C5 Inspiration

Early in the morning, on the edge of a cliff, Shibao sat cross-legged on the ground, with his eyes slightly closed. He looked peaceful and calm, and from time to time, he would say something.

"The heavens and the earth are opened, the stars are the heavenly stars. Borrowing the light, the seven stars redeem the spirit ..."

After the time it takes to burn an incense stick, Shibao frowned slightly. There was sweat on his forehead, as if he was thinking about something, but also as if he was enduring something.

However, he was still chanting incantations.

After the time it took to make a cup of tea, Shibao's brows were tightly knitted together. Beads of sweat were already rolling down his forehead, and his face was twitching. It was as if the beads of sweat could fall at any moment.

Suddenly, a drop of sweat the size of a bean fell down from his forehead to his neck.

Shibao suddenly opened his eyes and stood up while panting a little. He turned his head abruptly, grabbed the secret manual that was beside him, squeezed it hard and threw it out.

He scolded with an angry face: "What the hell is going on? Inspiration! Inspiration! Damned Elder Lin, are you kidding me? Why can't I do what the book says about inspiration? Could it be that I am too stupid and have no reason ..."

After complaining for half a day, Shibao finally sighed. He lowered his head and picked up the manual with his tail between his legs. Then he started to read it again.

After a few days of research, there was still some progress. Otherwise, Shibao wouldn't have lost his temper here.

An hour later, Shibao raised his head and seemed to be lost in thought. His eyes were a little blurry, and he seemed to be in deep thought.

At the same time, he put down the secret manual in his hand and sat down cross-legged. He closed his eyes and thought to himself.

The so-called inspiration meant that the consciousness and body would return to a natural state at the same time. In this natural state, the senses of the human body would be activated, and with an unspeakable feeling hidden in the consciousness of the human body, it would open up the various meridians in the body. With this as the foundation, one would feel the elemental spiritual energy between heaven and earth, draw it into one's body, and then slowly hone the bones and cut the meridians. After circulating it through the meridians, it would be refined into pure spiritual energy for one's own use, and then it would be stored in the dantian.

"Heaven and earth are the same, desolate and seven stars; purple clouds rise, reverse the universe..."

Shibao began cultivating the Seven Stars Technique from the very beginning, abandoning the distracting thoughts and negative emotions in his heart, and perceiving the spiritual energy of the world.

Shibao slowly entered a state of mind without any distractions. Without any intuition, Shibao seemed to fall asleep, but he was conscious that he did not fall asleep, but entered a special state, an indescribable state.

After about an hour, Shibao, who had been sitting still like a boulder, couldn't help but frown. He seemed to have felt something, and then, a trace of doubt and confusion appeared on his face.

At this moment, Shibao could vaguely feel that the space around him seemed to be filled with something that was of various colors and looked like fog yet wasn't fog, constantly flowing in the space.

Those things were very thin, so thin that normal people wouldn't be able to notice them at all.

But for some reason, as described in the book, Shibao was able to sense and circulate his meridians and senses, but he was able to sense something that was invisible to the naked eye, which was very strange.

At this moment, Shibao was sitting there with an expressionless face, but his heart was filled with excitement.

However, in the next moment, this excitement was forcefully suppressed by him. He knew that the fog that he was sensing right now was the spiritual qi mentioned in the book.

That meant that he had entered the initial stage of the Sensory Perception. However, this was the most critical moment. If he was careless, all his previous efforts would be wasted, and he would have to start over again.

Shibao carefully controlled his thoughts, and slowly guided the spiritual Qi of various colors into his body.

When the spiritual qi entered his body, Shibao immediately felt as if there was something extra in his body. Along with a cool feeling, his entire body seemed to be filled with energy, causing him to feel extremely comfortable and energetic.

Shibao circulated the technique recorded in the beginning of the Seven Stars Technique, guiding the spiritual energy mentioned in the book into his dantian over and over again.

After about the time it took for an incense stick to burn, Shibao felt a swelling pain coming from his dantian. It was getting stronger and stronger.

At this moment, he realized that his dantian could no longer absorb any more spiritual energy. He stopped the circulation of his martial art according to the book. After two breaths, the remaining spiritual energy was returned to his dantian. After one small cycle, the absorption of spiritual energy stopped.

Shibao slowly opened his eyes and let out a sigh. He slowly stood up, clenched his fists, and felt the strength in his body.

"So this is inspiration. What a strange feeling. The vague feeling in my dantian, is this the spirit energy refined from the spirit energy recorded in the book? Could it be that the true qi of martial artists has different names? " Shibao muttered to himself in confusion.

However, at this moment, what Shibao did not know was that the direction in which he was cultivating was the complete opposite of that of martial artists, and that he was destined to not be able to walk the ignorant path of martial arts in his heart.

After that, Shibao took out the secret manual that he had translated and continued to immerse himself in studying.

Not long after, Shibao jumped up, helplessly sighed and shook his head as if he had not figured anything out.

After cultivating like this for half a month, Shibao could already clearly feel the spiritual energy in his dantian gradually thicken. It was no longer that vague feeling.

Moreover, Shibao had a vague feeling that he was about to reach the first level of the Seven Stars Technique, as recorded in the Seven Stars Technique.

However, Shibao was only happy for a moment, and he did not feel any sense of pride. He knew that he had only just started his path of cultivation, and could not compare to those heroes who had cultivated for decades.

After all, this kind of thing couldn't be done in one bite. It had to be done slowly. The more impatient one was, the slower one would cultivate.

...

Shibao woke up early in the morning. Just as he was about to meditate and cultivate, he felt an abnormal hunger.

"Goo, goo ..." A light sound came from Shibao's stomach.

Shibao frowned, and after thinking for a while, he decided to change his habits in the future. It wouldn't be too late for him to go cultivate after eating the fruits.

Perhaps, because he was full, it would be easier for him to cultivate.

Yes, that's it.

Without thinking too much, Shibao walked to the side of the cave and picked a few Green and Red Fruits from the vines. As if he had put in a lot of courage, he quickly put them into his mouth, closed his eyes, and ate the Green and Red Fruits in his hand.

Why did Shibao show such a reaction?

It turned out that it wasn't because Shibao was worried about the Green and Red Fruit being poisonous. On the contrary, he had been eating the Green and Red Fruit for the past half a month, so there was nothing wrong with eating it.

However, what made Shibao so helpless was that although the Green and Red Fruit looked very sweet, the actual texture was sour and astringent.

Over the past half month, eating the Green and Red Fruit had been a completely cruel torture for Shibao. It could be imagined that his hatred for Lin Yuanfu was growing by the day. He did not know how he would face Lin Yuanfu after he left this place.

Although the Green and Red Fruit was extremely sour, it was fortunate that it was not poisonous. There was no other food to eat here, so the Green and Red Fruit was undoubtedly the only food available. Shibao had no choice but to bite down on it.

After enjoying the sourness in his hands, Shibao sat down cross-legged and began to cultivate.

He silently circulated the Seven Stars Technique. Just as he was about to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy, he suddenly felt a strange change in his stomach.

A burning sensation slowly rose up in his stomach, but it did not spread out through other places. It lingered in his stomach without entering or exiting, causing Shibao to feel extremely uncomfortable and break out in a cold sweat.

At this moment, before Shibao could even react, he felt that the Seven Stars Technique he was using at this moment did not seem to be actively absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy like last time. Instead, it was communicating with his stomach through his veins, as if it was suppressing the burning sensation.

Shibao secretly heaved a sigh of relief. However, after a short while, Shibao's eyes lit up, as if he had realized something, and he immediately sped up the circulation of the Seven Stars Technique.

The burning sensation subsided, and not long after, Shibao stopped operating his martial arts. His eyes opened slowly, and there was a hint of fanaticism and excitement in them.

"As I expected, the burning sensation was not suppressed by the Seven Stars Technique. Instead, it was due to the spiritual energy contained within the Green and Red Fruit. When I was circulating the Seven Stars Technique, for some unknown reason, the spiritual energy slowly spread out in my stomach. This also meant that the reason why there was no spiritual energy leaking out after eating the Green and Red Fruit was because of this. So that's how it was! So that's how it is!

The spiritual qi contained within it was guided out by the Seven Stars Technique and then refined into pure spiritual energy by the Seven Stars Technique. Thus, my cultivation progress is much faster than absorbing the spiritual qi of heaven and earth. That's great! This is great! Hahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

After thinking about it, Shibao wanted to pick a few Green and Red Fruits to test his guess, but due to the pain from cultivating his dantian today, everything had a limit. If he continued, his dantian would very likely explode from the spiritual qi, and that would be too unfair.

Since he couldn't cultivate the Seven Stars Technique for the time being, Shibao had nothing else to do, so he picked up the ancient book and began translating and studying it.

Although Shibao believed that his translation would not be wrong, it was hard to guarantee that during the process of translation, he would misinterpret some of the difficult parts of the cultivation technique. If that happened, it would be too tragic, and he might even go berserk and become a cripple.

Thinking of this, Shibao couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

Two hours later, Shibao, who was looking at the secret manual of the Seven Stars Technique, had a serious expression on his face. It was as if he had encountered something difficult.

At last, Shibao gently put down the manual in his hand and slowly stood up. He paced back and forth, his eyes focused and his eyebrows furrowed, as if he was making a decision.

At this moment, at the place where Shibao had just sat, a gust of wind blew. The paper on the seven-star secret manual trembled, and a piece of white paper was lifted up.

On the blank paper, the ink had not completely dried up. It was obvious that it had just been written, and there were only two words written on it - Heart Refining!

...

In the Earth City, two young men and women dressed in black were standing outside the tightly shut door of the Lin's Pawnshop.

The two of them were none other than the man and woman who called themselves Saber Servant in the mysterious dark secret room.

After a long while, the two of them turned their heads to look at each other at the same time. They saw a trace of hesitation in each other's eyes.

The Saber Servant opened his mouth and was about to say something when an old voice sounded, "Since you are here, come in ..."

If Shibao had been here, he would have been able to recognize that the old voice belonged to Lin Yuanfu. The only difference was that the voice revealed a different kind of vigor and vigor.

The Saber Maids nodded at each other and walked towards the pawnshop.

Squeak...

With the sound of the door opening, Saber Servant and Saber Maid walked into the pawnshop.

After that, with a clang, the door closed tightly.