Today was the first night watch!
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After getting a lot of spring water from the mountain spring, he returned to his room and began to make spiritual spring water. At night, he locked the door and tied a rope to the door and the other end to his arm. This way, if the door was opened, he would immediately notice.
After drinking a few mouthfuls of spring water, Wang Lin immediately held the bead and entered the dream space.
In the boundless dream, Wang Lin sat cross-legged on the ground and breathed. When Wang Lin closed his eyes to cultivate, the glowing bodies around him emitted a gentle light. The moment it fell on him, it turned into spots of light and quietly entered his body.
Wang Lin did not notice any of this.
After about a day, the spring water spiritual energy in his body dissipated.
But this time, he clearly felt that his body was different. In the past, after drinking the medicinal soup, although there would be a warm flow in his body, as time passed, the spiritual energy would eventually dissipate.
But this time was different. Although it still dissipated, there was more or less a trace left in his body. Although it was not much, it gave Wang Lin a lot of confidence. He guessed for a long time but could not figure out the problem. In the end, he attributed the doubt to the mysterious bead.
Because he could not leave the dream on his own and could not replenish the spring water, Wang Lin tried to breathe for a long time and finally found that this dream was different from the outside world. In the outside world, when he breathed, although there was no feeling of spiritual energy crawling into his body, after a month, he found that every time he meditated, he would feel refreshed and his whole body was full of comfort.
But here, after the spiritual energy of the spring water dissipated, he did not feel comfortable. Instead, after meditating for a long time, he would feel short of breath and chest tightness.
After pondering for a moment, Wang Lin vaguely had a guess in his mind. All of this might be related to spiritual energy. In the dream space, there was no spiritual energy!
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was right. He frowned and said to himself, "If only I could bring in the spring water from outside."
Thinking of this, his heart suddenly moved. He looked down at himself and a puzzled expression appeared on his face.
He was wearing the red clothes of an inner disciple. This made Wang Lin very puzzled. He quickly touched the storage bag in his clothes and found that it had disappeared.
"Clothes can appear in the dream space, but storage bags cannot …" He thought for a while and decided to test what could be brought into the dream space and what could not.
Time passed quickly. After 48 hours, the tearing feeling appeared again and Wang Lin woke up in reality.
He still had a question in his mind. Why could he only last for four hours at a time? He poured the spring water into the gourd and carried it with him, preparing to enter the dream space.
But this time, no matter how much he stared at the bead, he didn't feel sleepy at all. Wang Lin was shocked. He carefully pondered for a long time before suppressing the worry in his heart and closing his eyes to cultivate.
Gradually, his breathing stabilized as he absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Even as it dissipated, it accumulated a bit. However, he was still a long way from the first level of Qi Condensation.
Unfortunately, he still had a long way to go before reaching the first level of Qi Condensation. He breathed in the spring water and drank it from the gourd to keep his body full of spiritual energy.
In addition, he held the stone bead again and again, trying to enter the dream space, but to no avail.
Night fell, and he opened his eyes. He could vaguely feel that there was a bit more spiritual energy in his body. Normally, he would be very excited. But now, he felt uneasy. He picked up the stone bead again and stared at it. Suddenly, he felt sleepy. Wang Lin's face lit up, and he quickly looked away. After a while, the sleepiness disappeared.
He stood up and rubbed his chin. He thought about the four times he had entered the dream space, and then realized a problem.
The first two times he had entered the dream space were consecutive.
The third time, he had observed the oil lamp for more than four hours before entering. As for the fourth time, it had been a day.
From this, it could be deduced that there was a limit to entering the dream space. The safest method was to wait at least four hours before entering.
After solving this problem, Wang Lin began to experiment with what he could bring into the dream space. He had prepared a lot of things for this experiment. First were the three gourds. One was the one with dew, one was empty, and the last was filled with spring water.
He kicked the broken pieces of the stone bowl into his robe. He also took out some sweet potatoes, clothes, and other items from his bag. He wrapped them around himself, then stared at the stone bead and entered the dream space.
Within the dream space, Wang Lin immediately inspected himself. The sweet potatoes, clothes, and broken pieces of the stone bowl were all there. The only things missing were the three gourds and the bag of holding.
Puzzled, he suddenly remembered that there was no spiritual energy in the dream space. An idea came to him. Anything that could be brought into the dream space was ordinary. Or perhaps it could be said that these things had no spiritual energy at all.
As for the three gourds and the bag of holding, these things more or less contained spiritual energy, so they could not be brought here.
With a sigh, Wang Lin was distressed. If he could not bring the gourds in, he could only drink a few mouthfuls of spring water before entering the dream space. It was not enough for him to practice here.
Thinking of this, his expression suddenly changed. It was as if he had grasped something important in his mind, but it was as if he had not grasped anything. This kind of illusion made him immediately ponder. He racked his brains and sorted out his thoughts one by one.
After a long time, he looked happy and thought of the crux of the problem. The spring water was full of spiritual energy and could not be brought here, but after drinking it, it did not disappear here.
That is to say, all of this was not absolute. As long as he found a way, he might be able to bring the spiritual energy spring water in.
After waiting for 25 hours, Wang Lin immediately walked out of the room and wandered on the mountain path. After collecting a few wild gourds, he hurried back.
He thought that the reason why the three gourds were not brought into the dream space before was because the gourds had been infused with dew for a long time, causing them to contain a certain amount of spiritual energy.
Now that he had used the gourds he had just picked to store the spiritual energy spring water, perhaps he could trick the dream space and bring it in.
Four hours later, Wang Lin entered the dream space with four gourds hanging on his body.
The moment he entered, he immediately checked his body and was surprised to find that all the gourds were still there.
He opened it and saw that the spring water had not disappeared. After drinking a mouthful, it still contained spiritual energy. In his excitement, Wang Lin drank a big mouthful, sat down cross-legged, and began to cultivate.
Every time the spiritual energy in his body dissipated, he would immediately drink a few mouthfuls of spring water. Gradually, strands of spiritual energy accumulated in his body, slowly changing his body and getting closer to the first level of Qi Condensation.
The glowing objects around him once again turned into motes of light and silently entered his body.
With Wang Lin's talent, without the mysterious bead and the spiritual energy liquid, it would have taken him several years to reach the first level of Qi Condensation. With the Spirit Melting Grass, it would have taken him at least 30 to 50 years to succeed.
Sun Dazhu's one month of medicinal soup had shortened this process.
Wang Lin had unintentionally scattered his cultivation and got rid of the Spirit Melting Grass. Even so, it would have taken him about 10 years to finish cultivating. But now, Wang Lin did not lack spiritual energy and had ten times the time in the dream space. The first level of Qi Condensation was within reach.