Chapter 47 Guangnan Biography
Chapter 47 Guangnan Biography
According to the text in the jade slip, the original owner called himself Guangnan Sanren and made the jade slip in the ninth year of Yuanhe in the Song Dynasty. Lin Shan compared it with the present and found that it was about three hundred years ago.
Guangnan Sanren was a sixth-level Qi training cultivator. According to what he wrote, he accidentally got the immortal cultivation method when he was in his twenties. He was ecstatic at the time. After practicing in the mountains for a full year and a half, he reached the peak of the third level of Qi training.
Seeing this, Lin Shan felt that this Guangnan Wanderer had similar aptitude to himself in cultivation, and he had also been practicing for a year and a half. However, he was in the city, and the spiritual energy in the densely populated area was naturally not as good as that in the deep mountains and old forests, but generally speaking, it was about the same.
Next he looked again and saw that after Guangnan Sanren discovered that polishing the acupoints was extremely time-consuming, he left the mountains and traveled around, searching hard for spiritual springs and spiritual caves.
After all, it takes ten years to practice in the secular world. Wouldn't it be easy to go to a place where the spiritual energy is ten or twenty times richer in a few months?
But he later discovered that these places with spiritual veins, no matter how high the concentration of spiritual energy was, were already owned by someone.
Some were occupied by immortal cultivation families, and some were occupied by monsters. As for me, with my strength at the third level of Qi training, no one could afford to offend me.
So after traveling for three years, he returned home sadly. After ten years of hard work, he finally broke through the initial stage of Qi training. At this time, he was already in his early forties.
After reaching the fourth level of Qi training, he found that he had no bottleneck and could practice without worries again, so he continued to grow vegetables in his hometown while practicing with peace of mind.
How happy it is to be at ease!
It took a full ten years to finally reach the peak of the sixth level of Qi training! At this time, the second bottleneck came again.
Lin Shan was shocked when he saw that Guangnan Sanren, who had similar qualifications to him, needed ten years to reach the peak of the sixth level of Qi training! Then he calmed down and calculated his own age. He felt that it was not unacceptable, so he continued to read on.
Guangnan Sanren roughly estimated the bottleneck of the middle stage of Qi training. If he worked hard on his own, it would take him a full thirty years.
But at this time he was already over 50 years old. If he broke through to the late stage of Qi training at the age of 80, he would be almost buried in the ground, and there would be no hope of immortality!
He knew that he started practicing cultivation late due to his age, and there was no spiritual vein environment for cultivation. He could not continue to practice hard on his own, so he went down the mountain to look for opportunities.
Finally one day, he met a prince. The prince was a member of the royal family and had met other immortal masters in the world of cultivation.
Seeing him performing magic by chance, she recognized him at a glance and invited him to be a guest official in the palace. The reward for being a guest official was five spirit stones a year.
Guangnan Sanren had been traveling for many years without any solutions, but now that he had a place to go, he agreed.
In this way, when he was a guest official in the palace, he gradually got to know the immortal masters and guest officials of other princes through the channels of his own prince.
We are all independent cultivators, with no money and no background, otherwise it would be impossible for us to work for mortals.
After all, the spiritual stone mines in the world of cultivation are all controlled by the major sects of immortal cultivation, and the only ones left are the princes in the mortal world who have vast fiefdoms and are able to collect some scattered spiritual stones every year.
Speaking of the world of cultivation three hundred years ago, there were many sects, large and small, but most of them were hidden in the mountains.
However, Guangnan Sanren emphasized the three top sects in the Song Dynasty.
Zixiao Sect, Qianyun Pavilion, and Beast Taming Valley.
It is said that the three major sects have dominated the land of Song Dynasty for thousands of years! During this period, there have been changes of dynasties in this land, but the mortal dynasties have no influence on the major sects of cultivation.
The Zixiao Sect is a Taoist sect. It is said that when the sect's treasured book "Purple Qi Heart Sutra" is practiced to perfection, the purple sky divine thunder summoned out can be comparable to a heavenly calamity.
Qianyun Pavilion is a weapon refining sect. Half of the magic weapons in the Song Dynasty's cultivation world are basically owned by his family, and he has several weapon refining masters. Yushugu is a sect that is good at driving spiritual insects and spiritual beasts. It is said that this sect is full of various poisonous insects and spiritual beasts, and the disciples in it are also the most difficult people to mess with in the world of cultivation.
Under these three major sects are the major immortal cultivation families and small and medium-sized sects. Each of these immortal cultivation families and sects also occupies spiritual vein resources, and the worst of them have cultivators in the foundation-building stage.
It is said that some powerful families and sects even have Jindan-stage ancestors in charge.
Seeing this, Lin Shan's breathing suddenly became rapid. The following was indeed what he wanted to know!
After a cultivator has perfected the ninth level of Qi training, he must prepare for a hundred days of foundation building. Every failure in foundation building will damage his potential.
Once the foundation is successfully built, one can enter the second stage of cultivation, the foundation building period. It is also called the light condensing period, the qi condensing period, and so on. It represents the initial condensation of qi and spirit!
At this point, the spiritual consciousness can be released outwards.
You can transmit secret messages, fly with a sword, and detect areas within a hundred meters around you. You can even stop eating grains and completely fast, which will double your lifespan and you can live up to two hundred years!
Lin Shan looked at it and couldn't help but feel fascinated.
The divine consciousness can be released within a radius of 100 meters! It is many times stronger than that of the Qi training stage. This is the real immortal cultivator.
The Qi training period is just the starting stage. If your cultivation is not enough, you may even be knocked down to dust by mortals.
And building the foundation is the real starting point of cultivating immortals and the beginning of flying with a sword.
The book then briefly talks about the subsequent realms. It is said that the lifespan of the Jindan stage is 400 years, and the Yuanying stage is even 800 years. If there is a longevity elixir, it is possible to live to be a thousand-year-old monster.
With each major realm, lifespan is multiplied.
"The Nascent Soul stage can even live for a thousand years!"
Lin Shan did not aim too high this time, as these were still far away from him. He would always have a chance to see the scenery from a higher place later, but now he could just take one step at a time, there was no rush.
Next, Guangnan Sanren began to continue his experience. During his stay as a guest in the palace, he met many independent cultivators and learned about a small immortal cultivation town called "Yinchuan". Guangnan Sanren spoke highly of this place.
It is said that the residents there are all immortal cultivators, and the immortal cultivator market was built by the independent cultivators. There are not only various treasures, skills and elixirs from the world of cultivation, but also many immortal cultivators live there for many years to practice, because there are also spiritual veins there.
However, Guangnan Sanren did not mark the specific coordinates of "Yinchuan", and Lin Shan did not know where to go to find the "Yinchuan" mentioned in the book after three hundred years.
But I made a note of it so I could look for it slowly later.
Then Guangnan Sanren said that once, another guest cultivator from another royal palace invited him to go to the Xiuxian Market "Yinchuan". Guangnan Sanren had wanted to go for a long time, so he agreed without hesitation, and the two of them immediately set off for Yinchuan.
After arriving in Yinchuan, the Guangnan people discovered that compared with the fairyland like Yinchuan, the secular dynasty outside was just a desolate mountain village, and the concentration of spiritual energy was simply incomparable!
If he had come here to practice and hone his skills earlier, he wouldn't have had to wait until he was so old to reach the middle stage of Qi training, wasting his best years.
After learning more about the Yinchuan market, Guangnan Sanren felt that the "information gap" was the gap between the independent cultivators. He had to stay in the Xiuxian market to obtain more first-hand information about the cultivation world, gain more knowledge, insights, and even cultivation!
So, despite the earnest advice of his friends who were also independent practitioners, he resolutely resigned his position as a guest official in the palace, and came to the "Yinchuan" market town to settle down, bringing with him more than ten years of offerings, a total of sixty or seventy spirit stones.
But when he really tried to integrate, he realized that he had thought too highly of everything.
(End of this chapter)