level of merit as a celestial being, he also preached throughout the world when he first achieved the highest level of immortality.
The first few chapters of his practice, "The Xiantian Yiqi Sutra", were spread to the world by him. It became the most impartial and peaceful way to enter the Tao between heaven and earth at that time, and is also one of the sources of many exercises between heaven and earth today.
It's just that this "Xiantian Yiqi Jing" is a very slow and tedious process. Although it is not very difficult to get started, the accumulation of magical powers is very slow and extremely time-consuming and energy-consuming. If you want to go faster, the external environment requirements are extremely high, especially in the later stages, when you need the assistance of Daluo Tianguang. Therefore, with the passage of time and the changes in the environment, it gradually disappeared in the long river of history.
But its influence has never faded, and using years as a way to divide the level of cultivation and magical power is its remaining trace.
After all, according to the theory of "The Xiantian Yiqi Jing", the Yuanqi in the world is divided into different levels. The accumulation of magic power and cultivation over a certain number of years has a minimum limit for the amount of Yuanqi that can be collected.
It is a crude magical power that ordinary people collect from the essence of water and grain in the human body. It accumulates very quickly. People with average qualifications do not need any tonic foods as long as they keep up with their diet. They can accumulate nearly a decade of magical power in half a decade.
But after accumulating this kind of superficial magic power for sixty years, there is no further progress. It is also easy to make further progress.
Or you can compress and refine your magic power through practicing day after day.
Or you can use magic power to cleanse yourself, make your physique more adaptable to the operation of Yuan Qi, and improve the quality of food intake, drive up the quality of water and grain essence, and ultimately affect the quality of condensed magic power.
Or you can introduce external energy and mix it into the magic power to improve the level of magic power.
Apart from the first kind of hard work and the second kind of waste of resources, the third kind of gathering external energy cannot be used at will.
For example, the water vapor collected from an ordinary stream is not as good as the magic power refined from the essence of water and grain. Gathering the energy into the body will only pollute the magic power. It is necessary to adapt to the time and the earth's energy to make it barely usable. Afterwards, it must be carefully polished when it is inhaled and exhaled into the body in order to drive the transformation of the magic power.
However, in this way, the time for collection is limited, and the subsequent polishing is time-consuming and laborious. Even after a year of hard work, it is not necessarily possible to accumulate enough mana corresponding to one year of "Xiantian Yiqi Jing".
In contrast, if one practices in a large river while collecting water vapor, as long as one finds a suitable location, the collected water vapor can be polished for a while to drive the transformation of crude magic power. There is no limit on the collection time, and the subsequent polishing will take less time. One year of practice is equivalent to several years of hard work for those who practice near a stream.
Similarly, practicing in some blessed places and caves is much more efficient than practicing in the big rivers and lakes.
If combined with some special techniques, it is possible to collect several kinds of energy at the same time and hone superior magic power, with even higher efficiency.
This is also one of the reasons why many orthodox Taoist practitioners can surpass those who have practiced for hundreds of years after practicing for just a few decades.
The environment, techniques, diet, and the benefits of cultivation brought by many inheritances have led to a huge difference in the quality of the mana and true qi in the two bodies.
Taoist Fu Guang practiced for about four to five Jiazi years, and in less than three hundred years he cultivated the fifth level of true Qi, accumulating eight hundred years of practice. In addition to his special skills and sufficient supply of external resources, his hard work was also indispensable.
Taoist Fu Guang relaxed his brows, wrinkled his crow's feet, and smiled: "You are good at talking. Well, I am not in a good condition to continue to sacrifice this thing, so I will leave it to you. You usually nourish it with the gold and fire evil spirit, and when you need it, you can release the red fire red clouds and golden light, which is like red clouds. It is both offensive and defensive, and it is quite mysterious."
As he spoke, a small flag appeared in Taoist Fu Guang's hand and he handed it to Chu Tai.
Irresponsible small classroom of Yiqi:
In order to make it easier for everyone to understand, we will continue to use the game to simply divide the concepts such as true Qi, golden elixir, primordial infant, true talisman, and altar.
It is similar to exclusive equipment in nature. Apart from expanding the health bar and mana pool, it has certain bonuses for specific skills or specific achievements. The higher the grade of the true Qi, the higher the value of the bonus, and the wider the area of the bonus, but the equipment requirements are also higher and it is more difficult to obtain.
It should be noted that after condensing the True Qi, Golden Elixir, Yuanying, True Talisman, and Altar, further breakthroughs do not necessarily require upgrading the existing exclusive equipment to the extreme. Most people only need to upgrade it by half, or even one third, to try to break through to the fifth level.
(End of this chapter)