After Advisor Ji left, Li Yan suddenly felt his breath flow freely and he couldn't help but smile bitterly. As long as the teacher stood next to him, he would feel his breath was stagnant.
At that moment, he calmed down and stopped thinking about it!
Advisor Ji had told him before that the copper furnace would burn for about an hour each time for him to practice, so he couldn't waste time.
Walking quickly to the copper furnace and standing in a stance, Li Yan stretched his hands into the blue-black gas above the copper basin, while silently practicing the mantra.
Suddenly, the blue-black air wrapped around his hands seemed to be pulled and split into ten black strands and drilled towards his fingertips.
Li Yandun felt as if there were red-hot needles that suddenly pried open his nails, as if to peel them off alive. The pain pierced his heart and brain.
Even though Li Yan was mentally prepared, he did not expect to feel such pain. He groaned, his feet swayed a few times, and he even took two steps back.
And then a strange scene happened. The blue-black filaments of gas did not dissipate, but lengthened as he retreated, as if being pulled by a martial art, and still desperately tried to drill into the cracks between his fingernails.
Li Yan's black robe was instantly soaked with sweat. He gritted his teeth, concentrated his mind, took two steps forward, and stood in the stance again.
At the same time, in his body, wisps of blue-black energy were like red-hot silver needles, constantly piercing and advancing through his meridians.
With every inch he moved forward, his whole body trembled involuntarily and sweat gushed out like pulp.
He didn't know how long he could persist in his practice, but he was naturally tenacious. Once he set his mind to something, even if he couldn't do it perfectly, he would always try his best.
Time passed little by little, and by the end, Li Yan's nerves had already become numb, and only his mind was still subconsciously practicing the exercises, urging the blue-black energy to roam through his body.
Outside, Master Ji, who was sitting cross-legged on a stone table, closed his eyes in meditation, but his eyelids twitched occasionally, revealing his uneasiness.
More than half an hour later, he suddenly opened his eyes and disappeared from the stone table in an instant. At the same time, the door of Li Yan's house was opened by an invisible force.
Li Yan in the room had a dark face, and his hands and arms were covered with a layer of black air. He was unconscious at this point, and couldn't even perform the last bit of subconscious practice.
His body was leaning backwards, and the blue-black energy was still tightly attached to his ten fingers. As his body fell backwards, it formed arcs that looked very strange.
Just as he was about to fall backwards to the ground, a figure suddenly appeared behind him, and with a flick of a large sleeve, he was lifted up in the air.
At the same time, the other big sleeve shook towards the ten blue-black auras. With a few slight "pop" sounds, like a sharp blade cutting, those strange blue-black auras were cut off from Li Yan's ten fingers.
But Li Yan's body seemed to still have suction force, and the broken blue-black air was still in the air like a twisting poisonous snake, spitting and swaying towards Li Yan's body, looking extremely terrifying and weird.
Advisor Ji no longer paid any attention to the blue-black aura. He rolled up Li Yan's sleeves and shook them. A peaceful force lifted Li Yan and flew towards the wooden bed, slowly placing him on the bed.
Then he walked a few steps to the bed, his hands dancing in front of his chest. After making a few complicated-looking hand seals, a few blue stars flew out from his fingertips and fell towards Li Yan's abdomen.
Li Yanzheng felt as if he was in a volcano. He felt unbearable burning pain in his body. He wanted to scream but couldn't. It was extremely painful.
Countless red magma surrounded him and was constantly burning and boiling him. Li Yan felt that he was going to die in this volcano.
Suddenly, a cool feeling rose in his abdomen, and the unbearable heat of the volcano and the endless magma quickly receded, and his mind became clear in an instant.
When he opened his eyes, he found himself lying flat on the bed. Standing beside the bed was Master Ji, dressed in a black robe. He couldn't help but struggle to sit up, but he felt a sharp pain in his chest and abdomen again.
He couldn't help but groan loudly, and fell down again. He felt sparks flashing before his eyes, and the volcano in his body was about to erupt again.
After calming himself down, he turned his head and looked at Strategist Ji with a forced smile.
"Teacher, I am incompetent and I am ashamed to live up to your expectations..."
"Hehehe... You don't have to blame yourself. You were able to last for more than half an hour for the first time, which surprised me greatly. You did a great job."
Division Master Ji smiled at him gently.
"This... so, this disciple can practice our sect's skills!"
Li Yan's face was a little distorted, and he spoke with difficulty.
"Of course! However, even though you feel uncomfortable now, you still need to refine the medicinal power of the plants and trees you just absorbed. Otherwise, if these medicinal powers stay in your body, it will do you no good but only harm.
And only after refining, these medicinal powers will belong to you, and you will be considered to have completed a round of cultivation."
Li Yan naturally knew all this, as Advisor Ji had already said this before.
Each practice is divided into two steps: absorbing the medicinal power of herbs and trees; and circulating internal energy to refine it.
After 49 days, you will reach the first level and generate real inner strength in your body, instead of the current chill. From now on, your body will be based on this and will no longer need to absorb medicinal power from plants and trees, but will be able to do so through continuous practice.
Li Yan took a deep breath, endured the burning pain in his body, slowly sat up, began to sit cross-legged, closed his eyes, and circulated his mind to refine the medicinal power in his body.
After seeing this, Advisor Ji turned around and quietly retreated, sitting cross-legged on the stone platform outside the house again.
After sitting down, he looked at Li Yan's house again and then murmured.
"This boy does have a strong character, but once he refines the medicinal power, it is hard to say whether he can still maintain a peaceful state of mind. I really hope everything will be normal."
After he said this nonsensical remark, he seemed to fall into deep thought.
From that day on, Li Yan began his painful journey of practicing, day after day, to draw the medicine into his body and refine the medicinal power.
Under the purgatory-like pain, Li Yan persevered, which allowed him to stay awake for longer and longer periods of time after the drug was absorbed into his body.
As time went by, although the potency of the medicine increased by nearly double every seven days, perhaps because Li Yan's practice had made progress or his endurance had increased, the pain of the medicine entering his body gradually decreased a lot.
Apart from the first few times when Master Ji helped him resolve the problems, Li Yan was able to practice completely on his own in the later period.
Li Yan couldn't see what was happening inside his body, otherwise he would have been extremely surprised. At this moment, several main meridians in his body had become larger than they were originally.
The main meridians before were like delicate tubes. When the medicine forcibly tore them open and expanded them, it was naturally extremely painful.
As the medicinal power was refined and absorbed into his body, the meridians in his body, large and small, gradually grew stronger and expanded, especially the main meridians which became thicker and tougher.
"Huh" Li Yan let out a long breath and ended today's practice of Qigong.
He did not stand up, but still sat cross-legged. However, after opening his eyes, he couldn't help but frowned, feeling a surge of irritation in his heart, so he had to take another deep breath.
As his daily practice progressed, he found that his mood became more and more irritable, as if there was a fire running up and down in his body, making him very upset.
But Master Ji told him that this was due to the power of the medicine cleansing his body. After entering the first level after 49 days, this situation would get better. In the future, as his skills deepened, this situation would completely disappear.
After hearing this, Li Yan thought about his teacher's unrivaled martial arts and felt that it made sense, but he felt inexplicably uneasy in his heart. He didn't know the reason, but it might be the fear of the unknown.
Putting these thoughts aside, Li Yan felt irritated again. This irritation had begun to make it difficult for him to concentrate and return to his original state every time he practiced.
Li Yan stood up and pushed the door open and walked out. It was already dark, and he was very upset, so he walked around in the valley. Since he started practicing, he had been busy practicing every day, so he had no time to rest. But today, he was so upset that he just wanted to vent, so he couldn't stay in the room any longer.
He walked aimlessly in the valley, the autumn wind in the dark night blew on his face, and bursts of coolness came over him. Suddenly, he felt that the depression in his heart disappeared a lot.
He couldn't help but take a few deep breaths of the cool breeze as he continued walking slowly in the valley.
The valley was not very big. After walking around half a circle, Li Yan came to a place not far from the pool of water. Waves of coolness came over him, and he felt a chill in his heart.
At this moment, he suddenly felt the breath in his body become smoother, and he couldn't help but feel refreshed.
Li Yan took a few quick steps to the edge of the pond, and felt the chill of the water grow stronger, and his chest felt extremely comfortable.
Li Yan was overjoyed and simply sat down by the pond. He sat there for half an hour. When he stood up, the heat in his body had completely disappeared. Then waves of fatigue came over him. After returning to the room, he fell asleep immediately.
As the dawn approached, Li Yan woke up from his sleep, feeling much more energetic. After more than twenty days of practice and the changes in his body, he hadn't slept as well as he did last night for a long time.
After waking up, Li Yan stood in front of the table, looking at the mist swirling above the pond outside the window, his eyes becoming brighter and brighter.
Then he walked quickly towards Master Ji's stone house. When he arrived in front of the stone house, Master Ji's familiar and gentle voice was heard.
"come in."
"is teacher!"
Li Yan's face darkened and he walked in quickly.
When he entered the room, he found that the teacher was still sitting cross-legged behind the table, as if he had never changed, holding the book that looked like gold but not gold, and like jade but not jade, in one hand, and looking up at him with a smile.
But he didn't know why, every time he saw the teacher, he always felt that his body was not breathing smoothly.
"Hehehe... You look pretty good today. It seems like you have discovered something about the situation in the valley."
Advisor Ji looked at Li Yan in front of him with a smile in his eyes.
"Teacher, do you know why I came here?"
Li Yan said in surprise.
"You must have discovered that the pool of water can relieve the heat in your body, right?"
"Yes, teacher! It turns out that teacher already knew the effect of the pond."
A strange look appeared on Li Yan's face.
"Of course I know. Half of the reason why I chose this valley as my residence was because the water in this pool has some strange cooling effect."
"Then...then teacher, why didn't you remind your disciples to practice there?"
Li Yan asked hesitantly.
“Haha, the entry method of our sect is indeed a bit overbearing, so this kind of situation will occur when our disciples practice at the beginning.
There are many general solutions, such as immersing yourself in your own hobbies to restore peace of mind, such as playing the piano, blowing music, writing, etc.;
Another method is to use external forces to directly offset the internal fire, such as ice, snowy mountains, cold ponds, etc.
At this point, Master Ji paused and looked at Li Yan. Li Yan did not ask any further questions because he knew that the teacher would give him an answer soon.
Advisor Ji couldn't help but sigh inwardly when he saw Li Yan's demeanor after he calmed down.
"This child is quiet and thoughtful."
Then he continued.
"The reason why I didn't let you practice by the pond right now is because when you first start practicing, you should use your own endurance to fight, which will better temper your character.
If you rely on external objects at the beginning, then as you practice, the effectiveness will become lower and lower, and it will hinder your own practice.
Therefore, I did not tell you these things because I was afraid that you would not be able to resist the temptation and give up your self-cultivation! "
After hearing this, Li Yan thought to himself.
"So there are reasons like this. These solutions cannot be used lightly."
He immediately bowed.
"The disciple knows he was wrong."
Division Master Ji waved his hand.
"This is not your fault, it's just that the master didn't make it clear."
Then he pondered for a moment.
"Well, I've seen you practice these past few days and you should have reached a bottleneck. But you should not practice by the water pond for the time being. I will use other methods to help you resolve the abnormalities that occur during practice.
When you have reached the first level after 49 days, you can practice by the pool. The effect will be best then. Once you have reached the first level, you can practice there for a long time."
Li Yan was delighted when he heard this.
"Then...what method does the teacher use?"
"You will know when you practice today."
Advisor Ji smiled slightly but did not explain.
Li Yan smiled bitterly in his heart and had to say goodbye and leave.
After several hours, when Li Yan had taken the medicine into his body, he began to sit cross-legged to refine the medicinal power. Soon after, the hot air was churning in his body.
After Li Yan tried to suppress it several times, he gradually couldn't hold it back anymore. His mind could no longer calm down and he became more and more agitated.
At this moment, the sound of a piano suddenly floated in from the window outside the house.
Like the autumn moon on a calm lake, like the rising jade rabbit in the east, just like the breeze in the forest gently blowing through the branches and leaves, suddenly like a girl's whisper, and then like the morning dewdrops that touch my heart...
As the sound of the piano entered his ears, Li Yan suddenly felt a chill in his heart. His irritability gradually disappeared, and his mind slowly became clear.
He immediately understood the teacher's method. It turned out that the teacher's musical skills were so profound that they could make people's minds clear.
At that moment, he didn't dare to think about it anymore. He concentrated and calmed his mind, and slowly entered a state of selflessness.