Weird cultivation of immortality starts with possessing a mysterious book

When I woke up, it was already dusk.

It rains a lot in early spring, and the hanging valley is soaked by the drizzle as soon as it falls from the sky.

The sky is clear after the rain, and even the air feels fresh.

Gu Xing happily withdrew his gaze from the horizon.

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

As soon as I opened the door, I knew it was Qin Wen without any guessing.

"Brother Gu, let's go eat?"

After not eating for a day, Gu Xing felt a little hungry, so he did not refuse.

We chatted along the way and arrived at a familiar stall where the boss was busy.

Seeing the boss's appearance, Gu Xing was suddenly a little surprised.

Because the little girl he had been carrying on his back was gone.

The boss saw them coming and greeted them familiarly.

"Boss, where's the little girl?"

Qin Wen asked with a smile.

The boss smiled bitterly.

"Listen to what you said, Master. Let her practice in the house."

"Oh, how about talent?"

"It's OK, but it's a bit weird. I don't know how far I can go in my cultivation."

"..."

While chatting, Qin Wen had already ordered the dishes.

Qin Wen ordered a lot of dishes this time, and when he paid the bill, he left a lot of money.

And, it's not just money, there's also a token.

The boss refused to accept it, Qin Wen said with a smile.

"I think the little girl is cute, so this is for her. You can take the token to the school administrator, and they will let the little girl in. For your daughter's sake, don't refuse."

As a relatively large force, Xuanluo Valley naturally has a place to cultivate the new generation.

The school is an institution commanded by the Sage of Xuanluo Valley and led by the Zhao family.

The school was originally established to meet the needs of the Gui people in taking care of their children, and it was provided free of charge to the children of the Gui people.

Even now, although it is still free, because Xuanluo Valley is not big enough and the number of descendants of the ghosts is increasing, it takes a lot of effort and money to send children to school.

There are probably many cases similar to the boss's daughter in the school.

Therefore, going to school is the best choice for the little girl.

But there was a reason why he didn't go to school.

The boss is not capable enough.

Therefore, when the boss heard that his daughter finally had the opportunity to go to school, he was extremely hesitant and conflicted.

If it was just for him, he would not accept it, but for the sake of his daughter...

"Son..."

He raised his head and wanted to say something, but was stunned the next moment.

Because there was no one in front of him, and the two young men who often came to eat were nowhere to be seen.

But even so, he bent down in the direction they were leaving and bowed deeply.

"Thank you, sir!"

……

"Brother Qin, you've made me embarrassed to go to eat here in the future. The boss will definitely not charge us next time."

Gu Xing did not use a condemning tone, but just teased.

"If he doesn't want to take it, can he stop us from giving it to him?"

Qin Wen spread his hands and said frankly.

So Gu Xing just smiled and asked another question.

"Now that you have obtained the Imperial Seal, are you going back to Daqin next?"

Qin Wen shook his head.

"I can't go back. There's still something I haven't done."

"what's up?"

"In fact, they asked me to come to Xuanluo Valley to arrange a marriage."

"Marriage?"

Gu Xing was curious. He didn't expect that in this world full of weirdness, two forces thousands of miles apart would actually have a marriage.

But when it comes to marriage, Gu Xing couldn't help but have doubts, so he asked.

"Shouldn't it be a good thing to form a marriage alliance with the Hanging Valley? With the support of the Hanging Valley, you should be able to fight for the throne better, right?"

"No, they won't let a trickster be the queen."

After Qin Wen said this, Gu Xing understood.

As a country dominated by humans, although the Qin Dynasty is not as extremely hostile to evil people as the Zhou Dynasty.

But no matter what, they would not allow a weird person to become the mother of their country.

After all, no matter how powerful a weirdo is, he can't escape the fate of becoming weird in the end.

Moreover, their descendants are all weird people.

Therefore, whether from the perspective of security or reputation, as long as Qin Wen marries a strange woman as his wife, he can be said to be completely away from the throne.

Of course, he could also just marry her as a concubine.

However, if that were the case, I'm afraid neither the Qin Dynasty nor Xuanluo Valley would agree.

However, for Gu Xing, these were just things that he could just think about and then put aside, and they were not important.

He was just a little curious and gossipy.

"Who are you going to marry?" he asked.

"I heard she is the third young lady of the Zhao family."

"Does it look good?"

"I heard she's as pretty as a flower, but I've never seen her, so who knows if it's true or not."

Gu Xing was a little surprised.

"You've been here for so long, and you haven't seen it?"

Qin Wen smiled.

"I guess my brothers said something. Since I came here, the third young lady has been in seclusion."

"Shouldn't they want you to complete the marriage sooner?"

"Who knows? Maybe they want to humiliate me. After all, as a prince of the Qin Dynasty, I came here for marriage, but I was left aside for several months. Maybe they think I am making trouble because of this."

Qin Wen looked as if he didn't care at all.

"But no matter whether it's my brothers' stupid idea or the Zhao family's idea, this is exactly what I want. It gives me enough time to do something."

After chatting, the two returned to the inn.

After returning to the inn, Gu Xing had nothing to do, so naturally he continued to practice.

He took out the purple crystal.

Just a wisp of purple energy would be enough for him to practice for a long time.

And no one knows how many strands of purple energy can be differentiated from such a purple energy crystal.

Gu Xing didn't bother to calculate carefully and started to practice the secret technique of refining the soul with purple qi.

Without the step of drawing in the purple energy, the time he saved in practicing was at least half.

Therefore, the growth rate of his soul suddenly increased.

It's a pity that the soul involves too many things. Just like using the burning lamp to enhance the strength of the soul, in order to avoid excessive damage to the soul through soul refining, Gu Xing cannot devote all his time to the process of purple qi soul refining.

Relaxing and unwinding is the right way.

Of course, this "relaxation" does not mean he is relaxing.

In his spare time, he also studied the Azure Fighting Method and the normal operation techniques to refine his Qi.

Although when breaking through, the quality of true Qi can naturally improve.

However, the daily tempering of true Qi can also greatly improve the quality of true Qi over time.

Moreover, this is not just about tempering the true qi, the body can also be tempered in the process.

Gu Xing’s body is already very strong, but he doesn’t mind becoming even stronger.

Two months passed as I continued to practice, and occasionally eat, drink, defecate, urinate, and sleep.

The chill of winter has completely gone, replaced by the warmth of spring.

The singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers are obviously impossible for this hanging valley floating in the sky.

But looking around, you can see greenery and vitality everywhere, which really makes people feel relaxed.

According to the description in the fantasy novels that Gu Xing read, during the boring practice, if one suddenly takes a look at such scenery, one might be able to gain some insights.

Naturally, nothing so lucky happened to Gu Xing. He just practiced step by step.

During these two months, he had successfully practiced the Azure Fighting Method, and he had learned all the low-level Taoist techniques recorded in it.

One can even draw inferences from one example and create some low-level Taoist techniques on his own.

Whether these low-level Taoist techniques are useful or not is another matter, but at least they have greatly changed Gu Xing’s thinking.

In the past, because he had only been in this world for a short time, he often looked at things from a materialistic perspective.

This is not to say that it is bad, it is just not suitable in many cases, especially when many things cannot be explained by science.

And now, having learned the Azure tactics, Gu Xing is like a landlubber who has learned how to swim.

Although materialism is still deeply rooted in his mind, when necessary, he can also use the knowledge and perspective of this world to think.

It’s like when you normally just need to walk, but you fall into the water, then switching to swimming is naturally no problem.

In addition to the Azure Battle Method, he has also been thinking about the formation from time to time in the past two months.

Since he had seen Master Jian's operation before, he already had a general idea about the matter of replacing the "body" for the formation spirit.

However, apart from this, he did not make much progress in his practice of formations.

The formation is not like a practice, it is more like a craft.

Although it is said that the master can only lead you to the door, but the practice is up to you, this only applies to the basics.

As for the profoundness of the formation, it cannot be summarized by just a book with detailed explanation of the formation. It also requires a very good teacher to teach by example.

Otherwise, if you keep reading a book with detailed explanation of formations and keep studying, you may never find the right path even if you hit your head against the wall.

Gu Xing's formation has now reached a bottleneck stage.

However, Gu Xing has not tried to break through this barrier recently, because he has reached a critical moment in his cultivation.

The strength of his soul has increased to a certain stage, and an invisible barrier appears in front of him.

And now, he has to break through this barrier and achieve a breakthrough in his realm.

He had been trying for several days and could already feel that this barrier was shaky. Perhaps with a few more attempts, he would be able to break through successfully.

Therefore, he stayed in his room the whole day today, without even eating, and was ready to make a breakthrough in one go.

At this moment, he was holding the purple energy crystal in his hand.

Compared to two months ago, this purple crystal has shrunk a lot.

It was the size of a fist before, but now it is just a date pit.

The purple energy consumed, if converted into gas, would be estimated to be tens of thousands of strands.

If Gu Xing had to rely on himself to attract so much purple energy, it would probably take at least several months without eating or drinking.

In other words, this purple energy crystal saved Gu Xing at least half a year.

This is an exaggerated number.

It has been about a year since Gu Xing came into this world.

In one year, he has gone from having no cultivation to the current initial stage of Burning Lamp.

But if there was no purple energy crystal, it might take him more than half a year to reach the middle stage of Burning Lamp.

This time is not too long.

Even if there is no secret technique of refining the soul with purple energy, and one relies solely on burning the soul day and night, the time it takes to reach the middle stage of burning the soul may be counted in years.

I have to say that sometimes it’s good to be rich and powerful. At least you don’t have to worry about resources, and you can practice faster than others.

In addition to these, it is also worth mentioning that Gu Xing has never taken the longevity pill, considering the speed of his own cultivation progress and his fear of the longevity pill.

In addition, he basically did not use the strange energy in the past two months, so the degree of weirdness did not increase much.

After his thoughts wandered for a while, Gu Xing calmed down and prepared to practice the secret technique of refining the soul with purple qi and try to break through again.

He had tried twice before today, but both times he felt something was wrong. This was his third attempt.

The purple energy was absorbed into his body through the traction of true energy, part of it was infused into his consciousness and mind, and part of it permeated into his soul.

The secret technique kept running, the strength of his mind slowly and steadily increased, and his soul gradually solidified. If there was someone next to Gu Xing at this moment, they would be able to see a hazy shadow emerging from his body.

This is the soul that has condensed to a certain degree, and it is faintly showing through.

When one reaches a certain level, one can even achieve the state where the soul leaves the body.

Of course, for those who are at the Burning Lamp Realm, this is naturally impossible to do. At least they have to reach the Divine Realm and achieve unity of mind and soul.

At the same time as the shadow of the soul emerged, a simple candle flame appeared on Gu Xing's left shoulder.

This was his first lit lamp.

As the candle flame appeared, a faint light flickered on Gu Xing's right shoulder.

This is the second lamp he is about to light.

Gu Xing practiced his skills, mobilized his spiritual power, and tried hard to make the candle appear.

Finally, the flame appeared, but it was shaking and could go out at any time.

Gu Xing continued to practice his skills.

Although there is no secret technique similar to the Purple Qi Soul Refining Technique in the Water Controlling Spirit Technique, it does have a method to assist in the formation of the Burning Lamp and break through the realm.

Thanks to Gu Xing's efforts, a candlestick appeared faintly under the flame.

Its appearance is similar to the lamp on its left shoulder, plain and simple.

The candlestick emerged little by little, and soon its full appearance would appear.

However, at this moment, the candle flame above the lamp suddenly went out and was about to disappear.

Or is it that the practice time is too short and it is too urgent?

Feeling this change, Gu Xing sighed in his heart.

But then, he felt somewhat unwilling.

Do not!

No, if it continues like this, I don’t know how long it will take to successfully break through.

Got to take some risks.

Gu Xing made a decision in his heart, and then suddenly activated the secret technique of refining the soul with purple qi.

The remaining purple crystals as big as date pits in his hand, at this moment, under Gu Xing's urging, all turned into misty purple air.

There was so much purple air that Gu Xing couldn't even absorb it all. Most of it overflowed from his body and surrounded him like mist.

But Gu Xing couldn't care less.

He simply continued to activate the secret soul refining technique, using a greater amount of purple energy than usual to stimulate his soul, allowing it to reach an unprecedented level of activity.

Making one's own soul active will naturally help in concentrating the lamp.

Wisps of purple air were continuously absorbed into his body, and the candlelight on Gu Xing's shoulder, which had almost gone out, gradually reignited.

Just as the purple air enveloping Gu Xing was absorbed into his body, the candle on his shoulder also burned to its brightest.

The next moment, the plain candlestick also emerged completely.

Finally, two candles burned steadily above his shoulders.