Chapter 15: Method of cultivation

"Wang Shixiong, Wang Shixiong, Wang Shixiong..."

He Pingsheng ran into the courtyard from outside the alchemy room in a hurry and came to the outside of Hao Yun's room.

He found Hao Yun wearing a black Taoist robe, pacing leisurely in his room.

"You... are you better?"

He Pingsheng looked surprised.

"Oh!" Hao Yun said: "Better, aren't I? Didn't I eat the top-tier Jin Gu Dan you gave me?"

"Hi... I read in the book before that compared to high-tier elixirs, top-tier elixirs are two different things. I thought the book was bragging!"

"It turns out it's true!"

"This Jin Gu Dan has four tiers: low-tier, mid-tier, high-tier, and top-tier!"

Hao Yun looked at He Pingsheng, pinched his fingers, and began to explain: "With my injuries, if I didn't use any elixir and relied on self-recovery, it would take about four months!"

"If I swallowed a low-tier 【Jin Gu Dan】, this time could be directly shortened to two months!"

"If it's mid-tier, about a month is fine!"

"If it's high-tier, half a month is enough!"

"But what you gave me is top-tier. Top-tier elixirs work immediately!"

"I have recovered in half an incense stick of time, and there are no side effects!"

"Shocking!"

Hao Yun nodded while speaking, and finally looked

"I found out!" He Pingsheng said, "I heard from Zhang Laoda and the others that Linglong and the other two disciples who took action were all punished; they said they are to reflect on their mistakes at the teleportation plaza for three days!"

"Reflect for three days?"

Hao Yun shook his head and said, "Not bad, this punishment isn't too heavy. I broke so many bones, and the three of them only have to reflect for three days; they really got off easy!"

"Don't worry, Linglong shouldn't come looking for trouble with me again over a three-day punishment!"

"Come over, sit down!"

Hao Yun beckoned to He Pingsheng.

The two of them sat down on opposite sides of the table.

He Pingsheng saw that there was a large bowl and some fruit placed on the table.

He even thought Wang Shixiong Hao was going to treat him to fruit!

"Don't move!" Hao Yun reached out and slapped the back of his hand, saying, "I'm going to teach you the principles of cultivation today... Listen carefully!"

"Do you know the distinction between Linggen?"

He Pingsheng said, "I do!"

Hao Yun asked again, "Do you know why cultivators with a single Linggen have a fast cultivation speed?"

He Pingsheng shook his head at this.

Slap...

Hao Yun placed that pitch-black large iron bowl heavily in front of He Pingsheng and said, "For example... the mouth of the bowl is a person's Linggen!"

"This is a single Linggen!"

"When cultivating, all the spiritual energy enters the body through the mouth of the bowl!"

"Can you understand that?"

He Pingsheng nodded: "Oh!"

Hao Yun took out two crisp pears and placed the two large crisp pears into the bowl, just enough to fill the mouth of the iron bowl.

"Look... now, with these two crisp pears inside, this is a dual Linggen!"

"Each crisp pear is a Linggen!"

"Look now... isn't one of the Linggen in the dual Linggen much smaller than the single Linggen?"

He Pingsheng understood; he nodded and said, "Yes!"

The iron bowl is a single Linggen!

Placing two pears inside the iron bowl, where each pear is the thickness of a dual Linggen, one discovers upon comparison that the diameter of the single Linggen is twice as large as the dual Linggen.

Hao Yun said, "You see it too... for example, a cultivator with wood and fire dual Linggen cannot cultivate both Linggen at the same time when cultivating, because a person only has one set of meridians!"

"When circulating and refining fire spiritual energy, you cannot refine wood spiritual energy, do you understand?"

"So, although a dual Linggen cultivator has two Linggen, only one of them is useful!"

"And the thickness of this one Linggen is only one-half that of the single Linggen!"

"The thickness is one-half, but its area is only one-fourth, and the amount of spiritual energy that passes through during cultivation is also one-fourth!"

"That is the difference!"

"Theoretically speaking, the cultivation speed of a dual Linggen cultivator is one-fourth that of a single Linggen!"

"Understand?"

He Pingsheng nodded: "Understood!"

"Good!" Hao Yun took out the two pears and placed three tangerines into the large iron bowl: "Look... this is a triple Linggen!"

"Triple Linggen are thinner, and the cultivation speed is even slower!"

He took out the three tangerines and put four eggs inside.

The eggs were even smaller.

However, the smallest was having five plums in the bowl at the same time.

These plums were smaller than the eggs.

"Look for yourself!" Hao Yun said, "You have a five-element Linggen, possessing five Linggen... the thickness of each of these Linggen is almost equivalent to one-tenth of a single Linggen!"

"With the same resources and the same cultivation technique, a single Linggen person only needs ten years to go from the first to the twelfth layer of the Qi Condensation Stage!"

"You would need a hundred years!"

"Tell me, how are you going to catch up? How are you going to cultivate?"

Hao Yun's analogy was very apt.

He Pingsheng was speechless.

Looking at it this way, cultivation really is too unfriendly to five-element Linggen.

It really is a bit hopeless!

But the next moment, the fighting spirit in He Pingsheng's heart was ignited once again: That's right... cultivation is indeed too unfriendly to five-element Linggen, but what does that matter?

I have the Treasure-Gathering Basin.

With this thing, why fear having a bad Linggen?

If the Linggen is thin, the speed of absorbing spiritual energy is indeed slow, but the spiritual energy between heaven and earth is mixed and thin; in reality, even dual Linggen cultivators cannot tap into the full potential of their Linggen, let alone single Linggen ones.

What if I eat elixirs every day?

And they are all top-tier elixirs?

Who knows whose cultivation speed will be fast or slow in the end?

Hao Yun continued, "I have a quadruple Linggen, and you have a five-element Linggen... neither of us will ever be able to cultivate to the Foundation Establishment Stage in our lives!"

"However... since you want to cultivate, I do have a rudimentary breathing and meditation technique here!"

"Take it and look, but don't hold too much hope!"

While speaking, Hao Yun took out a book that looked like it had some age to it.

He placed it gently on the table and then pushed it in front of He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng's excited heart began to thump.

The thing he had dreamed of had finally arrived.

He saw a few words written vertically on the cover of the book: Basic Breathing and Meditation Method!

"Seven days!" Hao Yun made a gesture and said, "I'll give you seven days... you cannot copy it, you can only memorize it!"

"I'm just letting you take a look... not letting you cultivate!"

"Because this thing was something I memorized back then... the content of the first three layers might be correct, but I can't guarantee anything after that!"

"About... eighty percent of it is probably wrong!"

He Pingsheng's face immediately turned dark: Good grief... is it really this crude?

Still, three layers are three layers!

Better than nothing!

"Yes... Wang Shixiong... I will take it to look at first!"

He Pingsheng took the book, bid farewell to Hao Yun, returned to his bedroom, closed the door, and began to read it carefully.