I run a casino in the immortal realm.

The operation of the Five Elements Manual is not complicated. The book contains detailed textual explanations and diagrams of the human body's meridians. The five elements correspond to five main meridians: metal goes through the lung meridian, wood through the liver meridian, water through the kidney meridian, fire through the heart meridian, and earth through the spleen meridian. All five meridians are cultivated simultaneously and converge in the dantian.

Zheng Yifei watched it twice, then closed his eyes and began to try operating it.

The feeling was completely different from the very first Sunday.

When practicing the Everlasting Spring Gong, the spiritual energy is like a thin, almost imperceptible thread, slowly crawling through the body, like an old ox pulling a broken cart.

After switching to the Five Elements Technique, the five meridians in the body began to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth simultaneously, just like a dried-up riverbed suddenly welcoming five streams. Although each stream was not large, the total amount gathered in the dantian was several times that before.

He took out a Spirit Gathering Pill and swallowed it.

As the pill entered the stomach, its warm medicinal power quickly dissolved, and the five-colored spiritual energy surged along the five main meridians.

Zheng Yifei could clearly feel that every meridian was greedily absorbing the medicinal power, just like five people who had been starving for six years finally getting their first full meal.

An hour passed.

The medicinal power of the pill has been mostly absorbed, and the spiritual energy in the dantian has become significantly more abundant. The sea of ​​qi has expanded from the thickness of a single hair to the thickness of a little finger.

Two hours later.

The medicinal power of the entire Spirit Gathering Pill was completely refined, leaving not a trace.

Zheng Yifei opened his eyes, a hint of surprise flashing in them.

He refined a Spirit Gathering Pill in just two hours?

The saleswoman at Wanbaolou clearly said that it would take three days to refine a Spirit Gathering Pill, but he only used two hours!

What does this tell us?

This shows that the combination of the Five Spiritual Roots and the Five Elements Manual is far more efficient than expected.

When all five meridians are operating simultaneously, the absorption rate of medicinal power is several times that of a single meridian, just like five people eating from one bowl of rice at the same time, which is naturally faster than one person eating alone.

He sensed the spiritual energy in his dantian and found it had increased by nearly 30% compared to before he started cultivating.

At this rate, refining three to four Spirit Gathering Pills a day will allow you to break through to the second level of Qi Refining in two or three days!

This is quite different from what the saleswoman said about "refining one every three days".

There's only one explanation—his spiritual aptitude might be far better than he imagined.

Although the Five Elemental Roots are generally considered to be useless qualities, there are still differences in quality among them.

If the affinity of all five spiritual roots is very high, then it is a top-grade five spiritual roots, and the speed of absorbing spiritual energy may even exceed that of ordinary three spiritual roots or even two spiritual roots.

However, those with five spiritual roots require more spiritual energy, and the pills or spirit stones they need are several times more expensive than those with other spiritual roots.

Zheng Yifei's lips curled up slightly.

The future is expected.

As long as you win enough spirit stones at the gambling den, your cultivation level will improve rapidly.

It is not impossible for someone to break through to the seventh level of Qi Refining and enter the Qingyun Sect before the age of eighteen.

He took out a second Spirit Gathering Pill and swallowed it, then continued his cultivation.

That night, he refined three Spirit Gathering Pills in one go, and the spiritual energy in his dantian almost doubled. He could already faintly touch the barrier of the second level of Qi Refining.

The next day, before dawn, Zheng Yifei got up.

First, he went to the stream behind the mountain and carried four buckets of water to fill the water vat. Then he chopped a pile of firewood and stacked it in the corner of the wall. He then fed his father a Rejuvenating Pill.

Mother Lin Wan prepared breakfast. The family ate spirit rice porridge with wild vegetables. Although it was not very oily, the small amount of spiritual energy contained in the spirit rice was very beneficial to the physical development of the younger siblings.

"Fei'er, are you working at the gambling den again today?"

"Yes, Mother, I'll leave after I finish eating. I'll take Second Sister and Chongtian to school first."

After seeing his younger siblings off, Zheng Yifei headed straight for the Zhao family's gambling den.

Upon arriving at the gambling den, he first greeted Haozi, then found a spot in the corner of the guessing game table, using his unique skill of discerning shapes by sound to win money discreetly.

An hour later, Zheng Yifei left the gambling table.

He first went to the counter to pay back the two hundred spirit coins he had borrowed yesterday at high interest, including the principal and interest. He put the remaining spirit coins in his pocket, and with what he won today, he had about five hundred spirit coins.

I'm getting ready to go to the Wang family's gambling den to make more money.

Just as he stepped out of the gambling den and turned into the alley next to it to take a shortcut to Wang's gambling den, a hand landed on his shoulder from behind.

"Xiao Fei, wait a minute."

That's the sound of a mouse.

Zheng Yifei paused, then slowly turned around.

The mouse stood at the alley entrance, a smile plastered on its pointed, monkey-like face, but its eyes were not as casual as usual, but rather held a hint of shrewd calculation.

"Brother Mouse, what's up?"

"Xiao Fei, you must have won quite a bit today, right?"

Mouse rubbed his fingers together with a wicked grin. He had been secretly watching Zheng Yifei all day and knew he had hidden money.

Zheng Yifei's heart sank.

He thought his disguise was convincing enough, but Rat had been in the gambling den for years and was clearly not so easily fooled.

"Brother Mouse, I won a little over two hundred spirit coins, which was just enough to pay off the loan sharks. Look, I only have a dozen or so spirit coins left in my pocket now."

Zheng Yifei patted his empty pockets; the spirit coins were hidden in the inner pocket close to his body, and couldn't be found from the outside.

The mouse squinted and looked him up and down, seemingly believing him but not quite.

"Really? Okay then."

He patted Zheng Yifei on the shoulder, his smile unchanged: "See you tomorrow, Xiaofei."

Zheng Yifei smiled and nodded, then turned and walked along the alley toward the center of the neighborhood.

After walking about fifty steps, his pace suddenly slowed down.

I heard footsteps behind me.

It wasn't one person, it was three.

His footsteps were light, deliberately kept quiet, but in this quiet, narrow alley, they were perfectly audible to Zheng Yifei, who was completely focused.

He didn't turn around and kept walking forward.

The alley narrowed as you walked, with high earthen walls on both sides and a T-junction in front.

Just a dozen steps away from the intersection, three figures emerged simultaneously from the corners of the walls on both sides, blocking his path.