Chapter 26: The Harvest of Local Energy is Quite Stimulating

  The local air is thick and turbid, it's too damaging to one's body to collect it.

  Although Chen Ni Wan repeatedly reminded and warned, it is necessary for Wen Fei Wu Qi to reach a certain level of cultivation in the morning before going to collect air.

  So during this period, Wen Fei first practiced the Five Qi Returning to Yuan Gong. In fact, the Five Qi Returning to Yuan Gong is also a method of absorbing qi, but it absorbs different spiritual qi, and uses the five qi in one's own zang-fu organs to stir up the five directional spiritual qi between heaven and earth, taking in nourishment for the internal organs. The method used is that of visualization, visualizing oneself sitting on a pre-heavenly eight trigrams diagram, emitting red qi from the heart, bursting out from the top of the head to connect with the southern qi. Then the cyan, white, black, and yellow qi are all visualized one by one for absorption.

  Finally, the body is immersed in this five-color energy, and the five-color energy penetrates into every pore and every cell, filling every cell in the body, nourishing the five internal organs and the four limbs. At this time, it has entered a state of "man in energy, energy in man" - the unity of heaven and humanity.

  This kung fu has been practiced in the five directions for some time, so there is no difficulty at all. Moreover, in this extremely pure Song Dynasty, the operation of Gong is even more smooth, and it can even be seen that the five colors of Qi are taken from the five directions, intersecting and merging, protecting the body. At this time, if an ordinary ghost wants to rush into the body, it's impossible!

  With the five-color energy protecting the inner palace, Wen Fei dared to put his hands on the ground with a big heart. According to the method of Di Jue Lei Fa, communicate with the earth's energy.

  This step is naturally very difficult for newcomers. But for Wen Fei, who can easily enter stillness and has already opened the palm holes of both hands, it's not a big deal. He followed the method, imagining himself drilling into the depths of the earth, drilling all the way down until he reached a dark blue sea. Then he began to imagine that the dark blue seawater was being drawn up by him, breaking through the constraints of the earth's crust and entering his body.

  This visualization method is actually a suggestive technique. It's equivalent to self-hypnosis, which makes it easier to communicate with the earth's energy. Wen Fei didn't even need this step, he directly released the energy from his body and let it penetrate deep into the ground, constantly feeling the presence of the earth's energy.

  In an instant, Wen Fei came into contact with the earth's energy, which was a very cold and chilling feeling that even made his whole body want to shiver, his teeth involuntarily chattering.

  Although he had mentally prepared himself, the chill of the local air still exceeded Wen Fei's expectations, but this also showed that the quality of the local air was extremely good.

  Fortunately, Wen Fei had recently replenished his energy and his body was full of vitality. If it weren't for the cold air stimulating him, he would have fallen seriously ill. Especially after practicing the Five Qi Morning Exercise, the five-colored qi in his internal organs protected him. Additionally, after eating the Life-Saving Pill, a warm sensation began to emanate from within his internal organs, which had just started to come out, and it was only then that Wen Fei didn't truly freeze to death.

  At first, taking in the earth's energy, one cannot be greedy and take too much, or even Wen Fei would not be able to withstand it. Then slowly withdraw from the exercise, placing that ball of earth's energy within the body to warm and nourish it.

  It wasn't until much later that Wen Fei slowly opened his eyes, only to see that the incense had already burned halfway. Many small whirlwinds could be seen swirling around the incense. This place was originally a secluded spot that Wen Fei had been searching for to avoid the wind, and he wouldn't neglect himself, even setting up a makeshift tent. Tonight was particularly clear and windless, but the three sticks of incense, which normally produced straight plumes of smoke rising upwards, suddenly vanished into thin air just as they left the incense holder. The scene was eerily strange.

  Wen Fei's scalp felt a little numb, and he didn't know how many ghosts had gathered around him. He hurriedly rushed up, grabbed the Lei Yin Hu Shen that Ge Er Lang gave him. This thing doesn't know if it has any use, but at least holding it is better than being empty-handed. At least there's some psychological comfort, right?

  "This is terrible, how come lighting incense sticks would attract so many wandering spirits and ghosts?" Wen Fei took a look at the time, it had only been about an hour or so, but the incense stick he was holding could normally burn for two to three hours. However, now it had already burned more than half of it, as if there were invisible people blowing air onto the incense stick.

  No, not blowing air, but inhaling. There were many wandering spirits and wild ghosts using their mouths and noses to suck in the incense. Wen Fei's back broke out in another layer of dense goosebumps.

  "What should I do now?" Wen Fei was at a loss, he had never encountered such a thing before. Some methods were also passed down by the old masters!

  Of the thirty-six stratagems, retreat is the best. Wen Fei thought to himself that this was not good, he didn't want to wait for these wandering spirits and wild ghosts to finish eating the incense offerings, and then see him, a big living person, and think of coming to taste the flavor too!

  Wen Fei had packed up his things and was about to leave, but he had too many things to pack, including the tent and other items. Just as he was rushing to finish packing, he noticed that the incense sticks were burning at an alarming rate. In this desolate wilderness on a night like this, without the tent and other essentials, it would be unbearable to spend the night here, even in summer. He still remembered his experience of living in the mountains for several days, where even during the hottest weather, he had to cover himself with a quilt in the second half of the night.

  They hastily gathered their things and fled in disarray. Before they knew it, a swarm of fireflies had surrounded Wen Fei, flying up and down around him.

  In the dark of night, Wen Fei pushed his cart with difficulty as he couldn't see the road clearly. But now with the fireflies flying up and down, he could vaguely see around him. The fireflies flew about wildly, which was romantic to say the least, but to Wen Fei it felt rather eerie. Perhaps he just didn't have a romantic cell in his body! Looking at these green lights, he couldn't help but think of Old Wang's ghostly fire.

  However, this reminded Wen Fei, who suddenly turned on his flashlight. Earlier, in the chaos, he had forgotten that he still had this treasure with him. In the city, such things are rarely used, but in the countryside and wilderness, they are the most precious!

  The flashlight has sufficient power and emits a bright beam of light, illuminating objects tens of meters away, making it possible to see clearly in the dark night.

  But as soon as Wen Fei opened his eyes, he felt a little regretful. In the light of the flashlight, there were low and short graves everywhere, like earthy steamed buns.

  In the midst of panic, Wen Fei somehow pushed his cart to a nearby burial ground. This burial ground seemed quite large and appeared to be for poor people. Almost none of the graves had tombstones; they were just shallow holes dug out and covered with only a few feet of dirt. Many of the graves had been dug up by wild dogs, fortunately, after many years, only dry bones remained. Otherwise, seeing a rotting hand or foot in the middle of the night would be quite thrilling...