Chapter 31 The third level of Qi training
In a blink of an eye, it’s the first month of the year and it’s the end of the year.
Outside, firecrackers were blasting and gongs and drums were noisy, but in a small courtyard in the east of the city, Lin Shan couldn't hear what was going on outside the window and was only focused on practicing.
He successfully entered the second level of Qi training three months ago and made rapid progress. The spiritual power in his body is probably enough to unleash more than twenty wind blade techniques. Lin Shan thought for a while but still it was not safe enough, so he continued to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth day and night. After all, this kind of predatory practice would make anyone addicted.
In the past six months, apart from eating, drinking and having diarrhea, Lin Shan basically stayed at home, which made Mr. Zhao of the Zhao family very anxious.
Since his second brother, the top master of the Zhao family, died in Linshan Courtyard that night, the person responsible for taking care of him came back to report it. Before Mr. Zhao could summon a large number of experts to set up a dragnet, the people watching and following him outside said they had lost track of him.
After that day, there was no trace of Lin Shan again.
Nightingale's own killers were keeping an eye on him day and night, and people in the city were also sent out to investigate secretly. But Lin Shan seemed to have evaporated from the world, as if he had already left Zanggan.
As the head of the Zhao family, Mr. Zhao can also become the chief staff officer of County Sheriff Zanggan. Naturally, he will not simply think that the matter will be forgotten. After all, at this moment in his antique shop, there is an antique golden clock that Lin Shan bought for three thousand taels of gold.
From a young age, Lin Shan was so bold and cautious that he dared to tease Jiang Protector by teasing him. He also predicted in advance that he would send someone to attack him, and planned a decisive attack that night, even tricking a top expert to death.
After analyzing all the actions, Mr. Zhao did not dare to underestimate him in the slightest.
Although I don't quite understand, since Lin Shan could predict in advance that he would send people to raid, why didn't he move the Golden Bell in advance. But he wanted to kill this kind of person as soon as possible while they were young to avoid future troubles.
Now half a year has passed and there is still no progress. Mr. Zhao has no choice but to give up.
But what he didn't expect was that Lin Shan was not only in the city, but was also practicing steadily under his nose.
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Another year has passed, more than a year and a half since Lin Shan left the Lin family in Qinghe County, and Lin Shan is almost 18 years old.
Lin Shan, who had been lingering in cultivation and unwilling to miss Shu, ended his retreat at this time. It's not because he has no money, after all, he has thousands of taels of money, which ordinary people can't spend all in their lifetime.
The real reason is that he encountered a bottleneck.
Ever since he reached the peak of the third level of Qi training two months ago, he felt that no matter how hard he practiced, the spiritual power in his Dantian just didn't increase.
Later, during the exploration, I finally found a spiritual aperture, which is the so-called "profound entrance" barrier in the practice of martial arts.
Only by breaking through the mysterious barrier and entering the fourth level of Qi training can one expand the capacity of the Dantian and continue to improve one's cultivation level.
This is a bottleneck that everyone will have from the early to middle stages of Qi training.
So for the next month, he spent all day and night trying to break through this "entrance". But every time I gather spiritual energy to pass a level, my own spiritual energy always falls apart. Instead, the scattered spiritual energy wandered randomly inside his body, causing considerable injuries.
After trying several times, he finally realized that it would definitely not work if he acted recklessly on his own. Unless there were pills to assist him in passing the level, failure in the long run would lead to meridians being disordered and going crazy.
Of course, there was more than one way. Later, he discovered that although the entrance was thick and hard, it could be polished!
How could Lin Shan, who had tasted the benefits of cultivation, endure the torture of not being able to increase his cultivation?
So he grinded day and night again, and after grinding for less than half a month, he finally discovered sadly that at the current speed, he would need at least eight to ten years of grinding to get through it!
"Just a bottleneck from the early stage to the middle stage of Qi training needs to be polished for a full 10 years. Then what to do about the bottleneck from the middle stage to the late stage? What about after that?"
Lin Shan really wanted to know how other immortal cultivators practiced. After all, he worked alone behind closed doors and had a blind eye. If he continued at this rate, he had no idea how many years or months it would take to reach the ninth level of Qi training.
"If there is a place with strong spiritual energy around it, just let me practice slowly and polish it carefully. As long as the spiritual energy is twice as strong, I can break through within five years! If it is ten times as strong, I'm afraid I can make it in less than a year ! If it’s twenty times thirty times richer.”
After Lin Shan made this calculation, it seemed that it would be better for him to go to the deep mountains and old forests to find a spiritual spring and spiritual veins, rather than stay here and work hard.
"In fact, the most time-saving and labor-saving thing is to have a powerful elixir to assist in breaking through the entrance. But where should I find the elixir that is suitable for passing through the entrance during the Qi training period?"
Lin Shan felt that since he had an enhanced panel, he seemed to be able to take a shortcut and use elixirs to clear the level. I just don’t know if the elixir used by warriors can be used on myself after it has been strengthened
However, now that he is at the third level of Qi training, his spiritual power is much stronger than when he first entered the Qi training period.
Lin Shan estimated that it would be no problem to cast the Wind Blade Technique hundreds of times. Even if he was surrounded by an army, he could still fight his way out alive!
"It's time to go out and find opportunities, but before that, there are two things to do."
Lin Shan calmly tidied up and pushed open the door to the courtyard. The biting cold wind howled outside the door.
Unknowingly, it’s the first month of the year again. A crescent moon hangs high in the sky, and every house is decorated with lights. However, there are not many pedestrians on the streets at night, and it is deserted.
Lin Shan was dressed in white clothes, with a Nuanyang jade pendant hanging around his waist, and he was walking slowly on the streets of this large city in southern Xinjiang.
Pedestrians passing by saw it and couldn't help but take a second look. Whose young man is this? He is so handsome!
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At this time, the Zhao Mansion was a lively scene. People come and go, bustling and endless.
Tonight is not only the third day of the Lunar New Year, but also the 70th birthday of Mrs. Zhao, the birth mother of the head of the Zhao family, Mr. Zhao.
Red lanterns are hung high inside and outside the gate, various colorful paper-cuts are on the trees, and even the two stone lions standing at the door are covered with two garlands!
"This wreath is placed on a birthday, are the Zhao family serious?"
A young man in white walked out of the Zhao Mansion. He put his hands behind his back and looked around slowly. He was very surprised when he saw the wreath on the stone lion.
It's not surprising that Lin Shan was confused. After all, the Song Dynasty in this world was still different from the previous life. The customs of various states and counties were even more bizarre, and naturally they had different meanings.
After watching for a while, Lin Shan blended into the Zhao Mansion with the flow of guests. The boy who was waiting at the gate looked at Lin Shan's face and was about to ask him to take out the invitation and read it, but Lin Shan went in immediately.
The boy couldn't stop him, so he had to give up.
At this time, in the front yard of the Zhao Mansion, the large square was already full of tables and seats, arranged in two square formations, with a large area in the middle empty, and a large group of people had already started singing "咿咿 Yeah Yeah" on the stage.
Lin Shan casually found a seat at the bottom and sat down. The table was already filled with fruits, wine and meat. Lin Shan, who had been practicing for a year and a half, started to eat without any ceremony. After all, Mr. Zhao still owed him three thousand taels of gold?
What's wrong with eating him?
The guests around were invited by Mr. Zhao. Naturally, they were all well-known figures in the military, political and business circles of southern Xinjiang. Many of them had never seen Lin Shan. They were wondering who the young man in white invited by the Zhao family was and why they had never seen him before. .
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Half an hour later, when all the guests had arrived, the stage crew left one after another. The head of the family, Mr. Zhao, and his biological mother, Mrs. Laojun, came out of the backyard and took their seats.
"Thank you for taking the time to come to the banquet at Zhao's invitation. I would like to express my gratitude to you all. Today I will drink this cup with you. I wish you all good luck in officialdom, prosperity in the military, and lots of wealth!"
"Drink this drink!"
There was a roar of agreement in the audience, everyone raised their glasses and drank together, chatting and laughing, looking like they were having a great time.
The food has passed three rounds, and the wine has passed the five flavors.
Mr. Zhao clapped his hands, and a long line of dancing girls from the Western Regions walked out from behind, all with charming looks, enchanting figures, gauze-wrapped bodies, and springy eyebrows. Come to the center of the field and dance as the musicians play.
Lin Shan was even more dazzled by what he saw, and secretly sighed that the Zhao family had so many channels, being in southern Xinjiang, they could buy so many dancing girls from the Western Regions.
In the past, he had always been a handyman in the Lin family, how could he ever enjoy this?
I just happened to come here today, and it was a feast for the eyes and the mouth.
He looked around and saw that there was nothing unusual about these dignitaries. They were all still exchanging cups and cups and mingling with each other. Obviously, every family has a golden house to hide their beauties, and these are basic operations.
After a while, the singing and dancing ended. The dancers came down one after another, followed their order, came to sit down next to the guests, and began to pour tea and wine one by one, squeeze their shoulders and beat their legs.
A woman also came to Lin Shan's side. This woman had picturesque features, her eyes were wandering, and her navel was exposed. Her big, watery eyes looked at Lin Shan, and then she lowered her head shyly.
She knelt down next to him and gently tapped his legs. Her pair of lotus-rooted wrists were white and tender, which was really visible at night.
Smell the faint fragrance around me, and travel to Linshan, where I haven't touched a woman for twelve years, I can't help but feel excited.
(End of chapter)