Chapter 88

Zhu Lingwu stood on the practice platform, assuming the posture of the Five Qi Gathering technique. As he guided his innate spiritual energy within his body with his soul consciousness, he connected the five points of innate spiritual energy that had already been condensed in his five organs.

With the innate spiritual energy contained within Zhu Lingwu's body, this step had already consumed most of it, and the remaining bit was laboriously guided to his mouth by Zhu Lingwu.

Following the method of the Five Qi Returning to the Origin Heart Sutra, he adjusted his breathing frequency within his body. Then, his consciousness spurred the five points of innate spiritual energy within his body, creating a faint attraction. With each breath, the innate spiritual energy gathered in his mouth extended outward, attracting the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Although the spiritual energy in the practice room was relatively dense, the amount of spiritual energy of heaven and earth that entered Zhu Lingwu's body due to the attraction of his innate spiritual energy was only a little.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth, though like fine dust permeating the surroundings, could not be inhaled by ordinary people's breathing.

It was like a special kind of air, as if it had its own consciousness. When ordinary people breathed, it would actively avoid them, allowing only ordinary air to enter their bodies.

Unless in a place where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was extremely dense, it would be passively pushed into the bodies of ordinary people due to the pressure of the surrounding spiritual energy. Once it entered the body of an ordinary person, it could automatically improve their physical condition.

However, if one were to truly reach such a place, an ordinary person might not survive for long. They would experience a suffocating sensation and severe altitude sickness.

Because the denser the spiritual energy, the less ordinary air there is. For an ordinary person, being placed in an environment with extremely dense spiritual energy would be like being thrown into a pond; they would ultimately suffocate and die.

The practice room where Zhu Lingwu was, although it had a slightly denser spiritual energy compared to other places in the Wu Castle of the Zhu family, was not dense enough for the spiritual energy to enter his body on its own.

Therefore, each normal breath Zhu Lingwu took could only inhale ordinary air, not a trace of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. To inhale the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, he had to use the innate spiritual energy within his body to attract it.

With the weak innate spiritual energy Zhu Lingwu possessed, the amount of spiritual energy of heaven and earth he could attract each time was as thin as a spider's thread, which often led to the white fox, Xiao Bai, mocking and belittling him in the practice room.

Every time Zhu Lingwu came to the practice room to cultivate, he would bring Xiao Bai along. He had set up a special area for Xiao Bai in the practice room, allowing it to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and cultivate as well.

However, Xiao Bai's cultivation was different from Zhu Lingwu's. It could only absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth through its three fox tails, and each absorption had a limit. It needed to sleep to automatically digest the absorbed spiritual energy before it could continue to absorb more.

This was the tragic aspect of spirit beasts like Xiao Bai, unlike humans who could create cultivation techniques. They could only rely on their body's instincts to absorb and transform the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Even with its body's instincts, the efficiency of Xiao Bai's cultivation was not very high, but the amount of spiritual energy of heaven and earth it could absorb with its three fox tails was enough to make Zhu Lingwu feel depressed and want to dig a hole to bury himself.

However, the situation seemed different now. The white fox, attracted by Zhu Lingwu's muttering, couldn't help but watch with sparkling eyes as Zhu Lingwu played with a new cultivation method.

Zhu Lingwu's words were all heard by it, but it still didn't understand what Zhu Lingwu was trying to do.

At this moment, it was surprised to find that the five mystic ghost heads simultaneously spat out a snake-like five-element spiritual energy. These five-element spiritual energies twisted together, forming a colorful spiritual energy rope, which quickly spiraled around Zhu Lingwu's body, creating a hoop-like spiritual energy circle.

These energy lines, originally the fierce mystic ghost claws, were not in a combat state, so they did not release the terrifying and eerie ghost claws. Instead, they looked like a shimmering spiritual snake.

They had no head or tail, and as they twisted and entangled, they emitted five colors of light. These lights were not real light but the spiritual energy threads they had condensed.

However, since their spiritual energy was of a yin nature, the light inevitably carried a faint, dark glow. Nevertheless, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth still surged toward them.

These five-element spiritual energies, refined using the special techniques of the Mystic Ghost Sect for several decades, contained innate spiritual energy equivalent to the level of a third-layer Qi Cultivator.

While their spiritual energy might not seem very strong, for the current Zhu Lingwu, it was a force to look up to.

Therefore, Zhu Lingwu's soul consciousness could clearly feel the fluctuations of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth attracted by them around his body, which made him feel a bit elated.

This change naturally made the white fox a bit stunned. It seemed to understand what Zhu Lingwu was trying to do, but it detected a different taste in the innate spiritual energy released by the mystic ghost heads, making it feel that Zhu Lingwu's actions were quite strange.

As the spiritual energy circle around Zhu Lingwu's body gathered the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, five heads suddenly emerged from the circle, like branches growing from fingers.

Then, these heads, like the tongues of spiritual snakes, simultaneously extended thin beams of light toward Zhu Lingwu's mouth, which were the innate spiritual energy they had absorbed and transformed from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Zhu Lingwu's mouth, as if being poured with five different colored liquids, accumulated the spiritual energy.

"Still carrying some yin cold death qi, no, this won't do! How can this problem still occur?"

Zhu Lingwu naturally dared not casually introduce the accumulated spiritual energy in his mouth into his body. He first used his soul consciousness to examine the spiritual energy in his mouth.

He quickly discovered that although the innate spiritual energy in his mouth was not negative yin energy, it still contained some yin cold death qi.

Originally, the five-element spiritual energy released by the mystic ghost heads was inseparable from the yin cold death qi within the mystic ghost heads; otherwise, they could not transform into mystic ghost claws during combat.

However, now this yin cold death qi had become a headache for Zhu Lingwu, and it was quite difficult to get rid of.

Zhu Lingwu's brows inevitably furrowed...