Chapter 31: Four Years

Four years have passed in a flash. Yun Shang is tenth years old this year. Maybe because of spiritual spring and medicinal bath,Yun Shang drew her stripes early, and she has grown much taller, her waist has become slender, her small breasts have begun to develop, her face has become an oval face, and her figure has begun to appear slim, and she already looks a bit like a girl. 

Her cultivation has reached the ninth level of Qi training, the Great Perfection of Qi Training.

From her Master, Yun Shang knew that in fact here are twelve levels in the Qi training stage, the first to ninth levels of Qi training are the cultivation of Qi, which absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into Dantian, reaching the pinnacle of spiritual energy. The tenth level of Qi training is the manifestation of essence, and the physical body is perfect and flawless. When you reach the eleventh level of Qi training, you are cultivating the spirit. You can't go any further with ordinary training methods but the twelfth level is beyond human power. Since ancient times, cultivators who have reached the twelfth level of Qi training themselves have not known why. It can only be left to fate.

Some people advance to the foundation building stage soon after breaking through to the eleventh level of Qi training, and end up advancing to the twelfth level of Qi training. Some people have practiced hard for decades, and in despair of breaking through the foundation building stage, they have instead cultivated to the twelfth level of Qi training.

The reason Qingmu Daojun was accepted by Great Master from fairy world is because he accidently cultivate to the twelfth level of Qi training.

There is only one way to cultivate to the twelfth level of Qi training, which is to refine spiritual materials to break through the foundation-building stage. If the opportunity is sufficient, before advancing to the foundation-building stage, you can reach the twelfth level of Qi training and condense a spiritual body. This spiritual body will be of great benefit to future cultivation.

"You don't have to think too much about the twelfth level of Qi training. If you can reach it, then reach it. If not, don't be upset. It's impossible for every step of cultivation in the world to be perfect. What's more, advancing to the twelfth level of Qi training is just an additional innate spell, which is convenient for condensing magical powers in the future. If you have the patience to condense magical powers that suit you, why bother with it?" Qingmu Daojun adviced herself.

Thinking of Master's advice make her depressed for a while. Yun Shang can only hope she has this fate.

...

One years ago, Yun Shang finally learned about all the spiritual plants on Yunhai Peak, which took her three full years.

She understood that spiritual plants were different from those of ordinary disciples. Most of them only needed to know their approximate age and what they looked like, but Yun Shang needed to know their living habits, growth environment, main functions and medicinal properties, and how to work together with other spiritual plants. This was a systematic study, a bit like Chinese medicine in her previous life.

Most of what I learned was theoretical, but there was basically no practice. Yun Shang hadn't established her foundation yet, so she couldn't leave the sect. Without practice, everything was just empty talk.

During this period, Qingmu Daojun did not ask about her cultivation progress, and let her explore and advance on her own. It was unknown whether he had great confidence in her or just let her go. Master just asked her to come when she reached ninth levels of Qi training.

After four years of seclusion and less than thirty years in the space, she finally managed to be proficient in her technique. For "Broken Moon Technique" swordsmanship she was already could remember and make all move, but she still can't get in touch with sword intent at all.

"Fire Wheel Ring" also can be cast instantly and she can make it more flexible not just in form of the ring but can be controlled as she want. She can also feel her spiritual sense is the same as peak of Foundation Building. 

Because she could not go down the mountain to practice, she would get bored staying in one place no matter how beautiful it was, so she often changed her appearance and wandered around the sect and setting up stale. In four years, she had roughly visited Immortal Sword Sect. She had to thank Lin Luo for lending her his flying beast, otherwise, with her cultivation level, she would not be able to visit even one-third of Immortal Sword Sect.

In order to reduce her exposure, Yun Shang often changed herself into another appearance and then went to set up a stall at the foot of the sect's mountain.

This is the only way to enter and leave the sect. There are people coming and going every day. There are disciples going out for training, disciples going out for training returning to the sect, and disciples just wandering around. So there are many disciples selling things or exchanging things here, and people often form teams to go on missions here.

Disciples are willing to come here to shop for exotic items, mainly because the items here are generally cheaper than those sold in the sect's market, and most of the items here are made by the disciples themselves.

She can now make third-grade pills, which basically guarantees an output rate of more than 80 percent. There are almost no low-grade and mid-grade pills, and all of them are high-grade or top-grade pills.

However, this result was based on the fact that Yun Shang had destroyed countless Yunhai Peak's spiritual medicines, which made Lin Luo feel very distressed.

She now focuses her energy on alchemy, but occasionally studies arrays and talismans. Therefore, there are low-level talismans and array plates on the floor.

When setting up the stall, you can hear all kinds of gossip within the sect, whether it be the elders within the sect, the proud children within the sect, or some dark horse from the outer sect. There are all kinds of information.

...

Yun Shang come to Qingmu Daojun's cave.

"Do you have a glimpse why Master asked you to come here?"

"Is it for physical training?"

"Yes, like master said before, The tenth level of Qi training is the manifestation of essence, and the physical body is perfect and flawless. So you have to start physical training in Blue Flame Ice Pool,"

Because the purpose of the Qi training period is to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and condense the spiritual power of Dantian, and after reaching the ninth level of Qi training, it is impossible to combine the spiritual energy of the ninth level of Qi training into one and go one step further.

This is the main reason why most people cannot advance to the tenth level of Qi training.

To advance to the tenth level of Qi training, the cultivator needs to cultivate the physical body to the extreme of the Qi training stage, use the physical body to refine the spiritual power, and then integrate it into the Dantian spiritual power. After reaching this step, the spiritual power will be further condensed and purified with the physical body.

It's a pity that it is too difficult to reach this step.

This difficulty is not about physical strength.

When the physical body is cultivated to the limit of the Qi training stage, it means that the purity of the physical body, the degree of harmony between the physical body and the spiritual power of heaven and earth, and the perfection of the physical body have reached the limit.

This is similar to the weakened body of no leakage, the body of heaven and beauty.

However, it is even more difficult for body cultivators to achieve this level.

But the Blue Flame Ice Pool owned by Qingmu Daojun perfect for this.

Rong Qiheng used to rely on the Blue Flame Ice Pool to temper his body, and in a short period of time, he reached the skin and flesh refining realms as the physical cultivators said.

  Although he is using sword in combat, his views on developing the limits of the body coincide with those of the physical cultivators, except that his means of attack is the sword, while the physical cultivators pay more attention to combat skills.

  He always believed that bare-handed fighting was at a disadvantage in actual combat, but the choice of cultivation direction was different for each person.

The Blue Flame Ice Pool is based on the Ice Spring of the Divine Mountain, with an everlasting blue flame added.

  These two pure natural treasures are too precious for ordinary people to even see once in their lifetime, but Rong Qiheng collected a whole pool of them.

The light blue surface of the pool looks cold, but the actual temperature is hundreds and thousands of times hotter than ordinary flames. Even if you use spiritual power to protect your body, as long as you relax for a moment, everything from skin to bones and meridians will be burned into a piece of charred dead meat.

Rong Qiheng practiced in the Blue Flame Ice Pool for three hours every day, tempering his skin, flesh, tendons and bones. He not only followed the path of sword cultivation, but also left physical cultivation with no way to go. Although he used a sword, and physical cultivation was better at fighting skills, according to the standards of physical cultivation, refining skin, flesh, tendons and bones - he was obviously at the peak of the bone refining realm, pulling out bones as weapons, turning bones into shields, including himself, everything can be a sword.