Chapter 7

Just, to reach the Heart Light realm is truly not easy.

To make the Heart Light manifest, it’s not just about sitting quietly and stopping thoughts; it also requires a strong physique to bind the spirit, so it won’t easily waver, allowing its light to shine forth!

This step is extremely difficult for ordinary people. It’s even more challenging for someone like Liu Shengzhi, who has a congenital condition of a wandering soul, which has damaged his essence, energy, and spirit.

Liu Shengzhi thought to himself.

According to the records in the Immortal Book, the Five Stone Powder should only be taken when one has cultivated to the stage of the Five Qi Converging at the Origin.

At that time, it would be easier to refine the medicinal power.

Now, during the foundation-building stage, the most suitable to use is this Purple River Essence Pill.

The medicinal power continuously refines, generating heat in the lower abdomen. It slowly circulates throughout the body, giving a feeling as comfortable as taking a bath.

If he continues to take the Purple River Essence Pill, it is estimated that in at most half a year, his essence and energy will be replenished. At that time, he will be able to冲击第三层真气境界.

However, as expected, a situation occurred that Liu Shengzhi did not anticipate.

Even with the help of the Purple River Essence Pill, as he began to replenish his essence and energy, his appetite increased several times over.

Originally, Liu Shengzhi had a poor appetite, but now he could eat three to five times more than an ordinary person in one meal.

This is an unavoidable situation. According to the Immortal Book, humans are born with innate qi, which transforms into essence, energy, and spirit. However, it cannot be replenished and can only be gradually consumed. When it is completely consumed, it is the end of one's life.

However, ordinary people need to rely on postnatal nutrition to support the circulation of blood and qi in the body.

This all depends on various postnatal foods and medicines!

Now, Liu Shengzhi is replenishing the consumed essence, energy, and spirit, restoring his body to a state without leakage, similar to a newborn baby who has not yet consumed essence, energy, and spirit.

This requires more postnatal supplementation, mainly from food.

If it weren't for the Purple River Essence Pill helping to replenish a large part of it, Liu Shengzhi's appetite would be even more terrifying.

Even so, he needs to buy more nutritious foods to replenish the internal consumption.

Even eating at the cafeteria is not enough to support it.

Often, after returning home, he still needs to buy things like beef, mutton, and fresh shrimp, and combine them with herbs like angelica, wolfberry, ginseng, and astragalus for food supplementation.

This spending is like water!

This also made Liu Shengzhi secretly alarmed. Fortunately, he found a job at the Hongye Group. Otherwise, the monthly expenses on food and the refinement of the Purple River Essence Pill could easily reach tens of thousands.

How could an ordinary person afford this?

The poor in literature and the rich in martial arts, ancient martial artists also ate like this. It's something that ordinary people cannot afford!

Not to mention, there has always been a saying that to cultivate the Golden Elixir, one needs to prepare a mountain of gold!

However, although the expenses are huge, the effects are immediate.

Liu Shengzhi can clearly feel his body becoming stronger day by day, and his essence and energy are also growing.

However, it wasn't until he had worked for nearly half a month and had a day off that he had the opportunity to go to the outskirts of the city, following his memory, to find the strange cave.

But he only saw a stone wall.

There was no way through at all!

The scenery outside was just as it was when he had visited in his mind, with the ruins of buildings, broken bricks, and tiles.

However, it seemed that the buildings here were already quite ancient, abandoned for countless years.

"It looks like a Taoist temple!" Liu Shengzhi guessed.

But he didn't find the stone cave with the stone pillow.

Where the cave entrance should have been, there was only a stone wall.

Liu Shengzhi touched the stone wall, and it felt rough and cold. It was the place where the entrance had been, but now the sensation was so real.

"Could it all have been a dream?" Liu Shengzhi felt somewhat disheartened. Then the Immortal Book in his memory was also fake?

"No, it can't be."

Liu Shengzhi almost thought that entering the cave was just an illusion. If not for the familiarity of everything around him.

He took out the Heaven and Earth Shift Talisman, and the real and tangible sensation made it clear that what he held in his hand was not a product of a dream.

Although during this period, Liu Shengzhi had always been looking for an opportunity to activate the Heaven and Earth Shift Talisman to return to that strange place.

However, the Heaven and Earth Shift Talisman showed no signs of movement.

At this moment, for some reason, Liu Shengzhi suddenly felt enlightened. He sat down and entered a meditative state.

He was already very familiar with these practices.

Soon, a spark of fire leaped out from his brow, which was already two to three times larger than the one he had initially produced.

However, that wasn't the key. The key was that at this moment, Liu Shengzhi recited a spell from the Heaven and Earth Shift Talisman: "Yin and Yang rotate, Heaven and Earth shift!"

The spark that was about to extinguish stabilized, seemingly forming a mysterious connection with the Heaven and Earth Shift Talisman.

In the next moment, Liu Shengzhi felt a blur in front of his eyes, and a strong dizziness made him faint.

He didn't know how long it had been before he was awakened by a crackling sound. What he saw was still that simple city, with a thin layer of mist!

While Liu Shengzhi was in a daze, several monsters, about 2.5 meters tall, rushed out of the mist, looking very panicked.

These monsters had faces like old melons, with flashing eyes that were terrifying.

The crackling sound grew more intense, and about four or five such monsters darted out, seemingly scared by the sound and fleeing.

However, these monsters suddenly turned their heads and saw Liu Shengzhi. They immediately opened their huge mouths, which were as wide as basins, with sparse teeth about three inches long. Their tongues moved, and their throats made a hoarse sound as they pounced towards Liu Shengzhi.

Liu Shengzhi was greatly alarmed. These monsters were so fierce that if he were caught, he would be bitten to death. So, he hurriedly fled.

Although these monsters were tall, they moved extremely quickly. Liu Shengzhi knew that if he tried to run in another direction, he wouldn't escape, so he ran in the direction from which the monsters had come.

In the mist, he saw that many households had lit bonfires at their doorsteps. Some even threw bamboo segments into the fires, which crackled and popped.

Seeing Liu Shengzhi, who was dressed strangely, they all showed looks of shock and quickly closed their doors.