Now that he had reached the Small Success of the Qi-eating Stage, he could finally come into contact with the most exciting things.
Perhaps many people cultivated for the sake of longevity, but there was no absolute term for longevity, nor was there any true meaning of longevity. For ordinary mortals, they would be satisfied to live for a few hundred years. Even longevity was something that everyone had different understandings of.
On the contrary, many people were more obsessed with those magic-like spells, controlling the wind, controlling the fire, riding the clouds, and riding the mist. The feeling of understanding nature, manipulating nature, and resonating with nature, under such pursuit, longevity might just be a derivative of living in harmony with nature.
Who could say for sure? Lou Xiaoyi had such thoughts. As for longevity? It was too far! For a mortal with a few decades of life, was it realistic to ask him to imagine a life of thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years?
Only a fool would set such a goal!
Among the thirteen bamboo slips, most of them were about spells, such as the Wind-rolling Escape Armor, the Seven Forms of Fire, the Ice Chapter of the Irregular Water, the Taoist Talisman, the Paper Figurine Technique, the Concealment Technique, the Analysis of Common Formations …
There were a lot of spells, but Lou Xiaoyi found that among them, there was none that he wanted to learn the most!
What did he want to learn the most?
First of all, a way to regulate the various functions of the body was the most urgent thing for him, because he wanted to regulate the bodies of his mother and Aunt Caihuan!
The lifespan of mortals in this world was not long. The average lifespan was about sixty years. His mother and Aunt Caihuan were over fifty years old this year, and there was not much time left. He did not want to get an extra few decades of life, but he did not want to ignore his loved ones who loved him. No matter what the final result was, one more year was one more year!
However, after studying all the bamboo slips, he found that all the spells were suitable for cultivators to cultivate and fight, but there was no way to regulate the body. It made sense when he thought about it. A beginner like him could completely regulate the body inside and outside at the early stage of the Qi-eating Stage. How could he need other ways to regulate the body? Spiritual opportunity was the best way to regulate the body!
It could only be said that cultivators rarely thought about how to use their abilities to help ordinary mortals. In their opinion, what did it matter if it was a few years earlier or later? In any case, cultivators and mortals were separated. Sooner or later, they would be separated from each other!
Perhaps there was, but Lou Xiaoyi didn't know. This kind of help might be limited to pills, but with his current ability, he was afraid that he was powerless to do so. As an extremely important part of the cultivation path, the Dao of Pills was also the part that burned the most resources. Wealth, resources, inheritance, experience, and techniques, even in the orthodoxies of real sects, those who could be involved in this direction were either extremely talented or had a powerful backer behind them. Other than that, there was no third path!
According to the summary of Mount Zhong's cultivation, rogue cultivators had never been able to cultivate the Dao of Pills! This was because they were simply unable to overcome the despairing consumption and wastage of the early stages of the Dao of Alchemy. This required the support of a powerful organization behind them! Alchemists were all created through the use of vast amounts of resources!
Of course, Lou Xiaoyi wasn't interested in this!
He didn't have anything. In his opinion, he could only use the stupidest method, which was to use spiritual energy to open up the blocked meridians of his mother and Aunt Caihong every day. This was a slow and meticulous process because the input of spiritual energy had to be controlled to an extremely low level. Otherwise, it would be like the first time he was stung by the white sand worm, causing his entire body to swell. Was this helping or killing people?
The second thing he wanted to learn the most was to hide the shadow in his mind!
But obviously, this would require an extremely high level of cultivation to be able to do just by imagining. Perhaps he would never be able to do it. By the time he could control his own fate, he would have already become an immortal, right?
The third thing he wanted to learn was actually the problem he needed to solve now. It was the problem of how to cheat in the Summer Examinations.
A cultivator who wanted to cheat in a mere exam, he didn't know if there was a second cultivator in the world of cultivation, but he didn't have any psychological burden. He took the exam based on his own ability, so why should he feel guilty?
Therefore, if there was a Mind Reading Technique, Insight Technique, Duplication Technique, or a technique that could give him a copy, he would definitely learn it at the first opportunity. Unfortunately, there were no such things, and the cultivation seniors didn't prepare these cheating things for the younger generation.
It was a pity that the cultivation world was too conservative when it came to the types of techniques. With such core techniques, hundreds of cheating apps would have been developed long ago.
Although Li San confidently patted his chest and said that it would not be a problem, there were countless variables when it came to exams. No one knew what would happen in the end. Even if there were no problems with his essay, if the person marking the paper had any bad intentions and the pen was slightly off, it could still make him regret the summer exams.
Lou Xiaoyi hated things that he couldn't control. Unfortunately, his current situation was that his status in Lou Province was declining, and his cultivation level was rising. They were both in the same awkward position, neither up nor down. It was very uncomfortable.
Since there was nothing he wanted to learn, he could only pick the best out of the worst and see if there were any techniques that could be used!
His mind was very clear that if he wanted to learn techniques now, he couldn't focus on the possibility of fighting. Instead, he should focus on how to continue his cultivation.
Whether it was the Old Lord's Essence of Gathering Qi or the Summary of Mount Zhong's Cultivation, or the other bamboo slips, they all had the same attitude towards techniques. The simpler the techniques in the stage of eating Qi, the better. It was best not to learn anything at all. This was because the real beginning of a cultivator's cultivation in the stage of cultivating techniques was actually in the stage of sensing. It was only after they built their foundation that they would be able to open up a new world.
Of course, there was a prerequisite to this saying, and that was that they didn't have to worry about their lives. For sects and forces with powerful backing, this was the right answer. However, for individual cultivators, at the very least, they still had to learn protective spells. When they were outside, they had no one to rely on. They had to rely on themselves for everything. How could they survive without some tricks?
Concealment was the first choice. To put it bluntly, it was to pretend to be a turtle. The core idea was that the best way to save one's life was not to defeat the opponent, but to avoid fighting if possible. The safest way was to pretend to be an ordinary person. This suited Lou Xiaoyi very well. They were all civilized people. Why did they have to fight? Wasn't it better to be reasonable?
Lou Xiaoyi thought that concealment was more like a special method of circulating Qi. It targeted the circulation of Qi that every cultivator who consumed Qi was constantly circulating. Through some ingenious method, the circulation of Qi would be suppressed to the lowest level. Thus, within a certain distance, they would be able to avoid the detection of other cultivators. It was not like how ordinary people understood it, which was to cover oneself with leaves and dig a hole to bury oneself.
As for how far this could be deceived, one was the opponent's level of cultivation, and the other was the degree of proficiency. In fact, Lou Xiaoyi also knew that the best way to save one's life was not concealment, but to avoid causing trouble!
Since this was his original intention, the second technique he planned to learn was not unexpected. One was to be afraid, two was to hide, and three was to run. This was the best way to save one's life. Concealment and running, of course, he could only choose the Wind Rolling Escape Technique!
The [Tornado Escape Armor] required props, which was to tie two small and simple Wind Wing Arrays on the calf. The materials used depended on one's own financial resources. Bamboo could be used, and jade could also be used. Bamboo was the elegance of plants, and could be used with spiritual power. Needless to say, jade was the standard equipment of cultivators, and was very compatible with spiritual power. Relatively speaking, the effect of engraving it on jade was definitely better, and it could be used for a longer time.
He couldn't just choose to hide and run. No matter what, he had to learn a technique to beat people and a technique to resist beatings. This way, he could form a system. Thus, from the remaining jade slips, he chose the Fire Abstinence from the Seven Forms of Fire and the Paper Figurine Technique.
This was a very helpless choice because he found that as the lowest existence in the cultivation world, he didn't even have the ability to build the most basic attack and defense system!
The Seven Forms of Fire was not the so-called Heaven and Earth Sacred Flame, Strange Flame, and other high and mighty things. He was still far from these things! He couldn't touch it. Once he touched it, he would lose his life.
The so-called Seven Forms, in fact, were divided according to how difficult it was for the cultivator to use Qi to produce flames. They were divided into Fire Abstinence, Fire Abstinence, Fire Abstinence, Fire Abstinence, Fire Abstinence.
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