Cultivation: Starting with Sterilizing My Own Father

Breathing may seem simple, but it brings a wonderful feeling. With each breath, the stagnant air in the body is slowly expelled through the nose, and the meridians throughout the body feel as if they are soaking in a hot spring, which is indescribably comfortable.

However, since they have to keep their eyes closed for a long time, and the students are all under ten years old, it is easy for some students with weak minds to fall asleep.

This is why outer sect disciples are required to sleep for six hours every day, thinking that if they sleep enough at night, they won't fall asleep during their cultivation during the day.

But as it turns out, children's potential is limitless.

Children have only been in this world for a few years, and their bodies don't have as much impurity as adults. Therefore, although they feel something, it's not very strong. The youngest child, Xu Tianci, slowly, slowly fell to the side. Xu Ruosheng didn't even open his eyes; he simply calmly reached out and caught his younger brother, letting him fall towards him.

Helpless, Master Xiao En woke the little guy up. At the same time, he noticed that the other children had almost expelled the turbid energy from their bodies and that they had all started cultivating. So he condensed a wisp of spiritual power at his fingertips. As a vermilion spiritual power entered the ground, the spirit-gathering array under the training ground showed that its spirit-gathering effect was significantly better than before.

Master Xiao En flipped over and sat on a two-meter-high stone pillar above the training ground, his feet swaying slightly as he landed. "Let me tell you what the Circulation of Qi is. The Circulation of Qi is guiding spiritual energy along the meridians and circulating it... Well, basically, it's like when you were practicing, passing through your whole body with each breath, starting from deep within your navel, what's commonly called the lower dantian, going down, then up your back to the top of your head, where there's a Baihui acupoint, then passing through your face, extending to your chest, and finally returning to the lower dantian. This circulation through the body is called the Small Circulation. It takes about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn (30 minutes) to complete one cycle. Normally, it takes seven days to draw Qi into the body, to expel the turbid Qi and sense the spiritual energy. Because you are young, you don't have much turbid Qi in your bodies to begin with, and there's also a Spirit Gathering Array here. Now, let's open the Small Circulation first. Once the Small Circulation is open, I'll teach you the Great Circulation."

"By the way," Master Xiao En said, a crimson crystal now in his hand, "this one is a mid-grade fire-elemental spirit stone. Within the Guiyi Sect, you can exchange it for spirit stones specifically for cultivation, similar to the formation of mutated spiritual roots. Spirit stones are stones that absorb the essence of heaven and earth to condense spiritual energy, and some spirit stones develop specific elements due to the spiritual energy they absorb or environmental factors. Rarity increases value. Ordinary spirit stones and elemental spirit stones usually can't be directly exchanged; they're either mined or bought at auctions. However, the sect has an elemental spirit stone mine, so you can exchange them within the sect, either in the mission hall or the academy. Ten ordinary spirit stones can be exchanged for one elemental spirit stone of the same grade. Disciples with mutated spiritual roots need to exchange them based on their own abilities. For example, a lightning spirit root is formed from a mutation of metal and fire, requiring both metal and fire elemental roots for cultivation. Although mutated elemental spirit stones exist, they are too precious; the sect doesn't have the capacity to allow disciples to exchange them."

As soon as the teacher finished speaking, Wei Zhiying saw people around her stand up one by one to exchange with the teacher, all of them starting with high-grade items. The siblings felt out of place, but Wei Zhiying noticed that Leng Yue was also standing still, and her eyes lit up.

Great! I have company!

The next second, the other party silently took out an ivory-carved box. When opened, it was not filled with jewelry, but with high-quality wood, water and fire elemental spirit stones, at least top-grade!

Wei Zhiying and her sister swallowed hard, thinking it was a partner, but they didn't expect the other person to bring it themselves.

At this moment, Leng Yue felt the gaze of Wei Zhiying and her brother. They stood too close and their eyes met. Without hesitation, Leng Yue grabbed a handful and handed it to Wei Zhiying. Wei Zhiying and her sister were startled and immediately waved their hands, "No, no, no, no! That's not what we meant! We were just surprised! Yes, just surprised. We have some too!" As they spoke, the two of them took out the low-grade spirit stones that the sect had given them, indicating that they would use these.

Feng Qianxue and Feng Yuexi's expressions were synchronized: "Commoners, poor people." The two sisters looked at each other and made a face together.

Wei Zhiying gently nudged the older sister next to her, indicating that they didn't need to worry about others: "Each of us has six thousand low-grade spirit stones, which is enough even without elemental spirit stones."

Wei Lanyin smiled, but the two shallow dimples on her cheeks looked somewhat forced.

Wei Zhiying first held an ordinary low-grade spirit stone in her palm to cultivate.

Calm your mind and sense the spirit stone in your hand, silently absorbing its spiritual energy through your breathing.

Sure enough, cultivating with spirit stones was more effective than simply cultivating on its own. Wei Zhiying unconsciously quickened her pace, while Wei Lanyin, standing beside her, cultivated in a manner just like her own—calm, unhurried, and exceptionally gentle. She carefully absorbed all the spiritual energy from the spirit stones until it dissipated in her hands.

If they were to cultivate using spirit stones, at their current pace, they would use up one of these low-grade spirit stones in about half a day.

Wei Zhiying is fine because she has a single spiritual root, but her older sister has a dual spiritual root. If they were to use elemental spirit stones, they would need to use two at the same time for each cultivation session.

As they progress through each higher level of cultivation, their absorption of spiritual energy increases rapidly; a low-grade spirit stone might be used up in just an hour and a half.

Wei Zhiying realized the significance of the calculation and became even more determined to pass the grand competition a year later and become the top disciple. She believed that this would not only give her the right to choose her master but also a generous bonus.