Despite Wu Datong's majestic appearance, he is actually a genuine seventh-level Qi-refining practitioner. He has only been practicing for fourteen years since he was transformed from the mortal world. This speed of cultivation is still among the best in the Qian Yizong, even if it is not the top. Most of the disciples who entered the mountain at the same time as him are still on the fifth or sixth floor, and a few are stuck on the third floor, unable to move forward.

The Qi refining period is divided into ten levels. The first three levels are called the early stage of Qi refining, the fourth, fifth and sixth levels are the middle stage of Qi refining, the seventh, eighth and ninth levels are the late stage of Qi refining, and the tenth level is the Great Perfection.

Every time your cultivation level reaches the third, sixth, or ninth level, you will encounter spiritual energy lag, which is called a bottleneck in the cultivation world. It is like a water tank filled with water. You can only continue to fill it with a larger water tank. At the third, sixth, and ninth level, In the past, spiritual practice was an accumulation process, and it was a matter of course.

Breaking through the bottleneck requires a certain amount of opportunity and understanding. It is an indescribable process that cannot be described in words. You can only understand and feel it yourself.

"Senior Brother Wu, I want two bottles of Qi Nourishing Pills," Tang Ning said, taking out a large bag of spiritual stones from her storage bag and handing them to Wu Datong with some reluctance.

The bag of spirit stones was heavy, just like Tangning's current mood. These were the 60 spirit stones he had saved for nearly a year, and he just handed them over. His face was full of pain.

"Junior Brother Tang." Wu Datong shouted. When Tang Ning came to her senses, she realized that she was still holding on to a corner of the bag. She quickly stopped her hand and smiled awkwardly to hide her embarrassment.

Wu Datong took the bag of spiritual stones and opened it, took a look at it, and then handed the two bottles of elixirs to Tang Ning with a smile on his face: "I hope that Junior Brother Tang will go further and further on the road of cultivation, and everything will be smooth sailing."

Tang Ning took the bottle and checked it out, confirming that the sixty Qi-nourishing pills were correct. She smiled bitterly and said, "I know my own qualifications. It would be good if I could break through the third level. There is really not much hope in my cultivation path."

"Junior Brother Tang's words are wrong." Wu Datong suddenly said seriously: "If cultivation is only based on aptitude, then we have not practiced much. When Shifan learned about his spiritual root aptitude, it would have been better to just give up and become a mortal. Isn't it wonderful to have a happy life in this world, so why bother to practice Qi every day for ten years in this boring mountain gate?"

"If others don't tell me, they'll just say that Murong Qi, the former head of Qianyi Sect, has inferior spiritual roots and above-average spiritual qualifications. If he doesn't form a golden elixir in the same way, Cheng Fang will look forward to it. Then talk about me, my qualifications are no better than those of an average person. Come to the mountains with me to transform." Many of Fan's disciples' spiritual qualifications are better than mine. Now many of them are stuck at the sixth level of Qi training. Whether they can break through in this life is still unknown. On the contrary, I reached the late stage of Qi training first. So I practice , spiritual root qualification is just a reference, if you regard it as everything, you will put the cart before the horse."

"Senior Brother Wu is saying that I am obsessed." Tangning thanked him and rode the gourd back to his herb garden. Ever since he came to the Herb Department, he settled here and never returned to Jinzhu. Feng’s residence.

What Wu Datong said is correct, but cultivation cannot be achieved overnight with a few words of encouragement. You still have to be down-to-earth and step by step, channeling and refining your qi and accumulating it bit by bit.

Sitting cross-legged on the bamboo bed, he took a Qi-nourishing pill. The black and lustrous round pill melted in his mouth, and a surging spiritual energy immediately appeared in his body. This spiritual energy was smooth and pure, slowly moving around his body. Tang Ning followed the Qianyi Zongdao It is refined by the inner teachings in the classics.

It was noon when he woke up the next day. Although he had succeeded in transforming into a human being, he was not a vajra body. He could bear the craving for food and only needed Bigu Pill to satisfy his hunger, but he still needed daily sleep. Yesterday, he took that pill The sky had turned white when the spiritual energy of the Nourishing Qi Pill was refined, so I fell asleep until now.

Outside the door, a woman in yellow clothes clasped her hands and looked at the herb garden down the valley. Tang Ning hurriedly came to her and explained, "Sister Fang, I've been waiting for a long time. I practiced too late yesterday and overslept."

Fang Liting glanced at Tang Ning. She was a little curious about this new disciple of the Herbology Department. Because two years ago, this disciple with mediocre performance was summoned alone by the leader, and some unknown secrets were discussed.

A secret, well, at least that's how it seemed to her.

It should be noted that there are more than a thousand disciples of the Qianyi Sect. How many of them can be summoned by the leader?

These people are either talented new star disciples or influential figures who have made great achievements. No matter how you look at them, these two have nothing to do with the person in front of you.

What an honor it is to be summoned alone by the master. No one in the Herbal Medicine Department has ever received such treatment. Not to mention herself, even her master, a foundation-building monk has never been summoned alone by the master. When she told this matter When I told the master, he only said: "Don't be too troublesome."

After two years of observation, she was sure that this was an ordinary disciple who couldn't be more ordinary. He had dull qualifications and mediocre appearance. He took what he deserved and was greedy when he deserved it. He was ignored by everyone. After practicing for two years, he was able to reach the second level of Qi Refining. At such a high level, how could such a person be qualified to be taken seriously by the leader?

"People from Yuan Yidian will be inspecting these two days. Please be careful and don't get caught." Fang Liting said.

The deacon of the Herbology Department is a foundation-building monk named Ma Wen. Tang Ning has never seen him in the two years since she came here. He is not even present at the annual reward and punishment meeting of the Herbology Department. Therefore, the actual manager of the Herbology Department is Fang Liting. , many things are decided by her words.

This is not a phenomenon unique to the Herbal Medicine Department, it is the same for the entire Qianyi Sect. The deacons of each department are foundation-building monks. They only focus on practice, and all the following chores are left to the next disciple to handle, and the assigned disciple becomes The actual person in charge of Corey.

Frankly speaking, Fang Liting is quite a good person. Not to mention how good she is, at least she doesn't make things difficult for people like them who work below her, and occasionally she even gives them a few pointers.

"Yes, I know, I almost forgot to congratulate Senior Sister Fang." Tang Ning said. The last time she saw Fang Liting, she was still at the ninth level of Qi Refining, but today she is already at the tenth level of Qi Refining. Even though it was only one step forward, This step is a gap. Throughout the ages, countless practitioners have been trapped and died on the ninth level of Qi Refining.

When you reach the tenth level of Qi refining, you only need to accumulate your body's spiritual energy to the Great Perfection, and then you can try to build the foundation. Once the foundation building is successful, your lifespan will be doubled. The average life span of a foundation-building monk is between two hundred and three hundred years. And the longest lifespan in the Qi Refining Realm is only one hundred and fifty years old.

"Practice is the foundation of a monk. The responsibilities of a sect cannot be neglected, but you cannot slack off in practice either. You must work harder." After finishing speaking, Fang Liting left with a red flying sword.

During the Qi refining period, the monks can only use the power of magic weapons to fly into the air at most. Only when the foundation is successfully established can they release their spiritual energy, form a spiritual energy shield, and fly.

There are upper and lower magic weapons. Fang Liting's red flying sword is a top-grade magic weapon, while Tang Ning's purple gold gourd is the lowest-grade magic weapon. It can only be used to fly and has no combat effectiveness.

Around midnight in the afternoon, Tang Ning was watering and fertilizing the herbs in the herb garden. Two men in Tsing Yi with flying swords came over. They stopped at the top of the valley and looked at it for a while before leaving.

That's right, those two people were the inspectors of Yuan Yidian. Didn't you feel that they were very casual? They didn't ask questions or take notes. They just took a few glances and left.

In fact, if the sect had not stipulated that every property must be inspected on site, they would not even take a look.

The herb garden managed by Tang Ning is full of low-level herbs. Those who can enter the Yuanyi Palace are all elite disciples with good qualifications. They have no shortage of elixirs, let alone these low-level herbs and elixirs. Even if they check carefully.

, and nothing can be found.

The number of medicinal herbs reported and the actual number of medicinal herbs planted are not equal at all. For example, Corey received a thousand medicinal herb seeds from Yuan Yidian, but what he planted was fifteen hundred seeds, and the number of medicinal herbs was one thousand.

Report it to the sect and hand over a thousand medicinal herbs at that time.

The remaining five hundred, excluding some that were resold privately by the managers, the rest belong to the department.

Disciples like Tang Ning don't know how much the department has received from the sect, nor do they know exactly how much they have to submit to the sect.

Only Ma Wen and Fang Liting know this.

Moreover, medicinal herb seeds have a survival rate. Just like alchemy, alchemy has a certain failure rate. It is difficult to explain this kind of thing clearly. The disciples of Yuan Yidian know this, so they will not waste time and only spend some time on some important belongings.

Only then will we check carefully and leave a certain amount of leeway.

This has been going on for so many years, and the real power administrators in the department are very clear about the scale. Even if there are some small losses, as long as the things that cannot be accounted for are not overdone, they can find an excuse to round it off.

, the above will not pursue it too closely.

In the following days, Tang Ning spent two hours every day in addition to watering and fertilizing the herb garden and practicing cultivation. Within two months, the elixir she bought from Wu Datong was used up.

On this day, Tang Ning woke up from a state of trance, opened her eyes and took out a breath of turbid air. After tasting the benefits of the elixir, she returned to the initial state of practice, introduced the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, refined the spiritual energy, and felt that her spiritual power increased.

Slow as a snail.

Man! It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

He had to find a way to earn some spiritual stones. Tangning sat on the bamboo bed with his back against the wall and thought about it. He had been thinking about the whole thing for a long time. Is there any way to earn spiritual stones?

Now he has three customers in the herb garden, and Mu Pingbo is just one of them.

It would be great if I could make elixirs myself. There would be no need to sell medicinal herbs to them cheaply and make elixirs for sale, which would be a huge profit.

He also thought about secretly trying to make alchemy, but this thing is a purely manual work with very high technical content. It has always been passed down by word of mouth between master and apprentice. The ingredients of the elixir, the dosage of the herbs, the control of the fire, and the temperature.

There are also secrets of mental skills to grasp. These things are so small that they can be lost by thousands of miles. They cannot be obtained by blindfolding one's head.

It would be a good idea to become a sales agent like Wu Datong, but I don't have his connections, and I don't know what method he used to obtain those pills.

Besides pills, what other options are there?
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