Longevity starts with learning

Late winter.

It's the end of another year.

It was windy and snowy, and the noisy county town was already covered in silver.

In the courtyard, wearing a thin green robe and a pot of hot tea, Chu Mu was sitting leisurely on a recliner, holding a book and concentrating on reading under the eaves.

As the pages of the book were turning, a cup of hot tea entered my stomach, and a faint spiritual energy surged in my stomach, feeling warm and uncomfortable.

After putting down the book, Chu Mu looked up at the wind and snow outside the house, held the book in his hand, and walked into the room.

The room layout is as simple as ever,

A wooden bed, desk, and bookcase occupying an entire wall.

Densely packed books are neatly placed in the bookcase. At a glance, it looks like a wall of books.

There are books he obtained while in the secular world, and various kinds of knowledge he collected after spending a huge amount of spiritual stone wealth after entering the immortal world.

In this secular world where elves are rare, he doesn't have too many scruples, he just comes wherever it's convenient.

Of course, the most important reason is that his storage charms have basically expired.

Although there are still a few unopened spare rotation storage charms, they all contain items with obvious spiritual energy fluctuations, such as elixirs, jade slips, elixirs, etc.

After looking around the room, Chu Mu returned the book to the bookcase.

I have been recuperating for nearly a year. With my soul injured and unable to use my spiritual consciousness, I have read most of the books for most of the spring and autumn.

Fortunately, I visited several black markets, bought thousands of spiritual stones, and obtained many books and jade slips, so I was not idle.

Stopping in front of the bookcase, Chu Mu's eyes moved slightly, but he looked at the light screen panel in his field of vision.

[Name: Chu Mu. 】

[Skill: Basic Sword Skills (reaching the pinnacle) 9999/10000.

Fireball (return to nature) 5530/10000.

Barrier of Fire (Return to Nature) 2538/10000

Fire Snake Technique (reaching its peak) 6239/10000

Cleansing Technique (First Practice for Beginners) 600/1000]

[Tenth level of Fiery Fire Technique (123/4000)]

[Third level of Manniu Jue (569/3000)]

[Alchemy: Bigu Pill: Reaching the Peak (8953/10000)

Nourishing Pulse Pill: Reaching the Peak (7325/10000)

Soul Cleansing Pill: A First Look at the Door (899/1000)

Body Tempering Pill: Beginner’s First Practice (99/100)

Diamond Pill: Beginner’s first practice (99/100)]

[Refining: Changhong Sword: Perfection: (2358/5000)

Moonlight Blade: Beginner Training (99/100)

Breaking Edge Knife: Beginner’s First Practice (99/100)

Iron Wall Shield: Beginner’s First Practice (99/100)

Divine Fire Tube: Beginner’s First Practice (99/100)]

[Spiritual radiance value: 8932.6%]

After recuperating for nearly a year, due to the injury to his soul, his cultivation progress was quite slow. His Qi training level only improved by one level, from the ninth level of Qi training to the tenth level of Qi training.

If one goes by the conclusions of the world of immortal cultivation, at the tenth level of Qi training, one has already broken through the late stage of Qi training and entered the stage of perfect Qi training.

The thirteenth level of Qi training and the tenth level of Qi training are already perfect. This is undoubtedly contrary to common sense.

But this is indeed the case.

Because, after practicing the ninth level of Qi, you can already start to try to build the foundation, and you have the possibility of successful foundation building.

Of course, this possibility is a bit low for most immortal cultivators.

Most of them choose to continue to polish their magic power in the Qi training realm, improve their realm, and increase the chance of successful foundation building.

Of course, if you have enough foundation-building pill support, or the legendary Tianlinggen qualifications, then it's a different matter.

Now, having reached the tenth level of Qi training, Chu Mu could already faintly feel the opportunity to build a foundation.

It seems that as long as you follow that opportunity, you can try to cross a big realm.

But obviously, if this is the case, it is basically impossible to succeed.

After all, not to mention his qualifications and other factors, he was still a little unclear about the concept of foundation building.

As for the cultivation level of body training, he has successfully entered the third level, which is equivalent to the cultivation level in the later stage of Qi training.

The body's functions have already risen to another level.

The so-called ice muscle and jade bone, blood like pumping pulp, is already close to reality.

Looking inside, the blood is thick and flowing like lava. The white bones have a jade-colored luster. The internal organs and the majestic vitality are surging. Everything gives people an indescribable sense of power. .

And these are just incidental entries while recuperating.

After all, when his soul was injured, he could only barely use his consciousness, and he didn't even dare to do it for too long. He only practiced it occasionally.

In the past spring and autumn, recuperation has been the main purpose. Most of the time, I have also been thinking about the inheritance of the harvested knowledge.

The most direct manifestation is the two new elixir recipes and four weapon refining formulas that appear on the light screen panel.

Although there are only six recipes, they correspond to the corresponding knowledge system.

Especially the weapon refining formulas. Each weapon refining formula has different array forbidden weapon patterns. Combined with the weapon refining manual, it is a piece of knowledge puzzle that fills the huge knowledge system of weapon refining.

In addition, he visited several black markets and bought some other knowledge about the weapon refining knowledge system, such as detailed explanations of hundreds of spiritual minerals, basic array forbidden combinations, diagrams of the structure of the weapon patterns, and other basic knowledge.

After nearly a year of hard study and digestion, most of them are thoroughly understood, only the accumulation of practice is missing.

"practice……"

Chu Mu pondered for a moment, then closed his eyes slightly, sensing the condition of his soul injury.

After nearly a year of recuperation, his injuries have almost healed, and it should not take long to fully recover.

Moreover, it seems that due to the battle, the illusory long sword rooted in his soul has also changed.

After the injury, it was almost transparently weak, and after recuperation until now, it has slowly recovered its previous illusory appearance.

But if you look closely, the illusory flickering seems to have a bit more substance.

Chu Mu can also clearly perceive that after these substantial changes, the illusory long sword has obviously become more powerful in tempering the soul's magic power.

As a result, the healing speed of the soul injury has also been significantly faster.

Otherwise, according to his estimate, the injury this time may not be able to be healed in a year or two.

He probed his consciousness into the storage bag, and all kinds of spiritual materials were neatly stacked in the storage space.

All the recipes for refining instruments were from the black market, and the quality was not high. He had naturally prepared the corresponding spiritual materials.

He had also found several copies of the recipe for the Tempering Pill and the corresponding spiritual materials.

They were not very high-level spiritual materials. Although it was a bit troublesome to collect them, it was just a trouble as long as there were enough spiritual stones.

"It shouldn't be a big problem."

Chu Mu thought silently. His soul injury was about to heal. As long as he didn't over-consume his spiritual consciousness, there shouldn't be any problem.

While thinking, the micro-partition ban arranged in the room was also opened.

The door was closed, and Chu Mu sat cross-legged in the room. The newly purchased top-grade magic furnace was also taken out.

With the pearl and jade in front of him, this top-grade magic furnace that was once unattainable obviously didn't make Chu Mu have too much emotional fluctuations.

With a wave of his hand, the nine spiritual medicines for the Tempering Pill were placed beside him.

The spiritual fire was ignited, and the refining of the Tempering Pill began directly.

He had been in contact with the Body Tempering Pill for a long time. After recuperating for nearly a year, he had pondered over it many times. In addition to his own alchemy background, he was familiar with everything.

The refining process was smooth and there was no mistake. A furnace of Body Tempering Pills was ready.

A total of three furnaces of Body Tempering Pills were refined in half a day.

Dozens of Body Tempering Pills were put into the jade bottle. Chu Mu took a breath for a moment, and his eyes were fixed on the spiritual materials piled up beside him.

There were a total of eighty-eight spiritual materials, including forty-two spiritual ores, and the rest were various auxiliary spiritual materials.

For example, there were six spiritual materials for engraving patterns, each with different properties and different places of application.

As the core power source of the magic weapon, the array ban is more complicated, and the spiritual materials are more advanced.

Some complex magic weapons even need a combination of multiple spiritual materials to withstand the spiritual power impact brought by the operation of the array ban.

Moreover, whether it is the spiritual materials for engraving array prohibitions or engraving patterns, they all need to be consistent with the main materials of the magic weapon. Only in this way can the power of the magic weapon be fully exerted.

Each refining formula is obviously much more complicated than the alchemy formula.

And this is just refining a single magic weapon.

He originally thought that puppetry was the advanced refining technique.

After really getting in touch with the refining technique and accumulating experience over this period of time, he found that the facts were different from what he thought.

Puppetry is the advanced refining technique, which is correct, but... it seems to be wrong.

Because, whether it is a puppet, a flying boat, or a variety of creations, their core is refining technique.

For example, the composition of a puppet is actually equivalent to the combination of multiple refining creations.

For example, the principle of a flying boat is the same.

A single refining creation has a separate existence and separate functions and effects.

The so-called puppets and flying boats are composite or combined artifacts of weapon refining.

The principles are the same and all lie in the framework of weapon refining, rather than puppetry being another knowledge framework.

This is also very obvious in his puppetry, which has always been out of reach.

With the expansion of weapon refining knowledge, the original profound knowledge of puppetry seems to have slowly unveiled its mysterious veil in front of him, no longer like reading a heavenly book as before.

"Let's get started..."

Chu Mu took a deep breath, recalled one of the weapon refining formulas, and his hands moved accordingly.

The knowledge has been understood, but it is only limited to the understanding of theory on paper. In the end, it still needs the accumulation of experience to truly use it and turn it into one's own knowledge.

In the following days, Chu Mu completely ended the leisure of nearly a year, and the four weapon refining formulas became his whole life.

The snow and wind covering the city slowly melted away with the passage of time.

New buds sprouted from the withered trees in the mountains, and green rice seedlings could be seen in the fields. When all things came back to life, the door that had been closed for nearly two months finally opened.

Chu Mu walked out of it, and the room behind him was empty, just like the disappearing ice and snow, without any trace left.

When he arrived in the city, he saw a hustle and bustle. In his memory, whether it was the former Jade Emperor Valley or the current Jade Emperor City, they were all very prosperous and noisy.

But compared to the secular hustle and bustle in front of him, it seemed to lack some charm.

It was as if, if he was in the Jade Emperor City, he would be heavily disguised, and his true self would always be hidden in the deepest part, and would basically not show up in front of people.

He was like this, and most of the immortal cultivators were also like this.

No matter how prosperous and noisy it is, it seems to be just a superficial illusion, just a gathering of interests.

Chu Mu looked down at the sound transmission talisman in his hand. The sound transmission talisman still did not make any movement. The chattering voice in the past had not been heard for a long time.

Huh...

He exhaled lightly, his expression complicated. He did not stop and went straight out of the city.

When he got outside the city, he saw that there was no one around, so he ran out of habit.

But this time, after running hundreds of meters, Chu Mu suddenly stopped.

Then, a top-grade magic weapon flying sword also floated in front of him.

He jumped up, the sword light moved slightly, and the next second, he was standing on the sword tip, suspended in the air.

With his profound body training and the strength control honed in the secular world, Chu Mu also stood steadily on the flying sword, with his hands behind his back, his green robe moved slightly, but it seemed that his feet were rooted, and there was no shaking at all.

The next second, the sword tip pointed obliquely to the sky and soared into the sky.

The wind was howling, but Chu Mu still stood firmly on the ridge of the sword. In front of him was a semicircular light shield that blocked the airflow in front of him.

Hundreds of meters above the ground, looking down, the beautiful mountains and rivers were like a majestic painting, clearly visible.

It was the first time that Chu Mu really flew in the sky, and he could not hide his excitement. He controlled the flying sword and played with various experiments.

The flying sword was very fast. When he controlled it with all his strength, it was not much slower than when he ran with the divine wind boots.

But... the flying sword was, after all, a top-grade magic weapon for attack. Flying was only a supplementary function, and the consumption of mana was not small at all.

Chu Mu stopped playing with experiments until he was familiar with all the functions of this flying sword and the skills of flying with the sword.

The sword light flew over the mountains and forests, and finally sank directly into the rolling clouds on the mountainside, without any trace...

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