Chapter 22 – Dissemination Techniques
After returning to his room, he immediately closed the door. He didn’t use the Qi Gathering Pill, but instead stored it in his storage bag. He was about to begin experimenting with the stone bead.
He carefully took out the three gourds and the stone beads, then pondered for a moment, revealing an uncertain expression. He was weighing the pros and cons, because without the dew, his future cultivation speed would be extremely slow.
However, the mysterious cloud on the stone bead intrigued Wang Lin. After thinking for a moment, he decided. He could always collect more dew, it would just take time. However, if the tenth cloud appeared, the bead might change. Perhaps then, the water soaked in the bead would contain even more spiritual energy.
After he thought about this, he immediately took out the gourd containing the finest morning dew. It took him a long time to extract the agar from the gourd.
After a while, all the dew had poured out. A stone bowl was half filled with a greenish liquid with a very refreshing scent. After smelling it, Wang Lin’s body relaxed.
He was afraid that the smell would attract the attention of the sect’s hidden experts, so he quickly threw the stone bead into it. After a while, the bead absorbed some of the liquid.
Wang Lin was a bit disappointed. He had hoped for a sudden change. However, the stone bead absorbed the fragrance of the liquid. Wang Lin pondered for a moment, then placed the stone bowl beside his bed. He sat on his bed and began to cultivate.
The one long, three short breathing technique was now easy for Wang Lin. Although he hadn’t condensed spiritual energy in the past two months, he had become accustomed to the breathing technique. He would breathe like this even when he wasn’t cultivating.
As the night passed, Wang Lin opened his eyes to check the stone bowl. He saw that half of the liquid had been absorbed by the stone beads.
Undeterred, he put the bowl back under his bed. After a moment’s hesitation, he took out a Qi Gathering Pill and popped it into his mouth. He immediately felt a surge of heat surge through his body.
During the month he spent with Sun Dazhu, he experienced this process every day. He immediately began cultivating. He cultivated until nightfall. Wang Lin slowly exhaled a breath of white air and smiled wryly. “This Qi Gathering Pill is just like Sun Dazhu’s medicine, also made from several herbs that contain abundant spiritual energy. Every time I take it, my body feels relaxed and full of energy. I also don’t feel hungry, but I still can’t condense any spiritual energy.”
He sighed. Wang Zhuo had reached the first layer of Qi Condensation in three months. His expression remained the same, but there were mixed feelings in his heart. Talent was the most important part of cultivation.
However, with Wang Lin’s personality, he wouldn’t give up so easily. He had that mysterious bead. He didn’t lack spiritual energy. Although he couldn’t condense spiritual energy now, he would surely succeed with time.
“Time….” Wang Lin bit his lip and sighed. He took out a stone bowl from under his bed. There was only a little liquid left, but the tenth cloud still hadn’t appeared.
He immediately took out another gourd and poured the liquid into a bowl. There was some liquid left, so Wang Lin drank it and continued cultivating.
The heat that surged through his body this time was stronger than before. He could feel the heat moving through his body. He immediately felt extremely thirsty, but he continued cultivating.
After a while, Wang Lin felt something was wrong. The heat didn’t dissipate as before, but instead began to build up as he breathed. He felt like his body was like a balloon that had reached its limit.
Wan Lin was afraid, so he stopped cultivating, but the pain from the swelling persisted. He opened his eyes and immediately discovered to his horror that all his veins were swollen, as if there were worms under his skin.
Wang Lin didn’t know that the medicines he had consumed before didn’t produce much spiritual energy, and even with the spiritual energy he gathered from nature using breathing techniques, he couldn’t replace how much spiritual energy he lost due to his talent.
Moreover, at the most crucial moment, the Qi Dispersing Grass would prevent him from successfully condensing spiritual energy.
But now he was drinking dew that contained more spiritual energy than medicine, more than he had lost due to his talent. If he hadn’t cultivated, the medicine would have simply disappeared after a while, but now, his spiritual energy would increase as if it were a fire being fed oil as he cultivated.
He knew he had made a mistake, but he didn’t know what to do. He could only watch as his blood vessels expanded. As his blood vessels reached their limit, an idea popped into his head. Without much time to think, he gritted his teeth and began cultivating the one short breath and three long breaths technique.
He thought that since one long three short gathered spiritual energy, then the opposite must disperse spiritual energy.
Wang Lin’s guess was more or less correct. Most cultivators knew this breathing technique because it was the step before Foundation Establishment.
Along with his breath, streams of spiritual energy flowed out from every part of his body, all of which was absorbed by the stone beads beneath his bed.
As time passed, the swelling gradually subsided, and his blood vessels returned to normal. What was emanating from his body was no longer spiritual energy, but a kind of dark Qi that hadn’t been absorbed by the stone beads and dissipated into thin air.
This lucky coincidence allowed Wang Lin to remove the Qi Dispersing Grass from his body.
If one wanted to extract the Qi Dispersing Grass, one way was to use a large amount of spiritual energy to extract it all. This was the method Sun Dazhu had used, but he changed his mind about Wang Lin and didn’t want to lose any more of his herbs, so he gave up.
The second method is to use the dispersion technique, which involves removing all spiritual energy from one’s body and then starting cultivation from scratch. The reason Sun Dazhu didn’t use this method was because Wang Lin had almost no spiritual energy left, and therefore, he couldn’t even use the technique.
The dispersion technique lasted a day and a night. Wang Lin was so exhausted that he collapsed on his bed. He knew he could save himself this time, but in the future, he shouldn’t drink dew carelessly.
He was very tired, so he fell asleep.