Beichen Sword Sect's Headmaster's Secret Records

Chapter 6: Refining Essence into Qi
The vast sea of ​​stars is like swords connecting the sky, a solitary peak is sleeping in the snow, the cold wind blows but the flowers are no longer there, and no one cares about the vast mountains and rivers.

"I am Chen Dewei, a swordsman from the Swallow Cave in Guangxia Mountain. I was enlightened by the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady Ruyi Zhenjun and was given the Beichen Sword Sect's talisman. I am training under the master of Yaoguang Peak, Pojun Sword Lord, in Jiuyin Mountain.

You have served the sword for five hundred years, refined your Qi into spirit, forged a sword infant, passed on the sword skills, and your Taoist name is Tianku. Now you are giving lectures at the Guangxia Mountain Taoist temple, passing on the teachings and establishing your own sect.

The eight of you, after paying homage to Mystic Lady Ruyi Zhenjun today, will become members of the Mystic Sect and the Sword Boys of Guangxia Mountain. When I am not in the mountain, my eldest brother Yue Peng and my second brother Zhou Feng will take over the teachings.

When you have completed your training and formed an elixir, you can join my sect and become my second-generation sword disciple of Guangxia Mountain. You will also be granted the certificate of outer mountain disciple of the Sword Sect and learn my Beichen sword method and the true teachings of the Dao talisman. "

Since I started practicing in Swallow Cave in Guangxia Mountain, autumn has passed and winter has come, and it is already the twelfth month without me noticing.

The sword-serving boy, wearing the old green robe that his senior brothers had given away and with his hair tied with a hemp rope, sat in the biting icy wind of Swallow Peak, facing the rising sun, hissing and breathing in and out.

The so-called breathing is to exhale first and then inhale, with the innate true breath as the core. Exhale it, wrapping up the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, and take it back into the body for refinement.

The icy breath that chilled him to the bone was like the edge of a sword cutting his throat as he swallowed it, then dissolved in his lungs, swirling through his meridians, refining his Qi points throughout his body, before finally being refined into a breath of true Qi that spurted out from his mouth and nose, shooting out in the white field in front of him for as much as three feet, condensing into ice crystals in the cold wind, forming clearly visible white silk that rolled like a dragon or snake.

Then remove the impurities, take out the essence, and breathe it back into the mouth and nose. Repeat this process 9981 times before you can refine the Taoist breath. You can then let the Qi sink into the Dantian and infuse the breath into your inner scene.

This is the true teaching of Xuanmen, the secret of refining essence and transforming it into Qi.

The breathing and Qi-refining method that Tiedan is practicing now is exactly the entry-level practice method of Beichen Sword Sect.

"The Art of Refining Qi and Forging the Sword with the Beichen Divine Sword"

This technique is to condense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into a breath of divine true energy, and attach it to metal and iron. It can make armor and weapons strong and powerful. It is the most commonly used true energy for charging into battle and defeating an army on the battlefield.

It looks simple, just the basic technique of breathing, but it is also the first and most difficult step in the practice of Qi refining.

To refine Qi, to refine Qi, is to refine this innate Qi. One must work hard every day to refine the true breath in the Danfu, and only then can it cleanse the whole body, dredge the meridians and acupoints, and achieve the circulation of Qi throughout the body. Only then can one further observe the spirit and reflect the image, and refine the Qi of heaven and earth into the breath of my Tao, and then condense it into various swords, guns, sticks, gods, magic forms, and use all kinds of mysterious methods. Therefore, refining Qi is the first step onto the Great Dao.

Therefore, this kind of slow and steady effort should not be wasted even for a single day before refining Qi and transforming the spirit to achieve the Nascent Soul Realm.

Otherwise, if you fish for three days and rest for two days, and don't breathe in and out for three or two months, your skills will definitely decline.

Or if you fight with others and suffer internal injuries or broken limbs, or even worse, your true breath is broken up by others, then all your hard-earned skills will be wasted, and you will have to start all over again.

Therefore, although the three enclosures, four countries and eight vassal states of the world are bustling with hundreds of millions of people, the Central Plains is a blessed land with countless spiritual veins and immortal mountains. Any nobody may have some chance to pick up some spiritual fruits and vegetables and enter the Tao. There are also quite a few people who are born with spiritual roots and Taoist bones.

However, there are not many people who can persevere and refine their essence into Qi day after day for ten years to build the foundation for entering the Tao.

If one begins practicing at a young age and is able to refine Qi and build a foundation by the age of twenty, he or she is considered to have the seed of Tao and an amazing talent.

Of course, there are also people who build their foundation at the age of seventy or eighty, because they take drugs. The Demon Palace has dominated the world for thousands of years, and has long recruited sorcerers from all over the world, learned the longevity method, and made elixirs in the Huangting Palace, so that the emperor's sons can enjoy eternal life. By the way, they have also been testing drugs on humans for a long time, and have mastered various human-animal transformation techniques and monster transformation methods, all of which are called the alchemy path, which is also a shortcut to becoming an immortal, but we will not discuss it here for the time being.

But in short, no matter you are practicing Qi, passing on skills, or taking drugs, as long as you build a foundation and enter the Tao, your physical fitness will be greatly improved, your life span will be prolonged, your destiny will be changed, and you will become extraordinary.

Tiedan was noticed by Senior Brother Yue, which shows that he is indeed talented. He has experienced extraordinary setbacks and hardships since childhood, so he does not have the many distracting thoughts of ordinary people. When he practices, he just focuses on one thing. In addition, he swallowed a Shenzang Golden Pill and under the guidance of his senior brother, he mastered the Qi refining method taught by the master in just a few short months. His meridians and acupoints were nourished, and his practice speed was truly astonishing.

However, due to the lack of this foundation-building treasure and elixir, he is still stuck in the perfect stage of Qi refining. He can only refine a mouthful of sword Qi repeatedly, but has no chance to break through the foundation.

You can keep refining Qi, eliminating the dross and retaining the essence, and strive for perfection.

But to truly be reborn, transcend the ordinary and enter the Dao, build the foundation and shape the body, one breath of Qi is not enough, and naturally, various priceless elixirs and foundation-building treasures are indispensable, which can fundamentally transcend the mundane and shed the mortal body. Tiedan has also heard from his senior brothers that the natural materials and treasures that can be used to build the foundation are priceless, the most cost-effective, and the easiest to get is the body-building foundation-building pill refined by the Sanyuan Demon Palace. The current price is 6,000 strings of Shengang money per pill, and the market price is almost equivalent to 30,000 stones of rice, which is 20,000 acres of land and the annual harvest of 200 households.

But Tiedan has no money, not a penny.

After all, not everyone is born a noble, with countless resources and magic weapons prepared by their families. For those nobles, this amount of money is nothing. But our Guangxia Mountain is deep in the mountains and forests, with few people, where can we afford so many offerings...

Alas, this is the way the world is. Without any one of the three, namely Dharma, wealth, companions and land, the path of cultivation will be as difficult as ascending to heaven.

Although Guangxia Mountain is called the Sword Sect, it is actually just a side sect outside the mountain. All industries are waiting to be developed. There are actually only three people who can inherit the true teachings of the inner sect of Swallow Cave. Even Chen Huzi himself has to rob and loot everywhere. Only by eliminating demons and monsters can he earn money for his practice. Only if there is any extra money can he share it with the disciples. Therefore, the disciples usually have to earn the materials for their practice by themselves.

Therefore, Yue Peng and Zhou Feng usually took turns, one of them taught the boy his lessons, while the other one patrolled the mountains to practice and collect, and they did not have much accumulation to share with others.

After all, Chen Huzi actually came out of Benshan to start his own business. This first batch of boys, after being trained well, will be used to guard the house, do odd jobs, refine pills, and develop and expand the sect.

However, the other boys in the same class as Tiedan were inferior in aptitude and comprehension, and their cultivation speed was much slower than his, and each of them was still in the Qi refining stage.

But since they were all disciples of Guangxia Mountain, Chen Huzi could not favor one over the other and only took Tiedan with him. Therefore, he taught him not to be so anxious, to continue refining his sword energy and laying a solid foundation. He planned to wait until the others' cultivation had almost caught up, and then go out of the mountain together to search for natural treasures in preparation for building the foundation.

However, among this generation of boys from Guangxia Mountain, there was one who was different from the others and stood out from the crowd, and he established the foundation first.

"die--!"

Holding the invisibility talisman and holding a three-foot sword, the young girl in green sneaked up behind Tiedan. Suddenly, she gathered her strength, broke the invisibility talisman, and flew with a sword! She stabbed directly at Tiedan's back!

The sword shone with golden light, its edge was dazzling and unstoppable! The sword thrust forward, and a sword roar like a dragon's roar pierced through the air!
Tiedan is not a fool. His face has been disfigured once, so he still has no money to take the precious sword. He just rolls over and dodges it.

"Ah--!"

Jianjia roared again, and sprayed a breath of true energy on the blade, and a white light burst out from the tip of the sword! The sword tip grew an inch longer and swept straight to Tiedan's brow!
Although he could see through the opponent's sword movement, he did not expect that the opponent's foundation would break through, and with the help of the magic weapon in his hand, the sword light suddenly increased. Tiedan was caught off guard and could not dodge. He avoided it with an iron bridge, but a bloody mark was left on his brow, and his face was covered with blood in an instant.

"ha--!"

After succeeding with one strike of the sword, Jianjia was overjoyed. She leaped forward, holding the sword in both hands, and chopped straight for Tiedan's head!
However, Tiedan was also decisive. He exhaled and gathered his strength, then pushed his feet with force and leaped out like an antelope, falling headfirst into the cliff and into a dangerous valley!

"W-what! Seeking death?"

Jian Jia originally thought that he had finally forced his enemy to death, but he didn't expect that his sword only struck empty air and only cut the rock.

Seeing Tiedan jumping off the cliff, he was also frightened. In the end, he did not dare to risk his life and follow him to jump off the cliff. He quickly stopped and looked down the cliff with his sword in hand.

But I only saw the Taoist child in green clothes flipping over like a kite, clinging to the stone wall and dodging, just like a leopard, flying and jumping in the snow in the mountain stream, hiding left and right under the rocks and cliffs, and in the blink of an eye he went down the mountain by a small path.

"Asshole! Beast! Don't run away! Come and die!"

Jianjia was furious and roared at the boy's back. She jumped down the cliff and chased him for several miles.

However, she was also in the process of building her foundation, and had no place to stay on the top of the cliff, so it was difficult to put her skills into practice. After chasing for a while, she had exhausted her Taoist energy and could not catch up with this guy who got up like flying. She could only swing her sword in hatred and cut off the grass, trees and rocks on the roadside to vent her anger.

"You bastard! You bastard! Just wait for me! Sooner or later, I will kill you in my hands!"

(End of this chapter)