Chapter 75 Suffer the Unspeakable Misery (2/2)

After all, the Huandan cultivators were not coolies who have all the time in the world to spend so much energy in making talismans for the usage of their juniors.

Also, it was a labor to be collecting the Yin Jade from the River of Spirits. Shen Lian was really feeling right now.

The last time he came in contact with some water of the River of Spirits, there was a gut-wrenching pain in his spirit.

The Yin Jade was on the bottom of the river, even his ebony sword could not pick it up.

Of course, even if he could, he would not be doing so, or even cracking his brain to look for other methods of collection, because he already knew the headmaster's purpose.

Shen Lian stripped himself of his clothes and dived into the River of Spirits. The water seeped into his flesh and constantly eroded his spirit.

Shen Lian could use his powerful psyche to cut off the pain of the flesh but there was no other way that would work on the immense pain in his spirit. He could only bear with it as it is.

When Shen Lian dived into the river water, even though he was in a lot of pain, with colossal determination, he used the Mastery of Senses to have this spirit go to all parts of the vessels and meridian points like the inner Qi. It consumed the essence and Qi of vitality of the flesh to replenish the spirit that was eroded away by the river water.

After one trip, even though Shen Lian's spirit was weak, but the connection with his flesh was becoming tighter.

The difficult part was that he had to divide some of his attention to look for the Yin Jade that was on the bottom of the river.

Because the pain in his spirits would not disappear due to the closeness of the connection between his spirit and flesh.

Simultaneously, if his spirit did not consume the essence of the flesh and the inner Qi, there was a possibility that he might hurt its root and not be able to hold out for a moment in the River of Spirits.

When he finally caught onto a piece of Yin Jade, Shen Lian swam with all he got and got onto the shore as he was reaching his limits.

A feather could sink in the River of Spirit, so when he was in the middle of the river, he would not be half floating and half sinking and be rushed away by the river waters.

This helped him lessened most of Shen Lian's troubles.

Of course, he was afraid that no living flesh would want to train their swimming skills in the River of Spirit.

Even if there was the Gang Qi shield all over his body, he could not cut off the river water. Shen Lian speculated that even the Huandan cultivators with their strong spirits would still feel the pain when they enter the river.

Once he got up to the shore, there was hardly any inner Qi left in his body. Luckily in Qing Xuan, even the area with the weakest Qi of vitality had more of it compared to the ordinary world.

Shen Lian used the Xuanji martial art and the Qi of vitality came pouring into his body.

His eight vessels were clear and the Xuanji martial art woken up the many meridian points of the body and connected it to a network, which allowed it to refine the Qi of vitality with great efficiency.

Once his vessels were connected, the so-called Qiaodong was not the ordinary orifices points but the 'awakened entrance', also known as the 'life and death entrance.'

The Daoist scriptures mentioned that 'understanding one entrance would connect a thousand entrance, once accomplished it would be like Buddha and the celestials', this was what it meant by 'awakened entrance'.

This was one of the difficult points that were second to Huandan and breaking through Powang in the nine states of cultivation.

The difficulty was one level above connecting the Governor and Conception Vessels through the Tongmai state.

It was hard to open up the life and death entrance because it was between an existence and non-existence, there was no fixed position for it.

Some people can open up from the sole of their foot, some people might be on the arms, and there were no regulations for it.

Of course, there was one ridiculous way and that was to open up as many entrances in the body so there might be a chance for the life and death entrance to appear. This was from the experience of predecessors.

Xuanji martial art involved hundreds of entrance which would be beneficial for opening up the life and death entrance.

Every time Shen Lian went into the river, he would need three hours to regain his Qi. He even had to make it back to the lower house on Qingliang peak before sundown.

Lu Shouyi had no time to be concern about Lian Shen once he had gotten the proper teachings. He was not even clear on the level of pain Shen Lian endures every day.The original characterwas律 （lǜ）, pronounced as 'luey'.