After rebirth, I became a national teacher

There are two reasons why Chen Qingzhu is so sure that he can practice.

First, after death in the previous life, he wandered as a wandering soul for several years.

Combined with her later experiences in the world of cultivation, she was completely certain that this world also had spiritual energy, but it was very thin, so no cultivators could emerge.

Secondly, her body in the cultivation world is exactly the same as her current body in every detail, so she is sure that this body of hers also has spiritual roots that can be cultivated.

The cultivation of Taoism is divided into several major realms, including Qi Refining, Foundation Building, Golden Elixir, Nascent Soul, and Spirit Transformation.

Each major realm has nine levels.

Even though she was suffering from the thin spiritual energy and impaired physical aptitude, she would most likely stop at the initial stage of foundation building.

However, in the early stages of Qi training, one can complete basic transformation of the body, with strength and speed reaching ten times that of ordinary people. One can also use spiritual energy to eliminate diseases and strengthen the body.

When you enter the middle stage of Qi Refining, you can release your true Qi to attack from a distance. In the late stage of Qi Refining, you can draw some simple five-element talismans.

And in the initial stage of foundation building, there is an even greater difference between immortals and mortals. Not only can one draw more powerful Five Elements Talismans, Absorption Talismans and other complex talismans, but one also possesses abilities such as flying in the air and using spiritual consciousness, which seem like methods of immortals to ordinary people.

This is nothing in the world of cultivation.

But as the only person in the world who possesses the orthodox cultivation techniques, she is the tallest among the short ones, which is already enough.

All she needed was time.

The complicated thoughts gradually settled in his mind. Chen Qingzhu emptied all his thoughts and began to concentrate on feeling the spiritual energy in the void.

The first step in cultivation is to draw the Qi into the body.

If you can take in enough spiritual energy to circulate throughout the body, you will be considered successful.

As she expected, only the wood and water spiritual energies in the void had the highest affinity with her.

Just like her body in the cultivation world, she still has the dual spiritual roots of water and wood.

After confirming this, Chen Qingzhu slowly opened his eyes.

The spiritual energy in the surrounding void is too thin.

Her damaged aptitude would greatly reduce her cultivation speed, and the thin spiritual energy made the situation even worse - she had to use other sources of spiritual energy.

Rubbing her numb legs, she walked towards the wooden cabinet in the room.

Use the key you carry with you to open the wooden cabinet, take out a wooden box from the bottom and open it.

This box contains all her former possessions.

The monthly allowance for a concubine in the Marquis of Jingnan's mansion was two taels of silver. When she was a first-class maid, she only received one hundred yuan.

Even though she was always reluctant to eat and wear, she still had to support her two children from time to time, and she also had to reward her servants and give gifts, so she really didn't save much.

All the copper coins, silver pieces, silver ingots, and a few silver hairpins and silver bracelets added up to only twenty or thirty taels of silver.

She didn't pay too much attention to these things and opened the second layer directly. On the black velvet inside, lying quietly was a fine jade bamboo-shaped hairpin.

This hairpin alone is worth forty taels of silver, which is more valuable than all the things on the previous floor combined.

This was given to her by Pei Xiao, Marquis of Jingnan, after she was diagnosed with twins.

Fearing that Zhang would find it an eyesore, she never wore it in public, but somehow she was able to keep it.

I had originally intended to give it as a dowry to Rongniang in the future, so that she would have an extra piece of jewelry to show off, so I didn't sell it for silver.

Fortunately, otherwise she would not be able to obtain enough spiritual energy in such a short period of time to complete the process of drawing the energy into her body.

——Yes, anyone who has been to the world of cultivation knows that jade is a spiritual stone.

However, low-grade and medium-grade jades have too many impurities and cannot be used. High-grade jade is equivalent to low-grade spirit stones in the world of cultivation, and top-grade jade is equivalent to medium-grade spirit stones.

When folded, this hairpin is as big as a low-grade spirit stone, which is enough to draw energy into the body.

Holding the hairpin in his hand, Chen Qingzhu entered into meditation again.

*

As the sky gradually brightened, the servants in the main courtyard of the general's mansion quickly and orderly became busy as the mistress woke up.

After finishing washing and dressing with the help of her personal maid, Lady Zhang, the wife of Marquis Jingnan, came to the small hall to have breakfast.

She gracefully scooped up a spoonful of mutton steamed bun soup with a snow-white high-quality porcelain spoon, and frowned as soon as she took a sip.

He put down the spoon, picked up a piece of golden bird's nest roll, tasted it, and put down his chopsticks. Other than that, there were only some steamed buns and pickles on the table.

In the past, breakfast was not only delicious, but also contained at least three medicinal dishes that had the effect of beautifying and slimming the body.

Today's food not only tastes bad, but also has a shoddy variety.

The silver chopsticks made a crisp sound on the mahogany table, indicating that the hostess was not in a happy mood.

"What's wrong with Chen this morning? The breakfast was so perfunctory!"

Chunliu, the first-class maid standing behind him, had a gloating look in her eyes and stepped forward and said:

"To answer Madam, Aunt Chen called someone to the kitchen at noon this morning saying she had a headache. The skylight was opened in the kitchen, so they hurriedly made these, so the taste is not satisfactory."

When her wife chose a concubine, she gave up her and chose Chen Qingzhu, which made her feel resentful. Therefore, she was very happy to see Chen Qingzhu suffer misfortune.

As expected, after hearing her words, Lady Jingnan Marquis snorted coldly:

"Oh, she has suddenly become delicate."

In the past, Chen Qingzhu had never missed her breakfast, whether she was pregnant or had given birth. Now she dared to neglect it just because she had a small headache?

Then, he didn't know what he was thinking of, he frowned slightly, and waved away his attendants, leaving only his wet nurse Liu.

"Mammy, do you think she knows something? Why is she acting so abnormal?"

This "she" obviously refers to Chen Qingzhu.

Liu thought for a moment and said:

"That matter is still secret, she has no way of knowing it. I think it's because the reward given to Xuan by the Marquis yesterday made her careless."

Xuan Ge'er is Chen Qingzhu's eldest son. He is currently studying at Zijin Academy. He won first place in the annual examination, which made Jingnan Marquis very proud among his colleagues. He came back and praised Xuan Ge'er.

Madam Jingnan narrowed her eyes slightly:

"I originally thought she was a timid and obedient person, but now it seems that I can't keep her here at all... I'll call Xuan Ge'er here tomorrow. Since she is so bold, I'm afraid she won't give in easily."

*

The early winter sun shone through the shabby window, and Chen Qingzhu, who had been meditating all night, slowly opened his eyes.

After a day and a night of practice, she finally succeeded in drawing the Qi into her body.

Many people would take several days to one or two months to draw Qi into the body. Her speed could only be achieved by someone with extremely rare talent.

But there was no joy on her face.

There was no other reason, it was just because she knew that novices were slow mainly because they needed to empty their minds to enter a state of meditation, but after entering a state of meditation they had to use their thoughts to capture spiritual energy and bring it into their bodies. The two were contradictory and difficult to understand and operate.

However, the amount of spiritual energy required to draw qi into the body is not much.

This shows that her body was seriously affected by her past childbearing, and her actual speed of absorbing spiritual energy was very slow. Even with dual spiritual roots, her qualifications were only equivalent to medium to low levels.

According to this qualification, even if she did not have a bottleneck in the initial stage and could use spirit stones to build up her cultivation, it would still take her half a month to reach the first level of Qi Refining.

However, only by breaking through the first level of Qi Refining can one be considered a true cultivator.

So... she was destined to be unable to rely on her cultivation to deal with the imminent life and death crisis.

dong dong dong.

There was a knock on the door.

"What's the matter?"

"Aunt, the Madam wants you over for something."

Dongxue's voice came.

Chen Qingzhu knew that Zhang must have called her over to talk about that matter.

It seems that the wife of Marquis Jingnan is starting to get anxious. Even though she has already claimed to be sick, she is still called over early in the morning.

However, it came at just the right time.

Chen Qingzhu lowered his eyes to look at the jade hairpin in his hand that had turned into stone powder, and gently curled the corners of his lips.

He had just completed the process of drawing Qi into his body. If he wanted to break through to the first level of Qi Refining, he would need about twenty more hairpins, which would be worth eight hundred taels of silver.

With her current wealth, it is really out of reach.

In the entire Jingnan Marquis Mansion, is there anyone more suitable than Madam Zhang to help her fill this hole?