My dreams can simulate the future.

Chapter 8 Qi Refining Level 4

Seeing this, Jiang Chen was not angry but pleased: "Your magical power has increased so much; it's been several months since I've seen this before."

Two years ago, Jiang Chen's cultivation had already reached the peak of the third level of Qi Refining. Even with several hours of arduous cultivation every day, the increase in his magical power was barely noticeable.

However, if one wants to break through to the fourth level of Qi Refining, one's accumulation is insufficient; this is the bottleneck.

During the Qi Refining stage, there is a minor bottleneck at both the third and sixth levels.

A cultivator with good talent can easily break through minor bottlenecks.

For cultivators with lower-grade spiritual apertures, it's perfectly normal to be stuck at a minor bottleneck for ten or eight years.

If you lack talent and want to break through minor bottlenecks, there are only two paths.

One method is to take the Minor Breakthrough Pill. One Minor Breakthrough Pill can increase the probability of breaking through a minor bottleneck by 30%, with extremely significant effects.

But each one of these things costs fifty spirit stones, and even one isn't enough; very few independent cultivators can afford it.

Moreover, the Minor Barrier-Breaking Pill is extremely rare on the market, and its appearance always causes a frenzy of buying, making it impossible for Jiang Chen to obtain one.

Secondly, there is the practice of grinding away at the bottom. Even if the increase in magical power from meditation is almost negligible, it can still make the magical power more refined.

The purer one's magical power, the easier it is to break through minor bottlenecks.

The second route takes longer, but it has many advantages.

With a solid foundation, one's cultivation will improve faster after breaking through minor bottlenecks.

Many family members or sect disciples, if their age and talent allow, will not choose the Minor Breakthrough Pill.

Instead, they chose the second path: to solidify their foundation.

The biggest drawback of the second route is that it takes too long.

The average lifespan of a Qi Refining cultivator is 120 years. After half of their lifespan has passed, their essence, energy, and spirit begin to decline, making it much more difficult to break through.

Qi Refining cultivators who want to break through to Foundation Establishment generally attempt to do so before the age of sixty.

Therefore, time is still very tight for Qi Refining cultivators.

It takes ten or eight years to overcome a minor bottleneck at the third level of Qi Refining, and it's even harder to break through the minor bottleneck at the sixth level of Qi Refining.

Adding in the time spent on regular cultivation, he might not even reach the ninth level of Qi Refining by the time he's sixty, let alone Foundation Establishment.

Therefore, taking this second path requires external assistance to shorten the time required.

There are many types of external forces. For example, some secret techniques can make magic power more refined in a short period of time, and special cultivation environments can also purify magic power.

These two external forces are something that even small forces cannot possess, let alone a rogue cultivator like Jiang Chen.

The only external force he could rely on was the common elixir for enhancing cultivation, the Spirit Gathering Pill.

Before his grandfather was alive, Jiang Chen occasionally had Spirit Gathering Pills to eat. After his grandfather went out to hunt demons and never returned, the supply of Spirit Gathering Pills stopped.

It wasn't until now that it was finally reconnected.

At this moment, the free-floating magical power within Jiang Chen's dantian that had not been absorbed was slowly dissipating.

He was naturally unwilling to waste it, so he immediately stood up and began to adopt a rather contorted posture to circulate his qi and blood.

The magical power was drawn in and slowly merged into the blood. About 30% of it was transformed into the power of qi and blood, while the rest of the magical power could only dissipate.

Jiang Chen's grandfather, Jiang Yun, also rose from humble beginnings as a rogue cultivator. As a talisman master, he was not short of money and thus collected many common cultivation techniques and spells among rogue cultivators.

At this moment, the cultivation technique he was practicing was the [Wild Bull Body Tempering Technique], a low-level body tempering technique commonly found among independent cultivators.

The content is very simple. There are no methods to temper the physical body, nor are there any prescriptions to nourish the physical body. It simply consumes magical power to enhance qi and blood.

When your Qi and blood are strong, your physical body will naturally become stronger as well; it's not wrong to call it body refinement.

Although the technique is rudimentary, it has few side effects, and many people practice it.

After cultivating for another two hours, the free-floating magical power was completely exhausted. Jiang Chen felt his whole body was hot, as if he had inexhaustible strength.

"With the spiritual energy support of the Spirit Gathering Pill, even a low-level body-refining technique like the Wild Bull Body Tempering Technique can achieve such good results."

The Spirit Gathering Pill is good, but it costs spirit stones. I only have three spirit stones left, so I need to start drawing talismans to earn money.

He sat cross-legged again, adjusted his state, and prepared to draw the talisman.

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Twenty days have passed.

These days, Jiang Chen draws talismans forty times a day. In the remaining time, he also needs to refine a Spirit Gathering Pill and cultivate the Wild Bull Body Tempering Technique to consume the magic power that cannot be completely absorbed.

Four hours are needed for meditation to restore consciousness and energy for the Dream Butterfly Painting.

Over the past twenty days, Jiang Chen has consumed twenty Spirit Gathering Pills.

At this moment, Jiang Chen took out another Spirit Gathering Pill, swallowed it, and began to refine it.

Just like before, the spiritual energy within the pill was refined through the spiritual aperture and finally flowed into the middle dantian.

Under Jiang Chen's guidance, all the magical power was trying to merge into those three strands of stable magical power.

Currently, the effects of the Spirit Gathering Pill on him are already very weak. Only about one percent of the spiritual power from a single Spirit Gathering Pill will be integrated into his stabilizing magic power.

This time was no exception; under the influence of the technique, a very small amount of magical power merged into the three strands of stable magical power.

Suddenly, as if some kind of restriction had been lifted, the third strand of stable magic power suddenly began to rapidly devour the free magic power.

Jiang Chen was overjoyed: "The bottleneck is broken? I was planning to try to simulate a breakthrough in my dream when my magic power could no longer increase!"

Unexpectedly, I'm about to break through like this, all by accident.

He focused his mind and continuously circulated the Hunyuan Nourishing Body Technique, guiding the wandering magical power to merge into the third strand of stable magical power.

Before long, a strand of magical power, as thick as a silkworm thread, separated from the third strand of stable magical power.

Subsequently, this newly emerged magic began to absorb the free magic, continuously strengthening itself.

Half an hour later, the newly emerged wisp of stable magic power grew to the thickness of an embroidery needle, and the speed at which it absorbed free magic power slowed down.

Instead of forcibly absorbing spiritual energy, he guided his magical power to circulate through his meridians, thereby triggering a complete transformation of his body.

As his magical power circulated, Jiang Chen felt his blood and energy rapidly increasing, and even his spiritual power was rapidly improving.

A day passed, and Jiang Chen awoke from his meditation.

Feeling a tremendous boost in his energy and spirit, he was overjoyed: "I've finally broken through to the fourth level of Qi Refining. I'll be able to have some status now."

Buying some more magical artifacts and high-grade first-rank talismans should be enough to protect myself.

"By the way, with my cultivation level increasing, the quality and quantity of my divine sense should also have improved. The progress of the second dream butterfly forming in the Dream Butterfly Diagram, as well as the simulation time, should also have improved."

With a single thought, darkness descended upon the scene before me.

He probed the Dream Butterfly Diagram with his divine sense, and a surge of information immediately flooded into his consciousness.

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Number of Dream Butterflies: 1

Second Dream Butterfly Condensation Progress: 20% (affected by divine sense strength)

【Dream Butterfly Energy: 100%】

[Current number of dream visits: 1/1]

[The maximum time limit for simulated future events in dreams: one day and two hours (affected by the total amount of spiritual consciousness)]

Seeing this, Jiang Chen excitedly rubbed his hands together: "Great! After breaking through to the fourth level of Qi Refining, the progress of the second Dream Butterfly has reached 20%."

Upon reaching the late stage of Qi Refining, it is possible to condense a second Dream Butterfly.

"The duration of each dream entry has also been increased by two hours. The longer the dream entry simulation lasts, the greater the room for manipulation."

Even if disasters occur in the future, as long as we know them early enough, we can prepare in advance.