Chapter 18: The Fourth Level of Qi Training
“It’s so fucking dark!”

After returning to his own yard, Fang Chen's first words were to express his feelings.

The two major sects treat independent cultivators as cannon fodder, and Lianyunfang City, which specializes in serving independent cultivators, treats them as leeks.

After traveling for so long, he finally realized once again the cruelty of the world of cultivation.

It's not his fault. After all, he gained abilities that others didn't have soon after he traveled through time. He had never really experienced the hardships of a casual cultivator and only had a glimpse of them from the original owner's experience.

Today, I have gotten a glimpse of the whole picture.

As the saying goes, when you are poor, you should take care of yourself. Fang Chen also knew that this situation could not be solved in a short time. He did not dwell on this issue for long and walked to the side of the Moon Goddess Flower and sat cross-legged.

When he went to the market to buy things, the Luna Flower was still in a rather wilted state due to repeated transplanting.

Now it has fully recovered, emitting spiritual light as usual, reflecting the faint light of the twenty moon-light spiritual herbs around it.

Bathed in this light, Fang Chen emptied his mind and completely entered into a state of cultivation.

With the help of that pile of spiritual silkworm pupae, he was only a pair of Shaochong acupoints away from the third level of Qi training. If he made a final effort tonight, it would be entirely possible for him to break through.

Today, Fang Chen had consumed too much of his spiritual thoughts, so he did not release any more spiritual thoughts. Instead, he relied on the spiritual energy of his spiritual roots to absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth to practice.

The speed is naturally slower than using spiritual thoughts to control spiritual energy, but the worldly affairs require a combination of work and rest. If you keep over-exploiting your spiritual thoughts, it is very likely that your spiritual thoughts will be damaged.

It won’t be so easy to recover at that time.

Fang Chen also understood this principle, so he let Ling Nian rest for a while.

Anyway, thanks to the Moon Goddess Flower and twenty Moon Spirit Herbs, the spiritual energy in the yard is very rich. Even without the assistance of spiritual thoughts, his cultivation speed is not slow at all.

The spiritual energy entered the Dantian and transformed into the five elements of magic power, and then impacted the Shaochong acupoint under Fang Chen's control.

This is the Jing point of the Shaoyin Meridian of the Hand. Like the previous Shaoshang point, it is the most difficult point to open on this meridian.

What's more, he is a practitioner of the Five Elements, and the difficulty of opening up the acupoints is five times higher than that of an ordinary practitioner.

Even so, under the continuous impact of the five elements of magic power, the two Shaochong acupoints were slowly worn out to create a small path for the magic power to pass through.

The opening of this tiny road meant that Fang Chen had penetrated the Shaoyin Meridian of the Hand among the twelve main meridians.

This also means that he has officially broken through to the third level of Qi training.

Just like the last time he broke through, the spiritual energy in the yard began to flow towards him uncontrollably, gathering in his dantian and automatically transforming into the five elements of magic power.

This phenomenon did not stop until Fang Chen's total mana became twice as much as before.

As expected, his hearing, vision and other physical senses have also been improved. Even his originally over-consumed spiritual power has recovered a lot and is even stronger than before.

When Fang Chen's spiritual thoughts were just condensed, they could only cover an area of ​​five meters around himself. After breaking through to the second level of Qi training, it reached a radius of ten meters.

That is the limit of the spiritual thoughts of an average Qi training fifth-level cultivator.

After breaking through to the third level of Qi training, the range of his spiritual thoughts reached fifteen meters in radius, and he could already compete with cultivators at the sixth level of Qi training.

After consolidating his cultivation, Fang Chen opened his eyes.

Looking at the moon in the sky, it was still midnight, and the time it took for him to break through this time was about three hours.

"Since it's not even daybreak yet, let's continue practicing."

After calming down the joy of breaking through the realm in his heart, Fang Chen once again devoted himself to cultivation.

He is only one step away from achieving his goal, which is the fourth level of Qi training. Then he will leave Lianyunfang City and head to Jueling Swamp.

During this period, he read a lot of information about the Jueling Swamp and had already decided that it would be his destination after leaving Lianyunfang City.

Apart from anything else, the fact that it is close to the sea has already won Fang Chen's favor.

You know, there are not only plants on land, there are also many spiritual plants growing in water. In his eyes, the sea is a blue fertile field.

Once developed, it will provide him with inexhaustible resources.

Of course, developing such a territory requires manpower, and Fang Chen has a plan for this. Everything just waits for a breakthrough in cultivation.

To break through from the third level of Qi training to the fourth level, one needs to open up the hand Jueyin meridian among the twelve meridians. The hand Jueyin meridian, like the hand Shaoyin meridian, has a total of nine pairs of acupoints, symmetrically distributed on the left and right arms.

His spiritual power had recovered and greatly increased, and he once again released his spiritual power, controlling the spiritual energy between heaven and earth to enter his body.

After a night, although I failed to successfully open the first pair of acupoints on the Hand Jueyin Meridian, I was not far away.

So Fang Chen's life returned to its previous state, and two months passed like this.

During the day, I practice the Five Elements Planting Spells or study formations and prohibitions, and then find time to refine the talisman paper and spiritual ink into golden thread talismans.

The six pairs of spiritual silkworms used as breeding silkworms also successfully emerged from their cocoons. After mating, each female moth laid more than a hundred spiritual silkworm eggs.

After growing for a month longer than the maturity period, the spiritual plants that were kept for seeds produced a large number of seeds.

Fang Chen used the Blazing Sun Technique in conjunction with the germination method, and indeed achieved a germination rate of over 95%. The germinated seeds were also planted in the yard.

After buying the puppet, he used his spiritual thoughts to directly control the puppet to help him do some physical work in the yard, saving a lot of effort.

For example, he could plant these seeds, raise the newly grown silkworms, reel silk, and weave the silk into cloth. It was not that he was incapable of doing it himself, but a flesh and blood body would feel tired after all.

Puppets are tireless and don't consume much spiritual energy, making them perfect for doing this kind of thing.

Two months later, Fang Chen had opened up seven of the nine pairs of acupoints on the Hand Jueyin Meridian, which was much faster than the previous opening of the Hand Shaoyin Meridian.

Logically speaking, the acupoints on the Hand Jueyin Meridian should be more difficult to open than those on the Hand Shaoyin Meridian, but his condition in the past two months is much better than in the previous two months.

The leaves of the spiritual tea tree can be picked, and the spiritual tea brewed from them is very helpful for cultivation.

The main ingredient of the Ganoderma lucidum for refining the Qi Gathering Powder was also mature, so Fang Chen refined the Qi Gathering Powder according to the method recorded in the introduction to alchemy.

This process is not difficult. After all, Juqi Powder is a powder. You just need to grind the herbs into powder and mix them according to the proportion.

With the help of spiritual thoughts, it was naturally no difficulty for Fang Chen to do these things.

For cultivators in the early stages of Qi training, the role of Qi Gathering Powder is self-evident. Many casual cultivators even use it as a elixir to break through the realm, and its effect can be imagined.

So even though it is theoretically more difficult to break through from the third level of Qi training to the fourth level, Fang Chen now has sufficient resources for training and can actually train faster.

Today is the time for the silkworms to reel silk.

So he naturally enjoyed another serving of spiritual silkworm pupae and spiritual rice.

The number of spiritual silkworm pupae was nearly twice as much as last time, so there was no obstacle at all, and the Laogong and Zhongchong points of the hand Jueyin meridian were successfully opened.

The entire hand Jueyin meridian runs through it.

At the same time, the five elements of magic power in Fang Chen's dantian began to rotate slowly, and eventually formed a magic power cyclone with a radius of one inch.

The spiritual energy rushed into his dantian frantically as usual during a breakthrough, but he didn't need to control it. The moment it touched the magic power cyclone, it was automatically transformed into the five elements of magic power.

The cyclone of magic power is the symbol of the fourth level of Qi training.

The range of his spiritual power also reached 25 meters in radius, which was the spiritual power strength that only a cultivator at the seventh level of Qi training could have.

The spiritual power of the Moon Goddess Flower played an indispensable role in making this possible.

"Before you leave, go say goodbye to Zhou Xingyun."

After consolidating his cultivation, Fang Chen planned to leave Lianyunfang City.

Just before packing up the things in the yard, I suddenly thought of Zhou Xingyun in Lianyun Pavilion.

After traveling through time, he had no relatives in Lianyunfang City, and only Zhou Xingyun could be considered his friend.

During these two contacts, he had a very good impression of Zhou Xingyun. Combined with the original owner's memory, he really couldn't leave without saying goodbye.

Having made up his mind, Fang Chen began to pack his luggage.

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