Chapter 96 Blind, in These Mountains, to Calendared Days (2/2)

Even though both the doyens entered into ”Huandan” through the help of external alchemy, this still showed how unpredictably powerful Ge Yuan's supernatural powers were.

Fifteen years had passed, and Chen Jianmei did not return. However, a new Cultivator of the Sword appeared on the faraway land of the West. After killing all of the demons and monsters in that mountain, he built a Daoist temple.

It was known as the ”Temple of Killings”, and the world was shocked by this.

Zhang Ruoxu admitted that the ”Temple of Killings” was a supplementary branch of Qing Xuan.

Even though a lot had happened, but none of it had much to do with Shen Lian.

He did not face any bottleneck on his path of spiritual enhancement at all. In fact, he managed to form a spiritual consciousness after attaining Chushen.

This was actually something that could only be formed after Huandan, and the cultivator would need the nourishment of Huandan to strengthen their Yin Spirit before its formation. However, he managed to accomplish it earlier with the help of the Art of Spiritual Enhancement.

This gave him an advantage when he was faced with cultivators who had yet attained the state of Huandan.

However, none of these made him happy. After fifteen years, he was still unable to accomplish the first step of the Taixu Strategy, which was the cultivation of eight Qi in his body. Sky, earth, mountain, swamp, water, fire, wind and lightning, these eight Qi once instilled into the body and combined with the mana, there would be eight different types of mana within the body. There would be conflicts with even two or three types of mana within the body, lest eight types.

If it was not for the strength of Shen Lian's Yin Spirit and the fact that it triumphed over the mana within him, there were a few times where he insisted to instill the eight Qi into his body and almost sustained serious injuries.

This was when Shen Lian realized why there were not many who cultivated the Taixu Strategy.

Moreover, the eight Qi were segregated into Yin and Yang, and these were two different states of mind. Every clash left him feeling like his bier was on fire, and he felt extremely irritable. Even with the visualization technique from The Mastery of Senses, it would take him quite some time to recover some peace. Even so, he felt like he was not as carefree as he once was.

He also understood why Gu Caiwei had to be so gentle all of the time, it was to recover some peace in her mind. It would affect the cultivation process negatively if the mana within the body was triggered.

He was not tired of giving cultivation advice to others, as it was a way to train the mind. Moreover, he was hoping that he could be enlightened from other's cultivation process, which might lead to the discovery of the key to the instillation of Qi into his body.

Gu Caiwei was not trying to withhold information from him. The instillation of Qi was a discovery that one needs to make and to experience for oneself. If he was told about the method of another person, he would be focusing too much on the mechanics and lost out of the true essence of the instillation of Qi.

Zhang Ruoxu was right when he said that this martial exercise was suitable for Shen Lian.

Those of Taixu, their Qi, their Dao, they could encapsulate anything and everything; they were beyond this world.

Shen Lian had the best Art of Spiritual Enhancement, and he had an advantage in terms of understanding the way of heaven and earth and the Dao meaning.

The River of Spirits flew quietly as usual, and yet Shen Lian had placed himself in it. That was because the pain caused by the River of Spirits to his Yin Spirit helped him to forget about the troubles of being stuck at a bottleneck.

He looked at the shadow on the shore. ”Senior Apprentice-Sister, even though you are very old, but I'm after all a man, and you are a woman, could you not look for me when I'm naked? Don't you think that it is awkward?” Said Shen Lian.

Gu Caiwei laughed cheerfully. ”You can come take a look the next time I'm taking a shower,” she said.

”You must promise not to kill me then,” replied Shen Lian.

”I can't promise that, however, it has been fifteen years and I'm surprised that you are still sane,” Gu Caiwei exclaimed.