A sigh of disappointment came. An ordinary-looking young man with a blank expression on his face failed again. This was already the forty-ninth time he failed in the past three months. Even Lin Xuan was mentally tough and frustrated at this time.
and surrounded by despair.
There was a bitter smile on the corner of the young man's mouth. He shook his head and looked at his hands. Are his qualifications really that bad?
Lin Xuan clenched his fists tightly, and his nails dug deeply into his flesh, but he didn't seem to feel any pain at all.
Lin Xuan is seventeen years old this year and has been a disciple of Piaoyun Valley for three years.
Piaoyun Valley is a small sect in the world of cultivation, with nearly a thousand disciples, and Lin Xuan is one of the low-level disciples.
In three years, the senior fellow apprentices who started at the same time as him have already entered the middle stage of agility, and a few with outstanding qualifications have even entered the late stage of the fifth level, but he is still lingering on the first level.
The reason for such slow progress is not that Lin Xuan doesn't work hard enough. On the contrary, his efforts are second to none among the low-level disciples. If others practice the exercises once, he will practice them three times. If others meditate for one hour, he will practice them for three hours. But like this
After hard work, the harvest was pitiful, and he was left far behind by everyone. Lin Xuan was filled with a sense of frustration.
Cultivation is divided into eight stages: agility, foundation building, pill condensation, Yuanying, clutching, Dongxuan, distraction, and transcending tribulation. Each stage is divided into seven levels. The first and second levels are the early stage, and the third and fourth levels are the middle stage.
, the fifth and sixth levels are the later stage, and the seventh level is called Dzogchen. As long as you break through the bottleneck, you can enter the next stage.
Although the immortal path is difficult, it still proceeds from the shallower to the deeper. For example, the first two levels of skills in the spiritual stage are only for beginners. The first level can be practiced in two months if you have good qualifications, and in three to five months if you have less qualifications.
Done, unfortunately, these all refer to people with spiritual roots.
Spiritual roots are a term used in the world of cultivation. What they refer to specifically has not been accurately described for tens of thousands of years. It is only known that those with spiritual roots can practice much faster than ordinary people without spiritual roots.
That is to say, theoretically speaking, it is not that ordinary people with ordinary qualifications cannot cultivate, they just get half the result with twice the result... No, it should be ten times the effort, but it is not half as good as others.
To put it simply, it is thankless.
Unfortunately, Lin Xuan is just an ordinary person without spiritual roots.
Originally, for an ordinary person like him with no spiritual roots, even if he wanted to embark on the path of cultivating immortals, no sect would be willing to accept him. However, Lin Xuan's situation is quite special. Three years ago, he saved Piao Yun by chance.
An elder in the valley was seriously injured. The elder was grateful and introduced him to the small sect of cultivation in Piaoyun Valley.
During the three years of cold and hot weather, Lin Xuan never slacked off in his practice. He practiced Sanjiu in winter and Sanfu in summer. He worked much more than others, but even so, he was still far behind his fellow disciples.
In the pursuit of immortality, qualifications are more important than hard work alone.
Just like the recent pass, Lin Xuan feels that his skill has reached the peak of the first level, and is just a little short of the second level of the agility stage. But these small gaps are like a huge gap. No matter how hard Lin Xuan works,
Nor can we transcend the past.
After a long time, Lin Xuan loosened his clenched fists, took a breath, as if to drive out the depression in his heart, sat down cross-legged again, and used the method of inner vision...
Internal vision is a small spell in the world of cultivation. It can check the operation of spiritual power in the Dantian and meridians in the body. It is an auxiliary spell that is only used in cultivation.
There was nothingness in the Dantian, and the only thing that existed was a trace of light cyan gas, which was the legendary spiritual power.
But there is not much gas and it is very thin. This is because Lin Xuan's skill is relatively low.
The so-called cultivation means going against the will of heaven, and if you want to go against the will of heaven, you must have great supernatural powers. In this process, you have to go through all kinds of hardships to control the five elements, absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, refine it, and finally use it for yourself.
This trace of spiritual power was obtained by Lin Xuan's three years of cultivation. Of course, it was much less than that of his fellow disciples, because without spiritual roots, his path of cultivation was far more difficult than that of his fellow disciples.
Under the influence of divine consciousness, the strands of spiritual power began to gather and intertwined together. Originally, each strand of spiritual power was only as thick as a hair, but as time went by, it gathered into a strand of spiritual power about the thickness of a little finger.
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Lin Xuan's head was filled with white mist, and his whole body was soaked with sweat. Just the process of gathering spiritual power made him try his best. As expected, ordinary people's cultivation is indeed thorny every step of the way.
His breathing became heavier, but Lin Xuan's expression did not change at all. He had long been used to it over the past three years.
After the spiritual power was gathered, Lin Xuan's expression did not relax at all. He carefully released his spiritual consciousness and controlled the spiritual power to flow out of his Dantian and enter his meridians according to the mental techniques taught by his master.
For cultivators, the Dantian is the foundation for storing spiritual power, and the eight extraordinary meridians are also very important. When spiritual power circulates from head to toe in the eight extraordinary meridians, it is called a circle.
Every time you do this cycle, your spiritual power will increase a little. Although it is very small, it adds up. If you do this cycle several times a day, your spiritual power will gradually grow.
Of course, there are thousands of techniques in the world of cultivation, and each sect has a different path to the Great Zhoutian Cycle, and the effects are also very different.
Although the Great Zhou Tian is a compulsory course for every cultivator, it is not as easy as outsiders imagine. It can even be said to be difficult.
There is no need to worry about the route of the flow of spiritual power. The master's mental method has made it very clear. Just follow it. However, the speed of flow needs to be explored by oneself. There is no other reason. Everyone's meridians are different.
Some people have strong meridians and strong endurance, which can not only accommodate more spiritual power, but also flow faster without any problem. Some people have weak meridians, and the situation is completely opposite. Generally speaking, the better the spiritual root, the better the meridians.
The stronger you are, and vice versa.
Lin Xuan is just an ordinary person, he doesn't even have spiritual roots, so he needs to put in more energy and consume more time to make a big cycle.
Every step must be done carefully. If the speed is too fast, not only will the cycle not be completed smoothly, but the meridians will be damaged.