Am I the only good person in this cultivation world?

The cultivation of the Dragon Qi Prosperity Technique can be roughly divided into two steps.

The first step is to cultivate oneself or accumulate popularity to replenish the true qi in the body, so that it can grow and become stronger.

The second step is to use the Soaring Dragon Palm as a guide to circulate the refined true qi throughout the body, tempering the physical body in order to refine the Dragon Qi Body.

Simply put, the cultivation path of this method involves these two major steps constantly cycling and overlapping. Each time a Dharma body is formed, it means that the technique has advanced to a higher level.

As one's cultivation deepens, this body technique becomes increasingly powerful and invincible.

This second step can be further divided into eight smaller steps:

It involves circulating energy through the meridians, refining the acupoints, penetrating the bones, strengthening tendons, tempering flesh, sharpening skin, and strengthening willpower to shape the body.

In the secular martial arts world, there is a saying: "Externally train muscles, bones, and skin; internally train one's breath." Although the path of cultivating immortality is very different from that of ordinary martial arts, they are both based on a mortal body. In terms of body cultivation, they are quite similar.

However, this Dragon Qi Technique involves "first cultivating a breath of 'Qi,' then cultivating muscles, bones, and skin," prioritizing true Qi and followed by body tempering. This order aligns with the imagery of "dragons soaring through the clouds" in the technique.

Previously, in the inn in Jiuyinfang City, Yao Han followed this method, grinding his excess magic power into his true qi, and then tempering his muscles, bones, skin and flesh one by one, which led to the achievement of "Ten Levels of Qi Refining".

However, he was somewhat rushed in his cultivation at the time, and he failed to reach perfection in any part of it. This is the origin of his feeling of "not having enough," because he felt that he could continue because he hadn't practiced it to the fullest extent.

Now that Jinli Shangren's deduction is backing him up, he can confidently continue to use his magic to temper his body and bones.

However, if one does not rely on "popularity" to replenish their energy and only uses essence, blood, and magical power to hone their true qi, the progress will be extremely slow.

To use a more vivid metaphor, the little white dragon swimming inside his body was very "picky" about food. No matter how much magic power was fed to it, it would only pick out the purest and most delicious strand to eat each time. Only after it was full and digested would it eat the next strand.

What Yao Han needs to do now is to use pills and magic arrays to continuously absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into his body and refine it to make it purer, so as to "feed" the little dragon.

This is the most crucial step, and also the most difficult. Once it is properly nourished, body tempering becomes the easiest thing, requiring only the endurance of some physical pain.

This is a gradual process, and cannot be rushed.

The cave, shimmering with spiritual light, was utterly silent, save for the gurgling of the spring water and the occasional crisp sound—the sound of a jade bottle falling to the ground. Whenever he finished a bottle, he would casually toss it on the ground and leave it there, rolling away on the stone slab.

Cultivation knows no time; three months passed in this practice.

When he opened his eyes again, his aura suddenly dissipated, blowing away the scattered medicine bottles on the ground.

His cultivation level has increased dramatically compared to before.

If his previous level was "Tenth Level of Qi Refining", then his current level can definitely be called "Eleventh Level of Qi Refining".

Such speed is already astonishing. Even if he is a cultivator with dual spiritual roots, the fact that he can advance one level every three months will shock people.

After all, according to conventional theory, there are hurdles after the fifth level of Qi Refining. Although everyone's progress will vary depending on their cultivation method and aptitude, ordinary cultivators with three or four spiritual roots would have to go into seclusion for at least a year and a half without eating or drinking to advance to the next level, even with a constant supply of resources. And even then, they might not succeed.

Ultimately, such rapid progress is due to the continuous supply of high-quality spirit stones.

It not only made up for the lack of elixirs, but also provided a continuous supply to the Three Talents Gathering Spirit Array, making the array's effect even more prominent.

In fact, he hadn't even opened those two bottles of Nine Yuan Pills in the past three months, only using a portion of the low-grade pills.

However, there are no records of realms beyond the ninth level of Qi Refining in the Qian Tian cultivation world. If it is said that the path after that is easier to cultivate, then that makes sense.

However, the feeling of wanting more had not yet dissipated, and Yao Han felt that he could continue to advance.

He got up and stretched his limbs, made some minor repairs to the magic array, tidied up the jade bottles scattered on the ground, and glanced at Xiao Yuan again.

To his surprise, Xiao Yuan didn't react to his movements. In the past, it would have wrapped itself around his arm as soon as he moved.

Xiao Yuan was sitting among a group of medicine bottles, his snake eyes closed as if he were dozing, his body covered by a semi-transparent, silvery-white crystal shell that glittered.

Yao Han's eyes lit up as the scene of eradicating the monkey plague in Jiangjia Village flashed through his mind.

When he ventured into the cave, the black-haired giant ape had been sleeping in that mysterious magic circle, its aura appearing and disappearing intermittently, just like Xiao Yuan now.

Could it be that Xiaoyuan is about to break through?

He was overjoyed; this was truly an unexpected and wonderful thing.

Although its progress is still slower than his own, as long as it can advance, it can become his help in the future.

If even the spirit pets are so diligent, how can he, as their master, be content to be the queen of snakes?

After tidying up briefly, Yao Han sat back down on the futon, calmed his mind, and continued his cultivation.

Having already broken through the eleventh level, he thought he could easily break through to the twelfth level this time as well.

Yao Han didn't expect that this training would last for nine months.

……

Spring came and autumn went, cold came and heat went, and a new batch of weeds grew on the open ground outside the mansion, but the gate remained silent.

In total, a whole year has passed.

Inside the main hall, the small snake with blue and white scales was still dozing in a thin, crystal-like shell, seemingly lifeless and dead.

The young monk sitting beside it with his eyes closed represents the other extreme.

He simply sat quietly, yet his abundant magical energy seemed to overflow endlessly, and golden light flashed all over his body, like a great sun burning fiercely in the center of the main hall.

Under the scorching golden light, his skin seemed to be plated with a layer of gilding, every inch of muscle was covered with texture, and every pore flowed with vigorous vitality.

After nine months of secluded cultivation, Yao Han's cultivation level has now reached the peak of the twelfth level of Qi Refining!

At the same time, after reaching this special "twelfth level", he finally felt the bottleneck. His physical body had been cultivated to the limit he could reach, and the mana flowing in his meridians and dantian was also abundant. There was nothing more to cultivate!

Now, the "reverse feeding" that Jin Li Shangren spoke of has finally been verified. If he hadn't been deliberately controlling it, the magical power contained in his body would have surged into his dantian like a river bursting its banks.

However, at this point, Yao Han no longer wants to control it, nor is there any need to control it.

He wanted to seize the opportunity and use this momentum to advance directly to the Foundation Establishment stage!

"bring it on!"

With a muttered shout, he grabbed the jade bottle containing the Foundation Establishment Pill, tilted his head back, and poured it into his mouth.

Master Jinli once said that he might not need Foundation Establishment Pills to establish his foundation on his own, but Yao Han did not intend to save any. As long as he could break through his cultivation level, all the expenses would be worthwhile.

As soon as the pill entered his stomach, his magical power instantly became restless and turbulent, as if boiling!

Several techniques were simultaneously activated to their limits, and golden energy flowed throughout the body, rushing towards the dantian. At this turbulent confluence point, the energy transformed from the illusory to the real, from the intangible to the substantial, and the "qi" turned into "liquid"!

The surging golden light marched forward triumphantly, and the pure white jade dragon soared into the sky, as if a hundred giant drums were rumbling within its body, or as if a thousand bolts of thunder were sweeping across the world.

Amidst the earth-shattering thunder, the dantian and the sea of ​​consciousness surged and expanded in continuous vibration, streams turned into rivers, and small ponds stirred up ocean tides!

A golden stream, as bright as the blazing sun, rose from the dantian, circulated through the meridians of the whole body, and slowly circulated. More impurities were expelled from the pores, and the pure energy within the body suddenly became turbid.

The entire process lasted for a full ninety-nine days.

When the sun rose on the hundredth day, Yao Han's golden light faded, and his aura returned to calm.

As the sunlight streamed in from the hole in the stone wall above, his eyes snapped open, burning brightly like fire and gleaming like the sun!

Yao Han leaped up from the prayer mat and roared to the sky.

Early stage of Foundation Building!