Mortal Transformation into Immortal

"Senior Brother Chen, we'll take our leave now."

Outside the hall, Shui and Yao bowed and said.

"Um."

Chen Dongting nodded.

"Farewell, two immortals."

Yu Ling said.

"Little cricket, you must cultivate diligently."

"I will."

After a brief farewell, the two left.

Chen Dongting carried him onto the back of a crane and flew towards Jingzhe Peak.

"Little Ling, there are twenty-four peaks in the sect that are specifically for managing the disciples who do menial tasks. You belong to the Jingzhe Peak. If you need anything, you can go to the Jingzhe Peak to seek help from the elders there," Chen Dongting said to him.

"Thank you, Immortal Master, I understand."

"Don't call me Immortal Master anymore. You're just a menial disciple now. Just call me Senior Brother Chen."

"Okay, Senior Brother Chen."

The two chatted for a while, and before long the crane landed on a small hill.

Chen Dongting pointed to the high mountain in the distance and said, "That is Jingzhe Peak. At noon at the end of each month, an elder will explain cultivation. If you are interested, you can go and listen. After you finish eating the Five Grains Pill, you can also go to Jingzhe Peak to get more."

Looking up, the mountain peak was over two hundred feet high, and it would take at least half an hour to get there.

Chen Dongting led him to a simple house on a small hilltop, surrounded by cobwebs, and said to him, "You can stay here for now."

Yu Ling pushed open the door; the inside was covered in dust, indicating that no one had lived there for a long time.

There was even a stove and various knives.

"Senior Brother Chen, how many miscellaneous disciples are there on Jingzhe Peak in total?" he asked.

"About five hundred people."

"There are so many?"

Chen Dongting said, "As long as it is within the territory of a sect, if the spiritual bone measured is not too bad, it will usually be brought to Ziyang Sect for cultivation. Of course, this is also the responsibility of the immortal sect, so that more people can embark on the path of immortality and thus increase the fortune of the immortal path. Xiaoling, in the world we live in, besides immortals, there are also all kinds of demons and monsters."

"So that's how it is."

Chen Dongting continued, "Little Ling, once you embark on the path of immortality, you will be assigned some menial tasks. Among them, the task of gathering herbs will be the best for training yourself and will yield the greatest experience, which will be very helpful for your future life in this world. However, you may encounter monsters, so it is also the most dangerous."

"The task of planting spirit grains is easy and safe, although it is difficult to be assigned. But if you want to plant spirit grains, I can put in a word with Jingzhe Peak."

Yu Ling thought carefully for a while and then asked, "Senior Brother Chen, how strong are those demonic beasts?"

"The further out you go, the stronger it gets, but as long as you don't go too deep, you'll mostly encounter ordinary wild beasts that the handymen disciples can handle."

"Thank you for your consideration, Senior Brother Chen. I'll choose the herb gathering task instead."

Having received the reply, Yu Ling made her decision. Moreover, Chen Dongting specifically mentioned it, which must have been his suggestion that she choose the herb-gathering task.

"Haha, very good."

Chen Dongting looked at him approvingly and continued, "If you exceed the mission requirements, the sect will reward you with a certain amount of Ziyang Coins. These can be used to trade for treasures within the sect. In addition, there are also small opportunities deliberately left by the sect in the mountains. If you are lucky enough to find them, the sect will not take them back."

"Senior Brother Chen, I've got it."

"You get some rest first, I'll be going now."

"Thank you very much, Senior Brother Chen, for bringing me to the Immortal Sect," Yu Ling said gratefully.

"You're welcome, it was nothing."

Chen Dongting smiled lightly, jumped onto the crane, and left.

The crane's shadow has faded into the distance.

Yu Ling looked at the thing in her hand, extremely excited.

I'm really going to become an immortal.

He turned and went into the house. It was very simple inside, but he didn't care. As long as it could keep him out of the wind and rain, that was enough.

"Let's take a look at the cultivation techniques and immortal arts first."

Yu Ling sat on the ground, took out the jade slip, and placed it between his eyebrows as Elder Sun had instructed. The moment he made contact, a golden ray flew out of the jade slip and entered his head.

At the same time, a stream of information spread through my mind.

"Xiwei Skill, Hanming Strength."

Yu Ling quickly sorted it out.

It contains a lot of information, including incantations and magic techniques for sensing spiritual energy, as well as basic knowledge about cultivation and various rules of the sect.

"It's broken."

Looking at the jade slip in his hand, he saw it shatter into pieces after losing its information.

"That's good. You don't need to be literate to understand what it means," Yu Ling murmured.

He wasn't actually very literate, but this jade slip saved him the trouble of learning to read. It was understandable that the Ziyang Sect did this, since many of their servant disciples came from ordinary towns and villages, and not everyone could read.

"That's so profound."

As Yu Ling sorted through the sudden additions to her mind, she was secretly amazed. Then, she couldn't wait to start cultivating as Xi Weigong had instructed.

According to Xiwei Gong, the first step in cultivation is "Qi Sensing," which is to sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Spiritual energy is a very mysterious thing; it only exists when it is sensed. This is also the difference between having spiritual bones and not having spiritual bones. Without spiritual bones, there is no bridge to sense spiritual energy.

Only after sensing spiritual energy can it enter the body, causing the spiritual bones to generate immortal blood, thus beginning the transformation from mortal to immortal and entering the Qi Refining Realm.

I sat there for a long time, but nothing changed.

Yu Ling opened her eyes.

He knew that sensing spiritual energy wasn't so easy.

"Let's clean the house first."

Yu Ling stood up, picked up her tools, and began cleaning the house.

This is where he will live from now on. Although he is used to living a life of hardship, now that he has a place to stay, he must live well.

After getting ready, he took a good bath in the stream at the foot of the mountain and changed into new clothes. He no longer looked like the dirty beggar he used to be; his eyes were bright and he even had a somewhat handsome appearance.

"Father, Mother, Xiaoling has entered the Immortal Sect and has a chance to become an immortal." Yuling looked at her reflection in the water, looking left and right, and smiled foolishly.

Cranes soared high in the sky, and disciples occasionally flew by gracefully on their swords.

It was nearly dusk.

The setting sun bathed the earth in its golden light.

"Coo coo..."

Back in the cabin, his stomach rumbled.

I'm so hungry.

Having not eaten all day, I hadn't felt the hunger before because of the excitement of entering the immortal sect, but now that I'm starting to relax, the hunger is gradually kicking in.

Yu Ling rubbed her stomach and looked at the small bottle on the table. Inside was the Five Grains Pill given by Elder Sun, which would keep her from feeling hungry for several days.

"No, no, I've only just entered the immortal sect, I haven't become an immortal yet." Yu Ling kept shaking her head, suppressing the idea of ​​taking the pills, and immediately closed the door to go outside to find something to eat.

Before becoming an immortal, he dared not eat anything else.

Anyway, we've been eating this for so many years, it won't make a difference.

"I hope there are insects inside the immortal sect too."

As Yu Ling pondered this, he bent down and began searching around the house.

"Got it!"

He soon smelled the insects and dug through the thick moss on the stone.

A white insect appeared.

......

Fifteen minutes later.

Yu Ling sat contentedly on a rock outside the house.

"As expected of a celestial sect, even the insects inside are plumper than those outside."

He was worried that the climate in the Immortal Realm was different and he wouldn't be able to find food there, but now it seems he was worrying unnecessarily.

"Cultivation."

After eating and drinking his fill, Yu Ling sat cross-legged and, following the method described in Xiwei Gong, sensed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

I must become an immortal as soon as possible so that I can have peace of mind.

Where are you going?

After practicing for a while, the centipede in his hand crawled to the ground and started searching for something.

"Is he hungry?"

Yu Ling thought for a moment, then poured out a grain of five grains and placed it in her palm: "Do you want to eat this?"

The centipede went up and sniffed it, then ignored it.

The Five Grains Elixir contains the essence of ordinary grains and water, not its food.

Centipedes crawled around the house, easily catching insects hiding in crevices of rocks and under withered grass.

It ate with great relish, and you could even tell it was very happy. It seemed to be marveling at how different the food in the immortal sect was from the outside world. Watching this scene, Yu Ling even felt that its behavior was very similar to her own.

Wherever the centipede crawled, Yu Ling followed. There was plenty of food in the immortal sect, and the centipede was full in no time.

Yu Ling carefully held it in her hands.

The centipede looked at him with the same warmth as a family member.

"Jade-skinned centipede," Yu Ling murmured, "This name isn't easy to pronounce. Let me give you a new one."

"Xiaobai...no, no."

"Let's call it sweet potato... no, no, no, that doesn't sound good."

Yu Ling racked her brains but couldn't come up with a satisfactory name, and began to frown.

Suddenly, remembering Elder Sun's last words to him, a thought flashed through his mind: "Hmm... Jinliang, I'll call you Jinliang then."