Chapter Fourteen: Cultivating Qi First Layer

  After swallowing the marrow-washing pill, Tang Lin began to feel a change in his body. As soon as the pill entered his mouth, it was like drinking a mouthful of scalding hot water, and a fiery sensation shot straight to his abdomen. Then, Tang Lin's entire body started to heat up, and every pore on his skin opened up, with black sweat being continuously expelled, emitting waves of foul odor.

  Don't look down on the Washing Marrow Pill, it's also one of the most important pills for ordinary people to step into the cultivation of truth. Although there is not much spiritual energy in the Washing Marrow Pill, it is very pure. Cultivating immortality and doing things are the same, the foundation is the most important.

  Time slowly passed by, Tang Lin sat on his bed with his eyes closed, and at this moment, a wisp of spiritual energy was circulating throughout his body.

  If there were outsiders present, they would definitely notice the difference between Tang Lin and others. At this time, Tang Lin's entire body was emitting a faint red glow, which had an extremely heavy and cold aura. The temperature in the room dropped sharply under the effect of this red glow. Under the dim light, Tang Lin's shadow was no longer human-shaped, replaced by a ferocious wolf head.

  For changes outside the body, Tang Lin was completely unaware. Now he can clearly see his own physical structure, and he also discovered a strange phenomenon.

  In the dantian of Tang Lin, there was a red bead. This bead floated quietly in the dantian, and the spiritual energy that wandered throughout the body after washing the marrow was all absorbed by this bead. After absorbing this strand of pure spiritual energy, the red bead also underwent a change, and a faint red light emanated from it. Unlike the external red light, the light emitted by this bead was extremely soft and warm.

  "What is this thing, how did it appear in my body, have I formed a dan?"

  Looking at the glowing pearl, Tang Lin was filled with doubts. Later, he discovered that inside this red pearl, something seemed to be moving. Although it couldn't be seen clearly what it was, Tang Lin could confirm that there was indeed something inside the pearl.

  A streak of morning sunlight shone into Tang Lin's room, also shining on his body, soft and warm. Tang Lin slowly opened his eyes, a faint glint flashing by in an instant. Looking at the sunlight shining into the house, Tang Lin exclaimed:

  "Good grief, has Master been sitting there all night? Time really flies."

  Just as he was about to get up, Tang Lin found that the clothes on his body were like they had been glued on, tightly sticking to him. The entire garment was soaked and reeking of a foul smell that almost made Tang Lin dizzy.

  Seeing his own appearance, Tang Lin's mouth twitched, and he stepped forward to the door, pushed it open and rushed towards the riverbank in a flash.

  "Ah, so comfortable! Soaking in a bubble bath early in the morning, it's like living like a god, beautiful!"

  Looking at his reflection in the water, Tang Lin's mouth was agape with shock. Is this really me? His skin was clean and white, so tender it seemed to be oozing water.

  "The elixir is amazing, just one pill and I'll be reborn, if I take a few more, I'll definitely become a standard handsome man."

  Humming a little tune, Tang Lin arrived at Zhang Dapeng's medicinal garden and saw him from afar, carrying a bucket and carefully watering the heavenly spirit grass with one scoop at a time. Just by looking at his meticulous movements, it was clear how much he cared about these heavenly spirit grasses.

  "Big Brother Zhan, you're already busy so early, do I help?" Tang Lin strolled into the medicine garden and arrived at Zhan Dapeng's side.

  "Ah, Tang Shidi, I thought it was someone else. Don't worry about me, I'll be done soon. These Tianlingcao are too precious and must be carefully taken care of. Wait for a moment, I'll be right there!"

  "Big brother, you're busy, I have some things I don't understand, and I'd like to ask you about them."

  "You talk! I'm listening!"

  "Big brother, yesterday you said that as long as one reaches the third layer of Qi Gong, they can achieve inner vision. What kind of feeling is this inner vision?"

  Upon hearing Tang Lin's words, Zhan Dapeng put down the water bucket in his hand and walked to Tang Lin's side. He carefully sized up Tang Lin before smiling and saying:

  "Congratulations, junior brother. In just one night's time, you've already reached the first level of Qi cultivation. It seems that you still have talent, as long as you work harder, your cultivation won't be too slow. Inner vision is a sign of reaching the third level of Qi cultivation. Once your cultivation reaches the third level, you can use inner vision to observe the internal structure of your body, including the five organs and meridians, and you can also see the flow of spiritual energy. Before forming the elixir, our dantian is empty, except for spiritual energy, there's nothing else, but you can't see it, only feel that there's spiritual energy in the dantian. As your cultivation improves, the amount of spiritual energy contained in the dantian will increase."

  "Senior brother, are all cultivators' dantians empty before forming their elixir?"

  "Uh, right. Before the foundation stage, everyone's dantian is empty except for their spiritual energy; nothing else will be there. But there are exceptions. I heard that some people in our sect said that there are some people in this world who are different from us. In their dantians, they have a golden elixir by nature. If such people cultivate, their speed is extremely terrifying and can be said to be a thousand miles a day. But it's just hearsay; no one has ever seen it!"

  "Born with a golden elixir, are there really people like this?"

  Although Tang Lin said so, his heart had already been stirred up by a stormy sea. According to Zhan Dapeng's words, wasn't he born with one of the kinds of Golden Elixir?

  "Uh, it's said that there are, seemingly on other continents, people like this exist. Apart from them, there is another type of person, which is the legendary existence. This kind of person is not ordinary, they are formed through some sort of encounter in the dantian, a blood dan, and their cultivation speed is almost the same as the first type of person. Specifically, I don't know, after all, it's just legend."

  Farewell Zhang Dapeng, Tang Lin came alone to the back mountain and sat by the river, deep in thought.

  I can cultivate my inner vision in three layers, but I can already see it now. My cultivation is clearly at the first layer of Qi refinement, so why? Also, what's with the red bead inside me that looks just like the Blood Dan from Xian Dapeng's mouth? Where did this thing come from?

  "Whatever, I don't want to think about it anymore. Whether it's good or bad fortune, if it's bad luck, you can't escape it. Right now, I'm so poor that I'm almost out of food, and yet I'm still thinking about those useless things. I need to figure out a way to get some medicine."

  After finishing, he took out the identity jade card from the storage bag, looked at it, and wanted to get the elixir, but had to use contribution points in exchange. Wanting contribution points meant going to do tasks, looking at the tasks on the back of the jade card made Tang Lin's head ache.

  These tasks are all over the place, there's killing demonic beasts, collecting spiritual herbs, and gathering materials for refining equipment, too many to count. But Tang Lin can't do any of these, except one, that is collecting Tian Ling fruit, which can be found in the back mountain. Although the contribution points are a bit less, it's still better than nothing.

  "It's all right, it doesn't look difficult."

  After finishing speaking, Tang Lin headed towards the back mountain of Tianjian Gate. The back mountain of Tianjian Gate was extremely vast and usually no one wanted to come here because there were many ferocious beasts, including high-level ones. Moreover, there was nothing valuable in this back mountain, so those with high cultivation wouldn't bother coming, while those with low cultivation didn't dare to come. As a result, the back mountain of Tianjian Gate had been uninhabited for many years.