I Try To Become An Immortal Through Mortal Science

  Chapter 28 The Mystery of the Bottleneck

   One after another, Huanglong Pills entered her stomach, Luo Hong's cultivation level increased at a steady speed, and the silver runes in the meridians of the basic skills were also steadily comprehended.

   But the good times don't last long, less than a month has passed, Luo Hong had an accident while refining the power of the Yellow Dragon Pill, the new mana that should have entered the dantian was squeezed out, and then spilled out.

  Luo Hong glanced at her current mana limit, it was 500, and her cultivation base was only 11 mana limit away from the peak of the eighth level of Qi Refining.

   "It turned out to be a bottleneck, great!"

   During the Qi refining period, the immortal practitioners will generally advance from the fourth floor to the fifth floor, from the eighth floor to the ninth floor, and from the 12th floor to the thirteenth floor. These three barriers encounter bottlenecks.

  If you can’t break through, you can’t go further. I don’t know how many immortal cultivators’ road to foundation building have been cut off before these three hurdles.

  However, Luo Hong regarded the bottleneck as an extremely rare research opportunity. He didn't feel any obstacles when he was promoted from the fourth floor to the fifth floor. He felt quite disappointed at that time, but now he finally caught him.

   "Let me just say, how can I not encounter bottlenecks with my fourth-grade spiritual root aptitude? I was just worrying about it before."

  In fact, the so-called bottleneck can be known only from the data, which is the phenomenon that the immortal cultivator cannot reach the upper limit of mana required to break through to the next level through cultivation in a normal way.

  Luo Hong had heard some commonly used methods to break through bottlenecks when he happened to attend lectures in Chuan Gong Hall, and all of these previous experiences have verified his conclusions.

  First of all, the best way is to take drugs, take a powerful elixir, and use the increased mana limit in a short period of time to forcefully break through the bottleneck.

  The second is to purify your own mana, spend a lot of time polishing and refining it over and over again, and then you can break through the bottleneck naturally.

All immortal cultivators who encounter bottlenecks in the Qi refining period will choose to take drugs, but the reality will force most of them to take the path of pure mana, which is why there are so many refiners with pure mana in Huangfeng Valley. Old man

   Figure out what is the bottleneck, the next question is:

  Why is the upper limit of magic power of the cultivators restricted?

  Why do immortal cultivators with good spiritual root qualifications not encounter bottlenecks?

  These two questions are not difficult to answer. As we all know, the Qi refining period is actually the period when cultivators polish and strengthen their dantian.

  Then the upper limit of mana cannot be increased, naturally because the dantian of the immortal cultivator can no longer hold more mana.

The spiritual root aptitude determines the purity of a cultivator's initial mana. Taking Luo Hong's fourth-grade spiritual root as an example, he can absorb four of the five elements' aura during cultivation. Roots, also run a kung fu, Luo Hong's mana will have more impurities in it.

   That is to say, the higher the qualification of the spiritual root, the higher the purity of the mana cultivated by the immortal cultivator.

  The higher the purity of mana, the greater the actual mana stock in the dantian of the same size, so that high-quality cultivators will naturally not encounter bottlenecks.

  Then should I start consciously purifying mana for future cultivation?

  Luo Hong couldn't help but fall into this kind of thinking.

   This is something that other cultivators don't need to consider at all. There are too few pills that can help break through the bottleneck. Not purifying mana is tantamount to giving up the road of cultivating immortals.

  The reason why Luo Hong hesitated was because he thought of those seniors in Huangfeng Valley who had reached the foundation establishment stage but were trapped by the foundation establishment bottleneck.

  They are basically immortal cultivators with second-grade spiritual roots. With their aptitude and long-term polishing of their own mana, their mana should be quite pure, but they still cannot be broken through. Why?

  Obviously, besides the purity of mana, there must be other restrictions!

  After thinking about it, the problem most likely lies in the size of the dantian.

  Because when the purity of mana is difficult to change, the only thing that can significantly increase the upper limit of mana is the size of the dantian.

  The size of the dantian is only related to a person's physique. Except for the few dharma bodies, there should be only slight differences between each immortal cultivator.

Immortal cultivators with second-grade spiritual roots have cultivated all the way. Although they have encountered very few bottlenecks, they may have expanded their dantian during foundation building, because it is not necessary at other times, which ultimately makes it difficult for their upper limit of mana to meet the needs of the next level. .

  Of course at this stage, there will always be immortal cultivators aware of this problem, and they will also try to expand the dantian, but why have few of them succeeded?

   Could it be that the expansion of the dantian is not so easy?

  Luo Hong felt that it was necessary to do an experiment, so he took another Huanglong Pill.

  This time, he no longer stored every bit of mana he extracted into his dantian, but let them continue to circulate in the meridians along with the aura, and finally stuffed the extracted 6 mana into his dantian.

  Luo Hong was 11 mana short of the breakthrough. Although the 6 mana could not allow him to break through, it also made his dantian exceed the current carrying limit, so his dantian was slightly enlarged.

  However, the next moment, the dantian began to retract, and the 6 mana that Luo Hongqiang stuffed in was quickly forced out.

   "It turns out that there will be this kind of reaction. In this case, if you want to expand the dantian, you must continuously input mana into the dantian, so that the dantian can maintain the expanded state for a long time, and finally enter a stable state.

  The power of mana input cannot be less than that expelled from the dantian, otherwise it is useless. How to do this? "

  Luo Hong quickly thought of the simplest way, taking a highly powerful pill, refining part of the medicinal power and stuffing it into the dantian, and the remaining medicinal power was continuously refined into mana to supplement it as in normal cultivation.

   "If I want to maintain the balance and get the maximum benefit, I need to collect more data."

   After finishing speaking, Luo Hong took another Huanglong Pill, this time he first stuffed it with 2 mana, and after it was all squeezed out, he forced it in again with 4 mana.

  The result is obvious, the more mana is forced in, the faster the mana will be squeezed out of Dantian.

   "Fortunately, I practice with the spiritual pressure method. The inner spiritual pressure in the meridians is stable, and the mana produced per unit time is fixed, otherwise it would be really difficult to control."

  After some calculations, the result is shocking.

  Luo Hong accelerated her cultivation speed by more than 20 times under the spiritual pressure method, but she can barely maintain her dantian by 10 mana beyond the limit!

   This does not mean that you can break through twice in a row. The first time you can exceed the limit by 10 mana, but after the dantian expands, you may not be able to sustain even 1 mana beyond the limit next time.

  According to this calculation result, it is impossible for a cultivator to break through the bottleneck by swallowing pills, but the facts tell Luo Hong that taking drugs is the easiest way to break through the bottleneck.

  Practice is the only criterion for testing the truth, and the data will not lie, it is only possible that Luo Hong has missed a crucial factor!

   This unknown factor can provide the missing part of the cultivation speed when the cultivator breaks through the bottleneck.

  (end of this chapter)