Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

After taking their oaths, they were supposed to pay respects to the Origin Ancestor.

Unfortunately, the Origin Ancestor was away visiting a friend, so they had to skip this step.

Upon entering the mountain gate, Zhao Sheng and Feng Yu Elder Taoist, along with others, addressed each other as brothers according to their seniority, and then paid their respects to Elder Jing Hong and Master Jin Chenzi.

Next came the moment everyone was most concerned about: the imparting of techniques and transmission of arts.

Perhaps due to the importance placed on Foundation Establishment Cultivators, Jin Chenzi personally led them to the Scripture Pavilion located deep within the mountain belly.

There are three places within the Origin Return Sect where cultivation techniques and the Hundred Skills of Immortal Cultivation are stored.

The first is called the Scripture Storage Tower, located on the plains at the foot of the mountain. This place is open to all disciples without the need for merit, but it mostly houses books of irrelevant matters such as common knowledge in cultivation, basic spells, general knowledge of the Hundred Skills of Immortal Cultivation, and wild, strange tales.

The Scripture Pavilion where they arrived was the second location, storing various precious cultivation methods, elixir recipes, artifact refining techniques, magic talisman, and other skills in secret manuals.

As for the most treasured techniques, elixir recipes, Refining Treasure Records, and other treasures of the Origin Return Sect, they were kept in the cave mansion of the Origin Ancestor, and one had to earn the Ancestor's approval to be granted these.

The Scripture Pavilion was a six-layered large stone hall, with its doors tightly closed. To the right there was a palm-sized square indent,

At this time, the surface of the stone hall was covered with a rainbow-colored light film, clearly indicating an extremely powerful prohibition.

With a wave of his long sleeve, Jin Chenzi sent a blood-colored token flying silently through the light film, fitting steadily into the indent in the door.

After blurring for a moment, the rainbow light film quickly dissipated.

Jin Chenzi waved his hand to recall the blood-colored token, then the doors to the hall opened silently on both sides, revealing the spacious hall behind them.

Jin Chenzi stepped in first, and Zhao Sheng and the others followed him in file.

The first-floor hall was very spacious, the interior space was circular, about five or six zhang high, with a diameter of approximately thirty zhang or more.

The top of the hall was embedded with flame pearls, releasing bright flames, illuminating the hall as bright as day.

Around the walls of the hall, there were ten stone doors, each carved with runes such as spell, elixir, talisman, artifact, curse, beast, and so on.

Jin Chenzi did not stop and directly pushed open the stone door with the rune for spell, then ascended the stone steps.

Seeing this, Zhao Sheng and the others hastened to follow.

After ascending twenty stone steps, they reached the second floor, where the stone doors were also tightly shut and covered with a layer of light film, but only tricolored.

Jin Chenzi continued without pausing, bypassing the third and fourth floors, stopping only on the fifth floor.

"This time I have brought you up here myself. In the future, when you come here, you must have an identity token, otherwise you will be killed by the prohibitions in place,"

said Jin Chenzi as he extracted the blood-colored token and inserted it into the indent in the stone door.

The prohibition light film dissipated, and the stone door opened silently.

Jin Chenzi reminded them, "Remember, each person may only select one Golden Core Technique. In an hour, whether you have chosen or not, you must come out on time. Otherwise, you bear the consequences!"

Zhao Sheng and the others nodded earnestly and then entered eagerly.

The fifth floor was not small but quite empty. There were only fifteen stone platforms that were half a person tall and three feet square. Each platform was covered by a spherical light film, and on the surface of each was placed an ancient jade scroll.

"Ten Thousand Trees Reach the Sky Technique"

"Golden Crow Burning Sky Technique"

"Mystic Primordial Heavy Water Technique"

"One Qi Ascending Sky Technique"

…

Zhao Sheng did not rush to select a technique but walked past each platform in turn,

As he beheld each of the precious Golden Core Techniques, an impulse to sweep them all away surged within him.

But... he knew that was impossible, at least for now.

After a while, having looked over all the cultivation methods, Zhao Sheng went straight to the stone platform where the "Mystic Primordial Heavy Water Technique" was placed, and easily took the jade scroll by reaching through the light film.

Unlike others, Zhao Sheng had set his sights on the "Mystic Primordial Heavy Water Technique" from the beginning.

In fact, it was not at all strange, because the "Mystical Spirit Skill" he practiced was precisely one of the simplified cultivation techniques derived from the "Mystic Primordial Heavy Water Technique"; the two were closely linked.

In the Cultivation World, cases like Zhao Sheng's were not rare.

The higher the grade of a cultivation method, the difficulty of practicing it often increases proportionally to its grade.

To select more outstanding inheritors, Cultivation Sects often divide a high-level technique into several simplified methods and choose to disseminate them.

This practice is very common in the Cultivation World, and the Ksitigarbha Sect is the most extreme example of this.

...

An hour later, Zhao Sheng let out a muffled groan, his face pale as he removed the cultivation technique jade scroll from his forehead.

The "Mystic Primordial Heavy Water Technique," worthy of being a Golden Core Level Cultivation Method, had a very high information entropy and could be described as profoundly meaningful.

Additionally, the latter half of the jade scroll surprisingly contained a vast number of insights and experiences from past cultivators.

Because he had replicated too much information in a short time, Zhao Sheng's spiritual power had been greatly depleted.

Not until he had taken a Nourishing Spirit Pill did his complexion improve significantly.

An hour passed quickly.

Zhao Sheng and the other twelve Foundation Establishment Cultivators walked out of the stone tower with joyful expressions and then followed Master Jin out of the Scripture Pavilion.

...

Five days later, in the cultivation room of a cave mansion, Zhao Sheng was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, each hand holding a Water Wave Stone, as the spirit power vortex within his body spun at high speed.

At that moment, threads of pure Water Spiritual Energy were continuously drawn from the Water Wave Stones into the vortex within his Dantian, then rapidly refined into spirit power.

Simultaneously, streams of spirit power flowed out of Zhao Sheng's Dantian under the guidance of his Divine Sense, following a complex route that traversed the Extraordinary Meridians and reached his limbs and bones.

The spirit power then reconvened from numerous subtle veins back into the Twelve Primary Channels and finally flowed back into the Core Energy Sea within the Dantian, merging into the spirit power vortex.

Zhao Sheng carefully maintained this cycle of spirit power.

It had just been established less than a day ago and was still very fragile.

If he was careless, it would immediately collapse, nullifying days of hard effort.

Time passed unknowingly until with the sudden crumbling of the two Water Wave Stones into a pile of debris, Zhao Sheng slowly opened his eyes, a flash of joy in his gaze.

Because the "Mystical Spirit Skill" is a simplified version of the "Mystic Primordial Heavy Water Technique," Zhao Sheng found the transition between cultivation methods exceptionally smooth, successfully establishing a new spirit power cycle within just a few days.

This saved him at least three months of time.

It was only after obtaining the "Mystic Primordial Heavy Water Technique" that Zhao Sheng truly realized the true value of a Golden Core Level Cultivation Method.

Its value was not just in significantly boosting cultivation efficiency but particularly in its involvement with Spirit Power Transition.

What is Spirit Power Transition?

Take a simple example. In the Cultivation World, there are countless varieties of Spiritual Fire, but based on their energy levels, they can be divided into Mortal Fire, Spiritual Fire, True Fire, etc.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

The spirit power of cultivators is somewhat similar to the grading of Spiritual Fires.

During Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment Realm, it is called spirit power; it is known as True Yuan at the Golden Core Realm, and above the Nascent Soul Realm, it is generally referred to as Mana.

One of the major reasons why Foundation Establishment Cultivators struggle to advance to the Golden Core Realm is due to failure in Spirit Power Transition.

The transition of spirit power to True Yuan is like Mortal Fire suddenly evolving into Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire, which is incredibly difficult!