Chapter 61: Spiritual Power

Mr. Zhuang handed the jade slip of the Tian Yan Jue to Mo Hua, saying:

"This jade slip, which transmits an ancient cultivation method, is also a bit special. You can only use your divine sense to explore the following cultivation method when your cultivation reaches a certain realm. There are no restrictions on the Qi Refining period cultivation method, but the Foundation Establishment period cultivation method can only be seen by cultivators who have cultivated the Tian Yan Jue and whose cultivation has reached the Foundation Establishment period."

"Most ancient cultivation methods have one method per slip. If the jade slip is lost, the method is basically lost as well. Even if some methods are carved on several jade slips, you may not necessarily find them. The cultivation world is so vast; finding an obscure ancient cultivation method jade slip is no different from fishing for a needle in the sea. Moreover, this Tian Yan Jue jade slip is the only one I have ever seen in my lifetime."

"So you must keep this jade slip safe and absolutely cannot lose it!"

Mo Hua solemnly took the jade slip, feeling it was even heavier than it seemed, but his heart couldn't help but feel joyful.

This was a true cultivation method. Once he learned it, he would truly be considered to have stepped into the ranks of cultivators. On the vast and boundless path of cultivation, he had also officially taken the first step.

Mo Hua told his father and mother about Mr. Zhuang transmitting the cultivation method.

Mo Shan was very happy. Although this cultivation method didn't cultivate much spiritual power, that sentence, "not suitable for cultivation by non-array masters," immediately indicated its extraordinary nature. In the entire Tongxian City, there had not been many true array masters among the loose cultivators.

Furthermore, this array method was given by the profound and mysterious Mr. Zhuang and was said to be an ancient cultivation method, which was naturally precious and extraordinary. At the very least, it was much better than the cultivation methods passed among loose cultivators.

Mo Shan knew that Mr. Zhuang didn't value spirit stones, those vulgar things, very much. He also thought that since Mr. Zhuang ate all the wine and meat Mo Hua sent each time, it must be to his liking.

The next day, before dawn, Mo Shan went up the mountain in the dark and hunted several demon beasts. Three days later, he came down the mountain, carrying a large bundle. Inside the bundle were packed several kinds of meat from cattle and sheep demon beasts, all from the most tender parts of the tenderloin. To keep them fresh, they were not even put into a storage bag.

Liu Ru Hua washed these meats clean and smoked, fried, or sauced them, making them into fresh, fragrant, and spicy various flavors. She garnished them with some green spices and neatly placed them in food boxes.

She also took out several pots of their home-brewed various fragrant fruit wines and several boxes of freshly fried, fragrant pine nuts, and had Mo Hua deliver them up the mountain together. She instructed Mo Hua to bring some words of thanks, such as "not to disturb Mr. Zhuang's quiet cultivation, but just to express our gratitude."

Mr. Zhuang received the food boxes without saying anything, but his expression was very pleased. He sat in the bamboo pavilion, enjoying the breeze and the mountain scenery, eating a mouthful of meat and drinking a cup of clear wine.

Kui Lao was also very satisfied with the pine nuts. As soon as the several boxes of pine nuts were handed to him, they disappeared before Mo Hua's eyes. He didn't know where Kui Lao put them, not even one box was left for Mr. Zhuang.

Mo Hua also brought some for the Bai family siblings, just to express his thanks.

Bai Zi Xi ate two pieces of meat and drank more of the sweet osmanthus wine brew. Her cheeks were red, and her eyes were bright, like the stars in the sky, twinkling.

Bai Zi Sheng was not polite. He liked to eat spicy food and ate in big mouthfuls. Even though he was sweating profusely from the spice, he still ate very happily.

Mo Hua saw his eating manner and couldn't help but ask: "You don't usually lack meat, right?"

"You just don't understand this," Bai Zi Sheng said. "Usually, we eat spirit beast meat. The meat is fine and tender, but it has no chewiness, and the spiritual energy is too abundant, so it doesn't taste like much."

Mo Hua felt his words were somewhat infuriating. Until now, he hadn't eaten much spirit beast meat. Apart from what his mother made, the most memorable was the pheasant stolen by Da Hu and the others from a Tongxian Sect elder, which they roasted until it was burnt.

Bai Zi Sheng ate and drank his fill, then asked Mo Hua about the cultivation method.

Mo Hua told him about Mr. Zhuang transmitting the cultivation method.

Bai Zi Sheng was slightly envious. "Mr. is really good to you, but this cultivation method cultivates spiritual power that is too low and weak."

"There's no other way. Worldly affairs are always hard to be completely as one wishes. There must always be choices."

Bai Zi Sheng curled his lips. "You're not old, but you speak like a little old man."

"Does low and weak spiritual power really have a big impact?"

Mo Hua suddenly became a little concerned again.

"Naturally," Bai Zi Sheng said. "Cultivators are people who cultivate the dao. What they cultivate is naturally spiritual power. If your spiritual power is low and weak, you won't be able to compare with others anywhere."

Bai Zi Sheng gave examples: "For example, if you want to fight with others, others have one hundred cycles of spiritual power, while you only have fifty. If you clash head-on, when others still have fifty cycles of spiritual power, your spiritual power will be exhausted, and you can naturally only be at their mercy."

"Cultivators need to use spiritual power for everything, not just sparring and fighting. They need it for refining tools, refining pills, and even for carrying storage boxes at the spiritual transport wharf."

"You refine one spiritual tool, others can refine two. You refine one furnace of pills, others can refine two furnaces. You carry ten boxes in half a day, others can carry twenty. The spirit stones earned are twice yours. How can you compare with others?"

"Then, as an array master, it shouldn't matter if my spiritual power is a little low and weak, right?" Mo Hua said somewhat unsurely.

"Um... that's also true." Bai Zi Sheng nodded. "The most troublesome thing for an array masters is the heavy consumption of divine sense. Spiritual power consumption is not much. When drawing arrays, generally, spiritual power is not used up, but divine sense is already exhausted. Being a bit low in spiritual power also won't affect you as an array master."

Mo Hua let out a sigh of relief.

Bai Zi Sheng patted Mo Hua's shoulder. "But you don't need to worry. Although your spiritual power is low, mine is high. Call me big brother, and I'll cover you. Later, if anyone bullies you, I'll beat them up for you."

"Forget it."

Bai Zi Sheng retreated and sought the next best thing. "Then you bring me beef to eat every day, and I'll cover you later."

"You can buy it yourself."

"Aunt Xue doesn't let me eat things casually, and she also tells me to eat less of things without spiritual energy."

"Oh."

"What do you mean 'oh'? I'm giving you face here..." Bai Zi Sheng said.

Mo Hua ignored him. Bai Zi Sheng chattered on, while Bai Zi Xi looked at them and drank another sip of the sweet wine brew.

In the following days, Mo Hua gave up the Tu Na Jue and formally began to cultivate according to the meridian diagram and Tu Na method of the Tian Yan Jue.

After cultivating several times, Mo Hua clearly felt the difference.

The refining speed was faster, the refined spiritual energy was purer, and the meridians throughout his body felt more unobstructed.

The only problem was that the spiritual power cultivated didn't have anything special about it.

Mo Hua asked Da Hu. Da Hu cultivated the fire-attribute Lie Hu Jue. After cultivating, his spiritual power would have a slight burning sensation, and later, when cultivating fire-attribute spells or body techniques, their power would also be stronger.

Shuang Hu cultivated the Gu Ben Gong. After cultivating, his spiritual energy and blood energy harmonized, and operating spiritual power would enhance his physical body. Mo Hua forgot the cultivation method San Hu cultivated, but his spiritual power would also have some special changes after cultivating.

Only Mo Hua's spiritual power, after cultivating, seemed to have no fundamental change compared to before.

The number of cycles of spiritual power refined by the Tian Yan Jue was also standard.

Compared to family disciples like the Bai siblings, he naturally couldn't compare, but compared to ordinary Qi Refining loose cultivators, he was considered mid-to-upper level, not too good, but acceptable.

Furthermore, the only special thing about this cultivation method might be that it consumed a bit more divine sense during cultivation, several times more than the basic Tu Na Jue.

But the Tu Na Jue, or general cultivation methods, didn't consume much divine sense during cultivation in the first place. Even several times more wasn't considered much, not even enough to use for drawing one array.

However, Mo Hua didn't originally expect this cultivation method to have anything special about it.

To Mo Hua, a cultivation method that could save spirit stones was the best cultivation method.