Summer rain is, after all, heavy rain, not to mention that last night’s rain was caused by the two demon kings. When we woke up in the morning, the rain had already stopped.
The rain cleansed the air, and the world was fresh. Birds were jumping on the branches in the forest, and a girl was dancing with a sword on the lawn in front of the house.
The girl was indeed a girl, with a soft and slender body about to blossom, and her light green clothes fluttering in the wind. However, the way she danced with the sword was not at all girlish. Each of her moves was fierce and powerful. As the long sword danced, the sound of the sword breaking through the air could be heard from time to time.
Qin Ran was sitting under the eaves reading a book about the Mysterious Nether Spirit Tiger. Next to his chair was a tabby cat... and a cub of the Mysterious Nether Spirit Tiger.
The sound of swords breaking through the air kept coming. He looked over there and saw Li Shiyin's flexible and agile figure and her fierce and swift sword style. He couldn't help but admire the power contained in his daughter's slender body.
This silly apprentice was born to practice swordsmanship. She only practiced the most basic skills and the most basic sword styles, but each move already had extraordinary power.
Qin Ran evaluated in his heart, not to mention that Tian Wenjin had already established her foundation, if she didn't cheat and flew into the air and fought Li Shiyin head-on on the ground, it was not certain who would win or lose.
After watching his silly apprentice dance with the sword for a while, Qin Ran continued to read, researching how to raise this Xuanming Spirit Tiger.
Legend has it that the first Xuanming Spirit Tiger in the world was born in darkness, bathed in darkness, and naturally mastered the laws of darkness. It is the king of darkness. It feeds on darkness and uses darkness as its strength.
It is said that every time it inhales and exhales darkness, a black stripe will appear on its body, and its ability will become higher, until its entire body is covered with black stripes, and it can then fly up with the sun in its mouth.
After reading the book, Qin Ran turned his head to look at Zhuifeng who was sitting next to the chair. Its body was covered with black stripes, even its tail had circles of black stripes. He suddenly felt that the records in the book might not be very reliable.
"What legends? What rumors? I'm not reading a marketing account about the world of immortal cultivation, am I?" He closed the book and looked at "A Complete Guide to Divine Beasts". "Maybe the author of the book has never seen a Mysterious Nether Spirit Tiger."
Thinking of this, he threw the book aside and hit Zhuifeng in the face.
Zhuifeng, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly hit by a book. He jumped up with a start. His big blue eyes saw the flying book and opened its pages, and he pounced on it as if he saw a treasure.
But it missed the book and hit its head on its spine. The book fell onto the grass outside and it stayed where it was.
Looking at the silly look of the king in the darkness, Qin Ran laughed.
Zhuifeng got up and tilted his head to look at Qin Ran, not knowing what the biped was laughing at. He didn't care and pounced forward again, landing on the book on the grass.
Before long, the book turned into confetti.
Qin Ran watched Zhui Feng tear up the book and silently apologized to the book.
"Master!" Li Shiyin suddenly called him.
He looked over and saw that Li Shiyin had stopped practicing sword skills at some point and had reached the river. She was squatting in front of the awakening grass and turned around to wave at him.
"Master, it's sprouted!" Li Shiyin said loudly with a smile.
"Sprouted?" Qin Ran's heart moved, and he quickly stood up and walked over.
Next to the extremely lush and green Refreshing Grass, there is a piece of renovated soil. Several green heads with black hats on their heads are poking out of the soil, showing great vitality.
This is the Crane Crown Immortal Grass that was planted earlier. Qin Ran couldn’t afford the spiritual soil, so he only planted one kind for experimentation… Unexpectedly, it sprouted, and there are four more.
Qin Ran was quite surprised. He quickly pushed Li Shiyin aside and squatted down to examine it carefully.
These new shoots seemed to be thinner than normal Crane Crown Immortal Grass. Moreover, normal Crane Crown Immortal Grass, even if it had just sprouted, should have spiritual energy, like a cultivator who could absorb and exhale the spiritual energy of heaven and earth during cultivation, but these shoots did not.
"It's sprouted, but it's malnourished," he sighed softly.
Then he began to think again, "I have planted them for several days, why did they only sprout today? Is it because of the rain? Or is it related to the Thunder Unicorn last night?"
"Master... Master..." He was just thinking when Li Shiyin's voice came again.
"What's wrong?"
He turned around and saw that something was wrong with Li Shiyin. She seemed drunk, unsteady on her feet, with a flushed face and steam coming out of her head. Upon closer inspection, the steam coming out of her head was not steam, but a wisp of spiritual energy.
At this time, a special attraction appeared on her body, drawing the surrounding spiritual energy in. After a while, her whole body was covered in mist.
"Master, what's wrong with me?" Li Shiyin asked with misty eyes. She was a little panicked and didn't know what was going on.
But Qin Ran understood it instantly. He smiled and said, “It’s time to build the foundation.”
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth was attracted, which was a sign that Li Shiyin's inner and outer worlds were connected. In a mysterious way, this was the unity of heaven and man, and in a popular way, it meant that she could build a foundation.
On the eleventh day after the silly disciple entered the mountain gate, he finally established his foundation.
Laying the foundation is the beginning of the path to immortality, and the foundation-building period is the first realm of the path of cultivation.
To build the foundation, you need to condense the cyclone. To condense the cyclone, you need to draw the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into your body. To draw the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into your body, you need spiritual roots. Spiritual roots are a kind of talent. To activate spiritual roots, you need qi.
If you want to have energy, you need to feel the energy.
So, the feeling of Qi is just the beginning.
First you have a sense of Qi, then connect the Qi inside your body to the Qi outside your body, then use your spiritual roots to draw the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth into your body, and condense a cyclone in your Dantian.
Therefore, as long as you have a sense of Qi and connect with heaven and earth, you can build the foundation.
So Li Shiyin had a sense of Qi on the first day, why did she only build the foundation now
This was done intentionally by Qin Ran...
This is because, even in the foundation-building stage, there are differences in strength and weakness; even in cyclones, there are differences in good and bad.
He deliberately asked Li Shiyin to use the most basic exercises to refine the Qi in her body, while also asking her to increase her physical strength.
She has extremely pure energy and an extremely strong body, so once she condenses a cyclone, it will no longer be an ordinary cyclone.
As at this moment, before she began to condense the cyclone, there were already strange phenomena in the heaven and earth.
The spiritual energy of this world gathered and formed mist around her, which was hazy, seeming real and fake, visible but invisible. This was a mirage.
"Taiwanese?" Li Shiyin knew no English.
"Build the foundation! Quick, sit cross-legged!" Qin Ran said hurriedly, "Practice the 'Basic Exercises', focus your mind on the Baihui point, and use the Qi in your body to draw the spiritual energy into your body."
“Foundation building…” Li Shiyin understood and sat down cross-legged as instructed, closed her eyes, and began to practice the exercises. But she quickly opened her eyes, looked at Qin Ran, and asked, “Master, where is the Baihui acupoint?”
Qin Ran was almost mad to death. He raised his hand to slap her, but instead of slapping her, he slapped himself. Then he raised his hand again and pressed on the Baihui acupoint on the top of Li Shiyin's head, saying, "Here!"
"Master, please hold it and don't move." Li Shiyin said, closing her eyes again.
She practiced her skills and her mind went to the place where Qin Ran was pressing. She saw raging waves and howling winds. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth was too much and too violent.
Her foundation is so solid that she has attracted too much spiritual energy from heaven and earth.
Li Shiyin took a deep breath, calmed down, and recalled the precautions Qin Ran had told her about building a foundation...
She circulated the Qi in her body to the Baihui acupoint, then carefully rolled up a wisp of spiritual energy from the wind and waves, and brought it along the path of practice to the Qihai acupoint... inside the lower Dantian.
In his mind, the lower Dantian was originally pitch black, until this wisp of spiritual energy from heaven and earth entered, and then there was light. As the technique was activated, this spiritual energy swirled in the Dantian, stretching into a wisp...
In this way, the first cyclone was considered a success.
Li Shiyin was not in a hurry. Her consciousness returned to Baihui again, and then she let go completely, drawing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into her body!