Chapter 11: Refining Qi First Layer

  Another ten-day intensive course has ended, and as usual, Lin Feng didn't gain much, blaming himself for not having cultivated his Qi yet. Well, it's not that he really didn't gain anything; at least he got a precious Qi-replenishing pill from Zhao Chun, which, although unusable now, had a great motivating effect on him.

  Life has returned to a simple cycle, sweeping the Dan Temple, sorting out spiritual medicine, reciting books and then practicing. Cultivating the truth is so simple yet dull, but as long as you have interest, these are not problems. Especially for Lin Feng, this poorly qualified cultivator, after being frustrated for a long time and finding an opportunity to succeed, the motivation gained is limitless.

  Huang Jing Shen, a third-grade spiritual medicine; slightly sweet in taste, with larger leaves than ordinary ginseng, and a yellow stem that is crystal clear; often grows in low-lying wetlands and shaded areas... It is the main spiritual medicine for refining Pei Yuan Dan, extremely rare and precious. Note: Pei Yuan Dan comes in two forms, Small Pei Yuan Dan and Pei Yuan Dan, which can enhance the absorption of spiritual energy. Small Pei Yuan Dan is a second-grade dan, suitable for foundation-building cultivators, while Pei Yuan Dan is a third-grade spiritual dan, suitable for accelerating the absorption of spiritual energy during the Golden Elixir period.

  The night had deepened, and Lin Feng was still diligently memorizing the Spiritual Plants Compendium. Seeing that there were only a few pages left in the book, it was clear that he hadn't been reading much lately. Indeed, since Yang Ze's guidance, Lin Feng's confidence had greatly increased, and while not affecting his cultivation, he spent a lot of time learning about alchemy, hoping to make up for his lack of innate talent in the future.

  With interest, memorization becomes fast. Before Yang Ze's guidance a few months ago, he had only memorized less than one-third of the Spiritual Plant Compendium. Now, in less than a month, he is almost done with memorizing it all. Thinking that once he finishes memorizing, Yang Ze will teach him alchemy, Lin Feng's heart suddenly becomes excited.

  He casually put down the book, silently recollected what he had memorized today, and then let his mood calm down. Lin Feng sat cross-legged again, with his heart facing upwards, his mind sank into his dantian, starting his daily fixed cultivation practice.

  He took a deep breath, and Lin Feng's consciousness also sank into the dantian with this breath. After three warm-ups, his consciousness sank again to the **hole, then passed through the strong hole, the waist shu hole, all the way up to the du mai, and then down through the ren mai back to the dantian, repeating the cycle. This is the basic method of qigong, but Lin Feng currently has no true qi, and practicing this method is mainly to warm up the dantian and familiarize himself with the cultivation path.

  After two weeks of operation, the dantian is like the common saying, "the nephew hits the lantern - as usual (finds his uncle)", and it's the same as before, without any sensation. Lin Feng also got used to it, with no ripples in his heart, continuing to practice the empty operation of guiding qi.

  Taking another breath to guide the energy into the dantian, Lin Feng suddenly felt a slight swelling sensation in his dantian, which was an unprecedented feeling in the past three months of meditation. According to the explanation of the qigong method, this should be a precursor to a breakthrough. Overjoyed, Lin Feng did not dare to slack off and deliberately kept the breath in the dantian for several more cycles, until the swelling sensation became more pronounced before guiding it to circulate with his mind.

  According to the method of guiding Qi, as long as this swelling is circulated in the meridians for a week, the Dantian will naturally produce true Qi, which is the manifestation of collecting the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Therefore, Lin Feng specially warmed up for several breaths before starting to circulate the guiding Qi method, hoping to complete the cycle of circulating Qi in one go.

  Unfortunately, this feeling becomes very weak when it reaches Baihui point and can't last until Renmai before disappearing.

  Although he failed, Lin Feng was extremely happy. After all, this was his first time feeling the change in his dantian, and being able to reach Bai Hui in one go was already incredible. According to the experience introduced in the Qigong manual, it's not bad for a person to be able to circulate this sensation to half of the Du Meridian for the first time. The fact that he was able to circulate it almost to the end of the Du Meridian in one go, didn't that mean he was more exceptional than others?

  Lin Feng didn't dare to think that way, after all, the blows he had suffered before were quite big, and the concept of his poor talent had already been deeply ingrained in his mind. Even now that this phenomenon appeared, where he was better than others, he thought at most that he had accumulated more time than others, which was why he had suddenly burst forth, and it was only the first time that he had impacted the Bai Hui acupoint.

  Although unsuccessful, Lin Feng still conscientiously completed the cycle of Zhou Tian with his consciousness. His mind once again entered a state of calmness, guiding the breath into the Dan Tian, warming and nourishing it, circulating the Zhou Tian for the fourth time, the fifth time. The sensation of swelling in the Dan Tian grew stronger each time, the distance of the impact also increased each time, but both times ended in failure.

  Although defeated, he is still delighted - this is Lin Feng's current mood. After nearly half a year of training without any progress, today he finally had the opportunity to break through, and anyone would be unable to hold back their excitement. What's the big deal about five attempts at impact? In the past three months, the number of times he has transported empty air is not in the tens of thousands but still in the thousands, so why worry about a few more attempts?

  Besides, the last time just now, the swelling sensation has reached the last point of the Governor Vessel, the Gum Intersection Point. With one more effort, it will pass through the Heaven's Bridge and enter the Conception Vessel, after which there will be no more obstacles. Seeing that he might succeed in refining his Qi, Lin Feng couldn't help but feel secretly delighted.

  Delighted to return home, Lin Feng was not arrogant or proud, his mind calm and peaceful, secretly conforming to the way of cultivating truth, perhaps this is the biggest reason for his breakthrough.

  Without any pause, after the fifth cycle was over, Lin Feng began his sixth cycle, seventh cycle, eighth cycle. The feeling grew stronger and stronger, but he just couldn't break through the barrier of the Dantian point. Lin Feng didn't get discouraged. He knew that the Du Mai and Ren Mai belonged to different meridians and were a major pass during the Qi-refining stage, making it extremely difficult to break through.

  Calm down, Lin Feng once again reviewed the key points of breaking through this pass and started his ninth cycle. As they say, "practice makes perfect", after many cycles of circulating Qi, Lin Feng had also grasped some tricks, and this time the swelling sensation didn't weaken much before reaching the Geng Intersection Acupoint, causing it to ache with pain.

  Lin Feng was not flustered, his tongue touched the upper palate, and he set up a heavenly bridge to connect with the drumming sensation entering the Ren channel. "Boom" This time, the drumming sensation in the gums did not slowly disappear, but instead immediately poured down like a flood as soon as it reached the heavenly bridge, pouring into the end of the Ren channel's large hole - Cheng Jiang hole. Immediately afterwards, it flowed smoothly and unobstructed, flowing straight down, passing through the five passes, beheading the six generals, like a hundred rivers entering the sea, freely roaming the 23 major holes of the Ren channel, and successfully returning to the Dan Tian.

  A swollen feeling entered the dantian, immediately turning into a gentle stream of air that mixed with the heavenly and earthly airs that had just been inhaled. Suddenly, it was as if hot oil had been poured into cold water, thunder stirring up terrestrial fire, two energies violently colliding, churning, boiling, like they were about to burst open the dantian. However, very quickly, they seemed to have exhausted all their strength, slowly calming down, entwining together, following Lin Feng's breathing as they expanded and contracted, in the midst of expansion and contraction, they entwined, assimilated, and dissolved into each other.

  In the space of a few breaths, the two strands of energy merged into one, and Lin Feng's dantian calmed down once again. However, a faint whirlwind was still spinning non-stop within his dantian.

  It's done, the air swirls, this is a sign of the Qi refining period. Lin Feng has gone through nearly three months of hard training and finally refined his Qi swirl, officially entering the Qi refining period and stepping into the door of the Cultivation Realm.