Chapter 16
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“Hu！… ”
Almost the moment he circulated the Canxia breathing mental method, a gust of breeze was attracted to the small courtyard, and strands of spiritual energy of heaven and earth entered his body through his already opened acupoints.
The meridians and acupoints that Xu Taiping could never sense in the past were very easily sensed by him this time, and even the process of guiding the spiritual energy into the meridians for refining was very smooth.
Finally, Xu Taiping spent half a stick of incense time and successfully sent a refined strand of true qi into the dantian.
“It took half a stick of incense to refine such a strand of true qi. Compared with the genius in the mouth of True Monarch Ziyang, it is simply not worth mentioning, but for me, after all, I can truly embark on the path of cultivation.”
Regarding his extremely slow refining speed, Xu Taiping was not too depressed.
“Grandpa said that hard work can make up for clumsiness. They practice for two hours a day, and I practice for four hours. They practice for four hours, and I practice for eight hours. One day I will catch up!
Xu Taiping secretly made up his mind.
”By the way, I still have this soybean spiritual crystal. Fairy Lingyue said that holding it to practice can get twice the result with half the effort.”
He suddenly remembered the few soybean spiritual crystals produced in the Dizang Fruit, so he took out one on the spot and started to practice again.
With the help of the soybean spiritual crystal, the speed at which he refined the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was more than three times faster than before.
”Fairy Lingyue really didn’t lie to me. This spiritual crystal is of great benefit to me. In this way, maybe I can really break through the Open Door Realm within half a year！”
After feeling the improvement in the cultivation speed, Xu Taiping suddenly had a look of joy on his face.
With the help of this soybean spiritual crystal, his current cultivation speed is at least about the same as that of ordinary cultivators.
In the following days, apart from spending two hours a day taking care of the medicine field, Xu Taiping spent all the rest of his time practicing and didn’t dare to waste a moment.
……
Time passed in a flash, and three months had passed.
During these three months, Xu Taiping could clearly feel that the true energy in his dantian was becoming more and more abundant. He vaguely sensed that he should be about to break through to the Condensing Dew Stage.
The so-called Condensing Dew Stage is actually a statement in the “Canxia Gong”. It is a description of the depth of true energy of cultivators who have not yet broken through the Open Door Realm.
In the Canxia Gong, before breaking through the Open Door Realm, the depth of a cultivator’s true qi is divided into three levels: Condensing Dew, Melting Frost, and Freezing Ice.
Only when the depth of true qi breaks through the level of the ‘Freezing Ice’ period can a cultivator attempt to break through the Open Door Realm.
However, after breaking through the Condensing Dew period and entering the Melting Frost period, a cultivator will generate a layer of cold ice protective true qi around the body when operating the Canxia Gong, which is equivalent to putting on a layer of top-quality bingtie armor for the cultivator.
However, even if he has not yet broken through the Condensing Dew period, with the true qi in the dantian becoming full, the changes in Xu Taiping’s body are also very obvious.
For example, his eyesight and hearing are much stronger than they were three months ago.
In terms of eyesight, now even a sparrow standing on a tree 500 meters away, he can see clearly. In terms of hearing, he can distinguish what wild animals there are in the mountains and forests within a radius of one mile just by listening.
In addition, his physical strength and leg strength have also been greatly improved.
Although Xu Taiping now looks thin and weak, he can definitely lift a 200-jin grindstone with one hand. As for leg strength, he once chased a wild deer in the nearby mountains and forests and did not fall behind at all.
In addition, when he was in Qingniu Village before, he often went up the mountain with his grandfather to hunt wild game, could use a bow and arrow, and could make traps, so in the past month, he has been able to eat wild game every day.
Perilla leaves paired with roasted venison and roasted rabbit meat, he never gets tired of eating it no matter how many times.
“Come to think of it, the trap set up in the back mountain a few days ago is about time to go and take a look. Maybe another Mongolian gazelle can be caught to eat.”
At noon on this day, Xu Taiping, who had already cultivated for three hours, touched his stomach and stood up from the bed, preparing to go to the back mountain later to check the trap he set up.
Because he has to practice and doesn’t have much time to hunt, he has set up quite a few traps on several nearby mountains in these three months. Now, as long as he goes to check them from time to time, he can get something.
However, before this, he has an even more important thing to do——
Sell medicinal materials.
Three months have passed since the first batch of seeds of nine-leaf white perilla were sown. Xu Taiping has harvested a total of more than three hundred catties of perilla rhizomes and more than sixty catties of perilla seeds, which is exactly three times the harvest of an ordinary medicinal field, neither more nor less.
“Calculated by weight, this patch of nine-leaf white perilla can be sold for at least ninety-six merit coins, which has exceeded three times the original expectation.”
After putting all the medicinal materials to be sold at the door, Xu Taiping took out the bone flute given by the Western Wind Pavilion and then blew it hard.
“Jī！ ……”
Soon, a white-headed eagle with wings spread out to a width of one zhang came to the door of the small courtyard.
“Uncle White Eagle, please help deliver these medicinal materials to the Hundred Herbs Hall for sale. After that, you can take three merit coins from it.”
Xu Taiping cupped his hands towards the white eagle standing in front of him.
Letting spiritual birds sell medicinal materials, this is also a method he saw from that jade slip of merit transmission. It is said that ordinary medicinal materials can be directly sold by spiritual birds, which saves time and effort. However, three merit coins have to be paid afterwards.
“I will bring the money tomorrow.”
The spiritual bird white eagle didn’t say much. After nodding slightly, it grabbed the batch of medicinal materials with its claws and rose into the air.
“By tomorrow, I will have money to buy cultivation techniques and martial skills from the Myriad Scrolls Tower.”
Looking at the departing figure of the white eagle, Xu Taiping interlaced his ten fingers and stretched a big.
Although he still had to save money to buy the True Fire Talisman, it was still necessary to buy a martial skill for self-defense. When hunting in the mountains before, he was almost injured by several wild boars.
At present, although he has full true qi in his dantian, he doesn’t know how to use it at all.
Actually, for cultivators, it would be better to buy a spell to practice. But unfortunately, he is short of money and can’t afford it at all. He can only wait until he saves more money.
Moreover, before breaking through to the Open Door Realm, even if he has cultivated the “Remnant Xia Gong”, the amount of true qi in Xu Taiping’s body is not enough to support him in exercise spells.
“This bow and arrow and hunting knife should also be replaced.”
At this time, Xu Taiping had already taken the bow and arrow and the hunting knife from the hut and was ready to set off for the back mountain.
Both the bow and arrow and the hunting knife were left by the previous owner of the Green Bamboo Residence. The blade of the hunting knife was full of nicks, and the bowstring of the bow and arrow had also broken once. Xu Taiping managed to reconnect it with great difficulty.
Living alone on the mountain and with many wild beasts around the courtyard, such basic self-defense weapons were still necessary.
……
Half a stick of incense later.
The back mountain.
Although Xu Taiping called this place the back mountain, according to the introduction of the map in the jade slip, this mountain should be called Yanglu Mountain, named because there are many yellow sheep and elk in the mountain.
However, in the several times Xu Taiping entered the mountain, he found that there were actually not many yellow sheep and elk in the mountain, but there were many groups of wild boars.
“If I can hunt a wild boar, it would be nice. At least I don’t have to worry about food for the next half a month.”
As Xu Taiping was running in the mountain, he looked around vigilantly and muttered in his mouth.
Although a cultivator can fast, the prerequisite is to at least break through the Open Door Realm. At present, not only can Xu Taiping not fast, but he also has to rely on a large amount of meat to supplement the physical strength consumed during cultivation.
