Chapter 8

"If you want to cultivate, you first need to enter a state of meditation through meditation. This point is not difficult, but for most people, it takes a little time."

"After you enter the state of meditation, you will feel the energy existing around you. However, don't pay attention to it; that is the energy of our world and cannot be absorbed. I will act as your guide at that time and capture a portion of pure energy to give to you. What you need to do is to guide this pure energy into your body with your own intent, and try every possible way to keep it, don't let it leak out."

"The power of intent is very important. If your intent is not enough to guide the energy, then you have no cultivation talent at all."

"But as long as your body successfully absorbs the first portion of energy, then your path of cultivation will be opened."

Lin Yue's words rang in Li Yi's ears.

At this moment, Li Yi sat with his eyes closed, attempting to enter meditation.

Lin Yue pointed out Li Yi's sitting posture, as well as his breathing and some details of meditation, to facilitate him entering the state faster.

As time passed bit by bit.

Li Yi's body gradually lost perception, and his consciousness seemed to fall into darkness, as if it were about to be swallowed by an abyss. A sense of helpless fear welled up in his heart. This feeling made her wake up instantly, and she exited the state of meditation directly.

"Scared?" Lin Yue looked at him with a smile from the side.

Li Yi wiped his forehead and found there was no cold sweat, but he still had lingering fears at this moment: "I felt my consciousness was about to be swallowed by darkness, and I would never wake up again."

"Don't be afraid, this is a normal feeling. Your consciousness and your body have been combined for twenty years. Now that you have to abandon your body to move independently, it is normal to have a sense of fear. The reason it is a piece of darkness is because your consciousness has gotten rid of the influence of the body's five senses. Think about it: one day you wake up from sleep, your body can't move, your ears can't hear, and your eyes can't open. Would you be afraid?" Lin Yue explained patiently.

"What you need to do is to overcome this fear, adapt to that feeling, and then continue to sink down. As long as you cross that hurdle, your consciousness will produce new perceptions on its own. That kind of perception is not visual, not auditory, it is a special existence."

"I understand, I'll try again." Li Yi nodded and then closed his eyes again.

For the second meditation, perhaps because of the fear generated by the first cultivation, he spent more time.

This time, Li Yi's consciousness fell into darkness again, and that sense of fear welled up again.

Only this time he did not fight against this fear, but let the fear wrap around his whole body.

However, his consciousness seemed to be trapped in a piece of darkness; there was no direction here, no time, like a cage.

Soon.

Li Yi trembled and woke up again, exiting the state of meditation directly.

"Failed again?" Lin Yue asked.

Li Yi nodded: "My consciousness was trapped by the darkness, and an instinct made me want to break free."

"This is your brain determining whether your body is dead, so your consciousness was forcibly called back. But don't worry, the adaptability of the human body is very strong. If you do it a few more times, your brain will understand that the state just now is not death, and such a situation won't happen later."

"Cultivation is not such a simple thing. During the period, you have to overcome various psychological states, and also repeatedly exercise to let your body and mind adapt to that feeling. Some people say that cultivation has great terror; this is correct. But if you can't even cross this hurdle, then I advise you to give up cultivation."

Lin Yue said seriously.

"I understand, I'll try one more time." Li Yi took a deep breath and said.

Lin Yue said: "Don't put too much pressure on yourself, take your time, there is plenty of time."

Li Yi nodded.

Although he didn't say anything, he knew very well in his heart that he didn't have much stable time, and trouble would soon come to his door. Before that, he must step into cultivation and determine whether the half of the knife coin in his hand was a mystic object.

Continue meditation...

I don't know how much time passed.

The office door opened.

Uncle Biao walked in cautiously at this time. He glanced at it and signaled to Lin Yue.

Lin Yue walked out with light steps.

Uncle Biao asked in a low voice: "How is Li Yi's cultivation?"

"The progress is not very smooth; he hasn't truly entered meditation until now," Lin Yue shook her head and said.

"It's okay, this is very normal. Wasn't I like this at the beginning? You spend some patience; after all, he is in contact with cultivation for the first time, and he didn't know anything before," Uncle Biao said.

Lin Yue said: "Uncle, do you still remember the situation when Li Yi's father, Uncle Li, cultivated for the first time?"

As she spoke, she held up a finger: "Once, Uncle Li entered meditation once, and then began to absorb cosmic energy, officially entering cultivation."

Uncle Biao hummed and said: "His dad is a true genius; this cannot be compared. Otherwise, how would he become a dormant person? You think anyone can be a dormant person? It's just that the first batch of cultivators cultivated too fast, and everything hadn't been explored clearly, and problems arose, so they became like that."

"Niece, tell me, does Li Yi have the talent for cultivation?"

After finishing, he bumped into Lin Yue's arm and asked.

Lin Yue pondered for a while, and then said: "It can't be seen now, but he also entered meditation once, it's just that he was scared by lack of experience, and then exited the state of meditation. But now cultivation talent is no longer measured by the speed of entering meditation, but by his efficiency in absorbing cosmic energy."

"Some people, although they can absorb ten portions of cosmic energy in one breath, can only keep one or two portions. Such a conversion rate shows that his cultivation talent is very poor."

"But some people can absorb at most five portions of cosmic energy, but they can keep all of them, with a conversion rate of one hundred percent. Such talent is very high, and the potential is very great. If they cooperate with a guide, then they can reach the genius level."

"Of course, there are also people who, although the conversion rate is low, can capture one hundred portions of cosmic energy in one breath. Even if they can only convert twenty percent, that is also extraordinary."

"Which type Li Yi belongs to, I have to test it to know."

"Then everything is left to you. I'll treat you to a meal later," Uncle Biao said with a smile.

Lin Yue rolled her eyes: "Don't. I'll say the ugly words first: if Li Yi has no cultivation talent, I will guide him for at most three days, which is considered repaying Uncle Li's favor. After all, I am also very busy and cannot spend time teaching him every day. Moreover, I still have to take the guide certificate exam recently."

"Haha, how could that be? A tiger father has no dog son. Li Yi, this kid, must have talent. Don't worry, three days is enough for him," Uncle Biao said.

He didn't have confidence in Li Yi's cultivation talent, but he knew that Li Yi, this child, was very sensible. If there was no progress after three days, he probably wouldn't continue to trouble Lin Yue.

"Hope so."

Lin Yue said and suddenly shushed: "He seems to have succeeded in meditation. Uncle, you go be busy first, I'll go see him, and by the way, test what his cultivation talent is like."

Uncle Biao nodded and then left on tiptoe.

At this very moment, Li Yi, who had entered the state of meditation, began to adapt to the feeling of his consciousness sinking into darkness.

His state of mind was calm, without the slightest panic or confusion.

And after his consciousness got rid of the influence of the body and began to adapt to the darkness, some new changes began to appear.

Some light gradually appeared in the darkness.

Those lights filled the surroundings, flowing around like river water, only the color was somewhat strange, presenting a grayish-white, as if it had suffered some pollution, making people subconsciously want to repel it.

"This should be the polluted spiritual energy that fills reality; these things cannot be absorbed," Li Yi had such an epiphany in his heart.

However, soon, in this grayish-white world, there was another strange light. This light was simple and clear, like a sharp blade of light that instantly tore a hole in those polluted areas. Afterward, the light expanded, gradually forming the shape of half a knife coin.

Within the range covered by that light, pure cosmic energy flowed. Under the induction of consciousness, that place was as brilliant as the cosmic galaxy.

At this moment, Li Yi became somewhat excited.

He understood that the half of the knife coin in his hand was truly a broken mystic object, capable of carrying its own energy field to purify polluted spiritual energy. In this way, wouldn't his cultivation speed be a thousand miles a day?

However, this was not the time to be excited.

Li Yi attempted to guide that portion of energy with his intent.

At the beginning, the energy did not change at all, but after a while, a few points of light seemed to be pulled by some kind of force and slowly poured into his body.

The intent guidance was successful.

It seems he has cultivation talent.

However, the portion of cosmic energy guided over had not been absorbed before it quickly leaked out, and then merged into that grayish-white world, and was finally completely assimilated.

"Failed?" He recalled Lin Yue's words.

Guiding cosmic energy into the body is only the first step; the second step is to keep it and absorb it.

If the second step cannot be done, then no matter how much cosmic energy is guided, it is useless.

Li Yi attempted again.

Several more portions of pure cosmic energy entered his body.

This time the result was still the same; the energy dissipated, then was assimilated, and completely disappeared.

But Li Yi was not discouraged, because the cosmic energy in that energy field was simply endless for him now, and he could try and fail infinitely.

The third time, the fourth time... At the fifth time, a portion of pure energy was bound by his intent and kept in his body without dissipating. Instead, it began to melt, as if it had been absorbed. At the same time, a cool feeling poured into his brain, and there was an indescribable spirit and comfort.

Success!

Five failures finally resulted in one success.

Li Yi continued to cultivate.

At this time, he discovered that there were suddenly a few scattered points of light in the surrounding grayish-white world that was polluted. That seemed to be cosmic energy leaking out from the wormhole, only the quantity was pitifully scarce compared to the cosmic energy in that energy field.

"How did those few portions of energy rush toward me?"

Suddenly, Li Yi discovered that the scattered points of pure energy in the grayish-white world seemed to be pulled by other forces and entered his body.

"Is Lin Yue helping me guide it?"

He thought so, but he didn't hesitate and attempted to absorb it.

Some Li Yi successfully absorbed, some failed. Those energies that were not absorbed could only be wasted and polluted by the world.

Overall, the probability of failure was relatively high, and successful absorption was the minority.

Just like this, Li Yi gradually sank into cultivation.