Chapter 27: Chapter 18: Connecting the Five Elents Bridge (Cultivation)
In the cultivation room, the Spirit Gathering Array cast flickers of light and shadow, while Jiang Yuebai sat cross-legged.
Within her Dantian, the five-colored Qi vortex rotated slowly, each equal in size, circulating at the sa speed, ticulously adjusted to the optimal state.
Next cos the most critical step: Connecting the Five Elents Bridge.
The Five Elents Returning to Truth Technique does not explicitly include the step of connecting the Five Elents Bridge, but requires transforming the five elents during each Qi circulation, which is sowhat ti-consuming and laborious.
Having listened to Lii Jiuchuan’s lectures in the past half month, Jiang Yuebai’s understanding of the Five Elents Rotation has grown deeper. She has frequently sought Lii Jiuchuan’s advice, and upon his suggestion, she decided on this once-and-for-all thod.
According to Lii Jiuchuan, only Nascent Soul Cultivators can conjure the five elents out of thin air, while Qi Cultivation Cultivators must use the Five Elents Spirit Root to connect the Five Elents Bridge, allowing the five elent spiritual energy in the Dantian to naturally cycle and circulate.
If successful, she would no longer need to transform the elents during energy circulation, essentially removing the most challenging step in the Qi circulation of the Five Elents Returning to Truth Technique, potentially saving five tis the ti and increasing efficiency fivefold.
Lii Jiuchuan, with his exceptional insight, comprehended the Five Elents Rotation thod and connected the Five Elents Bridge during his Foundation Establishnt, drawing from the natural world’s elental correspondences, which enabled him to reach the Golden Core Realm with Five Spirit Root aptitude.
Under his guidance, Jiang Yuebai stayed in the cultivation room for three days, also comprehending the natural five elents.
The Enlightened Mind Hairpin infused a refreshing sensation into her mind, Jiang Yuebai composed her spirit and chanted words of wisdom.
"Wood generates fire, as burning wood turns to ash; ash is Earth. Earth amasses into mountains, mountains surely bear stones, hence Earth generates tal."
"lting tal becos water, stones within the mountains retain moisture, hence tal generates water. Water moistens and nourishes plants and trees, hence water generates wood."
"The path of the Five Elents exists within nature, the heavens and earth rotate, without intervention."
"In a mont of enlightennt, thoughts beco clear and the Daoist techniques form on their own!"
Buzz!
Jiang Yuebai’s Sea of Consciousness buzzed, the profound Dao pressed from the outside towards her Dantian.
She ’saw’ the five-elent Qi vortex abruptly accelerate, with a fine thread of Wood elent spiritual energy rushing into the Fire vortex.
The Fire vortex surged greatly, burning with intensity, fire energy poured forth, into the Earth vortex.
The Earth vortex, heavy and thick, entered the tal vortex, the tal vortex sharp and keen, further entered the Water vortex.
tal generates water energy, the five elents fully connect, the Rotary Bridge ford!
Boom!
The light of the five-elent Qi vortex intensified greatly, a bridge ford between them, arranged in a pentagon within Jiang Yuebai’s Dantian and rotated at the sa speed.
The five vortexes, like stars, shimred in mutual resplendence.
With a thought, spiritual energy needed no transformation, it flowed from the Dantian into her organs, through ridian, skin, and bone.
The gust swept through, the Spirit Gathering Array’s pressure multiplied, operating at full speed.
Jiang Yuebai’s Dantian beca like a black hole, frantically absorbing the five-elent spiritual energy within the cultivation room.
A sharp pain struck, Jiang Yuebai furrowed her brows, gritting her teeth to endure, guiding the five-elent spiritual energy throughout her body according to the Qi circulation path outlined in the Five Elents Returning to Truth Technique.
The spiritual energy cleansed her ridians, tempered her flesh, skin, and bones; her ridians stretched tautly and expanded, forcefully widened, her body and bones crackled and grew rapidly.
[Trees planted by predecessors, later generations rest in the shade; you initially grasped the rotation of the heavens and earth elents, connected the Five Elents Bridge, favored by the Great Dao, spiritual energy surged]
[Congratulations, your cultivation realm advanced directly to Qi Cultivation Second Layer]
[You began circulating energy; the five-elent spiritual energy naturally rotated, ridians broadened, internal impurities cleared, Five Elents Returning to Truth skill level
10]
[You began circulating energy; the ridians flowed unobstructed, energy circulation unimpeded, Five Elents Returning to Truth skill level
20]
[You began circulating energy; as if empowered, Five Elents Returning to Truth skill level
30]
[...Five Elents Returning to Truth skill level
40]
[...Five Elents Returning to Truth skill level
50]
Jiang Yuebai’s cultivation rose steadily, having the montum of accumulated strength, this feeling filled her with delight, engulfed wholly and unable to retreat.
This lasted for two hourglass turns.
[Congratulations, your cultivation realm advanced to Qi Cultivation Third Layer]
Then, the previously felt uneasiness during ditation, a body itchiness, violently surged.
An indescribable barrier disrupted the smooth and seamless energy circulation she just achieved.
"Yuebai..."
"Sister..."
"You wretched girl!"
"What’s in the Jade Scroll you’re holding?"
The faces of her parents, brother, Lin Suwan, and Lu Nanzhi flashed in her mind, confusion stirred within her, interrupting water circulation, her chest struck as if by a heavy blow, causing her to tilt her head and spit blood.
[You are insatiable, depleted of Essence Qi, desires surge, self-harm incurred, young lady, do you wish to ascend in one day?]
"Cough, cough, cough!"
Jiang Yuebai coughed violently, her breath in disarray, finding it hard to regain composure.
"Grandfather used to say that less is more, it’s my own greed."
Wiping away the blood from the corner of her mouth, Jiang Yuebai cald herself, realizing she was covered in mud stains, mottled and foul-slling, her sleeves and pant legs shortened by over three inches.
She stretched her body, bones cracking.
With a thought, the Dust Cleaning Technique brushed through, refreshing her entirely, clothes fitting anew.
Jiang Yuebai distinctly felt the changes in her body, her ridians were widened several tis, her body agile, filled with vitality, but how much she improved could be confird by attempting with the Lantern Monster later.
She took out the Wood Cutting Blade, her fingers dancing, the Sharpness Technique initiated!
Three breaths to form the technique, golden rays as sharp as cones.
Go!
Two fingers pressed downward, the sharpness embedded in the Wood Cutting Blade, its runes brightly lit.
"One breath faster than before in forming the technique, the sharpness thrice as powerful, now let’s see how many tis I can exert the Sharpness Technique in one breath."
Jiang Yuebai’s ten fingers stirred, the golden light of sharpness leapt at her fingertips, faster and stronger, infused into the Wood Cutting Blade.
Not until the fifteenth ti did Jiang Yuebai stop.
The light of the Gold Elent Spiritual Energy Vortex dimd within her Dantian, exhausted, having utilized the golden spiritual energy, five more tis than before.
At this mont, the other four vortexes sped up rotation, spontaneously transforming spiritual energy to replenish the golden vortex’s consumption, gradually restoring balance.
If pressing herself to the limit, she could still exert four sets of fifteen tis.
Jiang Yuebai’s eyes blazed, having truly achieved what Lii Jiuchuan spoke of—the Five Spirit Root outmatched the Single Spiritual Root.
In the past, the spiritual energy from the tal Spirit Root could only be used for tal Elent Magical Technique, now she removed this limitation; the spiritual energy from the other four spirit roots could also be converted to golden spiritual energy.
Truly five tis the strength!
"Originally, reaching the peak of Second Layer for Sharpness Technique required a hundred days, now if I practice relentlessly every day, would it only take twenty days?"
Jiang Yuebai was overjoyed, yet soon cald down.
Given her current cultivation, exhausting golden spiritual energy requires about a quarter-hour to regain a new five-elents balance, with future cultivation improvent and spiritual energy capacity increasing, the ti needed will be longer.
To shorten this ti, she still needs deeper comprehension of the Five Elents Path; the deeper the insight, the faster the transformation.
[Chaos divides into Yin and Yang, Yin and Yang transform into the Five Elents, the Five Elents give birth to all things, everything exists in the world]
Lii Jiuchuan spoke truly, the Five Elents is the Great Dao; though at this mont she rely pried open a small crevice in the door of this great path, continued efforts are required.
She glanced at the hourglass in the cultivation room, half an hour remains before the third day ends.
"I spat blood earlier, let
cultivate for half an hour to recover before I leave. Now let
see how I should arrange the cultivation plan next."
[Na]Jiang Yuebai
[Spirit Root]Five Elents Spirit Root
[Realm]Qi Cultivation Third Layer
[Cultivation Technique]
Five Elents Returning to Truth Technique Qi Cultivation Chapter (Third Layer: 1/1000)
[Spell]
Sharpness Technique (Second Layer: 58/1000)
Grass and Wood Technique (First Layer: 5/100)
Cloud Rain Technique (First Layer: 13/100)
Red Fla Technique (First Layer: 5/100)
Earth-Shaking Technique (First Layer: 5/100)
[Martial Arts]
Chasing Star Step (Small Success: 385/1000)
Wood Cutting Blade thod (Small Success: 410/1000)
"Grandfather does not know the Earth-Shaking Technique and Grass and Wood Technique, so I will focus on Sharpness Technique, Earth-Shaking Technique, and Grass and Wood Technique."
Apart from cultivation, she must fully elevate the proficiency of these three spells, striving to reach the Fourth Layer soon and qualify as a Spiritual Cultivation Master, assisting her grandfather.
Besides this, she plans to learn Talisman Making, to earn Spirit Stones early and support her grandfather.
She wonders whether her entire fortune—fifteen Spirit Stones—is enough to buy a Talismanic Pen, Talismanic Paper, and Talismanic Sand, likely not.
Originally owning ten Spirit Stones, later sold five Energy Introduction Elixirs—unused during the last few days of the month to Shi Xiaowu, exchanging them for five Spirit Stones, with Shi Xiaowu curious about the origin of the Energy Introduction Elixir, she simply said it was given by her grandfather.
This damned cultivation room was truly too expensive!
Yet admittedly, the spiritual energy here was genuinely abundant, otherwise, during her enlightennt the spiritual energy wouldn’t suffice, she might not have ascended to Qi Cultivation Third Layer.
This expense of Spirit Stone for wealth, receiving Lii Jiuchuan’s guidance as a companion, acquiring the Five Elents Returning to Truth Technique as a thod, possessing the cultivation room as a place.
The four essentials of cultivation—wealth, companions, thod, location—indeed none can be lacking!
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