"Senior Brother Jiang, I just memorized them by rote. If I want to actually use these moves, I'm afraid I still need to practice hard," Lin Hao said with a smile. Remembering the movements was one thing, but being able to perform them with his body was quite another and rather difficult.

  "That's already very good," Jiang Sheng suppressed his surprise in his heart. Seeing that Lin Hao had a good memory, he was actually quite happy instead.

  Because in this way, it would be much easier for him to teach, and he wouldn't have to waste too much of his own cultivation time.

  After hesitating for a moment, he took out a sheepskin scroll with a human body pattern drawn on it from his body and said, "This is the spiritual energy circulation meridian diagram corresponding to the moves of the Collapsing Mountain Fist, as well as the key points for using the boxing technique. Junior Brother Lin, after you memorize it, return this meridian diagram to me."

  "Alright, thank you, Senior Brother Jiang," Lin Hao nodded to express his gratitude and excitedly took the sheepskin scroll handed to him.

  "Junior Brother Lin, I'll start cultivating first," Jiang Sheng said in a warm-hearted manner. "If you have anything you don't understand, you can ask me after I finish cultivating."

  After saying that, he sat cross-legged and circulated the Xuanyue Qi Refining Art to seize the time and start cultivating.

  Jiang Sheng had been in the Xuanyue Sect for two years already, and only one year was left for him to become an outer sect disciple. He had to make every minute and second count.

  Seeing that the three of them had entered the cultivation state, Lin Hao sat down in a corner of the cave, opened the sheepskin scroll, and began to read it carefully.

  After unfolding the sheepskin scroll, it was about two feet long. There were twelve meridian diagrams on it, corresponding to the twelve moves, along with detailed textual explanations.

  After spending some time memorizing all the content on the sheepskin scroll, a look of surprise and joy appeared on Lin Hao's face.

  The Collapsing Mountain Fist was a body cultivation boxing technique. Not only could it be used in combat, but practicing it usually could also temper the muscles on the body and strengthen the physical body.

  However, there was a striking line of red characters on the sheepskin scroll warning cultivators that if they practiced this boxing technique too many times a day, their appetites would become extremely large. They would have to eat a lot of meat or take blood-nourishing medicinal diets and pills to replenish the potential of the physical body. Otherwise, the physical body simply couldn't bear it.

  Moreover, when practiced to a certain extent, ordinary meat wouldn't work, and precious demon beast meat would be needed.

  Body cultivation was indeed famous for being costly. Cultivation required the cooperation of medicinal diets, pills, and demon beast meat. Those without a thick family fortune couldn't afford to choose the path of body cultivation at all.

  If one only practiced hard without replenishing, their body would be ruined sooner or later.

  Lin Hao stared blankly at the introduction to body cultivation on the sheepskin scroll and couldn't help clicking his tongue.

  He had heard that body cultivators had extremely strong combat capabilities and had always yearned for it in his heart. But when he saw the resources required for body cultivation, he felt an invisible pressure.

  "For now, I'll first learn the Collapsing Mountain Fist to improve my strength. As for whether to take the path of body cultivation later, it's not impossible. I have the Eternal Life Tower that can improve the quality of spirit herbs, pills, and magic weapons," Lin Hao thought to himself. "When the time comes, I'll sell the pills and magic weapons with improved quality, earn the price difference, and use the earned spirit stones to buy the materials needed for body cultivation."

  Thinking of this, he felt that it was quite feasible and couldn't help getting excited.

  The combat ability of body cultivators was extremely strong among those in the same realm. The chance of surviving in the face of danger was much higher than that of cultivators who didn't practice body cultivation. Lin Hao, who was rather afraid of death, planned to practice both the law and body cultivation in the future.

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  After imagining the future in his mind for a while, he put the sheepskin scroll away.

  Lin Hao stood up. Worried that the noise from practicing boxing would be too loud and affect the cultivation of the other three people in the cave, he hesitated for a moment and walked a certain distance towards the entrance of the cave before assuming a stance to practice the boxing technique.

  Lin Hao circulated the spiritual energy in his body and, according to the method recorded on the sheepskin scroll, let it flow into specific meridians, constantly using the moves of the Collapsing Mountain Fist.

  Thanks to his good memory, after practicing for about half an hour, he had barely mastered the Collapsing Mountain Fist and reached the beginner level.

  Lin Hao was covered in sweat. He felt that the muscles on his body were hot and even trembled slightly. This was a manifestation of the physical body being tempered.

  After a while, he stopped punching, stood still, and slowly exhaled a turbid breath.

  Today, the time Lin Hao spent on practicing the Collapsing Mountain Fist was almost enough. Since he didn't have demon beast meat, medicinal diets, pills, or other things to replenish his body at present, if he practiced any more, it would harm his body.

  He understood that body cultivation had to be done step by step. Otherwise, just like when he was on Earth before transmigrating, if he didn't exercise usually and suddenly exercised vigorously one day, his muscles would be sore and uncomfortable for the next week.

  After finishing practicing boxing, Lin Hao walked back from the position near the entrance of the cave to the inside of the cave, sat cross-legged not far from the other three people, and entered the cultivation state.

  Nothing happened throughout the night.

  In the early morning, as the sun just rose, the first ray of sunlight with a purple hue sprinkled on the continuous mountains.

  Lin Hao and the others, who had cultivated all night, went down the mountain in high spirits and rushed towards the mine. After drinking a big bowl of spirit porridge in the cafeteria, they entered the mine cave and started working.

  In the following days, there weren't many significant changes.

  The life of miscellaneous disciples was rather plain. Lin Hao spent his days either cultivating or working in the mine cave.

  In the blink of an eye, several months had passed.

  During this period, there were several times when miscellaneous disciples from other rooms came to snatch the mining area territory occupied by them, but they were all driven back.

  Lin Hao had already practiced the upper part of the Collapsing Mountain Fist to a proficient level, while his progress in the Qi Refining realm was a bit slow.

  After reaching the second level of Qi Refining, the amount of spiritual energy required was several times more than that at the first level of Qi Refining.

  Even though he practiced hard every day in the cave with rich spiritual energy, he was still far from reaching the middle stage of the second level of Qi Refining.

  "With the five-element spiritual root, cultivation is really difficult! Alas! Since Master Eternal Life Immortal Venerable fell into a deep sleep, it's as if he disappeared. I can't even ask for cultivation experience," Lin Hao showed a bitter smile on his face. According to this progress, he was afraid that he would have to wait for another half a year before he had a chance to enter the middle stage of the second level of Qi Refining.

  Cultivating the Tao was really difficult! Every step was going against the heavens.

  "I've been in the Xuanyue Sect for a year before I knew it. Alas! I'm a year older," Lin Hao felt that time passed too quickly. It seemed that apart from cultivating to the second level of Qi Refining in a year, he hadn't achieved anything else. Feeling a bit depressed, he opened the window of the small wooden house and looked at the goose-feather-like snowflakes floating outside.

  The heavy snow had blocked the mountain. The snow was so thick that it was very difficult to move around in the steep mountains. With their not-so-high cultivation levels, Lin Hao and the other three were blocked by the snow and couldn't enter that cave with rich spiritual energy to cultivate for a long time. Their cultivation speed became much slower again.

  The snow all over the sky was beautiful, but the miscellaneous disciples didn't have much leisure and elegance to appreciate it. They were the bottom of the immortal cultivation world, like wage slaves, and still had to work every day.

  "Let's go, Junior Brother Lin. Let's go to the mine cave," Jiang Sheng picked up the mining tools and called out to Lin Hao.

  "Alright, okay, Senior Brother Jiang," Lin Hao replied.

  The ten miscellaneous disciples living in one room walked forward against the wind and snow along a cleared path.

  The coldness of the air, accompanied by the strong wind, made them shiver involuntarily even though they were all cultivators and were wearing cotton-padded clothes.

  It wasn't until they entered the mine cave that the biting cold subsided a lot.

  "Everyone, don't start working yet. Come and receive your spirit stones," suddenly, an outer sect disciple in the mine cave shouted loudly.

  "Wow! Finally, it's the day to distribute spirit stones!"

  Hearing this, a large number of miscellaneous disciples in the mine cave became excited.

  After all, people like Li Feilong, whom Lin Hao had met in the new miscellaneous disciple area and who came from an immortal cultivation family and had quite a number of spirit stones, were in the minority.

  Most of the miscellaneous disciples in the ore area of the Xuanyue Sect were poor fellows without any background. They were all looking forward to the two low-grade spirit stones at the end of the year to speed up their cultivation and improve their cultivation levels.