Fire Monster

Chapter 187: First Level Qi Refiner
At that moment, Zhao Guanshan's thoughts became clear and he no longer paid attention to all these things. He sat cross-legged in the space of the statue and began to cultivate the third breath of innate pure yang energy.

This is the most important step in advancing to the first level of Qi Refiner, because these three breaths of innate pure yang energy will initially connect the whole body and connect the body fire, soul fire, and life fire.

After completing this step, others will not be able to see his life fire easily.

At the same time, at this point, Zhao Guanshan also had a deeper understanding of Qi Refiners.

The pure yang energy they cultivate is not the pure yin and pure yang in the narrow sense of yin and yang, but the original power that gives birth to life and can initially pry open the heaven and earth and communicate with each other.

According to Zhao Guanshan's rough understanding, it is vitality. The power of life is invisible and intangible, but it really exists.

Being alive is a great gift in itself.

Being a living being, and being able to become a thinking being, is an enormous advantage.

When a person runs on the earth, he can feel the heaviness and thickness of the earth, he can feel the cool breeze blowing on his face, he can feel the hot weather and the coldness of winter. These feelings are actually the most basic and lowest level of interaction between vitality and the world.

Ordinary mortals do not know how to make use of it and can only act according to their instincts. They spend decades of their lives living a mediocre life or are distracted by other things, wasting this pure yang energy in vain and eventually turning it into a pile of dry bones.

The Qigong practitioners gather and condense this pure Yang energy and manage it very well, which can prolong their life and enable them to further interact with heaven and earth and gain extraordinary powers. This is the first essence of the Qigong practitioners' practice.

The second essence of Qigong practitioners’ practice is the Dao Talisman.

Just like a person has vitality, but also needs to eat, drink water and breathe.

This talisman is the power of heaven and earth leveraged by pure yang energy, which is divided into five types: gold, wood, water, fire and earth.

Martial Taoist priests, because they cannot enter Taoism and interact well with the Taoist talismans, that is, the power of heaven and earth, can only engrave their natal talismans on their bodies and use this method to pry the power of heaven and earth.

Qigong practitioners are able to interact well with the power of heaven and earth, thus forming an internal cycle.

The legendary immortal cultivators take this kind of interaction to the next level...

In short, use the innate pure yang energy to pry open the Taoist talisman, and then make the power of the Taoist talisman your own, while slowly accumulating it to gain more vitality, that is, more innate pure yang energy.

The more you obtain, the more power of the talismans you can leverage.

What needs to be noted here is that the power of evil spirits should also be considered the power of heaven and earth, but it is not suitable to be pried open because it goes against the essence of human vitality.

After gaining power by leveraging the Taoist talisman through the pure yang energy, you can release and activate it at will. This is the supernatural power.

But the types of magical powers are different and the changes are also different, so runes are used to form a rule. What kind of runes can leverage what kind of power of heaven and earth.

This is not something that can be decided by the Qi Refiner, but is determined by the Taoist talismans passed down by the five immortals.

In a sense, Taoist talismans can be considered as textbooks.

With this understanding, Zhao Guanshan calmly condensed three runes and practiced quickly and steadily, constantly transforming and condensing the energy contained in the stone platform of the statue, forming the third breath of innate pure yang energy.

The whole process went smoothly. In less than a day, he successfully cultivated the third breath of innate pure yang energy and officially advanced to the first-level Qi Refiner.

The most direct feeling he had at this moment was that there was no external waste.

Yes, external consumption.

His life fire, body fire, and soul fire were all connected and enveloped in three breaths of innate pure yang energy. They could be well protected and would no longer be easily infected by external evil.

Like before this, he still had a certain chance of getting sick, which was external consumption.

Mortals have the most serious external consumption. In the process of communicating and interacting with the power of heaven and earth, it is easy to catch a cold if the wind blows, and it is easy to have diarrhea if you catch a cold. If you don't pay attention to moderation, you will easily suffer from kidney deficiency...

But now, Zhao Guanshan has no external consumption.

His aura and strength are well, mellowly and unnoticeably contained in his body and will not leak out.

This is the first step in spiritual practice and also a major step in the sublimation of his life.

At this time, Zhao Guanshan used the statue's vision to look outside and found that a day had passed, and the Demon Suppression Division still did not continue to release demonic energy. On the contrary, the combat training in the four cities of the Governor's Division and the five cities of the Taoist Temple was in full swing, and had actually made good progress.

In addition, the Chief Secretary and the Taoist Temple should have also invested a lot of money this time.

There are a total of more than 90 martial arts apprentices, all of whom have taken the th-grade marrow cleansing elixir to dispel the aftereffects of taking the demon-sealing potion before. If this continues, at most in a month, at least of these martial arts apprentices will be advanced to single-seal martial arts masters.

If this kind of support regardless of cost can continue for three months, at least half of these 9,000 martial arts apprentices will be able to advance to single-seal martial arts masters.

There is no way an accident could interrupt this sort of thing.

Because the first line of defense is also very solid.

Zhao Guanshan also tried to view the Taoist Palace with the vision of the statue at this time, but in fact he could only see a height of three thousand meters at most, while the seven-level spirit-offering tower was dozens of kilometers high.

After exiting the statue's field of vision, Zhao Guanshan thought for a moment, and quickly formed seals with his hands. In less than two minutes, or 90 seconds to be exact, he condensed a second-order forgotten rune. This is the benefit of cultivating three innate pure yang qi, which can make you more at ease.

Zhao Guanshan carefully sealed the second-order forgotten rune in the sealed oil lamp, and spent another 90 seconds of reading time to condense a second-order explosive rune.

Comparing the two, the gap is immediately apparent.

To condense a second-order oblivion rune, one only needs to consume one-fifth of one's innate pure yang energy.

But the second-level explosion directly killed a breath of innate pure yang energy.

It is worth mentioning that this pure yang energy is neither a blue bar nor a blood bar, but a mixture of a blue bar and a blood bar.

For example, at this moment, after the two second-order runes were successfully condensed, Zhao Guanshan's complexion suddenly became listless, and he himself felt very weak.

This is the price of consuming vitality.

A mortal would definitely fall seriously ill if this happened, but a Qi Refiner could recover at any time by replenishing the marrow cleansing solution.

And Zhao Guanshan doesn't even need to do that, because the vitality generated by Liu Yuwei's statue will help him recover slowly, and it will be fully restored in about a day.

At this moment, Zhao Guanshan continued to carefully seal this second-level explosive rune in the sealed oil lamp.

This counts as a spell slot, but for now it can only seal three runes.

After doing all this, Zhao Guanshan walked out of the room. When he pushed the door open, he saw Xiao Chengyun who was waiting there.

"Brother, are you okay?"

Xiao Chengyun rushed over and grabbed Zhao Guanshan's wrist, then he breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay, it's okay, Senior Brother, you are fine."

Zhao Guanshan smiled slightly. This was the reason why he did that just now. Although Xiao Chengyun was already his own, it would still be too scary if she knew that he could cultivate a breath of innate pure yang energy in just one day.

And he only had less than two breaths of innate pure yang energy left in his body, so he could fool people with it.

Convenient and fast.

"Junior sister, the Demon Suppression Division didn't release any demonic energy, right?"

"No, I also find it strange. The Xiao family has not contacted me again. Maybe the Zhang family is also having a headache at the moment. Although the Zhang family has retained some official positions in the Governor's Office, now that the Governor's Office has joined forces with the Taoist Academy, there are some things that cannot be done as they please."

Xiao Chengyun smiled and said that she was in a good mood now.

"By the way, Zhang Qian just woke up not long ago and successfully advanced to a three-seal martial artist. His combat power is extraordinary because he was able to perfectly combine his innate black tortoise seal with the broadsword. With one slash, the cold air can freeze an area of ​​three meters in radius, or it can accurately fly out thirty meters, freezing any target by three numbers. At the same time, it can also switch to ice blade air, which can attack at a distance of up to one hundred meters. Anyone hit will be seriously injured if not killed."

"We just took the chariot to test it outside. It can be said that as long as he does not encounter an eighth-level evil demon or a large group of evil demons, Zhang Qian can kill any seventh-level evil demon in a one-on-one fight. And I think Zhang Qian is qualified to advance to a fourth-seal martial artist. The only thing that restricts him now is his weapons. The existing psychic weapons can't withstand the cold air he releases."

"But I have already told Jia Xian, who works in the factory, that he can expedite the production of a broadsword and a long sword for Zhang Qian within two days."

At this point, Xiao Chengyun was a little emotional, "Brother, how did you do it? Although I participated in the whole process, I ask myself that even if Su Hai came, Zhang Qian could beat him into a pulp. How did Zhang Qian suddenly become so strong? Otherwise, you can train him for me as well."

"Junior sister, don't underestimate yourself. That's impossible. With your current strength, you can still beat three Zhang Qians. You said it yourself that we cultivators should not rush to the front line. Promise me that you will try not to show off in the future. When Jia Xian gets the high-level materials of level 100, we will make our own imperial seal instruments."

"Well, I'll listen to you, brother. I think you're becoming more and more wise."

Xiao Chengyun said with a smile, his eyes shining when he looked at Zhao Guanshan.

"What are you talking about? However, I still have some experience from Su Hai's residual soul, so I can promote another person now. Who do you think is more suitable?"

Zhao Guanshan asked. On this point, he trusted Xiao Chengyun's vision very much.

"I, I, I, Brother, I want to improve too!"

"Are you sure that Su Hai's residual soul will merge with your memory?"

"Ah? Forget it." Xiao Chengyun's face changed and he shook his head frantically.

"That's right. If you have this time, you should practice and practice first. Don't waste it."

"Okay, then I recommend Wang Chen. He has engraved his own natal fire seal, which is the safest and most reliable. He will never end up in the same situation as Zhang Qian. The only problem is that he has only cultivated the seventh breath of acquired pure yang energy, so his foundation is too weak. If he can be given enough time to accumulate and grow, and then finally achieve success in one go, the effect will be better."

"Of course, the decision is up to you, brother."

"Okay, I'll listen to you. You and Senior Sister go practice and I'll be on duty."

Zhao Guanshan nodded. Indeed, in their current team, only Deng Jiu and Zhang Qian met the requirements. Both of them had already been upgraded. As for the others, they were still not up to the mark because the experience packs left by Zhao family retainers in the statue space were not unlimited. As each one was used, there would be one less.

There will always be a day when it runs out.

(End of this chapter)