Chapter 24 – Cultivation
After collecting plenty of spring water from the mountain, Wang Lin began to create a spring filled with spiritual energy. At ten o’clock at night, he locked the door. As a precaution, he tied one end of a rope to the door and the other to his arm so he would know immediately if anyone opened it.
After taking a few sips of the spring water, she felt her body warming up. She then stared at the beads to enter her dream.
In the endless dreamland, Wang Lin sat cross-legged as he began to cultivate. As he cultivated, the light around him became softer. Wang Lin didn’t realize it, but the light entered his body.
After staying there for a day, all the spiritual energy from the water had dissipated. However, this time, he could clearly feel the difference in his body. Previously, when he had finished Sun Dazhu’s medicine, he had felt hot. However, at the most critical moment, all the spiritual energy would dissipate.
But this time was different. Although they were still scattered, there was still a bit left in his body. Although it wasn’t much, Wang Lin gained a lot of confidence from this result. After considering it for a while, he couldn’t figure out why it was different. So in the end, he could only speculate that it was because of the mysterious stone bead.
Since he couldn’t abandon his own dream of obtaining more spring water, he could only continue cultivating for a long time. Eventually, he realized that there was a difference between the dream realm and the outside world. Outside, even though he had been cultivating for over a month, he would feel refreshed and extremely comfortable afterward.
But here, after the spiritual energy from the spring had been exhausted, he felt no refreshment or comfort. Instead, as he continued cultivating, he felt short of breath.
After a moment of hesitation, Wang Lin suspected that it was related to the presence of spiritual energy. There was no natural spiritual energy in the dream realm.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt he was right. He frowned, thinking, “If only there was a way to bring in water from outside, everything would be fine.” Thinking about it, his heart suddenly pounded as he looked down at his own body and revealed a confused expression.
Wang Lin was very confused by the red student uniform he was wearing. He immediately checked the pocket where his storage bag was and found that it was missing.
“Clothes can appear in the dream realm, but storage bags can’t.” He thought about it bitterly and decided to experiment on what items could or couldn’t be brought into the dream realm once he left it.
Time passed quickly. After 50 hours had passed, a feeling of being torn emerged and woke Wang Lin up.
He still had a question in his heart. Why could he only stay in the dream for five hours? With that question in mind, he filled the gourd with spring water and carried it on his shoulder, ready to enter the dream again.
But this time, no matter how much he stared at the bead, he didn’t feel sleepy like usual. Wang Lin felt afraid. After thinking for a long time, he suppressed the fear in his heart and sat down to cultivate.
Gradually, as his breathing stabilized, the natural spiritual energy was absorbed by his body. As the energy dissipated, some remained within his body. However, this was still far from the first layer of Qi Condensation.
He spent all day cultivating the land. He constantly drank spring water to keep his body filled with spiritual energy.
Apart from that, he also always held the stone beads in the hope of being able to return to the dream world, but always failed.
Night fell. He opened his eyes and felt that the spiritual energy in his body had increased slightly. Under normal circumstances, he would have been overjoyed, but he was restless. He stared at the beads again and suddenly felt sleepy. Wang Lin revealed a joyful expression as he averted his gaze to chase away the drowsiness.
He stood up and rubbed his chin as he paced the room, contemplating what had happened before and after he entered the dream. Finally, he discovered the problem.
The first two times, he entered almost without a break. The third time occurred five hours after the second, and the fourth time occurred a full day after the third.
Following this logic, there are some restrictions on entering this dream space. To be safe, one must wait 5 hours after using it to guarantee entry.
After resolving that issue, Wang Lin began preparing to test what he could bring into the dream realm. He eventually collected many items, including three gourds: one containing a small amount of dew, one empty, and one filled with spring water.
He even put a piece of a broken stone bowl in his pocket. He also took a sweet potato and a piece of cloth from his bag and tied them around his body before reentering his dream.
In the dreamland, Wang Lin immediately checked his body. The sweet potato, broken stone bowl, and cloth were all there, but the three gourds and storage bag were missing.
He concluded that, without a doubt, there was no spiritual energy within this dream realm, so any normal object, in other words, any object without any spiritual energy, could be brought in.
The three gourds and the storage bag all contained a certain amount of spiritual energy, therefore, they could not be brought in.
Sighing, Wang Lin began to think bitterly. He couldn’t bring the gourd with him, and the few sips he had taken from it before entering the dreamland weren’t enough to last him the rest of his stay.
After thinking about this, an idea occurred to him. He felt he had an idea, but couldn’t grasp it. The feeling that the idea was beyond his grasp made him dive into his mind, sorting through his ideas one by one.
After a long time, his face turned happy as he understood one important thing: the water containing spiritual energy could not be brought out, but the spiritual energy that entered his body would not disappear.
The problem is that you can’t bring objects that have spiritual energy there, but if he thinks carefully, he might find a way.
After 50 hours had passed, he immediately left his room and searched the mountains until he found some wild gourds and brought them home.
He was sure that the three gourds could not be brought to the dream world because they had been soaked in spiritual energy water for too long, so that their spiritual energy had become one with the gourds.
Now, he was filling a freshly picked gourd with spiritual energy water. He might be able to trick the beads into taking them to the dreamland.
After five hours, Wang Lin entered the dreamland with four gourds on his shoulders. After entering the dreamland, Wang Lin was surprised to find that all the gourds were still with him.
He opened it and saw that the water was still inside. He took a drink and found that the water was still filled with spiritual energy. Without saying anything, Wang Lin took a few sips and began cultivating.
Every time the spiritual energy in his body dissipated, he drank more spring water. Soon, bits of spiritual energy began to accumulate in his body, propelling his body towards the first layer of Qi Condensation.
The light around him began to quietly enter his body again.
With Wang Lin’s talent, without the mysterious bead and spiritual energy water, it would take him many years before he could reach the first layer of Qi Condensation. If he added the Qi Dispersing Grass, it would take him thirty to fifty years before he could succeed.
Taking Sun Dazhu’s medicine every day for a month accelerated the process. Wang Lin also subconsciously used the Qi Dispersal Technique, which eliminated the Qi Dispersal Grass. However, even so, it still took him ten years. However, Wang Lin now had no shortage of spiritual energy. He possessed the stone bead, which allowed him to practice tenfold. The first layer of Qi Condensation was now visible.