Chapter 48: Minor Accomplishment in Cultivation

  Yu then made a mouthful of air and escaped back to the base, then stayed in the practice room to carefully examine the Gan Qian Tong Xin branch he had taken. It was like a small shrub, only one foot tall with a main trunk that split into nine branches, each only four inches long, without a single leaf on top.

  These nine branches emitted a silver-white glow, and with a glance at the aura, it was suddenly discovered that its spiritual energy was abundant, its spiritual light flickering, making people love it so much.

  Yu Ze Cheng began processing the Gan Qing Tong Xin branch according to the records on the floating pagoda, cutting off the branches, soaking them in cow's milk, then lightly frying them in hot oil, and finally igniting the main trunk with a small flame to smoke-roast it. After completing the production, all nine branches were made, and their spiritual energy would not disperse.

  This Gàn Qián Tōng Xīn Zhī can be taken directly, and it will also have the effect of increasing spiritual energy. It can also be used in pill-making, but there are only records of the names of those pills, without any methods for refining them. Are they to be swallowed directly?

  In fact, this kind of heavenly treasure and earthly preciousness, directly taking it orally is completely wasting heaven's treasure. One's own cultivation is too low, and they can't absorb the spiritual power in the spiritual medicine at all. Most of it will be lost. Actually, that thousand-year-old ginseng from before was a bit wasted on me, but there was no other way.

  Yu Ze Cheng looked at the Gan Qian Tong Xin branch and couldn't help but let out a long sigh. He decided to use it as the main ingredient, just like he did with the ginseng last time, and continue to simmer the soup himself. Although this would also result in some loss of spiritual energy, it was still better than taking it orally.

  Yu Ze Cheng changed the way he made this soup, unlike his old method. He flipped through the Fotu Record and found a recipe for making Yuanqi Dan, where all the ingredients could be found by himself. He replaced the soup materials with the ingredients of Yuanqi Dan, using Gan Qian Tong Xin branch as the main ingredient, and used his own soup-making method to make a new soup.

  Yu Ze Cheng then began preparing to simmer the soup, with all four maids becoming his helpers, busily running back and forth to prepare various ingredients.

  They were originally sent by others to serve Yu Ze Cheng, and they had already resigned themselves to their own future. Yu Ze Cheng was a young hero, handsome and wealthy, and he was extremely generous with his money. They had long since harbored this intention, so while working, one by one, they drew close to Yu Ze Cheng, with tender and loving gazes.

  They are far inferior to the red girls in the rouge building in terms of their coquettish tactics, but they have a unique charm with their youth and vitality. I, Yu Zhen, quite enjoy this feeling, surrounded by girls everywhere, lively and bustling, with a special flavor.

  Yu then began to boil the soup, and from that moment on, he was like a different person, his energy concentrated on the soup, completely ignoring the girls around him. This time, he used blood energy to boil the soup, cutting the Gàn Dry Branch into nine segments, and only putting in one small segment.

  It took a full six hours, from morning to evening, to finally brew the first pot of soup. Under Yu Ze Cheng's operation and catalysis, all the materials including Gan Qian Tong Xin branch were fully dissolved into the soup. The last three pots of water were brewed into a full bowl of high soup and a bowl of thick soup.

  The rest was swallowed in one gulp, the taste was unbearable, bitter and astringent, almost vomiting, but after drinking, a burst of spiritual energy was produced in the body.

  Yu Ze established a new cultivation, transforming blood into Qi, refining the heart, and gradually felt that this was indeed better than Ling Shi. Although Ling Shi was powerful and supplied true yuan continuously without interruption, the true yuan provided by Ling Shi came from the stone itself, not one's own body. Each time it needed to be decomposed in the body before it could be used. However, the true yuan provided by Gan Qing Tong Xin Zhi could be directly applied, transformed into blood energy, and produced Qi power, which was then used to transform the heart.

  Just like that, I sat for a whole day and night. When the medicine's effect was fully dissolved, my true yuan was exhausted, my blood energy disappeared, and my gong force was completely gone. Yu Ze Cheng ended his cultivation, and his heart's gong transformation had progressed another step forward. Suddenly, Yu Ze Cheng felt great joy, it seemed that his own cultivation had hope after all. This was equivalent to a year of hard work for him.

  The cultivation ended, and Yu Ze Cheng began to rest and recover. He found Master Gao Feng to ask if anything had happened on the land, but it was still as peaceful as before. However, this peace gave Yu Ze Cheng an inexplicable feeling, a sense that this calmness was like the stillness before a storm.

  The same was true of Gao Feng, who had a detailed conversation with him and found that they both had this premonition, but neither of them could find the reason.

  Forget it, the sky will fall and there will be a big one to hold it up. Yu Zhen threw this feeling behind his head and started to focus on brewing soup to absorb the spiritual power of Gan Dry Branch, in order to cultivate himself.

  After two days of rest, Yu Zecheng solidified his boundary and began his cultivation journey again, putting all things behind him and focusing solely on brewing soup to cultivate.

  It's indeed a heavenly treasure with great efficacy. Zhang Guo Lao was mistakenly eaten by the thousand-year-old ginseng and flew to become an immortal. With the help of Gan Qing Tong Xin Zhi, Yu Ze Cheng's efforts were not in vain, and when he refined the eighth root of Gan Qing Tong Xin Zhi, he finally completely transformed his heart into a Xian Guan organ, the Xian Gu bone and blood lock - the heart.

  Originally, it would take fifteen years of normal cultivation, but relying on the Ling Stone and the Gan Qing Tong Xin branch, Yu Zhen was able to achieve success in just nine months.

  When the Blood Calamity Heart was fully tempered, a deafening explosion erupted within it. The sound was muffled but spread throughout the Mountain Bamboo City. Then there were six more sounds, each one weaker than the first but still crisp and clear, echoing through the clouds. Yu Zecheng felt as if his heart had opened seven locks in these seven sounds, forming a Seven Aperture Luminous Heart.

  Then Yu Zhen felt the blood flowing out of his heart, flowing through his blood vessels, and every time it flowed a few inches, it made a soft sound, finally making 108 sounds, which was the completion of the great method, thoroughly ending.

  The heart's vortex dissipated, the sound disappeared, and then a massive whirlwind formed above Yu Ze Cheng's head, spanning ten miles in diameter. The entire spiritual energy of Shan Zhu City was absorbed by this whirlwind and converged into Yu Ze Cheng's dantian. This process lasted only for an instant, and then it vanished. This is the characteristic of capturing air from the void, reaching a high level of qi induction. However, ordinary people can only manage to capture air within a radius of one mile or so, whereas Yu Ze Cheng encompassed the entire Shan Zhu City, lasting for a full minute, instantly triggering several divine senses scanning over from within the city.

  These divine senses scanned onto Yu Ze Cheng's body, discovering that he had advanced to a higher level in the realm of Qi Refining. They all returned their divine senses, and they were all very familiar with Yu Ze Cheng. The Heart Symbol was not wasted, and there were omens for every breakthrough in cultivation. The commotion just now could also be explained.

  Yu Ze Cheng's heart started beating, with each beat lasting a full ten seconds, and this one beat was enough to meet the needs of blood circulation throughout the body. At the same time, he began to produce a large amount of blood energy. This blood energy surged through his entire body, giving him another baptism. Yu Ze Cheng finally succeeded in transforming his blood into a powerful aura, and his cultivation entered the high-level realm of the Gathering Qi stage, the third layer of the Refining Qi period.

  The heart beats silently, bringing countless vitality to Yu Zecheng. Even if it is struck and shattered by the outside world, as long as one-third of it remains, it will slowly recover on its own and continue beating for Yu Zecheng.

  As long as the heart doesn't stop, the blood will keep flowing. The rest is a matter of time. Even if the body is severely injured, as long as it's not cut in two or missing limbs, it will slowly recover, and from then on, its vitality will reach an unimaginable level.

  And the heart became the energy center, where all the blood energies gathered, fully expanding and compressing the true yuan back to the dantian. The heart and dantian are far apart, supporting each other, forming a second energy core.

  The true yuan inside the dantian is also changing, the original true yuan is slowly being swallowed by that strand of gaseous energy, all the true yuan has transformed into gaseous energy. This change is not irreversible, Yu Ze Cheng can also transform the gaseous energy back into true yuan. In fact, this is the third layer of blood gaseous immortal bone in self-operation, the blood gaseous technique automatically enters the next level of cultivation.

  The third layer of Blood Bone in the Blood Bone Technique is not as difficult to cultivate as the first two layers, and it belongs to the self-evolutionary cultivation method that naturally forms when the conditions are ripe. In short, it's an adaptive process. This technique can be divided into three steps: The first step requires the body to adapt to the Heart of Blood Bone, allowing the Heart of Blood Bone to merge within the body. The second step requires the Bone Energy to self-evolve and transform into Bone Ability.

  The third step is to balance the disparity between blood energy and gong energy, organically integrating them together, eliminating each other's sharp edges, slowly absorbing into a suitable proportion to produce speed, laying the foundation for the next layer of blood-gong unity cultivation.

  The practice of this gongfa is just four words: follow the natural order. The key is to cultivate. According to the book, some people take ten years to succeed, while others pass in seven days. There are no shortcuts to be spoken of; everything depends on the body's self-adaptability.

  Yu then became a great law, suddenly spirit clear and refreshing, body extremely comfortable, consciousness entering the high-level layer of guiding gas, also changed, expanded two yards distance, five yards inside, all in his consciousness response.

  Yu Ze Cheng stood up and felt the changes in his body, his heart beating steadily, everything was normal, without those rejection reactions recorded in books, blood energy and Qi were also at peace, now just waiting for his body to slowly adapt.

  To adapt your body, you need to do one thing, which is to eat. This time, after cultivating for an unknown number of days, my stomach started to feel hungry.

  Yu Ze Cheng shouted loudly:

  "Come on, bring me some wine and dishes."

  At this time of practice, it has already formed a habit. After each practice session, I will eat and drink a lot to relax my body and relieve fatigue.

  Four girls had been prepared for a long time, and soon they brought up a table of wine and dishes. There were four dishes and one soup: braised pork belly, Kung Pao chicken, Mapo tofu, eggplant with garlic sauce, and beef and radish soup, all of which were Yu Zecheng's favorite dishes. Suddenly, a big feast began. Although he was a chef by profession, he didn't like to eat the food he cooked himself. These dishes were extremely abundant, enough for five people. Yu Zecheng ate them all up, but only felt 80% full. After finishing eating, Yu Zecheng sat in his chair and before turning over a few thoughts, he fell asleep on the table with a snore, and his body began to self-regulate.