It was not easy to be on the list of new books. He had never asked for a vote before. This time, he had to be thick-skinned and hope it would not fall.
There was still one more time in the afternoon.
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After returning to his room, Wang Lin immediately closed the door. He did not take the four Qi Gathering Pills but put them in his storage bag. Now he was going to conduct an experiment with the mysterious bead.
Cautiously taking out the bead and the gourd, Wang Lin pondered for a while. His face was cloudy and he was weighing the gains and losses in his mind. The dew was the focus of his future practice. Without dew, his practice would be slow.
However, the clouds on the mysterious bead held his curiosity. After a long time, he made up his mind. He could accumulate more dew, but it would take some time. Once the tenth cloud appeared on the bead, there might be some changes. Maybe after soaking in the spring water, his Spiritual Qi would increase to an incredible level.
Thinking of this, he immediately took out the best morning dew gourd and prepared a stone bowl. It took him a long time to slowly pour the jelly-like liquid out of the gourd.
After a while, the dew was gone. The stone bowl was half full of green liquid. A fragrance gradually spread out. When Wang Lin smelled it, he suddenly felt refreshed and comfortable.
He was worried that the smell would attract the attention of other people in the sect, so he immediately threw the bead into the bowl and carefully observed it. After a long time, the liquid decreased a little.
Wang Lin was a little disappointed. He thought he could catalyze it immediately. Fortunately, the fragrance immediately dissipated after the stone bead was thrown into the bowl. Wang Lin pondered for a while, put the stone bowl under the bed, sat cross-legged on the bed, and began to meditate with the low-grade spirit stone in his hand.
His one long and three short breaths gradually calmed down. Although he had not guided the spirit into his body for the past two months, he was no longer out of breath after using this breathing method for a short period of time. Now, he was used to this breathing method. Even if he was not meditating, he would usually breathe like this.
The night passed. In the morning, Wang Lin opened his eyes and quickly took out the stone bowl from under the bed. He found that the liquid had decreased by half, but the tenth cloud had not appeared on the bead.
He wasn't discouraged. After putting the stone bowl back on the table, he hesitated for a moment before taking out a Qi Gathering Pill from his storage bag and swallowing it. A warm current immediately appeared in his body.
During the month that Wang Lin stayed at Sun Dazhu's place, he had to go through this process every day. He was very familiar with it and quickly began to breathe. When night fell, he slowly exhaled a long white breath. He frowned and said to himself with a wry smile, "This Qi Gathering Pill is actually similar to Sun Dazhu's medicinal soup. It contains some herbs filled with spiritual energy. Every time I eat it, my body feels comfortable and full of spirit. Even the feeling of hunger disappears. Unfortunately, I can't condense any spiritual energy."
He sighed. Wang Zhuoke had reached the first level of Qi Condensation in three months. Wang Lin didn't show any abnormality on the surface, but he was quite moved. Talent was indeed the key to cultivation.
But Wang Lin's personality didn't allow him to easily give up. He secretly thought that he had the mysterious bead, so he didn't lack spiritual energy. Although he couldn't condense spiritual energy now, he would naturally succeed after a long time.
"Time …" Wang Lin bit his lower lip and took a deep breath. He took out the stone bowl from under the bed and looked at it. There was only a little liquid left, but the tenth cloud had not appeared on the bead.
He immediately took out the Night Dew Gourd and poured out the liquid inside. This time, there was a little more liquid, so there was still a little left.
Wang Lin drank the rest of the liquid in one gulp and continued to cultivate.
This time, the warm current rising in his body was thicker than before. It was almost tangible and slowly flowed through his body. The feeling of thirst immediately appeared. Wang Lin gritted his teeth and breathed according to the method of one long and three short breaths.
Not long after, Wang Lin felt that something was wrong. The warm current in his body didn't slowly dissipate like before. Instead, as he breathed, it gathered more and more, and a swelling pain appeared all over his body. Wang Lin had an illusion that he was like a balloon that was constantly expanding and had reached the limit of his body.
Horrified, Wang Lin quickly stopped breathing, but the swelling pain was still there. He opened his eyes and was immediately horrified to find that all the blood vessels in his body were bulging, as if there were ferocious green worms attached to the surface of his body. It was a shocking sight.
Wang Lin didn't know that the medicinal soup he had eaten before didn't actually contain much spiritual energy. Even if he absorbed the spiritual energy around him according to the method of one long and three short breaths, the spiritual energy added together couldn't compare to the speed at which his body was losing spiritual energy because of the lack of spiritual roots.
In addition, at every critical moment, the Spirit Transformation Grass would take effect, so he had never succeeded in condensing spiritual energy in his body.
But now it was different. The spiritual energy contained in the dew he drank far exceeded the medicinal soup. It had reached an incredible level, far exceeding the speed at which his spiritual roots were losing spiritual energy. If he didn't breathe at this time, it would be fine. After a long time, the spiritual energy would slowly dissipate, but once he breathed, it was the same as adding oil to the fire.
Knowing that he had caused trouble, he didn't know how to deal with it. He could only watch as the blood vessels in his body bulged, on the verge of collapse. At this moment, a thought entered his mind like lightning. Wang Lin didn't have time to think. He clenched his teeth and immediately breathed according to the method of one short and three long breaths.
In his mind, since breathing normally was to absorb spiritual energy, then breathing normally was to release spiritual energy.
Wang Lin's guess was more or less correct. This method of breathing normally was known by everyone in the cultivation world because it was the early preparation for dispersing one's cultivation and re-cultivating.
As he breathed, a trace of spiritual energy came out from every pore in his body. The moment it appeared, it was like it was being sucked under the bed and absorbed by the stone bead.
As time slowly passed, the swelling feeling in Wang Lin's body gradually dissipated. The blue blood vessels on the surface of his body also slowly calmed down. At this time, what was being emitted from his body was no longer spiritual energy, but a trace of foul gas. This gas was not absorbed by the stone bead, but instead dissipated in the air.
Wang Lin, by chance, had completely forced the Spirit Transformation Grass out of his body.
If he wanted to force out the Spirit Transformation Grass, there were only two methods. The first was to use a large amount of spiritual energy to wear it down bit by bit until it was completely dissolved. This was also the method that Sun Dazhu used. Later, because he was disheartened by Wang Lin, he didn't care about him anymore.
The second method was to disperse all the Spiritual Qi in one's body and cultivate from the beginning.
The reason why Sun Dazhu didn't choose this method was because at that time, Wang Lin's body was lacking in spiritual energy. Just a little bit of spiritual energy would immediately dissipate, and he simply couldn't meet the requirements of dispersing his cultivation.
This process of dispersing his cultivation lasted for a day and a night. In the end, Wang Lin weakly fell on the bed. He was glad that he was able to keep his life. In the future, he must not casually drink dew.
Feeling dizzy, his whole body became sleepy and he fell asleep in a daze.