Chapter One Hundred and Ninety Seven – Ningmai! (1/2)

Chapter One Hundred and Ninety Seven – Ningmai!

The ling power inside Zuo Mo’s body was thick like a cloud as it filled his channels. If it was not being channeled they would be abnormally quiet and flow extremely slow as though they hadstopped.

This was a characteristic unique to zhuji ling power. The ling power in Zuo Mo’s body was thick like rain clouds, showing that his cultivation had reached the peak of zhuji.

The reason that his cultivation had grown so rapidly recently was all due to a strange repulsion at the little holes in his dantian. Before, any ling power he absorbed would spill from the little holes. Right now, the holes still existed but the ling power in his dantian would not spill and leave.

Zuo Mo was very suspicious that this strange repelling force was caused by the draw of earth energy away from his body as this began occurring after the earth energy had tempered his body.

However, the mysteries of channels were not something a little person like Zuo Mo could understand. He quickly threw it to the back of his mind and started to cultivate.

The cloud-like ling power relentlessly circulated in his body. Zuo Mo had already maintained this for four hours. His ling power was active while his mind and body were all at their best condition.

He started to charge into ningmai!

All the ling power in his body were roused, they started to flow through the channels at a speed Zuo Mo was familiar with.

Ningmai, or concentrating channels, required condensing the mist-like ling power into liquid form ling power. The simplest way was to continuously absorb ling power thus increasing the density of ling power causing it to condense from gas into liquid.

However, the process was not so simple when this condensation occurred in real life. After one’s cultivation reached the peak of zhuji, they would encounter resistance when they absorbed ling power. If they could not absorb ling power they could not increase the density of ling power.

Many people found themselves stuck at this gate into ningmai.

There were many ways to break through to the stage of ningmai, such as lingdan. The markets would sell Ningmai Dan. The success rate was high but not everyone liked to use them. Different than zhuji, those in ningmai stage started to comprehend the laws of the world. The breakthrough to ningmai was a wonderful opportunity to comprehend all kinds of laws. Xiuzhe who had confidence and high aspirations for themselves usually would not chose the Ningmai Dan but to comprehend by themselves.

Zuo Mo chose to comprehend it himself.

With his present wealth it was very easy to buy a Ningmai Dan, but he was understood that the easier the beginning was the easier it was to trip at later stages. If he walked more steadily at the beginning, even if he suffered more, the beneficial it would be for him later.

He had grown in this half year, and with the recent battle he had grown rapidly.

This kind of growth was not just in cultivation and formations, it was also the growth of his mind. Continuously encountering certain things caused him to understand many things. Even though it was hard to change his habit of taking shortcuts when possible, but regarding cultivation, he was abnormally steadfast.

Carefully channeling the ling power in his body his spiritual leaf hand opened like a flower. Any change in his ling power would be instantly detected by the leaf hand.

Using spiritual power had become Zuo Mo’s instinct. After he started [Embryonic Breathing Spiritual Cultivation] he became used to using his consciousness in any situation.

This habit had given him many benefits. He became even more determined to persist in this habit.

The mist-like ling power continuously magnified in front of his eyes. He could even see tinier wisps of ling power swimming within. They were like a group of tadpoles. They appeared to be one but the interior was made up of countless little entities.

There was a weak attraction between wisps of ling power, but as the ling power in the channels continued to increase there was a kind of repulsion that occurred between the ling power. The amount of ling power in the channels had reached a limit!

For some reason, Zuo Mo suddenly thought of Wu Kong Mountains, thought of the time that he had been farming in ling fields at Wu Kong Mountain.

A faint sorrow slowly flowed at the bottom of his heart. The ling power inside his body seemed to feel his emotions and instantly slowed down.

It took only a short while for Zuo Mo to fight his way out of the sadness. The world could not be predicted. He had started to learn how to deal with these emotions. He didn’t hold any hatred towards Wu Kong Sword Sect. The sect leader’s choice was not wrong at the core. With the exception of a few conservative and extremely old sects the great majority of sects were extremely mobile.

He just had never thought this would happen to him.

Focusing Zuo Mo controlled his thoughts and brought his attention back on his ling power.

He knew why he would suddenly recall farming ling fields on Wu Kong Mountain. The mist made him think of [Little Art of Cloud and Rain].

He was so familiar with the [Little Art of Cloud and Rain] he couldn’t be any more familiar. It was the spell out of the five basic spells that he had the deepest comprehension of. For a long time, he had relied on it to not starve.

Wasn’t the the process of ningmai just transforming water element power to rain?

The [Little Art of Cloud and Rain] required first to use the spell to gather water element power. When the power reached a certain level, it would form water drops and fall as rain, nurturing the ling fields.

The two were so similar!

How did ling rain form? Zuo Mo was too familiar. In the past, in order to study the [Little Art of Cloud and Rain], he almost took apart everything in the the [Little Art of Cloud and Rain].

Water element power was invisible and intangible. It could not directly turn to water drops. There were two requirements: one was having enough water element power, the other was collisions. The water element power had to collide among themselves. Only through mutual collisions to overcome the repulsion between the water element power could water drops form. The water drop would increase in size and condense in the air.

One way worked so it worked for ten thousand problems.

Zuo Mo’s thoughts became abnormally clear and he was very confident that his direction was not wrong.

Since the ling power in his body had reached a limit and no matter how he tried, he could not absorb any more ling power, then what he needed to do now was to cause the ling power to collide.

To cause the collisions in [Little Art of Cloud and Rain], Zuo Mo used turbulence in the air. The changes in air flow would cause the water element power to continuously collide.

Naturally, this method would not work on ling power. Other than ling power, the channels did not contain anything else.

His direction was not wrong. What he had to find now was a realistic method.

After thinking for a while, he thought of a way. Smashing ling power!

If he split his ling power into two parts and then made them smash into each other at high speeds, would that accomplish the effects of a collision?

His mind became alert. It would be difficult for others to use their mind for two things at once, but hepossessed the leaf hand, it wasn’t a problem.