A wisp of purple air above the golden elixir seemed to sense something, and let out a faint wail. It was the first to break away from the golden elixir that was about to collapse, and headed towards Xu Chunniang's soul.
After it found a place to rest in the soul, it became quiet and motionless.
This wisp of purple air was exactly the energy of thunder and lightning that she absorbed when she broke through the golden elixir stage.
Ever since the formation of the golden elixir, it has been lingering on her golden elixir, and no one knows what its specific use is.
Xu Chunniang ignored the purple air and continued to disperse her energy.
The pure and perfect golden elixir was becoming more and more disintegrating. When it reached a critical point, the golden elixir finally couldn't bear it anymore. It shattered with a "puff" sound and turned into a large area of majestic spiritual energy.
After these spiritual energies appeared in Xu Chunniang's dantian, they dissipated outwards.
Most of the spiritual energy was gathered by the spirit gathering array, and a small part was scattered throughout the heaven and earth.
As the golden elixir was shattered, Xu Chunniang's cultivation level suddenly dropped from the first level of the golden elixir to the perfect state of the foundation-building stage.
But apart from the cultivation level, the spiritual awareness and body strength were not affected.
The dissipation of power is irreversible. Once it starts, it will continue until your cultivation level drops to the lowest level.
Therefore, after falling to the perfect stage of the Foundation Establishment Period, Xu Chunniang's cultivation began to decline at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Soon, he fell to the ninth level, the eighth level, the seventh level...
Her cultivation level continued to decline, and soon it fell to the first level of foundation building, and then fell below the foundation building stage and fell into the Qi training stage.
Then came the ninth level of Qi training, the eighth level of Qi training, the seventh level of Qi training…
In the end, it falls to the point where the air is drawn into the body, and then returns to nothingness.
At this point, there was no cultivation left in Xu Chunniang's body.
It’s a long story, but it actually happened within half an incense stick of time.
In just half an incense stick of time, she went from being a Jindan stage real person to a "mortal" with no cultivation.
Although her consciousness and body were not affected, her dantian was empty and devoid of spiritual energy, and she still felt extremely uncomfortable.
It was easy to say "disperse the power and start over again", but to do it would wipe out most of her efforts over the past few decades.
However, without the subsequent practices of Xiaoyao Jue and no other alternative practices, it is very likely that one will stop at the Jindan stage forever.
This result was something she could never tolerate.
Xu Chunniang took a deep breath, a look of determination appeared in her eyes, and she began to draw the energy into her body according to the golden technique in her mind.
She had memorized that short passage of the Heart Sutra very well, so she did it without thinking.
Tai Shang Xiaoyao Heart Sutra is the most top-level inheritance, and its method of drawing qi into the body is also different from Xiaoyao Jue.
Xiaoyao Jue and most other exercises draw Qi into the body, and the Qi drawn in is spiritual Qi.
However, the Tai Shang Xiao Yao Heart Sutra requires those who practice this method to draw the energy of the void into the body.
The so-called Taixu Qi is the one thing of yin and yang.
Void is the beginning of all things. Tao is born from void, and all things are born from Tao.
All things come from the void and return to the void.
Therefore, it is not an easy task to draw this Taixu Qi into the body.
One must reach the extreme of emptiness and maintain absolute stillness. Only after entering the state of extreme emptiness will one have a chance to attract the Qi of the void.
Xu Chunniang had entered the state of emptiness once.
That was many years ago, when she was still in the outer sect, she participated in the secret realm of Xiaoze Realm and entered the realm of Void on the Endless Mountain in Xiaoze Realm.
The main body of Endless Mountain is a huge enlightenment stone. Meditating on it can increase the chances of a cultivator entering the realm of emptiness.
Since that time, Xu Chunniang has tried dozens of times, but has never been able to enter the state of emptiness.
Sometimes she felt that she was just a little bit short, but that little bit was never enough.
In order to seek a good inherited martial arts method, she was willing to risk her life.
In order to practice this supreme inherited technique, she even dispersed the techniques she had acquired through decades of hard practice and started over again.
So this time, there is no way out.
Xu Chunniang's expression returned to calm, she slowly closed her eyes, and began to adjust her body according to the methods taught in the exercises.
Soon, her breathing became long and her heartbeat became intermittent, reaching a state of extreme tranquility.
From a distance, she looked like a lifeless sculpture.
But Xu Chunniang knew that it was not enough.
Her body already met the requirements, but her spirit and consciousness had not completely calmed down.
She was not in a hurry. The more anxious she was, the less effective it would be.
I don't know how long I sat cross-legged, but then a "cooing" sound was heard.
It turned out that Xu Chunniang, who had no cultivation, felt hungry for the first time in a long time.
Being disturbed like this, her body came out of its state of stillness.
Xu Chunniang did not feel disappointed about this.
Entering the realm of emptiness is not something that can be achieved in a day or two.
She stopped meditating, took out the magical rice from the storage space, cooked it simply and ate it. Then the burning sensation in her stomach gradually subsided.
After the discomfort subsided, she began to meditate again.
This went on day after day until one day a month later, when Xu Chunniang, who was meditating, became completely quiet from her soul to her body, from the inside out.
This feeling is very mysterious, as if one is born with the heaven and earth and is one with all things.
Xu Chunniang had once entered the state of emptiness, but at that time she had already embarked on spiritual practice, and it was difficult for her to attract the energy of emptiness.
But now there is no cultivation in her body, nothing in it. A bit of Taixu Qi coming from Taixu fell smoothly into her body.
After the Taixu Qi entered her body, it traveled along all the spiritual veins and developed countless tiny spiritual veins.
These are the spiritual veins that had not been developed when the Xiaoyao Jue was used to draw the Qi into the body.
At the same time, she felt a long-lost itch at the broken part of her right arm.
Under the traction of Taixu Qi, a new right arm grew out of thin air.
And it is exactly the same as before.
Xu Chunniang's mind was slightly moved, and she almost broke away from the state of emptiness. However, her great concentration allowed her to steady her mind and continue the unfinished task of drawing Qi into her body.
After traveling through all the spiritual veins in her body, the Taixu Qi finally fell into her Dantian and remained motionless.
At this point, the air was finally drawn into the body successfully.
The Qi of the void is motionless, and spiritual energy from all directions is drawn to it, coming gradually.
Whether it is an existing spiritual vein or a newly developed small spiritual vein, it is filled with thin spiritual energy.
Not long after, Xu Chunniang's cultivation level returned to the first level of Qi training, and she also came out of the state of emptiness.
She opened her eyes, with a hint of smile in them.
After a month of hard work, I finally succeeded.
A tree that can be embraced by two people grows from a tiny seed. A nine-story tower starts from a pile of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Although this bit of Taixu Qi is small, it is the key to practicing the Taishang Xiaoyao Heart Sutra.
Xu Chunniang looked at the golden characters in her mind, and after drawing the qi into her body, she could finally see the words clearly.