Mortals ask the immortals

Duan Qing returned to his bamboo cabin silently. He did not go to Senior Sister Lu Ying again. The answer he wanted to know had been obtained from Second Senior Brother, although the answer was quite shocking.

Everyone hopes that they are unique and the best, whether in appearance or other aspects.

Duan Qing grew up in Xiao'an City. Duan's father and Duan's mother were both gentle and easy to deal with. Duan Qing also inherited his parents' gentle personalities and worked as a busboy in the inn for so many years. He has never had a red face or quarrel with anyone, so he is not as competitive as other young people.

Take appearance for example, there are many good-looking people in this world, but he never feels anything awkward about his appearance. Although he is not as handsome as Wu Xiucai, at least he still has a nose. Eyes are still eyes, not too long, not too long, or crooked.

Now he has arrived at Jin Xuanzong through great luck. Although he did not expect to be the type of peerless genius, he was told that his qualifications were average and ordinary. It would take twice as long as others, or even longer, to achieve it. In the same state, Duan Qing couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.

However, he still won't dig into the bull's horns if he feels uncomfortable. After so many years in Xiao'an City, he has also understood two words, contentment. Only when you are content can you always be happy. Compared with Uncle Wang and Wu Xiucai who don't know whether they live or die, he is so lucky. Ah, at least I am still alive and breathing, and even unexpectedly got the opportunity to practice under Jin Xuanzong, what else can I be dissatisfied with!

So in the next few days, Duan Qing practiced hard. During this period, senior sister Lu Ying came once, left more than twenty spiritual stones and another jade slip, and then left again.

After using the third spiritual stone on the third day, he could finally feel the presence of spiritual energy in the sea of ​​​​qi. Although it was very weak, it made him excited for a long time. This meant that his efforts were not in vain, and his practice was still Effective.

After that, he practiced almost day and night. When he was hungry, he would eat a Bigu Pill given to him by Senior Sister Lu Ying and drink some water. He spent almost all the rest of his time practicing.

During this period, when he was practicing with the spirit stone, he discovered that just as Senior Sister Lu Ying said, as soon as he began to absorb the spirit energy of the spirit stone, a small amount of the spirit energy would continue to escape and be lost through the spirit binding patterns, and only most of it would be absorbed into his body.

Late at night on the twenty-first day, he held the last spiritual stone in his hand. His body kept breathing in and out, and his chest suddenly swelled like a bellows. The spiritual energy in the sea of ​​​​qi gradually gathered, and spiritual energy continued to flow from the meridians into the sea of ​​​​qi. Finally, The spiritual energy mass gathered in the air sea began to rotate slowly, driven by the continuous spiritual energy.

Two streams of turbid air were exhaled from his nose. Duan Qing opened his eyes excitedly. The spiritual energy formed a whirlpool and gathered together but never dispersed. This is exactly how the first level of Qi training is described in the art of inducing energy!

Haha, he finally succeeded. Duan Qing was extremely excited at the moment, feeling the small cyclone in the sea of ​​​​qi. Although it is still very weak and inconspicuous, it indicates that he has finally taken the first step on the road of cultivation. .

He jumped up from the bed excitedly, and then he noticed a layer of black sweat on his body. Is this the body impurities that are discharged every time a layer is broken through in the Yin Yuan Technique?

Now he really felt as if his body had become lighter and his movements were full of strength.

Although it was late at night and he couldn't see anything in the room, he could roughly see things in the room clearly, which he had never seen before.

But the sticky feeling on his body was too uncomfortable, so he rinsed it off with water.

After taking a shower, Duan Qing could not calm down his excitement for a long time. He had never been a lazy person and did not want to relax. He was ready to pursue the victory and continue to practice. However, after rummaging around on the bed, he found that all the spiritual stones were used up.

He had just tasted the benefits of cultivation, but now he couldn't practice. He felt a little itchy and unbearable for a while!

Suddenly he thought of something. The master didn't take away the storage bag left by Ma Liang last time and said he would use it soon. He kept this bag for himself. Now he has cultivated it to the first level of Qi training. Let's see if he can Open.

He remembered to put the storage bag under his pillow together with his rag bag. Sure enough, he took out his rag bag from under the pillow and poured out the contents, including a small jug of wine. , the unknown metal, a used spiritual stone, and... . A dark green storage bag tied with a golden rope.

The last time Senior Sister Lu Ying came, in addition to the spirit stones, she also sent a jade slip. Duan Qing also took the time to read the jade slip. It recorded a practice miscellaneous note, which included the world of immortality and spiritual practice. Common sense, the medicinal properties and identification methods of some common elixirs, several spells that can be practiced during the Qi refining period, etc., including the method of opening the storage bag.

According to the above statement, the storage bag usually has a seal blessed by the owner. If you don't know the seal, it cannot be opened. If you open it forcibly, the contents will only flow into an unknown space and will never be available again.

However, if the owner dies, the seal on it will dissipate and it will become an ownerless storage bag. This kind of storage bag can be opened as long as there is spiritual power.

Duan Qing picked up the bag and tried to inject spiritual power into it. Suddenly, a picture appeared in his mind.

It was a space about one foot square, gray, and the most conspicuous thing inside was the pile of bright spiritual stones, about dozens of them, and a few neat pieces of white jade placed next to the spiritual stones. , all that's left are a few bottles, Taoist robes and other things.

He could get the things in the bag by just reaching into it. He took out a piece of snow-white jade from it. It was a little cold. This should be the snow jade that Brother Ma Liang found for Senior Sister Luying, Duan Qing thought.

Senior Sister Luying and Second Senior Brother should not know the news of Brother Ma Liang's death, otherwise there would not be no movement until now. Master must have his considerations for doing this.

Looking at the snow jade in his hand, Duan Qing decided to wait until Master Sanyan Zhenren told Senior Sister Luying the truth before giving it to her. Otherwise, it would be difficult for him to explain the origin of the snow jade to her.

He sighed, put the snow jade back, and took out a spirit stone from the bag. Looking at the crystal spirit stone, he didn't know why he should be happy to have so many spirit stones at once, but he couldn't be happy at this time.

However, it was indeed much more convenient to have a storage bag. He put the black pot under the bed that he had been reluctant to throw away and his broken bag into the storage bag, then took out a few spiritual stones from it and placed them next to the pillow, picked up one and started practicing again.

A few days passed like this, and no one came to disturb Duan Qing. Master Sanyan Zhenren had never seen him since he brought him to Yanfeng.

Hearing from Senior Sister Luying that the second senior brother was a cultivation madman, he felt that what she said was true after seeing him once that day.

For some reason, Senior Sister Luying had never come since she sent the spiritual stones last time. He heard from Senior Sister that there was a third senior brother who was now on duty in the mining area. He didn't know where the mining area was, but it should not be on Yanfeng.

So there were actually only four people in the entire Yanfeng, including him. He had never stayed alone for so long, but fortunately he had a fulfilling life. With plenty of spiritual stones, he devoted almost all his time to cultivation every day.

The cyclone in Duan Qing's Qi Sea is now obviously bigger than a few days ago, but it is still far from the second level of Qi training. The spirit stones he took out a few days ago have been used up.

He took out a few more from the storage bag to practice, but Duan Qing was a little surprised when he saw the spirit stones in his hand. He saw that one of the spirit stones was already full of cracks, which was obviously a sign of exhaustion of spiritual energy.

He felt a little puzzled. Did he take the one in the rag bag? He quickly opened the storage bag and took out his rag bag and fumbled around. He took out a waste spirit stone from it. It was the first spirit stone he had put in there and used!

At that time, he thought it was very rare and put it in his rag bag without throwing it away, but it is still there now! What about the other spirit stone that was obviously used?

Did he remember it wrongly? This used spirit stone was originally in the pile of spirit stones, but he didn't notice it last time?

He thinks this possibility is also possible.

Reluctantly convincing himself, Duan Qing put the first used spiritual stone back into the bag, and as for the new one taken out of the bag, he threw it at the foot of the bed together with the ones used during this period.

Duan Qing was stunned just after putting the rag bag in. He was just anxious to take out his rag bag to check, and did not look carefully at the situation in the bag. He saw that there were still a few gray spiritual stones in the pile of crystal spiritual stones, with cracks on the surface, obviously losing all their spiritual energy.

No, no, he thought about it carefully again.

When he opened Ma Liang's bag for the first time, he did not see these spiritual stones that had exhausted their spiritual energy.

If he did not see one, he could explain that he did not pay attention at that time, but now there are so many, about one-tenth of the total number are used spiritual stones. Unless he has a pair of chopsticks stuck in his eyes, it is absolutely impossible that he did not find these used spiritual stones.

There must be other reasons. Could it be that the spiritual stones placed in the bag will dissipate their spiritual energy by themselves?

That's not right. It was more than a month between when he got the bag from Brother Ma Liang and when he opened it for the first time. He didn't see anything when he opened it for the first time. Could it be that something went wrong in these few days?

Duan Qing thought about it. He hadn't opened the bag in the past few days, and nothing special had happened, except that he put something in it last time. . . Oh, could it be the things he put in there that caused it? He suddenly thought of it.

He looked into the bag. He had only put two things in it last time, the black pot and his rag bag. The black pot and the rag bag shouldn't be possible. These were all ordinary things he brought out of Xiao'an City.

The problem might be with the things in the rag bag!

He took out the rag bag and poured out everything in it.

There weren't many things in it, just three. The most conspicuous one was the Qin wine given by his father, and then the first spiritual stone he had used.

Finally, there was the unknown metal found in front of Ma Liang's grave.

He had kept it in his rag bag since he got it, and he took it out to study it several times on the road. Except that it was much heavier than ordinary gold, it was almost the same as ordinary gold in other aspects, and he did not find any other abnormalities.

Duan Qing sat cross-legged on the bed, looking at the three things in front of him and thinking. Qinjiu was brought out from Xiaoan City, so it could almost be ruled out. As for the used spirit stone, he thought it was unlikely. During this period, a pile of used spirit stones were piled at the foot of his bed, and he did not find anything abnormal.

Then the most likely one should be this mysterious metal, if his guess was correct!