"What do you want to say?" Qin Ran glanced at Li Shiyin, took a sip of the ice soda on the table, and asked in a flat tone.
"Tian Wenjin has established his foundation." Li Shiyin said.
"so what?"
"What am I doing?" Li Shiyin asked.
"You want to make pills." Qin Ran gave Li Shiyin the answer, "You joined Danfeng and wanted to make pills, but you have no talent for it. Others knew from the beginning that you wanted to practice swordsmanship."
Li Shiyin was silent for a while, then asked, "Is what I am doing now so that I can make pills?"
In fact, she knew that alchemy did not require daily sword practice, daily digging of lakes to exercise the body, and daily medicinal baths to strengthen the body.
"No." Qin Ran answered her truthfully.
The reason why she was asked to do these things was not to enable her to make pills, but to let her learn swordsmanship.
"I came to Danfeng to learn alchemy." Li Shiyin said, "If you want to learn swordsmanship, you should go to Jianfeng."
A silly disciple is always a silly disciple. Once she said this, Qin Ran could send her to Jianfeng without having to take any responsibility, and then come back to continue his free and easy life of cultivating immortals.
But... Qin Ran remained silent. He was struggling and examining his own heart. He drank all the water in the cup and was still sucking hard through the straw.
The air froze for a while, and he suddenly realized that it was useless to worry about it. A forced melon will never be sweet. It is up to the person concerned to choose how to go.
He took out four books from his Qiankun bag and placed them one by one on the table in front of Li Shiyin.
"These are four basic skills. The first one is a gold-attributed alchemy skill..." He tried to keep his tone flat and without ups and downs. "The second one is called 'Dayan Sword Technique', a very good sword skill, but it only has the first two levels; the third one is called 'Genjin Flying Sword Technique', which focuses on flying swords; the fourth one is called 'Heavenly Sword'.
"One book on alchemy and three books on swordsmanship. You can choose one to keep, or...
He looked at the mud pit that Li Shiyin had dug in front of him and said, "I'll take you to Jianfeng."
Li Shiyin lowered her eyes and reached out to turn the pages of the book. The handwriting on the pages was brand new, as if it had just been written not long ago...
No, not as if, she suddenly remembered that the master would stay up late every day, so this might really be what the master had just written.
"Gold-attribute alchemy technique..." The first technique book had no name, so she asked, "What's the name of this one?"
“I haven’t had time to name it yet.”
She paused while turning the pages of the book and looked up at Qin Ran. But Qin Ran was staring at the mud pit, pretending not to know.
"Master created a new technique for me?" She looked at Qin Ran, her pupils trembling slightly.
After a while, she closed the book and said, "I'm not going to Jianfeng."
Kieran turned around to look at her.
“I am willing to follow the master’s arrangements.
"Qin Ran didn't say anything, so she continued, "As for the technique, I still need to think about it. I don't know if I should practice alchemy or swordsmanship..."
Qin Ran stretched out his hand and pressed on the clothes package on the table. He looked at Li Shiyin and pondered for a long time. Suddenly he asked, "Do you remember what I told you about the purpose of cultivation?"
"Master said that some people practice for longevity, while others practice for power."
“Yes.” Qin Ran was slightly relieved. Although his silly disciple was silly, he took his words to heart. He asked again, “Then do you know what the essence of cultivation is?”
"Master never said that."
Sure enough, this disciple is still a fool. Qin Ran thought and answered, "The essence of cultivation is to take the spiritual energy floating between heaven and earth for yourself. Spiritual energy is a kind of ephemeral energy. Cultivators plunder this energy from heaven and earth through their skills to make themselves stronger."
Li Shiyin listened quietly.
“If I told you that cultivation is about going against entropy, that energy is forced to flow from a low place to a high place, but that the greater the energy of an object, the more unstable it is, you would definitely not understand.” Qin Ran said, “But if I told you that the state of mind must precede the state of cultivation, you would probably understand.
"Practice will make an ordinary person infinitely powerful. In other words, an ordinary person will suddenly have extremely powerful strength. What will happen?"
Li Shiyin understood a little bit and knew that her master was explaining to her why Tian Wenjin had established his foundation but she hadn't.
"There is a saying in my hometown that goes, 'If you have a sharp weapon, you will naturally want to kill.'" Qin Ran continued, "So in the process of cultivating immortals, cultivating the mind is more important than practicing. If the state of mind cannot keep up with the cultivation, too much power can easily lead to obsession."
Where is the master from? Why is there so many mysterious words in my hometown? Li Shiyin was puzzled.
"From this perspective, the better the talent, the faster the progress of cultivation, and the easier it is to go astray." Qin Ran looked at Li Shiyin and said, "The same goes for using elixirs to increase cultivation, which can also easily lead to obsession."
"I have said so much..." he concluded, "I just want to tell you that you can't be impatient in your practice."
Li Shiyin understood.
She nodded and asked, "How did Tian Wenjin build her foundation so quickly? Didn't her master tell her this?"
"The cultivation philosophy is different. Sword cultivators always believe in moving forward courageously and are confident that they can master power." Qin Ran explained, "Also, she took the elixir."
At this point, he sighed, “I warned her before, asking her to try not to take the pill, but she took it anyway.
"Once people can obtain benefits through simpler means, they will no longer be willing to obtain them through more difficult means. This is another harm of elixirs, even worse than the former. It is not an exaggeration to call it poison."
Li Shiyin had already turned into a silly look, and now she nodded obediently.
Speaking of this, Qin Ran
He took out two porcelain bottles from his Qiankun bag and placed them on the table. He looked at the pills and said, "These two pills, one is the Foundation Building Pill and the other is the Soul Gathering Pill. They are both of top quality. The Foundation Building Pill can greatly increase the success rate of foundation building, and the Soul Gathering Pill can quickly improve your cultivation. If you want to build your foundation earlier, you can take the pills now. But..."
He raised his head and looked at Li Shiyin, staring into her eyes, "If you want to take it, then take these two bottles of pills and go down the mountain."
Li Shiyin lowered her head and thought, the master seems to be very rich, and he can also create his own martial arts. He is talented and rich. Such a master...
She bit her lip.
Seeing her expression, Qin Ran took a deep breath and did not take back the pills. He left the two bottles of top-grade pills there, and then suddenly scolded, "What are you waiting for? Why don't you continue digging the lake? Do you think it will take forever?"
"Oh!" Li Shiyin nodded, turned around and jumped into the mud pit with a loud "bang".
When Qin Ran and Li Shiyin were confronting each other, Huang Feiyu looked at Tian Wenjin, who was frowning, and roughly guessed what she was thinking. He asked, "What do you think of Li Shiyin?"
"What a pity." Tian Wenjin replied.
"What do you mean?" Huang Feiyu asked even though he knew what Tian Wenjin was thinking.
"Too stupid, a waste of talent." Tian Wenjin shook his head and said, "She has top-level gold spiritual roots, but she insisted on learning alchemy. It not only bothers others, but also delays herself. She could have been a good opponent, but she gave up on herself so early."
"Do you think so?" Huang Feiyu asked.
"I thought so."
"I don't think so." Huang Feiyu said.
Tian Wenjin looked at him, wanting to know what he was thinking.
"I think she will definitely be your strongest opponent." Huang Feiyu said.
"The road of cultivation is full of competition. One step ahead means more steps. I have already established my foundation, but hers is still a long way off." Tian Wenjin replied, "I don't believe it."
"In the path of cultivation, the foundation is the most important." Huang Feiyu said, "Why don't we make a bet..."
"Top-level spiritual roots are more important than any foundation!" Tian Wenjin was quite confident, but she obviously didn't understand what Huang Feiyu was talking about. She asked, "Tell me, what are you betting on?"
"In the conference three years from now, Li Shiyin will definitely rank higher than you." Huang Feiyu said.
"What about the bet?"
"You win, I will give you the Qingming Sword." Huang Feiyu said. The Qingming Sword was a treasure that he had spent countless efforts to obtain. All the disciples of Jianfeng knew that it was the natal sword of a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage and a top-grade magical weapon.
"What if I lose?"
"From now on, you are not allowed to take pills that increase your cultivation level!" Huang Feiyu said.
Tian Wenjin looked at Huang Feiyu, the two looked at each other in the air, and then she nodded heavily: "Deal!!"