Chapter 18: Earthly Fiend-Guidance!

Because the competition is to be held again tomorrow, everyone in the backyard is allowed to rest for half a day today.

After taking the ten Silver Yuan from Xu Dahu, Lu Yuan couldn't wait to leave the garden and headed straight for the pharmacy two streets away that he frequented.

Then, he spent all ten Silver Yuan he had just obtained to buy three full bags of medicinal herbs like astragalus and angelica, which are used to nourish blood and boost Qi.

【Master of the Heavenly Book】: Lu Yuan

【Mastered Techniques】:

Earthly Fiend-Ingestion (Human: 11%): Can swallow all things, refining the essence of all things to strengthen oneself.

【Luck Power】: 99 units

After a month of frantic supplementation, his Luck Power had accumulated to 99 units; he was only 1 unit away from lighting up the Guiding Technique and obtaining the method for immortal cultivation!

The medicinal herbs bought with all his prize money a few days ago had already been completely consumed. Although his Luck Power was now growing spontaneously every three days, he could not restrain himself seeing the immortal cultivation method right before his eyes, so he simply spent money to get it done as quickly as possible.

Afterwards, he tucked the medicine bags away and returned to the back garden, going straight to his room to begin his frantic undertaking of pill-popping.

He opened the medicine bags, grabbed handfuls of the herbs inside, and shoved them directly into his mouth, chewing them slightly before swallowing them down.

Once he had eaten enough, he moved his mind to activate the Ingestion Technique, rapidly digesting the herbs in his stomach and converting them into streams of essence that merged directly into his entire body's Qi and blood.

For an ordinary person, eating medicinal herbs without decoction or processing would not only fail to nourish them, but would likely result in a serious illness if it didn't kill them.

However, with the Ingestion Technique activated, his stomach was like a furnace, refining whatever amount he put in.

Soon, after spending nearly an hour, Lu Yuan had eaten and digested most of the three bags of herbs like a Glutton.

And just at this moment, as his Qi and blood grew stronger, the Heavenly Book in his sea of consciousness rippled slightly; upon communicating with it, he was overjoyed:

【Luck Power】: 100 units

It was finally full!

Having arrived in Fengyang Prefecture for a month and a half, he had finally saved enough Luck Power to light up the second Earthly Fiend technique. Lu Yuan was excited and communicated with the Heavenly Book without hesitation:

"Light up Guidance!"

Hum.

The next moment, the writing on a certain line of the book scroll image in his mind suddenly bloomed with brilliant light, and then golden characters, as if possessing spirit and life, flew out and landed in Lu Yuan's sea of consciousness.

At the same time, a massive amount of mysterious and profound oral formula information surged like a tide, imprinting itself upon his heart:

"One gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, three gives birth to all things; thus void transforms into spirit, spirit transforms into Qi, Qi transforms into essence, essence transforms into form, and form becomes a person..."

"The Qi within the body must not disperse, the spirit within the heart must not be obscured. How to keep the Qi from dispersing? The body must be in non-action. How to keep the spirit from being obscured? The heart must be free of affairs."

The profound and mysterious scriptures resounded in his mind like a great bell, instantly capturing his heart and soul.

He did not know how much time had passed.

Lu Yuan slowly opened his eyes, his gaze becoming deep and distant, and he murmured:

"This is immortal cultivation."

Just like the previous Ingestion Technique, the moment 【Earthly Fiend-Guidance】 was lit up, it was directly imprinted into his heart by the Heavenly Book, understood and mastered.

As he had thought, this technique was a genuine Inner Elixir Dao Qi-refining and breathing technique of Taoism. Practicing it could produce Dharma Power and lead to longevity, and at its peak, one could even attain the legendary Earth Immortal Great Dao!

Moreover, unlike the immortal cultivation realms he had imagined, the cultivation stages of this technique from low to high were divided into Hundred Days Foundation Establishment, Refining Grain into Essence, Refining Essence into Qi, Refining Qi into Spirit, Refining Spirit into Void, and Refining Void into Dao, not some Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, or Nascent Soul.

The highest stage, Refining Void into Dao, was the state of Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown and Five Qi Towards Origin, where truth and illusion are forgotten and the Dao merges with nature, allowing one to achieve the Earth Immortal fruit status and become a true Immortal.

"Hahahaha..."

"Others practice martial arts while I cultivate immortality; I'm taking off!"

Any stance techniques or fist techniques, any training of strength or tendons, all vanished from his mind, and Lu Yuan laughed wildly in his heart.

This world was a genuine low-martial world; although the strongest True Martial Grandmaster was said to be able to take on a thousand, it seemed they were still threatened by firearms and cannons.

With this immortal cultivation method, it was like flying planes and using cannons in a world of primitive people—it was a complete dimensional strike!

"Calm down, calm down, this is just an immortal cultivation method; I'm still a bit far from being invincible in the world."

After a burst of ecstasy, Lu Yuan gradually calmed down and regained his composure.

Because according to the Guiding Technique, the two initial stages of Hundred Days Foundation Establishment and Refining Grain into Essence were both foundational stages, and the practitioner had no Dharma Power or special means.

Only upon reaching the Refining Essence into Qi stage could a cultivator produce True Qi, or Dharma Power, and gradually possess all kinds of incredible abilities.

Before reaching this stage, he was still a mortal of flesh and blood; martial arts experts, firearms, and cannons could still threaten him, so he couldn't afford to be reckless.

"A ten-thousand-foot tower rises from the ground; let's start cultivating this immortality first!"

Lu Yuan stopped overthinking, and after completely calming his mood, he began his first attempt at cultivation.

The first step of cultivation in the Guiding Technique is called Hundred Days Foundation Establishment.

The so-called Hundred Days Foundation Establishment is to perform breathing exercises through the method of Zen Meditation Sitting.

When a person sits in Zen, with the six senses purified and the mind neither scattered nor drowsy, one can transform a mouthful of 'True' Qi every quarter of an hour. When the 'True' Qi is generated, one part travels up the Du Meridian to the Baihui Acupoint Acupoint Acupoint and then down to the Yinjiao Acupoint on the upper gum, where it transforms into "Jinjin"; the second part travels up the Ren Meridian to the Chengjiang Acupoint on the lower gum, where it transforms into "Jade Fluid".

Swallowing the Jinjin and Jade Fluid into the dantian, this breathing process can cleanse the marrow and cut the tendons, gradually opening up the Twelve Standard Meridians and the Eight Extraordinary Meridians throughout the body to form Qi Pulses.

Once the Qi Pulses are fully opened, the Hundred Days Foundation Establishment is complete.

Of course, this so-called "hundred days" is just a vague term; depending on individual temperament and the efficiency of Zen Meditation Sitting, those who are naturally gifted and physically strong do not need a hundred days; those who are dull-witted or weak and sickly may not succeed even in several months or three to five years.

However.

Perhaps because the Heavenly Book directly imparted the knowledge through empowerment, Lu Yuan mastered the basics of this technique immediately, greatly reducing the difficulty of entry.

After less than half an hour of exploration, he had vaguely grasped the knack, and his breathing became calm and relaxed, secretly conforming to a certain rhythm.

This was clearly him entering the state of Zen Meditation Sitting, formally beginning the first step of Hundred Days Foundation Establishment!

After lighting up the Guiding Technique, Lu Yuan was obsessed and entranced, forgetting both himself and the world, and soon formally entered the path.

If it weren't for someone calling out from outside in the evening, he would have almost forgotten to eat his most important meal.

And while eating, because he was still thinking about the knack of the Guiding Technique, he appeared absent-minded and even ate one bowl less than usual.

After finishing his meal, he practiced for a while under the watchful eyes of Li Junxian, then couldn't wait to return to his room to continue his cultivation.

Outside, the deep night descended, and then gradually faded away.

Having entered his state, Lu Yuan remained like a sculpture, sitting cross-legged on the bed without moving a muscle.

He was completely unaware of the passage of time.

It was not until the first ray of morning light shone into the room and the sound of slight commotion drifted from outside that he suddenly jolted awake, his eyes dazed:

"It's already dawn?"

(End of this chapter)