Advancement

Having easily and happily accepted four disciples and received 40,000 in tuition fees, Baili Qingfeng immediately handed it over to Ran Tianchi, asking him to prepare next month's medicinal materials.

Then, he discussed with them, deciding to teach them for three hours every Wednesday and Sunday evening.

Today was their first lesson.

"The master leads you through the door, but the cultivation is up to you."

Baili Qingfeng said, "Everyone has different talents. If you want to achieve something, you must put in more effort. You are all young masters and misses from wealthy families, and you may not be able to endure hardship, nor may you have as much time to practice martial arts as I do. In addition, considering factors such as talent, I don't expect you to develop a near-fist intent technique within three months, but you should have achieved something in half a year. Otherwise, how can you justify the 10,000 you paid for apprenticeship?"

They all nodded in agreement.

Having finally encountered a true master, they naturally had to practice diligently.

"Please rest assured, Master, we will work hard."

"Good. A tall building rises from the ground. I will first teach you the basic thirty-six forms of the Primordial Thunder God 108 Forms Body Refining Method. When you have practiced the basics well enough, I will teach you the advanced seventy-two forms."

As Baili Qingfeng spoke, he demonstrated the Rushing Thunder Thirty-Six Forms.

The four of them followed suit, practicing it once.

Half an hour later.

"This... seems a bit simple."

Wang Zheng and the others had some foundation, so they didn't find it too difficult.

Among them, Ran Tianchi even frowned, "This kind of Body Refining Method... feels a bit familiar, as if I've seen it somewhere."

Baili Qingfeng remained calm, "Have you all memorized it? If not, I'll practice it again."

"We've memorized it, it's not difficult."

"Well, not bad, you have talent."

Baili Qingfeng nodded, "Then, let's practice it thirty times first."

"???"

Wang Zheng and Ran Tianchi stared blankly at Baili Qingfeng.

"Thirty times is nothing difficult. I practiced slowly just now for demonstration purposes, watch..."

After Baili Qingfeng finished speaking, he started practicing directly.

He could practice more than three times in ten minutes, and twenty times in about an hour.

After practicing twenty times, he looked as if his waist wasn't sore, his legs didn't hurt, and he wasn't even panting while speaking, appearing completely at ease: "Did you see that? Isn't it easy? I practiced twenty times in one hour. Look at my condition, am I tired? Not at all. I could practice another two sets of twenty times without any problem. However, your bodies are delicate. If you feel you can't endure the hardship, you can reduce the difficulty a bit, ten times an hour. Spend a little more time, and you'll still have thirty times in three hours. Diligence can make up for clumsiness. Of course, reducing the difficulty will also extend the time it takes to achieve something. The choice is up to you. Even if I teach you Sword Saint Twenty-Four, it's useless if you don't practice."

"Yes, yes, Master Bai Li is right."

"It seems... it does look quite easy..."

"We can't compare to Master Bai Li, but if we reduce the difficulty a bit, we should... still be able to try..."

The disciples were somewhat doubtful.

Baili Qingfeng's performance made them feel that practicing thirty times in three hours was not an unachievable task.

"Practice hard. Practicing martial arts is definitely tough, especially in the beginning. You'll feel it's extremely difficult, but as long as you persevere, you'll find... this bit of hardship is nothing at all..."

Baili Qingfeng patiently advised.

Wang Zheng nodded with a solemn expression: "Master Bai Li, rest assured, many masters have told us that practicing martial arts is hard, and only perseverance brings rewards. At that time, we didn't make it through because the future was unclear, but this time, we will definitely persevere. No matter how hard or tiring it is, we will persevere to the end!"

"In that case, I'll be waiting for your performance. Don't give up halfway. If you give up halfway and achieve nothing, there's nothing I can do."

Baili Qingfeng said.

It was getting late, and he had to go back.

Wang Zheng quickly drove Baili Qingfeng back to the remote little courtyard he rented.

When Baili Qingfeng arrived at the courtyard, he looked at the medicinal herbs in his hand, then at the old little courtyard: "I need a pot."

And a bucket.

So, he went to a farmers market not far from here.

The farmers market in the old city was dirty, messy, and disorganized, but the types of items that could be bought were rich and diverse, and some wild products that could not be bought in regular markets could also be found here if you were lucky.

Especially...

Things were also very cheap.

Baili Qingfeng spent the better part of the day buying everything he needed, and then started decocting the medicinal soup.

Soon...

He discovered a problem.

If he was alone...

How could he heat the water?

Without heat to stimulate the pores of the human body to expand, the absorption efficiency would be greatly reduced.

Baili Qingfeng watched for a moment...

When his gaze fell on the pot, which was large enough...

He had an idea.

So, he turned down the flame, stripped naked, and jumped directly into the pot.

"It's hot!"

Baili Qingfeng sensed.

It felt like he was about to get burned.

Fortunately, no oil was needed for stewing the soup, and the temperature of the water was limited after heating. His physical recovery was amazing, and he had lowered the temperature, so this kind of burn was still within his body's tolerance.

In addition...

Using this method to absorb the medicinal power...

The effect was surprisingly good.

Baili Qingfeng felt that this absorption efficiency was thirty to forty percent higher than heating with warm water!

A portion of medicinal herbs was worth 40,000, and thirty to forty percent of that was equivalent to saving 16,000, which was equivalent to three years' salary for an ordinary worker.

In the following days, in order to try to squeeze out his own limits, so that he could appear in the normal human limit state of qi and blood deficiency, Baili Qingfeng spared no effort in his cultivation.

One hundred times?

Not enough!

On the first day, he practiced one hundred and forty times!

Then, one hundred and fifty times, one hundred and sixty times, one hundred and seventy times...

In the end, he found in despair that his recovery physique...

Seemed to have improved!?

His own limit was not squeezed out, but his physical recovery seemed to be reaching new heights.

As a result, the feat of forcing out his own limit, resulting in deficiency of both qi and blood, became a distant prospect.

Fortunately, practicing the Rushing Thunder Thirty-Six Forms one to two hundred times a day, his physical strength was also geometrically enhanced. When he completely refined the medicinal power of that Nourishing Essence Soup, which was the sixth day after accepting four disciples, he finally practiced the Rushing Thunder Thirty-Six Forms to the point of four times in ten minutes.

"Level 3 Warrior?"

Although Baili Qingfeng was mentally prepared, but...

This was too easy to practice.

With the development of science and technology, people's lives have become better, and now martial arts are also easier to practice?

He had not yet cultivated the state of qi and blood deficiency that his uncle Baili Tianxing had mentioned.

"Perhaps I am not yet a Level 3 Warrior. The characteristic of a Level 3 Warrior is to begin nourishing the spirit."

Baili Qingfeng said calmly.

At this stage, qi and blood are strong enough to nourish the spirit, officially entering the stage of refining qi and nourishing the spirit. Cultivators only need to maintain sufficient qi and blood to maintain a vigorous state of mind at all times.

It is said that someone once did an experiment. Warriors in the Qi Refining and Spirit Nourishing stage, while maintaining normal eating and drinking, were able to stay awake for a whole month, while the limit for ordinary people was seven days.

A full four times the difference!

"Nourishing the spirit..."

Baili Qingfeng had a vague concept of nourishing the spirit.

He carefully sensed the nourishment of his own qi and blood to his spirit...

Three hours later, his expression gradually became serious.

Efficiency...

Very slow!

Less than one-fifth of his cultivation of the Thunder Sovereign Spirit Refinement Visualization Method.

Although the nurtured spirit is more agile, the increase in quantity...

It's too slow!

"My cultivation must have gone wrong... I have to ask Second Grandpa..."

However, Baili Qingfeng considered Baili Changkong's health...

Forget it.

It wasn't easy for Second Grandpa to strain his back and just get out of the hospital. If he finds out that I have already started nourishing my spirit, and gets so happy that he has to go back to the hospital, then I'll be a sinner.

Then...

I'll just keep practicing for now.

Maybe it's just that the effect of nourishing the spirit isn't obvious when you first enter Level 3 Warrior. I'll wait and see after practicing for a few months.

If it really doesn't work...

I'll find a Level 3 Warrior and have a fight!