In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

Chapter 684: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Fairy 56

For the next period of time, Ruyi remained in seclusion. When he was hungry, he would eat all the souls in the ball. When he was tired, he would sleep. After waking up, he would continue to absorb.

It's a pity that it's not known whether it's because Ruyi's cultivation has reached a bottleneck or because she has developed resistance to merit, it was very difficult for Ruyi to absorb the merit light balls of the five thousand-year-old centipedes. Normally, she could absorb all of them in just one night, but it took Ruyi several days to absorb just one light ball.

"Why? How did it become like this?" Ruyi couldn't figure it out. However, if she continued to stay in seclusion like this, nothing would change. Ruyi could only give up the plan to continue absorbing the light ball.

"Let's go out and ask Yan Chixia to see if he knows the reason!" There are too few confirmed practitioners in the world of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". Ruyi only remembers Yan Chixia, Zhiqiu Yiye, the old monk Baiyun Master, and the young monk Shifang. The rest are either monsters or ghosts.

After Ruyi came out, Yan Chixia and Zhiqiu Yiye were practicing sword nearby. She didn't want to disturb them, so she had to sit aside and wait. While waiting, Ruyi remembered what she had always wanted to do but had never done - improve her attack power and learn a powerful move.

Soon Zhiqiu Yiye put away his sword and turned around. When he saw Ruyi for the first time, a silly smile appeared on his face, "Senior, you are out of retreat!"

"Yes." Ruyi smiled back at Zhiqiu Yiye, then turned to look at Yan Chixia who had also put away his sword and said, "Master Yan, I have some questions about cultivation that I would like to ask you. Do you have time to help answer them?"

Although Yan Chixia was a little surprised, he did not refuse Ruyi. He nodded and agreed happily, "Miss Song, you are too polite. Although I am not proficient in cultivation, the great principles of the world are the same. Miss Song, please feel free to ask me. I will tell you everything I know!"

Ruyi believed in Yan Chixia's character, so she didn't hide anything. Apart from information about time travel, she basically told him everything she could. "I didn't have any bottlenecks when absorbing merit before, and my speed was very fast, but recently it's always been difficult to absorb..."

"Master Yan, do you know why this is happening?"

After listening to Ruyi's words, Yan Chixia frowned and fell into deep thought. Although he had never heard of the so-called practice method of the way of merit, after listening to Ruyi's description, he understood how this kind of practice method worked.

"Um......"

"After listening to Miss Song's words, I have a general understanding of the operation of the Way of Merit. Generally, cultivators draw the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into their bodies, break the shackles of their bodies by absorbing the spiritual energy, and accumulate spiritual energy to increase their cultivation."

"For Miss Song, it is by killing demons and monsters that she gains merits, and then by absorbing the merits, she increases her cultivation."

"In comparison, Miss Song actually has one step less than the average cultivator: breaking the shackles of the body!"

"Break the shackles of the body?" Yan Chixia's words shocked Ruyi. Ruyi had always relied on absorbing the merit light balls to practice and had never encountered any shackles. She thought it was because she was a natural fairy and her body was naturally transparent and free of shackles.

Could it be that even if one is born a fairy, the body will still be shackled?

Hearing Ruyi ask this question, Yan Chixia was so shocked that he accidentally tore off his beard. He asked Ruyi in disbelief: "Miss Song, you said you are a natural fairy?!!!"

"Then shouldn't you be cultivating immortal energy? Why is it the power of merit?"

"Hey? Taoist Master Yan, what do you mean by that?" Before Ruyi could react, Zhiqiu Yiye, who was eavesdropping on the side, couldn't help but ask, "Are you saying that the senior has been practicing incorrectly?"

At this moment, Ruyi suddenly felt the sadness of the casual practitioners in the novels about cultivating immortals. He embarked on the path of cultivation by chance, stumbling along the way with no one to help him. He practiced randomly relying solely on the messy knowledge he had accumulated from novels. If he had not asked Yan Chixia today, he would probably still not know what went wrong.

Fortunately, Yan Chixia's next words made Ruyi feel relieved.

He said: "However, I think that since Miss Song has not had any problems for such a long time, it means that this merit power can be used to replace the immortal energy for the natural immortals to practice."

"So, what does Daoist Master Yan mean?"

"I think there are two possibilities for Miss Song's situation. One is that the merit power that Miss Song absorbed contained certain impurities, which have never been cleared and have accumulated in Miss Song's body, similar to the poison of elixirs. Although it can help quickly improve cultivation in the early stage, in the later stage, the excessive accumulation of poison will block the meridians and hinder the upgrade."

"The second possibility is that the concentration of merit power in Miss Song's body is not high enough. According to the rules of cultivation of human cultivators, the spiritual energy is absorbed into the body and becomes Qi Refining. After Qi Refining, if you want to go further, you need to compress the spiritual energy in your body into liquid, which is called spiritual energy liquid. Only when you reach this step can you be considered to have established your foundation."

"Miss Song has been absorbing the power of merit but has never compressed it. The difficulty in absorbing it now may be because the power of merit in Miss Song's body is full. Only if Miss Song compresses the power of merit can she make room for new power of merit to come in..."

Yan Chixia's explanation was very easy to understand and Ruyi understood it immediately. She thought about it carefully and found that her situation was very likely to be as he said.

"Thank you for clearing up my confusion, I now have an idea."

Ruyi stood up and bowed solemnly to Yan Chixia, who taught him and answered his questions. Ruyi embarked on the path of cultivation alone, and began to have the ability to protect himself through self-study. Now he met Yan Chixia who helped him answer his questions. He was really lucky.

Although Zhiqiu Yiye had already established his foundation, he was unable to find the key to Ruyi's problem as quickly as Yan Chixia. Zhiqiu Yiye was also very grateful to Yan Chixia for being able to solve Ruyi's problem. He smiled and said, "That's great."

"I will continue to retreat and come out after I have resolved the problem."

Ruyi was determined to solve the problem, and after a brief chat, he couldn't wait to go back to the tent to continue practicing. Zhiqiu Yiye and Yan Chixia were attracted by Ruyi's hard-working attitude and also went back to the tent to meditate and practice.

Ruyi returned to the tent again and released her spiritual consciousness to look inward. Her body was originally grown by the innate energy of creation and the merits of the Heavenly Dao, so there were no shackles. All the merits she absorbed had long been purified by the Heavenly Dao in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", and there were no impurities. Therefore, she was sure that her situation belonged to the second situation mentioned by Yan Chixia.

"It's really full, no wonder it can't be absorbed!"

If one regards cultivation as a container filled with gas, then the capacity of Ruyi's meridians is the capacity of the container, and the merit power she absorbs represents the gas added. When the container reaches a certain weight, it means that Ruyi's cultivation has reached the corresponding level.

The situation Ruyi is facing now is that the volume of gas in her current container has reached its limit, but the weight of this container has not yet reached the weight corresponding to the highest level.

Therefore, what Ruyi needs to do now is to find a way to compress the gas in his container again. If it is compressed into liquid, the weight will definitely increase.