At dusk, a group of servants finally climbed up to the mountain gate panting.
The disciples riding on the white eagles had arrived long ago and were selected by the outer gate deacons and elders. When Li An and others arrived, Wang Dazhu and others were nowhere to be seen.
"Next, I will make an assignment for you."
The immortal who led them up the mountain said: "Zhang Susu and Wang Zilin have wood-attributed spiritual roots and are responsible for cultivating spiritual plants. Lu Yishan and Guo Mang have fire-attributed spiritual roots and are responsible for ironmaking..."
After reading all the words, the immortal paused again, "Li An, no-attribute spiritual roots..."
He looked at Li An: "Where do you want to go?"
Among the many servants, Li An's spiritual roots are the most special.
Therefore, the immortal was too lazy to think about where he was going, and Li An actually had the power to choose.
Li An's heart moved, "Disciple is willing to cultivate spiritual plants!"
Being a spiritual plant husband is the most suitable for practicing his life-raising immortal art.
"Okay, whatever you want to do, deacons, please take your people away."
After the immortal said this, seven or eight immortals came up and took their people away according to the distribution.
"Zhang Susu, Wang Zilin, and Li An, right? You three, follow me!"
A middle-aged man spoke. He was Fan Jie, the deacon of "Lingzhi Mountain", and also a registered disciple!
Fan Jie was burly and pot-bellied. He glanced at the three people and stayed on Zhang Susu for a while.
Although Zhang Susu was only a mixed spiritual root, she was born in a secular and powerful family in Tianyang County. She was very handsome and had a good figure. She was a real beauty, second only to Mu Qingwan.
He nodded with satisfaction.
...
Xuanyang Sect was one of the seven major immortal sects in the Dali Dynasty, with dozens of miles of mountains.
Lingzhi Mountain is in the remote northern mountains. The slopes here are relatively gentle, with abundant spiritual energy, and there are hundreds of acres of spiritual fields between the slopes!
"It's so beautiful here!"
Zhang Susu couldn't help but exclaimed. At first glance, the scenery of Lingzhi Mountain was very beautiful.
"Such a strong spiritual energy!"
Wang Zilin was born in the lower class, and he was also very surprised at this moment.
With such a strong spiritual energy, living here all the time is very beneficial to cultivation.
Only Li An secretly complained.
Damn it, so much land...
Is it really going to be like a cow or a horse?
Fan Jie took them to Lingzhi Mountain, where there were some residences for the servants to live.
Halfway down the mountain, there were spiritual fields where spiritual rice, spiritual beans and other crops were planted, while halfway up the mountain, because the mountain was steep, nothing was planted.
"These are some skills, including breathing techniques and cloud-moving and rain-making techniques. Breathing techniques, combined with spirit stones, can allow you to quickly enter the Qi Refining Stage, while cloud-moving and rain-making techniques are the techniques you will use for farming in the future."
Fan Jie stopped at the foot of the mountain and handed each of the three people two bamboo slips, a small piece of spirit stone, and a small bag of spirit rice, saying:
"Practice as soon as possible, as these spiritual plants are about to mature. You only have one month to study. Do you understand?"
The three of them were delighted and nodded like chicks pecking at rice.
"Go away. There are only empty houses at the foot of the mountain. You can choose a place to live. There are errand uniforms in the room. You will change into them starting tomorrow!"
"Don't go up the mountain without my permission. If you dare to violate this, I will break your legs. Remember that!"
After Fan Jie finished speaking, he walked up the mountainside by himself.
He lives on the top of the mountain!
After he left, the three began to choose a place to live. "Miss Susu, this house is the largest and has a small garden. It's the best place for you to live. What do you think?"
Wang Zilin took the initiative to give the best house to Zhang Susu without asking Li An.
Zhang Susu was obviously quite satisfied with the house and nodded, "Thank you, Senior Brother Zilin!"
Wang Zilin smiled and said, "We live closer, so it will be convenient for us to communicate and practice in the future..."
He chose a house next to Zhang Susu and proposed:
"Susu, Brother Li, how about we study the breathing technique and the cloud-making and rain-making technique together?"
Although he called Brother Li, he basically didn't look at Li An, but only paid attention to Zhang Susu.
"Yes, if we study together, we will make faster progress!"
Zhang Susu also nodded, but looked at Li An expectantly.
Li An's attributeless spiritual root is half a head higher than theirs. If Li An can practice with them, they can get some benefits more or less.
"Sorry, I'm a little tired and want to rest first." Li An said lightly, and then he found a secluded house. Zhang Susu and the others were a little embarrassed. "Hehe, isn't it just a spiritual root without attributes? Why are you so proud... Aren't you the same as us now?" Wang Zilin couldn't help but speak. ... The living conditions of the servants were very simple, but fortunately, they had all the pots and pans, and there was no problem with basic life. Li An threw aside the breathing technique and the cloud-making technique, and took out the small bag of spiritual rice! Compared with spiritual stones, the main function of spiritual rice is to satisfy hunger, and it comes with thin spiritual energy. This small bag of spiritual rice is only about one pound, which is enough for ordinary people to eat for a year! Spiritual rice is very important for beginners and low-level practitioners. After all, low-level practitioners cannot practice fasting. Moreover, the spiritual energy in the spiritual rice can be used to adapt to the practice. After the practice is familiar, the spiritual stone can be used to break through the barrier, so as to avoid waste. The room was equipped with pots and pans. Li An washed the pot, washed the rice, and cooked rice. His movements were a little awkward.
The steam kept blowing through the lid of the pot, carrying the unique fragrance of the spiritual rice.
The rice was cooked, a big pot full.
If others saw it, they would definitely think it was outrageous. Such a big pot was enough for dozens of people!
Moreover, at this stage of just starting to practice, I was not familiar with the exercises, and a lot of spiritual energy would be wasted after eating, and could not be effectively used.
So, at the beginning, I ate sparingly, at most twenty grains per meal.
Li An's pot was half a catty of rice.
He dared to eat like this, mainly because he would not waste spiritual energy thanks to his experience in practicing in his previous life.
He scooped up a big bowl of spiritual rice and ate it slowly.
The throat kept surging, and the fragrant spiritual rice filled the stomach. In Li An's mind, the life-nourishing immortal formula slowly started to work.
At this moment, Li An's blood and qi slowly moved, and a trace of spiritual mist was extracted from the spiritual rice.
Li An guided it several times, but the amount of spiritual mist was too small and it dispersed as soon as it was driven away.
Li An was not anxious or impatient, and continued to chew and eat slowly, constantly driving the life-nourishing immortal technique.
The pot of rice slowly emptied, and the mist in the body continued to accumulate, and finally a certain amount was introduced into Li An's dantian.
"Stop--"
Li An whispered, and the mist condensed together and was absorbed by his dantian.
But there was still no big change.
Li An took a look and felt a little painful in an instant. A small bag of spiritual rice had been half gone!
But he didn't care much and cooked the rest together.
After eating all of it.
Finally, a green bud emerged in his dantian.
This green bud emerged, and there seemed to be a hint of green in the dantian. Li An felt more comfortable all over, and the body that was injured by the thunder spirit today was slowly being nourished.
"The long life seed... succeeded!"
Li An was a little excited. In his previous life, he had studied this technique countless times after obtaining it.
Finally, he had the opportunity to practice it in this life.
Everything came naturally.
"Growing life seeds is the core of the cultivation of the Yangming Zhuxian Jue!"
"It is connected to my life. The stronger the life seeds are, the stronger my vitality will be and the longer my life will be!"
"Moreover, the uniqueness of the Yangming Zhuxian Jue is that the life seeds are rooted in the Dantian. After continuous growth, they can continuously nourish the body and gradually change their spiritual roots!"
Li An whispered.
This is the fundamental reason why he chose the Yangming Zhuxian Jue.
As long as he is patient and develops steadily, relying on his lifespan that exceeds that of ordinary people and his spiritual roots that change slowly... there is a glimmer of hope for him to impact the Nascent Soul or even a higher realm in the future.
The lifespan of a cultivator is also limited. For example, a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage can live up to 200 years at most. If he cannot build a foundation, he will die of old age.
But Li An estimates that if the Yangming Zhuxian Jue is practiced properly, he can live about 300 years!
Directly increase his lifespan by 100 years. Then, Li An could not help but frown again.
Now he only gets one pound of spiritual rice every month, and he doesn't know when his life seed will be able to produce the first leaf.
The life seed is his hope to repair his spiritual roots. Before his spiritual roots are repaired, he cannot enter the Qi Refining Stage.
However, he will have to participate in the labor of moving clouds and rain in a month. If he does not make a breakthrough by then, he will probably be scolded and targeted by Fan Jie.
He still has a small piece of spiritual stone in his hand, but the spiritual stone is very precious. It contains more abundant and purer spiritual energy than spiritual rice. He has to keep it for use when he officially enters the first level of Qi Refining.
He thought about it. In the spiritual field outside, the spiritual rice is almost ripe...
However, there are formations and prohibitions to protect it. Except for the labor time, no one can enter the spiritual field.
"The formations and prohibitions here should be relatively low-level and cannot reach the level of full coverage..."
Li An whispered. He had cultivated to the stage of forming pills in his previous life. He had dabbled in formations, refining tools, and refining pills.
He got up, boiled some hot water, and took a nice hot bath in a wooden tub. The sweat and fatigue of the day finally disappeared.
He changed into the sect's errand uniform. The light gray errand uniform was moderately loose and tight, made of fine linen, and much more comfortable than the old cloth he wore when he first entered the sect.
He fell asleep then.
…
In a blink of an eye, seven days passed.
During these seven days, Li An would go outside from time to time to enjoy the scenery and familiarize himself with the terrain.
"I finally entered the Qi Refining Stage!"
Wang Zilin's surprised voice came from outside.
Li An took advantage of the sky before it got dark and went out for a walk. He saw Wang Zilin and Zhang Susu congratulating each other.
"Brother Li, you should have made a breakthrough too, right?"
Zhang Susu looked at Li An with her beautiful eyes.
"Not yet." Li An looked a little embarrassed, and said, "My body was injured by the thunder spirit, and I need to recuperate for a while..." Hearing this, Zhang Susu's eyes turned, and she said, "Brother Li, don't worry. I still have some spiritual rice here, and I can share some with Brother Li..." Although spiritual rice is not a spiritual medicine, it can also nourish the body. She was born in a secular and powerful family and knows how to make friends. Although Li An is injured now, he is a non-attribute spiritual root after all, and there may be opportunities for him to rise in the future. Li An thought for a while and said, "Thank you, Miss Susu." He took a handful of spiritual rice from Zhang Susu, then turned around and went back to the house. Zhang Susu smiled a little. "Susu, this person doesn't know what's good for him, why are you so polite to him!" And next to him, Wang Zilin couldn't help but feel a little resentful! ... And in the room. Li An was very calm. The spiritual rice Zhang Susu gave him was of no use to him, but he had to accept it.
Because he didn't want Zhang Susu to have a negative impression of him.
--There was only one female cultivator like Zhang Susu in Lingzhi Mountain, and she was as beautiful as a flower.
Besides, on the day Fan Jie picked them up, his eyes stayed on Zhang Susu for a long time, and Li An would not fail to see the meaning.
Whether actively or passively, Zhang Susu would be Fan Jie's bedmate sooner or later!
Owe her a small favor, and it would be easier to get along with her in the future.
As for Wang Zilin... Li An didn't take it to heart at all.
Wang Zilin was so close to Zhang Susu, he was simply courting death, Fan Jie would deal with him.
Li An had only one thing on his mind now.
Live steadily and change his spiritual roots!
He definitely didn't want to cause any trouble or any risks.
Now he had no cultivation and no ability to protect himself...too fragile.
...
It was late at night.
Li An quietly slipped out of the room.
According to the route determined by the past few days of scouting, he walked to the corner where the spiritual field and the mountain meet. Because of the complex terrain, the prohibition did not cover it! This was due to his experience in his previous life. Otherwise, he was just a chores, and even a registered disciple like Fan Jie would never find the flaws here. He jumped into the ridge, raised his trouser legs, took off his shoes, stepped into the ditch, and followed the ditch into a fertile spiritual field. Walking in the ditch will not leave footprints! Moreover, mosquitoes and insects breed in the ditch, and the rows of spiritual rice near the ditch are often easily eaten by insects and ants. No one will care if the yield is lower. Li An carefully rubbed a few grains of spiritual rice that were not fully mature from a rice ear... ...