Mo Zhaoxie's words immediately made the middle-aged man stunned, and then shook his head and smiled bitterly. "What else do you say? You are obviously a lion's mouth. You just want to exchange for a fish for a Qi-refining technique in Qianxingmen. You can't do this business, you can't do it."

"Senior is wrong." Mo Zhaoxie did not give up on the transaction just because of the middle-aged man's words, but instead said firmly that the middle-aged man was wrong.

"What's wrong?" the middle-aged man looked at Mo Zhaoxie and asked.

"It's not one fish, but two, or many." Mo Zhaoxie flipped the grilled fish in his hand, "and what I'm talking about is any Qi-refining technique in the Thousand Star Gate."

This time, the middle-aged man did not shake his hair and laugh. Instead, he narrowed his eyes and looked at Mo Zhaoxie and asked, "What's your name? Which mountain does it belong to?"

Mo Zhaoxie stood up and inserted the grilled fish on the ground. He bowed his hand and said to the middle-aged man: "My younger generation is named Mo Zhaoxie, and he is temporarily staying in Tianxin Peak."

"Tianxin Peak?" After hearing Tianxin Peak, the middle-aged man's eyes changed significantly. He continued to ask: "Since you have already worshipped under Tianxin Peak, why do you still need martial arts? Didn't the Lord of Tianxin Peak pass on your martial arts?" The middle-aged man paused, looked up and down Mo Zhaoxie, and asked in confusion: "Where is your bag of food?"

"I think seniors have misunderstood." Mo Zhaoxie answered truthfully, "I said that I am temporarily staying in Tianxin Peak. But I have never said that I have entered Tianxin Peak. Maybe because I am a mediocre qualification, so the Lord of Tianxin Peak did not accept me as his disciple. Therefore, he did not pass on any skills. As for the bags that the seniors said, I really don't know what it is."

Hearing Mo Zhaoxie's words, the middle-aged man was silent for a moment before speaking, "So that's it." Then, the middle-aged man smiled at Mo Zhaoxie, "Anything can be done with any kind of Qi-refining technique?"

"Everything is OK!" Mo Zhaoxie replied.

"Okay," the middle-aged man waved his hand casually, and a yellowed book suddenly appeared in the middle-aged man's hands. The middle-aged man glanced at the yellowed book and threw it casually. "I want three fish."

Mo Zhaoxie grabbed the yellowed book and saw three words written crookedly on the wrinkled cover of its folds - Seven Stars! The handwriting was not only crooked, but also extremely ugly. I really don’t know who wrote it. Mo Zhaoxie took a random look and found that not only the handwriting on the cover was crooked and ugly. The book was also crooked, and there were even traces of human correction in many places.

Mo Zhaoxie smiled helplessly, "Senior's books are really shocking and terrifying."

"A casual one, this is what you said." The middle-aged man said with peace of mind.

"I didn't want to deny it, I just sighed." Mo Zhaoxie said, and grilled the fish on the fire again. Seeing that the grilled fish was almost done, Mo Zhaoxie took out a small animal skin bag from his waist. He grabbed some powder from it and spread it on the grilled fish, and a scent of fragrance spread out. The aroma of the grilled fish was several times stronger than the previous one.

"What is that?" asked the middle-aged man, smelling the scent of his nose.

"I accidentally got an unknown plant. After grinding its stems and leaves, sprinkling them on the food can improve the deliciousness of the food." Mo Zhaoxie said, and had already sprinkled powder on all the grilled fish.

Afterwards, Mo Zhaoxie grabbed a fish first, tasted it in front of the middle-aged man, and nodded with satisfaction and said, "It's cooked." As he said that, he grabbed the next one, Lu, who had already been drooling, and grabbed the grilled fish and feasted on him regardless.

Mo Zhaoxie picked up the thin bamboo pole, inserted three grilled fish and handed it to the middle-aged man. "Senior's grilled fish."

The middle-aged man took it without hesitation, tore off a piece of fish, and after savoring it carefully, nodding in satisfaction and complimenting: "No, I haven't eaten such a delicious food for a long time." Then, he didn't care about it and ate it with great pleasure.

Mo Zhaoxie smiled and sat on the ground to eat. Maybe the grilled fish was really delicious. Soon, more than a dozen fish were eaten up by two animals. Lu lies comfortably on the ground, letting the warm sunlight shine on its belly, looking very comfortable. Mo Zhaoxie was very satisfied with his craftsmanship, and after eating, he casually wiped his mouth with his sleeves. Suddenly, a piece of dirty appeared on the clean sleeves.

Seeing Mo Zhaoxie's appearance, the middle-aged man looked at his white sleeves, but he did not wipe his mouth casually like Mo Zhaoxie.

"It seems that I have eaten a lot." The middle-aged man looked at the fish bones beside him and said.

"It's okay, you can meet your seniors and have a destiny. This grilled fish is considered a filial piety to your seniors." Mo Zhao said evilly.

"That's it," the middle-aged man thought for a while and said, "Since you always call me senior, naturally, as a senior, you can't eat your fish for nothing. If you have anything to know, I'll explain it to you."

"Then I'm better to obey my destiny than to be respectful." Mo Zhaoxie bowed and said.

"Let me tell you about refining Qi, senior."

"Haha," the middle-aged man chuckled, "You are so general. Well, you have nothing to do and the fish won't take the bait, so I'll tell you."

Mo Zhaoxie sat on the ground and listened attentively.

"Where are all methods of practice between heaven and earth, namely, refining qi, body tempering, and spiritual cultivation. Among them, it is difficult to temper the body, and mysterious to cultivate the spirit. Not everyone can practice. Instead, refining qi means unique and become the first choice for those who practice. The spiritual energy in the world is full of energy, and the spiritual energy of the world is to introduce the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body. Let it continuously nourish the body and accumulate it in the body. Over time, you will understand the mystery of heaven and earth and achieve the great way."

"In fact, almost all the practitioners who are practicing today are practicing Qi cultivation. Continuously breaking through the realm, they can cultivate supreme magical powers, spread across the world, gain powerful power, drive the ability to turn clouds and rain, understand the mystery of immortality, and even do not die in chaos. One day, the heavenly tribulation will surround the heavens and go upwards, become the position of the supreme god, break through the void, and travel around the chaos of the universe."

What middle-aged people say is too general.

"Senior, the difference between the realms of qi refining." Mo Zhaoxie asked.

"The realm of Qi refining is not the first entry. The initial state is divided into seven steps. After seven steps, it is the realm of transformation of gods. Therefore, there is a saying in the world that seven steps are ascending to heaven and taking advantage of the disaster to transform into gods." When the middle-aged man talked about the realm of transformation of gods, he shook his head powerlessly. "The realm of transformation of gods is too far away. Even the realm of the first seven steps is not something that anyone can reach."

"Seven steps, step by step, are like a move to heaven. Each step is against the sky, and it is extremely difficult. Not to mention taking the complete seven steps, most practitioners fall on the path of cultivation even if they cannot finish the first step. Therefore, the seven steps of cultivation seem to be only a short seven steps. However, few people can complete these short seven steps!"

"In the seven-step realm, each step is divided into three small realms. One-step three notes, Guyin, Fanyin, and Tianyin. In fact, to put it bluntly, three small realms in the early stage, middle stage, and late stage. As for whoever sets such a one-step three notes, there is no way to find out."

Speaking of this, middle-aged people felt that they had already said enough, so they didn't continue. They understood the principle that they could not chew too much, and they didn't even know it. Just know some necessary things, and there was no need to know in detail.

The middle-aged man looked silently at the fish float that was still moving on the water.

Mo Zhaoxie was also silent, digesting everything the middle-aged man said just now.

"Senior," a moment later, Mo Zhaoxie asked, "Why is the state of cultivation set to be seven steps, not eight steps or nine steps?"

"Huh?" The middle-aged man was stunned when he heard Mo Zhaoxie's words. Then he laughed and said, "I can't answer you with a question like you. This question is like asking why ice is cold? Why fire is hot? Why people live? Maybe it was decided by a certain person or a group of people in the ancient times. Maybe a powerful person took seven steps and achieved the position of gods. So he set a seven-step division. In short, it is better to ask less questions like this. It is better to think less."

Perhaps infected by a strange problem like Mo Zhaoxie, the middle-aged man looked at the fish float that was still moving on the water and said whispered: "Why can't I catch fish?"

"The realm is not enough." Facing the complaints of middle-aged people, Mo Zhaoxie looked unfathomable.

"There is still a realm for fishing? Tell me." The middle-aged man looked at Mo Zhaoxie with an expression of being nonsense.

Mo Zhaoxie shook his head, "I don't know fishing. And I don't know the realm of fishing. But I know what the highest realm of fishing is."

"What is it?" asked the middle-aged man.

"Senior, tell me what the bag of food is." Mo Zhaoxie did not answer the middle-aged man's question, but changed the topic.

"Go to your bag of food. Don't think about the highest level of fishing." The middle-aged man still holds the highest level of fishing regardless of Mo Zhaoxie's intentions.

Mo Zhaoxie saw that middle-aged people would not take their own tricks, so he had to say helplessly: "The highest level of fishing is to take the bait!"

"Will anyone take the bait?" the middle-aged man asked in confusion, "What's the solution?"

"In our place, there was a powerful man named Jiang Shang. He fished on the Wei River every day, but his fishing method was very strange. Short, long lines, line tied with bamboo hooks, no food from bait, and the fishing rod did not hang into the water, which was three feet high from the water. A woodcutter named Wu Ji saw Jiang Ziya's straight hook without bait, and mocked him that fishing like you, let alone three years, even a hundred years, he could not catch a fish. Jiang Shang said to the woodcutter, you only know one thing, not the other. It is not a real man who takes the fish in the song, but I would rather take it in the straight than seek it from the song. My fishing is: Jiang Taigong fishes, and he is willing to take the bait."

"What a wishful person takes the bait. It seems that Jiang Shang is a real powerful person. He is far from comparable to someone like us." The middle-aged man praised.

Hearing this, Mo Zhaoxie stood up and bowed respectfully to the middle-aged man and said, "Senior, why should you envy others? In my opinion, although the heart of the senior is not as good as Jiang Shang, it is worthy of praise."

"What do you mean?" the middle-aged man smiled at the fish float on the water.

"Although the fish hook of senior is not a straight hook, I have successfully caught my fish." Mo Zhaoxie looked at the middle-aged man's eyes flashing. "I just don't know if my fish is useful to senior."

The middle-aged man said nothing, but the smile on his face became even worse.

"I'll leave." Mo Zhaoxie bowed and turned around and left.
Chapter completed!