Chapter 27: A Small Bottleneck

Chapter 27: The Little Bottleneck

Xu Chuniang shook her head, the big exam was still far away, she’d better follow her study plan.

And the secondary purpose of the big test, is to select the escort for the inner disciples, of course, do not want to be an escort can also, just refuse is.

Techniques have been practiced almost, the next step is to concentrate on cultivation to enhance the cultivation.

Hidden Spirit Decision cultivation has been mastered, the next is to try to cultivate the manifest spirit decision.

The Spirit Manifestation Decree could make one’s cultivation appear to be one level higher than one’s actual cultivation.

In the future, if one encountered a Qi Practitioner with a high level of cultivation and was unable to defeat them, one could still bluff a bit.

Xu Chuniang smiled faintly, sat down cross-legged and began to cultivate.

Cultivation has no age, after entering the state of cultivation, Xu Chuniang, in addition to the daily unchanging two hours of sleep, the rest of the time has always been in meditation and cultivation.

The benefits that Spiritual Soil brought to cultivation were extremely great, and under the dual assistance of Spiritual Dew and Spiritual Soil, Xu Chuniang’s cultivation level rose rapidly. Soon enough, she crossed over the early stage of the third level of qi cultivation and arrived at the middle stage.

After her cultivation had improved, Xu Chuniang didn’t make any stops, and continued to meditate and inhale in a boring and repetitive manner every day.

Apart from going to the Food Hall to replenish her grain pills every time they were consumed, she hardly ever took half a step away from the cave.

Winter to fall, the immortal mountain did not have the change of seasons, but time passed as usual, not slow.

In the blink of an eye, another year has passed.

After her cultivation reached the peak of the third level of qi cultivation, no matter how much Xu Chuniang cultivated, her aura no longer increased.

Xu Chuniang finally stopped cultivating. She knew that this was the first bottleneck on the road to cultivation.

Embarking on the path of cultivation wasn’t difficult, as long as one possessed a spiritual root, one could cultivate. However, wanting to go a long way on the path of cultivation was not an easy task.

In the Qi Practicing Stage alone, there were three small hurdles.

The first one was the fourth level of qi cultivation, the second one was the seventh level of qi cultivation, and the third one, which was also the most difficult one, was the step from the ninth level of qi cultivation to foundation building.

I don’t know how many amazing and talented qi cultivators were stuck at the ninth level of qi cultivation and could not build the foundation for the rest of their lives.

What Xu Chuniang encountered right now was the easiest of the three hurdles.

If there were no accidents, most cultivators would be able to successfully pass through this barrier. It was only the length of time it took that varied from person to person.

Xu Chuniang breathed a light sigh of relief, since cultivation wouldn’t increase her cultivation level, she would just pause for now.

Over the past year, even though she had two hours of rest every day, there was always a sense of urgency in her spirit, telling her not to slack off.

Xu Chuniang had been in the Easy Sect for more than two years now, she was only eight and a half years old when she entered and exited the gate, and now she was already eleven years old.

Under the nourishment of the spiritual qi, she had grown much taller, and her originally yellow and thin skin was becoming increasingly fair and moist. Only the right side of her face, the red birthmark under her eyes, was still as striking as ever, coloring her clear little face with blemishes.

Cultivation reached a bottleneck, Xu Chuniang simply stopped meditating, she planned to go to the outer gate to stroll around.

After coming to the Easy Sect for so long, Xu Chuniang had been busy cultivating, and she hadn’t even been to some of the places in the sect, especially the Multiple Treasure Pavilion on the main peak of the outer sect.

It was said that inside the Multi Treasure Pavilion, there were many spiritual weapons and pills that could only be taken at the middle to late stages of Qi cultivation. Even if she didn’t buy anything, going to open her eyes would be excellent.

Xu Chuniang thought faintly in her heart as she walked towards the main peak, heading straight for the Multi Treasure Pavilion.

The Multi-Treasure Pavilion was a store opened by the sect, where in addition to selling goods, it also collected all sorts of raw materials from the disciples.

Whether it was medicinal herbs, pills, talisman seals, or anything else, as long as the quality passed, the Multi Treasure Pavilion would accept it. This Multi-Treasure Pavilion was built to be very large, and it was still packed with people, very lively, and from time to time, it was also filled with the sound of the disciples bargaining, somewhat like the situation in the mundane world when they were rushing to the market.

The Multi Treasure Pavilion has three floors, the first floor is mostly selling some lower grade medicinal herbs, lower grade talisman seals and poorer formation materials.

Most of the people hovering on this floor were disciples in the early and middle stages of Qi cultivation.

Xu Chuniang looked over one by one, most of the goods sold in the store were ones she didn’t recognize, and only a few that she had read about in her general knowledge classes, or in the Encyclopedia of the Cultivation Realm were barely recognizable.

After strolling around for a while, Xu Chunniang went up to the second floor of the Multi-Treasure Pavilion.

The second floor of the Multi-Treasure Pavilion was a bit less crowded than the first floor, simply because the items sold on the second floor were worth a lot more than the first floor.

Here, most of the people were cultivators in the middle to late stages of Qi cultivation, and not many were in the early stages of Qi cultivation.

Xu Chuniang was almost dazzled when she saw some rare medicinal herbs and special talisman seals, as well as some weapon smithing and array formation materials that she couldn’t even recognize.

When she reached the last counter, she even saw, being sold, lower-grade spirit weapons.

Xu Chuniang walked over to the counter selling spirit weapons and examined them carefully.

“Golden Light Shield, Inferior Grade Spiritual Artifact, after activating it, a golden light shield can appear, able to withstand a blow from a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi cultivation.”

Xu Chuniang took a deep breath, her eyes glowing as she stared at this lower grade spirit artifact named Golden Light Shield, able to withstand a single blow from a mid-stage Qi cultivator, the defensive power was already not bad.

However, after seeing the price of the Golden Light Shield, Xu Chuniang’s excited heart instantly calmed down, actually wanting a whole eighty spirit stones!
At the beginning of the year, she received the last year of the clan’s subsidized spirit stones, combined with the remaining seven spirit stones from last year, she had a total of nineteen spirit stones on her body, and could not afford to buy this golden light cover.

Xu Chuniang shook her head, her gaze falling to the other side of the flying sword that was also a lower-grade spirit weapon.

However, she saw that the price of the flying sword was half as expensive as the Golden Light Shield, priced at one hundred and twenty spirit stones ……

“No wonder the other disciples were so shocked and envious when Qi Haozhi and the others took out their Spiritual Weapons during the year-end examination, Spiritual Weapons are really expensive.”

Xu Chuniang was a bit disillusioned, with this amount of spirit stones in her hand, she could probably only buy some lower-grade herbs or talismans and other cheap goods.

In the end, Xu Chunniang didn’t buy anything and left the Multi-Treasure Pavilion empty-handed. However, this trip wasn’t all for naught, at least she gained a lot of insight.

Originally, she thought that as long as she focused on improving her cultivation and practicing her arts, she would be able to gain a foothold in the outer sects, but now it seemed that there was still a lot to learn.

Not to mention other specialties, but only the spiritual plant husband this one, there are a lot of medicinal herb knowledge to master.

Xu Chuniang simply walked towards the Transmission Pavilion.

In addition to a large number of arts and spells, there were also introductory books for various specialties, which were also priced at five spirit stones a piece.

She was going to buy a book specializing in Spirit Plants, and then look for any suitable attack-type spells.

Most of the spells Xu Chuniang had mastered now were of the auxiliary type, and there was only one attack spell, the Spirit Explosion Technique, which evolved from the Spring Life Technique, and I’m afraid that it wouldn’t be quite enough to use in a real battle.

Xu Chuniang first went to pick up a copy of the Complete Book of First Grade Spiritual Plants before she began to pick them out.

Since she had the highest purity of water-type spirit roots, she ultimately decided to pick a water-type technique.

The Water Arrow Technique was actually similar to the Fireball Technique, and since she had the Spirit Explosion Technique, she didn’t need this type of technique, and could choose a control system technique to match the Spirit Explosion Technique’s execution.

Xu Chuniang thought about it and took down a copy of the Water Binding Technique from the bookshelf.

(End of chapter)