Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World

4: Chapter 4 Cultivators possess the strongest and most refined bones, and the most divine spirit!In the blink of an eye, another seven days passed.

Elder Xuan Qing went out again.

No sooner had he left than the two familiar slender figures appeared once more at the entrance of the C-rank Herb Garden.

They were none other than Inner Sect Disciples Su Zhi and Lin Wei.

The two had once again taken on the duty of guarding this place.

Meanwhile, Gu Yan’s life continued to run smoothly along its established trajectory.

By day, he remained the silent and diligent Outer Sect Disciple, bending over to work in the herb fields.

At night, the door to his small independent courtyard was tightly shut.

While others practiced martial arts, he alone closed his door to cultivate immortality.

Now, the original Internal Energy in Gu Yan’s shanzhong acupoint was gradually being replaced by strands of more pure and lustrous Spiritual Qi.

This process required more patience and effort than anticipated, but he had enough patience.

He was even somewhat immersed in this day-to-day change, clearly feeling his foundation thickening bit by bit.

Occasionally, he wondered: if the Internal Energy in all nine Acupoints were completely transformed into Spiritual Qi, interconnected and resonating, what qualitative change would occur?

Could his Qi Refining First Level cultivation thereby push open the door to the Second Level?

Changes accumulated silently.

After all, the Taiyi Dao Sect was a Daoist Sect with deep origins, and the Taiyi Dao De True Scripture passed down within it, even if only a single transformation chapter, contained authentic Daoist charm.

Now that Gu Yan had truly embarked on the path of immortal cultivation, breathing in Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi day and night, the combination of the two was inwardly and outwardly nourishing his form and spirit.

Daoism emphasizes purity and self-restraint, while immortal cultivation requires gathering the essence of heaven and earth to refine oneself.

Over time, he was like a rough jade being carved, his skin gradually becoming warm and lustrous, seemingly containing a faint glow.

His eyes also became clearer, and his overall temperament gained a sense of openness and clarity.

Like a green bamboo far from the hustle and bustle, standing silently with its own character.

Gu Yan himself was completely unaware of these changes.

Even if he noticed a little, with his current level of cultivation and knowledge, he did not know how to deliberately conceal it.

Some things, like a bright pearl in a box, inevitably let out a bit of radiance.

That day, Gu Yan was bending over to inspect a herb when sunlight streamed through a gap in the clouds, landing precisely on his profile.

At the entrance of the herb garden, Lin Wei, who had been speaking softly with Su Zhi, let her gaze drift and suddenly froze.

Strange, when did this herb garden... hide such a person?

The young man before her was extremely tall, over eight chi, yet he lacked the gaunt and dull appearance commonly seen in Outer Sect Disciples from overwork.

His shoulders and back were relaxed, his posture steady, and even in simple Outer Sect robes, he could not hide his extraordinary aura, so different from the mundane.

His silhouette bathed in light, revealing a certain...

Well, anyway, he was much more pleasing to the eye than some of the Inner Sect Senior Brothers who put on airs or were slick and flashy; he could even be called outstanding.

Gu Yan seemed to sense something, straightened up, and turned to look.

His gaze met Lin Wei’s almond-shaped eyes.

The girl’s cheeks flushed slightly, her eyes filled with undisguised curiosity and scrutiny.

Compared to the cold and aloof Su Zhi beside her, she appeared much more lively and outgoing.

Gu Yan remembered them; Old Chen had mentioned in passing that these two were Inner Sect Disciples, Su Zhi and Lin Wei.

Being stared at by such a charming Senior Sister, Gu Yan’s heart remained calm.

He did not know why she was looking at him, nor did he care to guess.

Between an Outer Sect Disciple and an Inner Sect Senior Sister, any superfluous thoughts would only bring trouble.

So he merely gave a slight nod toward the entrance as a polite gesture, then lowered his head again, focusing his attention on the herbs at hand.

Lin Wei, however, did not immediately look away but continued to observe him with interest for a few more moments.

This Outer Sect Disciple’s looks were off the charts; quite interesting.

Night fell.

Gu Yan sat cross-legged in the room, his breathing long and steady.

The windows were tightly shut, yet above his head, an invisible vortex seemed to slowly rotate,

drawing strands of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi from the night sky into his body.

Focusing his mind inward, he clearly saw that the Spiritual Qi in his shanzhong acupoint had gathered nearly to saturation, about to overflow.

Based on his experience from reading countless cultivation novels in his previous life,

The Qi Refinement Stage was about drawing Qi into the body, converting Spiritual Qi into the Dantian’s Qi Sea,

accumulating and expanding until quantitative change triggered qualitative change, thus achieving Foundation Establishment.

But the path he was now taking was to store the Spiritual Qi absorbed from cultivation not in the Dantian, but instead inject it into the first-turn Acupoints of this world’s martial arts.

Yet in Gu Yan’s view, both were essentially the accumulation and storage of Spiritual Qi.

The Dantian was a large warehouse, while the Acupoints were small storerooms.

First fill the shanzhong acupoint, then see the results.

Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth.

If this path did not work, it would only take some effort to guide the Spiritual Qi back into the Dantian, at most a matter of efficiency.

At least so far, this small storeroom was easy to access and store, highly integrated with his body, with no sense of stagnation or conflict.

He calmed his mind, stopped overthinking, and focused all his effort on guiding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to surge into the shanzhong acupoint.

He was only a little short of replacing all the Internal Energy in the first acupoint with Spiritual Qi, a matter of time and natural progression.