Chapter 43: Condensing the Roots of Heaven and Earth

The more Li Fan read the description of the immortal way in "The Five Spirits Qi Method", the more horrified he felt.

Before the Jindan stage, it was relatively normal, absorbing the spirit of heaven and earth, imitating the wonders of heaven and earth, and peeping at the laws of heaven and earth.

After the Yuanying stage, the style gradually became crazy.

Seizing the essence of heaven and earth, extracting the marrow of heaven and earth, offering sacrifices to the soul of heaven and earth...

And even the final principle of going against heaven and earth.

Just reading these words will make people feel frightened.

The way of heaven is high above, giving birth to all things.

The immortal cultivators' practice in this way is tantamount to turning against heaven and being rebellious.

What does this mean? Don't the immortal cultivators know?

However, this way of practice progresses too fast.

The book records that since the immortal master preached, a large number of mortals who were originally unable to practice have emerged in just a few decades.

The cultivators of the Jindan, Yuanying, and Huashen cultivation have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

At that time, the prosperity of the immortal cultivation world was really everywhere, and the Yuanying was worse than a dog.

And the immortal cultivators who originally insisted on the ancient method of cultivation, seeing their cultivation being easily surpassed by mere mortals, how many of them could stick to themselves and not try the immortal method?

As a result, the ancient method of cultivation gradually declined; the new method gradually replaced it.

Thousands of years after the popularization of the new method, the prosperity of the immortal cultivation world also reached its peak.

Unfortunately, the law of nature is clear, and prosperity must decline.

Countless cultivators plundered the resources of heaven and earth like wolves and tigers, without restraint.

Even the increasingly frequent heavenly tribulations could not suppress the increasing number of cultivators.

So, finally one day, the counterattack of heaven came.

The world changed drastically, and the great tribulation came.

Since then, immortal methods cannot be cultivated together!

The prosperous and developing immortal cultivation world was like a blow to the head.

In order to survive, the cultivators fell into endless killing each other.

For a long time, the immortal cultivation world had a sense of decline and decay.

It took thousands of years to slowly ease.

Today's cultivators have become accustomed to the malice of heaven and earth.

They summed up their experiences and lessons, and established a new order of cultivation in the wasteland of cultivation after the catastrophe.

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The origin of the current cultivation world has been introduced, and the content of the book is the method of "five spirits to feel the qi".

If a mortal who has eliminated the miasma cannot easily draw qi into the body, he can nourish his own five spirits, forcibly absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and then refine it to break through to the Qi Refining Stage.

The so-called five spirits refer to the five emotions that people are born with.

Greed, fear, rage, hatred, and egoism.

These five emotions are hidden in the human heart, and they are inexhaustible and endless.

The five spirits to feel the qi use these five spirits as fuel to cultivate the [root of heaven and earth] in the dantian.

The root of heaven and earth connects the cultivator's dantian with heaven and earth. Once formed, the cultivator can use it to forcibly absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and use it for himself.

Compared with the ancient method of cultivating immortals, which depends entirely on aptitude, the method of the five-spirit Qi-breathing method highlights stability.

Those with excellent aptitude can cultivate the root of heaven and earth in one day and one night and embark on the road of cultivating immortals.

Even if a person has no aptitude for cultivating immortals, he can form his own root of heaven and earth within ten years at most through hard work day after day.

After mastering the method of drawing Qi into the body, Li Fan has been practicing the "Five-spirit Qi-breathing Method" at home every day since then.

Even though he has been mentally prepared, his road to cultivating immortals may not be so smooth.

But day after day, three years have passed, and Li Fan still has not succeeded in drawing Qi.

Li Fan is very clear about his talent for cultivation. He is an average person, not a genius, but definitely not bad.

There are other reasons for this situation now.

"Xuanhuang Refining Heart Mantra... It's really hard to predict whether it will be a blessing or a curse." Li Fan felt a little helpless.

This five-spirit Qi-breathing method needs five emotions as fuel to promote the formation of the root of heaven and earth.

But when Li Fan practiced the Xuanhuang Refining Heart Mantra, these five emotions accumulated very little.

Even if he didn't deliberately perform the Heart Refining Mantra, he would spontaneously crush these negative emotions in his mind as if by instinct.

It was like carrying a heavy load, which also led to Li Fan's extremely slow progress.

Li Fan had also tried to draw Qi into his body without the root of heaven and earth.

But he obviously didn't have the talent of Xiao Heng.

The spiritual energy outside the body seemed to be completely indifferent to him.

Without the guidance of others, if he had to rely on himself to explore, Li Fan really didn't know how long it would take to draw Qi into his body.

So Li Fan decided to honestly use the Five Senses Qi Method to break through to the Qi Refining Stage.

It was a bit slow, but it was stable.

What Li Fan lacked the most was time.

At the beginning of the three years, He Zhenghao occasionally sent people to inquire about Li Fan's cultivation.

But after Li Fan had not made any progress for a long time, he rarely sent people.

On the Tianbao Tower side, because of Li Fan and Xiao Heng, although there was no Wanhua Chamber of Commerce as a backstage, the business situation on the surrounding islands has improved.

No one wants to offend a business that may have a background of immortal masters, and they try to avoid conflicts with Wanbaolou as much as possible.

So Wanbaolou has been vigorously expanding the market in the past three years, and it is thriving.

Yin Yuzhen is even more confident, and is eager to return to Yelan Island to regain control of Tianbaolou headquarters.

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Li Fan only occasionally cares about external affairs.

Most of his energy is focused on cultivating the roots of heaven and earth.

Unfortunately, this matter cannot be rushed.

Li Fan estimated that if nothing unexpected happens, it will take him about two years to succeed.

Having been stuck at home for a long time, Li Fan wanted to go out for a walk.

Without disturbing anyone, he changed his clothes, put on a felt hat, and came to the market of Liuli Island.

Compared with three years ago, there seemed to be no change here.

The sounds of bargaining, shouting to attract customers, and playing and fighting came one after another.

Here, Li Fan felt the long-lost "human taste".

All kinds of thoughts in his mind emerged in large quantities like dry saplings being moistened.

At this moment, the progress of the root of heaven and earth was more than that of his three days of hard practice at home.

Li Fan suddenly realized.

For ordinary cultivators, retreat and meditation are necessary, because ordinary people do not lack the five spirits as fuel.

But Li Fan's situation is special. The refining mantra in his mind is always running, and these distracting thoughts have turned into nutrients to strengthen his own spirit.

And this five-spirit Qi method is obviously not as advanced as the Xuanhuang refining mantra, so he can't rob much, and can only pick up some leaks.

Li Fan cannot change this situation at present. If he wants to speed up the formation of the root of heaven and earth, he needs to increase the number of distractions in his mind every day.

It is obviously not enough to retreat every day, and he needs to enter the world.

After understanding this truth, Li Fan couldn't help but feel a little happy.

It seems that maybe he won't need two years to enter the Qi Refining Stage.

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"Elder Li?" At this moment, a familiar voice came from behind.

Li Fan turned his head and saw the other person's appearance clearly. After a pause, he remembered who it was.

It was Zhang Haobo, the captain of the Liuli Island Cangyuan, who had met him once before.