Two seconds later, the world returned to normal, and Zhao Sheng instantly "fell" out of the time-stop state.
So magical, so wonderful!
It was only two seconds, but Zhao Sheng felt that the whole process lasted at least a minute.
Two seconds vs. one minute!
In a sense, it means that the flow of time has slowed down by thirty times.
what does that mean?
Zhao Sheng didn't fully understand it at the moment, but he knew that no matter which world it was, any ability or talent involving time was extremely rare.
With one yellow-level draw, he got the talent bullet time.
I have to say, he made a lot of money this time!
After testing his new talent, Zhao Sheng calmed down and began his first practice in this life.
In the quiet room, Zhao Sheng sat cross-legged, closed his eyes and concentrated, his mind quickly entering a state of emptiness and clarity.
It seemed like a long time had passed, yet it also seemed like just a moment.
In the darkness around Zhao Sheng's body, dense, colorful spiritual particles suddenly appeared.
Some are red like fire, some are green like wood, some are dark like the abyss, some are bright like gold, some are grayish yellow like earth, and there are also a few that are white like ice, blue like lightning, and blue like the wind.
Zhao Sheng was overjoyed when he saw this scene, knowing that the first step of sensing the spiritual energy was successful. The next step was to use the spiritual nourishment technique to activate the spiritual power vortex in his dantian, absorb the surrounding spiritual energy particles, and then begin to refine and fuse them.
The spiritual cultivation technique Zhao Sheng practices is called "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon." His spirit is the moon, and his spiritual energy is transformed into clouds. While it's called "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon," in reality, the moon moves and the clouds follow.
Simply put, it is to use the spirit of consciousness (the prototype of divine consciousness) to stimulate the spiritual power vortex, suck the spiritual energy particles into the vortex, refine and fuse the spiritual energy of the same attributes through the vortex, and at the same time eliminate "impurities", and finally achieve the purpose of strengthening spiritual power.
The entire cultivation process can be described in eight words: "nourishing the spirit and refining the qi, removing the dross and retaining the essence."
Why do immortal cultivators cultivate faster with fewer spiritual roots?
This involves "removing the dross and retaining the essence", which in layman's terms means purifying and removing impurities.
When absorbing the same amount of spiritual energy particles in the same amount of time, the five spiritual roots will absorb five kinds of spiritual energy particles at the same time, but can only refine one of them, and the other four are impurities.
A single spiritual root only absorbs one type of particle, omitting the impurity removal process.
Excluding other factors, from this point of view alone, the cultivation speed of a single spiritual root is at least five times that of five spiritual roots.
This is also one of the reasons why all immortal cultivation forces regard single-spiritual-root immortal cultivators as supreme treasures.
Zhao Sheng has the four spiritual roots of gold, water, earth and wood, and practices the water-based technique Xuanling Gong.
The grade of Xuanling Gong is not high, and it is not considered a very precious skill in the world of immortal cultivation, but it is widely circulated.
Many cultivators use it as their main method of cultivation, as they value the Xuanling Gong's characteristics of being upright and peaceful, and not prone to going astray. The spiritual power cultivated is also known for its purity.
However, the disadvantage of Xuanling Gong is also very obvious, that is, it is slow. Not only is the purification and fusion slow, but the improvement of cultivation is even slower.
But in Zhao Sheng's opinion, the slow training of Xuanling Gong is not a disadvantage.
Because he has plenty of time. If this life doesn't work out, there's always the next.
In a state of mental introspection, Zhao Sheng "saw" that under the urging of his consciousness, the dark vortex of spiritual power deep in his dantian began to slowly "rotate".
Invisible suction forces were generated, and gradually the four spiritual particles of gold, wood, water and earth in the air were sucked into the vortex.
Then the three-colored particles of gold, wood and earth were "thrown out" of the body, but the water-based spiritual energy was crushed bit by bit and slowly integrated into the spiritual power.
As time passed, Zhao Sheng felt his consciousness gradually becoming weaker and weaker, and a faint pain came from between his eyebrows.
As he continued to practice, the swelling and pain between his eyebrows became more and more obvious, and finally became as painful as a needle prick.
Zhao Sheng knew that this was a sign of severe mental exhaustion, and this training should be over.
He let out a long breath, stopped practicing his skills, and came out of the state of emptiness.
"Ha ha!"
After waking up, Zhao Sheng opened his eyes and suddenly burst into laughter.
At midnight, the moonlight was hazy, the clouds were light and the wind was gentle.
On the shore of Longli Lake, Zhao Sheng, wearing a black robe, found a large rock two people tall on the shore.
He walked around the big rock and soon started digging quickly under an angular protrusion.
A moment later, Zhao Sheng dug out a package from a three-foot-deep pit.
When he opened the package, he saw more than a hundred low-grade spirit stones as big as milky white eyeballs, a three-inch-long bronze flying sword, three ink-colored crystals, and a small pale green arrow.
The bronze flying sword was a first-grade, mid-grade flying sword, equivalent to an ordinary first-grade, top-grade magical weapon. It was worth around 750 spirit stones.
It was Zhao Sheng's trophy, obtained from a herbalist at the fourth level of Qi Refining.
The ink-colored crystal is a rare first-grade refining material called Xuanlan Crystal, and one piece can be sold for dozens of low-grade spirit stones.
The most precious item was the pale green arrow. It was a one-time self-destructing magical weapon, highly toxic and corrosive. Even a cultivator in the late stages of Qi Refining would be severely injured if pierced by it, and even a moment's hesitation would result in death from the poison.
These spiritual stones and materials for refining magical weapons were one of the backup plans left by Zhao Sheng in his previous life.
Now it's really useful.
…
A month later,
In the quiet room, Zhao Sheng woke up from his meditation and suddenly smiled excitedly.
After a month of seclusion and hard training, he finally broke through to the second level of Qi Refining.
Of course, the price was not small. He finished all six bottles of Lingyuan Dan in one breath.
Sixty-seven forty-two.
Although forty-two spirit stones may not be a lot, it is enough to buy a first-grade low-grade magic weapon.
An average casual cultivator in the early stages of Qi Refining can earn less than fifty spirit stones per year.
Compared to the struggling casual cultivators, Zhao Sheng was already considered a luxury.
But compared with the sect disciples, this is nothing.
He exchanged these Lingyuan Pills from the family warehouse.
The Zhao family has a member named Zhao Keru, who is the only alchemist in the Zhao family.
The Lingyuan Pill came from his hand.
In Zhao Sheng's plan, alchemy is a skill that must be learned in order to cultivate immortality.
However, refining the elixir consumes too many spirit stones, and the current conditions do not allow it, so he plans to start by learning to draw talismans.
Among the hundred arts of cultivating immortals, drawing talismans has the lowest threshold. All you need is a magic pen, magic ink, and talisman paper.
It just so happened that his predecessor had the basics of drawing talismans.
After coming out of the quiet room, Zhao Sheng suddenly saw his personal servant Zhao Tai, who was waiting at the door of the quiet room with an anxious look on his face.
As soon as Zhao Sheng came out, Zhao Tai immediately shouted, "Master, this is bad! Go and take a look! The masters are about to start a fight with the people from the second house."
Zhao Sheng frowned when he heard this and said in a deep voice: "Don't panic, what happened?"
Zhao Tai hurriedly explained, "This morning, the elder of the second Zhao clan, along with the Wei family, suddenly came to our house in a rage, insisting on having a fight with us."
When Zhao Sheng heard that someone from the Wei family was coming, his brows furrowed even more.
The Lishan Wei family is an allied family of the Zhao family. The family headquarters in Lishan is located two hundred miles southwest of Longli Lake. At the foot of the mountain is a first-grade, top-grade spiritual vein.
The Wei family has one foundation-building cultivator and seven cultivators in the late Qi Refining stage. Their strength is even greater than that of the current Zhao family.
Thinking of the behavior of Elder Zhao Jingang of the Second House, Zhao Sheng suddenly felt that a storm was about to come.
The Wei family came with ill intentions, and they were probably here for the Foundation Establishment Pill, or even worse, they were targeting the Zhao family.