Mortal Cultivation: Starting from Hiding in the Cultivation Techniques Pavilion

Su Xiaoyuan's back was pressed tightly against the stone wall, her heart pounding wildly in her chest.

He forced himself to calm down, his right hand forming a sword shape with his fingers together, and spiritual energy rapidly condensing at his fingertips.

This is his strongest attack method at present.

Although he knew that with his Qi Refining Level 4 cultivation, this Azure Finger probably wouldn't even be able to break through the scales of the Stone Pattern Serpent, he couldn't just sit idly by and wait to die.

The stone-patterned snake let out a low hiss, arched its upper body backward, and then pounced on him!

Su Xiaoyuan darted to the side in the limited space, squeezing her body into a corner.

Suddenly he felt his feet sink into the ground!

A stone slab on the ground suddenly flipped over! He lost his support and plummeted downwards!

The stone-patterned snake was pouncing with all its might and had no time to stop its momentum. Its huge body also fell down!

"Aaaaaah—!"

Su Xiaoyuan's screams, accompanied by the hissing of the stone-patterned snake, echoed through the vertical passage!

Su Xiaoyuan shouted in one breath, but she still hadn't landed on the ground!

He only felt the wind whistling in his ears, darkness before his eyes, and his body falling faster and faster.

The opening above my head was rapidly shrinking, turning into a tiny point of light, and finally disappearing completely.

During his fall, he noticed a strange phenomenon.

The stone-patterned snake was falling faster than him!

At this critical moment of life and death, an extremely inappropriate thought popped into Su Xiaoyuan's mind.

Galileo was a fraud.

Objects with greater mass will fall faster.

Then there was a loud "bang".

A dull thud came from below, accompanied by the sound of bones shattering.

The stone-patterned snake landed first, its massive body crashing onto the ground.

Su Xiaoyuan's heart tightened, and then he hurriedly made a final effort to adjust his posture.

"Bang!"

He crashed into the stone snake!

Although the stone snake's body provided him with cushioning, the impact of falling from such a height was by no means insignificant.

Su Xiaoyuan felt as if she had been hit hard in the chest by a giant hammer, and her internal organs seemed to have shifted in an instant.

He felt a sweet taste in his throat, spat out a mouthful of blood, and then lost consciousness.

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Su Xiaoyuan slowly opened her eyes, and her vision gradually became clearer.

Above us was a pitch-black void, with no bottom in sight.

He didn't know how long he had been unconscious; it could have been several incense sticks' worth of time, or it could have been several hours.

The black-scaled stone-patterned snake lay beneath him, completely dead.

Its head was completely deformed, its skull was shattered, its eyeballs were bulging out, and blood and brain matter were slowly flowing out from the cracks, emitting a strong, fishy smell.

Even with its hardest scales, a creature falling from such a height would not withstand such an impact and would die instantly.

Su Xiaoyuan barely managed to sit up, but as soon as he moved, a tearing pain shot through his left chest, causing him to gasp and break out in a cold sweat.

He gritted his teeth and forced himself to circulate his spiritual energy to examine himself internally.

Two ribs on the left side of the chest were broken, but fortunately they were not completely dislocated and did not puncture any internal organs.

In addition, internal organs may be affected, but none of these are fatal.

He shuddered at the thought; if he had landed first, he would have been a pile of minced meat too.

He looked around, taking in his surroundings.

This appears to be a naturally formed cave, surrounded by exposed, dark rocks with rough, uneven surfaces that have a texture eroded by time.

Some glowing moss grew on the cave walls, barely illuminating a small area around them.

The light was dim, but with the eyesight of a cultivator, it was enough to see clearly the scene within a radius of several feet.

He struggled to his feet, leaned against the wall, and began to explore the space.

The cave was not large; he walked about thirty or forty steps before touching the opposite rock wall.

He continued walking along the rock face, circled around, and returned to where he started.

His heart sank.

This is a completely enclosed space.

There is no exit, no passage.

The walls were thick rock on all four sides, and the top was a bottomless vertical passage.

Undeterred, he walked around the rock face again, tapping each rock inch by inch with his fingers, listening intently to the echoes, hoping to find a hidden door or crack.

But there was nothing there.

He stood in the center of the cave, looking up at the distant darkness above, a deep sense of despair welling up inside him.

Eleven years after transmigrating, I finally obtained a system and reshaped my spiritual root, thinking that I could finally turn my life around.

As a result, he was tricked by a wicked woman into going to a secret realm as bait, and then fell into a closed cave with no exit.

Unfortunately, he couldn't fly, nor did he possess any magical means to do so. The passage above was high in the ceiling, beyond his reach.

Am I going to die here?

He slowly sat down, leaning against the cold scales of the stone snake.

The pain in his chest brought him to his senses.

He exhaled a breath of stale air, sat cross-legged, formed a mudra with his hands, and began to circulate the "Basic Qi-Inducing Technique".

Since we can't find a way out for the time being, let's focus on healing our injuries first.

He felt it as soon as he started practicing the Qi-guiding technique.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth here is so abundant it's almost extravagant.

The pure and rich spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged in from all directions like a tide, rushing into his meridians through his pores and acupoints.

The Chaos Spiritual Root greedily absorbed the surging spiritual energy, which flowed and circulated along its meridians.

A tingling sensation came from the broken rib, which was a signal that the spiritual energy was repairing the damaged tissue.

He suppressed his distracting thoughts and devoted himself wholeheartedly to cultivation.

In this enclosed space where the sun never shines, the concept of time becomes extremely blurred.

There is no sunrise or sunset, no alternation of day and night; only the glowing moss on the cave walls eternally emits a faint green light.

He was completely immersed in cultivation, forgetting the anxiety of being in a desperate situation.

The spiritual energy surged and circulated in his meridians, washing over his meridians, bones, and internal organs again and again.

The broken ribs are slowly healing under the nourishment of spiritual energy.

The damaged internal organs are also slowly repairing themselves.

After an unknown amount of time, Su Xiaoyuan's body suddenly trembled.

An invisible wave spread out from his body, and the flow of spiritual energy in his meridians suddenly accelerated, like a surging river, breaking through an invisible barrier and entering a wider world.

He awoke from his meditation.

Fifth level of Qi Refining!

He looked down at his hands, feeling the surging spiritual energy within his body, and an overwhelming joy welled up in his heart.

No wonder everyone wants to come to this secret realm. Not to mention the various opportunities that may exist here.

The rich spiritual energy of heaven and earth alone is priceless.

Unfortunately, this secret realm is only open for a limited time each year.

Once the time is up, if the cultivators who entered do not have time to leave, they will be obliterated by the power of the secret realm's rules.

Thinking of this, Su Xiaoyuan couldn't help but smile bitterly.

I'm afraid I'll starve to death before that time comes.

His gaze swept over the enormous stone-patterned snake corpse beside him, and then he suddenly stopped.

Well, we won't starve for now.