Lingxu, Sword Coffin, Blind Swordsman

Tap, tap, tap!

Lan He lightly knocked on the table, and the murmuring below gradually subsided.

"Alright, telling you all this is just to make you aware of the world we are in."

"The goal is to ascend to the Immortal Realm!"

"As for Reincarnators, even I haven't encountered such a person."

"To be able to seal memories with one's own great power and enter reincarnation, even in the entire Great Xia Domain, you might not find one."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking there would be many such people.

Lan He continued, "The reason I mentioned the Immortal Realm is to tell you another thing."

"The Immortal Realm and the Human-Spirit Realm are not completely isolated!"

Boom!

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the hall was shocked!

Even Li Guanqi was greatly astonished.

Could it be that the immortals of the upper realm actually communicate with the lower realm?

Lan He paused for a moment and said softly, "It's not what you imagine. If it were, why cultivate and ascend at all."

"What I'm about to say is very important!"

"Spirit Void! Fated Clan!"

Li Guanqi frowned, not understanding what this meant at all, and neither did the others.

Lan He said softly, "Don't worry, I'll explain it to you slowly."

"Before the age of eighteen, those who reach the Foundation Establishment stage can open the Spirit Void through special rituals and formations!"

"The Spirit Void exists within the spiritual platform, transforming into all things, and is a natural creation."

"Nine out of ten people's Spirit Voids are empty, and only a very few people have items in their Spirit Voids."

"But these items are not necessarily useful; only weapons and magical treasures are very useful."

Li Guanqi frowned upon hearing this and asked softly, "Elder Lan, what is the use of the items in this Spirit Void?"

Lan He smiled slightly, and with a wave of his hand, a blue ribbon instantly trapped all the disciples in the hall!

"This is the item from my Spirit Void, a blue silk."

"It can be used to trap people or to attack!"

"The items in the Spirit Void are like magical treasures; they can be connected to the mind and refined within the body."

"If there are matching magical treasures, the power is even greater."

At this point, Lan He's voice gradually became serious, and he said solemnly, "The Spirit Void can only be opened once in a lifetime! Remember not to forcibly open it again!"

The people below all understood what the Spirit Void was, but they didn't have much hope.

Next, Lan He said softly, "When you break through to the Golden Core stage, you will have a very mysterious feeling of connection with the heavens!"

"If you are lucky, immortals from the upper realm will bestow upon you a Fated Clan!"

"The Fated Clan can temporarily borrow the power of the upper realm immortals to fight enemies!"

"So, if you encounter someone with a Fated Clan, remember to be more cautious and careful when fighting them!"

Zhong Lin suddenly asked, "Then, Elder Lan, do you have a Fated Clan?"

Lan He smiled slightly, and then a milky white mysterious pattern lit up between her eyebrows.

The pattern flashed and disappeared, and Lan He said softly, "Most disciples of the Great Xia Sword Sect can obtain a Fated Clan when they break through to the Golden Core stage."

"Because our Great Xia Sword Sect's ancestor is a powerful cultivator who ascended to the upper realm!"

Before the words were finished, the disciples in the hall burst into exclamations.

"Wow!! Our Great Xia Sword Sect actually has an ancestor in the Immortal Realm!!"

"Heavens, this… other sects probably don't have this, right?"

"Ancestor… that's a figure from how many years ago."

"Being able to join the Great Xia Sword Sect is the luckiest thing in my life."

At this moment, all the new disciples of the Great Xia Sword Sect felt a surge of pride in their hearts.

It was a special sense of sect honor.

When the noise subsided, Lan He said softly, "Alright, that's all for the simple knowledge."

"Next is the first lesson in cultivating the Dao!"

"Body Tempering!"

"…"

In fact, most of the disciples who joined the sect were mortals and didn't know what Body Tempering was.

After Lan He's explanation, everyone understood what was going on.

Then, Lan He distributed scrolls with a basic Body Tempering incantation and training methods on them.

"Body Tempering stage takes at least three months, and at most a year, to reach the Great Perfection of Body Tempering."

"For example… Li Guanqi."

Li Guanqi was a little embarrassed to be named suddenly and touched his nose.

Then, Lan He pointed to the prepared hundred-pound stone roller and said with a light smile, "Come, Guanqi, show everyone how to lift a hundred-pound boulder with one hand."

Since things had already been said to this point, Li Guanqi couldn't refuse.

Five huge stone rollers were strung together by a steel pillar.

Li Guanqi slowly walked over under everyone's gaze.

Everyone knew how heaven-defying Li Guanqi's talent was when they entered the sect.

But looking at his thin body, someone couldn't help but mutter, "That stone roller weighs at least a hundred pounds. Can his small frame handle it? He's not even as strong as me!"

Someone echoed, "That's right, can he do it? Don't get crushed…"

A gleam flashed in Zhong Lin's eyes. He was also at the peak of Body Tempering, and when he saw Li Guanqi walking towards the stone roller.

He couldn't help but secretly calculate that with his physical strength, he could lift up to three hundred pounds.

But Li Guanqi was in trouble at this moment. He didn't know how much Lan He wanted him to lift.

Standing in front of the stone roller, he shrugged and slowly stretched out his right hand to grab the middle pillar.

Huff!

Hiss!!!

A sound of gasping for air rang out in the hall.

Li Guanqi just casually used one hand to directly lift the five stone rollers over his head!!

Casually waving them twice in the air, Li Guanqi turned his head and asked, "Elder Lan, is this okay?"

Lan He's eyes widened at this moment.

"He lifted a five-hundred-pound stone roller with one hand???"

"Looking at the way he waved it, what level has he reached in the Body Tempering stage?"

Lan He said calmly with an expressionless face, "Ahem, that's enough, put it down."

Li Guanqi casually put down the stone roller, making a muffled sound, and everyone felt the ground of the hall vibrate even through the cushions.

Zhong Lin's face was full of disbelief!!

"He waved it so casually, and his shoulders didn't even shake!!"

"What methods did he use when tempering his body to develop such terrifying power!"

Then, Lan He passed down the Qi Refining incantation and told the disciples to keep it safe.

Li Guanqi used his Mind's Eye to look at the scroll and adopted the meditation posture recorded on it.

After three breaths, Li Guanqi's breathing gradually became very rhythmic.

Lan He didn't take it seriously and continued to say to some inner sect Body Tempering disciples, "Guiding the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth into the body is the most crucial step in cultivating the Dao."

"According to the incantation, sense the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth, find the power belonging to your spiritual root, and guide it into your body."

"Finally, stabilize it in the position of the dantian to form a vortex of Qi, which is to break through Body Tempering and completely enter the Qi Refining stage."

"The most difficult part of the Qi Refining stage is sensing the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth."

"The purer the spiritual root, the clearer the perception, but it is also very difficult to guide it into the body."

"Even for a Heavenly Spiritual Root, this step takes at least three days, and at most several months."

"So, we must take one step at a time, diligently… uh… Li Guanqi!!"

Buzz!!!

A mysterious wave suddenly emanated from Li Guanqi's body in the hall.

Lan He's expression changed drastically in an instant, and the blue silk appeared, instantly clearing the disciples within ten feet of Li Guanqi.

Then, she threw down a circular array plate and embedded six palm-sized spirit stones into it.

A ray of light fell, and the spiritual Qi around Li Guanqi suddenly soared.

The spiritual Qi was faintly visible like wisps of smoke.

The white smoke was sucked into Li Guanqi's nose, and not long after.

Bang!

A soft sound came from Li Guanqi's body.

Then, countless black impurities began to emerge from Li Guanqi's skin, adhering to his body like mud.

Li Guanqi, who opened his eyes, didn't know what had happened and saw the shock flashing in Lan He's eyes.

Li Guanqi broke through to the first level of Qi Refining in her first lesson!!

The first level of Qi Refining!!

She, a genius with a Heavenly Water Spiritual Root, took a full two and a half days back then!!

"Is this the difference between people…"

Not only Lan He, but the disciples in the hall also changed their expressions.

Jealousy appeared on their faces, but in the end, it could only turn into a sigh.