Chapter 38: Half a Day to Pass on Xuan
Ding Ning turned around.
He saw Nangong Caiyang standing behind him looking at him with a look of disbelief.
"You can't really have already chosen these two canonical books and are just going to cultivate them, right?" Looking at the face of Ding Ning who had turned around, Nangong Cai Beans couldn't help but ask again.
Ding Ning nodded and said, "Yes."
"How much do you actually know about cultivation, or do you even understand what cultivation is?" Hearing Ding Ning admit that he really had such intentions, Nangong Caiyang's lips trembled in anger.
Ding Ning looked at this young girl, whose face had gone white, and calmly said, "Is there a problem?"
"Do you even know what canonical books these are?"
Nangong Cai Beans' annoyed gaze fell on the two tomes in Ding Ning's hands, her eyelashes fluttering, "Do you know that the True Explanation of the Spiritual Origin Great Dao is nothing more than a very shallow True Elemental Cultivation Technique, with no particular redeeming qualities, and that this True Elemental Cultivation Technique is still originating from the land of Zhao. Being a Qin cultivating this technique, not only will you not get any special benefits, but it will also cause the displeasure of many great people. As for this Wildfire Sword Technique, it is a sword technique that is not very powerful, yet it is particularly complicated and difficult to practice, not only is it difficult to learn the sword style, but the true qi or the true essence to match it, is also exceptionally complicated... Our Green Vine Sword Academy also has this sword technique, but all of my senior brothers and sisters, however, none of them would ever pick this sword technique to practice."
"What you mean is...this technique I picked and this sword skill, when paired together, are really poor?" Ding Ning said with a slight smile.
Looking at how Ding Ning was still able to smile, Nangong Caiyang's face couldn't help but envelop in a layer of frost, "It's not very poor, it's so poor that it can't be any worse. Since you're different from us, and there's no time limit on your studies here, why can't you spend a little more time and take a closer look at what's in each tome? You should understand that not all White Sheep Cave disciples have the opportunity to enter the inner cave and select a tome from the start, your starting point is higher than theirs, so why don't you cherish it?"
Ding Ning looked at her seriously and said softly, "But what does it have to do with you if I so choose?"
Nangong Caiyang froze.
It seemed like it did have nothing to do with her indeed.
Her own following him to see exactly what tome he was going to pick was only because of her own curiosity, and now her own anger was only because she had wanted to see a great show, and was too disappointed to see a poor performance that didn't match.
But what did this have to do with her?
She and Ding Ning had only met once before today, and could not even be considered friends.
"How I cultivate, that's my own thing, but I know you're doing it for my own good, so I'm still really grateful to you." Ding Ning looked at her and continued, "And different canons are different for different people, I'm sure these two canons are very suitable for me."
If another person had said this to Nangong Cai Beans before he had even begun his cultivation, Nangong Cai Beans would have definitely felt that this person was either unaware of the heights of heaven or an idiot, however, thinking of Ding Ning's confidence and performance outside of the mountain gate, and looking at Ding Ning's calm and confident eyes at the moment, Nangong Cai Beans nevertheless froze as she asked, "Are you sure?"
"I'm sure."
Ding Ning nodded, incomparably sincere and serious, "And you hurry up and hurry up to find out what you need, you've already wasted a lot of precious time following me."
Nangong Caiyang's heart was still filled with emotions that felt absurd, but Ding Ning's earlier sentence of what does it matter to her played some role at this moment.
No matter how absurd Ding Ning's confidence seemed, it was true that nothing was as important as her own cultivation issues at the moment.
Without saying anything more, she took a deep breath and did her best to calm herself down before beginning to flip through the Inner Cave's tomes one by one.
Several other students from the Green Vine Sword Academy had long since sunk into the knowledge and experience of countless cultivations, and the Scripture Scrolls Cave once again became unusually quiet, with only the sound of rustling books being turned over.
Beams of bright light showered down on Ding Ning's body, spilling onto the ancient books spread out on the futon in front of him.
He quickly forgot about the heaven and earth around him, devoting himself to it and beginning a brand new cultivation.
The White Sheep Cave had brought him countless surprises today, and this booklet, which had been disguised as an ordinary cultivation technique but was actually considered a treasure to those top clans, the "Chopping Three Corpses and Selfless Vital Elemental Neurology", was a rare surprise and opportunity for him as well.
Even he was curious to know what kind of different wonders this technique would have.
A note and a diagram on the pages of the booklet appeared clearly in his mind as he slowly pondered over them, and then slowly connected them, becoming clear and true.
He slowly closed his eyes.
The first step in cultivation was to achieve an internal view of the knowledge and thoughts and feel the five qi in the body.
For an ordinary person, to achieve this first step, to feel the existence of the five qi in the body, one would not know how much time it would take.
However, in the instant he closed his eyes, he had already accomplished this first step.
Driven by his thoughts, the five qi in his body began to follow the route of this cultivation technique, slowly traveling through his body towards his Qi Sea.
Different cultivation methods were like the talismanic lines on different talismans, different routes for the flow of the five qi in his body, different transformations in his body would produce different true qi and true essence in the future.
The reasoning is not complicated, any true essence cultivation method is an exploration of the mysteries of the body by the numinous power, and it is all about the subtle transformation of the five qi in the body and the elements of heaven and earth.
Yet between this brand new process and the subtle transformation, it was filled with countless unknown dangers.
Time passed quietly.
Night began to envelop White Sheep Gorge.
A White Sheep Cave student who was delivering food was already approaching the rope bridge leading to this Scripture History Cave.
Nangong Caiyang and several outstanding students of the Green Vine Sword Academy were already completely mesmerized, oblivious to the time, and even the movement of turning pages was getting slower and slower.
Suddenly, Nangong Cai Beans and the several Green Vine Sword Academy students all felt a breeze.
This wisp of breeze was very weak, yet the air in the Scripture Scroll Cave all seemed to solidify, so such a wisp of breeze was an absolutely abnormal change for all of them cultivators, enough to warrant vigilance.
Nangong Cai Beans subconsciously raised her head, her breathing slightly stuttering due to the natural tension in her body.
She suddenly realized that the breeze came from Ding Ning's body.
In Ding Ning's body, it was as if a wave had rushed into the void, forcing out some of the breath of that void.
This was the source of the breeze.
She was a little confused for a moment.
But in the next instant, she saw that underneath Ding Ning's skin, it seemed to light up with a luster that hadn't been there before, and there seemed to be a glistening flash of multicolored jade light.
She began to think of the time when she had begun her own cultivation, thinking of the images of her senior brothers and sisters when they had first succeeded in breaking through the realm, opening their Qi Seas, and formally becoming cultivators of the lower level of the First Realm.
This was the internalization of the knowledge and thoughts, sensing the five qi and opening the qi sea!
Such words finally began to emerge clearly in her mind, and then her body was taken over by an unprecedented shock, and her entire body trembled uncontrollably.
The remaining several students of the Green Vine Sword Academy also began to react to what was happening, their bodies also began to tremble violently, they looked even worse than Nangong Cai Beans, their faces were incomparably snow-white, their mouths were open, but they were unable to make a sound or breathe like fish that were about to die of thirst.
Opening the Qi Sea, stepping into the first realm Tongxuan Lower Grade, becoming a cultivator in the true sense of the word, how long had they used?
The fastest people within them had all taken a full seven months!
But from picking out a cultivation tome, to starting to comprehend, to opening the qi sea... this young man from the Sycamore Fall's wine store had only used half a day's time!
Half a day to pass through Xuan!
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The White Sheep Cave student who had come to deliver food to Warp Scroll Cave was none other than Ye Ming, who had been in charge of receiving Ding Ning outside the mountain gate at the beginning of the day.
Carrying his lunchbox, he hadn't even stepped into the stone hall outside the Scripture Scrolls Cave when he saw Li Daoji walk out of the hall with a white face, and without even glancing at him, he drifted past him.
Ye Ming then felt strangely oily, not knowing what was wrong with Senior Uncle Li Daoji, although he was just as silent, he didn't seem to have his usual majesty and loneliness.
Li Daoji hung his head and walked quickly across the rope bridge, his body swept up in the night, passing through a few white floating clouds and landing on the platform outside the highest small Taoist temple.
He took a deep breath and said with a slight tremor in his voice, "That youngster has already chosen the tome and sword technique for his cultivation."
Xue Forgetfulness, who was sitting withered and asleep in the cave, suddenly opened his eyes, which shone like stars, "What has he chosen?"
Li Daoji said, "The True Explanation of the Spiritual Origin Great Dao, the Wildfire Sword Scripture."
Xue Forgetfulness froze, reaching out to subconsciously touch the teapot on the stone case next to him, murmuring, "This is really bad, it's so bullheaded...no wonder you're so angry that your voice is trembling."
Li Daoji slowly raised his head and used a great deal of strength before saying, "It's not anger, it's because he has passed into the Xuan...he has just stepped into the first realm and opened the sea of qi."
"What did you say?"
Xue Forgetfulness' hand shook violently, almost breaking the teapot in his hand.
Li Daoji took a deep breath and looked at him, repeating earnestly, "He passed Xuan in half a day."
