Three Days and Three Nights: Finally Comprehending the Qi Refining Formula! [New World]

A cultivation world.

A raggedly dressed man sat before a massive stone wall, his expression grim and his gaze unfocused.

His hair was disheveled, clearly unkempt for a long time. His eyes remained fixed on the stone wall opposite him, as though some priceless treasure lay hidden within it.

Mysterious patterns were carved into the wall, seemingly concealing countless secrets and riddles. Interwoven together, those patterns formed a strange symbolic language.

Perhaps only a true genius could fully decipher their meaning.

This man had been sitting here for a long time, yet he had comprehended nothing.

"It should be like this. Why can't I comprehend anything at all?"

After sitting cross-legged for so long, his legs had begun to ache, and he could not help but question his own talent.

According to the outer sect elder in charge of the new disciples, ordinary disciples could comprehend a cultivation technique on their first day.

Five days had now passed. All the other disciples had gained some insight and left, leaving only him and the person across from the stone wall.

Could it be that the two of them were both trash?

That couldn't be right.

The trash across from him made sense.

But he was a transmigrator, after all. How could he possibly be trash too?

That was right.

The ragged man before the stone wall was named Lin Hao, a transmigrator from a technological world.

As for how he had transmigrated, he still had not figured it out. He only remembered falling asleep in bed that night, then waking up to find himself lying in a forest.

The place was deserted. He had survived in the wilderness for three days and three nights, nearly dying out there. Fortunately, he ran into a kind passerby.

That kind person gave him water and food.

It was also thanks to that person that he learned this world was a cultivation world.

He had transmigrated.

For someone from a technological world, transmigration was not particularly unusual. There were plenty of novels and movies about it.

So, at that kind person's suggestion, he followed him to a sect called the Azure Mountain Sect to become a disciple and cultivate.

The Azure Mountain Sect was no ordinary sect.

According to that kind person, Nascent Soul experts oversaw the sect, and every elder was a Golden Core cultivator. It was the largest sect in the area.

As it happened, those days were recruitment season.

Lin Hao barely met the requirements and successfully joined the Azure Mountain Sect, becoming an outer sect disciple.

However, if one wished to cultivate, Azure Mountain Sect tradition required them to first comprehend a technique from the stone wall.

Whatever technique they comprehended was the one they would cultivate.

And here Lin Hao was, having sat there for days without getting so much as a fart.

Well, at least he had company across from him.

"System? Are you there?"

"Old Grandpa? Did you absorb the cultivation technique I comprehended? Remember to give me a copy."

As he silently called for his cheat, Lin Hao still hoped he could begin cultivating sooner.

Well, nothing happened.

He would have to keep comprehending.

Lin Hao continued staring at the stone wall and its patterns without blinking.

Something felt strange. Had that been laughter?

He had probably been sitting too long and was hallucinating.

Not dwelling on it, Lin Hao sat upright and examined the wall carefully.

Meanwhile, Shen Yunfei, seated before the stone wall across from him, had also fallen into deep thought as he stared blankly at it.

Suddenly.

A cry of surprise rang out.

"I got it! I finally got it!"

The voice belonged to Lin Hao across from him.

Lin Hao sprang up from the ground, his face overflowing with joy.

Just as he had been about to doze off, mysterious words had abruptly appeared in his mind.

Those words formed three large characters.

Qi Refining Formula!

A cultivation technique!

A genuine cultivation technique!

What else could have appeared out of nowhere inside his mind?

After calming himself slightly, Lin Hao poked his head around the stone wall and happened to meet the other person's eyes.

He gave him a look to indicate that he was leaving as well. Then Lin Hao dusted off his clothes and headed toward the outer sect hall.

Only Shen Yunfei remained, sitting there dumbfounded.

So he was the only one left?

It turned out he was the real trash!

Azure Mountain Sect.

Outer Sect Disciple Hall.

Lin Hao stood outside the hall, overjoyed.

Three days had passed. He had finally proven himself. Next, he would seek guidance from an outer sect elder and begin his path of cultivation.

"This place isn't much."

Floating beside Lin Hao, Gu Yuan glanced at the hall before him.

It looked quite splendid, with a touch of antiquity, but compared to Cangyuan Palace, it was utterly insignificant.

Still, this new ability of his, [Convergence], was rather interesting.

One second, Gu Yuan had been idling around in Cangyuan World. The next, he sensed some vague connection and instantly teleported to this world.

He had not even expended any energy before entering Lin Hao's mind.

So Convergence was for finding people bound by fate.

He wondered what sights this world had to offer.

And what cultivation level its strongest expert possessed.

"Disciple requests an audience with Elder."

Standing outside the disciple hall, Lin Hao respectfully bowed toward the interior.

A voice then came from within.

"Come in."

The owner of the voice sounded quite old.

Upon entering the hall, Lin Hao saw an elderly man with the bearing of an immortal.

Yet his gaze was somewhat strange at the moment.

The old man carefully examined Lin Hao from head to toe, circled around him once, then reached out and pressed two fingers against his pulse.

It was obvious that he was deeply puzzled.

"Elder, this is...?"

Lin Hao was bewildered by this string of actions and asked hesitantly.

"Hahaha, it's nothing. I simply didn't expect you to successfully comprehend the technique within the stone wall."

The elder did not hide it and replied cheerfully.

Yet Gu Yuan could still see confusion, incomprehension, and a look as though he were staring at an idiot in the elder's eyes.

How strange.

What was wrong with the elder?

"This disciple comprehended a Qi Refining Formula. I have yet to cultivate it, and I hope Elder can offer me some guidance."

Lacking Gu Yuan's perceptiveness, Lin Hao continued respectfully.

"You... really comprehended it?"

"Yes, this disciple truly comprehended it."

"The Qi Refining Formula?"

"Yes, Elder. Its full text appeared in my mind out of nowhere."

"Really?"

"Really."

"At that stone wall?"

"Yes, Elder."

"You didn't lie to me?"

"This disciple would not dare deceive Elder."

Well, this conversation was getting stranger and stranger.

Even Gu Yuan could not make sense of what the elder was trying to say.

"How about this? Tell me the contents of your technique."

After seeming to hesitate for a moment, the elder stared into Lin Hao's eyes, his expression still strange.

Upon hearing that, Lin Hao tried to recite the contents of the Qi Refining Formula.

But when the words reached his lips, it was as though he had forgotten everything. He stammered and could not say a thing.

Of course, this was not Gu Yuan's doing.

After all, Lin Hao was still an ordinary person. The Qi Refining Formula seemed to have certain restrictions on ordinary people.