Chapter 9

The moon climbed the willow tips.

Li Chijing suddenly opened his eyes, looking at Li Mutian, who was sitting on the side holding the book cloth recording the "Reception Method" and drinking tea.

"Go try it."

Li Mutian nodded and said slowly.

Li Chijing was overjoyed, and the three older brothers were also full of expectation, helping to burn incense and bathe, and setting up an altar in the courtyard.

Lu Jiangxian couldn't help but feel a bit ashamed. This case of burning incense and offering fruits was like worshiping him, a dead person.

In front of the case, Li Chijing bowed three times and kowtowed nine times, knelt down, bowed his head, and said respectfully:

"Li family disciple Li Chijing, respectfully requests the Mysterious Bright Wonderful Method, to command the life and calm the spirit, and serve the Dao and practice."

"Speak of merit by time, do not fail the effect of faith, burn and transform according to the talisman, the body thanks Taiyin."

After speaking, he emptied his mind, urged the technique, and took the natural Great Harmony Vital Energy many times.

Lu Jiangxian also moved his heart at the same time, and the mirror surface suddenly became colorful, like ripples on the water.

"There's a reaction!"

Li Mutian and the others were greatly encouraged, staring fixedly at the case surface.

But they saw the blue-gray mirror buzzing, and a white pill leaped up on the mirror surface, round and glowing, with white light flickering, illuminating the courtyard in a vast expanse of white, so bright that several people couldn't open their eyes.

Li Chijing only felt his brain go blank, roaring, and a majestic and heavy voice suddenly appeared:

"There is a Li family disciple who has renounced emotions and nature, stopped and blocked mistakes, and cut off evil roots. I bestow the Mysterious Bright Wonderful Method to enable the development of Daoist karma, from mortal to saint, from beginning to end, starting from the precepts and talismans, then ascending to the truth. I bestow one scroll of 'Taiyin Breathing and Wheel-Nurturing Scripture' and one Golden Light Art."

Li Chijing hurriedly climbed up from the ground and sat cross-legged. The white pill leaped up and entered his Mud Pill Palace. He was shocked all over, drowned in the complex information in his mind.

The white pill received the technique, turned lightly in the Mud Pill Palace, walked along the meridians, and finally landed in the Vital Energy Sea acupoint in the lower elixir field.

Li Mutian and the others watched the Mysterious Pearl talisman seed enter Li Chijing's head, feeling extremely nervous, watching Li Chijing sit cross-legged, closing his eyes and storing his spirit, sitting cross-legged like this until dawn.

Until the Taiyin fell and the Golden Crow rose, Li Chijing finally shook all over and woke up slowly. He opened his eyes and looked, surrounded by a circle of brothers with anxious and uneasy expressions.

"Father, brothers! I have obtained the Mysterious Pearl talisman seed and have stepped into the gate of immortal cultivation!" Li Chijing jumped up excitedly and hugged his father excitedly.

Li Mutian laughed happily and spun Li Chijing around. Li Tongya and the others let out a long breath, their expressions also becoming excited.

"I obtained a technique called 'Taiyin Breathing and Wheel-Nurturing Scripture'."

After Li Chijing finished speaking, he wanted to recite the outline of the technique, but the white pill in the Qi Sea acupoint leaped lightly. He lost his voice in an instant, babbling and unable to say a word.

He was shocked, subconsciously covering his mouth, and called out again:

"Father!"

Seeing that he could speak again, Li Chijing let out a long breath, tried to recite the outline of the technique again, but found that he could neither recite it nor memorize it silently.

"This immortal technique can neither be written nor recited; it is truly magical." Li Chijing's face changed slightly, revealing a sorry state.

"No need to be nervous."

Li Changhu smiled and patted Li Chijing's head, watching his father respectfully invite the magic mirror back to the table, and said again:

"Wait until the summer solstice, and we will all request the method together."

"Eldest Brother." Li Chijing interrupted him and said hesitantly: "This talisman seed seems to only have six."

"Only six?" Li Tongya was reading the "Reception Method" carefully. Hearing this, he looked at him and asked suspiciously.

"I obtained the Mysterious Pearl talisman seed, and in a daze, there were many more things in my mind, what six realms of immortal cultivation, what fetal breathing wheel-nurturing. This magic mirror seems to only be able to divide into six talisman seeds." Li Chijing said frankly.

Li Xiangping nodded and comforted: "Such a magical object, seizing the creation of heaven and earth, the quantity is not large to begin with."

Eldest brother Li Changhu yawned, waved his hand, and said to his brothers:

"Go back to sleep. We've waited all night and are tired."

"You're afraid Sister-in-law will worry!" Li Xiangping laughed and teased.

"You brat!" Li Changhu was generous, pointed at Li Xiangping with a smile, and whispered:

"I think that Tian Yun is quite good."

"Eldest Brother, what kind of matchmaker are you playing!" Li Xiangping's face stiffened, he turned and left the courtyard, returning to his room.

"Hahahahaha..." Li Changhu laughed and entered the front courtyard.

"There's a chance!"

Li Mutian twisted his beard and thought secretly.

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At night, the moonlight was like water.

Li Chijing sat cross-legged in the courtyard with his eyes closed, pinching the magic seal, leading a stream of air from the Qi Sea acupoint, walking through the meridians, jumping over the twelve-story building at the throat, and appearing from the center of the eyebrows.

In an instant, Li Chijing's eyes lit up, and the water-like moonlight slowly swam toward the center of the eyebrows, intersecting with that wisp of spiritual energy.

Before long, Li Chijing pinched a seal, guiding this stream of air that had transformed into milky white to fall into the center of the eyebrows, cross the twelve-story building, and fall back into the Qi Sea acupoint.

After three times like this, Li Chijing opened his eyes and looked at the sky. Two hours had passed.

"The speed of absorbing moonlight is too slow."

Li Chijing calculated carefully. Absorbing moonlight eighty-one times can refine a wisp of moonlight energy, and a full eighty-one wisps can form the first wheel of the six wheels of fetal breathing—the Mysterious Scene Wheel.

After refining the Mysterious Scene Wheel, one is considered to have entered fetal breathing and can perform magic arts.

"Three times in two hours, eighty-one times is fifty-four hours." Li Chijing calculated in his heart: "Cultivating for six hours a day takes nine days. Eighty-one wisps take a full two years..."

Looking at the moonlight gathered on the magic mirror, Li Chijing blinked his eyes, had a flash of inspiration, and sat cross-legged by the stone platform to cultivate.

Lu Jiangxian was half-asleep and half-awake in the mirror, killing time. He had long since absorbed enough lunar radiance power. The time in the mirror was long and boring. Lu Jiangxian was like listening to a boring water class in college, dazed and sleepy. Sometimes he would close his eyes and a day would pass.

Li Chijing's spiritual power leaped from the center of his eyebrows and fell into the lunar halo on the mirror, suddenly waking Lu Jiangxian. Looking at the little boy in front of him, he couldn't help but laugh secretly.

"How smart."

Li Chijing guided the spiritual energy back to the Qi Sea acupoint, only feeling cool all over. The lunar radiance power had grown by more than ten times. Looking at it this way, it would only take five or six times to form a wisp of lunar radiance energy!

He couldn't help but be greatly encouraged, pinched the magic seal with both hands, and continued to cultivate. Until the morning glow covered the sky and the older brothers had all arrived in the backyard, he reluctantly ended his cultivation.

Seeing that his brothers and father had all arrived, Li Chijing told them about what happened last night. Everyone was surprised and happy. Li Mutian sighed, burned incense for Lu Jiangxian again, and led the children out of the secret room.