Chapter 2: The First Step of Seeking Immortals
() In the early morning, the fiery red sun rises, forming mottled light spots through the trees.
"Hu~hu~"
In the dense forest at the back of Canglong Ridge, a very heavy breathing sound came from the distance. As the distance got closer, a young man was seen hanging upside down from the thick trunk of a big tree. His legs were embedded in the trunk, his hands were clasped behind his head, and his waist was exerting force.
His body stood up instantly, and then, as soon as his muscles relaxed, he was hanging upside down on the tree again.
Repeat in this way, with the waist as the axis and the whole body cooperating, all the muscles of the body can be exercised.
"Seven hundred and nine, seven hundred and ten, seven hundred..." A vague voice came from the young man's throat.
The young man was none other than Liu Tian, the young master of Canglong Ridge who came down the mountain to rob someone in a heroic spirit yesterday.
With such a strong level of training, the muscles all over his body had reached their limit. Liu Tian jumped up and came down from the tree.
"Peng!" "Peng!"
Liu Tian took off the weight-bearing sandbags tied to his arms. After the intense exercise, he did not sit on the ground to rest immediately. Instead, he walked around under the tree to relax his muscles.
It's just that Liu Tian's clothes have long been soaked with sweat, and as soon as his arms move, his bulging muscles will spring up immediately.
"The upside-down golden hooks and sit-ups exercise the same parts of the body. The upside-down golden hooks are more difficult and the actual effect is stronger." Liu Tian thought to himself.
"On to the next training!"
I saw Liu Tian suddenly leaning forward, making a throwing posture towards the front, almost lying on the ground, with his hands on the ground, the toes of his feet on the ground, heaving and falling together, and the muscles on his arms tightened and relaxed.
, exercise regularly.
If anyone sees this scene, they will immediately shout in surprise: "Isn't this a prone charge?"
Yes, Liu Tian was performing the prone sprint, an authentic sport on earth.
Because he is a time traveler!
Fifteen years ago, Liu Tian's soul traveled into this world. He was not as lucky as other time-travelers to become a second-generation rich man or a second-generation official. Instead, he was born as a second-generation gangster.
Fortunately, Liu Tian's father is a bandit leader, and he has lived quite well in the past fifteen years.
What gave him a headache was that the bandit father had been instilling in him the idea of becoming a second-generation bandit since he was a child, and that he would inherit the great land of Canglong Ridge in the future.
Canglong Ridge is backed by a towering mountain range. The terrain here is difficult, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is a good location to dominate the mountain. If you could own such a mountain in your previous life, just tourism would be a huge profit. Liu Tian would definitely
I would support it with both hands.
However, this is a turbulent world where warriors run rampant. If Liu Tieming dies unfortunately, Liu Tian will have to get out of Canglong Ridge in the next second, or else he will be hunted down.
Liu Tian's mother died in childbirth. In this world, he only has a relative like his father, so he cherishes this family relationship very much.
Liu Tieming also had very strict requirements for Liu Tian. He began to practice literature and martial arts since he was eight years old.
Because in this world, if you want to survive better, you must become a strong person.
Liu Tian also lived up to his father's expectations, practiced hard, and showed extraordinary talent.
Warriors practice and refine their bodies to the ninth level.
Liu Tian started practicing martial arts at the age of eight and is now fifteen. It took him seven years to reach the seventh level of physical training, with an average of one level being promoted every year.
This achievement alone cannot be accomplished by ordinary people who have not practiced for twenty or thirty years.
Liu Tian's astonishing cultivation speed can be said to be a rare genius among ordinary people. This made Liu Tieming very proud, and even drunkenly said that he finally had a successor for the territory he had conquered.
However, Liu Tianzhi was not here. He slipped out whenever he had the chance. It was not until the year before last when he was playing down the mountain that he saw a special apprenticeship ceremony.
Something worth pursuing throughout your life.
That is Xunxian!
The so-called "seeking immortals" refers to mortals trying to break through the human body and become immortals and saints in order to pursue the power of immortals.
It is said that immortals can have endless longevity and live forever, and the Eight Immortals Sect is an immortal seeking sect in Pingyang County.
"Xunxian means immortality." When Liu Tian heard this for the first time, he thought he was a liar. It wasn't until he checked some ancient records that he finally figured it out.
Practicing immortality can increase longevity, and immortality is the most ambitious, ideal and high-end level.
But not everyone can find immortality just by asking, it requires conditions!
First of all, one must have the strength of the ninth stage of physical training, reaching the limit of the human body, and then supplementing it with drugs to build the foundation of Dantian, open up the sea of qi, and reach the realm of innate qi training. This is the first step in seeking immortality.
Liu Tian is currently at the seventh stage of body refining, which is two stages away from the ninth stage of body refining. It is not a big difference, but if he wants to join the Xunxian Sect, the requirements are not that simple.
The Eight Immortals Sect recruits disciples who are required to reach the state of innate Qi training before reaching adulthood at the age of sixteen.
A simple sentence, but it contains two important messages.
One is that Liu Tian needs to reach the ninth level of body refining within a year, and the second is to build the foundation of Dantian, open up the sea of qi, and advance to the innate level.
It is almost impossible for ordinary people to reach the ninth stage of physical training before the age of sixteen through self-cultivation.
There has not been one in the entire Pingyang County for more than ten years. It is said that a genius appeared a hundred years ago. He accomplished such a feat and was taken away by the masters of the Xunxian Sect.
It only takes a hundred years for one to appear. With such a high level of difficulty, wouldn’t it take hundreds of years for the Xunxian Sect to recruit a disciple?
The fact is that this is not the case. For example, the Eight Immortals Sect opens a mountain to recruit disciples every year and accepts a group of disciples every year, and these disciples they accept also meet the requirements of the sect for accepting disciples.
Why is this?
This is because almost all of these disciples come from aristocratic families and reach the innate realm through drug-assisted cultivation, rather than through their own cultivation.
Even if children from ordinary families want to use drugs to assist their cultivation, they do not have the conditions and can only rely on their own efforts.
The drugs that assist cultivation are not ordinary drugs, but medicinal materials that can bring the dead back to life in the eyes of mortals.
Such medicinal materials are divided into nine grades, and Grade 1 is the lowest among the grade medicinal materials.
Even the lowest, most common, and cheapest ones cost three to four hundred thousand taels in the world, and they are still priceless and have no market. As soon as someone sells them, they will be bought immediately.
Liu Tian had only seen such medicinal herbs once. There was a first-grade medicinal plant stored in his father's study. That medicinal plant was kept like a treasure by Liu Tieming. Even Liu Tian was not allowed to enter the study without Liu Tieming's permission.
Liu Tian has never taken any medicinal materials since he has been practicing.
Reaching the seventh level of body training in seven years is a good result, but it is not enough. If he wants to join the Eight Immortals Sect, Liu Tian needs to reach the ninth level of body training in one year!
This is very difficult!
According to the normal cultivation speed, it is simply impossible to complete.
Even if Liu Tian is lucky enough to complete it, he still needs to build the foundation of Dantian and open up the sea of qi, so that he can enter the innate realm.
The so-called Dantian foundation building is to use a third-grade medicinal plant or above to build the foundation in the Dantian and open up a sea of qi. Only those who have opened up a sea of qi can practice qi.
There are also successes and failures in Dantian foundation building, and the number of failures is far greater than the number of successes.
If it fails, not only will the medicinal materials be gone, but the Dantian will also be injured to a certain extent.
Therefore, if you are not completely sure, you must not break through easily.
The process of opening up the Qi Sea has been summarized by countless predecessors.
If you want to improve your success rate, in addition to your own talent conditions, there is another very important factor, and that is the grade of the foundation-building medicinal materials!
The foundation-building medicinal materials must be of the third grade or above. The reason why the first- and second-grade medicinal materials cannot be used is because the potency of the medicine is too weak, the possibility of completing the foundation building is very low, and it is easy to damage the Dantian.
It has almost become a consensus to use third-grade or above medicinal materials to build the foundation.
The value of third-grade medicinal materials in the world has reached tens of millions, and they are also valuable but not marketable.
For Liu Tian, he simply couldn't afford something of this value.
Although Canglongling is a business without capital, there are also rules for doing things. They can only rob those businessmen who are rich and ruthless and smuggle secretly, and they are not doing what they want.
In addition, the brothers on the mountain lived a life of drinking heavily, eating meat, and sharing the money. Therefore, even though Liu Tian was the young master of Canglong Ridge, he actually didn't have much money on hand.
I can’t even afford a single low-grade medicinal plant!
"Bah! What bullshit, bullshit!" Liu Tianzheng, who thought he had worked very hard since he was a child, spat in the face of God when he came up with unexpected talents.
A young man's body carries a mature soul, and the experience and lessons of failure in his previous life have taught him profoundly: If a young man does not work hard, he will be miserable.
So he worked very hard in this life, but will he succeed if he works hard?
No, most people who work hard can achieve a certain level of achievement, such as Liu Tian, who worked hard and became a genius boy in the eyes of the bandits in Canglong Ridge.
However, this is not what he wanted, he did not get what he wanted, and hard work does not mean that he can get everything.
Just when Liu Tian was fascinated, cynical, unwilling and indignant, a crisp and wonderful sound came from not far away.
"Brother Liu Tian, where are you?"
Hearing this voice, Liu Tian showed a smile on his face. Not far away, he saw a long, cute and pink-colored little girl who looked about ten years old and was wearing a grass-green skirt.
Looking for him.
This little girl was called Ling'er. Liu Tian accidentally picked it up when she was going down the mountain. She forgot her original name and named her Ling'er because she found a pair of sweet bells on her body.
Liu Tian jumped down from the tree and walked towards Ling'er.
"Brother Liu Tian, why did you keep me calling for so long? Ling'er was waiting outside in a hurry." The girl Ling'er looked at him playfully with a pair of clear and watery big eyes.
A cute little girl, a born beauty, she will definitely be a great beauty when she grows up. Liu Tian will sigh in his heart every time he sees Ling'er, because he also had such a lovely sister in his previous life, so in this life, when he sees her
When the helpless Ling'er was living on the street, he brought Ling'er back without any hesitation.
"Just don't let Ling'er wait for so long next time." Being stared at by a little girl's watery eyes, Liu Tian had no choice but to admit defeat and stroked Ling'er's nose out of habit.
"Brother Liu Tian touched my nose again, which made Ling'er's nose look bad." Ling'er's watery eyes were covered with a layer of mist, and her pear blossoms were filled with tears. She pinched the corners of her clothes with her slender fingers and lowered her head.
The family portrait of the extremely aggrieved little daughter looks like how Liu Tian bullied her.
"Ling'er, don't cry, Ling'er is the most beautiful little girl." Liu Tian said helplessly. Even though he knew it was the little girl's trick, he still jumped in willingly. Who made him like and dote on this sister so much?
"Is Brother Liu Tian telling the truth?" The little girl wiped away her tears in a blink of an eye and asked doubtfully.
"Okay, Ling'er, why did you come to see me?" Liu Tian quickly changed the subject and asked.
"Brother Liu Tian, it's Uncle Tie Ming who's looking for you." Ling'er pouted and finally revealed his purpose.
"Father is looking for me." Liu Tian was startled, then took Ling'er and hurried back to the mountain.
Chapter completed!