Mortals ask the immortals

Another half month passed in a blink of an eye. Duan Qing seemed to be forgotten. In the past half month, no one set foot in this place except for the birds and insects in the bamboo forest. However, this was just what he wanted.

In the past half month, he was afraid that someone would come and discover the secret of the mysterious metal. He only dared to use it when it was late at night, and he didn't dare to use too much. He only used two at most in one night. During the day, he still used spirit stones to practice.

However, even so, the results were remarkable. The vortex in his sea of ​​qi was about twice as large as at the beginning, and it was not far from the second level of Qi Refining described in the Yinyuan Technique.

He also named the white mist spirit energy "spiritual mist".

He used the mysterious metal to spit out the spirit mist again. Although Duan Qing used all his strength to operate the Yinyuan Technique, he could only watch most of the spirit mist dissipate between heaven and earth as time went by.

He opened the bag and looked at it. The pile of spirit stones that were originally shining now only had a few pieces left!

Alas, it turns out that the world of immortal cultivation is similar to the secular world. It is difficult to move without money in the secular world, and it is even more difficult to be without spirit stones in the world of immortal cultivation.

After experiencing the magic of the mysterious metal, Duan Qing now has an incomparable desire for spiritual stones!

Although it is not known how to obtain spiritual stones in Jinxuan Sect for the time being, it is believed that there will definitely not be an unlimited supply, otherwise how can Jinxuan Sect have so few people.

However, compared with the shortage of spiritual stones, he now has a more headache!

Although the speed of practicing with mysterious metal is very fast, the disadvantage is very obvious, and it makes too much noise! ​​Every time he uses it, he is nervous, for fear that someone will suddenly come and discover his secret.

It is okay for him to use it secretly here alone, but if he wants to use spiritual mist to practice in other places in the future, it will be easily exposed, which he absolutely cannot accept!

He now needs to find a more secret way to use mysterious metal as soon as possible.

The first thing he thought of was to find something to preserve the spiritual energy. He took out the small porcelain bottle containing the Bigu Pill given by Senior Sister Luying, poured out all the Bigu Pills inside, and after absorbing the spiritual energy of a spiritual stone with the mysterious metal, he immediately threw the mysterious metal into the small porcelain bottle.

After a while, the small porcelain bottle began to emit familiar spiritual mist, and Duan Qing quickly blocked the bottle mouth with a bottle stopper.

After waiting for about an incense stick of time, the small porcelain bottle still did not move. He could not hold back any longer, so he carefully picked up the small porcelain bottle and gently pulled out the bottle stopper.

Hmm? Nothing, not a trace of spiritual mist came out!

He quickly picked it up and saw that there was only the mysterious metal lying quietly inside. Where did the spiritual mist go?

Duan Qing was a little confused. It was not until such a short time that the spiritual mist dissipated. He turned his hand and prepared to pour the mysterious metal out of the porcelain bottle to see what was going on.

Hmm? No, what is this? The mysterious metal has not come out of the bottle mouth, but some liquid has flowed out of the porcelain bottle first.

He was a little surprised, and quickly put the porcelain bottle straight, walked to the window and carefully observed the porcelain bottle again in the moonlight.

It turned out that in addition to the mysterious metal, there was some transparent liquid in the porcelain bottle. The liquid was very little, only a few drops, and because it was night, he had not discovered it before.

Duan Qing took a cup from the table, poured out the mysterious metal and the transparent liquid, and took out the mysterious metal and carefully put it away.

Duan Qing looked at the thin transparent liquid in the cup, a little confused, but he could feel the majestic spiritual energy contained in it, which was obviously higher than the previous spiritual mist.

I don’t know how effective it will be to practice with this! Although he is very confident in the mysterious metal, the situation in front of him still makes him wonder, how can it turn into liquid, where is the spiritual mist, when he put it in, he clearly saw that there was spiritual mist spitting out.

Duan Qing supported his chin with both hands, stared at the liquid in the cup for a long time, but couldn’t figure out what was going on, and didn’t know how to deal with the liquid. It would be a bit of a waste to pour it out, a whole spiritual stone, when he was so eager for spiritual stones, it really hurt him to waste one in vain!

But before he could figure out what to do, the spiritual liquid in the cup began to slowly decrease under the moonlight. Duan Qing was shocked and looked at the liquid in the cup gradually decreasing, and it was about to disappear.

In a hurry, he picked up the cup and poured it into his mouth. Before the liquid completely disappeared, he poured the last bit into his mouth and swallowed it.

As soon as the liquid entered his stomach, Duan Qing felt a majestic spiritual energy in his body, sweeping over his body like a surging wave.

With a fishy "puff" sound in his throat, he spurted out a mouthful of bright red blood. He hurriedly operated the Yuan-inducing Technique, but it had no effect at all. The amount of spiritual energy exceeded the limit of his current body's tolerance. He could only watch the spiritual energy raging in his body.

Duan Qing felt as if his body was burned by fire. He knew that if he didn't force the spiritual energy out of his body, he would definitely be in danger today!

In a hurry, he suddenly thought of the operating principle of the Yuan-inducing Technique, which is to guide the spiritual energy into the body for cultivation. If the Yuan-inducing Technique is operated in the reverse direction, he doesn't know if the spiritual energy can be expelled.

He did not have time to think of any other way, and immediately reversed the operation of the Yin Yuan Technique. Originally, it was supposed to absorb spiritual energy into the Qi Sea and transform it into spiritual power to strengthen the cyclone, but now the cyclone in the Qi Sea suddenly rotated in the opposite direction, sending spiritual power to run against the meridians.

Duan Qing did not know that the method he used was called "dispersing power" in the world of cultivation. The principle was very simple, but cultivation was not easy, and generally no one would do it this way.

But Duan Qing had no choice now. As the cyclone in the sea of ​​qi shrank rapidly, the spiritual power flowed back along the meridians of Duan Qing's body and dispersed at various acupuncture points. The raging spiritual energy in the body finally found an outlet and poured out like a flood along with Duan Qing's spiritual power.

When the cyclone in the sea of ​​qi was smaller than when he just entered the first level of Qi training, Duan Qing finally expelled all the raging spiritual energy in his body!

Duan Qing collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath, with fear in his eyes. It was too reckless!

The pure spiritual energy contained in the liquid was not something he could bear at the moment. Fortunately, he just drank a little bit, just one or two drops. If he drank more, or if he hadn't suddenly thought of reversing the Yuan-inducing technique, he would probably have exploded and died.

This incident taught him a lesson. He knew too little about the immortal path! In the future, he must not test the law without understanding it!

Feeling the cyclone in his body that seemed to dissipate at any time, Duan Qing felt like crying but had no tears in his heart. This wiped out all his efforts during this period! Careless, too careless, his heart was bleeding!

In the next few days, Duan Qing only used the mysterious metal to absorb the spiritual energy of a spiritual stone, stabilized the cyclone in his body, and stabilized it to the state of just entering the first level of Qi training. He did not use the spiritual stone to practice again. First, he didn't have many spiritual stones now, only a few, and second, he had been thinking about how to use the mysterious metal better these days.

Alas! Looking at the few spiritual stones, Duan Qing just wanted to slap himself a few times! A waste of money!

However, after the last accident, he figured out a very critical point.

This mysterious metal needs a carrier to exhale spiritual energy!

He thought of the first time he put the mysterious metal in his storage bag, and after accidentally absorbing the spiritual energy of several spiritual stones, he took out the mysterious metal a few days later to exhale spiritual mist.

This means that the mysterious metal will not emit spiritual energy in the bag. He tried it with two spiritual stones. No matter whether the spiritual stones were absorbed in the bag or put in immediately after being absorbed outside the bag, as long as the mysterious metal was in the bag, it would not emit spiritual energy.

For this point, he consulted the description of the bag in the cultivation notes, which mentioned that the space in the bag was different from the space outside. There was nothing in it. Except for being able to put things, living things and plants could not survive in it.

However, the mysterious metal could quickly spit out spiritual mist outside the bag, which meant that there must be more substances in the world than in the bag that Duan Qing didn't know. It was these substances that became the carriers for the mysterious metal to release spiritual energy. Since there was nothing in the bag, the mysterious metal naturally would not spit out spiritual energy.

Although he knew that there must be a carrier for the mysterious metal to release spiritual energy in the world, Duan Qing still couldn't figure out what it was.

It was another morning, and Duan Qing got up early as usual. He had been thinking about what made the mysterious metal spit out spiritual mist in the past two days, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't figure it out.

In the morning, there was a thick fog in the bamboo forest, and it was all white. Duan Qing was fetching water from the well to drink.

After taking out a bucket of cold well water from the well and looking at the clear water in the wooden barrel, Duan Qing was suddenly stunned. He looked up at the fog around him, raised his hands and waved them back and forth twice, causing the surrounding fog to dance back and forth.

Staring at his slightly wet palms, he suddenly thought of it.

Yes, it's water. There is often fog between heaven and earth, and the fog gathers into water. It turns out that water is the key to the mysterious metal spitting out spiritual energy.

And the spiritual mist is just fog containing spiritual energy. No wonder it becomes spiritual liquid in the porcelain bottle. When the fog gathers, it becomes water, haha!

Duan Qing didn't care whether it was daytime or not. He immediately took out a spiritual stone from his bag, and then took out the mysterious metal to absorb the spiritual energy of the spiritual stone.

He took a deep breath and threw the mysterious metal into the wooden barrel.

After a while, Duan Qing felt a wave of spiritual power slowly coming out of the water. He scooped up some water from the wooden barrel with both hands and took a sip. He only felt a pure spiritual energy spreading in his body, moistening his meridians.

Duan Qing suddenly felt full of strength, and his heart was at peace. He drank up the remaining water in his hands, sat cross-legged and started to practice the Yuan Yin Technique.

After a cup of tea, Duan Qing finished his practice. At this moment, he just wanted to look up to the sky and roar. The well water that had been changed by the mysterious metal had become spiritual spring water!

Just now, after he drank a few sips of water and practiced, he found that this spiritual spring water was indeed effective. About 10% of the spiritual energy of the water he drank could be absorbed into the sea of ​​​​qi in the end. Although it was less than the spiritual mist before, he thought it might be because there was too much water.

After that, he tried it again, using another wooden barrel to fill half a barrel of water. Sure enough, the effect was significantly improved this time, and 20% of the spiritual energy was finally absorbed into the sea of ​​qi and transformed into spiritual power.

In the following days, he used these two barrels of spiritual spring water transformed by mysterious metal to practice, and the effect was remarkable.

Although it was inferior to the spiritual mist, he felt that the effect would definitely be improved if he reduced some water. However, he only had the last spiritual stone left in his hand, so he was not in a hurry to experiment.

Moreover, this method of use was more secretive and did not make as much noise as the spiritual mist, which made him quite satisfied.

He kept a little spiritual spring water to see how long this spiritual spring water could be stored. After observation, he found that the spiritual energy of the two barrels of spiritual spring water was almost intact in the first three days and did not dissipate. After three days, the spiritual energy in the spring water would gradually decrease, and within a day, the spiritual spring water would become ordinary well water.