FVN Chapter 56 Huang Dehou's Foundation Building
Chapter 56 Huang Dehou's Foundation Building
The flow of earth vein energy is extremely slow. Unlike the lively and surging spiritual energy, it is like a sleeping giant python slowly turning over.
As it travels along Shenqing's meridians, it brings a tingling and numb sensation.
Shen Qing resisted the urge to rush out, letting the heavy aura slowly accumulate below his dantian.
Then he tried to use his own spiritual power as a guide to direct this earth vein energy into his dantian. According to the principle of the spiritual field opening method, the earth vein energy permeated the mortal field and changed the soil quality.
In the human body, this means using the earth's energy to nourish the dantian and change its quality.
However, as soon as the spiritual energy in Shen Qing's dantian touched the earth's vein energy, the strong confidence receded like a tide, and he failed.
Shen Qing opened her eyes and moved one leg a few times to loosen her numb knee.
This failure was within his expectations. The nature of the earth's energy was completely different from his own spiritual energy. One was heavy and earthy, while the other was lively and light. A head-on collision would only result in mutual repulsion.
Shen Qing readjusted his posture, his legs sinking into the soil again. With the experience from last time, the earth's energy surged back quickly.
Shen Qing began his second attempt, which involved using the earth's energy to nourish his dantian and improve its quality.
However, when the local air approached his dantian, it triggered the spiritual energy within, causing a violent collision between the two, and Shen Qing failed once again.
Shen Qing sat silently by the pit for a long time. The two failures made him realize several things.
Earth vein energy is not spiritual energy; the two are fundamentally different, and forcibly drawing them together will inevitably cause them to repel each other.
At the same time, the earth's energy and spiritual energy are ultimately very different, and the earth's energy is not as easy to absorb as spiritual energy.
In addition, there is a more fundamental issue: the human body is not a field, and the dantian is not ordinary soil.
The Spirit Field Opening Method uses an array to confine the earth's energy within the field, allowing the two to naturally merge over a long period of time.
However, the spiritual liquid in the dantian is highly compressed spiritual energy. This thing is very delicate and does not allow other types of energy to easily enter it.
It's not that the technique is wrong, it's that the approach needs to be changed.
Shen Qing wiped the dirt off his face, stood up again, and changed his approach.
Instead of viewing the earth's energy as something to be captured, he actively emptied his mind and channeled a wisp of spiritual liquid from his dantian into the soil beneath his feet through his meridians.
The spiritual liquid lost control as soon as it left the body, but in that instant, as the spiritual liquid brushed past the earth's energy, Shen Qing felt a faint resonance between the two.
Like two bells of different pitches being blown by the same gust of wind, each makes a different sound, yet they can intertwine in the air to create a harmonious chord.
Shen Qing suddenly had a flash of inspiration and felt like she understood.
What he needed to do was not to absorb the earth's energy into his dantian, but to first "inform" the earth of his existence and resonate with the entire root of Qingyun Mountain.
Having understood this principle, Shen Qing no longer hesitated. He gritted his teeth and drew out all the spiritual liquid in his dantian, pouring it into the depths of the earth along the meridians of his legs.
This was an extremely extravagant attempt. One liter of spiritual liquid was the culmination of a day's hard work. If he failed, all his hard work that day would be for naught.
The spiritual liquid enters the soil and comes into extensive contact with the earth's energy.
At first there was only a faint resonance, then the resonance gradually increased and deepened, and finally the entire ley line was like a giant beast being awakened, slowly opening its eyes from its slumber.
A powerful pulse rose from within the mountain. Shen Qing's eyes lit up, and he quickly guided the liquid upstream along its path, through the Yongquan acupoint, past the Sanyinjiao acupoint, and into the dantian. This time, the dantian did not reject it.
Shen Qing held his breath, letting the powerful and profound energy from the root of his mountain flow into his dantian.
The spiritual mist in the dantian surged violently the moment it came into contact with the earth's energy, like boiling water being boiled in a pan of oil.
Shen Qing felt a jolt throughout his body, and then fine beads of blood seeped from the surface of his skin, a throbbing pain from the expansion of his meridians.
Shen Qing gritted his teeth and silently circulated the complete incantation of the "Azure Cloud Qi Refining Technique," guiding the heavy Qi to slowly settle in his dantian over and over again.
After an unknown amount of time, sunlight began to stream in through the gap in the mountain valley; it was past noon.
Shen Qing finally awoke from his meditation, but the changes in his body were astonishing. The spiritual liquid in his dantian, which had already liquefied, was much purer than the spiritual mist. Now, after being soaked in the earth's energy, it became even more concentrated than before.
Shen Qing tried to circulate the "Qi Concealing Technique". The cultivation aura that he used to need to concentrate to suppress was now easily contained with just a slight push.
It wasn't that his control had suddenly improved, but rather that the elixir itself had become more "docile".
"The earth's energy is indeed a good thing."
Shen Qing got up and stretched his limbs, then looked at the pit he had dug himself.
We've overcome the first hurdle, but success is still a long way off.
The spiritual liquid in my body is not even half liquefied yet. Although the earth vein energy can strengthen the foundation and improve the quality of the spiritual liquid, it cannot directly increase cultivation level. Cultivation still depends on the system to extract spiritual energy to compress the spiritual mist.
At the current pace, filling the dantian before the Huang family takes action is still a drop in the ocean.
However, this was only the first step in his experiment, to verify that this path was feasible.
Further plans will have to wait until the spiritual liquid has been further refined.
Shen Qing pulled his legs out of the pit, vigorously rubbed his face with the spring water seeping from the mountain wall, casually cleaned up the mud covering his body, and quietly returned to the quiet room along the path.
Huang Family Ancestral Hall.
Deep within the secret chamber, Huang Dehou slowly opened his eyes. He had been sitting cross-legged on this spiritual eye for several days, and the spiritual energy in his dantian had been repeatedly tempered to reach the peak of his life.
When bodily functions are adjusted to their optimal state, the mind is calm, and breathing is long and steady.
He had waited too long for this day. With his mixed spiritual roots of three different types, it was no easy feat to have reached this point in the remote and impoverished Qinghe County.
This is inseparable from the foundation laid by his father, who used all the accumulated wealth of his ancestors to build up his foundation. Now, for Huang Dehou, the foundation building is no longer an unattainable dream.
He took the Foundation Establishment Pill, about the size of a longan, from the sandalwood box and put it in his mouth without giving it another glance.
The pill melts instantly upon entering the throat, its immense medicinal power surging down the meridians and rushing straight into the dantian.
The spiritual energy in the dantian, which had been repeatedly purified, ignited violently the moment it came into contact with the medicinal power, and began to rush toward a certain critical point.
Following his ancestral method, Huang Dehou guided the powerful medicinal energy to slowly rotate within his dantian, rotating faster and faster until it formed a violently surging vortex of spiritual energy. With each rotation, more spiritual energy was extracted from his dantian and flowed into the vortex.
But that critical point has never arrived. For cultivators, Foundation Establishment is a qualitative change that transcends the mortal and immortal realms. The most crucial step in this qualitative change is not the compression and transformation of spiritual energy, but the comprehension of "Tao and Principle".
While the transformation of bloodline, consciousness, and meridians certainly requires spiritual energy as fuel, the spark that ignites that fuel is not spiritual energy itself, but the cultivator's understanding of heaven and earth.
Spiritual energy is merely the fuel; the Dao and reason are the spark that ignites it. No matter how much fuel there is, it is all in vain without a spark. Conversely, the purer the spark, the brighter the fuel burns, and the more solid the foundation of the Dao will be after the Foundation Establishment.
However, comprehending "the Way and the Principle" is by no means easy.
This is a cultivator's understanding of the workings of heaven and earth during their cultivation process; it is the resonance between the cultivator's own soul and this world.
The more a cultivator resonates with the origin of heaven and earth, and the deeper their understanding of heaven and earth, the more resonance of the power of heaven and earth they can draw upon during the foundation-building process, thus forging a more perfect foundation for their Dao.
The depth of this process depends not only on the cultivator's comprehension, but also on the depth of their own foundation.
Physical body and spiritual energy quality are like containers; the larger and stronger the container, the more it can withstand deeper resonance with the universe without being destroyed by it.
The two complement each other.