Chapter 47: Immortal Cultivation Beyond Cognition

Luan Qingyu, who was soaking in the jar, did not feel the slightest bit of shame about having her body studied so precisely by a man at the nanometer scale. At this moment, apart from the pleasure brought by absorbing the purest spiritual energy, the only additional emotion she felt was incomparable curiosity.

Wen Rui was actually wrong about one thing. Luan Qingyu was not a stupid monster with incomplete transformation and low IQ and EQ.

Qingluan is a descendant of the Phoenix. In mortal perception, the Phoenix represents the loyal love between men and women, just like other auspicious symbols such as the mandarin ducks and the dragon and the phoenix. But in fact, it is very contrary to common sense that the nature of the Phoenix and the crane is essentially different.

The concept of dragon and phoenix appearing together as auspicious signs simply does not exist in this era. In the current era, the dragon and phoenix clans of the Fengshen World are deeply hostile to each other and have not yet reached a reconciliation from the hatred left over from the dragon and phoenix catastrophe in ancient times.

It is very likely that the auspicious pattern of dragon and phoenix handed down from ancient times recorded a pair of enemy dragon and phoenix fighting each other to the death, but was misinterpreted by later historical inventors as loving each other.

The phoenix is a sacred beast, and is fundamentally different from ordinary birds like the white crane. It has an aloofness that transcends all levels of life.

The demon cultivators who transformed into white cranes might involuntarily imitate human behavior and tend to develop human emotions, but the Phoenix people would never do that.

There are many species in the ancient world, and the differences between species are huge. Even if many species appear to be humans, their ways of thinking are very different.

Although both are sacred beasts, the dragon and the phoenix have completely different sexual concepts. In a nutshell: dragons are arrogant and phoenixes are aloof.

The reproduction method of the Phoenix clan is not the combination of yin and yang like ordinary creatures, but the interaction of yin and yang. For example, when the Phoenix gave birth to Peng and Peacock, it was the result of the yin and yang energy of heaven and earth, without the participation of males at all.

When they first met, in He Lingyun's mind, even though Wen Rui's cultivation was a little lower, he was at least a creature of the same level. His mentality was like that of a fighting master looking at a baby.

Later she discovered that the other party was not a baby, but an extremely ferocious muscular man, which immediately aroused the crane girl's female consciousness.

However, the image of the mortal Wen Rui in Luan Qingyu's mind is just like how mortals view cockroaches, mosquitoes, and bedbugs. The difference in the essence of life is too great, and it is difficult to regard them as the same kind, let alone as the opposite sex.

Even the most shy and innocent girl would not refuse to change clothes and take a bath just because there is a fly or a mosquito in the room, right?
If there really are such people, they are not just shy, they are mentally ill.

Luan Qingyu took off her clothes in front of Wen Rui without hesitation because of this mentality. A better analogy is that even if she is a queen or a noble concubine, she would not care about having eunuchs serving her when she takes a bath. In essence, it is a kind of arrogance of a lower status to the point of ignoring the existence of contempt.

As things developed, Luan Qingyu's mentality was also changing. Seeing Wen Rui's focused research through the glass jar, the girl developed strange feelings in her heart.

It has nothing to do with love between men and women, it's just that the dragon clan admires the strong and the phoenix admires the virtuous. It is the nature of the Phoenix clan's genes to have a natural liking for the wise and the virtuous.

Due to her limited knowledge, Luan Qingyu had no idea what Wen Rui was researching, but she also understood that it must be something very powerful.

She can create spiritual energy with a purity close to that of the original one, and can draw a meridian guidance map that is clearer and more accurate than her own inner vision. This is a magical skill that none of the immortal elders of the Phoenix clan can perform.

Deep down, Luan Qingyu didn't really take He Lingyun's admiration for Wen Rui seriously. She just thought that the girl from a small family was short-sighted and liked to make a fuss about nothing and regard dregs as treasures.

In the eyes of the holy beast, everything is empty and unorthodox. Only a high level of cultivation can truly represent great wisdom.

However, at this moment her mentality changed 180 degrees. Wen Rui's cultivation was indeed low, but the extraordinary means and understanding of cultivation he demonstrated were beyond the reach of those with higher cultivation.

Just imagine, if he possessed superb spiritual roots and used this machine to improve his own cultivation, then what realm would he reach?
I'm afraid he had already passed the calamity and ascended to heaven hundreds of years ago!
"Please concentrate on regulating your breathing, Junior Sister Luan. From the data analysis, you must have been distracted just now. The spiritual energy in your meridians is not flowing smoothly. Please refer to the diagram to correct the wrong spiritual path."

Just as he was lost in thought, he heard Wen Rui's serious reminder. Luan Qingyu was stunned and quickly looked over as instructed. He saw a 3D human body projection appear in front of him, with the dense meridian network marked with many green, yellow and red lines.

There are also text annotations next to the projection image, green represents normal spiritual power transmission, yellow represents stagnation, and red represents interruption.

It was so intuitive and detailed! Even if there was a little problem with her distraction just now, Luan Qingyu would hardly notice it during normal practice. However, Senior Brother Wen knew her current practice status better than she did and gave such clear guidance.

Comparing with the schematic diagram, Luan Qingyu hurriedly adjusted it until the yellow and red lines on the diagram disappeared, leaving only the reassuring green line.

After completing the adjustment, Luan Qingyu's mind became clearer and she seemed to have an epiphany. This was a sign of perfect breathing regulation, proving that she had reached the best state of cultivation, where heaven and man were in harmony and heaven and man were in sympathy with each other. Her cultivation efficiency increased several times, and her insights continued to flourish.

If she were to practice in seclusion alone, it would be hard for her to enter this ideal state of practice once in a hundred times. However, under Wen Rui's guidance, she could enter it so easily, and even if she was distracted, she could adjust and enter again at any time.

When Wen Rui said that he wanted to compress a hundred years of practice time into one month, Luan Qingyu thought it was just nonsense at first. But now with the unlimited supply of high-purity spiritual energy and the perfect breathing effect throughout the process, combined with his normal practice speed, even if it could not be shortened to an exaggerated one month, it should not be a problem to shorten it to ten years.

The tenfold increase in cultivation speed is not unique in the current era of cultivation, but it can be said to be rare in the world!
There are ways to improve faster, such as Asura's way of killing, devouring and plundering, the immortal pills bestowed by higher-level gods or the use of great supernatural powers to be promoted, saving the world to gain the blessing of heaven's tremendous merits, and so on.

However, these methods all have certain flaws. The Shura way will result in excessive slaughter and will be difficult to eliminate, and will inevitably backfire; the promotion by the grace of the upper gods will exhaust their potential and will forever remain at the level set by the gods, and can be deprived of it at any time by the blessing gods; becoming a saint through merit is always weaker than achieving promotion through one's own hard work.

The method provided by Wen Rui simulated the spiritual ecology of ancient times and refined the control of the meridian operation, which was almost equivalent to the effect of normal hard training. The only hidden danger was that the mental comprehension of the current realm could not keep up with the speed of spiritual energy accumulation, which was the "unstable foundation" mentioned by Luan Qingyu at the beginning.

Of course, this hidden danger was not caused by Wen Rui's bad method. If anyone was to blame, it was Luan Qingyu's low intelligence, poor comprehension, and slow improvement in his own character.

While Luan Qingyu was excited, she also felt regretful. After all, she had just been promoted to the Nascent Soul Stage, and her understanding of many of the mysteries of the Nascent Soul Stage was still superficial. She was afraid that she would be dragged down by her own comprehension and waste such a good opportunity for rapid advancement.

"Junior Sister Luan, I'm going to talk about the key points next. Pay attention to the diagram and listen carefully."

Her thoughts were interrupted again by Senior Brother Wen's words. She quickly perked up and looked over. She saw Wen Rui sliding his finger to control the 3D diagram, which froze the image at the lower abdomen of the human figure. Then the image continued to zoom in, and she didn't know how many times it was magnified, and a small spherical structure appeared.

"This is where your golden elixir is."

Wen Rui pointed at the small ball and said, "Let's continue to zoom in on the picture, and we can clearly see the difference between the golden elixir at the beginning of the Nascent Soul stage and the golden elixir at the Great Perfection stage."

He gestured, and the picture was magnified many times. The ball filled the entire screen. Luan Qingyu could see clearly that there was a small light spot in the core of the golden elixir ball, and countless winding spiritual power wires intersected on the light spot from the surface of the golden elixir. The light spot was not static, but flickered steadily and persistently with the rhythm of her heartbeat.

"When the Golden Core was in Great Perfection, this light spot did not exist." Wen Rui explained slowly in a documentary style: "However, after the promotion to the Nascent Soul, changes quietly occurred in the core of the Golden Core. At this moment, it was as if the rhythm of life had sprouted."

"The Nascent Soul stage is the period when the primordial spirit is born and nurtured, and the Spiritualization stage is the period when the primordial spirit grows and becomes stronger." Teacher Wen talked eloquently. Obviously, he was just a mortal, but he spoke as if he had already experienced and completed the cultivation process.

"Take a close look at this golden elixir that is beginning to change. Do you feel that it resembles something?" Wen Rui said earnestly, "You are a cultivator who transformed into a bird. You should not feel unfamiliar with it, right?"

"It looks like a bird egg that has just begun to hatch..." Luan Qingyu subconsciously opened his mouth to answer the question, but his voice could not be heard at all.

Wen Rui seemed to understand the lip language and nodded in approval, "Right, that's right, it looks like a bird's egg. But in fact, the early stages of the fertilized egg of any organism are similar to the hatching of a bird's egg, and the first thing to be born is the fetal heart. This knowledge point is on page 42 of the "Biology" volume of the Jiejiao Nine-Year Compulsory Education Series."

"The key point of the Heavenly Dao Law that one must comprehend during the Nascent Soul stage is how the source of life is born. The key to the birth of the source of life is not just the process of material evolution such as the germination of the fertilized egg, the growth of the embryo, and the differentiation of tissues. The key is to understand how 'self-consciousness' appears, how it grows, and how it stabilizes, and then understand the essence of the basic concept of 'I' and uncover the answer to the three basic philosophical questions of 'Who am I'..."

Luan Qingyu was mesmerized by what he heard. This was exactly the case where listening to your words was better than a hundred years of self-realization. Many vague clues that he had comprehended in his previous cultivation were connected together at once, forming a system like an outline.

Although she did not immediately realize some ultimate truth, she received clear guidance on the direction of enlightenment, just like a lost traveler in the desert who found a compass. All her confusion and even despair were swept away. As long as she kept moving in the right direction, no matter how difficult the process was, she would eventually reach the oasis, cross the sea of sand, and reach the other side.

(End of this chapter)

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