Pop!
There was a clear sound, and Lou Xingyao finally opened the last acupoint on the Yangwei Mai. His aura instantly increased.
He opened his eyes and slowly exhaled a stream of turbid air. A trace of joy flashed in Lou Xingyao’s eyes when he felt the growth of his spiritual power.
After two full months, he finally opened up this acupoint. This was the first time that Lou Xingyao had spent so much time on an acupoint.
It should be known that it only took eight months to open up the 53 acupoints on the Ren and Du Mai.
In the following year, Lou Xingyao was even more unstoppable. He opened up the Chong Mai, Dai Mai, and other acupoints on the Yangwei Mai one by one, directly entering the peak of the fourth level of qi condensation.
At this time, it had been two years since he drew qi into his body.
In two years, he reached the peak of the fourth level of qi condensation. In the entire Tianming Continent, it could be called rapid progress.
Even though Lou Xingyao had the help of the power of stars in his body, it was also closely related to his daily hard work.
Wen Hanshan was very strict in cultivation, but even he was satisfied with Lou Xingyao’s progress. During this period, Wen Hanshan even reminded him not to ignore the stability of his realm out of a desire for speed.
Later, after personally checking Lou Xingyao’s meridians and spiritual power and confirming that there were no mistakes, he was completely relieved.
There was such a good example that it seemed a bit too slow to open up one acupoint in two months.
Lou Xingyao originally thought that there was something wrong with his cultivation, but the breakthrough now dispelled his worries.
Since he opened up the last acupoint, his cultivation naturally entered the fifth level of qi condensation.
He subconsciously wanted to share the good news with Wen Hanshan. Then after looking up, he found that the familiar figure was still practicing swordsmanship in the yard.
He looked at the sky and saw that it was far from the end, so Lou Xingyao could only suppress the desire to share in his heart.
However, he couldn’t practice meditation any longer.
After realizing this, Lou Xingyao simply stood up and walked towards the farmland in the backyard.
Soon, a large area of green rice fields came into view.
It had been two years of careful maintenance. How could the farmland at this moment still look like it was overgrown with weeds?
The heavy rice ears bent the rice seedlings.
At this moment, a breeze blew, and layers of waves swayed in the rice fields. It was very beautiful.
He took a step forward and pinched one of the rice ears with his fingertips. He carefully observed it and knew that this field was ready for harvest.
Lou Xingyao pinched his fingers. The next moment, the rice seedlings in the rice field seemed to be controlled by a pair of invisible big hands and flew to the open space next to him.
In around an hour, Lou Xingyao harvested the entire three acres of rice seedlings.
Looking at the neatly stacked rice seedlings in the open space, Lou Xingyao pinched his fingers to separate the rice ears from the rice seedlings. He couldn’t help sighing at the convenience and speed of the spell.
After buying the rice seeds, he thought it would take at least seven or eight days to weed and turn the soil for three acres of rice seedlings.
Who knew that after returning home, Wen Hanshan just practiced the sword once on this piece of land and got rid of all the weeds? He even turned over the slightly compacted soil.
There was no need to worry about the irrigation and transplanting of rice seedlings in the cultivated land. Thanks to a few spells, he buried a full 30 catties of rice neatly in the ground, which made Lou Xingyao exclaim that it was magical.
In the first three months, it was more like Wen Hanshan was cultivating the farmland than Lou Xingyao taking care of it.
This was even though these tasks only took a few spells for Wen Hanshan.
It was Lou Xingyao who brought up the farming issue and wanted to find something for himself to do, so it wasn’t good to leave everything to Wen Hanshan.
Therefore, after breaking through the first level of qi condensation, Lou Xingyao learned the relevant spells from Wen Hanshan and took over the matter.
At that time, he realized that some things seemed easy but weren’t simple to do.
For example, when Wen Hanshan did it, he seemed to only need a few spells to complete it and looked very relaxed.
Then once Lou Xingyao really got started, he found that Wen Hanshan’s simple spell required him to repeat it nearly ten times to achieve the same effect.
However, at that time, Lou Xingyao’s cultivation at the first level of qi condensation meant his spiritual energy storage in his dantian was thin. Nearly ten spells were enough to exhaust the spiritual power in his body.
Even so, he didn’t mean to ask Wen Hanshan for help. He chose to meditate to restore his spiritual power before continuing to pinch the spells.
Repeating this process over and over again significantly increased the amount of spiritual energy stored in his body, and also enabled Lou Xingyao to more accurately control his spiritual energy. It was a win-win situation.
By now, Lou Xingyao could harvest three acres of rice fields in one go without needing to rest once or twice in the middle as before.
Perhaps the reason why he broke through the fifth level of qi condensation in just two years was due to frequently exhausting the spiritual energy in his dantian and restoring it?
After the rice seedlings in the field were harvested, the farmland also needed to enter a dormant period of around one month to restore the soil fertility.
Therefore, Lou Xingyao didn’t immediately enter the next round of sowing. He put the rice ears on the ground in the storage bag, sat cross-legged, and started to restore the spiritual energy in his dantian.
As he closed his eyes and circulated his spiritual energy, Lou Xingyao’s consciousness sank into the portable space in his body.
The use of the spiritual spring was tested by Lou Xingyao two years ago. It was indeed the same as the description in the original novel
After coming to this conclusion, Lou Xingyao took the spiritual spring directly and completely understood the meaning of the sentence, ‘If taken, it can slowly cleanse the essence and marrow, strengthen the body and the meridians.’
The effect was indeed very slow and gentle.
If there wasn’t the meridians reconnection pill, it would probably take him at least three years to fully recover by relying solely on the spiritual spring water.
So to a certain extent, the meridians reconnection pill could be regarded as saving Lou Xingyao a lot of time.
After confirming that the effect of the spiritual spring water was indeed very subtle, Lou Xingyao replaced the drinking water of him and Wen Hanshan at home with the spiritual spring water.
Compared with the slow and gentle effect when taken, the effect of the spiritual spring water on the spiritual fields and plants was very immediate.
In contrast with two years ago, Lou Xingyao’s personal space had already undergone earth-shaking changes.
The piece of land in the space that was originally dry and cracked had long been restored to a spiritual field full of spiritual energy under the irrigation and nourishment of the spiritual spring. It also became well organized under his care.
A small part of the spiritual plant seeds originally used as a gift was planted in the black soil of the courtyard as a cover, while most of them were directly planted in this portable space.
The spiritual plants that originally took ten or even dozens of years to grow could grow in just a few months under the nourishment of the spiritual spring water day and night.
Now, the spiritual plants in the space had already had two or three crop harvests, except for those he specially left to cultivate for a higher quality. Even the seeds had been harvested a lot during this period.
Thanks to the medicine cabinet’s time-stopping effect, there was no need to worry about the problem of the medicinal power dissipating even when spiritual plants were directly put in. Thus, Lou Xingyao could completely preserve these mature spiritual plants.
Lou Xingyao felt a great sense of satisfaction in his heart as he looked at the thousands of spiritual plants neatly arranged in different categories in the medicine cabinet.
As long as he could find an opportunity to sell these spiritual plants, he would be one step closer to the goal of buying a pill formula.
That’s right. Even after two years, Lou Xingyao still hadn’t given up the idea of becoming an alchemist.
In his last life, he was born in a family of doctors and had a good foundation for learning.
In this life, he had the most suitable fire and wood spiritual roots to become an alchemist, and he also had a portable space for farming. There was also a spiritual spring in the space that could speed up the growth of spiritual plants, so he never needed to worry about the lack of spiritual plants.
All the conditions combined made him an innate alchemy saint.
The only problem was that the financial situation between him and Wen Hanshan had long been open and transparent. Wen Hanshan knew exactly how much money he had.
Before that, he had to find a way to get these spiritual plants produced in the space by Wen Hanshan.
As Lou Xingyao was thinking, the spiritual energy in his body had already recovered to its peak state. Then the sound of footsteps entered his ears.
He knew that the footsteps were deliberately made by Wen Hanshan to remind him, so he opened his eyes and saw the familiar figure approaching from afar.
Lou Xingyao stood up and headed towards him. “The spiritual rice in the field was ripe, so I harvested it easily. However, there isn’t much spiritual rice left at home. I need to keep this harvest for the time being.”
“Okay.” In such small matters, Wen Hanshan was always willing to follow Lou Xingyao’s arrangements.
It was only after a cultivator broke through to the golden core realm that they could completely practice fasting. Before that, a cultivator either used fasting pills to fill their stomachs or ate like ordinary people.
It was just that ordinary food was bound to have impurities for cultivators, and long-term consumption was detrimental to their practice. Spiritual rice and monster meat, which contained spiritual energy, had become the best choice for cultivators in the qi condensation and foundation building realms.
As a native Chinese, Lou Xingyao’s love for food had long been engraved in his bones. At first, eating the fasting pill was just a choice among no other choices.
Once the spiritual rice matured for the first time, he intercepted it and ate his first meal after coming to Tianming Continent.
In his previous life, Lou Xingyao was a single person living alone. His cooking skills couldn’t be called superb, but it was enough to be called a good skill.
With just one meal, he completely captured Wen Hanshan’s appetite. From then on, the family’s rations were changed from fasting pills to a normal three meals a day.
Among them, the spiritual rice produced by these three acres of land was consumed the most.
Lou Xingyao finally recalled the most important thing at this time. However, he changed the words when it came to his lips. “Brother Wen, can you see if I am different now?”
Due to the hidden breath pendant, Wen Hanshan couldn’t see through Lou Xingyao’s details.
But just as Lou Xingyao understood him, Wen Hanshan also understood Lou Xingyao. He had already seen the answer from the other person’s words and expressions. “You made a breakthrough?”
“Brother Wen is really a discerning person.” Lou Xingyao nodded and a bright smile appeared on his face.
“Very good.” Wen Hanshan also nodded with a smile. “In that case, pack up and go out with me.”
“Hmm?” Lou Xingyao was puzzled. The tone clearly didn’t mean that he simply wanted to take Lou Xingyao out for a stroll.
Wen Hanshan was always willing to be more patient with Lou Xingyao. He explained slowly, “The life of a cultivator is fighting against heaven, and you can’t grow without blood. Since you started cultivating, you have been cultivating hard at home. It was fine when your cultivation wasn’t high enough, but now you have broken through. You must experience some fighting before you can make progress.”
“Then we are going to the Endless Forest?” No wonder why he felt that the last acupoint was so difficult when he broke through to the fifth level of qi condensation. It was probably due to the lack of practice.
“At the fifth level of qi condensation, you can go to the outer layer of the forest to try. There won’t be too much danger as long as you don’t go deep inside.” Wen Hanshan nodded. At the same time, he didn’t forget to reassure Lou Xingyao. “I will go with you this time.”
Wen Hanshan didn’t say it clearly, but Lou Xingyao could understand the meaning of his words. It meant Wen Hanshan would guarantee his safety at the most critical moment.
Lou Xingyao was already tempted by Wen Hanshan’s proposal. Now there was no reason to refuse, so he nodded and agreed immediately.
He packed up briefly and went out with Wen Hanshan to the Endless Forest.
This time, the two of them didn’t ride the wildebeest but chose to travel in simple clothes.
Lou Xingyao had just broken through to the fifth level of qi condensation and had increased his leg strength, so this journey wasn’t a problem at all.
What Lou Xingyao didn’t expect was that when he approached the north of Xilin County, the first thing he saw wasn’t the famous training ground but a towering city wall.
From a distance, the city wall had the momentum of rushing straight into the sky. Its tall and majestic appearance made the pedestrians coming and going under the city wall look as small as ants.
After getting closer, the momentum of the city wall didn’t weaken at all. It instead became more magnificent.
“What is this?” A trace of surprise flashed in Lou Xingyao’s eyes. He originally thought that the wall of Canglan City, which was ten feet wide, was already the limit. Now he saw the wall of Xilin County, which was twice as wide as Canglan City, and realized that his previous knowledge was still a bit shallow.
“This wall is used to resist the beast wave,” Wen Hanshan explained in a low voice.
“Beast wave?” Lou Xingyao repeated in a low voice. This was another word that was unfamiliar.
Fortunately, Wen Hanshan had always been willing to resolve his doubts. After a while, Wen Hanshan explained the origin of this wall to him.
In the Endless Forest, there were tens of thousands of monsters. The monsters had superb reproduction ability. Even though there were endless cultivators entering to practice, the number of hunted monsters still couldn’t keep up with their reproduction speed.
Over time, the offspring gradually formed a scale. Once the scale reached a certain number and started to exceed the capacity of the Endless Forest, they would rush out of the forest in groups and come to occupy the territory of humans.
The phenomenon was called the beast wave by the people of Tianming Continent.
Once the beast wave came, Xilin County bordered the outer periphery of the Endless Forest and would be the first to bear the brunt. Therefore, in order to resist the beast wave, the people of Xilin County built the wall in front of them.
This wall didn’t have the current size in the beginning. It became such a behemoth today after years of repair and reinforcement.
Lou Xingyao finally discovered that on the wall of the city wall, there were many patterns full of a mysterious atmosphere engraved. At the bottom of the patterns, streams of light flashed secretly.
Lou Xingyao also quickly learned from Wen Hanshan’s narration the purpose of these patterns, which were large-scale formations composed of inscriptions.
If the beast wave came, people could input spiritual energy to activate it. This had the effect of defense and attack. It could be described as a great weapon.
Just from the scale of this wall and the dense inscriptions on the wall, it could be seen how nervous Xilin County was about a beast wave.
It was also the first time that Lou Xingyao knew there was such a crisis from the Endless Forest.
At this moment, Wen Hanshan’s slightly soothing voice entered Lou Xingyao’s ears.
“Don’t be too nervous. The last beast wave occurred 300 years ago. According to the previous rules, the next one should be in 200 years.”
After several beast waves, the cultivators of Tianming Continent had long summed up the rules of the occurrence of the beast wave. The interval was around 500 years every time, and there had been almost no accidents.
There was a flash of understanding in Lou Xingyao’s eyes. No wonder why there wasn’t a single description of the beast wave in the original novel.
200 years later, the protagonist had long left Tianming Continent and went to the big world. It was understandable that the original novel was unwilling to waste ink on such details.
Both the beast wave and the current wall weren’t the focus of Lou Xingyao’s trip.
The two of them didn’t stay at the wall too long. They turned and headed straight for the Endless Forest.
As a place of training that was famous throughout the continent, the Endless Forest was naturally worthy of its reputation. Before he got close, Lou Xingyao seemed to smell the dangerous aura mixed with blood in the air.
Even at the edge of the forest, the cultivators entering and exiting it had a bloody aura, regardless of their level of cultivation. Their expressions were full of killing intent.
With just one glance, Lou Xingyao understood why Wen Hanshan brought him here for training.
Compared with these cultivators in the Endless Forest, he still carried the peaceful aura of growing up in a peaceful world.
This wasn’t a bad thing. However, in this dangerous continent, such a temperament was tantamount to being a sheep among the wolves, and he would become the primary target of other people’s attacks.
Just outside the Endless Forest, many malicious eyes had fallen on him in half a cup of tea.
In the end, it was because they saw Wen Hanshan standing behind him that they retracted their eyes that seemed to want to eat him alive.
Lou Xingyao even detected a trace of regret in their retracted gazes.
He had no doubt that if Wen Hanshan wasn’t by his side, these people would tear him to pieces sooner or later.
In a moment, the temperament around Lou Xingyao’s body changed slightly. There was a sense of indifference that kept people away.
It wasn’t obvious, but it didn’t escape Wen Hanshan’s eyes. A smile appeared in Wen Hanshan’s eyes, and he whispered, “Let’s go.”
“Okay.” Lou Xingyao nodded slightly. Then he followed Wen Hanshan and entered the Endless Forest.
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