Chapter 124: Yuan Fei

It is now late autumn, and it is already dark after dinner.

The night wind howls, making the chill inside the room even more intense.

Yin Qi sits cross-legged on the bed, unable to wait any longer, eyes tightly shut, with the *Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon* appearing in his mind.

Finally, he can practice Daoism!

In the Fengshen World, the Royal Family cannot practice Daoism.

In the Minguo World, there is no Spirit Qi between Heaven and Earth, so one also cannot practice Daoism.

This Yang God World belongs to the medium-to-high martial arts world; Shattering Vacuum is enough to be comparable to the Immortal Realm, so the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi must be abundant.

As Yin Qi concentrates his mind and calms his breath, using the methods in the *Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon* to sense Heaven and Earth, he indeed quickly senses that the space between Heaven and Earth is filled with very dense Spirit Qi.

"Huh, the bone structure of this body of mine seems quite good!"

Yin Qi suddenly realizes.

According to the Common Knowledge of Daoism in the Fengshen World, only those with Heavenly Pride-level Bone Structure can sense the existence of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in a short time.

Finally waited for it!

However, the persona must be maintained; he turns around in a hurry and sees a young girl standing at the doorway, wearing a red lady's dress, standing slim and graceful, with a charming posture.

………

That night, the north wind howls, blowing the four walls until they creak and crack, making Yin Qi too distracted to read, fearing that the walls might collapse.

……

Facing such a terrifying scene, Yin Qi is very calm, even reciting with great interest: "A century-old owl becomes a wood demon, laughter rises from the nest with green fire."

Yuan Fei exclaims; this naive and charming expression, paired with her stunningly beautiful face, has an indescribable impact.

And precisely because of this, the *Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon* requires dual cultivation, absorbing the Innate Yin Qi of a woman to integrate into oneself.

Time passes, and in the blink of an eye, it is late at night.

Suddenly, a crisp and sweet voice rings out from behind.

As she speaks, she even sticks out her small, scarlet tongue and licks her upper lip.

Yin Qi gets up early, packs two sets of clothes to change into, as well as books and the four treasures of the study, then hires a carriage to leave the city, heading towards Qiuyue Temple on Xishan.

Woo! Woo!

In the deep mountains in the distance, several shrill howls suddenly come, sounding like wolves or foxes.

Yin Qi shakes his head and says: "Practicing Daoism is not some secret; it is nothing strange that I know of it. As for you, Miss, daring to come to this Xishan alone at night, I assume you are an expert. I still do not know how to address you, and why you would come to this Xishan in the middle of the night?"

"I wouldn't call myself an expert, I've just practiced martial arts for a few years."

According to the sayings of the Primordial Continent, those who possess Immortal Bone are natural Immortals, and can become Immortals through casual practice.

However, Yin Qi is not an ordinary person after all; he tightens his clothes against the deep mountain air and walks into the courtyard.

You do not need to sense it; the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi will automatically drill into your body.

"Get up early tomorrow to pack your luggage and head to Qiuyue Temple!"

Thinking of this, Yin Qi falls back and goes to sleep.

He is here to study; the persona cannot be lost.

By the way, you are a scholar.

Since he has sensed the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, Yin Qi settles his heart and practices according to the techniques in the *Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon*, first performing the first step of guiding Qi into the body, then refining it through the meridians in the body into True Qi before storing it in the dantian.

It just so happens that many children among my relatives need to study, and I want to hire you as a teacher; I wonder if you would go?

Yuan Fei smiles and says: "You can call me Yuan Fei. I came to Xishan to visit relatives, but I did not expect to meet someone as interesting as you; young, yet quite bold, and so refined."

Deep mountains, ancient temples, north winds, wolf howls, fox laughter—these elements gathered together make it easy for people to associate them with various terrifying scenes, such as Luo Temple in *Qian Nu You Hun*.

The next day.

She looks to be about eighteen or nineteen years old, stunningly beautiful, making one feel as if they could forget how to breathe.

His departure might last three or four months; if he does not report it, the Yin Duke Mansion might not be able to find him and might treat him as a missing person.

There is no need to ask for leave from the school; he is already a Licentiate, so it does not matter whether he goes or not.

As Hong Yi said, Qiuyue Temple is truly dilapidated, with weeds covering the ground.

Yin Qi smiles lightly: "Miss, please do not scare me. If you were a Ghost, how could you have a shadow? Even if you were a powerful Daoist practitioner with a manifested soul, you should not have a shadow."

"Practice is not something to rush; it is getting late, so let's sleep."

The True Qi produced by the practice is extremely rigid and Yang, but being extremely rigid and Yang is not the goal of the *Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon*.

In less than half an hour, Yin Qi completes the guiding of Qi into the body.

Yuan Fei looks at Yin Qi with great interest, as if she only becomes serious at this moment.

Thus, every morning he gets up early to read in the room, spends the morning and afternoon reading books, occasionally strolls around the vicinity of Qiuyue Temple to relax, and at night either reads or studies.

Yin Qi's expression remains unchanged.

Once the Eight Extraordinary Meridians are cleared, compressing the True Qi into True Essence will reach the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Yuan Fei, Fragrant Fox King!

The moment he sees the other party, Yin Qi guesses her identity.

If it were anyone else, they would probably be scared to the point of wetting themselves.

Only before going to sleep does he sit in meditation to practice for three or four hours.

Unknowingly, half a month passes in the blink of an eye.

Yuan Fei smiles, but suddenly her expression turns cold, and green light flickers in her eyes, as she says in a sinister voice: "But I have come! I want to eat you, regardless of whether you have done anything wrong. It is said that a scholar's heart is the most delicious."

The joy is, of course, because the practice was successful, while the fatigue is mental fatigue, because guiding Qi into the body requires consuming Spiritual Power; if it weren't for the fact that he practiced national martial arts in the Minguo World and his will was as firm as iron, he probably wouldn't have been able to practice for so long.

Looking out the window, under the hazy moonlight, one can vaguely see the blurred outline of the distant mountains.

"Young man, you are not old, yet you are a refined person. A century-old owl becomes a wood demon, laughter rises from the nest with green fire. Are you truly not afraid that a fierce Ghost might come knocking?"

But then, a look of joy flashed in his eyes.

He saw several clusters of green fire, the size of fists, floating up and down in the distant valley, looking extremely eerie; then, following a shrill scream that erupted from the deep mountains, one of the Ghost fires actually shot straight into the sky.

From then on, Yin Qi settled down to live at Qiuyue Temple.

Truly worthy of a Heavenly Pride-level Bone Structure.

He feigned a look of shock, then quickly steadied his mind, and said with calm composure: "If one does no evil in their life, they need not fear a Ghost knocking at the door at midnight; I have no ghosts in my heart, so why would I fear a Ghost?"

The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, as the Yellow Emperor's method for attaining the Dao, is extraordinarily profound.

Yet in his heart, he kept reciting, "Form is emptiness, emptiness is form."

"Ah, you actually discovered the flaw."

"What a fine 'if one does no evil in their life, they need not fear a Ghost knocking at the door at midnight'."

As for the Duke's Mansion, he still reported it to the head steward.

As for the Immortal Bone and above.

She said with a smile: "Young man, you are a scholar; shouldn't you hate Daoists the most? To think you even know about the Manifestation of a divine soul."

She had originally intended to say ten gold, but seeing that Yin Qi was not dressed poorly, she added a bit more.

"Hmm, ten, no, twenty taels of Red Gold a month."

Intermingled in the night wind, it also sounded like a night owl.

Daoists like to play at being gods and ghosts, which Confucian scholars despise the most, and thus came the saying, "Do not speak of strange phenomena, feats of strength, rebellions, or spirits."

The Qi Refining Realm aims to continuously increase the True Qi within the dantian, then clear the Eight Extraordinary Meridians to allow the meridians in the body to flow freely and form a Great Heavenly Cycle; therefore, the Qi Refining Realm is divided into eight layers.

Although the old monk was surprised as to why Yin Qi would choose to come here to study, in view of the ten taels of White Silver as Incense money, he asked nothing and tidied up the best guest room for him.

Rather, it is the Yin-Yang Intersection, and finally, the reversal into Chaos.

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He continuously absorbed the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, refining it into wisps of True Qi.

Yin Qi slowly opened his eyes, his gaze revealing both joy and exhaustion.

Yin Qi was suddenly startled, the hairs all over his body standing on end; this was purely an instinctive reaction.

In the Dagan Dynasty, one tael of gold equals ten taels of White Silver, and one tael of Red Gold equals fifteen taels of White Silver.

These twenty taels of Red Gold, that is three hundred taels of White Silver.

This Yuan Fei is truly wealthy and imposing.