Chapter 27: 'Five-Star Ring Guard'
"The Chaos Decision is already in place, but the treasure of genius must be sought out, and a set of exercises to cultivate the body must also be found." Luo Yu thought about what she needed to do next.
The initial promotion used the top-grade Five Spirit Stone, although it's still not visible, but that's not urgent, as long as it's found before building the foundation. However, the Body Refining technique is urgently needed, otherwise, she won't be able to make it to the Qi Refining Great Circle, and her body will collapse from being unable to withstand the spatial pressure.
In the Xianxia world, those who practice body refinement are far fewer than those who practice Qi cultivation. Among a thousand cultivators, there is probably only one who practices body refinement. They are mostly people with poor spiritual roots and talents, who find it difficult to achieve success in Qi cultivation, so they switch to practicing body refinement. Some Qi cultivators will engage in some body refinement exercises before their cultivation begins, which can increase their combat power and enhance their physical resistance; however, as they progress in their cultivation, the bodies of Qi cultivators will become stronger with the improvement of their cultivation level, although still far inferior to that of a contemporary body-refining cultivator. Moreover, practicing body refinement requires dispersing spiritual energy throughout the body to temper it, so if one tries to cultivate both simultaneously, it would undoubtedly greatly hinder their progress in cultivation. Therefore, cultivators who can persist in cultivating both are extremely rare.
It is divided into 13 stages, with the first three corresponding to the Qi-refining period, the fourth to sixth corresponding to the Foundation-establishing period, and so on. The thirteenth stage corresponds to the initial stage of the Spirit Transformation period. If one reaches this level in the near ancient times, they can ascend to immortality. As for how to cultivate in the spiritual realm, it is unknown.
Cultivating the body also requires absorbing spiritual energy and combining it with a large amount of spiritual medicine to temper the body, so those with poor spiritual roots will be restricted from advancing. Most cultivators of the body linger below 3rd stage (including 3rd stage), while high-stage cultivators are as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.
At the stage of refining Qi, practitioners who are at the same level as those practicing body refinement are much stronger than ordinary Qi practitioners. This is because Qi practitioners at this stage have less spiritual power, their techniques are slower and less powerful, and they can only maintain them for a short period of time. Body refinement practitioners just need to avoid the initial techniques and they can close the distance between each other, making it a one-sided beating. However, after building the foundation, Qi practitioners' techniques become faster and more powerful, and they can sustain them for a longer period of time, while body refinement practitioners can only fight at close range, so they usually end up being beaten instead. Nevertheless, it is said that after reaching the 10th level, body refinement practitioners can develop divine abilities such as Thunderbolt Hands, Heaven's Eye, Instant Movement, etc., which are on par with same-level Yuan Ying cultivators. As for 13th-level body refinement practitioners, no one has ever seen them before, so it is unknown how strong they really are.
As for the benefits of practicing Ti, Luo Yu had also been tempted before, thinking that if she practiced both, wouldn't she be invincible in the same realm, with an overbearing aura. However, considering the time it took to practice Ti, Luo Yu hesitated, after all, her talent at that time was still lower. Later, she learned that the Ti-practicing techniques in this cultivation world were all suitable for male cultivators, and although women could also practice, they would inevitably become rough and unrefined. From then on, Luo Yu completely put aside the idea of practicing Ti, although she yearned for the strong mentality of a female Hanzi, she didn't want to have the physique of one.
But now there's no other way, she has to practice her body.
Luo Yu thought for a moment, in the current cultivation world, those large families and sects that have been passed down from ancient times may still be able to find female cultivators' physical training methods. However, this was not something she could obtain. At least previously, when she was in her family's and sect's scripture repository, she had not seen such methods. Perhaps these methods were of a high level, and she did not yet have the qualifications to view them. This could only be left for her father to ask Third Elder about tomorrow, perhaps he would really find it for her. As for why ask Third Elder, this was because he was a warm and gentle person, who never hesitated to offer guidance to his juniors.
As for other possible places where female cultivators practice body-refining techniques, those are secret realms, especially the ones that bring various opportunities to the female lead. The Qing Huang Secret Manual is the closest one to Luo Yu, but it will take 5 years for it to be unlocked, so she can only pin her hopes on the three elders.
Tonight, she can only cultivate the Chaos Decision. Luoyu picked up the jade slip and examined it carefully. The ancestors mentioned that when cultivating this Chaos Decision, the pre-heavenly energy will become a seed, which can be placed anywhere in the body at will, surrounded by spiritual energy, outsiders cannot view it unless the other party's cultivation is 4 major stages higher than oneself. The seed absorbs the nourishment of spiritual energy and heavenly treasures, slowly growing larger, but after reaching the size of a soybean, its external shape no longer changes, instead, a small space begins to form inside, then gradually grows.
The innate energy inside Luoyu has already reached the size of a soybean, and it only needs to cultivate the Hunyuan Decision to make the spiritual energy in her body form a completely balanced system of mutual generation and restraint, and she can open up a small space in the seed.
At this time, Luo Yu thought of a sentence that the Taoist said in his previous life - "The human body is a small universe", and the seeds in her body would eventually grow into a universe as well. Could there be a connection between the two? As the most suitable structure for cultivation under the Heavenly Way, the human body naturally has its own wonderful places. If the two are connected, the pre-heavenly energy can continue to nourish the body, and the body, as a unique heavenly material treasure, should also be able to nourish the growth of the pre-heavenly energy. The more Luo Yu thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed, especially since the five internal organs, which are the core of the human body, corresponded perfectly with metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, making this idea possible to implement.
Luo Yu prepared to separate a portion of the innate energy from the Purple Gang, as five small seeds planted in the five organs of the human body, and placed most of the innate energy in the middle Dan Tian, forming an integral whole in the manner of satellites orbiting planets.
If Lin Yu knew her thoughts, she would surely exclaim that this junior was indeed "the blue out of the blue and surpassing the blue"! He had risked his life for a piece of incomplete information to seize the First Heaven's aura, and now his fate was unknown. This was already extremely daring. And yet, this little girl actually wanted to try a new cultivation method in her own body, without fear of killing herself - truly a madwoman!
Actually, Luo Yu was not deeply involved in the world of cultivation and did not have a deep understanding of the importance of physical body in cultivation. He had some idealistic thoughts, which led him to think that he could try this method on himself, which is a reckless move! However, it was precisely this recklessness that created a new way of cultivating, which cannot be denied as a kind of miracle.
Luoyu sat with her legs crossed, her five hearts facing upwards, and her consciousness sank into her body to find the purple mass. She then communicated her thoughts to it, hoping it would cooperate. She had long discovered that the purple mass had a certain spirituality, and since it had been inside her for 9 years, it had already become a part of her body, resonating with her intentions. After communicating, the purple mass found that this method was also beneficial to its growth, so it gladly agreed. Then, five small grains of innate energy, the size of millet seeds, were released into the five organs.
The innate energy suddenly entered the blood and flesh of the five organs, and Luo Yu was in so much pain that she almost fainted. This was something she had not anticipated. In the past, when the innate energy circulated through the five organs and meridians, it would give her a refreshing feeling, but she did not expect it to be so painful when it entered the blood and flesh. Luo Yu quickly let the water spirit and wood spirit repair the wound, and at this time, the innate energy also released some breath to help. Until half an hour later, Luo Yu finally caught her breath, and the five small seeds had already settled in the organs and became a part of them.
