After building the foundation, the spiritual energy forms a small circulation in the cultivator's body. The spiritual energy is endless, all the meridians are opened, and then the inside and the outside are integrated into harmony between heaven and earth.
Xu Chunniang thought thoughtfully that this might be the key to the ability of foundation-building cultivators to fly with swords.
Although there is spiritual energy in the body of a Qigong practitioner, it has not formed a whole. Only after a small circulation is formed in the body after the foundation is established can it communicate with heaven and earth.
At the same time, the small circulation in the body of the foundation-building cultivator can slowly absorb the surrounding spiritual energy to meet the needs of the body.
This is why cultivators can practice fasting naturally after building their foundation, without having to take fasting pills.
Moreover, theoretically speaking, the spiritual power of a cultivator who has established his foundation is so strong that he will not feel sleepy or tired even if he stays awake for ten days or half a month.
After reading the entire book, Xu Chunniang took a deep breath, closed the "Swordsmanship", and had a general idea in her mind.
Without going to class, she could slowly understand the book and gain a thorough understanding of its meaning and techniques.
Just doing this will take more time.
Since the main peak has opened relevant courses, it is natural to encourage disciples to attend more lectures instead of just working in isolation.
It’s already dark today, so we may set off earlier tomorrow and go to the main peak to attend the class.
After thinking it through, Xu Chunniang put away the "Sword Controlling Technique" and started reading another book "Xiao Yao Jue".
This book "Xiao Yao Jue" is only a thin volume, which is a practice method for the foundation-building period.
To achieve the Golden Core Stage, one must have the mental method of the Nascent Soul Stage. It seems that this can only be achieved after a breakthrough in the relevant cultivation level.
This thought flashed through Xu Chunniang's mind, and then she put it aside and started to look through "Xiao Yao Jue".
Compared with the "Xiao Yao Jue" in the Qi training period, the difficulty of the foundation building period has been significantly increased.
Xu Chunniang was neither anxious nor annoyed, and she also looked through it slowly.
When you encounter something you don’t understand, just write it down in your mind.
"Xiao Yao Jue" is the sect's main practice method, and related courses are also offered.
After you learn how to fly with a sword, go and take this course.
It was already the next morning when Xu Chunniang finished reading Xiaoyao Jue.
She had not rested since coming out of Ozawa. It had been five days now, but she did not feel tired at all. Instead, she was full of energy and her ears and eyes were sharp.
This is the power of the foundation-building cultivator.
Xu Chunniang walked out of the cave, headed towards the post boat, and borrowed another paper crane.
The third time she rode the paper crane, she was already very familiar with it and no longer had the worries she had before.
The paper crane flew smoothly towards the main peak. Its small body flew very steadily in the sky.
Qianji Peak is located in the southwest corner of the entire Xiaoyao Sect, and Xiaowushan is the most remote place in Qianji Peak. Therefore, it took Xu Chunniang a full hour to reach the classroom on the main peak.
She shook her head slightly, thinking of what the sect master had said before when he was trying to win her over to join the main peak.
All inner-school courses are offered at the main peak, which can indeed save a lot of time in going back and forth.
Although a cultivator who has established his foundation has a lifespan of more than two hundred years, it often takes fifty years or even more to go from a mortal to the stage of establishing the foundation.
For someone like Xu Chunniang, being able to build a foundation within thirty years is already considered fast.
For an ordinary disciple, even if he can successfully establish his foundation at the age of fifty, he will only have a lifespan of one hundred and fifty years.
It is not easy to go from foundation building to golden elixir within this period of time.
Xu Chunniang realized the urgency of time. Practicing Taoism is to fight for life against the will of heaven, which is unacceptable to heaven and earth.
But there are fifty great ways and forty-nine natural things, leaving a glimmer of hope.
This one that escapes is the Tao.
Those who practice Taoism fight for this glimmer of hope.
She thought back to when she first joined the Xiaoyao Sect. At that time, she was illiterate and didn't understand the ways of the world. She offended the steward just for a few spirit stones in her hand and was assigned to a remote dormitory in the back mountain.
In order to save time, she gritted her teeth and slept directly in the classroom, and managed to learn the basic characters within a month.
Thinking of this, Xu Chunniang smiled slightly.
Decades have passed, but she seems to have never changed. She is still the same stubborn and unwilling to admit defeat person.
She made up her mind to stay at the main peak until she learned how to wield a sword.
The main peak is so big, I don’t think there will be many people like her.
When you arrive at the lecture hall, what comes into view is a huge stone curtain.
There are words of all sizes engraved on the stone curtain. The leftmost row is the time, the middle row is the location of the courses and lecture rooms, and the right side is the lecturer's name and cultivation level.
At a glance, the lecturers' cultivation level was at least at the late foundation-building stage, and several of them had even reached the golden elixir stage.
However, Jindan stage cultivators are busy with their affairs and will only come to give a lecture once every few days.
But whenever a Jindan cultivator gave a lecture, the seats were usually full, and there were many disciples who did not get a seat, who tried every possible way to "snatch the class".
Xu Chunniang took a quick look and saw that "Sword Controlling Technique" was an introductory basic course for foundation-building cultivators. It was offered every week and there happened to be a class today.
Coincidentally, the instructor who taught sword-wielding was named Gu Yuanan, the same one who had taught Xu Chunniang the martial arts class in the outer sect.
She was quite impressed by this Master Gu.
Uncle Gu’s lectures were simple and profound, and he had a deep understanding of the techniques. In a sense, he was her mentor.
Xu Chunniang smiled slightly and walked into the classroom following the instructions on the stone curtain.
I wonder if this current Senior Brother Gu still remembers the little female practitioner of Qi training that he once taught
There weren't many people in the lecture room, only four or five sitting sparsely.
After Xu Chunniang came in, two more people came in.
After that, there was no one else.
These people were all inner disciples who had recently established their foundation. Some of them I already knew, and even if I didn’t know them, I became familiar with them after attending classes for a few days.
Before Gu Yuanan arrived, a female cultivator looked at Xu Chunniang curiously, "I don't think I've seen you before. Which peak are you from?"
"Qianji Peak."
Xu Chunniang thought about it and decided that she should consider herself a disciple of Qianji Peak.
"Qianji Peak? I don't think I've seen you in the peak."
A male cultivator who was also from Qianji Peak walked in from outside and frowned slightly when he heard the words. He was very sure that he had never seen this female cultivator before.
"I just joined Qianji Peak, it's normal that you don't know me."
Xu Chunniang looked normal, "I was originally an outer sect disciple, and was able to join the inner sect only after I established my foundation."
"You are from the outer sect, so it seems a bit arrogant for me to call you Junior Sister."
The female cultivator's expression changed slightly, and then she showed admiration, "To be able to build a foundation from the outer sect, then your Daotai level must be very high, right?"
The outer disciples' cultivation resources are far inferior to those of the inner disciples, especially in terms of foundation-building pills.
They have no master to rely on, so they can only fight for their lives.
After the outer disciples have established their foundation, they are much stronger than the ordinary inner disciples in terms of both their will and strength.
Xu Chunniang shook her head. "It's just average."
"I only got the fifth rank, alas."
The female cultivator looked distressed, "What grade do you mean by average?"