In that instant, Sun Yi felt as if he had gone back to high school and was reading a Chinese textbook. He felt a little sleepy. The jade slip was packed with dense text, more than ten thousand characters in all, and it was obscure and difficult to understand.
The cultivation method he had practiced before had only a little over a thousand characters. This Five Elements Art was directly ten times longer.
Forcing down the discomfort in his heart, Sun Yi took a deep breath and first brewed himself a pot of Calming Tea. After one mouthful, he instantly felt his thoughts become much clearer. His mind seemed to grow more flexible, and the irritation in his heart eased as well.
“As expected, this is good stuff. Not bad at all,” Sun Yi could not help praising.
He looked up at Luo An and saw Luo An staring at him with envy. Even Luo An had never drunk Calming Tea. This was a good thing that could increase cultivation speed. Although it was only a second-tier resource, it was extremely precious because the quantity was so limited.
Only the sect’s Golden Core elders and the Patriarch were qualified to enjoy something like this. There was not much of it in the entire treasury, yet Sun Yi had directly taken some.
Seeing the envy in Luo An’s eyes, Sun Yi took out the Calming Tea and second-tier spirit water and placed them on the table, gesturing to Luo An. “If you want tea, brew it yourself.”
Luo An pointed at himself in great surprise. “I can drink it?”
“Why could you not? It is not poison. After you drink it, stay beside me and cultivate in peace. If there is anything I do not understand, I will ask you.”
Sun Yi was still determined to raise his own cultivation a little before focusing on research. He did not value the Calming Tea too heavily. No matter how good a resource was, it was meant to be used by people.
“Thank you,” Luo An sincerely thanked Sun Yi.
Sun Yi waved his hand, then focused his mind on the jade slip. This time, looking at the contents inside the jade slip felt completely different.
The words no longer made him irritated. Sun Yi could calm down and read them, and he found that his memory had improved greatly because of the Calming Tea.
This change made Sun Yi wildly delighted. In the future, he definitely had to get more good things like this.
As a student on Earth who had experienced the strict gaokao, Sun Yi had memorized texts countless times. Chinese, history, politics, English, physics, chemistry—which subject did not rely on memorization? Follow the newest chapters on g.com.
So Sun Yi was very practiced. On the first reading of the Five Elements Art, he remembered ten percent. On the second reading, he remembered thirty percent. On the third reading, he remembered fifty percent.
Before long, Sun Yi had memorized the entire Five Elements Art. Next came deeper understanding.
With the help of Calming Tea, Sun Yi was as if aided by the gods, and his ability to understand increased greatly. For now, there was no need to understand the parts after Qi Refining. He focused on studying the Qi Refining portion of the method, and after two days, Sun Yi had already reached the limit of his own understanding.
Then he found Luo An and began asking Luo An about the parts of the Five Elements Art that he could not understand on his own.
Luo An had accepted Sun Yi’s benefits, so of course he answered Sun Yi’s questions with full effort. With Luo An’s help, Sun Yi quickly understood all the parts he had been unable to grasp before.
Sure enough, one still needed helpers on the road of cultivation.
After fully understanding the Qi Refining portion, Sun Yi decided to begin cultivating the Five Elements Art. According to the Five Elements Art, the first step in cultivation was to sense the five-element spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
This step was very simple for cultivators with good spirit roots. Some cultivators with good spirit roots could sense spiritual energy within one hour, while some people with poor spirit roots might be unable to sense it even after a year.
Sun Yi tried to sense the five-element spiritual energy between heaven and earth according to the normal method, but after five full hours, he had sensed absolutely nothing, so he gave up.
Seeing Sun Yi give up directly, Luo An comforted him. “If you want to sense the five-element spiritual energy between heaven and earth, with your aptitude, you will need at least half a year of cultivation at the fastest. Also, cultivating the Five Elements Art requires absorbing a great deal of spiritual energy. It needs long-term accumulation before there will be results. Cultivation is not something that succeeds overnight. You must be patient.”
Sun Yi glanced at Luo An, then silently took out the Marrow Cleansing Fruits and stuffed them into his mouth one after another.
Marrow Cleansing Fruits truly were good things. They melted as soon as they entered his mouth, and their medicinal effect was gentle, so there was no need to worry about exploding. Sun Yi felt the fruits turn into a force that merged into his body. At that moment, he felt as if many hands were massaging his entire body. It was very comfortable.
After finishing all twenty Marrow Cleansing Fruits on him, Sun Yi closed his eyes and slowly experienced the feeling of having his body cleansed and his marrow washed.
Luo An watched with his eyelids twitching wildly. Marrow Cleansing Fruits were very precious spirit fruits. It was extremely difficult for Qi Refining cultivators to obtain even one. Usually, only Foundation Establishment cultivators were qualified to take them. Moreover, the first fruit had the best effect, and the effect greatly decreased afterward. One fruit was worth at least five hundred spirit stones. In just a few breaths, Sun Yi had eaten ten thousand spirit stones. Many Foundation Establishment cultivators did not have that much wealth in total. It was simply too extravagant.
Only after a full hour did the Marrow Cleansing Fruits finish transforming Sun Yi. Sun Yi opened his eyes, smelled the foul stench coming from his body, and immediately frowned.
“The effect is pretty good, but the smell is a little unpleasant. Luo An, give me a hand.” Sun Yi looked with disgust at the filth attached to his body.
Luo An pointed at Sun Yi with his right hand. A stream of water appeared out of thin air and directly wrapped around Sun Yi. The next moment, the water left Sun Yi’s body, taking all the filth on him with it.
Without the filth, Sun Yi immediately felt refreshed. His whole body was full of vitality, and he felt as if his body was filled with strength, as though he had been reborn.
“The effect of the Marrow Cleansing Fruit really is not bad,” Sun Yi could not help praising.
“Is that not obvious? Those are Marrow Cleansing Fruits, treasures that only Foundation Establishment cultivators can take!” Luo An looked at Sun Yi enviously, then closed his eyes.
After the transformation from the Marrow Cleansing Fruits, Sun Yi felt better than ever. He drank another mouthful of Calming Tea, then sat cross-legged. Each of his hands picked up a high-grade spirit stone, and he closed his eyes and began absorbing the spiritual energy inside the high-grade spirit stones to cultivate according to the Five Elements Art. Who said it had to take a long time before cultivation showed results?
Usually, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was sparse. Cultivators needed to absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth and refine it into their own true qi, so it took a very long time. Unless they used spirit stones and all kinds of spiritual medicines to speed up cultivation, they could only pile up time.
However, even low-grade spirit stones did not contain especially much spiritual energy, and the energy was not pure enough, so it still took a long time to refine.
The spiritual energy inside high-grade spirit stones was abundant and purer, making it easier to absorb. However, what Qi Refining cultivator would have the chance to use high-grade spirit stones to cultivate, unless their family owned a mine?
Five hours later, Sun Yi sensed the pure spiritual energy inside the high-grade spirit stones. He immediately circulated the Five Elements Art and began cultivating.
An endless stream of pure spiritual energy flowed into Sun Yi’s body through his hands, and after being refined, it entered his dantian.
Sun Yi had originally been at the third level of Qi Refining. Now that he had changed methods and was cultivating again, his cultivation speed was very fast. Not only could he absorb the spiritual energy from the spirit stones, he could also completely transform the true qi that had originally been inside his body.
In only two days, Sun Yi cultivated the Five Elements Art to the third level of Qi Refining. At this moment, he discovered that before and after cultivating the Five Elements Art, the change was enormous.
It was the same third level of Qi Refining, but Sun Yi’s current amount of true qi was five times what it had been before, and the purity of his true qi had also doubled.
He could clearly feel his strength surge. Sun Yi clenched his right fist and nodded in satisfaction. Sure enough, one still needed good methods and good resources.