Chapter 2: Refining Qi and Entering the Abyss World

When I passed by Ye Yunqing's house on my way home, it was deserted, leaving only an empty house.

  Jiuzhou Divine Court is very large and has rich land resources. Qin Shu and Ye Yunqing all live in detached self-built houses outside the Fifth Ring Road.

  This is a technologically advanced world. With an unmanned aerial train, even the journey to the Fifth Ring Road, which is more than 30 kilometers away, only takes a dozen minutes.

  Qin Shu's parents are ordinary people. There are three older sisters, two younger brothers, and one younger sister in the family, a total of nine people.

  There are also many uncles and elders.

  The Jiuzhou Divine Court encourages ordinary people to have more children. A person's food expenses, medical expenses, education, etc. from birth to adulthood are all borne by the Divine Court, and the more children a person has, the more subsidies the parents will receive.

  Therefore, most ordinary people's families have more than ten brothers and sisters.

  There are only seven children in Qin Shu's family, which is considered a small number.

  Just like Ye Yunqing's family, like most families, there are more than ten children.

  Qin's father Qin Wei and Qin's mother Wang Yurou run a fruit shop. They sell fruits grown by Qin Shu's grandfather and his family, and their business is pretty good.

  On this day, the fruit shop was closed, and Qin Shu's family was nervously waiting for the result of Qin Shu's spiritual awakening.

  Seeing Qin Shu coming back, the second sister Qin Rou hurriedly asked: "How is it, how is it, success or failure?"

  The whole family was a little nervous. They were afraid that Qin Shu would fail in his awakening, but they were even more afraid that he would awaken a bronze soul.

  At this time, Qin Shu didn't know what to say.

  Speaking of the bronze soul, I am afraid that my family will worry, but the appearance of the green lotus seed is bronze.

  He was silent for a moment, then nodded with a complicated expression and said, "Awakening was successful."

  "What level?" Qin Wei looked at Qin Shu, looking a little nervous but also expectant.

  Qin Shu felt that they would know from the school sooner or later, so he did not hide it and directly released the Green Lotus Seed.

  The eldest sister Qin Yu asked: "What is this?"

  "It looks like a lotus seed." Fifth sister Qin Qing's voice trembled a little.

  "Lotus, lotus seeds!" Wang Yurou asked, "Isn't that a bronze-level soul?" Her face suddenly turned pale.

  The same goes for other brothers and sisters. The bronze-level soul means that the probability of Qin Shu coming back from the abyss world is less than 10%.

  "In fact, it's more than just a bronze-level soul. Mine is a little bit stronger." Qin Shu told the truth.

  "Alas!" The family was silent, only Qin Wei sighed, "Xiao Shu, your mother and I are useless and can't help you with anything. If you want to eat or play anything in the next three days, just tell us, and your mother and I will do our best to do it for you."

  Wang Yurou's eyes were filled with tears as she hugged Qin Shu, "Xiao Shu, why are you so miserable?"

  Qin Shu was a little embarrassed. He wanted to explain that he had a Dao-level soul, but his family members didn't believe him.

  On the surface, the highest level of soul is the nine-color mythical level, such as Tai Chi Qi, Liang Yi Qi, Xuanyuan Sword, Kunlun Mirror, Nine-clawed Golden Dragon, Yuanshi Phoenix, and Prison Qilin.

  Dao level, what level is that?

  No one would believe it, not to mention my family.

  He was also a little helpless.

  But he couldn't miss any preparations. He said, "Okay, Mom, I'm fine now. Give me some money and I'll prepare for the Abyss training in three days."

  "Yes, if you are well prepared, you can survive. Isn't there a 10% chance of survival?" Wang Yurou looked at Qin Wei, "Dad, take out all the savings you have at home."

  "Okay!" Qin Wei said and was about to get his bank card.

  "No, no!" Qin Shu could only say, "Mom and Dad, we don't need so much. My soul has its own magical powers. Just buying some seeds is enough."

  The initial magical power of the Green Lotus Dao Seed is to mediate creation and create all things. Currently, it can be used to transform plants as long as the power of creation is sufficient.

  "Innate magical power?" Qin Wei's eyes lit up. "Good! Good! Good! In this way, the probability of you coming out of the abyss alive will be greatly increased. Plant-related magical power? Let me see." Then he said to the other children, "You can also help check which plants have stronger properties."

  "Okay!" The whole family went out together and used the computers on their wrists to search for information.

  Qin Shu was touched, but he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

  "Here!" The sixth brother Qin Gui found one, "Golden Thread Vine, a bronze-level plant, its vines are very tough, and the seeds are only three thousand yuan."

  "I have some here too." Third sister Qin Ying looked at Qin Shu, "Xiao Shu, can your magical power revive plants?"

  "About the same." Qin Shu nodded, "Maybe it will be stronger."

  "That's good." Qin Ying said, "Look at this iron watermelon of mine. If it can be grown, it can be used as a cannon to blast people."

  "I have some here too." The five-year-old brother Qin Hao raised his hand high, "This golden apple looks delicious."

  Everyone was stunned!

  Wang Yurou came over and picked up Qin Hao, "Xiaohao, don't make trouble."

  Soon, all the plants were found.

  There are five species in total, namely, golden thread vine, iron watermelon, giant banyan tree, golden skin poisonous thorn tree, and ghost sycamore.

  These are all things that can be bought in Yangzhou city.

  Wang Yurou said worriedly, "Are these five really enough? If we don't pick more, we still have enough money."

  "Yes, yes!"

  "I don't need too many, just these five are enough." Qin Shu said, and left home to go to the largest spiritual plant center in Yangzhou City to buy the seeds of these five plants, five of each, spending nearly 100,000 yuan.

  For the Qin family, this amount of money is neither too much nor too little.

  But both Qin Wei and Wang Yurou hope that Qin Shu can spend as much money as possible.

  They believed that the more prepared they were, the greater the chances of Qin Shu surviving.

  At night, Qin Wei and Wang Yurou were so worried that they couldn't sleep.  

  In the bedroom, Qin Shu sat cross-legged, and a set of skills was transmitted from the Green Lotus Dao Seed.

  The Book of Creation - The Chapter on Refining Essence into Qi.

  After completing his practice of spiritual visualization, Qin Shu was already able to sense the Qi of heaven and earth around him, and the Qi sensing stage could be skipped.

  Only those who have awakened their spirit and soul can get started with Qi training, so Qin Shu has just started to train Qi.

  Soon, he felt a cool breath entering his body from the Baihui point on the top of his head, flowing through the Ren and Du meridians and the twelve main meridians, and then returning to the Dantian, transforming into true qi of creation.

  The first level of Qi Refining is easy.

  In the sea of ​​consciousness, the Green Lotus Tao Seed glowed with green light, and Qin Shu was like a giant beast, swallowing up the surrounding Qi in big gulps and turning it into his own true Qi.

  In just one night, he cultivated from the first level of Qi Refining to the second level of Qi Refining. The speed was so fast that he could hardly believe it.

  The Qi around was fluctuating violently.

  However, there are few awakened ones nearby.

  What's more, what does it matter if there is one? Qin Shu is only in the Qi Refining Stage. Even if he cultivates faster, his absorption of Qi is not as good as that of the Foundation Establishment Stage.

  In the Divine Court of Jiuzhou, the levels of cultivation are refining essence into Qi (refining Qi, building foundation), refining Qi into spirit (forming elixir, golden elixir), refining spirit into emptiness (Nascent Soul, Primordial Spirit), and refining emptiness into the Dao (Dongxu, Huaxu).

  Above is the fairyland where one can live forever.

  The limit of cultivating a bronze-level soul to the golden elixir stage is already reached, a silver-level soul can reach the primordial spirit stage, and a gold-level soul can transform into the void.

  As for the abyss calamity of becoming an immortal, they would never dare to cross it unless they had a star-level soul.

  However, the potential of the soul is not impossible to improve, but the price to pay is not small.

  Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and Qin Shu had cultivated to the third level of Qi Refining.

  This is because the concentration of the Qi of heaven and earth around is not high.

  Outside the bedroom, Wang Yurou hugged Qin Hao and prayed silently, "Nuwa, please bless my little Shu to return safely."

  In the bedroom, Qin Shu felt a suction force suddenly exerted on himself.

  The next moment, heaven and earth changed, and he had come to a gloomy world. Looking up, he could clearly see the breath of the abyss flowing above the gray sky, evil, destruction, chaos... all kinds of negative auras.

  "Is this the Abyss World?"

  He appeared on a small hill outside a village and looked around. The whole world was half black and half white, gray and extremely depressing.

  The abyss world where he is now is a fragment of the world formed after a part of the world where the Jiuzhou Divine Court is located was polluted by the abyss breath and fell into the abyss.

  It was a world long ago.

  It is very different from the complete abyss world that high-level soul awakeners have to go through.

  Normally, the first abyss world that an awakener experiences is only the size of a small town.

  Qin Shu didn't know how many awakened people had died here, but the Qi around him already made him feel uncomfortable.

  He materialized the Green Lotus Seed at the first possible moment, and a crack automatically appeared in the ground. The Green Lotus Seed sank into the crack, and within a moment it took root and sprouted, growing a green bud.

  The surrounding gray Qi was quickly transformed into green creation power, forming a circle with a diameter of one meter, which was constantly expanding.

  Qin Shu took out the seeds of the golden thread vine and planted them. Then he used the power of his soul and combined it with the power of nature to mediate nature and transform the golden thread vine.

  The next moment, five golden thread vine seeds sprouted and grew rapidly, and soon covered an area of ​​more than 30 meters around it. It was golden yellow, and even the leaves were like gold.

  The whole process takes less than fifteen minutes.

  At the same time, the green lotus seeds are constantly absorbing the essence of this world and turning it into nutrients for their own growth.

  The world, sensing the crisis, began to shake.

  "Roar~!"

  In a village not far away, creatures that looked like humans but not humans walked out of the dilapidated houses and came towards Qin Shu at an extremely fast speed.

  Only after getting closer could Qin Shu see their appearance clearly.

  It has a human form, but its hands and feet are clumsy and its body is covered with black hair. Its mouth is full of sharp teeth, and its hairy hands have a pair of sharp claws at least ten centimeters long, which are filled with black air. You can tell at a glance that it is not a good thing.

  One by one they roared and rushed towards Qin Shu.

  The black rat poisonous zombie is one of the creatures at the bottom of the abyss world. It is transformed by combining the breath of the abyss with humans and rats. Its claws and fangs are highly poisonous, and its body is extremely hard and tough.

  These materials are available in the school and are required learning content for every student in Jiuzhou Shenting.

  Qin Shu sat cross-legged in the middle of the golden vines. The golden vines with a range of thirty meters were the extension of his hands and feet.

  The black rat zombie has entered the attack range.

  "Get up!" Qin Shu shouted, his mental power spread out, and the golden vines stood up, binding up the black rat poison zombies one by one, and then tightening them.

  After being transformed by the power of creation, the golden thread vine became even stronger, and no matter how the black rat zombie struggled, it could not break free.

  Qin Shu knew that this was only the first wave of abyss monsters, so he did not dare to be careless at all.

  He took out five more iron watermelon seeds and planted them, only ten meters away from the Dao Seed Green Lotus.

  The iron watermelon grew rapidly and soon became a tree nearly ten meters high. It began to bear fruits, each one as big as a watermelon, but pure black, like an iron ball.

  The iron watermelon is wrapped in branches that form gun barrels, with the muzzles facing outward. Each iron watermelon tree has five muzzles.

  (End of this chapter)