Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

A few days later, Liu Zhenxiong came to inform him that the ancient sect's ruins were ready to be opened and asked if Zhang Yuanjing would like to visit and reminisce about the ancient customs of the Middle Ages.

The so-called Middle Ages is a common periodization of ancient cultivation history in the cultivation world, referring to 20,000 to 100,000 years ago. After that, it is 10,000 to 20,000 years ago, called the Recent Antiquity. Before that, there was the Ancient Era, 100,000 to 300,000 years ago; the Remote Antiquity, 300,000 to 1 million years ago; and the Primordial Era, before 1 million years ago.

Zhang Yuanjing was engrossed in the Thick Earth Qi Circulation Art and the 'Wood Augmentation Method,' so he naturally declined, not being interested in the Middle Age ruins that the Thick Earth Sect had controlled for nearly ten thousand years.

Seeing that his secret move was ineffective, Liu Zhenxiong felt a little annoyed and greatly disappointed in this Xuan Tian Sect Foundation Establishment cultivator known as 'Rat Taoist.' Fortunately, the other arrangements were progressing smoothly, which reassured him a lot.

After leaving the guest room, he thought for a while and summoned a Foundation Establishment cultivator, instructing him to prepare a jade slip with detailed information about the ancient sect's ruins and personally deliver it to Zhang Yuanjing.

He set aside the airs of a sect leader and personally introduced the situation of the ancient sect's ruins to Zhang Yuanjing, persuading him at length. Finally, he aroused a little bit of Zhang Yuanjing's interest, who promised to carefully read the jade slip and give necessary guidance to the Xuan Tian Sect's Qi Refining disciples.

However, Liu Zhenxiong didn't know that as soon as he left, Zhang Yuanjing threw the jade slip into his storage bag without even looking at it, continuing to ponder how to practice the Thick Earth Qi Circulation Art.

When the day came to open the ruins, Zhang Yuanjing, as the Foundation Establishment cultivator leading the Xuan Tian Sect team, naturally had to come out and put on a show. He sent the Qi Refining disciples to the entrance of the ruins, said a few words of encouragement in a hurry, and then remained silent. Then, a Thick Earth Sect Foundation Establishment deacon explained the situation in the ruins to the disciples.

This person was extremely eloquent, describing the scenery and opportunities within the ruins vividly, as if entering it would inevitably lead to a rewarding experience. Although the Qi Refining disciples didn't believe his nonsense, their interest was still piqued.

In the crowd, Zhou Yuming's bright eyes quietly watched Zhang Yuanjing's expression.

Zhou Yuming was not very interested in this trip to the Thick Earth Sect. However, when he learned that Zhang Yuanjing, Wu Yuankui's fellow villager, was leading the team, he immediately had an idea: to curry favor with Zhang Yuanjing and, in turn, curry favor with Sect Leader Wu Yuankui.

In fact, he had this idea last time in the Xumi Mountain Void Demon Space. However, the environment there was dangerous, and Liu Yuanqing was watching, so he didn't dare to act rashly. This time, following Zhang Yuanjing to the Thick Earth Sect was an excellent opportunity.

Previously, on the banks of the White Moon River, he had already successfully attracted Zhang Yuanjing's attention. However, he still lacked an opportunity, an opportunity to make Zhang Yuanjing value him.

He could see that Zhang Yuanjing was not interested in this ancient sect's ruins and had no intention of listening to the Thick Earth Sect cultivator's long speech. This made him a little disappointed.

However, he soon cheered up, thinking that if he could find something in the ancient sect's ruins that would interest a Foundation Establishment cultivator, he might be able to win Zhang Yuanjing's favor and get his care.

The Thick Earth Sect Foundation Establishment deacon was personally arranged by Liu Zhenxiong, and the purpose was to arouse Zhang Yuanjing's interest in the ancient sect's ruins.

If these Qi Refining disciples came back after a tour and Zhang Yuanjing still didn't ask about it, then the arrangement would naturally be completely in vain. Even if these Qi Refining disciples made some discoveries, how dare they speak rashly when Zhang Yuanjing had not taken the initiative to ask.

Seeing Zhang Yuanjing looking like he was wandering in the sky, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious, so he raised his voice and introduced in detail the three places in the ruins: Black Stone Mountain, Copper Iron Gorge, and Sky Wind Cave. These three places either had residual Middle Age formations, or Qi Activation stage demonic beasts, or strange power of heaven and earth, which were extremely dangerous, but the chances of getting good things were also great. In particular, these three places were important places of the ancient sect, and only by chance could one gain something.

As soon as he said this, the eight Qi Refining disciples' eyes lit up, and their interest greatly increased. As for Zhang Yuanjing, he was still the same, like a wooden chicken, completely immersed in his own world.

The deacon wailed in his heart: It turns out that he is a foolish man who doesn't ask about external affairs and only thinks about internal matters, so be it, so be it!

Liu Zhenxiong watched from the side and was also helpless. He had no choice but to take over the conversation, announce the opening of the ruins, and order a total of thirty-eight Qi Refining disciples from the two sects to immediately enter the ruins.

At this time, Zhang Yuanjing came back to his senses, exchanged a few polite words with Liu Zhenxiong, and hurried back to the guest room to continue studying his Zhang Yuanjing version of the 'Wood Augmentation Method.'

It is said that Zhang Yuanjing had been pondering these days, and he felt that with his spiritual root attributes, he could not break the pattern of water and fire balance and refine water-containing soil unless he directly 'augmented wood' from the outside world.

However, as Wu Zhendong said, directly extracting the wood spiritual power from spiritual plants was simply wishful thinking. The five elements of spiritual power in spiritual plants, like the spiritual power in cultivators, are refined and integrated with themselves. Unless you eat the entire spiritual plant, you can't get the spiritual power in it.

However, any spiritual plant contains more than just wood spiritual power. Moreover, even if you are lucky enough to extract wood power and introduce it into your body, if you do not have the corresponding spiritual root, it is easy to damage your meridians and dantian, leading to qi and blood disorders and dantian weakness, and in severe cases, internal breathing collapse and loss of cultivation.

Therefore, although he had already memorized the first four layers of the Thick Earth Qi Circulation Art, Zhang Yuanjing was always struggling with whether to practice it or not. Before breaking through to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, he would definitely not have dared to think about it. Now, perhaps because he had just gained a lot from the adventure, his heart was quite restless.

After thinking about it, the first layer of the technique was at most equivalent to the cultivation of the fourth layer of Qi Refining, and nothing major would happen. It was better to try it first and see if the 'wood extraction' of the 'Wood Augmentation Method' meant directly extracting wood spiritual power from spiritual plants as he understood it.

Therefore, driven by strong curiosity, Zhang Yuanjing no longer hesitated and took out a first-order spiritual-grade Blue Star Grass from his storage bag. This Blue Star Grass is a water-attributed spiritual grass, which contains a lot of water spiritual power in addition to wood spiritual power.

Zhang Yuanjing gently held the Blue Star Grass in his hands and began to circulate the mana in his dantian according to the first layer of the Thick Earth Qi Circulation Art. The original Yellow Dragon Qi gradually traveled to his arms according to the new technique's route. Before long, a suction force formed from the palms of his hands.

Just as Zhang Yuanjing didn't know how to perform the technique next, the luster of the Blue Star Grass in his hand suddenly dimmed, and a wisp of pure wood spiritual power instantly rushed into the acupoints in his hand and then flowed into his meridians.

He was immediately surprised and delighted. He was delighted that he had broken through the first difficulty so easily, which meant that his understanding of 'wood extraction' was correct. What was surprising was that when the wood spiritual power entered the meridians, he had no idea how to deal with it. Because he had no idea how to 'strengthen fire,' 'generate earth,' or 'supplement water.'

In hesitation, he suddenly realized and quickly eliminated distractions, concentrating his mind and spirit, trying to control the flow of these wood spiritual powers.

However, because he did not have a wood spiritual root, he could not establish any connection with the wood spiritual power in a hurry. The wisp of wood spiritual power did not listen to his command at all, and flowed into the meridians where he used to circulate the Yellow Dragon Qi Condensation Technique, merging into the aura containing the three spiritual powers of water, fire, and earth.

As soon as the wood spiritual power entered it, it immediately stimulated the fire spiritual power in the meridians. Zhang Yuanjing realized that something was wrong and wanted to control the rapidly increasing fire spiritual power to counteract the water spiritual power.

However, the fire spiritual power, having gained unexpected assistance, seemed to lose control all of a sudden and expanded rapidly. After only a breath, it suddenly made a soft 'bang' and burned fiercely.

Zhang Yuanjing's heart skipped a beat, and his mind went blank. He thought he was about to have his meridians burst and die. However, the King of Hell only brushed past him, bringing a gust of cold wind, making him tremble, making him sweat cold sweat, but did not take him away.

The self-igniting fire spiritual power only burned and mutated all the water and earth spiritual powers, forming a reddish-yellow spiritual power, without causing other consequences. In particular, the meridians were unscathed except for some pain due to the roasting.

Zhang Yuanjing, who had survived a disaster, was blessed with inspiration and quickly calmed his mind, guiding the reddish-yellow spiritual power to flow in the meridians along the Thick Earth Qi Circulation Art's exercise route. After a small cycle, it entered the dantian.

The reddish-yellow spiritual power was different from but did not conflict with the Yellow Dragon Qi, and the two existed in parallel without hindering each other. However, the reddish-yellow spiritual power was purer and more spiritual than the Yellow Dragon Qi.

Zhang Yuanjing didn't know if this was considered a successful cultivation, but at least there was no problem.

So, he transferred the wisp of reddish-yellow spiritual power from the dantian and input it into the root system of the Blue Star Grass through the meridian route when he had just extracted the wood power. The emerald color on the surface of the stem and leaves of the Blue Star Grass flashed away, and it seemed to be more vivid than before.

After the wisp of reddish-yellow spiritual power was exhausted in the Blue Star Grass, Zhang Yuanjing extracted another wisp of wood spiritual power from it into his meridians. Soon, the same mutation happened again, and a wisp of reddish-yellow spiritual power was born in the Yellow Dragon Qi.

Zhang Yuanjing was greatly relieved and continued to move the spiritual power, performing the Thick Earth Qi Circulation Art's exercise route, and finally incorporated it into the dantian, making the reddish-yellow spiritual power in the dantian stronger. After nine small cycles, he finally converted all the Yellow Dragon Qi in the dantian into reddish-yellow spiritual power.

Time passed unknowingly for nine days. He had no fatigue and, after a short rest, continued to practice.

This time, there was no Yellow Dragon Qi in his body. After the wood spiritual power extracted from the spiritual grass entered the meridians, it was wrapped by the reddish-yellow spiritual power, and then fused with the water, fire, and earth spiritual powers he absorbed from the surrounding heaven and earth, directly transforming into reddish-yellow spiritual power. After a small cycle, the mana in the dantian increased by another point.

Looking at the Blue Star Grass again, compared to the beginning of the practice, there was no obvious growth, but it was still bright and lustrous, with plump stems and leaves, and full of vitality, even in the absence of special jade preservation, which showed that his cultivation method was definitely beneficial to this grass.

Zhang Yuanjing couldn't help but smile with joy, revealing his teeth. The technique that no one in the Thick Earth Sect had practiced for thousands of years had been practiced by him in just over ten days! With his aptitude and comprehension, this could only be said to be an accident within an accident.

Regardless of the reason, fate only favors those who are willing to take risks. If Zhang Yuanjing could not take the first step against common sense, then everything that followed would not have happened, and the new reddish-yellow spiritual power would naturally not have been born.

At this moment, his state of mind had undergone tremendous changes. Some of his old ideas unknowingly faded in color and became pale. And some new ideas, a cultivator's will to defy the heavens and fight for life, quietly stood at the bottom of his heart.

After a long time, Zhang Yuanjing regained his composure and thought to himself: Perhaps the senior who created the 'Wood Augmentation Method' of the Thick Earth Qi Circulation Art had the same spiritual root structure as himself, with a balance of water and fire and weak earth. Corresponding to this spiritual root, 'wood extraction' is not a question of how to extract it, but rather that the first step of the technique is to extract wood power, rather than forming water-containing soil first; 'strengthening fire' and 'generating earth' are to use wood as a guide to stimulate fire and burn water and earth to generate new earth, and 'supplementing water' is to use water to assist the 'generating earth' process. It is precisely by relying on wood to stimulate fire and burn earth and water to form new earth that this 'cycle is completed'; moreover, the earth must be weak. Only when the earth is weak can it be burned and mutated by fire, otherwise, it will be 'half-cooked' and fall short of success.

According to this explanation, the reason why no one in the Thick Earth Sect has been able to practice the 'Wood Augmentation Method' is definitely not because they cannot directly extract wood spiritual power from spiritual plants, but because after extraction, due to the lack of a rare spiritual root structure with a balance of water and fire and weak earth, they cannot trigger subsequent changes. Not only can they not successfully cultivate the technique, but because of the lack of a wood spiritual root, they fall into a state of meridian damage or even qi deviation.

This may be the reason why the 'Thick Earth Cultivation Notes' did not record the specific situation of cultivating the 'Wood Augmentation Method.'

This guess made him feel very good. In addition to being happy, he also thought that his success might also be related to taking the Golden Scale Fruit. If his meridians and dantian had not been transformed by the Golden Scale Fruit, they would definitely not have been able to withstand the burning of the fire spiritual power. At that time, qi deviation would have been light, and there was a high probability that he would have been burned to ashes on the spot by the spiritual power fire.

Of course, these are all after-the-fact explanations, and the true meaning of the technique may not be so.

In fact, his practice of directly extracting wood power from spiritual plants coincided with the principle of a basic technique in earth-based techniques, thus improving the level of the Thick Earth Qi Circulation Art and realizing the mutation of the technique. However, that basic technique had been lost for ten thousand years.

Afterward, Zhang Yuanjing did something completely different from his usual style, which was to rename the technique.

He muttered to himself: 'This set of accidentally achieved techniques is already significantly different from the Thick Earth Qi Circulation Art and can be completely regarded as a new technique. Why not call it 'Thick Earth Nourishing Qi Technique,' and the earth spiritual power cultivated by this technique will be called Thick Earth Power!'