Qi-Refining Spirit Immortal (3,200 Characters)
Fang Shu sat cross-legged inside the spirit chamber. The qi winds around him constantly ground against his flesh, rolling and rumbling like stone millstones.
The robes and other items on his body had long since been destroyed. Had he not used true qi to protect his hair and other parts, they might have been scraped away by the qi winds as well.
Under such circumstances, he finally understood why this Water-Fire Spirit Chamber, though bearing the name "water-fire," was primarily used to aid disciples in secluded qi-refining rather than to assist breakthroughs through the Six Tribulations.
Veins surfaced upon the rocky flesh and blood of the earth flood dragon surrounding him. The qi winds and qi currents sweeping through the spirit chamber were drilling out from those veins.
This earth flood dragon's shell had not only become the building material for the spirit chamber; it had also effectively become a magical tool for gathering qi winds and qi currents from the high skies.
So long as Fang Shu spread his divine sense through his surroundings and activated the restrictions, it was as though he stood within the layer of qi winds itself. And because the qi winds and qi currents blowing in had been filtered through the earth flood dragon's shell, their nature had become somewhat gentler.
Furthermore, while refining qi here, a cultivator could adjust the airflow like the bellows before a stove, thereby controlling the strength of the qi winds blowing into the spirit chamber.
This prevented cultivators from suddenly being torn apart and killed should their strength fail for a moment, or should they have poor luck and become caught in chaotic qi winds.
Its sole inconvenience was that the qi winds blowing into the spirit chamber were gathered wholesale from the