Seven Gourds

"You can practice the Grain Avoidance Technique here if you want, or you can cultivate the Realm Technique if you want, just be mindful of the time!"

Zhang Xuezhou inserted the green rock staff into the eye of Spiritual Qi, then hung the gourd belonging to Yi Shuo on it. After pouring a basin of medicinal soup into it, he felt that half of the alchemy was complete.

There's no need to worry about alchemy anymore; now it's time to focus on my own affairs.

Zhang Xuezhou said something to Yi Shuo, and then couldn't wait to breathe in the spiritual Spiritual Qi beside the Eye of Spiritual Qi Energy.

For top-tier cultivators, the effect of this Spiritual Qi eye is generally limited. The effect of breathing in Spiritual Qi is roughly equivalent to the body rapidly recovering its Law Power, offering little benefit to cultivation.

But for cultivators like Zhang Xuezhou and Yi Shuo, who are at a mid-to-low level of cultivation, this is the top-tier 'land'.

Having witnessed the Spiritual Qi storms of the Xieluosi River Holy Land and the swirling Spiritual Qi energy of the Dongtianmen Secret Land, Zhang Xuezhou had never seen a Spiritual Qi vent like this, resembling a spring.

This is far less Spiritual Qi abundant than the former two, but it has the advantage of being produced over a long period of time.

As Zhang Xuezhou took a deep breath, he felt his own body become active as his Yang Soul Body began to writhe.

When external conditions are favorable enough, the Yang Soul Body truly grants him the possibility of cultivation.

Before Zhang Xuezhou could even use his breathing technique to suppress Yang Po, his cultivation level had already been slowly boosted.

A long-lost sense of motivation for spiritual practice welled up in Zhang Xuezhou's heart, and he was overjoyed.

He couldn't concern himself with how to cultivate the subsequent realms of the Divine Ability Realm, Sole Self Realm, and True Self Realm after the Body Transformation Realm; his current goal was to advance his Consciousness Creation Realm cultivation to the Body Transformation Realm.

For Zhang Xuezhou, advancing his cultivation of the Consciousness Creation Realm was like going with the flow. He had already done it once in the real world, so he was almost following the same path, knowing when he needed to borrow external forces and when he needed to take Spirit-Forging Pill to stimulate a breakthrough in his minor realm.

"My God, this seems to be a secret realm! Legend has it that secret realms are owned by top-tier cultivators, and each one holds incredible wonders!"

Zhang Xuezhou took the lead in promoting spiritual practice, while Yi Shuo continued to observe and monitor.

She had seen the gourd bulging and expanding like a mosquito sucking blood, and like Zhang Xuezhou, she took a deep breath.

A feeling of intoxication washed over her. Yi Shuo, who had never breathed Spiritual Qi energy before, felt every part of her body throbbing. The Law Power in her acupoints made a sound like flowing rivers, and she even felt as if she were floating on air.

With such a surge of Law Power, she could almost recklessly squander the Law Power within her body.

"It's a pity that the Eastern Scholar didn't teach me the subsequent Grain Avoidance techniques for the 20,000 acupoints, otherwise I would have been able to activate the Grain Avoidance techniques!"

Yi Shuo progressed very quickly in mastering the Grain Avoidance Technique. She only took one day to cultivate 10,000 acupoints, but it took her nearly half a month to reach 20,000 acupoints.

Knowing that Zhang Xuezhou's Grain Avoidance involved many acupoints, she couldn't help but feel some pressure, thinking that it might take her half a year to open 30,000 acupoints, and perhaps two or three years to open 40,000 acupoints.

As for what comes after that, it could take several years or even a decade.

It is understood that Yi Shuo indeed wanted to take advantage of the convenient conditions to practice and promote the Grain Avoidance) method.

However, Zhang Xuezhou obviously couldn't explain it to her right now.

Yi Shuo had no choice but to turn to the cultivation techniques she had developed.

The techniques of the Suspended Pot Sect are gentle in nature, allowing cultivation to proceed slowly; in other words, they are not particularly distinctive.

This kind of realm technique is not good for fighting, and it's even less likely to be used to reach the top.

In the theory derived by the Suspended Pot Sect, the upper limit of their realm technique is set at the Sole Self Realm.

Yi Shuo once wanted to change the foundation of her cultivation technique, but she had no way to do so.

When Yi Shuo immersed herself in cultivating her own realm, she realized that this was not the gradual advancement of the realm technique of the Suspended Pot Sect, but rather that the conditions of the Suspended Pot Sect could only support the gradual advancement of the realm technique.

When she changed her place of cultivation, Yi Shuo felt her Law Power surging within her body, giving her a sense of powerful and substantial Law Power for the first time.

She doesn't need to use trickles of water to impact her acupoints and advance her cultivation level; instead, she can unleash a torrent of energy.

This can effectively open up her acupoints, and even expand them.

If the external conditions for promoting cultivation are good enough, the cultivation techniques of the Suspended Pot Sect can obviously be strong enough as well.

She had some guesses in her mind and quickly used Spiritual Qi to review her cultivation.

Unlike Zhang Xuezhou, who directly pushed his cultivation to break through to the Transformation Body Transformation Realm, she used her Law Power to recirculate through her acupoints, repeatedly pushing through the four realms of Meridian Circulation, Blood Penetration, Body Control, and True Spirit, to re-explore the acupoints she had previously opened, thus making her Law Power within her body more substantial.

The repeated thrusts and impacts made Yi Shuo feel her own Law Power growing stronger, no longer as weak as before.

Her current Law Power power is at least twice as strong as before.

The stronger the Law Power, the stronger its effect, and the greater its contribution in battle.

Yi Shuo emerged from the repetitive practice with a look of excitement.

When her gaze swept over Zhang Xuezhou, she saw that Zhang Xuezhou was already taking the pills. The blush that occasionally appeared on his face proved that he was not concerned about the side effects of taking the medicine for cultivation at all, but was trying his best to push his cultivation forward.

"A single Spirit-Forging Pill is worth over a hundred gold coins; Scholar Dongfang's family is truly wealthy!"

Watching Zhang Xuezhou swallow two pills in quick succession, Yi Shuo could only swallow hard and take a deep breath just like Zhang Xuezhou.

The Spirit-Forging Pill is quite valuable, but at least the air here is free for the time being.

The fresh, sweet air constantly stimulated her body, guiding Yi Shuo's cultivation to gradually rise to the True Spirit Realm.

"If only I had Spirit-Forging Pill!"

Spiritual Qi can aid in cultivation, but Spiritual Qi aid is extremely gradual and its propulsion becomes insufficient when encountering major breakthroughs in minor cultivation stages.

If one spends a long time in such a secret place, one can rely on the continuous accumulation of Spiritual Qi and then use a water-milling method to break through it.

However, given the limited time, relying on the power of elixirs becomes the best option.

As Yi Shuo's cultivation level continued to improve, when she encountered difficult acupoints, she could only focus on accumulating cultivation and Law Power, hoping to build up her strength and then use it to break through.

"East..."

While absorbing Spiritual Qi, Yi Shuo heard the sound and saw Zhang Xuezhou shaking the gourd erratically before pouring out a fist-sized pill.

The fragrant aroma of the pills wafted over, and Yi Shuo saw Zhang Xuezhou casually wrap the pills in a cloth and stuff several Spirit-Forging Pill into the gourd.

Yi Shuo opened her mouth, looking at Zhang Xuezhou, this nouveau riche, with extreme envy as he lavishly used pills.

The Grain Avoidance powder on Zhang Xuezhou's body turned into Grain Avoidance pills, and these Spirit-Forging Pill, once stuffed into the gourd, could very likely transform into potent Spirit-Forging Pill.

"Scholar Dongfang's cultivation has definitely reached the edge of a major realm; he's just one step away from it!"

Normally, when one cultivates and consumes Spirit-Forging Pill, one breaks through to a minor realm within the middle three realms of the Nine-Five System. However, when one needs powerful Spirit Spirit-Forging Pill, this is clearly a treatment reserved for those at a higher realm.

Yi Shuo looked at Zhang Xuezhou with admiration, feeling that Zhang Xuezhou was too strong.

This strength wasn't the strength of someone at the top of their cultivation level, but rather the strength that Zhang Xuezhou actually used to boost his own cultivation while giving birth to Wei Shao'er.

In just a few hours, this is almost equivalent to several years of cultivation for others, and some people cannot even catch up with the fortuitous opportunity that take more than ten years of cultivation.

It's past midnight!

When the sound of knocking came from the stone wall, Yi Shuo realized that more than half of the time had passed.

"Don't worry, we'll definitely finish refining the pills and get back before dawn!"

Zhang Xuezhou responded, and the reminder from the Holy Mother of Wudang fell silent.

A secret realm wouldn't be destroyed just because a mid-level cultivator like Zhang Xuezhou increases his cultivation level, nor would it be damaged just because Zhang Xuezhou refines a few pills.

Although she sensed that the Spiritual Qi energy that used to fill the underground palace was almost gone, the Holy Mother of Wudang was still able to maintain her composure.

She reminded Zhang Xuezhou of something, then walked back and forth a few steps.

When her gaze fell upon the gourd on the green rock staff, the Holy Mother of Wudang felt that it looked somewhat familiar.

"The Immortal Vine of Buzhou Mountain has seven gourds. The Goddess took one to transform into a Demon-Refining Gourd, Laozi took one to hold a pill, the Daoist took one to refine an Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife, one was shattered, and three others were taken and disappeared without a trace. Could this purple gourd used for refining pills be one of those three?"

If Laozi hadn't been ambushed and hadn't had his gourd stolen, Zhang Xuezhou and the others' gourds would most likely have come from those three missing objects.