Chapter 16

He Pingsheng returned to his room, closed the doors and windows, and then sat in front of his table and began to read.

Basic Breathing and Meditation Method.

Open the first page!

There was no content on the title page, just a name written: Hao Yun.

Good grief, so this book was really copied by Hao Yun!

He Pingsheng continued to flip to the back.

The back was the table of contents!

The first part of the table of contents was the general outline.

The second part was the method of drawing in Qi.

The third part was the proper content of the cultivation technique.

He Pingsheng did not rush to flip to the part about the cultivation technique, but instead started reading from the general outline.

Through the general outline, he also understood the general steps of this cultivation.

The first step is to develop a sense of Qi.

Yes, that is to cultivate the method of drawing in Qi, and then through the method of drawing in Qi, allow oneself to be able to feel the thin, invisible spiritual energy between the heaven and earth outside.

Therefore, one must develop a sense of Qi to truly begin cultivation.

Then... let's practice the sense of Qi first!

He Pingsheng flipped to the page for 【Method of Drawing in Qi】, read it through once, read it thoroughly three times, and after clarifying the meaning of the chapter on the method of drawing in Qi, he began to sit cross-legged on the ground, then closed his eyes and lowered his head, using his spiritual sense to feel the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

Actually, this is nonsense.

Because during the Qi Condensation Stage, a cultivator's spiritual sense can only look inward and cannot be projected outward, so one cannot feel the spiritual energy outside using spiritual sense.

Then what does one rely on?

Rely on the four hundred and eighty million pores all over the body, as well as the skin and sweat hairs on the body, etc.

A little bit of sensation.

After cultivating like this for one night, He Pingsheng did not develop any sense of Qi.

The next morning after eating, He Pingsheng sat cross-legged on the ground again and began to cultivate the sense of Qi.

"Yo..." a voice suddenly came from outside the window: "Little He, are you looking for the sense of Qi?"

He Pingsheng turned his head, looked at Hao Yun outside the window, and gave a silly smile: "Yes!"

Hao Yun asked: "Did you find it?"

"No!" He Pingsheng shook his head and said: "Is it time to chop wood?"

"No, no, no..." Hao Yun waved his hand and said: "That... you keep looking for your sense of Qi properly... I'll go do the wood chopping work, you slowly look for it first, the sense of Qi is important!"

After finishing, Hao Yun actually picked up an axe and walked out the door just like that.

Alright!

Since Wang Shixiong went to chop wood himself, I will continue to look for the sense of Qi.

One day!

Two days!

Three days!

At dusk on the third day, He Pingsheng suddenly found the sense of Qi; his sweat hairs stood up all over his body, and he could clearly feel the flow of spiritual energy outside.

Also, the collision of various elements filled within this spiritual energy.

Although very weak, it was finally considered finding the sense of Qi.

He Pingsheng was exceptionally excited; he carried this Basic Breathing and Meditation Method in his hand and walked to Hao Yun's bedroom.

"Yo..." Hao Yun, who was sitting next to the table, raised his head, looked at He Pingsheng, and asked: "You are... did you find the sense of Qi?"

"Hehehe..."

He Pingsheng gave a silly smile and said: "Yes, Wang Shixiong Hao, I just now felt the fluctuation of spiritual power outside, am I... have I found the sense of Qi?"

"I suppose so!"

Hao Yun nodded.

He Pingsheng sat in front of him with an excited face, looking like he wanted to be praised quickly.

But after waiting for more than a dozen breaths, he didn't see Hao Yun give any evaluation.

He couldn't help but ask: "Wang Shixiong... how long did it take you to find the sense of Qi back then?"

Hao Yun took a sip of water and said: "One day!"

"O... one day?" The pride He Pingsheng had just felt was suppressed in an instant.

"Yes!" Hao Yun asked: "Is there a problem?"

He Pingsheng's face turned bitter.

I spent three full days and two nights, and you succeeded in one day?

Isn't this bullying people too much?

"Wang Shixiong has superior talent, I can't compare!" He Pingsheng sighed.

Hao Yun said: "Pfft... is that what you call superior talent?"

"Those geniuses with single Linggen can cultivate to the first layer in two days... what does this count as?"

"Ah?" He Pingsheng said: "Two days, first layer?"

"Yes!" Hao Yun replied calmly while drinking tea slowly: "The first layer of the Qi Condensation Stage is the simplest... as long as you draw Qi into the body, follow the method mentioned in the cultivation technique, guide the spiritual power between heaven and earth into the body, then circulate it through the meridians for one cycle, and finally store the Qi in the dantian, it is considered breaking through to the first layer!"

"It's just that simple!"

"Oh!" He Pingsheng nodded absentmindedly, then asked again: "Then... those genius disciples, if they are looking for the sense of Qi, how long do they need?"

Hao Yun said: "It is said, half an hour!"

Uh... this!

Hao Yun seemed to see through He Pingsheng's thoughts; he smiled and said: "Don't ask... those genius disciples and us have no comparability at all!"

"Let's put it this way, it took me half a month back then to be able to guide spiritual power to circulate one cycle in my body!"

"Which means, it took me half a month to break through the first layer!"

"And those genius disciples, it's all a matter of two or three days!"

"Then!" Hao Yun continued: "From this first layer to the second layer, what is tested is talent and resources; I don't have any elixirs, and I don't know how to refine any Qi-Gathering Pills, so it took me three full years to break through!"

"After breaking through to the second layer, nine more years have passed, and the third layer is still far beyond reach!"

"I feel that in this life, either I will be at the second layer for the rest of my life, or there is still a chance to break through one layer to the third layer of the Qi Condensation Stage!"

"Any higher, and there is no possibility!"

Slap...

Hao Yun pressed the teacup in his hand onto the table, then stood up and said: "So Little He... I am only lending you this book to look at... don't really go and cultivate... in the end, it will all just be a dream!"

He Pingsheng looked unconvinced: "Why, didn't you also cultivate to the second layer?"

"That's different!" Hao Yun said: "I have a quadruple Linggen, and you, damn it, are a five-element Linggen; can you compare with me?"

He Pingsheng was speechless: A quadruple Linggen looking down on my five-element Linggen?

After a while, Hao Yun took out a white porcelain bottle and placed it in front of He Pingsheng: "You must use a porcelain bottle to store elixirs... this way you can conceal more than half of the elixir's scent; if your parents left you any good things, use this to store them!"

"Don't let people see it, it's not good for you!"

He Pingsheng said: "I... don't have any... I won't need this thing!"

Hao Yun said: "Don't worry, only you know whether you have any or not; anyway, I don't covet your things... take it away..."

"Go, go, go..."

The porcelain bottle was shoved into He Pingsheng's hand by him, and then He Pingsheng was pushed out by him.

Looking at the porcelain bottle in his hand, He Pingsheng suddenly wondered if Wang Shixiong Hao was testing him.

Could it be that he deliberately gave me the porcelain bottle, waiting for me to store the elixirs, and then suddenly appear to snatch my elixirs?

No way...

Absolutely must not store them!

Must hold back.