Chapter 22: Qi Condensation Stage Third Layer

One hour later!

*Boom... *

With a dull sound inside He Pingsheng's body, he finally broke through to the Qi Condensation Stage first layer.

This...

He Pingsheng, covered in sweat, was shocked and happy at this moment: is this too heaven-defying?

There was no movement at all after practicing for a month before, but after practicing for only one hour, he broke through directly?

The cultivation technique condensed by the Treasure Basin was naturally extremely heaven-defying, but it wasn't as heaven-defying as He Pingsheng thought. The reason he broke through so quickly was because of his constant efforts to guide spiritual energy into his body over the past month.

If not for that, even practicing this Li Li Huo Zhen Fa, it would take a full day to guide spiritual energy into the body.

One hour was absolutely impossible.

This is...

He Pingsheng suddenly became shocked.

Because he broke through to the Qi Condensation Stage first layer, He Pingsheng suddenly felt that he seemed to "see" the situation inside his body.

He saw his flesh, his meridians, his dantian.

And in the dantian, that small, finger-thick fire-attribute crimson-red Qi vortex was slowly rotating.

"Is this internal vision?" He Pingsheng was shocked.

Legend has it that after a cultivator reaches the Qi Condensation Stage, they will produce spiritual sense.

This spiritual sense is extremely weak, but it is enough to look inside oneself and see the situation inside the body.

This is too good.

Before, guiding spiritual energy into the body was all based on feeling, but now he could watch himself practice.

Wouldn't that be faster?

While happy, He Pingsheng didn't forget the dangers of the future.

The path of cultivation is long, where has he reached?

So... he still had to continue practicing.

He opened the second chapter of the Li Li Huo Zhen Fa and studied it carefully.

This second chapter spoke of the method to cultivate from Qi Condensation Stage first layer to Qi Condensation Stage second layer.

By late night, He Pingsheng finally mastered the method of the second chapter.

After finishing dinner, he sat cross-legged and began the practice of the second chapter.

The practice of the Qi Condensation Stage second layer was different from the first layer.

In the first layer, as long as you guide spiritual energy into the body and gather it in the dantian, that's it.

But practicing towards the second layer required the problem of accumulation by quantity; you must constantly absorb spiritual power between heaven and earth, and then fill yourself.

Just as he started practicing the second layer, He Pingsheng's face became bitter.

Spiritual roots were too poor.

The problem now was that his speed of absorbing spiritual power from outside wasn't slow.

A large amount of fire-attribute spiritual energy entered his flesh through his skin!

Then it entered the meridians and spiritual roots through the flesh.

But when it reached the spiritual roots, the problem appeared.

Because the fire-attribute spiritual root was too thin, it couldn't accommodate too much spiritual power passing through at once.

So no matter how fast his speed of absorbing spiritual power was, it was useless.

It couldn't pass through at all!

Let's talk about the meridians!

Spiritual power started to run and condense after entering the meridians from the spiritual roots.

But the problem was, the spiritual power in his meridians was always at a level of deficiency.

Still the same problem: spiritual roots were too thin.

This thing was like drawing water from a large pool to a small pool.

The spiritual power between heaven and earth was like a large pool, and the meridians were like a small pool.

But now, there wasn't enough water in the small pool, even though there was plenty in the large pool outside.

The reason was that the water pipe connecting the two pools was too thin, and the flow rate was too slow.

He Pingsheng's practice was like this now.

No wonder single spiritual roots were fast; now, through internal vision, he finally had a more intuitive understanding.

Is it okay if the cultivation technique is awesome?

No!

No matter how awesome the cultivation technique is, it only refines spiritual power fast!

But if the speed of spiritual energy entering is too slow, or even if no spiritual energy enters, what's the use of having a good cultivation technique?

Having said that, is it really impossible for five-element spiritual roots to practice?

Not necessarily!

If there is a kind of spiritual power that doesn't pass through the spiritual roots when entering the meridians, the speed of refining would still be very fast.

What kind of spiritual power can enter the meridians without passing through the spiritual roots?

Pills!

Various external supplements of heaven and earth treasures.

After these things are swallowed by a cultivator, they don't enter the meridians after being filtered by the body's pores, flesh, and spiritual roots like the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, but enter the meridians directly after digestion.

In this way, the drawback of poor spiritual roots can be avoided.

Having said that, wouldn't cultivators without spiritual roots be able to practice by relying on pills?

The answer is: No!

Because the so-called meridians and dantian of cultivation are not the same as the meridians of human blood; they are derivatives of spiritual roots.

Without spiritual roots, there are no meridians.

So those cultivators born without any spiritual roots cannot practice even with pills.

He Pingsheng still understood these rough common senses of cultivation.

So what to do next?

He Pingsheng walked out of the courtyard and looked left and right.

Taking advantage of the night, he stuffed all the door cracks and windows tightly, then broke a bottle of sesame oil before digging out the two jade bottles from under the bed and taking a top-tier 【Qi-Gathering Pill】!

A rich medicinal fragrance instantly spread throughout the small house.

He Pingsheng hurriedly crushed this pill directly, taking only one-tenth of it, and put the remaining nine-tenths back into the porcelain bottle.

This one-tenth of the pill was put into a large porcelain bowl by He Pingsheng, filled with water.

In an instant, the powder of the pill dissolved into the water.

The medicinal fragrance around it stopped abruptly.

He Pingsheng buried the jade bottle back underground, then drank a mouthful of water and began to practice.

*Boom... *

As the water full of pure energy entered his abdomen, that magnificent and majestic energy surged into his meridians from all directions.

At this moment, He Pingsheng felt as if his meridians were about to explode.

Actually, they wouldn't.

Because relatively speaking, the spiritual power in the Qi-Gathering Pill is the purest and gentlest.

Even if you swallow one whole pill at once, it won't explode.

It's just that the pills that cannot be refined in time will dissipate into the void, wasting great resources.

He Pingsheng hurriedly operated the fire-attribute 【Li Li Huo Zhen Fa】 and refined it crazily.

The spiritual power ran a cycle in the meridians, was refined, and then gathered into the Qi vortex in the dantian.

After that, the excess energy filled the meridians again, so he refined it again and gathered it into the dantian.

Cycle after cycle, time after time.

This bowl of water supported He Pingsheng's practice for a full three days.

In these three days of practice, although he didn't break through to the Qi Condensation Stage second layer, looking inside his dantian, that wisp of fire-attribute crimson-red Qi vortex in the dantian had grown more than double.

Two months later!

After consuming about two top-tier 【Qi-Gathering Pills】, his cultivation finally broke through.

From Qi Condensation Stage first layer, he arrived at Qi Condensation Stage second layer.

After about another half a year, He Pingsheng swallowed seven more top-tier Qi-Gathering Pills.

His cultivation finally broke through to the Qi Condensation Stage third layer.

It took eight months to go from Qi Condensation Stage first layer to third layer.

A total of nine top-tier Qi-Gathering Pills were consumed!

"Finally reached the Qi Condensation Stage third layer!" He Pingsheng took a deep breath: "Now my cultivation has surpassed that of Wang Shixiong Hao Yun back then!"

He pushed open the house door!

The world outside had turned into a silvery white.

"It's snowing... and the New Year is coming soon!"

"Time to go burn some incense for my parents and Wang Shixiong Hao and the others!" ===== CHAPTER 23 =====