The Sword Dynasty Volume 1 Chapter 5: Spiritual Practice

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To comprehend the mystery and get enlightened was the first realm of spiritual practice: “pa.s.s through the mystery”, which meant entering the ranks of spiritual pract.i.tioners officially.

As for the second realm, which was called “practice Qi,” spiritual pract.i.tioners get to know the inner view of the body, penetrate the channels and collaterals and acc.u.mulate true Qi in organs, making the Qi flow continuously in the body.

Those pract.i.tioners who reached the second realm, were able to use the true Qi to fight against the enemy in the outside world, and remove all internal impurities from the inside body, which had benefits beyond ordinary people's imagination.

For any pract.i.tioner who crossed the second realm, unless he was obsessed with deep resent concerning life and death, the rest of things would never be so important as spiritual practice.

How could ordinary joy be compared with the pleasure of solving problems in spiritual practice and feeling the growth and power of the body?

When the pract.i.tioner could inhale aura of earth and heaven, he then reached the third realm of practice – power core realm.

There were no two pract.i.tioners with exactly the same qualifications in the world. Even twins born at the same time would form countless tiny differences from the beginning of their birth. Even with the help of an enlightening master on the way of practice, the master could not completely fathom the subtle features of the disciple's body. Therefore, most of the way to practice required one's own perception. It was like a man who was not good at swimming tried to cross the river in the dark by touching stones, which was always dangerous, and when he reached one new realm, the situation would be more difficult.

Lightsnow talked about power core, which implied that she had reached at least the third realm. Ding Ning knew the real level of her power, and the danger implied in her calm tone, but he did not have the slightest panic; instead, he dealt with matters in an orderly way.

After was.h.i.+ng his body quickly and changing clothes, he carefully cut a basin of tofu, putting chopped green onion and sprinkling sesame oil.

After eating two bowls of leftover rice with tofu mixed with chopped green onion, he walked into the bedroom in the backyard.

In fact, for his present body condition, it didn’t matter to skip this meal. However, he was very clear that if he just bought sesame oil but didn’t actually use it, the doubts of the officials of the Jiantian Department would be raised and they would finally discover some hidden facts.

He was also very clear that, according to the work process of the Jiantian Department, after confirming that there was no problem twice, the department would destroy the investigation papers concerning him, and the supervisor's eyes would not fall on him for a long time.

This was also one of the real reasons why he deliberately appeared in the sight of Mo Qinggong today.

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There were two beds in the crude bedroom with a grey curtain in the middle. It was very normal for people of an ordinary family with no spare room to live with families or relatives in the same room.

However, after closing the bedroom door, Ding Ning did not go to his bed but walked to Lightsnow’s bed and tidied up the bedding, quickly taking off his outerwear.

Like many nights in the past, when he lay down quietly on the inner side of the wall, Lightsnow came to the bed through the darkness and lay down beside him, "Let's get started."

Except for the coldness, there weren’t any other emotions in Lightsnow’s eyes. When she lay down beside Ding Ning, she didn't even look at Ding Ning.

When she spat out these three words coldly, her body began to emanate a real cold breath.

In the darkness, Ding Ning was always staring at her. Looking at her cold face, complicated emotions rose from his heart, and a weak smile slowly appeared on his face. However, in the next moment, the mood in his eyes disappeared completely, and the expression on his face became extremely solemn and dignified.

A unique breath emanated from him, even the extremely tiny dust in the air was blown away from him. The s.p.a.ce around him and Lightsnow was like being cleaned by a large amount of clean water.

This kind of breath was very similar to that of five officials with black umbrellas in the lane and those who arrived later, but Ding Ning’s breath was somewhat weak.

However, in spite of his weak breath, it was enough to prove that he was a spiritual pract.i.tioner.

Lightsnow seemed to fall fast asleep and her breathing became slow and long.

However, her body became colder and colder, and frost began to slowly appear on the bedding.

Even the breath she exhaled generated tiny crystal blue ice sand.

When every tiny blue ice sand fell on the bedding, it would make a strange sound and turn into a wisp of blue power which was even colder than ice and snow.

The rising blue power contacted the moist air and then instantly produced snow-white ice and snow.

Therefore, it seemed that countless ice flowers with blue inside and white surface were growing on the bedding around her body.

When she exhaled the blue ice sand, her eyelashes quivered slightly and her eyebrows wrinkled up. It seemed that her body also intuitively felt pain in the unconscious practice.

Ding Ning closed his eyes with some concern.

The surface of his body also generated a layer of frost, but his face was getting rosy and his body temperature was going up. The blood vessels hidden under the skin were bulging, some even protruding, and the blood flowing rapidly in the blood vessels could be clearly seen.

In the quiet bedroom, there was a sound of stirring hot air in the stove chamber.

No breath flowed from his body, but his body seemed to become a container with unique attraction.

With the slight clicking sound, the ice flowers on the bedding began to crack. The blue power began to slowly flow into his body.

White frost flowers danced around Lightsnow and Ding Ning. It was like a snowstorm in this narrow s.p.a.ce.

Ding Ning's chest became bright in the small snowstorm, and his organs emitted faint red glow and radiated heat. However, to the surrounding snow, his glow was just like a weak candle that might extinguish at any time.

Practice was an amazing process.

In Ding Ning's consciousness, he was standing in an empty s.p.a.ce.

This s.p.a.ce seemed to be narrow and dark, yet it was very vast, with colorful cloud of power falling down.

This was the Spirit Sea of pract.i.tioner.

In his consciousness, under his feet was a blue sea. Deep in the clean sea, there was a glittering and translucent s.p.a.ce, like a palace made of jade.

This was what the pract.i.tioner called the Jade Palace.

And above his head, among the colorful cloud of power, there was a particularly bright s.p.a.ce, which was the Heaven Orifice.

Spirit Sea, Jade Palace and Heaven Orifice; once the three secrets could be sensed and integrated by the pract.i.tioner, the Qi of organs in the body would flow continuously and turn into true Qi.

However, at this moment, there was no any true Qi condensation in the center of his Spirit Sea. Instead, plumes of colorful power flowing to the center turned into extremely hot flame after fusion.

With a horrible high temperature, the extremely clean and transparent flame in Ding Ning’s consciousness burned to the Heaven Orifice above, as if to burn through the whole Spirit Sea.

However, there were numerous ice sands of blue color that were also falling in the center of the air sea. Each falling ice sand was to destroy a flame, and then a ray of transparent Qi was generated in the middle and fell into the Jade Palace under Spirit Sea.

Time pa.s.sed slowly.

The colorful power in the air sea was getting weaker and weaker, and the flame was about to extinguish, but the falling blue ice sand did not stop.

This was naturally a real accident for Ding Ning.

Just a breath, he woke up and opened his eyes at a speed that ordinary pract.i.tioners could not imagine.

Several pieces of ice fell from his eyelashes.

He didn't look at his own body. In the darkness, he saw the wind and snow around him constantly swirling, while the surface of Lightsnow’s body had already formed a layer of hard ice sh.e.l.l.

Her body had almost no heat, and it seemed that her blood had been frozen. However, a breath of Qi in her body was still flowing on its own, and tiny blue ice sand was constantly blowing out of her body.

Ding Ning's eyes were instantly filled with shock. When he knew what had happened, he covered himself like a quilt to Lightsnow’s body without any hesitation.

At the moment of physical contact, the bitter cold made his face extremely pale. However, at the next moment, his consciousness entered into his own Spirit Sea.

He hugged Lightsnow, who had nearly become ice, and unconsciously held her tighter and tighter.

His skin became hot and red.

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With a cracking sound, the hard sh.e.l.l covering Lightsnow’s body suddenly broke.

Countless pieces of ice did not fall on the bedding, but was shaken by some mysterious force between the two people into countless powder and floated out.