Chapter Twenty-Four Cultivation

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  After fetching a lot of spring water at the mountain spring, he returned to his room and started making Spiritual Spring Water. At night, he locked the door tightly, tied a rope around the door handle and the other end to his arm, so that if the door was opened, he would immediately notice.

  After drinking several big mouthfuls of spring water, a surge of heat flowed through his body, and Wang Lin immediately grasped the pearl, entering the dream realm.

  In the boundless and endless dream, Wang Lin sat cross-legged on the ground, breathing in and out. The glowing bodies around him emitted soft beams of light when Wang Lin closed his eyes to cultivate. As soon as they landed on his body, they turned into tiny spots of light that quietly and soundlessly drilled into his body. To all this, Wang Lin was completely unaware.

  After waiting for about a day, the spiritual energy of the spring water in his body dissipated completely. However, this time, he clearly felt that his body was different. In the past, after drinking the medicinal broth, although there was a warm flow in his body, as time passed, the spiritual energy would eventually dissipate completely.

  But this time was different, although it still dissipated, but left a faint trace in the body, though not much, but gave Wang Lin great confidence, he had been guessing for a long time, couldn't figure out where the problem lay, and finally attributed the doubt to the mysterious pearl.

  Because he couldn't leave the dream state on his own, and was unable to replenish his spiritual energy, Wang Lin tried to practice breathing exercises for a long time. Eventually, he discovered that this dream state was different from the outside world. In the outside world, when he practiced breathing exercises, although he didn't feel the spiritual energy entering his body like ants crawling on him, after persisting for a month, he found that every time he meditated, his spirit would be refreshed and his whole body would be filled with a comfortable feeling.

  It can be done here, but after the spiritual energy of the spring water dissipates, he doesn't have that refreshing feeling. On the contrary, sitting for a long time will make him short of breath and stuffy in the chest.

  After a moment of contemplation, Wang Lin had a vague guess in his mind that all this might have something to do with spiritual energy. In the dream space, there was no existence of spiritual energy!

  He thought the more he felt right, frowning and muttering to himself: "If only we could bring in the spring water from outside, that would be great." As soon as he thought of this, he suddenly had an idea, looked down at his body, and a puzzled expression appeared on his face.

  He was wearing a red robe of the Inner Disciple, which made Wang Lin very puzzled. He hastily touched the place where he had put his storage bag in his bosom and found that it had disappeared.

  "Clothes can appear in the dream space, but storage bags cannot...". He thought for a moment and decided to go out and experiment after that, what items could be brought into the dream and what items couldn't.

  Time passed quickly and after twenty-five hours, the tearing sensation reappeared. Wang Lin woke up in reality.

  He still had a question in his mind, that was why he could only persist for two and a half hours each time. With the question in mind, he poured the spring water into the gourd, tucked it under his arm, and prepared to enter the dream realm.

  But this time, no matter how he stared at the bead, he didn't feel any dizziness. Wang Lin was shocked in his heart and thought carefully for a long time, suppressing the worry in his heart, closing his eyes to breathe in and out.

  Gradually, his breathing became steady, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was continuously absorbed into his body. As it dissipated, a thread of energy accumulated, but this was still far from condensing to the first layer, and there was still a long way to go.

  He spent the day in his meditation, occasionally picking up a gourd of spring water and drinking down the spiritual energy spring water to keep his body inside and outside full of spiritual energy.

  Apart from this, it was also a repeated attempt to hold onto the stone beads in order to enter a dream state, unfortunately, I never succeeded.

  At nightfall, he opened his eyes and vaguely felt that the spiritual energy in his body had increased a bit. If it were usual, he would be very excited, but now, he was uneasy. He picked up the stone bead again, staring at it, when suddenly drowsiness surged forth. A joyful expression appeared on Wang Lin's face as he hastily withdrew his gaze, and after a while, the drowsiness dissipated slightly.

  He stood up, stroking his chin and pondered in the room for half a day. Recalling the previous four times he entered the dream, he finally discovered a problem.

  The first two times were consecutive. The third time was after observing the oil lamp for more than two hours before entering, and as for the fourth time, it was even separated by a whole day.

  From this, it can be inferred that entering a dream state has certain restrictions. A safe method is to ensure an interval of at least two or more hours each time, which can guarantee entry.

  After solving this problem, Wang Lin began to prepare for the experiment on what objects can be brought into the dream. He prepared many things for this trial, first of which were three calabashes: one was the previous one filled with dew, one was empty, and the last one was filled with spring water.

  The broken stone bowl fragments were also kicked into his arms, apart from these, he took out sweet potatoes and clothes from his own package, wrapped them all on his body, and stared at the pearl, entering a dream state.

  In his dream, Wang Lin immediately checked his body and found that the sweet potatoes, clothes, and stone bowl fragments were all there, but the three gourds and storage bag were missing.

  Under his confusion, he suddenly thought that there was no spiritual energy in the dream space, and an idea rose up in his mind, everything that could be brought into the dream was ordinary objects, or it could be said that these things had no spiritual energy.

  And three gourds and storage bags, these things more or less all contain spiritual energy, so they can't be brought in here.

  He let out a soft sigh, and Wang Lin became worried. If he couldn't bring the gourd in, just drinking a few mouthfuls of spring water before entering the dream each time was far from enough for his cultivation here.

  As he thought of this, his expression suddenly changed, and it seemed as if he had grasped something important in his mind, but also as if he hadn't grasped anything at all. This ambiguous illusion made him immediately fall into deep contemplation, thinking hard and arranging his thoughts one by one along the previous train of thought.

  After a long time, his face suddenly lit up with joy as he thought of the key to the problem. The spring water was full of spiritual energy and couldn't be brought into this place, but after drinking it into his belly, it didn't disappear here.

  That is to say, all of this is not absolute. As long as you think of a way, it's possible to bring the spiritual spring water in.

  Twenty-five hours later, Wang Lin immediately walked out of the room and wandered around on the mountain path to find and collect a few wild calabazas before hurrying back.

  He thought that the previous three calabashes were not brought into the dream because the calabash had been infused with dew for a long time, resulting in a certain amount of spiritual energy being stored within itself.

  Now he uses a gourd that has just been picked to hold the spiritual spring water, and maybe it can deceive the dream and bring it in.

  Two hours later, Wang Lin had four gourds hanging from his body as he entered the dream. The moment he entered, he immediately checked his body and was delighted to find that all the gourds were still there.

  He opened it and found that the spiritual water inside had not disappeared. He took a sip, and it still possessed spiritual energy. Excited, Wang Lin drank a large mouthful without saying another word, then sat cross-legged on the ground and began his cultivation with an undivided heart.

  Every time the spiritual energy in his body dissipated, he would immediately drink a few mouthfuls of spring water. Gradually, threads of spiritual energy slowly accumulated in his body, slowly changing his physique and constantly approaching the first layer of the Condensation Period.

  The glowing objects around him turned into tiny spots of light again and drilled silently into his body.

  With Wang Lin's spiritual roots and natural talent, without the mysterious pearl and spiritual energy, he would need several years to possibly succeed in condensing his Qi to the first layer. If he added the Spirit Transforming Grass, it was likely that even after thirty or fifty years, he still wouldn't succeed.

  Sun Dazhu's one-month medicine reduced the process. Wang Lin inadvertently dispersed his efforts, removing the need for Huā Líng Cǎo, but even so, it would still take about ten years to cultivate. Now, with ample spiritual energy and a Dreamspace that increases time by tenfold, the first layer of Qi Condensation is within sight.