Starting Cultivation During a Trip

Chapter 264: Chapter 155: The More the Primordial Spirit Drinks, the More It Has! My Name Is Li Linglang

In the evening, Zhang Fan returned home and instinctively glanced at the calendar hanging on the wall.

In two days, it would be the ninth day of the ninth lunar month.

On this day, it was both his birthday and the death anniversary of his mother, Li Linglong.

According to what Zhang Lingzong said, ten years ago on this very day, Li Linglong died in a car accident.

But now Zhang Fan knew, she actually died ten years ago, that night beneath Dragon Tiger Mountain.

”Mom’s death anniversary is almost here, I wonder if Dad will come back.”

Zhang Fan muttered as he pulled out his phone, tried dialing Zhang Lingzong’s number, but as always, it was turned off.

”Really, no dad and no mom.”

Zhang Fan curled his lips, tossed the banner issued by the Jiangnan Province Daoist Alliance carelessly aside, turned and entered his own room, sat cross-legged in meditation, and began his cultivation.

This was his daily routine.

Ever since leaving Zhenwu Mountain, Zhang Fan had, in just a few short months, jumped directly from Qi Worker, bypassed Technique Apprentice and Profound Master, and entered Spirit Department, leaping four major realms. Besides the fact that his Primordial Spirit was unique, restored and rebuilt like treading a familiar path, what mattered most was his willingness to work hard.

This is the power of cultivating the Divine Demon Holy Embryo—when spirit is full, sleep is forgotten. Anyone who practices this method is virtually immune to sleep; the less they sleep, the more vigorous they become, devoting all their time and energy to cultivation.

To be able to master the Divine Demon Holy Embryo already requires extraordinary talent and luck, one in a million. On top of that, he spends more hours and effort than anyone else. How can an ordinary Daoist even compete?

Zhang Fan focused on his Dantian, embraced unity and entered silence, circulating the North and South Sect Origin technique, his True Yang surging like tides through his body, traversing the Ren and Du Meridians.

In Daoist cultivation, before reaching High Skill, one practices the Minor Circulation Technique, also called Meridian Circulation, to refine essence and transform it into Qi.

As said: Meridian Circulation is at the heart of heaven and earth—in the heavens it is the sun and moon, in man the heart and kidneys, in time it is midnight and noon, in trigrams Kan and Li, in direction North and South.

Minor Circulation: internal Qi runs through Ren and Du Meridians, comes alive at midnight, one Yang is born, essence refined into Qi, nourishing True Yang—that is, True Qi.

After reaching the High Skill stage, True Qi liquefies, flows through the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, and one practices the Grand Circulation method, that is Qi Cultivation and Divinity Transformation.

Beyond this lies the marvels of the Returning Pill, Golden Core method, Yang Spirit Dao, Pure Yang Realm... all manner of profound mysteries, utterly inexhaustible by human effort.

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Zhang Fan’s eyes were half-open half-closed, lids drooping, resembling a clay statue of the gods and Buddhas in a temple.

His breathing stretched long and faint, a breath exhaled forming a single thread, glowing with crimson firelight, like a tiny dragon, weaving between his joined hands.

Fire Dragon Pill Sword—this was the most formidable Daoist skill Zhang Fan currently possessed, and also one of the most advanced Daoist Fire Techniques.

The Daoist Fire Techniques themselves have levels of mastery.

For example, Liu Xingyu’s Crimson Palace Li Fire is of the lowest order, relying even on External Core refinement.

External Core Skill is the use of natural Great Medicine and exotic treasures of heaven and earth to aid cultivation on the Refining Path.

As the saying goes: Borrow a spark of nature’s spirit, in the furnace the pill is refined, ascending to Taiqing.

In the birth of all things, spiritual light enters mountains and seas, forming Great Medicines and nurturing exotic treasures. Ancient Daoists gathered and refined these in their furnaces, striving to create an Immortal Pill, to transcend and become immortal.

Thus, External Core Skill was once very popular, but since it seeks outward, it is like illusions reflected on water; exhaust the mountains and seas, fish the last from the pond—ultimately contrary to nature, so it was gradually replaced by the Inner Core Technique.

Even so, Daoist cultivation often still uses External Core Skill, gathering Great Medicine and exotic treasures to break through realms and hone Daoist skills.

Just like Liu Xingyu’s Crimson Palace Li Fire, which was made using a medicinal herb called Continuing Yang Grass.

This herb grows only in Ailao Mountain of Dian Nan, a place known as a dead end, never open to outsiders. Reportedly, the magnetic fields there are chaotic, even compasses malfunction, strange insects and exotic beasts not seen elsewhere roam, making it very difficult to harvest.

Zhang Fan had read in the Dao Secret Record that the Continuing Yang Grass looks somewhat like wild ginseng on the outside; it’s said to move through the earth on its own, very hard to pick, and only appears three or four months a year.

If you grind the root of Continuing Yang Grass into powder and take it with well water, it can treat infertility; if taken with dew at dawn, it can induce sterility.

Zhang Fan heard that within the Daoist Sect, a single stalk of Continuing Yang Grass can sell for anywhere from thirty to fifty thousand yuan.

Back then, it was with Continuing Yang Grass that Liu Xingyu boosted his Heart Fire, finally cultivating Crimson Palace Li Fire, whose power naturally cannot compare to Zhang Fan’s Fire Dragon Pill Sword.

Zhang Fan’s Fire Dragon Pill Sword is a Pill Fire, cultivated and refined within the body’s Tripod Furnace, birthing marvel on rebirth, its divine power unfathomable—even more fierce than Liu Xingtui’s One Inch of Lamp Light.

Normally, only a High Skill Primordial Spirit transform can withstand such Pill Fire; only with True Yang Liquidation can this kind of fire be produced.

Yet Zhang Fan’s Primordial Spirit, though some part was lost, in terms of strength is comparable to the High Skill stage. Added to that, he has the golden light support of the Mighty Spirit Demon-Suppressing Gold Seal, making up for the lack of True Yang power, so he can achieve True Yang Liquidation and produce Pill Fire.

Hence, now he can fully unleash the power of the Fire Dragon Pill Sword.

”Pill Fire really is incredible.”

Zhang Fan looked at the firelight flowing between his palms, unable to hide his excitement.

This True Flame is a calamity for demons and evil; even Shi Shougong and Su Shiyu, who seized bodies to become demons, must avoid the Pill Fire and dare not touch even a trace of it.

Yet, when this True Flame is in Zhang Fan’s hands, it does him no harm at all; instead, it feels warmly comforting, like sunlight shining on his Primordial Spirit—radiant and magnificent.