Receiving a gift, Chen Yun asked Grandpa San for a porcelain bowl and went down to pick fruits himself.
In the cellar, he carefully picked the red fruit.
As Chen Yun was about to climb back to the ground, he saw another wrinkled fruit and felt a surge of interest.
"The Great Luo Ling Soup records that if the Juzi fruit loses all its spiritual energy, its peel will disappear as well. Since the peel is still there now, it means there is still spiritual energy within. Although the peel is not suitable for making the Refining Essence into Qi Soup, I can eat it to enhance my cultivation."
Thinking of this, he picked off the peel and popped it into his mouth, chewed and swallowed it.
Perhaps there was still a lot of spiritual energy left in the peel, and as soon as Chen Yun swallowed it, he felt warmth in his stomach, as if a large amount of essence was born, constantly nourishing his body that was somewhat weak from refining essence into qi.
What a precious treasure!
Indeed, it is a precious treasure!
The effects of the peel are so powerful, what would be the strength of the effects of the whole fruit?
Chen Yun had a premonition that as long as the effects of the peel continued, he might be able to refine essence into qi again tonight.
After picking the fruits, he climbed back to the ground.
Because the situation inside was consistent with what the ghost described, Chen Yun believed its nature was not bad.
He took out the white jade bead and walked to the earthen jar, "Brother Ghost, the gathering qi bead is here. But please relocate."
"Thank you, master."
The fierce ghost was grateful beyond words for surviving.
Chen Yun, who had activated the Observation of Qi technique, saw a black gas coming out of the earthen jar and entering the bead.
Without the Observation of Qi technique, ordinary people would not be able to see the transfer of black gas.
At the same time, the fierce ghost added, "I am known as Qin Liang. From now on, I shall be at the master's command."
Chen Yun closed the Observation of Qi technique and spoke earnestly, "As long as you don't do evil, if there's a chance in the future, I will ask my teacher to help you be reborn."
The fierce ghost said gratefully with tears in his eyes, "Great kindness is etched in my heart."
Communication complete.
Chen Yun put away the gathering qi bead.
After that, he went to Uncle San.
Chen Yun thought for a moment and said, "Uncle San, the altar below is eerie, it might have been set by evil cultivators or demons. If you want some peace of mind, I will write a letter. You can have Brother Huang or Brother Er Huang deliver it to the Ningshan Cave at the Tongyáng Temple in the Southern Mountains. Find a Taoist named Wang Laozhi and explain the situation to him. If he also finds it strange, he certainly won't sit by and ignore it."
Uncle San was thinking about this problem when Chen Yun mentioned it. He expressed his gratitude incessantly, "Thank you, Senior Chen."
At the end, Chen Yun and Zhang Qian were left to have lunch.
During the meal, Chen Yun pretend to go to the toilet and hid the red fruit in a small copper furnace.
As for the white jade bead, since it had not been experimented with, it was temporarily not put inside.
After lunch, Chen Yun left a letter and fifty taels of gold.
The letter was to inform Master Wang Laozhi of what had happened here, asking him to decide whether to come and investigate.
As for the fifty two taels of gold, it was what Chen Yun had asked Uncle San to bring to his parents in Dabai Mountain to improve their living conditions.
He only had about 20 taels of gold left to buy auxiliary medicinal herbs.
As someone who had been sold, Chen Yun felt that he had done his part with a clear conscience.
From this moment on, except for the yearning for his original family, he had no other debts.
Perhaps it was because the fifty taels of gold had been reduced in weight.
It could also be that he had let go of some things he had been carrying around in his heart for a while.
Chen Yun felt that his backpack felt much lighter after he put it back on.
……
Leaving Xigou City.
Proceeding in the direction of the east.
Since there were no cities for thousands of miles ahead, Chen Yun and Zhang Qian stuck on the armored horse charms and galloped madly.
They started late, and it took them half a day to cover five hundred miles.
As it got dark, they didn't continue their journey for safety.
Chen Yun and Zhang Qian found a dilapidated temple to stay for the night.
Inside the dilapidated temple.
Just finished eating dry food.
Zhang Qian plunged into the haystack, "Ah, after all the travel, I am really very tired."
Chen Yun sat cross-legged on the ground and said, "It's not good to sleep right after eating. Haven't you practiced the cultivation method of converting rice grains into refined essence?"
“Ah, I have no predestined fate to become a Taoist, what's the point of refining essence from rice grains." Zhang Qian said with his spirit somewhat downcast, "I have been struggling hard for five years, hoping that one day I could be noticed by our ancestor and be listed among the disciples. Unfortunately, it was not meant to be."
Chen Yun felt helpless about this, and could only casually comfort him with a few words.
Zhang Qian, who was lying down on the haystack, soon made a slight snore.
Chen Yun did not fall asleep as soon as Zhang Qian did.
He stood up and carefully checked around the dilapidated temple.
There was nothing here except for the dilapidated statue of Emperor Cao Cao, the tutor of Fēngdū's northern emperor. The temple door was also in ruins.
Chen Yun stared at the statue for a moment, thinking to himself, "It is said that during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Cao Cao was influenced by the 'Diagram of True Spirits' by Tao Hongjing and was enshrined as the tutor of the Northern Emperor of Fēngdū. But I don't know why this temple dedicated to the tutor of the Northern Emperor of Fēngdū has become so dilapidated."
Although he didn't know the reason, since Cao Cao had been elevated to the status of a god, a deity of Daoism, Chen Yun naturally had to bow down to him.
He bowed three times according to the customs, and softly said, "Cao Gong, Zhang and I have caused you quite a bit of trouble today. I hope you will forgive us."
After the ceremony, Chen Yun found a flat place to sit down.
He didn't go to sleep right away because his body felt "full of pressure".
Today, after swallowing the peel of the red fruit, a continuous supply of essence was generated within his body. Chen Yun had traveled five hundred miles without any fatigue, and instead felt unusually energetic.
"If I can't condense the boundless energy, I may have trouble sleeping tonight."
Thoughts in mind, Chen Yun sat cross-legged.
He pushed aside all distracting thoughts and closed his eyes, focusing his spirit.
After the breath came and went in an even rhythm, Chen Yun used his tongue to curl back, plugging both the two passages in his tongue and stopped breathing.
Gradually entering the mystical realm, he felt like half asleep and half awake.
The god controlled the heart fire, and a sense of warmth naturally arose.
Chen Yun felt the changes in the fire, not rushing or being slow, allowing the heart fire to burn more vigorously.
After a moment.
His whole body was warm but not dry and irritable.
It's time to excite the kidney water.
Perhaps he was particularly lucky today.
Or maybe it was because of the essence he had absorbed from the peel of the red fruit.
As soon as Chen Yun started to cultivate, a bitter taste appeared in his mouth, and then golden and jade-like liquid slowly rose.
He slowly swallowed the sweet dew.
Immediately, two streams of "qi" were born along the left and right Taiyang meridians.
At the same time, the gathering qi bead emitted a cool breeze that directly covered his limbs and bones, condensing the essence within his body into true qi.
In the past, he would either directly refine essence into qi or use the gathering qi bead to transform essence into true qi.
Chen Yun had never encountered such a situation before.
Helpless, he had to use the method of "Accumulate Essence and Refine the Body" to refine the physical body with the two streams of "qi" born along the left and right Taiyang meridians. The true qi transformed by the white jade bead then rose straight up from below the great incisor to the position of the solar acupoint, into the top door, and reached the mud palace.
Following that, the true qi flowed into the brain and went down to the twelve rings of Chong Lou. It passed through the spine and pierced up through Weizhi to enter the heart and then through the gallbladder.
Chen Yun felt warmth in his chest.
Along with the movement of the qi, a faint movement occurred in his heart, and the true qi slowly moved towards the lower dantian.
At this moment, Chen Yun felt his body gradually expanding, his spirit soaring, as if the sun, moon, mountains and rivers were all within him, and he couldn't even feel his hands and feet.
He was accustomed to this and reached out to press the ground.
The next moment, Chen Yun saw a "bright light" in his heart that suddenly fell and landed in his lower dantian.
A stream of true qi was forged.
He neither felt sadness nor joy and continued his cultivation.
One round.
Three rounds.
Nine rounds.
A small circuit of the Great Void is completed.
He wondered if it was because of the special nature of the "Accumulate Essence and Refine the Body" method that Chen Yun used unconverted essence and qi to refine his physical body, which seemed to be more effective than using true qi before.
He didn't think about it in detail, after all, he was in the midst of cultivation.
Chen Yun did not stop, and continued to run the method.
According to the "Chen Xiansheng Neidan Jue" that he had worked out by himself, he could perform three small circuits of the Great Void each night.
Continue refining essence into qi.
Soon, the second small circuit was also completed.
Chen Yun felt that the true qi inside his body was increasing.
He did not feel joy because of this; he continued to practice in peace.
After half an hour, the third small circuit was completed.
However, the essence and qi inside his body were still boundless. Chen Yun thought it over and decided to continue refining them.
Half an hour.
An hour.
It was gradually getting late at night.
Finally, as the hour approached midnight, Chen Yun slowly ended his practice.
Only after he had gathered his thoughts and opened his eyes to tidy up, did Chen Yun feel quite surprised and mutter to himself, "I actually practiced for nine small circuits today, and produced a total of eighty-one true qi."
Even so, much of the effect of the peel of the red fruit still remained within him.
Feeling the abundant true qi, Chen Yun thought to himself, "Before, I estimated that I couldn't refine essence into qi every night. To break through to the eighth-level wizard would take a month. But tonight, I've refined eighty-one streams of true qi, which is equivalent to twenty-seven days of normal cultivation. It seems that even if I haven't broken through to an eighth-level wizard yet, it's getting close. Let me use the View Qi technique to see."
Because the so-called ninth, eighth, and seventh levels of cultivation are actually divided according to government official positions, they are still in the realm of refining essence into qi. Therefore, so-called breakthroughs are not something that one can recognize themselves. What they will feel is an increase in true qi.
Unless he can break through from refining essence into qi to the realm of refining qi into spirit, he will definitely not be able to notice, like in wuxia and xianxia novels, that he has reached a higher level of cultivation.
Of course, he would need to use the View Qi technique to check and see if he had reached the level of an eighth-level wizard.
Chen Yun opened the View Qi technique to observe how bright the glow of true qi was emitting from his entire body.
When he reached the ninth-level wizard, the glow of essence was dim and almost not noticeable.
However, at this moment, Chen Yun saw the glow of essence in his limbs shining brightly like candlelight.
It is obvious that he has reached the eighth level of cultivation.
"Phew, I finally made it to the eighth level."
He couldn't help but feel a bit happy in his heart.
He couldn't help but feel a bit happy in his heart. This was because he was grateful and wanted to give some silver to his parents.
Otherwise, he would not have gone to the Huang family.
Without going to the Huang family, he would not have obtained the peel of the red fruit and thus could not have broken through to become an eighth-level wizard.
Not to mention that he also obtained a ghost servant and the main drug of the refined essence into qi soup, the red fruit.
Overall, the overall harvest from going to the Huang family was bountiful.
Chen Yun couldn't help but feel a sense of melancholy. "People should cultivate good thoughts."
Soon, good deeds bring good returns.
He not only gained the red fruit and a ghost servant but also broke through to become an eighth-level wizard.
Ah, now that I have the main ingredient for the essence refining soup, the red fruit, does that mean I have a chance to gather the nine-grain wheat dew and Zhu Yu grass on the path of accumulating good deeds?
Chen Yun blinked his eyes.
If he could truly collect the nine-grain wheat dew and Zhu Yu grass, he would have a chance to break through to the lower-level wizard realm.
By then, he would be able to learn spells from his teacher!
