66.bottleneck
After a busy day in Hongbeng Village, at dusk, Shen Shi said goodbye to starfish and returned to his cave house in White Fish Bay Three years later, he was no longer the twelve year old boy who had just entered the island. He had also reached the middle level of the realm of refining Qi just by practicing Taoism. He was also ranked among the top 100 new disciples who had joined the Lingxiao Sect.
In the past three years, his body has also begun to change gradually after continuous spiritual refining day and night. His strength and tenacity are far superior to ordinary people in the world. If only his strength, he is now able to compete with two or three ordinary adult men. As the cultivation goes on, the gap will continue to expand. Especially if he has the chance to learn the supernatural and Taoist skills, the gap between him and ordinary people will be like an immortal.
Three years ago, every time he came back from the village of Hongbeng to peel shrimp, he was half dead. But now when he returned to the cave, he was still as normal as before, and there was no special fatigue. When the stone door was closed, the familiar silence came back to the stone room where he had lived for three years. Shen Shi pondered for a moment, went to the bedside, reached under the pillow, and found a small bag. Then he returned to the table in the stone room and sat down, gently pouring the contents of the small bag onto the table.
"Tick tock tock tock tock", a soft and clear voice, reverberated with the glittering and crystal clear Lingjing falling on the table. Although Shen Shi was already very clear in his heart, he carefully counted the Lingjing scattered on the table.
There are five spirit crystals in total.
In addition, the three Holy Crystals he spent when he took out to buy "Water Archery" in the morning, these are all his savings after he had been practicing daily for three years.
Lingjing radiates beautiful and dazzling light, flashing in front of him. Shen Shi stares at these beautiful stones silently, caresses them gently with his hands, and thinks quietly without saying a word.
Among the five Holy Crystals, one of them has a darker color luster than the surrounding Holy Crystals. After careful observation, it can be distinguished. As long as a monk who has practiced for a few days sees it, he will know that it is the Holy Crystals that have been absorbed by the monk, and some of its Holy Power has been lost, so it looks like this. According to the rules of the cultivation world, only complete and unused Holy Crystals can be used as money to buy all kinds of Holy Materials. So what Shen Shi can get now is actually only four Holy Crystals.
After three years of hard work, I have to work hard. That's all I have left. I'm really embarrassed.
Shen Shi made a slight wry smile and shook his head. Because of the Qingxin Mantra, the number of Holy Crystals consumed by his cultivation is twice that of the ordinary disciples of Lingxiao Sect. Therefore, he has been living a tight life. Now the state is improved. From the initial level of the gas refining state to the middle level of the gas refining state, the consumption of the spirit crystal is suddenly doubled. It happened that not long ago, the old guy in Hongbeng Village killed the thief very much, and for no reason, he actually reduced the reward for shelling shrimp by half. As a result, Shen Shi immediately felt that his Japanese son was going to be unable to pass.
This is also the fundamental reason why he finally made up his mind to buy the Five Element Method to do other tasks, even though it is said that the demon catching task has always taken some risks.
After taking a long breath, Shen Shi expels these thoughts from his mind and calms down. Then he picks up the spirit crystal that has been used for several times, returns to the bed and sits on his knees, and begins his daily practice.
He grasped the Holy Crystal, felt the Holy Power, and led the Holy Spirit into his body. He had already mastered all the steps of cultivating the secret method. He practiced it very smoothly. When the Holy Power was sucked into his Qi veins from the Holy Crystal and stayed safely, Shen Shi soon felt a sense of exhaustion. Even his brain felt a little heavy. He was very dizzy and wanted to lie down and sleep.
This is naturally the usual mental fatigue reaction after the cultivation. In fact, compared with many years when the cultivation was just started three years ago, it was the reaction of having a headache and being unable to sleep all night. This is just a slight sense of sleepy fatigue that has been reduced too much. Shen Shi reached out and pinched his eyebrows, took a deep breath, and then closed his eyes again.
Another ancient and mysterious spell began to reverberate in his heart, and a strange force seemed to be reconditioning his physical spirit under the control of his mind. However, the Holy Power that was just absorbed into the body's Qi channels not long ago had been quietly subdued somewhere in the Qi channels, but now it seemed to be suddenly startled, jumped suddenly, and then began to wander slowly again under the impetus of an invisible force. It wandered all the way, and finally came to a mysterious hole deep in Shen Shi's eyebrows. It quickly integrated with many Holy Power that had been collected here before, Now be quiet.
Different from the ordinary spiritual power scattered in the whole body's qi channels, after three years of continuous cultivation of the Qingxin Mantra, the spiritual power gathered in Shen Shimei's heart hole is almost equal to the amount of all the spiritual power in his whole body's qi channels. But because all the spiritual power is collected in this narrow hole, all the spiritual power is consolidated and integrated. Now a bunch of tough and thick qi channels have been formed, Quietly crouched at the center of Shen Shi's eyebrows. However, in addition, these spiritual powers have never changed, and there seems to be nothing unusual about them.
After the cultivation of Qingxin Mantra, when Shen Shi opened his eyes again, he felt that his mind was suddenly clear and sharp, and the original fatigue and sleepiness were swept away.
He looked down at the palm of his hand, and the luster on the surface of the Holy Crystal seemed to have faded a little. Shen Shi calculated slightly in his mind that the Holy Power in this Holy Crystal had been used about half, and could only be used five times at most.
After the disciples in the ordinary Qi refining state cultivate to the middle level, the spirit power in a spirit crystal can be absorbed by them ten times, which is enough for ten days. However, Shen Shi's realm of middle level disciples in the gas refining realm is consumed by the higher level realm of the gas refining realm. A spirit crystal can only support his cultivation for five days now.
If Lingjing can't keep up one day
Shen Shi only felt his toothache for no reason. He shook his head with a wry smile. At that moment, he suddenly thought of the famous Ganze in the Green Fish Island and even the whole Lingxiao Sect. Within three years, he had directly cultivated to the high level of the gas refining realm. It was only a step away from the impressive Ningyuan realm. Such a genius is rare in a hundred years.
But his current consumption should be the same as his own. A spirit crystal can only support his cultivation for five days, but I don't know if Ganze will also be distressed by the spirit crystal?
After a while, Shen Shi suddenly woke up with a self mocking smile. He thought about Gan Ze's family background and the only direct descendant of Gan Family of Wannian Aristocratic Family. How can such a person be bothered by such a small matter as Lingjing.?
Leaving these thoughts behind, Shen Shi calmed down again. After a while, he began his second cultivation in a day.
As before, the cultivation this time was also very smooth. There was basically no problem from sensing spiritual power to guiding the spirit into the body to travel around the world. When a new ray of spiritual power slowly settled in the body, the familiar feeling of slight fatigue hit again. But this time, I don't know whether the Tao still has some afterpower because of the Qingxin Mantra, which is a little lighter than the reaction after the first cultivation.
Shen Shi gave a sigh of relief, got out of bed, stood up straight and stretched. After exercising, he felt better. At the moment, he didn't feel sleepy. He pondered for a moment and decided to try to practice the water archery that he bought from the Five Elements Hall today.
The secret script of "Water Archery" cannot be taken out of the Five Elements Hall according to the rules. He came out after he had memorized the secret script according to the requirements of the two elder martial brothers and sisters in the hall. Now he had read it in his mind slowly. After he realized that he had forgotten nothing, he began to try to stimulate the spiritual power in the internal qi and slowly stimulated it with the secret script of water archery.
The heaven and earth are rich, divided into yin and yang, and there are five elements everywhere. The five elements complement each other, which is a recognition passed down from ancient times.
The five element method is a method that arouses the resonance of the five element spiritual power by using the spiritual power in the body, and then exerts various powers. It has been known for its complexity since ancient times. Shen Shi felt the difficulty when he first started this way. In addition to almost being unable to sense the spiritual power of the water system in the surrounding air, the most important step is to stimulate the spiritual power in the body. It is especially difficult to stimulate it with the water archery formula.
Although water archery is only the lowest level of the five element techniques, it requires a lot of spiritual power to cast it. The initial level disciples in the ordinary gas refining world do not even have enough spiritual power. Only when they reach the middle level of the gas refining world, can they have enough power to practice the five element techniques.
After beginning to cultivate the Five Elements Method, there were two initial difficulties: first, the Five Elements Method itself was difficult and complicated, which could be seen from the various complex runes and runes in the runes, because runes were a special manifestation of the Five Elements Method. It is easy for those who have not been exposed to this way to make mistakes in the operation of spiritual power in the process of cultivation at the beginning, which leads to the abandonment of previous achievements and they have to start again; The second is that the amount of spiritual power required by the Five Elements Method is very large. The friars must adjust and concentrate their spiritual power in order to cast spells.
The most difficult thing for ordinary friars is the first point. The second point is extremely difficult for the friars in the gas refining region, because the spiritual power absorbed by the friars in the gas refining region is scattered in the whole body, and it is difficult to concentrate. But once the friars reach the condensing region, it will become very simple, because the friars in the condensing region have opened up the elixir sea, where all the spiritual power converges, and at the same time, as the state rises, It is easy to control the spiritual power in the body.
However, for Shen Shi, he has been practicing runes since childhood. Even after three years of worship with Lingxiao Sect, although it is not a place for martial arts, he still insists on drawing Yin Yang and Five Element Runes on several sheets of paper every day, so as time goes by, he has a good idea of some basic trends of the Five Element Runes, especially the lowest level, which is much better than ordinary people, Therefore, in the first point, it was very smooth and did not encounter too much difficulties. In fact, his understanding of the Five Elements Method is also an important reason why he chose the task of catching demons.
However, after all, he was not a superior figure of the "heaven directed wizard". Even though he had a better understanding of the Five Element Method, he soon encountered a bottleneck in the second difficulty of cultivating the Five Element Method, namely, the problem of operating the internal spiritual power of the group, and was almost difficult to cultivate.