Chapter 3: Legal Door Moving Task Requirements

  The internal force flows smoothly, although it is said that there is no conscious control, this force can still flow and transport itself at an extremely slow speed within the body. However, its efficiency is more than a hundred times slower than active transportation.

  After resting for a day to allow his meridians and acupoints to fully adapt to the circulation of Fa power, Wang Guang spent another seven or eight days moving Fa power around, further familiarizing himself with it.

  "Cultivate the method, not the technique. This is what you should be doing now." In a courtyard of an inner mountain's inner sect disciple's mansion, Wang Guang sat cross-legged on a stone pedestal in front of a large tree. Around him were over ten fellow practitioners who had just transformed their internal energy, and under the tree sat an old Daoist, shaking his feather duster while quietly lecturing the crowd on the method of cultivating internal energy.

  "Although you can now freely control the law power in your body, cultivate various spells and treasures, but based on the experience of your predecessors, it's best to cultivate each of your own law doors to the third layer before cultivating various Taoist techniques." An old Taoist with a cyan-white broken Taoist robe narrowed his eyes as if he was about to fall asleep: "Law power is the foundation. Without strong law power, even the simplest 'One Qi Yin Lei', you can only release one at your current stage. Cultivating Taoist techniques consumes time, and it's best to lay a solid foundation first before pursuing other things."

  "Elder brother, I think that at this stage, what we should be cultivating is not magical power, but rather the Way. One of the Qi Practitioners bowed and said: "We Qi Practitioners absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and take in the essence of the sun, moon, and stars to increase our magical power. If we cultivate in this way, it's slow and wastes time. But if we cultivate techniques and create dark lightning to sell to others in the sect, we can get crystal stones from them to aid in our cultivation, which would be many times faster. Moreover, cultivating with crystal stones results in extremely pure magical power, so we don't have to worry about our foundation being unstable."

  "Moreover, after cultivating the Dao technique, we will have a way to protect ourselves and can walk freely at the foot of the mountain, go and fight with those demonic beasts, and get familiar with the battle of Qi Refining Masters."

  The cultivator said this, and several other cultivators nodded in agreement. However, Wang Guang shook his head secretly, as he had been going to the Scripture Pavilion every day for some time now, reading through various predecessors' cultivation experiences, and thus understood that this method was not feasible, having been tried by countless predecessors before.

  "Junior brother, this statement is incorrect. By absorbing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, and taking in the essence of the sun, moon, and stars, although it takes a lot of time and the resulting magical power may be slightly inferior to that obtained through crystal stone cultivation. However, during this process, our bodies as Qi practitioners undergo tempering by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, not only making our physical constitution better but also strengthening our meridian channels, laying the foundation for holding more magical power in the future."

  The old Daoist narrowed his eyes and spoke in a low voice: "Absorbing the spiritual energy from crystal stones can also temper the meridians, but it's not as effective as the former method. The pros and cons are simply that. Whether you believe it or not is up to you! I'm only responsible for telling you this, and I won't gain any benefits from you. Don't argue anymore, disperse and cultivate according to your own heart!"

  After saying that, the old Taoist leaned his body to one side and leaned against a big tree, making a snoring sound, and actually fell asleep. The other practitioners said a few more words, but the old Taoist didn't respond. Helpless, Wang Guang and the others had no choice but to turn around and leave.

  "If you can't get any benefits from the other person, then what's the point of forcing them to take the right path?" Wang Guang thought to himself as he walked, feeling secretly pleased: "The more people who take the wrong route, the more opportunities I'll have to stand out in the Yi Qi Sect. In the future when we're competing, that means one less opponent." He couldn't help but chuckle quietly to himself at the pleasant thought.

  "I've been cooped up on the mountain for over a month, every day practicing qigong or reading various Taoist scriptures. It's really dull and flavorless. I should find something else to do to liven up this monotonous life.

  As I stroll through the garden, watching birds flit about in the trees, chirping away, and flowers swaying gently in the breeze, my slightly stifled mood from all that sitting meditation has improved a bit."

  Out of his own manor, Wang Guang waved the duster in his hand and headed towards a building near the top of the mountain. Along the way, many inner door disciples hurried down, and some people followed him to the same building.

  Before long, Wang Guang arrived at the pavilion. According to the sect's map, this pavilion was a place where practitioners of the One Qi Sect posted tasks for each other. The pavilions on their mountain and those on several other peaks were connected by special arrays, allowing practitioners not only to receive tasks from their own peak but also from others. Similarly, any task posted in front of a pavilion could be seen by anyone in front of another pavilion.

  He didn't bother to think about where this idea came from, Wang Guang stood upright in front of the huge stone monument on the attic and carefully read the text on it.

  The stone tablet is constantly scrolling and playing tasks related to collection. There are more than a dozen other such stone tablets around, some of which are hunting-type, some of which are refining-type. Each giant stone tablet represents a task category.

  "Gather a nest of earth bees. Requirements: The queen bee must be alive. Task reward: Thirty crystal stones."

  "Gather a stalk of Luminous Grass, requirement: must be over 30 years old. Task reward: 10 crystal stones"

  Task information kept scrolling on the stone tablet, a stick of incense time for one cycle. There were additions and deletions during this period, all depending on the intentions of the person who posted the task. Soon, Wang Guang noticed several tasks that were not too difficult for him at present.

  "Gather moonlight, price determined by quantity. Delivery every 7 days, those who fail to meet the required quantity for two consecutive deliveries will have their task acceptance time suspended for a month."

  "Gather the essence of Zi Yun, one thread and one crystal stone at a time, unlimited in quantity, never to be withdrawn."

  "Gather Taibai's essence, three paths one crystal stone. No quantity limit, never withdrawn."

  After memorizing the numbers of these three tasks, Wang Guang turned around and entered the attic. The attic was spacious, with dozens of thick stone pillars supporting the structure. Looking up, just the first floor alone was over 30 meters high, occupying half of the entire attic's height. The top layer was covered with stone slabs, with restrictive seals on top, and Wang Guang didn't dare to probe, fearing that those seals would counterattack and hurt him. There were no stairs around, nor any transmission arrays or anything like that, so he also didn't know how to go up.

  In this first layer of space, apart from those stone pillars, there were just some tables and chairs. Some practitioners sat on the tables and chairs, either exchanging materials for their techniques or discussing things. After casually choosing a window, Wang Guang told the receptionist waiting behind the window about the task he wanted to receive.

  I don't know how the receptionist checked, but after a few breaths, the female receptionist smiled and said: "The flag array for collecting Taibai's essence has been gone, I'm afraid you can't get it today. The jade bottle that holds the purple air is also gone, only the device that collects the moonlight is left. Will you accept it?

  Wang Guangyi immediately understood the meaning of the other party's words, which meant that there were two tasks to cultivate and too many people, so there was not enough container on this mountain, so you need to wait.

  "Then we need to collect the moonlight task." Wang Guangyi said in a low voice with a flick of his hand.

  The female receptionist smiled, turned around and searched on a thick stone pillar, pressed a handprint, the stone pillar split open, and a jade bottle over a foot high fell out from inside.

  This jade bottle is plain white and unadorned, looking extremely ordinary. If not for the surge of magical energy emanating from it, Wang Guang would have almost thought this was not a tool for collecting moonlight at all. This being his first time doing this task, he was extremely unfamiliar with the tool.

  Without nodding in thanks, after filling out some necessary information, he picked up the jade bottle and returned to his residence with a serious expression.

  "Boundless Heaven Venerable! It seems that inner sect disciples have an advantage over outer sect cultivators, if it were an outer sect cultivator who took on this task, not to mention the high reward, just preparing the various tools would be a hassle." Wang Guang played with the jade bottle in his hand, thinking about some things randomly. "I should start meditating and cultivating, can't always be dazed like this!" He pushed open the window and looked at the sky, finding that it was still early.

  The moon has not appeared yet, so it's impossible to collect the lunar essence. It feels like there is still plenty of time later, and this guy will sit cross-legged and start transporting his magical powers.

  The flow of mana was as smooth as flowing water, and he could feel the mana inside his body growing thicker and more profound. He was delighted in his heart. Unbeknownst to him, the sky had darkened, and since it wasn't a full moon today, there was no jade plate in the sky, only a jade hook hanging slanted, with a thread of coolness that made Wang Guang sigh in admiration.

  "Big pearls and small pearls fall on the jade plate!" He had been thinking for half a day, and this guy suddenly remembered a poem from ancient times. He didn't care if it was appropriate or not, whether it described the moon or not, and he just pretended to recite it in a low voice. "Refreshing! Hehe! When I have the chance, I'll go for a walk in the mortal world and find some ancient poems to memorize. Who knows, maybe I can even use them to flirt with a couple of young girls? Otherwise, when the time comes, I won't be able to think of anything, and the woman will leave, leaving me with nothing but regret."