At the beginning, I cleaned the Sutra Library and completed the incomplete skills.

In a state of emptiness.

As Li Lan mobilized his cultivation technique, the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy seemed to be attracted, and poured into his body through every pore.

What Li Lan needed to do at this moment was to guide these mottled heaven and earth spiritual energies.

According to the introduction on the cultivation technique, he had to circulate them along his own meridians for a full cycle, refining them into the mana he needed, and finally injecting them into his dantian.

Once the dantian was filled with mana, he could successfully advance to the first level of Qi Refining.

All this sounds easy, but it is extremely difficult to do.

Due to the difference in spiritual root aptitude, the speed of refining heaven and earth spiritual energy also varies.

A single-attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root often only needs to circulate for thirty-six cycles to purify the heaven and earth spiritual energy into usable mana.

The same process requires three hundred and sixty cycles for a Genuine Spiritual Root with two or three attributes.

And for a pseudo-spiritual root with four attributes like Li Lan, it would take at least three thousand six hundred cycles to achieve this.

This is why the entire cultivation world values spiritual root aptitude so much.

Compared to the Heavenly Spiritual Root, a multi-attribute spiritual root is naturally behind from the starting line.

To refine the same amount of mana, Li Lan often had to spend far more time and energy than a Heavenly Spiritual Root.

With a year's accumulation, the mana in Li Lan's dantian was finally full at this moment.

According to the description in the "Mixed Origin Five Elements True Art" cultivation technique.

Next, he only needed to further compress and purify the mana in his dantian to free up the space needed for subsequent cultivation.

This process was very dangerous.

During the compression and purification process, if the cultivator's mental strength was not focused enough.

Or if there was a deviation in the control of mana, it was very likely to cause the mana to lose control and damage the dantian.

The dantian is the foundation for cultivators to store and cultivate mana.

If the dantian is damaged, it will not only affect this promotion, but may also hinder the cultivator's future path of cultivation.

This is something that no cultivator wants to see.

When children of influential families break through, there are often elders with higher realms protecting them, so that they can stop them in time when they notice something is wrong.

But Li Lan, who came from humble origins, did not have such favorable conditions.

On the path of cultivation, he could only rely on himself.

Li Lan cast aside the distracting thoughts in his mind, concentrated his spirit, and immersed his consciousness in the dantian.

He carefully guided the overflowing mana to converge towards the center of the dantian.

In an instant, the Qi Sea in the dantian churned like boiling water, the mana was compressed, and gradually formed a vortex.

As the rotation speed became faster and faster.

The mana at the very center began to gradually transform from its original colorless and formless state to a faint white color.

The volume of the mana vortex gradually decreased, while the density slowly increased.

This process was particularly long.

As time passed, Li Lan's mental exhaustion became particularly severe.

He felt that his body was as heavy as if it had been filled with lead, and his consciousness gradually became blurred.

Li Lan had never been more eager to rest than at this moment, he couldn't wait to fall asleep immediately.

As soon as this thought appeared, Li Lan immediately broke out in a cold sweat and instantly regained his senses.

This was the most critical moment.

If he was distracted and fell asleep, all previous efforts would be wasted, and the dantian would not know what kind of damage it would suffer.

Thinking of this, Li Lan became ruthless and bit off a bit of his tongue.

A strong bloody smell spread in his mouth, which made his spirit invigorated.

Li Lan accelerated the speed of compression and purification.

In the dantian, the mana vortex roared and rotated.

I don't know how long it took, Li Lan's spirit had been stretched to the limit.

He couldn't even feel the pain of biting his tongue anymore.

At this moment, most of the mana vortex in the dantian had been condensed.

A cloud of faint white mana was slowly floating in it.

After seeing the phenomenon mentioned in the "Mixed Origin Five Elements True Art" cultivation technique, Li Lan breathed a long sigh of relief.

The heart that was in his throat returned to his stomach.

The most dangerous moment had passed, and this promotion to the first level of Qi Refining had been mostly successful.

Next, he only needed to accumulate time and slowly compress the remaining mana.

After relaxing his mind, Li Lan could no longer suppress his heavy sleepiness, and he fainted with a head fall.

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Sunlight shone through the gaps in the bamboo house, illuminating the young boy's tender face.

Li Lan woke up leisurely from his sleep.

This was the most comfortable sleep he had had in a year.

Li Lan recalled the scene before he fell asleep, and quickly looked inside himself.

He saw a cloud-like mana mass hovering in the center of the dantian, accompanied by wisps of invisible and colorless weak mana.

Although he failed to break through to the first level of Qi Refining in one go.

But Li Lan was very satisfied with the current situation.

For him.

Being able to move towards the goal step by step without making mistakes was already the best result.

Although the process may be a little slow.

But as long as you persevere, you can always reach the end.

Pushing open the bamboo house, Li Lan stretched hard.

He stretched out the muscles and bones of his whole body, feeling extremely comfortable.

He understood the principle that haste makes waste, so he did not continue to break through the realm non-stop.

Instead, he chose to relax first.

After adjusting his body and mental state to the best, he would prepare again.

Li Lan casually found some food to fill his stomach, and then strolled towards the direction of the Guangji Temple's mountain gate.

According to last year's experience, before the Dust Washing Ceremony, the handyman disciples also needed to report and fill in some information first.

So that the outer sect elders could select outstanding disciples from the list in advance.

Along the way, Li Lan naturally encountered many fellow travelers.

Many were ordinary people who had heard the news from all directions and came to visit the mountain gate for the first time.

Their eyes were only filled with the burning desire and longing to step into the path of immortality, and they completely ignored the ordinary boy beside them.

Li Lan also had no intention of talking to them.

Observing the clothes and attire of these people, he secretly speculated on their identities and occupations.

After climbing the three thousand six hundred steps of the mountain climbing stairs.

Many ordinary people were as tired as dead dogs, lying on the ground panting.

Because Li Lan had already cultivated and had mana in his body, he was much better than them.

For a time, it attracted frequent glances from everyone.

As soon as he reached the top of the mountain, Li Lan saw an acquaintance again.

A trace of strangeness flashed in his eyes, but after a little thought, he quickly understood.

The other party must be here to do errands for his master.

Tie Niu and his group obviously also noticed Li Lan.

The eyes of a group of lackeys were also filled with surprise.

"Brother Niu, look, it's that kid Li Lan."

"Hey? I haven't seen him for two or three days, I thought he went down the mountain and went home, why did he suddenly pop up again?"

"Perhaps he is unwilling to miss the opportunity to become an immortal, and wants to give it one last try."

"Tch, this kind of guy without talent is still hanging around here, it's just a waste of resources."

"Does he still daydream about entering the same sect as Brother Niu?"

Tie Niu did not stop the ridicule of the lackeys around him.

Although they were ordinary people and could not understand the gap between cultivators.

But their judgment of the situation was still very accurate.

In Tie Niu's heart, Li Lan really didn't have any talent for cultivation.

After cultivating for a year and still not succeeding, there was no need to persist any longer.

It would be better to go home earlier and do some practical things for the villagers.

Thinking of this, Tie Niu frowned deeply.

He couldn't understand why this person was so obsessed.