Chapter 11: Third Layer of Qi Refining

Time passed, and it was already New Year, and Lin Zhangqing grew another year older. Now he is eleven years old, and his height has grown to his father's shoulder.

His appearance is more like his mother Xu Wenying, with soft and upright features. At first glance, it makes people feel good. Already has a bit of the demeanor of a handsome young boy.

Got up early today, after completing cultivation, he went to pay New Year greetings to his parents and say auspicious words. After receiving the spirit stone red envelope, he went to pay New Year greetings to his grandfather, Second Uncle, and Aunt, and the red envelopes he received had spirit stones and pills. The harvest was not bad.

The atmosphere on the ancestral mountain today is very strong, although cultivators aim to cultivate into immortals, they are still mortals before becoming immortals. So like the New Year, they also have to be lively.

The means of cultivators are not comparable to mortals, releasing fireballs into the sky. After reaching a certain height, they automatically detonate, and the flame effect is not worse than the fireworks in the mortal world. And it can be continuous, one after another, very lively.

Lin Zhangqing rarely relaxed during the New Year, and just wanted to find Lin Jie and the others to play.

Suddenly his heart moved, and an urgent consciousness came. It was the spirit beast egg of the Golden Winged Bird, it was about to break its shell and be born.

Hurriedly returned home, so that it could see him as soon as it was born, which would make the spirit beast think of him as a parent or relative.

Returned to his room. Saw that there was already a small hole in the eggshell. Looking inside from the small hole, he could see a small pink fellow. Now it should be accumulating strength, preparing to formally break out of the shell.

Lin Zhangqing knew that he couldn't move it now, nor could he help it. Otherwise, it would lead to its congenital deficiency. Only by relying on its own strength to be born will it be a strong life in the future. Now he can only cheer it on through the connection in his heart.

After resting for a while, the little fellow pecked at the eggshell again, constantly expanding the hole. After more than an hour of effort, it finally broke out of the shell.

The little fellow born just now lay in the bird's nest, its body was pink, its whole body was still wet, its mouth was wide open, calling out to Lin Zhangqing, Lin Zhangqing estimated that it should be hungry.

Hurriedly picked up the prepared insect meat, these were collected by grandfather and aunt in the spirit medicine garden, some insects had very hard shells, and they had to remove the shells to collect the white tender meat inside.

Used small tweezers to pick up a piece of insect meat and put it in its mouth, it swallowed it into its stomach in two or three bites, and opened its mouth again to ask for more, feeding a total of more than ten pieces before it was full.

Went out to tell his family that the little fellow was born, everyone wanted to go see it, fortunately, the little fellow was full and had already fallen asleep, otherwise, it might have been scared.

Don't know why, father and Second Uncle also contracted at about the same time, and there is no movement yet, father sensed it and said it would be born in a few days.

Don't know if Lin Zhangqing's Golden Winged Bird egg is stronger, or because he put more than a dozen metal attribute spirit stones.

Told his father and Second Uncle about his guess. They also went to put metal attribute spirit stones, hoping it would have an effect.

Because the little fellow was born on the first day of the first lunar month, Lin Changqing decided to call it First Day. The family also felt that the name was not bad. Quite innovative and festive.

From then on, Lin Changqing had one more task, which was to feed First Day and collect insect meat. Even the insect meat needed by his father and Second Uncle was collected by him.

Father's Golden Winged Bird was born on the fifth, so the name was Fifth Day, Second Uncle's was born on the sixth, so it was Sixth Day. This name is inherited in one continuous line, simple and rough.

Collecting insect meat is mainly helped by grandfather and aunt. Sometimes when the spirit medicine garden didn't collect enough, Lin Zhangqing would go to the uncles who planted spirit rice and spirit paddy to ask them to help collect.

In the past, after killing insects, they were concentrated and burned with a fireball. Now they are concentrated and left for Lin Zhangqing.

More than ten days passed, First Day's eyes had already opened, and it was very close to Lin Changqing. Now it is as big as a chick. The whole body has started to grow a little bit of down. It can already be held in the hand and played with gently. The chirping sound is very crisp and pleasant.

First Day is very smart, once Lin Changqing was cultivating, First Day should have been hungry, chirped, disturbed Lin Changqing, Lin Changqing told it that it could not be disturbed when he was cultivating. It remembered it immediately. In the future, Lin Changqing would not make a sound when cultivating.

This day, Lin Zhangqing was cultivating as usual, impacting the last acupoint of the third meridian. After cultivating for a while, he felt the acupoint start to soften. Lin Zhangqing secretly rejoiced.

Immediately stopped impacting, followed the experience of the previous two times, and started running the heavenly circuit to gather spiritual energy in the dantian. After the dantian spiritual energy was full, he sprinted at the acupoint with all his strength. He heard a loud "boom" in his mind. The surrounding spiritual energy surged into Lin Zhangqing's body.

The refreshing feeling came again, and a layer of black-gray filth was discharged from the surface of his whole body. This time there was more gray, and less black, and it was not as smelly as before, after all, Grandfather's Marrow Cleansing Pill was not eaten in vain. His aura surged by a large margin again.

Having the experience of the previous two times, he hurriedly concentrated his spirit, started to consolidate his cultivation base, and the dantian expanded by another double. It could accommodate more than double the spiritual energy than before.

Looking at the three meridians that were completely opened, he secretly rejoiced in his heart. Continuously running the heavenly circuit, driving the spiritual energy to merge into the dantian, circulating several times like this. The spiritual energy in the dantian slowly filled up, and the cultivation base of the third layer of Qi Refining finally stabilized.

Packed up, hurriedly left closed-door cultivation and washed his body, then told his family the good news. Everyone was overjoyed to hear it.

Especially his father and Second Uncle, who lifted Lin Zhangqing up and threw him into the sky. Scared Lin Zhangqing to scream loudly. Mother and Aunt were laughing loudly on the side.

After being happy for a while, Grandfather came forward to stop the two brothers and put Lin Zhangqing down. Lin Zhangqing's legs were a little soft.

Lin Zhangqing found that he was actually a little afraid of heights, how did he not discover it in his previous life? Afraid of heights can't play sword flight, he has always had a sword immortal dream in his heart.

Sword flight across the sky is Lin Zhangqing's wish, which cultivator doesn't want to fly with a sword and travel through the four seas and eight wildernesses? This must find a way to overcome the fear of heights.

Lin Zhangqing's current cultivation progress is already the same as Lin Changhao and the others, although it is still a bit slower than them. All are at the third layer of Qi Refining.

The fastest is still Lin Changlian, who is estimated to be at the fourth layer of Qi Refining in another year.

As cultivators continuously advance, the dantian will become larger and larger, and the spiritual energy needed to fill the dantian will become more and more, so the time required for advancement will become longer and longer.

So cultivation becomes more difficult as it goes on. The time required is also more.

Like Lin Zhangqing, he estimates that he needs three or four years to advance to the fourth layer of Qi Refining. Six to eight years for the fifth layer of Qi Refining, twelve to sixteen years for the sixth layer of Qi Refining, this is still without encountering a bottleneck period.

If a bottleneck is encountered, then this time will be even longer.

This is also why his father has a four-attribute spirit root, is forty-five years old, and is only at the seventh layer of Qi Refining now.

Mother also has a four-attribute spirit root, is forty-one years old, and is only at the sixth layer of Qi Refining now.

Second Uncle has a four-attribute spirit root, is forty-two years old, and with the help of a hundred-year spirit peach, is now only at the seventh layer of Qi Refining.

Aunt has a three-attribute spirit root, is thirty-eight years old, and with the help of the Bloodthirsty Thorn Vine, is now at the eighth layer of Qi Refining. She is the one among the few who is most likely to succeed in Foundation Establishment.

And Qi Refining stage cultivators, if they cannot cultivate to the perfection of Qi Refining before the age of 60 when their blood and Qi decline, then it can be certain that there is not a trace of Foundation Establishment opportunity.

Unless they can find spirit objects that increase blood and Qi. Like rare treasures such as Dragon Blood Fruit trees.

But such rare treasures are so easy to find. Even if found, there is no guarantee of having the ability to obtain them.

So the time of cultivators is never enough. Always racing against time.

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