Peeping into the Immortal Road

Chapter 37: Cultivating Mana
It was different from the immortal cultivation method that Ji Chang had imagined.

The Art of Taming Snakes is not a Five Elements School's martial art, but a method that focuses on taming beasts.

If the "Snake Taming Art" must be classified by school, then it should be considered a method of the Soul Dao school that is related to the spirit and soul.

Of course, "The Art of Taming Snakes" is not mainly about methods of soul attack, but methods of controlling spirit beasts, or more accurately, methods of controlling snake spirit beasts.

Moreover, when practicing "The Art of Taming Snakes", while absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and refining it into magic power, one can also temper one's own soul.

It is of great help to the cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage who face the spiritual consciousness barrier when breaking through the foundation-building stage.

Ji Chang took a deep breath, and an indescribable excitement surged in his heart.

What made him feel even more fortunate was that, according to the basic knowledge of cultivating immortals that he had secretly glimpsed a few days ago, the spiritual roots of the cultivators in this world of cultivating immortals did not have different attributes, only different qualities.

Unless one has a special physique, as long as one has spiritual roots, one can practice any school of martial arts.

This means that he doesn't have to worry about not being able to practice the "Snake Taming Art" because his spiritual root attributes are not compatible.

Ji Chang gently stroked the words on the paper, suppressing the excitement in his heart.

There was only one question left for him.

That is whether you have spiritual roots in your body.

In this world, the quality of spiritual roots can be roughly divided into four levels.

False spiritual roots, true spiritual roots, earth spiritual roots, and heavenly spiritual roots.

Among them, true spiritual roots can be divided into three types: low-grade spiritual roots, medium-grade spiritual roots, and high-grade spiritual roots.

As long as one has spiritual roots, even if they are only pseudo-spiritual roots, one can sense the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, successfully draw the energy into the body, and cultivate magical powers.

However, the path of cultivation for pseudo-spiritual root cultivators is full of hardships.

During the Qi Refining Stage, they will encounter bottlenecks at almost every step. To break through these bottlenecks, it often takes many times more time and energy than ordinary people, and sometimes they even face stagnation for more than ten years.

Cultivators with true spiritual roots will have a relatively smoother practice during the Qi Refining Stage.

They face fewer bottlenecks, mainly when breaking through from the early stage to the middle stage of Qi Refining, and from the middle stage to the late stage.

But even so, these two bottlenecks are still a big hurdle for cultivators with true spiritual roots.

As for the earth spiritual roots and heavenly spiritual roots, Ji Chang did not get much information from Chen Qianyun.

I just heard that cultivators with earth spiritual roots have almost no bottlenecks in the Qi Refining Stage. Their path of cultivation is smooth and as long as they practice step by step, they can almost successfully build a foundation.

The Heavenly Spiritual Root is a legendary existence. A cultivator with the Heavenly Spiritual Root not only cultivates very quickly, but also encounters almost no obstacles before reaching the Core Forming Stage.

Ji Chang was very curious whether he had spiritual roots and what the quality of his spiritual roots was.

However, the spiritual roots must be tested first, which requires either the cultivator to rely on spells to identify them, or the help of magical instruments that can test the spiritual roots.

And I can’t do these by myself.

However, Ji Chang has another solution.

That is to directly practice the immortal cultivation method "The Art of Taming Snakes".

As long as Ji Chang can practice successfully, it means that he possesses spiritual roots.

Moreover, one can also infer the quality of one's spiritual roots based on the time it takes to draw Qi into the body.

Thinking of this, Ji Chang calmed down and read "The Art of Taming Snakes" carefully.

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A few days later, Ji Chang sat cross-legged on the bed and put down the paper with the "Snake Taming Art" recorded on it.

Then, he closed his eyes and began to think carefully about the contents of "Snake Taming Technique". Every word and sentence of "Snake Taming Technique" echoed in his mind.

Ji Chang placed his hands lightly on his knees and adjusted his breathing rhythm. As time passed, his breathing became long and deep, and he gradually entered into a wonderful state of practice.

As his mind became focused, Ji Chang began to breathe in and out spiritual energy according to the method of "Snake Taming Art".

The next moment, Ji Chang could clearly feel the thin spiritual energy in the surrounding air. These spiritual energies were like wisps of smoke, slowly blending into his body as Ji Chang breathed in and out.

Ji Chang understood that he indeed possessed spiritual roots, and in the mortal world where spiritual energy was thin, he was able to sense spiritual energy so quickly. The quality of his spiritual roots must not be too bad.

But at this moment, these thoughts just flashed through Ji Chang's mind quietly without causing any ripples.

Ji Chang carefully guided the spiritual energy that was integrated into his body, and began to refine it according to the methods in "The Art of Taming Snakes".

He carefully guided the spiritual energy to flow through his body, through specific meridians and acupuncture points, and finally gathered it in his dantian, gradually refining it into pure magic power.

When the first wisp of spiritual energy was successfully refined into magic power, Ji Chang felt an indescribable joy in his heart.

He clearly felt that strand of magic power was slowly rotating in his dantian, which contained a powerful and terrifying force.

But the next moment, Ji Chang's expression changed slightly.

Because in his perception, the strength that he had cultivated when practicing martial arts and entered the third level of refinement was now being devoured by the magic power in his body.

However, after seeing this scene, Ji Chang was not too worried.

Based on the basic knowledge of cultivating immortals that I had previously glimpsed from Chen Qianyun.

Mortal martial arts are essentially a castrated version of physical cultivation methods.

Mortal warriors use secret medicine to temper their bodies. There are five stages in total: refining the skin, refining the flesh, refining the tendons, refining the bones, and refining the marrow.

A warrior who has reached the third level of tendon training can generate strong power in his body.

For warriors at the fourth bone-refining level, their strength is condensed into Gangjin.

For warriors who have reached the fifth level of marrow refining, their inner strength will be condensed again and cultivated into magic power.

A warrior who has cultivated to the fifth level of refinement is equivalent to a physical cultivator in the early stage of Qi refinement.

It can be said that this is a way to enter the Tao through martial arts.

However, even if a mortal warrior succeeds in attaining enlightenment through martial arts, if he does not have spiritual roots in his body, he will not be able to sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

If you want to continue practicing, you can’t rely on magic power to temper your body like real physical practitioners. You can only temper your body through spiritual medicine.

The hardships involved are beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Without great luck, great opportunity and great perseverance, this path will not work at all.

However, this has nothing to do with Ji Chang.

Not only does he possess spiritual roots, but it seems that the quality of his spiritual roots is also extraordinary.

Naturally, he didn't need to take this stupid approach of using martial arts to gain enlightenment.

Ji Chang calmed down and continued to refine his spiritual energy.

After absorbing the strong force, Ji Chang's mana became much more abundant, and the speed of refining spiritual energy also increased a lot.

As time passed, Ji Chang could feel the magic power in his dantian growing continuously.

Time seemed to become slow and long at this moment. Ji Chang was completely immersed in cultivation and forgot all the troubles in the outside world.

I don’t know how long it took, but when the last wisp of spiritual energy was successfully refined into magic power and the magic power in Dantian was fully filled, Ji Chang slowly opened his eyes.

(End of this chapter)