Raising Ducks for Daily Rewards-Chapter 43: Fourth Stage of Qi Refining

Spiritual power gathered, the tune of a flute was heard, and Ding Ding sounds appeared one after another.

It was like stone hitting ceramic or thunder hitting stone.

Just then, in rapid successions, the dings became louder and louder –

DING DING DING

DING DING

DING

As the last ding sounded, a silence befell for one second, until it was broken by a thunderous, earth-shattering...

DINGGGGGGG

Spiritual power suddenly burst forth like an explosion before it was sucked away, entering the dantian in mere seconds.

One after another, it was sucked and entered Fengyu’s dantian –

Until he even activated the formation plate, mobilising the spiritual power of the whole field to enter his dantian!

A vortex formed around the hut faintly.

Finally, a moment later, the spiritual power ceased and everything returned to normal.

"Fourth stage of QI Refining, the middle stage! I have escaped the ranks of those that have just entered the dao!"

Fengyu looked at his hands, a feeling of power spreading along his veins, as if he could touch the air and make it move along his thoughts –

Waving his hands, Swish sounds could be heard, momentary extreme movements creating a burst of wind, stunning Fengyu.

"Hahahaha, I am a bit of a joke, aren’t I?" he suddenly laughed at himself, the movement ceasing.

"Only the fourth stage, there is much to come!" he laughed at himself with a smile, truly feeling the beauty of cultivation.

Looking at the progression, he felt like he had achieved something –

[Cultivation: 4th stage of Qi Refining]

[Cultivation progress: 4.329%, +0.12%!] 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

"Breaking through the fourth stage, my stored power was directly absorbed!

0.3%, this is nearly a year’s worth of increase!

And my spiritual power... it feels fuller now.

It feels as if I’ve expanded the whole dantian, truly a unique feeling.

Before I always felt like the Qi Bowl was one small bowl in an endless expanse, and only after constructing the second bowl did I finally understand that the endless expanse is merely the endless space my dantian can expand towards, but the true size of my dantian is only a bowl.

The mid-stage bowl can hold up to 31% spiritual power, which is ten times the early-stage bowl.

Even without having progressed further, just the illusory limit already seems to be expanded countless times, the feeling of ’fullness’ disappearing fully.

Heh, now I can understand why the Qi Bowl Dantian has become the supreme art.

Isn’t it because entry is easy, breakthrough is difficult but manageable, and the reward after the mid stage is huge?

With only 3%, it seems every cultivator can reach the early stage regardless of their talent.

Although 4% is difficult, it’s still manageable since cultivators have experienced the difficulty of creating a Qi Bowl when they started cultivating.

And increasing their power from 4% to 10% seems difficult but in fact, it’s just a matter of time.

There is no real bottleneck between stages in one minor stage.

While they are indeed called different stages and each stage has its own small bottleneck, factually someone who has constructed the rather easy foundation of the mid-stage bowl will have no difficulty slowly gathering and grinding his way up to the limit of the mid-stage.

Even the high-stage doesn’t seem too difficult.

Those with the lowest talents can still achieve the peak of the mid stage, with some fortune and opportunity, breaking through to the late stage seems possible.

If your talent is slightly higher, then reaching the limit of the late stage in your lifetime is possible too, it’s just that it will likely be extremely difficult to achieve this before the age of 60.

Then, the real and final difficulty... should lie finally in the peak stage Qi Bowl.

This method, in every way, seems partially reliant on talent, partially on chance, but in fact, the core is that it relies on the fact of gathering and refining it for a long time.

It seems too easy yet the difficulty isn’t low, but it’s manageable.

Probably the only ones that can’t cultivate this method are those that live in extremely low spiritual power environments. But even they should be able to do it slightly slower, as the method doesn’t require a lot of spiritual power anyways.

Only after you constructed your Qi Bowl, to use spells, will you need a lot of spiritual power.

But the Qi Bowl itself doesn’t require much spiritual power, after all, it refines the spiritual power into a bowl that carries spiritual power."

Fengyu thought of many things, comprehending the method deeper and stabilising his foundation in the process.

He could only marvel at the beauty of this method, for he had heard of other methods that each had their strengths but also weaknesses.

From what he saw, for the Qi Refining stage, this method had not a single weakness.

Progression is smooth and seems to be gradual but is actually explosive, and the most important is that the true difficulty is at the peak, where most people have already gained a foothold in the world.

In such a situation, what else is there to complain about?

He was sure there were even better methods, but such methods would be impossible for him and waste the time of geniuses.

The path of geniuses isn’t to refine their foundation endlessly but explore and create new paths belonging to them.

An hour passed until Fengyu finally fully stabilised his foundation.

After all, the Qi Bowl was already stable and he only needed to check upon it, slightly refine some edges or do similar things, nothing major.

"With the second bowl, I can gather spiritual power with two bowls at the same time.

And I can feel that the suction power of the bowls are the same, this means that the effort put into the early stage doesn’t become negligible compared to the size of the second Qi Bowl.

Hmm...

I can imagine that someone would try to make a method where each stage or even each % is one Qi Bowl, resulting in a dantian with extremely high suction power.

But what’s the point...?

Which enemy will allow you to freely absorb spiritual power in a fight?

And the speed of absorption doesn’t matter when cultivating the Qi Bowl Dantian method.

So this seems like a stupid idea.

Would there really be someone who would make such a method, and even worse, someone who would practice it?"

He chuckled and threw the thoughts out of his mind, focusing on cultivating.

The feeling of your absorption speed doubling was truly delighting.