Chapter 1: Lin Xuan
"Ugh!"
A disappointed sigh came from an ordinary looking teenager, his face full of a wooden expression, he had failed again, this was the forty-ninth time he had failed in three months, even though Lin Xuan was tough-minded, he was surrounded by frustration and despair at this moment.
A bitter smile escaped from the corners of the young man's mouth as he shook his head and looked at his hands, were his qualifications really this bad?
Lin Xuan clenched his fist so tightly that his nails had dug deep into his flesh, but it was as if he didn't feel any pain at all.
Lin Xuan was seventeen years old and had been under the Piaoyun Valley's tutelage for three years.
Piaoyun Valley, a small sect in the cultivation world, had nearly a thousand disciples, and Lin Xuan was one of the lower-ranked disciples.
In three years' time, his brothers and sisters who had joined at the same time as him had long since entered the middle stage of Spiritual Movement, and a few with outstanding qualifications had even entered the late fifth level, but he was still lingering at the first level.
It was not that Lin Xuan was not working hard enough, on the contrary, his efforts were second to none among the lower-ranked disciples, others practiced their gong methods once, he practiced them three times, others meditated for an hour, he meditated for three hours, but with such hard work, the harvest was pitifully small, and he was left far behind by everyone else.
There are eight stages of cultivation: spiritual movement, foundation building, dan condensation, genital infancy, separation, dongxuan, divination, and tribulation, each of which is divided into seven levels: the first two levels are the first stage, the third and fourth levels are the middle stage, the fifth and sixth levels are the second stage, and the seventh level is called the Great Perfection, which allows you to enter the next stage once you break through the bottleneck.
Although the immortal path is difficult, but also from the shallow to the deep, for example, the first two layers of the spiritual movement stage of the gong method, are only belong to the beginning, the first layer of good qualifications can be practiced in two months, a little less qualified, three to five months can also be done, unfortunately, this is all refers to people with spiritual roots.
Spiritual roots is a kind of cultivation world, what exactly it refers to, for tens of thousands of years there is no exact description, only that with spiritual roots, in cultivation speed is far faster than ordinary people without spiritual roots, that is to say, in theory, ordinary qualified mortals are not unable to cultivate the truth, just twice the effort ... no, should be paid Theoretically, it is not impossible for a mortal with ordinary qualifications to cultivate the truth.
In simple terms, it's just a case of not being able to please.
And unfortunately, Lin Xuan is an ordinary person with no spiritual roots.
Originally, even if an ordinary person like him with no spiritual roots wanted to embark on the path of immortality cultivation, no sect would be willing to accept him, but Lin Xuan's situation was special.
For three years, Lin Xuan never slackened in his training, practising in winter and summer, sweating much more than others, but even so, he was still far behind his peers.
In the pursuit of the immortal path, qualifications are even more important, and it is hard to make up for it just by *working hard!
Just like the recent rush, Lin Xuan felt that his power had reached the apex of the first level and was just a little short of the second level of the Spiritual Movement stage, but these slight gaps were like a huge chasm, no matter how hard Lin Xuan tried, he could not cross over.
After a long time, Lin Xuan loosened his tightly clenched fist and let out a breath, as if to drive the depression out of his heart, and sat down again on his knees, casting the method of inner vision ...
The internal vision technique is a small spell in the cultivation world that allows one to see the operation of the spiritual energy in one's dantian and meridians, and is an auxiliary spell that is only used during cultivation.
The only thing that existed was a trace of light green gas, which is the legendary spiritual energy.
But the gas was not much and very thin, this was due to Lin Xuan's relatively low power.
The so-called cultivation, that is, going against the heavens, and to go against the heavens, one must have a great divine ability, which involves all kinds of hard trials and tribulations, in order to harness the five elements, absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, refine it, and finally use it for oneself.
This sliver of spiritual energy was what Lin Xuan had gained from three years of cultivation, but of course it was much less compared to his fellow disciples, because without spiritual roots, his path of cultivation was far more arduous than his fellow disciples.
Under the action of his divine sense, the threads of spiritual energy began to gather and twist together. Originally, each thread of spiritual energy was only the thickness of a hair, but as time went on, it gathered into a single spiritual energy about the thickness of a small thumb.
Lin Xuan's head was white and his body was drenched in sweat. Just the process of gathering spiritual energy had made him exert all his strength.
His breathing was a little heavier, but Lin Xuan's face remained unchanged, he had been used to it for three years.
After the spiritual energy had been gathered, Lin Xuan's expression did not relax in the slightest. He carefully released his divine sense and, following the mind techniques taught by his master, controlled the flow of spiritual energy out of his dantian and into his meridians.
For a cultivator, the Dantian is the root for storing spiritual energy, and the eight odd meridians are also very important places. When the spiritual energy runs round from head to toe in the eight odd meridians, it is known as a cycle.
And every time you do such a cycle, your spiritual power will be enhanced a little, although it is minimal, but a little adds up to a lot, and by doing such a cycle several times a day, your spiritual power will gradually grow.
Of course, there are thousands of gong methods in the cultivation world, and each sect has a different path for doing the Great Circumference Cycle, and the effect varies greatly.
The Great Circulation, although a compulsory course for every practitioner, is however not as easy as the outside world might think, and can even be said to be very difficult.
There is no need to worry about the route of the flow of spiritual energy, as it is clearly stated in the Master's Heart Method, so just follow it, but the speed of the flow needs to be figured out by oneself, for no other reason than the fact that everyone has different meridians.
Some people have strong meridians with strong tolerance, so not only can they accommodate more spiritual energy, but they can also flow faster without any problem, while some people have weaker meridians and the situation is completely opposite.
Lin Xuan was only an ordinary person and did not even have spiritual roots, so he needed to put in more effort and consume more time to do the Great Circulation of the Heavens.
With each step, he had to be careful, and if he went faster, not only would he not be able to complete the cycle successfully, but he would damage his meridians.