Chapter 2: The Years I Spent as a Bead Spirit

In the long time spanning millions of years, the transmigrator Qian Chen thought silently. The only reason he didn't go crazy was that the magic treasure's spiritual sense operated slowly. As the original spiritual sense of the Dao Dust Bead, Qian Chen needed sixty years to turn a thought once.

Just thinking clearly that he had become a bead took Qian Chen thousands of years.

So, relying solely on recalling his past, Qian Chen spent hundreds of thousands of years leisurely. It was also thanks to his extremely barren first half of life: parents alive, attending school on time, undergraduate at a 211 university, graduate student at a 985, and then transmigrating when he was about to go bald from studying. Compared to the simplicity and poverty before transmigration, Qian Chen's life experience after transmigration could be described as magnificent.

Unfortunately, he was only a bystander to this magnificence, a Golden Finger in the process of the destiny protagonist's rapid advancement.

The spiritual light transformed by Qian Chen was obtained by the young Supreme Dao Ancestor, who stubbornly realized the supreme Dao method from Qian Chen's memories, such as the "Dao De Jing" and the "Dao Zang" classics he flipped through as a graduate student in his previous life.

Then he killed decisively all the way, acted cool and slapped faces, and proved the Great Dao.

All of the above were what Qian Chen heard when the descendants of the Louguan Dao publicized the ancestor's deeds during the million years he was a bead spirit, plus a little brain-supplement processing. In fact, during the years Qian Chen transmigrated and accompanied the Supreme Dao Ancestor in achieving the Dao, I don't know because of what went wrong during transmigration, his own time was stagnant, and he had no consciousness or memory at all.

It wasn't until the Supreme Dao Ancestor slashed him out that he could operate his spiritual sense and turn his thoughts.

But it was also very slow. The long time of sixty years for an ordinary person was just a thought for him. It was as if time was accelerated countless times in his eyes. Even those descendants of the Louguan Dao who held his main body to comprehend could only be looked at by Qian Chen if they continued to comprehend for more than sixty years.

Even the story of the Supreme Dao Ancestor taking him, this Golden Finger, to achieve the Dao was pieced together by Qian Chen after countless repetitions by the descendants of the Louguan Dao, plus Qian Chen gradually mastering the wonderful use of the Supreme Dao Dust Bead, being able to remember countless information in a single thought.

Millions of years of tempering, as well as the nourishment of the Supreme Dao Dust Bead, had allowed Qian Chen to remain calm in the face of danger, and his temperament had washed away his impetuosity.

So even if he had just woken up and was sealed with a vicious seal, and there was a great enemy waiting to tear open his packaging and take out his main body in the future, Qian Chen could still be very calm. No matter how bad the situation was, no matter how difficult it was to be a human, it was much better than being a bead spirit that turned a thought every sixty years. So Qian Chen just smiled for an hour while basking in the sun in the courtyard, and even breathing the air was happiness.

But he only greedily enjoyed it for a morning, and by the afternoon, he began to pull himself together. Three days later, there was a trial waiting for him.

"Cultivation, cultivation..." Qian Chen easily gathered his mind, and the Supreme Dao Dust Bead in his sea of consciousness emitted a dim radiance.

Miaokong did not leave him any Taoist scriptures for cultivation. The Taoist books in the storage bag recorded quick-success spells. Although they could form combat power in the simplest way, they would also ruin his foundation. Qian Chen had held the storage bag for so long, but he didn't even look at the things inside, because he knew Miaokong would never leave anything helpful for cultivation.

They were all treasures for protecting the Dao, external objects for cultivation, or spells and martial arts.

"According to the information provided by the Samsara Guide, the trial mission three days later is the first level to test whether a Samsara traveler is qualified to enter the Samsara Land. The difficulty of the mission is determined according to the strength of the Samsara traveler. I have just entered the Dao, so the mission difficulty is not great... It's just that this Samsara Land of the Heavens is so like the Main God Space of my previous life."

"Could it be that when the Supreme Dao Ancestor took me to comprehend the Great Dao, he realized the Great Dao of Gene Locks? In order to screen strong people from the heavens, he created this Samsara Land of the Heavens? If so, didn't those two Samsara travelers exterminate one of his orthodoxies under the eyes of a big shot? Anyway, I don't care; the Supreme is already a big shot. Considering that we have been together for so long, and I am his dearest Golden Finger, there is always some affection. If he appears in front of me, I'll just go up and hug his thigh."

"However, the people of the Louguan Dao seem to have said that after the Supreme Dao Ancestor merged with the Dao, in the past few million years, there have been very few holy traces."

"The current master of the Daoist sect is the Primordial Heavenly Venerable, whom the Supreme Dao Ancestor later promoted. Speaking of which, this native protagonist has a bit of a bad taste! He insisted on gathering the Three Pure Ones combination. It is said that there is also a big shot in the West who was enlightened by him and opened the Buddhist sect... This Main God Space... no, now it is the Samsara Land of the Heavens, most of it was created by him or his disciples and grandchildren."

Qian Chen's thoughts ran wild, but it didn't affect him gradually emptying his mind.

In the Louguan Dao, countless disciples entered the path of the Dao under the clear light emitted by the Supreme Dao Dust Bead. Over the years, Qian Chen had long been familiar with the path of entering the Dao. To enter the Xuan Sect, one must first establish the Dao foundation, then sense the primordial Qi of heaven and earth, refine the void into truth, enter the Qi Refinement realm, then follow the method of practicing spells, refine magic power, and achieve the Penetrating Law realm.

Foundation Establishment, Sensing, Qi Refinement, Penetrating Law.

These are the four checkpoints at the beginning of cultivation... Foundation Establishment takes years at the longest and a hundred days at the shortest. Breathing in spiritual Qi, purifying the body and mind, and cultivating the Dao body, in this way, after eighty-one days, one can shed the roots of turbidity and evil.

Hundred-day Foundation Establishment is the process of adjusting the body and mind, shedding acquired turbidity and evil, and adjusting the body and mind to the state most suitable for practicing the method. According to the different cultivation methods of each family, the methods of hundred-day Foundation Establishment are also different. Among them, the Louguan Dao, where the Daoist sect originated, is naturally the Xuan Sect orthodoxy, establishing a superior foundation. While the Buddhist, Confucian, and even the Red Lotus, White Lotus, Joy, and Great Luo sects, which are denounced as evil cults and heresies, although there are deviations, the Dao bodies established are roughly the same, all shedding turbid Qi, becoming close to spiritual Qi, and with slight adjustments, one can practice other methods.

However, the various sects such as Witch, Demon, and Demon go in the opposite direction.

Or they cultivate evil roots, become obsessed and enter the demon path, and pollute the Dao body. After such Foundation Establishment, it hinders the Foundation Establishment of the righteous path. After many demon path Foundation Establishment methods are achieved, they will pollute the essence, making the righteous path sects despise them.

The Foundation Establishment method used by Qian Chen is the Louguan Dao's introductory true transmission, "Innate One Qi Gong." Generations of Louguan Dao disciples have used this to enter the Dao. Qian Chen has watched it for millions of years and has long since memorized it by heart. This scripture uses the one breath of Innate One Qi that the human body carries to the mother's womb to establish the foundation. The main theme is from the "Dao De Jing": "Can you hold the one in your embrace and not let go? Can you concentrate your Qi and achieve softness, like a newborn baby?" Transforming the body, it is like returning to the mother's womb, and sensing the primordial Qi is the purest.

When breaking through the Sensing, it is like being reborn from the mother's womb, breathing the first breath of primordial Qi.

Therefore, the sensed primordial Qi is also the purest, and the true Qi refined is also extremely superior. Even the true power contained in the magic power cultivated is greater than that of other families...

The Taoist body established in this way has a name in the Taoist sect, called the Innate Taoist Body. It is listed as one of the ten best Foundation Establishment methods in the Taoist sect, along with the Pure Taoist Body, the Hunyuan Taoist Body, the Pure Yin Taoist Body, the True Yang Taoist Body, the Dan Ding Taoist Body, the Xuanpin Taoist Body, the Wuwei Taoist Body, the True Martial Taoist Body, and the Five Elements Taoist Body.

Qian Chen breathed according to the law, and his breathing gradually formed a special rhythm.

This breathing rhythm was very awkward. One breath had to be divided into nine times, intermittently, as if continuing and as if cut off, inhaled into the lungs.

The Qi inhaled into the lungs also became cold and refreshing, just like the freshest air on a winter morning. The turbidity of people coming and going in this small city was all gone, leaving only the purest Qi. This Qi gradually formed a line. With the operation of the Qi, Qian Chen's breathing gradually became almost non-existent, and his chest no longer rose and fell. Breathing turned into internal breath. The Qi of the mouth and nose was almost imperceptible, like silk and threads.

Qian Chen sat cross-legged, his legs crossed like a lotus flower, his body naturally relaxed in a cross-legged meditation posture. The thirty-two vertebrae were stacked vertically like prayer beads, naturally standing tall. His shoulders should be relaxed but not deliberately puffing out his chest. His hands naturally hung on his knees. His head was not bowed or tilted, not crooked. His chin was slightly retracted, his eyes were slightly closed, and his tongue touched the upper palate.

That line of Qi flowed in the body along the bridge of heaven and earth formed by the tongue touching the upper palate.

Qian Chen gradually became sleepy, so he lay down casually, curled his hands and feet into a fetal shape, operated his internal breath, and let nature take its course. The saliva secreted in his mouth was as sweet as dew, which Qian Chen constantly swallowed to nourish his body.

One hour later, slowly exiting from the internal breath, Qian Chen felt his whole body light and comfortable.

The hunger in his stomach, which had been hungry for two days, also disappeared without a trace.

Qian Chen knew that this was only a temporary appearance. Establishing the Innate Dao Body is not really returning to the fetal period. There is no umbilical cord to transport nutrients. The golden saliva he contains now is a mouthful of spiritual liquid transformed by the body being nourished by internal breath. It can wash away evil roots, but it is also transformed by the essence of the human body, one of the human body's small medicines.

It originates from the essence of the flesh. If you only take this medicine and do not supplement the body with nutrients, it seems to be fine for a while, but in reality, the origin is already empty.

Therefore, Qian Chen now needs to supplement nutrients...

But during Foundation Establishment, one must avoid turbid Qi. Therefore, when sect families establish the foundation, they should avoid red dust turbid Qi, so as not to cause the cultivation to retreat. Most of them run to places with beautiful mountains and clear waters, abundant spiritual Qi, or even caves and blessed lands, eating spiritual grains and yellow essence, and drinking spiritual spring dew.

Until they break through the Sensing, can internally refine turbid Qi, and the Dao foundation will never retreat, will they go down the mountain.

After Qian Chen used the "Innate One Qi Gong" to start establishing the Innate Taoist Body, his breathing had turned into internal breath, and he would no longer inhale turbid energy. But breathing could be solved, while eating was not easy. He was now penniless, where would he get spiritual medicine and dew? The spiritual pills in the storage bag were ill-intentioned when Miaokong left them, mostly tiger-wolf medicines, and there were no spiritual pills that Qian Chen needed for health preservation.

Qian Chen had finally established the Innate foundation, so how could he be willing to take these spiritual pills that secretly contained pill poison?

He had not yet achieved Qi Refinement and could not internally refine.

The stubbornness of pill poison is similar to spiritual Qi, and it is harder to wash away than turbid Qi. If he took the poison hidden in one pill, I'm afraid it would take Qian Chen three to five days of hard work to shed it.

Touching his empty stomach, Qian Chen was a little distressed.

Now he had to make some plans for food and water for the next few days, and even the mission period.

Fortunately, this body had already completed Foundation Establishment. Although it was not a superior Dao body, it was also very pure. Qian Chen's change to "Innate One Qi" was a matter of course, and he didn't need to start from scratch. After establishing the foundation for another month, the heat would be pure. It was also fortunate that this body had not broken through the Sensing, otherwise, Qian Chen's change would have been a bit troublesome.

Pushing open the gate of this courtyard, Miaokong should have swept with his spiritual sense, discovered this abandoned small courtyard, and threw him here. The courtyard was full of weeds, and the doorway was piled with sundries... Qian Chen swept away the sundries piled at the doorway and went straight to the county town.