Xu Chunniang shook her head. The big exam was still a long way off, so she should just follow her study plan.
Moreover, the main purpose of the exam was to select attendants for the inner disciples. She didn't want to be an attendant at all, so she would just take the exam casually to get by.
The skills have been practiced almost to the point where I need to concentrate on practicing and improving my cultivation.
The practice of Hidden Spirit Technique has been mastered, and now I can try to practice Manifest Spirit Technique.
The Manifestation Technique can make one's cultivation level appear to be one level higher than the actual level.
In the future, if you encounter a Qigong practitioner with high cultivation and you cannot defeat him, you can also bluff a bit.
Xu Chunniang smiled slightly, sat cross-legged and began to practice.
There is no time in the cultivation of Taoism. After Xu Chunniang entered the state of cultivation, except for the two hours of sleep every day, she spent the rest of the time in meditation and cultivation.
The benefits of spiritual soil in cultivation are extremely huge. With the dual assistance of spiritual dew and spiritual soil, Xu Chunniang's cultivation level improved rapidly. Soon she passed the initial stage of the third level of Qi training and reached the middle stage.
After making some progress in her cultivation, Xu Chunniang did not stop at all and continued to meditate and absorb the mind in a boring and repetitive manner every day.
Except for going to the dining hall to replenish the fasting pills every time he used them up, he almost never left the cave.
Winter goes and autumn comes, there is no change of seasons in the fairy mountain, but time passes slowly as usual.
In the blink of an eye, another year has passed.
After reaching the peak of the third level of Qi training, no matter how much Xu Chunniang practiced, her spiritual energy no longer increased.
Xu Chunniang finally stopped practicing. She knew that this was the first bottleneck on the road to cultivation.
It is not difficult to embark on the path of cultivation. As long as you have spiritual roots, you can practice. But it is not easy to go far on the path of cultivation.
There are three small levels in the Qi training stage alone.
The first step is the fourth level of Qi training, the second step is the seventh level of Qi training, and the third step, which is also the most difficult one, is the step from the ninth level of Qi training to the foundation building.
Countless talented Qi training practitioners have been stuck at the ninth level of Qi training, unable to build a foundation throughout their lives.
The level Xu Chunniang is facing right now is the easiest of the three levels.
If there were no accidents, most monks would be able to pass this level smoothly. It was just that the time it took would vary from person to person.
Xu Chunniang breathed a sigh of relief. Since practicing could not improve her cultivation, she might as well take a break for now.
Although she had two hours of rest time every day during the past year, she always felt a sense of urgency mentally that prevented her from slacking off.
Xu Chunniang has been in Xiaoyao Sect for more than two years. She was only eight and a half years old when she joined the sect, and now she is eleven years old.
With the nourishment of spiritual energy, she grew taller, and her originally yellow and thin skin became fairer and more moisturized. However, the red birthmark under the eye on the right side of her face was still as eye-catching as before, making her pretty face blemished.
Having reached a bottleneck in her cultivation, Xu Chunniang simply stopped meditating and planned to go for a walk outside.
Xu Chunniang has been busy practicing in Xiaoyao Sect for so long, and has not been to many places in the sect, especially the Duobao Pavilion on the main peak of the outer sect.
I heard that there were many spiritual tools and elixirs that could only be taken in the middle and late stages of Qi training in Duobao Pavilion. Even if she didn't buy anything, it would be great to go and broaden her horizons.
Xu Chunniang thought calmly in her heart as she walked towards the main peak and headed straight for Duobao Pavilion.
Duobao Pavilion is a shop opened by the sect. In addition to selling goods, it also collects various raw materials from disciples.
No matter whether it is medicinal herbs, pills, talismans or anything else, as long as the quality is good enough, Duobao Pavilion will accept it.
This Duobao Pavilion was built very large and was still packed with people. It was very lively. From time to time, it was filled with the sounds of disciples bargaining, which was somewhat like the scene in the mortal world.
Duobao Pavilion has three floors. The first floor mainly sells low-grade medicinal herbs, low-grade talismans and relatively poor formation materials.
Most of those hovering on this floor are disciples in the early and middle stages of Qi training.
Xu Chunniang looked at the items sold in the store one by one. Most of the items sold in the store were unfamiliar to her. She only recognized a few that she had seen in general knowledge classes or in the "Encyclopedia of Cultivation".
After walking around, Xu Chunniang went up to the second floor of Duobao Pavilion.
There are fewer people on the second floor of Duobao Pavilion than on the first floor, simply because the items sold on the second floor are much more valuable than those on the first floor.
Here, most of the people coming and going are cultivators in the middle and late stages of Qi training, and there are not many in the early stages of Qi training.
Xu Chunniang saw some rare herbs and special talismans, as well as some unrecognizable refining and formation materials, and was almost dazzled.
When she reached the last counter, she even saw some low-grade spiritual weapons being sold.
Xu Chunniang walked to the cabinet selling spiritual tools and examined it carefully.
"Golden Light Shield, a low-grade spiritual weapon. After being activated, a golden light shield will appear, which can resist the attack of a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi training."
Xu Chunniang took a deep breath and stared at the low-grade spiritual weapon called Golden Light Shield with shining eyes. It could withstand a blow from a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi training, so its defensive power was already quite good.
However, after seeing the price of the golden light cover, Xu Chunniang's excited heart calmed down instantly. It actually cost eighty spirit stones!
At the beginning of the year, she received the last year's subsidy of spirit stones from the sect. Together with the seven spirit stones left from last year, she had a total of nineteen spirit stones on her, which was not enough to buy the golden light shield.
Xu Chunniang shook her head and her eyes fell on the flying sword on the other side, which was also a low-grade spiritual weapon.
However, the price of the flying sword was half that of the golden shield, and the selling price was 120 spirit stones...
"No wonder the other disciples were so shocked and envious when Qi Haozhi and others took out their spiritual weapons during the year-end assessment. Spiritual weapons are really expensive."
Xu Chunniang was a little bored. With the few spirit stones in her hand, she could probably only buy some cheap items like low-grade herbs or talismans.
In the end, Xu Chunniang didn't buy anything and left Duobao Pavilion empty-handed. But this trip was not completely fruitless, at least she gained a lot of knowledge.
She originally thought that as long as she focused on improving her cultivation and mastered her skills, she would be able to gain a foothold in the outer sect. But now it seems that there is still a lot to learn.
Not to mention other majors, just in the field of spiritual plant husband, there is a lot of herbal knowledge that needs to be mastered.
Xu Chunniang simply walked towards the Transmission Pavilion.
In addition to a large number of magic techniques, the Chuan Gong Pavilion also has introductory books on various professions, which are also sold at five spirit stones per book.
She planned to buy a book on spiritual plants and then look for suitable offensive spells.
Most of the spells that Xu Chunniang currently masters are auxiliary ones, and her only offensive spell is the Spirit Explosion Technique, which evolved from the Spring Birth Technique. If used in actual combat, it may not be enough.
Xu Chunniang first went to get a copy of "A Complete Collection of First-Class Spiritual Plants" and then began to select.
Because her water spiritual roots were the purest, she finally decided to choose water magic.
Water Arrow is actually similar to Fireball. She has Spirit Explosion, so she doesn't need this type of spell. She can choose a control-oriented spell to match the Spirit Explosion.
Xu Chunniang thought about it and took a book called "Water Binding" from the bookshelf.