1RomanceEB Chapter 48. Fun and Relief, 2 Levels and 3 Challenges
Chapter 48. Fun and Relief, 2 Levels and 3 Challenges
The bell rang, and the students got up and walked out one after another.
Zhou Min got up from her seat, took a few steps,
My left ankle suddenly went weak.
He tilted his whole body to the side.
He barely managed to stay upright after hitting his shoulder against the wall.
Her deskmate quickly helped her up, "What's wrong?"
"I think I sprained my ankle. I can even sprain my ankle on flat ground. Today is a bit of a Mercury retrograde."
Bai Sheng threw the little figure back into the cardboard box, covered it with cardboard, and didn't bother with it anymore.
The calico cat jumped off the sofa armrest and sniffed around the cardboard box.
"Meow!"
Bai Sheng rubbed the back of Sanhua's neck.
This matter didn't matter to him; whether it was the scholarship or reporting him, it didn't matter.
He doesn't care that much.
The important thing is not to let this kind of person waste his cultivation time.
But taking advantage of breaks in cultivation to tease such people to relieve boredom is not bad, is it?
……
For the next period of time, Bai Sheng divided most of his time into two parts.
I spent the morning at home cultivating my true energy.
During the afternoon break,
Let the clone go out and sweep the streets.
With practice, the ability to manipulate light and shadow became increasingly smooth.
The clone can wander outside for an entire afternoon.
Visual and auditory information is transmitted back simultaneously.
The way he looked sitting on the sofa.
It's like playing a first-person open-world game...
But after sweeping the streets for several days, the harvest was meager.
Most people are still ordinary people, with only one or two rogue cultivators or novice martial artists occasionally appearing.
The quality is not high.
He had no interest in stopping to take a second look.
But we cannot give up.
After all, heroes are as numerous as carp crossing a river; what if we could find someone with a great destiny?
We definitely need to get to know each other better.
"Failed again!!"
Bai Sheng jumped off the sofa, covering his head with his hands.
I couldn't help but start reflecting again.
The breakthrough to the second level of Qi Condensation Technique failed again.
This was already his countless failures.
It's completely blocked.
It's written very clearly in the Taoist books.
The first level is just the beginning.
Being able to vaporize part of one's body is already considered to have reached the basics.
To break through the second level, one needs to pass three hurdles.
The barriers of essence and blood, true qi, and spirit.
Among them, the essence and blood barrier,
To deeply integrate the body's Qi and blood with the liquid true essence.
Let true essence no longer be just a pool of water in the dantian, but permeate every drop of blood and every inch of bone marrow.
Achieve the unity of Qi and Blood, which is the true essence, and the true essence is Qi and Blood!
Over the past five days,
Bai Sheng has been working on the stage of refining his essence and blood.
The degree of integration between true essence and qi and blood,
From initially being completely rejected, it can now form a very thin, pale gold film on the inner wall of blood vessels.
He repeatedly used his true energy to cleanse his blood vessels every day, constantly strengthening them.
At this rate, continue grinding for about another half month.
Once the essence and blood barrier is reached, the process will naturally fall into place.
This is a job that requires meticulous work and patience.
But as long as you're willing to put in the hard work, it's not difficult at all!
But the True Qi Gate is completely different.
The annotations to the Taoist texts are concise and to the point.
To pass the True Qi test,
The gaseous star wheel and the liquid true essence must be combined into one.
Until the boundary between qi and liquid within the dantian completely disappears!
Bai Sheng tried at least dozens of times.
The gaseous star wheel was forcibly poured into the liquid true essence pool.
But the result was that...
The star wheel slipped on the surface of the liquid pool and couldn't sink at all.
Bai Sheng also tried to change his approach.
Heating the liquid essence with the fire of the heart,
This caused the liquid true essence to vaporize and converge near the star wheel.
But after gathering for only a short while, the gaseous true essence condensed back into droplets and fell back into the pool.
Bai Sheng also took a risky tactic.
Directly allow the two to clash at high speed in the dantian.
Let them collide violently together, repeatedly.
But the result was even more disappointing.
After countless hedges,
A burst of golden light exploded from his dantian.
The impact shook his dantian so violently it felt like it was churning.
Bai Sheng sprang up from the bed.
After this failure, I spent a whole day adjusting my breathing in my dantian before it fully recovered.
The series of failures gave him a real headache!
"Is this where we're going to stop?"
Bai Sheng closed the Taoist book and placed it next to his pillow, then leaned back against the headboard, lost in thought.
I'm very strong now.
Even before the spiritual energy had recovered, it was already invulnerable to swords and spears.
It can create clones and perform techniques from a distance...
"wrong!"
Bai Sheng quickly sat up in bed.
Such thinking is not a good thing.
The so-called path of cultivation is to go against the will of Heaven.
Physical suffering is something most people cannot avoid.
But the most difficult part is the mental anguish.
If he remains content with this situation, he might develop inner demons.
Even if one breaks through the True Essence Barrier by then,
They couldn't even pass the final hurdle of divine sense.
"Sigh, let me think about it some more."
Bai Sheng was deep in thought.
The so-called "essence and blood barrier" is the process of fusing true essence with blood.
Both are physical substances, one being liquid true essence and the other liquid qi and blood.
Although the integration process is slow, the logic is sound.
But the True Essence Gate allows gaseous and liquid states to blend together!
How can we make the same substance in different phases mix together without distinguishing them?
Bai Sheng then engaged in divergent association.
An unrelated image suddenly flashed through my mind.
A scene of washing dishes at the kitchen sink.
Oil and water don't mix; if you pour them together, they will always separate into layers.
But if you add a drop of dish soap and stir it a couple of times, the oil and water will emulsify into one.
Dishwashing liquid can emulsify oil and water; the principle behind this is fairly easy to understand.
There is a substance that can emulsify oil and water; one end is lipophilic and the other is hydrophilic.
Hold the oil and water together, allowing them to disperse evenly at the molecular level.
"What I'm lacking now is a 'medium' that can simultaneously connect with both liquid and gaseous states, a connection point that can bridge at the molecular level!"
"So the question is, what kind of medium should we use?"
Bai Sheng fell into deep thought once again.
Continuing to seek external solutions is likely to be a long shot.
In reality, the only usable things are those things inside his body.
Upon closer examination, hey, there really is a trick to it.
"Perhaps I can create the medium myself as a connecting bridge."
After all this time, the fusion of true essence and qi and blood has progressed, though not to 100%, but some qi and blood and true essence have already fused quite well.
Bai Sheng couldn't think of anything else.
There is only one substance in his body that he can freely activate and utilize.
Isn't that a medium?
Who else could it be but it?
Bai Sheng went through the plan in his mind several times and felt that it made logical sense.
He sat down cross-legged again.
Stimulate the circulation of essence and blood.
From the extremely thin, pale golden membrane on the inner wall of the blood vessels, a few strands of the most highly integrated Qi and blood essence were carefully peeled away.
Within these vital energies and blood
True essence and qi and blood have basically merged.
It has both the density of liquid essence and the activity of qi and blood.
Bai Sheng tried to guide them back from the blood vessels to the dantian.
At the very center of the dantian,
It condenses into a tiny core of blood pressure.
Bai Sheng steadied his breathing.
Once again, the gaseous star wheel above and the liquid true essence pool below were urged to move closer to the core.
The gaseous star wheel sank slightly, while the liquid true essence pool slowly rose.
quickly,
The two are in contact on the core surface.
The core of Qi and Blood True Essence acts as a buffer layer in the middle.
clap clap!
At the contact surface, several tiny golden-purple sparks first burst forth.
His dantian trembled slightly, and he felt a slight pain.
But it didn't explode.
Compared to last time, it was obviously much more successful.
"The approach is definitely correct."
Bai Sheng thought to himself, sincerely comforting himself.
Although he wasn't sure himself.
After the sparks subsided,
The contact surface actually stabilized!
With the core acting as a buffer, the gaseous true qi and liquid true essence began to permeate each other.
The penetration rate is extremely slow, but it is indeed merging.
Bai Sheng felt his dantian,
At this moment, it resembles an hourglass laid horizontally.
The upper layer is a gaseous star wheel, the lower layer is a liquid true essence pool, and the middle layer is the core of qi and blood true essence, which serves as a transition.
The gas and liquid phases permeate each other at the edge of the core.
The dividing line gradually became blurred.
He could feel the repulsive force between the two phases weakening.
The core buffering function allows them to find an intermediate state where they can coexist.
Bai Sheng did not rush to accelerate, but maintained this pace, allowing the integration to proceed naturally.
Nearly an hour later,
The last trace of gaseous true qi and the last drop of liquid true essence simultaneously merged into the core.
The core suddenly lit up.
The entire dantian was illuminated.
Then the light faded.
All the energy has been re-stabilized within the core.
Bai Sheng once again focused his mind and looked inward at his dantian.
The star wheel and the True Essence Pool were gone, replaced by a completely new mass of True Essence.
It has a higher density than liquid and a greater fluidity than gas!
The color changed from a light gold to a deeper gold.
Phase states are no longer differentiated by layer.
This ball of true energy swirled endlessly within my dantian.
True Qi barrier broken through!
Bai Sheng never expected that the first breakthrough would be in the True Qi barrier.
I originally thought,
Those who can overcome the essence and blood barrier through persistent effort will be the first to break through.
Bai Sheng opened his eyes and looked closely at his hands.
He tried to activate his true energy; the moment the thought crossed his mind, the true energy was already in his hand.
There was no delay, and no intermediate process.
The thought is enough to trigger an action!
Do you still remember the era of liquid true essence?
It is necessary to first activate the True Essence Pool and then conduct it along the meridians in one smooth motion.
Although the speed is not slow, compared to the new state of gas-liquid fusion,
It's incredibly slow!
Moreover,
Now that the true essence has merged with the dantian, it no longer needs to be extracted from a specific energy source.
Every meridian in the body is simultaneously filled with true energy.
Bai Sheng stood up and stretched his shoulders.
What can be felt
The most obvious change is in breathing.
With each inhale, the golden true essence in his dantian expands in sync.
It contracts synchronously with each exhale.
Breathing and true energy are now completely synchronized, requiring no further conscious coordination.