After telling Tang Cheng everything he could think of, Li Xingkong greeted the Earth Star aerospace team and then prepared to begin his seclusion.
Li Xingkong didn't have any particular considerations when choosing this secluded cultivation location. After all, the moon is now a desolate wasteland, and he could choose anywhere without being disturbed.
For others, climbing this mountain presents numerous inconveniences. Although the moon's gravity is lower, the mountain's steepness still exceeds the climbing ability of ordinary people.
However, it was much more convenient for Li Xingkong to travel to and from the mountain from the base, since he could fly, and the treacherous terrain was basically nothing to him.
After flying around the chosen mountain, Li Xingkong did not land directly on the summit. Although the summit would be directly exposed to the sun, the moon has no atmosphere, and any Fallout winds would blow directly onto him.
In ordinary times, it wouldn't matter if one hid, but if it were a crucial moment in one's secluded cultivation, interrupting one's practice for this reason would be a great loss.
Finding a cliff, Li Xingkong and unleashed an arc of sword Sword Qi. The Sword Qi struck the cliff face directly, leaving a deep gash.
With a flick of his finger, several more Sword Qi shot out, expanding the engraving into a ring the size of a person. Then, Li Xingkong quickly closed in, threw a punch, and shattered the large cliff in the center of the ring. As a large amount of rubble flew out, Li Xingkong carved out a cave the size of a person.
Following the chisel marks, Li Xingkong several dozen steps deeper, and then expanded the surrounding area a bit, thus creating a simple cultivation area.
Without doing any further decorations—those were secondary— Li Xingkong simply made a platform for sitting cross-legged and then blocked the entrance to the cave.
Since all the knowledge is already in his head, he doesn't need to open his eyes to see anything. Blocking the door will prevent anything else from getting in and affecting him.
After blocking the entrance, Li Xingkong sat down cross-legged and opened the " Heavenly Evolution Foundation Establishment Method " again. This time, he vowed not to leave the seclusion until he had reached the Foundation Establishment.
When people are fully immersed in something, they will find that time seems to pass by on a fast track. It feels like only a short while has passed, but when they come to their senses, an entire afternoon may have gone by.
This is especially evident when people are young; as people get older, it becomes increasingly difficult to achieve this state of complete immersion in something.
Often, keeping learning and striving to enter that state is actually a way of reclaiming the abilities we already possessed in our youth.
Therefore, Daoists often emphasize embryonic breathing during cultivation, and pursue the innate vital energy that one is born with.
There are actually profound reasons for this.
It's not just that it's easier to concentrate and enter a meditative state when you're young; also, the body's self-healing ability gradually declines with age.
Tracing back to one's innate vital energy is about restoring the physical and mental state of one's youth.
Although in a world without Spiritual Qi, this pursuit of innate energy seems somewhat absurd and elusive, appearing quite mysterious.
But let's not forget that human will also has power; often, a strong will can subtly influence physical development.
The simplest example is that many scientific studies have shown that laughter can prolong life, while worry and high stress can shorten life.
This is the simplest influence of human willpower and spirit on physical health.
While traditional Daoist cultivation methods haven't reached a level of in-depth research into the hormones and various mechanisms of the human body, they have indeed studied the influence of willpower and spirit on physical health to a very profound degree.
This kind of research is difficult to understand at present, but it becomes much easier to understand if you change your perspective.
Treating people as a pre-constructed black box, or in other words, treating people as a keyboard.
Modern science studies what a button does when it's pressed, and what mechanism it uses to display a word on the screen.
Ancient Daoist studies, however, were different. They were like users; they didn't care how the button worked when pressed. They simply learned through countless attempts that pressing the button would display a corresponding letter on the screen.
They know what happened, but not why it happened.
Although this knowledge may seem difficult to understand now, it cannot be denied that it is indeed useful.
When an ordinary person is fully immersed in studying, they will only be interrupted for one reason: insufficient energy supply from the body. The body's instinctive hunger will break this state.
However, Li Xingkong had already basically achieved abstaining from grains during the Qi Refining stage, so the feeling of hunger no longer occurred to him.
In other words, as long as he enters this state of concentration, he can maintain it indefinitely without external interruption.
In the cave, there was no sun or moon, and cultivation went unnoticed. When Li Xingkong first emerged from this state of cultivation, he had already gone through the entire Foundation Establishment Method and processed the knowledge that the system had instilled in his mind. Only then did this knowledge truly belong to him.
Many people believe that once knowledge is in their minds, it is already theirs, and they can use it naturally. However, this idea does not reflect reality.
Although the human brain is incredibly powerful, it is fundamentally an information processing tool, with memory being just the most basic part.
Just like installing a game on our phone, it's not something you can play right away. Before you can play, there's a long loading period when you launch the game. This loading process can be understood as our brain reading content from our memories.
If the amount of information to be memorized is very small, the extremely brief loading process is often overlooked. However, if the amount of information to be memorized is large, this process becomes unavoidable.
Otherwise, why would those transmigrators who have undergone soul-transmigration experience a headache as soon as they start absorbing memories? Loading too much content in a short time would cause even a CPU to lag for a while.
Although Li Xingkong was in such a closed environment that he couldn't tell how much time had passed by, he wasn't without options.
His biological clock was still working diligently; Li Xingkong only paid a little attention to it, and his biological clock gave him a specific time.
Before he knew it, two months had passed.