Experimental Subjects

Chapter 50

After bestowing the cultivation technique and casting the Incense - Transforming Spirit Spell, Li Changmeng closed himself in the cave dwelling all year round and rarely communicated with these disciples.

It was normal for him to be in seclusion. With Li Changmeng's talent, everyone thought he should stay in seclusion until he broke through to the Core - Formation stage.

But in fact, on the surface, he was in seclusion, but in reality, he was constantly paying attention to the cultivation progress of his ten disciples.

Among them, Sun Minghao had the fastest cultivation speed. He had already reached the stage of sensing spiritual energy before. Now, after changing the cultivation technique, he was suddenly enlightened and successfully opened his spiritual light, breaking through to the first layer of the Qi - Refining stage.

Secondly, Chang Fei also caught up and entered the Qi - Refining realm.

As for the others, some had gradually approached the stage of opening the spiritual light, and some were still in the process of sensing spiritual energy.

Li Changmeng couldn't help much with their cultivation before they entered the sect. But being able to stay in the outer sect meant that they at least had inferior cultivation talent. As long as they persevered, they would eventually enter the Qi - Refining realm.

Since only two of them had broken through to the Qi - Refining stage, Li Changmeng could only focus on observing these two people first and send them an appropriate amount of the power of incense wishes during their cultivation.

On Prayer - to - Immortals Peak, halfway up the mountain, there were ten wooden houses scattered. These were built by the newly - recruited disciples themselves.

"Junior sister, are you in the house?"

Sun Minghao stood at the door of a wooden house that was one - circle bigger than the others and gently knocked on the door.

Soon, the door opened, revealing half of Chang Fei's burly body. "Senior brother? What's wrong? Do you have something to tell me?"

Cultivation was a rather private matter, even among fellow disciples. So they rarely contacted each other on normal days. If someone suddenly came to visit, there must be something important.

Sun Minghao looked haggard, as if he hadn't slept for three or four days.

"Junior sister, can I come in? I really have some questions about cultivation to ask you."

"Of course. Come in, senior brother."

Chang Fei invited Sun Minghao into the house. She also wanted to know what cultivation problems the senior brother, who had a faster cultivation progress than her, would have to ask her.

After sitting down, Sun Minghao said, "Recently, when I'm cultivating, I always feel like there are some voices in my ears. But when I stop cultivating, the voices disappear. Master is in seclusion, so I want to ask if you have this kind of situation."

Sun Minghao told his problem. In the past few days, the voice had become clearer and clearer. From being as faint as a falling needle at the beginning, it was now as audible as a mosquito's buzzing.

This made him afraid to cultivate. He suspected that there was something wrong with his cultivation.

"Voices? Now that you mention it... I seem to be able to hear some voices too, but they are very illusory. When I try to listen carefully, it seems like there is nothing. It's really strange."

"Yes! That's exactly it. You have the same situation, junior sister. You can still hardly hear the voices now. If you continue to cultivate, the voices will get louder and louder, but you still can't hear what they are saying. It just feels like there are many people talking."

Sun Minghao got excited. Since Chang Fei had the same situation as him, it meant that it wasn't his own problem but some other unknown reason.

"Indeed, it seems like someone is talking. But senior brother, don't you notice that your cultivation speed is very fast? Besides the spiritual energy we absorb to increase our cultivation base, there is also additional cultivation base emerging. Could it be because of the spell that master cast on us?"

Chang Fei thought of the wonderful method they had received before. It only appeared during cultivation, and their cultivation speed had indeed increased.

So, she thought of this possibility.

Hearing this, Sun Minghao was stunned. There really was such a possibility.

Moreover, although the voices would appear, since he couldn't hear what they were saying, they didn't affect his cultivation.

During these days of cultivation, as closed - door disciples, they had also communicated with the disciples from other peaks and some inner - sect disciples.

They hadn't heard that the others had such a secret method to speed up cultivation. Obviously, that secret method must be a very precious and never - to - be - spread secret.

It was reasonable to have some side effects. Anyway, it didn't affect cultivation. He just thought he had made a mistake in cultivation before and was being overly suspicious.

"Junior sister, what you said makes sense... Let's continue to cultivate for a while. Wait until the next junior brother starts cultivating and see what happens."

"Yeah, that's the best. It's just some voices. Cultivation requires a calm mind. It can even train us. Maybe this is what master intended."

Chang Fei wasn't worried about the voices at all. As long as she could cultivate normally, it didn't matter if there were some voices.

Moreover, since her senior brother also had this situation, it was probably a normal phenomenon.

"Then that's it. Sorry to bother you. I'll leave now."

"Goodbye, senior brother."

Sun Minghao left and returned to his own wooden house. First, he took care of the several mu of first - order spiritual fields he had opened up, and then he entered his house.

The interior of the house was simply furnished, with a bed, a table and chairs, and a meditation cushion.

"Maybe I was just overthinking. A little noise really doesn't affect cultivation."

Muttering to himself, Sun Minghao sat on the cushion to adjust his breath for a while, and then began to operate the cultivation technique to cultivate.

As the cultivation technique was in operation, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was attracted. Under the effect of the "Three - Qi Harmonization Formula", it began to be regularly divided into three parts and then merged again to form a harmonious qi.

This harmonious qi was equivalent to the initially refined spiritual energy, which could be more easily transformed into spiritual power to improve the cultivation base.

Following the steps of the cultivation technique, Sun Minghao began to refine the harmonious qi, and his cultivation base was slowly increasing.

Just then, the growth rate of the spiritual power in Sun Minghao's dantian suddenly doubled, and the voices came along with it.

Calm your mind!

The voices became more and more noisy, but Sun Minghao just ignored them. Instead of stopping like he did in the past, he continued to cultivate.

His cultivation speed did improve a lot.

Junior sister was right. As long as he ignored them, even the cultivation speed would be faster!

Sun Minghao's guard against the voices decreased. He agreed with Chang Fei's statement. Maybe these voices were just a test from master.

Putting the voices out of his mind, Sun Minghao continued to cultivate. The continuous improvement of his cultivation base made him obsessed for a moment.

What he didn't notice was that the hair on his body began to grow at an abnormal speed.

In the dark, Li Changmeng's divine sense had been covering Sun Minghao, observing his changes.

The so - called voices were actually nothing more than the prayers of ordinary people in the power of incense wishes.

But since the object of these prayers wasn't them and they didn't have a high - level cultivation base, they naturally couldn't hear the content of the prayers.

"Hair growth? It is indeed a change caused by the power of incense wishes. But just hair growth doesn't seem to have any impact on a cultivator, right?"

Li Changmeng continued to watch. The power of incense wishes he had poured into Sun Minghao and Chang Fei wasn't much. Maybe it was just that the amount hadn't reached the level to cause a qualitative change.

At this time, Sun Minghao also finished his cultivation and found that he had become a hairy man.

Not only his hair, eyebrows, and beard, but even the hair on his arms and body had grown several inches longer.

"Strange. My hair is growing so fast."

Sun Minghao took out a small knife. After infusing it with a little spiritual power, it could cut hair easily. He quickly shaved off all his hair.

In the dark, Li Changmeng looked at the hair and vaguely noticed something - the hair seemed to be alive.