Xu Chunniang nodded to indicate that she understood.
After Gu Yuanan left, she did not continue practicing, but returned to the practice room where she had been yesterday, meditating and regulating her breathing, nourishing her soul with spiritual energy.
Cultivation is not something that can be done overnight, and she would not force herself to do a lot of repetitive exercises when her mind is tired.
After regulating her breathing for several hours, Xu Chunniang opened her eyes. She felt that her spirit had become full again.
She did not try to practice sword-wielding skills again, but instead took out half of an ancient jade slip.
It was the fragment of "The Art of Refining the Spirit" given to her by her master.
The Art of Refining the Spirit is a spiritual practice that can strengthen the spiritual consciousness and nourish the primordial spirit.
According to Yue Yanru, this technique was obtained by her accidentally in her early years. The three-level fragments alone are better than all the spiritual techniques of the Xiaoyao Sect.
This shows how powerful it is.
Not long after Xu Chunniang became a foundation-building cultivator, she had already deeply realized the importance of spiritual consciousness, and she decided to learn the "Spirit Refining Art" first.
When your spiritual awareness is strong, you can achieve twice the result with half the effort no matter what you do.
She sent out a ray of spiritual consciousness towards the jade slip.
"The so-called spiritual consciousness is the consciousness of the spirit. There is an old saying: 'Accumulated qi gives rise to essence, accumulated essence gives rise to form, spirit is born from form, and spirit can control qi.' Therefore, cultivators should cultivate the primordial spirit to strengthen the consciousness. The consciousness of the spirit has birth and death, coming and going, cold and warm, gain and loss, so this spirit is impermanent and always in the six realms."
This paragraph talks about the concept of spiritual consciousness. Xu Chunniang continued reading.
“… I have reviewed the methods of nourishing the primordial spirit and cultivating the consciousness from ancient times to the present, and have come up with a chapter on the Refining Spirit, which can nourish the primordial spirit and cultivate the consciousness spirit. If you want to strengthen the consciousness spirit, you must first condense it, and constantly condense and refine it, making the invisible visible. This is the first level.”
When Xu Chunniang read this, she seemed to be thinking about something.
This "Art of Refining the Spirit" focuses on the word "refining".
According to the person who created this technique, one needs to use various methods to refine the spiritual consciousness, compress it, and condense it to the extreme, only then will the first level be completed.
The more thoroughly the spiritual consciousness is tempered, the more successful the spiritual refining will be.
As for how to temper spiritual consciousness, it lists several methods for you to choose from.
For example, refining with the power of the stars, burning with the fire of the source of the world, cleansing with the heavy water of the first heaven, tempering with the etheric magnet, etc.
If one is unable to mobilize the power of the stars, and does not have various treasures such as the source of the fire, one can only use some conventional methods to slowly condense it.
The book mentioned a stupid method, which is to choose a thousand-foot waterfall and temper your spiritual awareness under the waterfall.
Although it is not as effective as the methods mentioned above, persistence may have miraculous effects.
Xu Chunniang put down the jade slip and shook her head speechlessly.
Putting aside whether this waterfall body-refining method is effective, just wanting to find a thousand-foot waterfall that meets the requirements, I don’t know where to look.
She knew where the Baizhang Waterfall was, but as you can imagine, its tempering effect would be greatly reduced.
As for the star power and the source fire of the world, she didn't think much about them.
Xu Chunniang was just about to put the jade slip away when she suddenly remembered something and her expression changed slightly.
She doesn't have the fire of origin of the world, but she has the fire of heaven.
Although the state of the heavenly fire was not normal, and it merged with the rocks and eventually became a large gray pillar, it could not be denied that this was the heavenly fire.
Xu Chunniang seemed to be thinking about something. She had made a breakthrough in her cultivation. She wondered if she could continue to use the quenching method to extract the essence of the heavenly fire
With a thought, she entered the walnut world directly.
When she was in the Qi training stage, she had used brute force to put the large gray pillar into her storage ring. After that, she tried several times but was unable to take it out.
Now that I have spiritual awareness, I can give it a try.
Xu Chunniang used all her spiritual consciousness to wrap around the large gray pillar in the storage ring, barely covering the surface of the pillar.
At the moment when her spiritual sense completely enveloped it, a huge gray pillar three meters high and about ten meters in diameter appeared out of thin air in the walnut world, pressing the surrounding ground down a lot.
Xu Chunniang breathed a sigh of relief and performed the Spirit Rain Technique several times in succession, heading towards the large gray pillar.
However, the spiritual rain poured on it and flowed down its surface, but the big pillar did not change at all, and it was obviously ineffective.
Xu Chunniang was not too surprised by this result. Although her cultivation had improved, there was no essential change in the Spirit Rain Technique itself.
She pondered for a moment and left the walnut world.
Maybe we can go to the Sutra Repository to see if there are any records related to heavenly fire.
It would be great if we could find a way to deal with this big grey pillar, turn the heavenly fire into our own use, and use it to refine our spiritual consciousness.
Although she could force some of the Heavenly Fire Essence out of her body, every bit used would be gone, so there was no need to do so.
It just so happened that the Sutra Repository was right at the main peak, and as there was nothing else to do at the moment, Xu Chunniang simply checked out of the room and went straight to the Sutra Repository.
The Sutra Repository, like the Transmission Pavilion, is the foundation of a sect.
The only difference is that the former stores various classics related to the world of cultivation, while the latter is a place specifically for storing exercises.
The Sutra Repository has nine floors in total. The first three floors are open to all inner disciples, the fourth to fifth floors are open to foundation-building monks, and the sixth to seventh floors are open to Jindan monks and true disciples.
As for the eighth and ninth floors, only a limited number of people, including the masters of each peak, are qualified to set foot there.
Other than that, it is not open to anyone.
Although Xu Chunniang was a disciple of Jindan, she did not become a true disciple, so she could only look up information on the five lower levels.
If you want to go to a higher level to consult classics, you need to pay corresponding contribution points.
However, relying on contribution points, you can only reach the first seven levels at most.
After entering the first floor, Xu Chunniang showed her disciple token to the Jindan elder who was guarding the place.
After the Jindan Elder scanned the area with his spiritual sense, he opened his eyes, took out a blue array talisman and threw it over.
"This array talisman can be used freely on the fifth floor and below. No noise is allowed in the Sutra Library. No one is allowed to steal the sutras and take them out. No one is allowed to damage the array talismans in the library. If anyone does anything like the above, he or she will be charged with theft at the least and treason at the worst."
Xu Chunniang took the talisman, clasped her fists towards the Jindan Elder, and walked inside.
She planned to try her luck on the first five floors first. If she couldn't find it, she would look on the sixth and seventh floors.
She followed the instructions and went up to the fourth floor. In a corner, she found an area dedicated to storing books related to genius treasures.
However, there are quite a few related books, and it would probably take a long time to read through them all.
From then on, Xu Chunniang lived a life of going to and from work.
Every day, he would go to the training ground for classes. When he was tired, he would return to the training room to rest. After he had rested enough, he would immerse himself in the scripture library, reading books related to heavenly fire.
Ten days passed in a flash.
In ten days, she went from being able to control the flying sword's simple horizontal movement at the beginning to being able to control its movement freely.
There is only one step left to truly fly with a sword.
During this period, she read through all the books related to heavenly fire below the fifth floor of the library.