In the back mountains of the Taixuan Sect, there was a quiet and secluded place. There were trees, flowers, birds, and insects. Next to a gravel path, there was a boulder as tall as a person. On top of the boulder, a young man in a white robe was sitting cross-legged, cultivating.
The aura around the young man rippled. As he breathed in and out, the aura that gathered expanded and shrank, following a mysterious pattern toward the young man's dantian.
The young man's name was Gu Fei, and he was a disciple of the younger generation of the Taixuan Sect.
The Taixuan Sect was one of the three major sects on the Teng Long Continent. It had a long history and was an ancient sect. Gu Fei was an orphan. When he was eight years old, his master, Wan Xiancheng, had left the mountain to travel and brought him back to the Taixuan Sect to be accepted as a disciple.
Although Gu Fei was a Dao Sect disciple, he did not cultivate Dao Techniques. Instead, he cultivated a technique called the Ancient Body Tempering Technique.
Body refining technique, as the name suggested, was a technique that used one's own body as the foundation. It was a technique that defied the natural order and cultivated the body. The techniques described in the technique were enough to make one's body sacred, and the ancient battle techniques could kill immortals and gods.
However, once this ancient secret technique was cultivated, it was extremely difficult. Even if one failed to cultivate it, they could no longer switch to other techniques.
Gu Fei, who was sitting cross-legged on the boulder with his eyes closed, activated the ancient body refining technique, and absorbed the aura of heaven and earth from all directions into his dantian, accumulating it. When the aura in the dantian was compressed and accumulated to a certain extent, it was guided into the meridians of the body.
Wave after wave of aura gathered. Whether it was the surrounding essence of plants, or the essence of the sun and moon floating in the void, Gu Fei did not reject them. He absorbed them into his dantian like rivers running into the sea.
Vaguely, one could see streaks of light that were as fine as green silk lingering around his body. As time went by, Gu Fei's dantian began to emit a seven-colored glow. It was the glow emitted by the highly condensed spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Gathering Qi, impacting, gathering Qi, impacting. Sometimes strong, sometimes weak, waves of Spiritual Qi spread out from Gu Fei's body. As it cycled back and forth, streams of seven-colored Spiritual Qi surged from Gu Fei's Dantian, like a river bursting through a dam, and impacted the meridians in his body that had not yet been opened.
Every impact was like a thousand-pound hammer ruthlessly bombarding Gu Fei's body. With every impact, a trace of pain appeared on his face.
Powerful spiritual energy rushed through his meridians, bringing with it a tearing pain. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth that erupted from his dantian was extremely violent, making his meridians feel as if they were being cut by countless sharp knives.
He gritted his teeth and was sweating profusely. His hair was stuck to his face by the sweat, and his white shirt was soaked and stuck to his body.
He was experiencing the second threshold of the Ancient Body Refining Technique – Meridian Opening.
Meridian Opening was to gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, condense it in the dantian, and then impact the Aperture acupoints above the meridians, making the meridians unobstructed. In this way, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth could travel along the meridians of the whole body to every inch of muscle and every bone of the body, thus achieving the purpose of refining the muscles, bones, flesh and blood, and making the body sublimate and transform.
The Ancient Body Refining Technique was a heaven-defying cultivation technique. Without a rock-like willpower and unremitting bitter cultivation, it was impossible to even cross the first threshold of Qi Gathering.
There were countless cultivation systems in the Teng Long Continent, but the realms of the world's cultivators could be divided into five major realms: Self Awakening, Transcending Mortality, Royal Void, Demigod, and Saint. Each realm was further divided into nine heavens, implying the meaning of the Nine Five Supremacy.
The Ancient Body Refining Technique had four checkpoints in the Self Awakening Realm. The first step was Qi Gathering. Only by mastering the ability of Qi Gathering, could Gu Fei proceed to the next step of Meridian Opening.
After Meridian Opening was Tendon Transformation. After Tendon Transformation reached the advanced level, it would enter the practice of Bone Forging. The day when Bone Forging reached the advanced level, the body would transform. Once the transformation was successful, Gu Fei would be able to break through the shackles of cultivation and advance to the Transcending Mortality Realm.
"The spiritual energy gathered is still not strong enough!" Failure after failure brought a terrible pain like death by a thousand cuts. Gu Fei bit the corner of his mouth and blood oozed out, but he still persisted.
"The human body has twelve main meridians, I have only opened two meridians. In addition to the twelve main meridians, there are eight extra meridians. When can I open all the meridians in my body and enter the Tendon Transformation stage?"
The difficulty of cultivating the ancient body refining technique was really terrifying. Most of the people who had cultivated this technique, which had an awesome name, but the cultivation progress was extremely slow. It seemed that there was only one end for them, that was, before they could successfully cultivate the ancient body refining technique, these people had already died of old age.
The morning cultivation time was about to end. Gu Fei sat the whole morning. Since he opened the second meridian two years ago, he had not made any progress!
The wall of cultivation was like an insurmountable chasm that spanned across in front of him.
Gu Fei was a little disappointed, but he was not discouraged. His character was a bit like his master, Wan Xiancheng. They were both stubborn like a bull, the kind of person who would not turn back even after a hundred setbacks.
"Fight!" Gu Fei looked up at the sky. There was still enough time for him to break through one more meridian. Therefore, he gritted his teeth, his face showed a determined look, and his eyes were incomparably firm.
Circulating the technique, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy that had not yet dissipated around his body, once again converged. In his dantian, a mass of Spiritual Energy was slowly rotating, absorbing the Spiritual Energy that gathered from all directions.
A not weak fluctuation of Yuan Qi was emitted from his body, and various colors of starlight emerged in his dantian. This was the highly compressed Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, and it was the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy that had not undergone any transformation.
The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy quickly gathered in Gu Fei's dantian, until Gu Fei felt a swelling pain in his dantian. Only then did he harden his heart, and desperately pushed the highly compressed Spiritual Energy in his dantian to the third meridian of the twelve standard meridians.
The powerful and explosive Spiritual Energy surged rapidly in Gu Fei's meridians. It was like a torrential flood had suddenly gushed into a small stream. Wherever the Spiritual Energy passed through, his meridians would rapidly expand, almost bursting from the torrent.
"Boom!" It was as if there was a thunderclap in Gu Fei's ears. The torrent that surged out from his dantian fiercely hit the wall of his meridians.
Gu Fei's body shook violently. He suddenly opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood. His body swayed, and he actually fell from the boulder.
Under the boulder, in the grass, Gu Fei lay on the ground with his face facing the sky. The corner of his mouth was scarlet, and it was particularly eye-catching. He looked up at the sky, looking at the wisps of mist floating in the sky. Occasionally, a few spirit birds would fly across the sky.
There was no discouragement in his eyes, no frustration, only a somewhat terrifying determination.
He slowly climbed up from the ground, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and looked in the direction of the mountain in front of him. On the mountain road in the back of the mountain, there were already scattered figures heading toward the front of the mountain.
They were disciples of Taixuan Sect, like him, who had come to the back of the mountain early to cultivate.
Taixuan Mountain towered into the clouds, and the top of the mountain was surrounded by clouds and mist. There were many palaces that were faintly discernible on the mountain. The terrain was magnificent, and it was a rare Holy Land of Spirit Mountains on the continent.
The high-level cultivators all cultivated on the mountain, and young disciples like Gu Fei, who had been in the sect for less than ten years and had low cultivation, could only cultivate at the foot of the mountain.
"Hmm! I still haven't broken through! " Gu Fei looked inside his body, and he found that the wall of the third meridian was only a little loose, but it was still far from breaking through.
"Eight years, and the ancient body refining technique has only reached the Meridian Opening Realm, but it has only awakened my third tier of cultivation. Sigh!" Gu Fei laughed bitterly at himself. "The disciples of the other branches, even Wang Yuanzhi, who has the lowest cultivation, has awakened my fifth tier of cultivation!"
Thinking of Wang Yuanzhi, who often caused trouble for him, Gu Fei's face showed a look of disgust. The disciples of the other branches cultivated Dao techniques and progressed at lightning speed. However, the cultivation technique that he cultivated progressed at a snail's pace.
In the world of cultivation, only the strong were respected, and those with low cultivation would only become the target of bullying.
Gu Fei tidied up his clothes, and then walked along the mountain path to the front of the mountain. On both sides of the quiet mountain path, unknown flowers were blooming.
The faint smell of grass and the faint fragrance of flowers floated into Gu Fei's nose from time to time.
Just now, when he failed to break through the meridian wall, Gu Fei's body had suffered a lot of impact, and injuries were inevitable. However, he did not take the injury seriously at all, because after cultivating the ancient body refining technique, he had no other skills, but his body's self-healing ability was amazing.
When Gu Fei came to the front of the mountain, he met more and more disciples, but no one greeted him, as if they did not see him, or glanced at him with disdain and walked away.
Gu Fei's face was expressionless, and his face was indifferent, facing the disdainful eyes of some of his fellow disciples, he was indifferent.
"Oh, isn't this our cultivation genius Gu Fei, ah no, it should be cultivation waste, haha …" Suddenly, a wanton laughter came from the front.
On the path in front, there were three teenagers who were also wearing white robes with white belts on their waists. The leader laughed loudly, and the two teenagers behind him also laughed in a low voice.
Seeing these three teenagers, a look of disgust flashed in Gu Fei's eyes, and then he ignored the three teenagers and directly turned to the side of the path.
This small path led to a pine forest.
"Hey, Junior Brother Trash, where are you going? Why are you walking so fast?" The three youths giggled as they followed Gu Fei onto the small path. On the path, there were seven or eight other young disciples.
However, when these disciples saw the three teenagers who laughed at Gu Fei, their footsteps could not help but speed up a little, as if they wanted to force the three teenagers away.
"Who are you calling waste!" Gu Fei suddenly stopped moving, turned around, and roared at the three youths. This roar of his drew the gazes of the nearby fellow disciples over.
"What, what's wrong with saying you are waste, not only are you waste, but your master is also waste, hmph! What Ancient Body Refining Technique, Body Sanctification, it's just a garbage cultivation technique. If you throw it on the ground, no one will pick it up. You two master and disciple actually treat garbage as a treasure. You are really stupid to the extreme. "
The leading teenager was suddenly shouted at by Gu Fei, and was stunned for a moment, but immediately like a machine gun, he pointed at Gu Fei's nose and cursed!
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
