After everyone took the oath, they were supposed to go and pay homage to the ancestor Guiyuan.
But unfortunately, Patriarch Guiyuan was out visiting friends, so he had to skip this step.
After entering the mountain gate, Zhao Sheng, Taoist Feng Yu and others called each other brothers according to their seniority, and also paid their respects to Elder Jing Hong and Sect Master Jin Chenzi.
The next step is the part that everyone is most concerned about: teaching and passing on skills.
Perhaps out of his importance to the foundation-building cultivators, Jin Chenzi personally led everyone to the Sutra Repository located deep in the mountain.
There are three places where Guiyuan Sect stores skills and the art of cultivating immortals.
Located on the plain at the foot of the mountain is a place called the Sutra Library. This place is open to all disciples, no merit is required, but the books stored there are mostly unimportant books such as general knowledge of immortal cultivation, basic spells, general knowledge of the hundred arts of immortal cultivation, unofficial history and anecdotes, etc.
The Sutra Library that everyone came to was the second place, which contained various precious techniques for cultivating immortality, elixirs, magic talismans and other secret manuals.
As for Guiyuan Sect's most precious skills, elixir recipes, weapon refining records and other treasures, they are stored in the cave of Guiyuan Patriarch, and can only be granted with the Patriarch's approval.
The Sutra Library is a large six-story stone hall. The door is tightly closed, and there is a palm-sized square hole on the right side.
At this time, the surface of the stone hall was covered with a layer of colorful light film, which was obviously an extremely powerful restriction.
Jin Chenzi waved his long sleeves, and a blood-red token flew out, silently passing through the light film and firmly embedded in the recessed hole of the gate.
After a blurry moment, the colorful light film quickly dissipated.
Jin Chenzi waved his hand to recall the blood-colored token, and then the palace door opened silently to both sides, revealing a spacious hall behind it.
Jin Chenzi stepped in first, followed by Zhao Sheng and others.
The hall on the first floor is very spacious, with a circular interior space, about five or six feet high and about thirty feet in diameter.
The ceiling of the hall is inlaid with flame beads, which release bright flames, illuminating the hall as bright as day.
On the walls surrounding the hall, there are ten stone doors, with runes such as magic, elixir, talisman, tool, spell, beast, etc. written on the sides of the stone doors.
Jin Chenzi did not stop, pushed open the stone door with the word "Fa" on it, and walked up the stone steps.
Seeing this, Zhao Sheng and others followed.
After climbing twenty stone steps, everyone reached the second floor. The stone door on the second floor was closed and also covered with a layer of light film, but only three colors.
Jin Chenzi did not stop, and continued to walk across the third floor, the fourth floor, and finally stopped at the fifth floor.
"I brought you up here this time. Next time you come here, you must have an identity token, otherwise you will be killed by the restrictions here."
As he spoke, Jin Chenzi took out the blood-colored token and put it into the concave hole on the stone gate.
The restrictive light film dissipated and the stone door opened silently.
Jin Chenzi reminded him, "Remember, each person can only choose one Golden Elixir technique. After one hour, whether you have chosen one or not, you must come out in time. Otherwise, you will bear the consequences!"
Zhao Sheng and others nodded solemnly and walked in impatiently.
The fifth floor is not small but very spacious. There are only fifteen stone platforms half a person's height and three feet square standing on the ground. The top of the stone platform is covered by a spherical light film, and there are ancient jade slips placed on the platform.
The Law of Ten Thousand Trees
Golden Crow Burning Heaven Art
Xuanyuan Heavy Water Secret
One Qi Soaring to the Sky Kung Fu
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Zhao Sheng did not rush to choose a technique, but walked past the stone platforms one by one.
As one extremely precious golden elixir technique after another came into view, Zhao Sheng felt the urge to buy them all.
But... he knew that this was impossible, at least not for the time being.
After a while, after Zhao Sheng had looked through all the techniques, he went directly to the stone platform where the "Xuanyuan Heavy Water Art" was placed, reached out through the light film, and easily took out the jade slip.
Unlike others, Zhao Sheng set his sights on the "Xuanyuan Heavy Water Art" from the very beginning.
Frankly speaking, it is not surprising at all, because the "Xuanling Gong" he practiced happened to be one of the simplified exercises of "Xuanyuan Chongshui Jue", and the two were of the same origin.
Cases like Zhao Sheng's are not uncommon in the world of immortal cultivation.
The higher the grade of a martial art, the more difficult it is to practice.
In order to select more outstanding successors, immortal cultivation sects often split a high-level technique into multiple simplified techniques and choose to pass them down.
This practice is very common in the world of immortal cultivation, and the most extreme example is the Ksitigarbha Sect.
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Half an hour later, Zhao Sheng groaned and took the jade slip of the martial arts technique from between his eyebrows with a pale face.
"Xuanyuan Chongshui Jue" is worthy of being a Jindan-level skill. The information entropy of the content of the skill is extremely high, and it can be said to be profound.
In addition, the second half of the jade slip actually records a large number of experiences and insights of practitioners throughout the ages.
Because too much information was copied in a short period of time, Zhao Sheng's mental strength was greatly depleted.
It was not until he took a nourishing pill that his complexion improved a lot.
An hour passed quickly.
Zhao Sheng and the other twelve foundation-building monks all walked out of the stone building with happy expressions on their faces, and then followed Master Jin out of the Sutra Library.
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Five days later, in a training room in a cave, Zhao Sheng sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, holding a water stone in each hand, and the vortex of spiritual power in his body was spinning rapidly.
At this moment, wisps of pure water spirit energy were continuously sucked into the vortex in Dantian from the Shuilan Stone, and then quickly refined into spiritual power.
At the same time, under the guidance of Zhao Sheng's spiritual consciousness, streams of spiritual power flowed out from his dantian, followed a complex route through the eight extraordinary meridians, and then flowed to his limbs and bones.
Then, the spiritual power gathered again from countless tiny hidden veins to the twelve main meridians, and finally flowed back to the Dantian Qi Sea and merged into the spiritual power vortex.
Zhao Sheng carefully maintained this circulation of spiritual power.
It was built less than a day ago and is still very fragile.
If you are not careful, you will collapse immediately, making all the hard work of the past few days go to waste.
It was unknown how long it had been, but as the two pieces of water stone suddenly shattered into a pile of debris, Zhao Sheng slowly opened his eyes, and a flash of joy flashed across his eyes.
Because "Xuanling Gong" is a simplified version of "Xuanyuan Chongshui Jue", Zhao Sheng's conversion this time was very smooth, and he successfully established a new spiritual power cycle in just a few days.
This saved him at least three months.
Ever since he got the "Xuan Yuan Chong Shui Jue", Zhao Sheng has deeply realized the true value of the Jindan-level technique.
Its value lies not in the significant improvement in cultivation efficiency, but in the fact that it involves a leap in spiritual power.
What is spiritual power leap?
To give a simple example, there are countless kinds of spiritual fire in the world of immortal cultivation, but according to the level of energy, they can be divided into ordinary fire, spiritual fire, true fire, etc.
The spiritual power of immortal cultivators is somewhat similar to the level classification of spiritual fire.
In the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages, it is called spiritual power; in the Golden Core stage, it is called true essence; and above the Nascent Soul stage, it is collectively called magic power.
The reason why it is difficult for foundation-building cultivators to advance to the Golden Core Realm is largely due to the failure of spiritual power transition.
The leap of spiritual power to true essence is like ordinary fire suddenly evolving into spiritual fire of heaven and earth. This is extremely difficult!