Hunyuan Immortal Sect

Chapter 7: Privileged Class
In the spacious and bright hall of Qingyun Sect, Song Xian held a large vermilion brush in his hand, concentrating on engraving an inscription on a piece of white talisman paper.

As his spiritual power surged, the large scarlet brush emitted a faint light, moving like a dragon or snake across the white talisman paper.

Every stroke was extremely slow and powerful, like a knife carving on wood or stone.

You could hear a pin drop in the room. Apart from the slight sound of the pen tip sliding across the talisman paper, there was no other noise.

After a while, a complex pattern was completed.

Song Xian exhaled lightly, carefully picked up the talisman paper, and blew gently at the vermilion patterns engraved on it.

"Yes, although the engraving patterns of this cleaning talisman are a bit stiff, the strokes are perfect, just lacking some flexibility. It is much better than I imagined, which shows that you have talent in this area." Zhang Shilin behind him nodded with satisfaction.

Song Xian wiped the tiny beads of sweat from his forehead and said, "It's all thanks to Master's good teaching."

Ever since he became Zhang Shilin's disciple, he has come to him every now and then to ask for advice on the way of cultivation. Now he has learned the Xuanyuan Zhenjing skills taught by Zhang Shilin himself.

According to him, this is a high-level method of the Qianqing Sect. The founder of the Qingyun Sect, Chang Qingyun, learned this skill and later passed it on to the second-generation leader of the Qingyun Sect, Chang Zhi, who then passed it on to Zhang Shilin.

Now that Zhang Shilin has passed it on to him, it can be regarded as a master-disciple relationship passed down from generation to generation.

The Xuanyuan Sutra has a total of nine levels and is a top-grade earth-level technique. Practicing this technique can temper and enhance one's spiritual power, which is enough to reach the late stage of the Golden Core.

The most important thing for a cultivator on the path of cultivation is to find a suitable method of practice. The beauty of the Xuanyuan Sutra lies in its focus on the cultivation of the cultivator's spiritual power. There is no need to consider the attributes of the spiritual roots, and anyone can practice it.

Although there are only nine levels of skills, it is enough. There are countless cultivators in the world, but only a handful can cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage. It is much more difficult than thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge.

Most cultivators are lucky enough to find a book of exercises that can help them cultivate to the foundation-building stage, and those that can help them cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage are extremely rare. Any of these books is a treasure of any major sect. Even the Qianqing Sect, one of the Five Hegemons, does not have many books of this level.

If the founder of Qingyun Sect was not a direct disciple of Qianqing Sect, it would be impossible for him to be taught such a high-level martial arts as Xuanyuan Sutra.

For a small sect like Qingyun Sect to have a method of practicing to the late Jindan stage, it can definitely be considered a treasure of the sect.

In addition to imparting martial arts skills, Zhang Shilin also taught him the art of seal talismans. This was because Zhang Shilin himself was a talisman master and had been immersed in this art for decades. Although he was not a famous master, he had a deep understanding of the key points.

Under his careful guidance, Song Xian made rapid progress and has now mastered the essentials of the Cleansing Talisman.

This was the first time he had engraved a complete rune by himself, and he was overjoyed.

He took the talisman in his hand, examined it carefully several times, and then placed it in the water tank filled with spiritual liquid.

The cleaning talisman can only be considered successful after it has been soaked in the spiritual liquid for a day and a night.

"That's all for today. You're tired, so go and rest!" Zhang Shilin waved his hand.

"Yes, disciple, I'll take my leave." Song Xian responded and left the mansion. He took out the Flying Gourd from the storage ring and placed his hands on it.

As spiritual power was poured into it, the gourd emitted a faint green light, which extended outward and then grew to a size of four or five feet.

He jumped up and landed on the gourd. His spiritual power controlled the gourd to rise slowly. After rising hundreds of feet, it headed towards the distant mountains.

A primary flying magic tool cannot fly higher than 800 feet above sea level and can only carry one person. If it exceeds this height, the flying magic tool will not be able to withstand the pressure.

A mid-level flying magic weapon cannot be higher than 1,500 feet and can only carry two people.

High-level flying magic tools cannot be higher than three thousand feet and can carry three people.

The best flying magic weapon cannot be higher than five thousand feet and can carry four people.

The Qin State is mostly hilly, with few mountains thousands of feet high. The Qingyun Sect is located in Pingyuan County, Xishu Commandery, Qin State, which is a flat land. Even if it is a beginner flying magic weapon, there is no need to worry about encountering obstacles in the way of the mountains.

The speed of the Flying Gourd is really not satisfactory. According to Song Xian's observation, the fastest speed of this magic weapon can only reach 100 miles per hour.

The only advantage is that it can fly and travel in a straight line, avoiding going up and down mountains or taking detours through jungles.

After riding the flying gourd for a while, they arrived at another mountain peak. This was the location of the spirit gathering array, where the essence of the sect's spiritual veins gathered.

More than thirty first-level spirit gathering rooms have been opened here for use by the sect's disciples.

Of course, not everyone can use this spirit gathering room to practice. Only inner disciples can use it.

Outer disciples who have completed the sect's tasks for a full year will be given one month of usage time.

There are more than one hundred disciples in Qingyun Sect, only twenty of them are inner disciples, and the rest are outer disciples.

There is a huge gap in status between the two. Inner disciples do not have to take care of specific mundane affairs, and there are special people to serve their food and daily life. Basically, everyone has an exclusive spirit gathering array for practice.

In addition, the monthly salary is much higher than that of outer disciples.

"Junior Brother Song, you're here." Song Xian walked into the hall, and a man in his thirties greeted him warmly when he saw him. This man was named Zhang Ningyuan, a cultivator of the fifth level of Qi Refining. He was a member of the Zhang family and a distant nephew of Zhang Shilin.

Despite this relationship, Zhang Ningyuan is still an outer disciple because he has four spiritual roots.

According to the rules of Qingyun Sect, only disciples with three spiritual roots or above can become inner disciples.

Among the more than one hundred disciples of Qingyun Sect, there are only three disciples with dual spiritual roots, and Song Xian is one of them.

There are thirty-six disciples with three spiritual roots, eighteen of whom are selected as inner disciples.

This is because the number of inner disciples is fixed, because inner disciples require more resources, and Qingyun Sect cannot afford to support so many inner disciples with its financial resources, so it can only focus on training twenty elites at most.

This resulted in those with three spiritual roots being selected as inner disciples, while those without background could only serve as outer disciples. For outer disciples, guarding the spirit gathering array was a very lucrative job.

This task is not only easy, but also allows you to get more opportunities to use the practice room.

After a year of work, ordinary outer disciples have one month to practice in the formation.

The disciples on duty can take turns entering the training room and use it for at least three months every year.

Since Song Xian's transformation into a mortal, the number of inner disciples has increased to twenty-one. There is no other way, he has dual spiritual roots, and his cultivation aptitude is second only to single spiritual roots and special spiritual roots.

This kind of spiritual roots will definitely make him a core disciple no matter which sect he is placed in.

The Qingyun Sect originally had a rule that any disciple with dual spiritual roots would be directly promoted to the rank of inner sect disciple.

"Brother Zhang, I need a training room."

"No problem, I'll take you there. It's the old place, training room No. 21." Zhang Ningyuan led him through the main hall, turned around two or three courtyards and corridors, and came to a stone room with the word No. 21 written on the stone door.

Twenty inner disciples of Qingyun Sect have occupied the first twenty training rooms. Even if they are not there, the training rooms will be empty and no one else will be allowed to use them.

After Song Xian transformed into a mortal, this training room No. 21 became his exclusive training place.

Zhang Ningyuan took out a triangular convex stone from his sleeve pocket and inserted it into the concave part of the stone door, and the two fit together perfectly.

He grabbed the stone and turned it clockwise. With a click, the lock of the stone door opened. The two men pushed the stone door open and entered. Inside was a small room.

He then inserted the triangular protruding stone into the depression in the ground, opened the stone slab, reached in and fumbled for a while, and took out a long black plug.

In an instant, erupting spiritual energy rose from the ground.

"Okay, Junior Brother Song, I won't disturb your practice."

After doing all this, Zhang Ningyuan left the room and closed the door.

Song Xian took the cushion beside him, placed it on the opened floor, sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes, and as more and more spiritual energy surged out from the ground, the whole room was soon filled with rich spiritual energy.

He introduced the spiritual energy into his body according to the cultivation method, circulated it around his body, and after thoroughly refining it, he absorbed it into the Linghai acupoint.

He didn't know how long it had been, but when he opened his eyes, he felt hungry. He thought several hours had passed, so he took out the bread and water bag that he had prepared long ago from the storage ring.

After eating and drinking, he closed his eyes again. When he entered the state of inner vision, a line of images emerged in his mind.

Cultivation level: First level of Qi Refining.

Spiritual Strength: 11
Spiritual power: 5
Talent: Eye of True Observation.

After nearly two months of practice, his cultivation finally made visible progress. Originally, his maximum spiritual power was only 10 points, but now through practice, his spiritual power has reached 11 points.

As long as the spiritual power increases to 15 points, you can reach the second level of Qi Refining.

This was what he discovered after carefully observing people of different levels of cultivation these days.

The peak of a cultivator's first level of Qi Refining is 15 points of spiritual power.

Once a cultivator's spiritual power exceeds 15 points, he will break through to the second level of Qi Refining, and the peak of the second level of Qi Refining is 20 points of spiritual power.

In other words, the spiritual power of a cultivator at the second level of Qi Refining is between 15-20.

The spiritual power of a cultivator at the third level of Qi Refining is between 20-25.

The strength of a cultivator at the fourth level of Qi Refining is between 25 and 35.

The spiritual power of a cultivator at the fifth level of Qi Refining is between 35-45.

The spiritual power of a cultivator at the sixth level of Qi Refining is between 45-55.

The spiritual power of a cultivator at the seventh level of Qi Refining is between 55-70.

The spiritual power of a cultivator at the eighth level of Qi Refining is between 70-85.

The spiritual power of a cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining is between 85-100.

The spiritual power of a cultivator at the tenth level of Qi Refining is between 100-120.

Through this data, he also understood why the cultivation world divided the ten levels into three general levels: upper, middle and lower.

Although they could not accurately see the amount of spiritual energy in digitized form, they could feel that the distance between the spiritual energy levels was different.

For example, at the first, second and third levels of Qi Refining, you only need to increase the amount of spiritual energy by 5 points for each level you advance.

However, from the third level of Qi Refining to the fourth level, one needs to increase spiritual power by 10 points, and this continues until the sixth level of Qi Refining.

There is another hurdle from the seventh level of Qi Refining to the ninth level of Qi Refining, and each level requires an increase of 15 points.

The monks noticed this change in spiritual power, so they used three levels: upper, middle and lower to describe this gap.

(End of this chapter)