Cultivation: Starting with Farming in the Spiritual Pivot Grotto

Chapter 24 Jia Wood generates Li Fire

"So this is the wonderful use of the Cleansing Elixir."

"The Cleansing Pill unblocks acupoints, not only the main acupoints but also the hidden acupoints. After taking twenty Cleansing Pills, the medicinal properties of the pill will no longer be effective."

"I have been taking one pill a day for the past few days, and I have already taken twelve pills. I have twenty-one Cleansing Pills in the mayfly pouch, which is enough for me."

Given the opportunity to build a solid foundation, which cultivator could refuse if their life wasn't in danger? Li Ya's ambitions naturally didn't stop there.

The Xie family's diagram has 216 hidden apertures, which is nearly five times less than the White Jade Capital Celestial Spirit Aperture Diagram. How could he accept this?

"Please help me, Ling Shu, to use my physical body as a limit and combine it with the records in the Xie Family Hidden Aperture Diagram to deduce all the hidden apertures on my body."

[At your request, Fellow Daoist, the Spiritual Pivot will assist you in deducing the hidden acupoints throughout the body.]

[Spiritual Energy Consumption: Five Dou of True Qi]

[Required spiritual item: one tael of gourd money]

[Time required: One month]

[My true energy is insufficient. Fellow Daoist, would you please confirm whether we should perform the deduction in stages?]

"Can!"

"Looks like I'll have to start taking a lot of pills."

Five dou of true qi is equivalent to fifty thousand strands of true qi. Currently, he only has four hundred strands of true qi around him. Fortunately, there are many high-quality pills inside the Five Prisons Bracelet.

"I will just focus on my cultivation in Qingmu Pavilion for the next month. I have never had so much time to cultivate since I was born into this world."

"However, this is the first time that a situation requiring spiritual objects has occurred in the deduction. The gourd coins contain divine power sealed within, and the Spiritual Pivot deduction probably uses this thing."

Li Ya took out the gourd coins and threw them into the air. The gourd coins disappeared into thin air, and the Ling Shu began its deduction. However, this time the scale was far greater than before.

Countless golden bird-like characters circled around the Spirit Pivot, moving so fast that only the light trails left by the characters could be seen.

Layer upon layer of tiny characters resembling birds and insects overlapped, resembling a large sun from a distance. He only focused on observing it for a moment before feeling waves of dizziness wash over him.

……

Li Ya now understood why those senior masters would often go into seclusion for ten or even a hundred years in order to make even the slightest progress in their cultivation.

Beyond the grand narrative of immortality, there is the aggregation of resources driven by the growth of cultivation.

There is also the addiction to gathering great power within oneself. As one's cultivation level rises step by step, it is like an intoxicating hallucinogenic drug that makes it difficult to extricate oneself.

Although he shouldn't be a slave to power, Li Ya was genuinely unable to extricate himself from it for the time being.

Thirty days passed in the blink of an eye. Of the 365 acupoints in his body, nearly 300 had been opened. This speed was already astonishing.

If it weren't for the fact that the "Path to Immortality" requires ten days to be used again, I'm afraid these black dragon vines would have continued to sprout one after another, without any end in sight.

"Brother Xiaoya, come, come, how about we, fellow disciples, warm some wine and discuss the Dao?"

"That's exactly what I'd like to do, but as your senior brother, if we just keep drinking like this, I'll be exhausted. I've only just come out of seclusion, and I don't have any oil or fat in my stomach; I can't keep up!"

When Li Ya left the pass, it was already the dead of winter, and cotton-like snowflakes had already covered the Qingmu Pavilion.

It had already started snowing before the retreat began. That was when Senior Brother Lingji was brewing and tasting tea in the courtyard, which was strangely inexplicable.

Although Senior Brother Lingji is not afraid of the cold or heat, it is still a bit strange to drink tea outside in the dead of winter.

"No respectable person would drink tea in the snow in winter; a snowy day should be for discussing philosophy over wine."

Brother Lingji adopted the idea, but not entirely. He did brew wine, but he still did it in the midst of heavy snow.

"I personally hunted a deer last night and sent it to Liushanju. It should arrive around this time."

Just as Senior Brother Lingji finished speaking, a knock sounded at the door, and a servant from Liushanju came in carrying a food box.

We can't eat this in the heavy snow. Meat and wine are laid out in the front courtyard, and the servants quickly retreat.

The two of them just sat there in the front courtyard, completely lacking any decorum.

A pot of wine sat on the iron mesh of the charcoal stove, with some Solomon's seal beside it. The wine was yellow wine, brewed by an ordinary family. Its aroma wafted through the front yard, making one feel warm all over just by smelling it.

There are three ways to cook venison: stewed venison with ginseng, roasted venison leg, and scalded venison slices. Liu Shan Ju also thoughtfully cut some crisp cucumbers.

The two of them completely emptied their minds, their thoughts blank, not thinking about the hardships on the path to immortality, not thinking about the dangers of the Fallen Dragon Valley, but just sipping the warm yellow wine.

Snowflakes occasionally drifted into the courtyard, and Li Ya reached out to catch them, feeling the coolness in his palm.

"Brother Xiaoya, how many times in our lives will we see a scene like this! Would you like time to freeze right here?"

"I would!" Li Ya answered decisively, "but not with a man like you. If I were to marry, it would be with a beautiful and magnanimous fairy sister."

"Ha ha ha ha!"

The venison was stewed until tender. The chef at Liushanju is truly skilled; I couldn't taste any bitterness or spiciness from the medicinal herbs, only the rich aroma of the meat.

The pond in the courtyard has frozen over, and snow is falling heavily, indicating that next year will be a bountiful harvest.

"Brother Xiaoya, those three troublemakers from Beitian have been driven down the mountain. They can't pay back the money they owe Wang Wu, and each of them has lost an arm. They're just barely surviving in Sifang Town."

"Senior brother, do you think I was a bit too harsh?"

"Ruthless? I just think you're not ruthless enough." Lingji filled his glass, a hint of sinister ruthlessness in his smile.

"On our journey, we will encounter countless enemies. This little ant is like a tiny ant; the only way to eliminate future troubles is to crush it completely. Who can guarantee that this ant won't one day transform into a dragon!"

Li Ya never expected that his usually gentle and refined senior brother Lingji would have such a ruthless streak.

"Maybe next time!"

"Hmm!" Lingji remained noncommittal, then said with a serious expression, "If one day we unfortunately become enemies, I hope Brother Xiaoya will not hold back."

In an instant, a smile appeared on his face again.

"Your aunt has already accepted you as her disciple, so you can deal with Wang Wu as you see fit. But you'll need to take care of the cultivators around him."

Li Ya naturally understood that since this rogue cultivator hadn't been recorded in the Jade Tablet, killing him was fine, but he needed to quickly improve his cultivation and take him down.

As for Wang Wu, once this rogue cultivator dies, he won't even need to lift a finger; the disgruntled members of his family will take care of him.

As for Xu Yuanshan, as long as he received a lot of money, it made no difference to him whether a new person came up.

He probably wouldn't make things difficult for her, after all, no matter how little importance Xie Daoyunzi received, she was still an inner disciple and had a master-disciple relationship with him.

"Let's wait a little longer. After all, the rogue cultivator that Wang Wu is serving is only at the fourth level of Qi Refining."

Lingji nodded and then said, "The Pure Yang Emperor once said: If you cultivate your nature but not your destiny, your spirit will never attain sainthood. If you cultivate your destiny but not your nature, you will eventually return to the cycle of reincarnation when your lifespan ends."

"Your cultivation of sexual energy is now quite good, but you still need a life-strengthening technique as a means of self-protection."

"Those who specialize in wood magic have few offensive techniques to begin with. Although my aunt specializes in wood magic, she also has some knowledge of water magic, with Ren water strengthening Jia wood..."

Lingji's words make sense. Going to Fallen Dragon Valley without a means of attack is like a lamb entering a tiger's den.

Wood is primarily associated with life, nourishment, moisture, and storage, but not with killing, attacking strongholds, or defeating enemies.

Before reaching the sixth level of Qi Refining, all the cultivation is for building a solid physique. Only when you reach the sixth level, with abundant essence and vigorous blood, can you naturally replenish the brain and generate divine thoughts.

After that, they will be able to use their divine sense to activate magical artifacts. Before that, cultivators' means of attack were nothing more than fists, feet, swords, and knives. Sect cultivators were better off; they would cultivate some spells according to their own cultivation methods or extract methods from supernatural powers.

"It's not easy to learn an offensive technique before heading to the Fallen Dragon Valley."

Li Ya didn't believe his master would let him go there naked like that, so he wanted to see what kind of skills he had passed down.

"My aunt found a method in some remote corner, and it seems quite powerful, but it's risky."

As he spoke, he tossed over a yellowed silk book.

"I've looked into this method. It's a way of cultivating internal fire. It doesn't absorb external fire energy, but instead uses its own Jia wood to generate Bing fire."

Li Ya took a look and found the method to be concise, revolving entirely around the idea that "wood is the fuel for fire, and fire inherits the nature of wood."

As for the risk that Senior Brother Lingji mentioned, it is when the wood energy gathers and rises, a wisp of spiritual fire ignites the wood energy, and a spark of heart fire is generated in the heart.

The idea that the heart is associated with the fire element is quite good.

This is a practice for those who have reached the fourth level of Qi Refining and whose internal organs are already strong. At this stage, the internal organs can withstand internal fire to some extent, preventing them from being burned to a crisp.

However, the risks are still considerable; if one makes a wrong move, the outcome will be just like this plate of roasted deer leg.

"Your aunt said you can choose for yourself: whether to cultivate this method or to use fighting techniques to challenge other sects."

"Let me think about it!"

Li Ya understood perfectly well that although he was considering it, he actually had no choice.

He was merely a menial laborer with some potential, and everything he had gained was a gamble for his future.

He didn't believe in love without a reason. Everything in the world has a price, so why was he the only one who could make his master keep increasing the price?

Nothing more than its own inherent value.

Only by showing the world that my future is promising can I convince them to invest more and do their utmost to support me.

The experiences of the past life will only be more exposed in this world.

Ultimately, the purpose of a sect accepting disciples is simply to ensure the continuation of its traditions. The more talented and rapidly advanced a disciple is, the more resources they will receive.

The same applies to scions of prominent families, except they have an additional layer of blood ties.

In sects, the relationship between master and disciple is often more about the bond between them and the gratitude for the transmission of knowledge.

He doesn't dislike it; in fact, he prefers it that way.

However, it is even more precious to have genuine feelings in such a relationship.

This is also why he was willing to stand up for Wei Que, partly for himself and partly for Wei Que.