Martial Arts: Start by Obtaining the Wild World

Chapter 268 0267: Testing Spiritual Bones; Half a Qi Gathering Pill
With Cheng Zongyang's careful preparation, four dishes and a soup were deliciously served half an hour later.

The restaurant is adjacent to the kitchen. It was originally a warehouse, which he converted into a comfortable dining space, allowing him to bring dishes directly from the kitchen to the dining table.

While looking at the delicious dishes, Tan Sanniang kept observing the busy Cheng Zongyang, with a complicated look on her face.

When Cheng Zongyang warmly invited her to take a seat and personally introduced the name of each dish, her mood seemed to be even more complicated.

As Cheng Zongyang filled the two people's glasses with spirit wine, he raised his glass and thanked them sincerely: "First of all, I want to thank you for your help, Third Sister. Without you, I would not have been able to settle down in Zi'an County so smoothly and complete the decoration of the house so quickly."

When Tan Sanniang heard the name "Third Sister", her brows furrowed slightly.

Seeing this, Cheng Zongyang smiled and explained, "I've always called you Sanniang, but it seems a bit old. Wouldn't it sound more comfortable to call you Sanjie? If it doesn't fit, I'll change it back."

Tan Sanniang shook her head calmly: "It doesn't matter, you can call me whatever you like, it's just a name."

"Okay then." Cheng Zongyang nodded.

Tan Sanniang felt a little strange, and found it incredible that she would agree to have dinner with a young man she had only known for a few days. Although it was just a meal, she felt an unprecedented atmosphere, which made her feel quite uncomfortable.

Therefore, she did not enjoy the meal very relaxedly, and Cheng Zongyang's warm hospitality and the environment made her even more uncomfortable.

Finally, after she hurriedly ate some, she stood up and said goodbye calmly: "I still have some things to deal with at Chun Man Lou, so I won't stay any longer. I'm leaving first."

Cheng Zongyang was stunned, then put down his chopsticks and said hurriedly: "Is it so urgent? Let me take you there."

When they arrived at the door, Qin Sanniang got on the animal cart and left, leaving Cheng Zongyang standing at the door. He was quite puzzled as to why Qin Sanniang was in such a hurry and left in a hurry without even eating a few bites of food.

But he didn't ask further, just guessing that she might have something urgent to deal with. He turned around, closed the door, and returned to the restaurant.

Facing a table of almost untouched dishes, Cheng Zongyang did not think it was a waste. After all, he himself had a big appetite and usually just relied on the five-grain tonic pills to simplify his diet.

After completing the post-meal cleanup, Cheng Zongyang was thinking about the next plan of action.

This month, apart from decorating the house and reading, his other tasks were to build the platform framework made by the soul slaves on the Reef Island.

It was not difficult, just install it according to the design and secure it again. This matter had been handled, and he also arranged a first-level magic circle with concealment and protection on the reef island.

Except for cultivators at the Qi training level or above, no one can spot it from the outside.

Then it was time to embark on his important plan.

After everything was packed up, Cheng Zongyang activated the courtyard's protective formation to ensure that the Cheng Mansion remained private to outsiders, and then returned to his room.

As Cheng Zongyang opened the secret partition left when the room was renovated, he stepped into it.

This compartment space is not spacious, only about seven or eight square meters in size, but it is a secret entrance to the underground passage that he specially designed.

After entering the wilderness world, Cheng Zongyang brought out the mole beast and used a flashlight to illuminate the small space.

He began to communicate with the mole, instructing it to dig down a dozen meters to build a basement.

After confirming that the mole understood his intention, he handed over the subsequent shoveling work to it, and he was responsible for processing the excavated soil and collecting it into the wilderness for cleaning.

He had to do this work alone, without the help of others.

After dealing with the issue of the mole digging a hole, Cheng Zongyang came to the pavilion in the yard.

He took out a special piece of black paper from his arms. This was the spirit-testing paper he had specially prepared.

The next moment, he squeezed a drop of blood from his finger and dripped it on the center of the spirit-testing paper. As the blood seeped in, he concentrated on observing the changes in the paper.

I knew the effect of the spirit-testing paper when I first met Tan Sanniang, but it was not until today that I had the time to test it myself.

After he got the ownership of the house, he supervised the renovation of the house during the day, and read the books rented by Hua Lingjing from the bookstore. At night, he worked on the construction of the reef island platform.

This is his only channel that can quickly and extensively learn about the world of immortal cultivation without arousing suspicion.

Compared to testing the spirit bones, understanding the situation of this world is relatively more important. Now from the books, he has a preliminary understanding of the situation of this world. Of course, the books only record the surface. If he wants to know the details, he has to ask those monks.

As the blood merged into the black spirit-testing paper, Cheng Zongyang observed the changes in the paper intently.

This black paper is made of a special spiritual tree material. It can detect the spiritual bone properties contained in the blood.

When Cheng Zongyang bought the spirit-testing paper, he thought it could test his spirit roots, until the shopkeeper told him that testing his spirit roots required spirit stones, which were only available at the sect's residence, and that a test cost five low-grade spirit stones. Only then did he realize that he had misunderstood what Tan Sanniang said.

But whether it is spiritual roots or spiritual bones, they are all distinguished by the five elements. In addition to the five elements, there are three other strange attributes: ice, wind, and thunder, collectively known as the "Five Elements and Three Wonders".

As Cheng Zongyang watched, the color of the black paper began to gradually change.

The black color gradually fades away, and is replaced by three colors: green, red and blue, which gradually occupy most of the paper like a gradient.

Among them, green occupies about two-thirds of the area, followed by red, and blue is third.

At the same time, Cheng Zongyang also noticed that there were two thin yellow and gold lines in the edge area.

After obtaining additional information about root bones from the book, he realized that this so-called ordinary bone was not non-existent, but occupied too small a proportion, so small that it could almost be ignored, so it was called ordinary bone.

The same is true for spiritual roots.

Now it is displayed like this, which means that he also has spiritual bones with five attributes, but the emphasis is on the first three types, while the last two types, yellow and gold, are negligible.

The current situation shows that he is a spiritual bone with the three attributes of wood, fire and water!

"These three attributes...seem pretty good."

Cheng Zongyang didn't care about how many spiritual bones he had. After all, he had the wilderness world and the market hut. Even if he had all five elements, he could maintain his cultivation speed and not fall behind others.

As for these three types of spiritual bones, there is some meaning of mutual generation between them.

Water creates wood, and wood creates fire. "According to the records, I have three types of spiritual bones, so I should also have three types of spiritual roots. I don't know if I can buy a spiritual stone to test it. I'll buy one and bring it back later, so that I can test the qualifications of the core members of the clan and the gang."

Cheng Zongyang put away the spirit-testing paper and had a direction for his future cultivation in mind.

After Cheng Zongyang returned to the room, he took out a bottle of Qi Condensation Pills. This bottle of pills was different from the Qi Condensation Pills he had used before. The Qi Condensation Pills were more suitable for Xiantian warriors. They could significantly speed up the process of converting Qi and blood into true Qi in upper third-grade warriors and even Xiantian warriors. Their effect was far better than the Qi and Blood Pills he had taken.

The Qi Gathering Pill in his hand was mainly prepared for cultivators in the early stages of Qi training and was not suitable for ordinary warriors.

This kind of elixir can promote the entry of spiritual energy into the body, helping cultivators absorb and refine the spiritual body and improve their cultivation.

However, if a warrior takes it, it will accelerate the cleansing of impurities in the warrior's blood and promote the process of cleansing the marrow and strengthening the bones. However, it will also cause damage to the meridians due to the inability to absorb and refine the spiritual energy, and even cause serious meridian ruptures, which will require a huge cost to repair with high-level pills.

Therefore, basically no warrior would overestimate his own abilities and swallow elixirs that only cultivators can take.

But Cheng Zongyang is an exception!

Without it, he had a market hut.

The meridians are damaged? The hut can be repaired. What he needs to do now is to break through quickly! Try to return to the county before the end of the year.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, he put the Qi Gathering Pill into the market hut, and his spirit followed it into the hut.

When he appeared in the hut, Luo Dingran and the others were not there. He did not go to look for them, but sat on the wooden bed, and then began to practice the Xiantian Yiqi Jue Gongfa to adjust the breath in his body and stabilize his physical condition.

About a quarter of an hour later, Cheng Zongyang took the Qi Gathering Pill from the counter and poured out one. He did not put the whole pill into his mouth, but cut it into two halves and put one half into his mouth.

He decided to try the effect of half a pill first!
Cheng Zongyang swallowed half of the pill, and soon he felt an inexplicable and refreshing energy from the outside world seeping into his body and flowing into his body.

He could clearly sense that this energy was undoubtedly spiritual energy.

Only Qigong practitioners can absorb and refine the energy of heaven and earth!
Just a moment later, Cheng Zongyang felt the spiritual energy that could not be absorbed by the body traveling through his body and began to fill his meridians.

This spiritual energy filled with external power enters the body, triggering the brain to issue emergency commands, trying to refine this spiritual energy to protect the body's functions.

This process seems to activate the body's defense mechanism, accelerating the circulation of qi and blood, trying to absorb or expel these foreign spiritual energies, just like the white blood cells in the body act quickly to fight the virus after receiving protection instructions.

That's right, for ordinary people, even warriors, a small amount of spiritual energy is good for the body. But excessive spiritual energy cannot be absorbed and also affects the normal functioning of the body's functions, which can be regarded as a "virus".

Under the dual effects of Cheng Zongyang's conscious breathing and the body's instinctive protective reaction, the qi and blood continued to impact the spiritual energy that was wandering around.

However, with each impact, the surging spiritual energy began to remove impurities from the qi and blood, reducing the amount of useless or aging qi and blood.

In this process, the spiritual energy seemed to play a reverse catalytic role, promoting the further purification of qi and blood, making the qi and blood in Cheng Zongyang's body purer.

At the same time, this purification process also speeds up the condensation of true Qi, making it more refined and generated faster.

As the Qi and blood are condensed and impurities are removed, the bone marrow quickly activates the hematopoietic mechanism and replenishes the missing Qi and blood in the body. The increase and decrease of Qi and blood actually speeds up the body's marrow cleansing and bone strengthening.

Excessive spiritual energy entering the body brings about a series of chain reactions.

However, this spillover effect is not without cost.

Because the spiritual energy could not be absorbed in the meridians and continued to wash through the body, it gradually caused damage to the meridians. Even the internal organs and muscles in various parts of the body also produced a dull pain.

Cheng Zongyang sensed these changes throughout the process, and when he felt the pain all over his body, he realized that the limit of the spiritual energy that could penetrate into his body had been reached.

"Only half a pill!" Beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on Cheng Zongyang's forehead.

Feeling the pain in his body getting worse, he had to use a wooden bed for treatment.

After automatically detecting the physical condition, the treatment was classified as a high level, and three thousand points were deducted instantly.

The effect was also very significant. As soon as the points were deducted, the injuries in his body were immediately restored. But soon, he felt the spiritual energy "rushing" in his body again!
Seeing this, Cheng Zongyang knew that he had to find a way to stop the spiritual energy from continuing to penetrate and expel it from his body. So, he took a Tang sword out of thin air, got out of bed and began to perform the magic sword martial arts.

Among the martial arts he had learned, the Phantom Sword was the most difficult to practice, requiring extremely high speed control.

He had to consume some kind of energy stored in his meridians, whether it was spiritual energy, true energy, or the power of qi and blood.

Only by reducing the stock, there will be room for new additions! Phantom Blade is also the martial art that consumes the most blood or true energy!

As Cheng Zongyang continued to use his true Qi and practiced the magic sword like crazy, the true Qi in his body began to decrease significantly.

However, this rate of consumption was not enough to keep up with the recovery speed of the true Qi after the spiritual Qi cleansed the marrow and strengthened the bones, so he had to further increase the intensity of training in order to achieve higher training results.

As the training speed increased, the consumption of Qi became more and more intense. Gradually, Cheng Zongyang had only one persistent thought in his mind: Faster! Faster!

With his full concentration, he did not realize that the phantom sword in his hand had formed a continuous phantom, and he also did not realize that the progress of the phantom sword skill on his personal interface was soaring at an astonishing speed, and the growth rate was even higher than his previous training speed in extreme environments.

It was this crazy practice in the state of selflessness that caused the blood and true qi in his body to be consumed rapidly, which in turn caused the spiritual energy in his body to be driven along the flow direction of the blood and true qi. The scattered spiritual energy in various parts of the body was also introduced into the meridians in an orderly manner, becoming controllable and orderly.

Of course, this change was achieved by the high-speed circulation of Qi, blood and true Qi along with the spiritual energy. Cheng Zongyang inadvertently achieved control over the spiritual energy, causing it to gradually converge on his right hand.

It is this spiritual energy that repairs the damaged parts when the muscles are severely damaged and dissolved due to extreme exercise and excessive exertion!

But this also means that spiritual energy is consumed!
Just like that, the spiritual energy in the body began to "circulate" in an orderly manner.

The external spirit enters the body, circulates through the meridians of the whole body, flushes and cleanses the qi and blood, and finally flows to the right arm, repairing and strengthening the damaged muscles, and is eventually consumed.

This process lasted for nearly two quarters of an hour, the spiritual energy entering the body stopped, and the spiritual energy in the body was completely consumed.

But at this time, Cheng Zongyang's body surface was already covered with a layer of gray dirt. It was the product discharged after the refining of qi and blood, the condensation of true essence, and the washing of marrow and bones.

But at this time, Cheng Zongyang's brain protection mechanism, because it no longer had the repair support of spiritual energy, once again issued a self-protection order, forcing Cheng Zongyang to lose all his strength.

Suddenly his whole body went limp and he collapsed to the ground.

(End of this chapter)