Chapter 34: 'Gathering' and 'Refining'
Just like the initial impression, Chi Jiuyu was a restless person.
Not long after entering the villa, she picked her room and started tidying up and cleaning. Because she was often thrown onto the Starry Sky Battlefield by her Master for training, her storage ring was stocked with many daily necessities.
She made the bed, took out the quilt and pillow, then flopped onto the bed, rolled over, and lay sprawled out.
Taking out her phone, she logged onto the Spiritual Net and started searching.
'How to recover accidentally deleted chat history'
Soon, many answers popped up, and Chi Jiuyu grinned.
Although Shishu's Realm was very high, he had only recently come out of seclusion. How familiar could he be with the Spiritual Net?
How could she not be curious about the chat history that Master specifically instructed him to delete!
Not looking was impossible. Even if she would be dealt with after going back, that would be her future self, what did it have to do with her current self?
Xu Xing was completely unaware of this. Although this Disciple, his Senior Sister, was interesting, he couldn't possibly pay attention to her all the time.
At this moment, he was sitting in the study, with a laptop in front of him, inserting the crystal card storing the Basic Refining Method into the side slot.
【Reading, please wait...】
The crystal card emitted an extremely subtle spiritual energy fluctuation, which rapidly spread outwards.
"An anti-theft System."
Xu Xing slightly raised his hand and suppressed the subtle spiritual energy fluctuation.
This was within his expectations. Something like the Cailian Method was not suitable for widespread dissemination.
Most Qi Training cultivators, their Foundations are not strong enough to meet the threshold of the Heavenly Dao Foundation. They cannot even pass the first stage. If they forcefully refine starlight into their bodies, at best they will be injured, at worst their cultivation will be completely crippled. Some with weak physiques might even be tortured to death.
After suppressing the spiritual energy fluctuation, text began to appear on the computer screen.
Basic Refining Method
Hundreds of words flowed out. The beginning was no different from the Cailian Method in Xu Xing's impression. It involved sitting facing the moon at midnight and then mobilizing three parts of spiritual energy to form the 'Fishing Star' seal.
The 'Fishing Star' seal was not complicated. Ordinary cultivators could succeed after trying two or three times. The only thing to pay attention to was the peaceful output of spiritual energy.
After attracting starlight, how to 'Gather' it into the body was the key.
Starlight was formless and intangible. Only the power of the Divine Soul could capture it, but this act was no different from a Mortal holding thorns with bare hands.
Even damaged flesh feels pain, let alone the fragile Divine Soul of a Qi Training cultivator?
Therefore, many people could not persevere through this step.
After 'Gathering' the starlight into the body, one also had to 'Refine' it, refining it into spiritual energy, making the spiritual energy carry a trace of True Essence's nature, preparing for the subsequent carrying of moonlight and sunlight essence.
However, starlight was extremely sharp, and the pain it brought when circulating through the Meridians was comparable to being cut by a thousand knives.
And those with insufficient Foundation, even if they forcefully endure introducing starlight into their Dantian, will still over-refine it due to their weak spiritual energy Foundation.
When this happens, the spiritual energy will carry a trace of starlight's nature, becoming incomparably sharp. In terms of quality, it even surpasses the True Essence formed by external Foundation Establishment.
However, every time one mobilizes spiritual energy, they will experience the process of 'Refining'. That 'refreshing' pain is something no one can withstand.
The Basic Refining Method created by Saint Emperor Yuan added an extra step in the 'Refining' process.
Cultivators needed to condense a spiritual seal in their Dantian beforehand. After introducing starlight into the Dantian, they wouldn't rush to refine it, but instead store it within that spiritual seal, releasing it bit by bit, slowly wearing it down. Although it was a bit slower, the pain was far lighter than other Cailian Methods.
It could be considered a clever method, but could one truly build a Heavenly Dao Foundation through this method?
The probability was not high.
Sunlight essence and moonlight essence could not use this method.
So, there was also a message from him at the end.
【Although this method reduces pain during the starlight refining stage, it cannot be used in subsequent stages. If you feel you cannot bear it even in the first stage, you can directly give up and expel the spiritual seal along with the starlight within it from your body.】
Although expelling the spiritual seal from the body would consume some cultivation, it was still better than over-refining or being unable to bear the later stages.
The spiritual seal condensed from spiritual energy could not bear the subsequent two stages, and the intervention of higher-level power would in turn contaminate the cultivator's Foundation.
This was also why the Heavenly Dao Foundation was difficult to build; what it truly relied on was the cultivator himself.
"It also gives more people a chance to try."
Xu Xing pulled out the crystal card, and a wisp of magic power ground it into dust.
............
Xuanjian City Central Hospital.
Xiao Fan exchanged the reward for coming second in today's sparring test for spiritual coins and paid the surgery fee in full.
Looking at his parents embracing each other, weeping with joy, and his Brother who was taken away by the Nascent Soul physician, his heart felt empty.
In a daze, he got up and walked outside.
His mother behind him saw this scene and was about to say something, but was pulled back by his father beside her, who shook his head.
Xiao Fan just walked out of the hospital like that.
Walking to the edge of a flower bed, where bright yellow small flowers were in full bloom, he suddenly felt weak all over and slowly sat down by the flower bed.
Looking at the ground, his eyes were a little lost.
Yes, his Brother's root bone talent was extremely good. He had already joined the Dragon Elephant Soaring Sky Sect before the college entrance examination three years ago.
Moreover, he was usually very good to him, occasionally sending back some precious cultivation resources. It was precisely because of this that he was able to reach the Qi Refining Ninth Layer in his third year of high school.
"Xiao Fan, Cultivate well at school. I've inquired, there's a Dragon Elephant Pill on this Merit Ranking. I'll get one back for you then!"
He was really good.
He had also always greatly admired his Brother, dreaming that one day he could also join the Dragon Elephant Soaring Sky Sect like his Brother.
However, the Starry Sky Battlefield was not an amusement park; it was an extremely dangerous battlefield where anyone could die.
When he saw his Brother lying on the hospital bed unconscious, his mind went blank.
The Dragon Elephant Soaring Sky Sect provided some help, and his parents also borrowed everything they could, but it was still a little short.
So Xiao Fan thought of the upcoming sparring test.
He hid it from his parents, quietly took money from home, and bought a bottle of Broken Barrier Spirit Liquid.
The course of events replayed in his mind. All of this was his own choice, but... why was he still so sad?
Tears flowed uncontrollably.
He understood that his life... was over.
"Young man, you look very sad."
A pair of shiny leather shoes appeared in his line of sight. Xiao Fan wiped his tears and looked up.
The person in front of him was wearing casual clothes that didn't match the leather shoes at all. His appearance was ordinary, and his temperament was gentle.
Moreover, there was a strange feeling upon first sight, like 'This person is a good-natured old man, I should bully him a bit'.
"Wipe it." He handed over a tissue.
"......Thank you." Xiao Fan took the tissue. "Are you here because of my Brother?"
He was already a cripple.
"Your Brother?" The person slightly shook his head. "No, I'm not interested in him."
Like a magic trick, a jade box appeared in that person's hand.
"An ancient exotic treasure. Consuming it can change your fate and bring great fortune. Are you interested in learning more?"
"......"
So he was a salesman. I'm already this miserable, can't you tell?
But Xiao Fan didn't even have the strength to drive him away.
"I don't have money, I can't afford it."
"During the event period, it's a free trial. This is an opportunity not to be missed, it won't come again."
The person stuffed the jade box into his hand, then turned around and left directly.
Huh?
He just left like that?
Xiao Fan stared blankly at the jade box in his hand for a while, hesitated for a long time, and finally did not choose to throw it away.
On the hospital rooftop, the person watched Xiao Fan put away the jade box and couldn't help but nod. Then, he looked up towards a certain place, seemingly talking to someone.
"Dao Brother, I wonder how much progress you've made in this seclusion?"
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