After getting the Qi Gathering Pill, Song Qingming returned to his cave without stopping and began to prepare for a retreat to break through the middle stage of Qi training.
After preparing everything, in order to avoid being disturbed by others, Song Qingming also set up a low-level formation at the entrance of the cave.
After feeling that everything was safe, Song Qingming walked to the center of his cave, sat cross-legged on a cushion, clasped his hands together and practiced the Jingxin Mind Technique to calm his somewhat nervous breath.
Taking out a "Pure Mind Talisman" and sticking it in his hand, and after adjusting himself to the best condition, Song Qingming opened his eyes and looked at the Qi Gathering Pill that he had spent nearly three years' savings to buy.
I said to myself that I must succeed in breaking through this time, otherwise it would take forever for me to make another breakthrough.
Although he had failed once, Song Qingming was still confident in his breakthrough this time. The experience of failed breakthrough would also increase his success rate of breakthrough this time. With the Qi Gathering Pill this time, there should be no big problem in breaking through.
Song Qingming touched the Qi Gathering Pill in his hand, put it into his mouth without hesitation and swallowed it.
Slowly, a powerful spiritual energy came from the body, impacting the meridians and spiritual acupoints in the body.
The Qi Gathering Pill is a top-grade elixir. For Song Qingming, a beginner cultivator, the spiritual energy it contains is enormous.
Such a powerful spiritual energy burst out from the dantian and ran around along the three meridians that had been opened in front. This was also a big test for Song Qingming.
During the Qi Refining stage, each spiritual acupoint opened opens a meridian for absorbing spiritual energy, increasing the body's absorption rate and increasing the capacity of the Dantian. The number of spiritual acupoints and meridians opened by a cultivator determines their cultivation level. When all nine spiritual acupoints and meridians are opened, they reach the peak of the Qi Refining stage - the ninth level of Qi Refining.
There are three levels of cultivators in the Qi Refining Period. The first to third levels are the early Qi Refining Period, the fourth to sixth levels are the middle Qi Refining Period, and the seventh to ninth levels are the late Qi Refining Period. After reaching the ninth level of Qi Refining, if one breaks through further, he can enter the next major realm and become one of the rare Foundation Establishment cultivators here.
However, the vast majority of cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation can only linger in the Qi Refining Stage, and less than one in a hundred can break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage. There are nearly a thousand cultivators in the entire Qinghe County, but there are only six Foundation Establishment cultivators.
The first three spiritual points of a cultivator in the Qi Refining stage are the easiest to open, and the increase in Dantian capacity will not be too much. Starting from the fourth spiritual point, the difficulty increases exponentially. This is also a common phenomenon in cultivation. The higher the difficulty, the greater the reward. Opening up this bottleneck in the middle stage of Qi Refining will also double the Dantian capacity. The same is true for the bottleneck of the seventh spiritual point in the late stage of Qi Refining.
Song Qingming knew very well that the reason he failed to break through last time was because he was unable to gather enough spiritual energy in his dantian, which led to his failure in the final attempt to break through the spiritual cave barrier.
With the experience from last time, he carefully practiced the "Kun Yuan Jue" technique he had practiced for many years to guide the circulation of spiritual energy, and then gradually led this huge amount of spiritual energy from Dantian to the meridians of the fourth spiritual point in his body.
This "Kun Yuan Jue" is just an ordinary earth-attributed technique commonly seen in the Qi Refining Stage, which can only be practiced to the peak of Qi Refining. The clan has all the five elements techniques for the Qi Refining Stage, but the only technique that can be practiced to the Foundation Establishment Stage is the fire-attributed "Chi Yan Jue" practiced by the clan leader and several others.
Song Qingming possesses four spiritual roots. Since the earth attribute spiritual root is better, he chose to practice this technique that is more suitable for his earth attribute.
A few days later, the spiritual energy in Song Qingming's dantian accumulated more and more, and finally formed a powerful torrent, rushing towards the barrier at the meridians.
I seemed to hear a rumbling sound in my head.
Song Qingming felt a roar in his body and a sound in his meridians. Suddenly, he felt a very comfortable feeling all over his body, and the spiritual energy in his dantian increased by more than double.
He slowly practiced the exercises again, and after the spiritual energy circulated in his body for a week, it slowly calmed down. This time, after taking the pill, he finally broke through the middle stage of Qi training and reached the fourth level of Qi training.
After spending half a day stabilizing his cultivation, Song Qingming finally opened the stone door and walked out of the cave. From today on, Song Qingming officially became a cultivator at the middle level of Qi Refining.
After cooking two bowls of spiritual rice in the cave, Song Qingming relieved the hunger caused by the days of seclusion and felt that the speed at which he absorbed spiritual energy had indeed increased by several percent.
After refining the rich spiritual energy in the spiritual rice he had just eaten, Song Qingming began to study various spells that he had longed for in the cave.
In the early stage of Qi Refining, cultivators are not strong enough to gather enough spiritual energy outside their bodies, so they can only cast some low-level spells. If they want to cast higher-level spells, they can only use talismans and other props. The power of these spells is still far different from the spells cast naturally by relying on their own spiritual energy after their cultivation is improved.
When a cultivator reaches the middle stage of Qi Refining, he will have enough spiritual energy to release from his body, allowing him to easily cast various spells, and his combat ability will also increase a lot. Under normal circumstances, the combat ability of a cultivator at the fourth level of Qi Refining will definitely be stronger than that of two cultivators at the third level of Qi Refining combined.
"Entanglement Technique", "Sound Transmission Technique", "Breath Containment Technique", "Earth Spike Technique", "Fire Bomb Technique", "Concentration Technique", "Wind Control Technique", and "Object Control Technique".
The power of these low-level spells depends entirely on the magic power of the caster.
If someone with great supernatural powers were to use it, he could turn thousands of miles of fertile fields into desert and freeze the Yangtze River into glaciers at will.
Of course, this is still a fantasy for Song Qingming, who has just entered the middle stage of Qi Refining. Even though the spiritual energy in his body has reached the middle stage of Qi Refining, it is still very limited. He can only barely cast these low-level spells. If he wants to practice more powerful high-level spells, he has to wait until his cultivation level is higher and the spiritual energy in his body is sufficient.
Song Qingming, who was obsessed with all kinds of new spells, did not leave the cave until half a month later.
A beam of green light flew out from Song Qingming's hand and instantly hit a huge rock more than ten feet away from the cave. After a "bang", a cloud of dust and gravel was raised. After a while, the dust dissipated, and a corner of the huge rock had been cut off by the green light.
Song Qingming changed the spell in his hand, and the green light quickly returned to his front and turned into a blue-black iron sword.
"I've almost mastered the art of controlling the sword and can use it at will."
In half a month, Song Qingming not only successfully cultivated the "Kun Yuan Jue" to the fourth level, but also learned seven or eight low-level spells. Now he can be regarded as a genuine mid-level Qi Refining cultivator.
After Song Qingming put away the flying sword in front of him, he went to the family's treasury to update his cultivation level and received a storage bag that he had long dreamed of.
Storage bags are essential for cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation, but they can only be used after one has learned to release spiritual power at least in the middle stage of Qi Refining. After the cultivator has finished the ritual, he only needs to inject some spiritual power into the storage bag, lock the items, and then they can be automatically put in and taken out.
What Song Qingming received was just an entry-level storage bag with a space of only three feet. Even the lowest-level storage bag was not cheap in the market, and one cost at least ten spirit stones. However, in order to encourage the younger generations of the clan to practice hard, the Song family would give an entry-level storage bag for free to everyone in the clan after they broke through the middle stage of Qi Refining, which was also a reward for them.
After releasing a drop of his own blood essence and merging it into the storage bag, Song Qingming successfully completed the ritual after chanting a few spells. Then he counted all his belongings and put them all into the storage bag.
A low-level black iron sword, a set of low-level five-element formation flags, a few low-level talismans, thirty kilograms of spiritual rice, and a dozen spiritual stones. This is all Song Qingming has now.
Compared with other cultivators in the middle stage of Qi Refining, he doesn't even have a mid-grade magic weapon on him now. He is really poor. Once he encounters a cultivator of the same level and starts a fight with him, he will definitely suffer a great loss.
A mid-grade flying sword in the market costs about thirty spirit stones. I want to exchange for one, but I don’t have enough spirit stones on me.
Now that he had successfully broken through to the middle stage of Qi Refining, the next step was to find a way to earn spirit stones, repay the spirit stones borrowed from Uncle Thirteen and the others, and then slowly equip himself.