With a single step, Fu Xian entered the stone wall.
His surroundings blurred away.
All he could see was a grey expanse, like a world of stone.
His spiritual sense was even more supressed than it was a mont ago.
One step.
Ten steps.
Hundred steps.
Thousand steps.
Ten thousand steps...
Fu Xian walked deeper and deeper into the stone wall, a feeling of tightness erging in his heart.
He continued unobstructed.
Monts later, he paused.
"If I continue any further, then my remaining spiritual power won’t be enough to return," he looked quite shocked.
His vast spiritual power, recovering at a rapid speed usually, was actually in a state of slow recovery, even leading to his own spiritual power leaking out of his dantian.
"In the end, my spiritual power and cultivation arts are incompatible with earth escape..." he realised for the first ti the stark difference.
In water and forests, he could move around freely, even if there was so pressure or difficulty, he could surmount it.
But here?
He couldn’t go further if he wanted to escape.
When he thought about returning, his own fortune rapidly depleted, telling him that the opportunity is just ahead!
A determined look appeared on his face.
Slow and steady growth, that was what he had aid for. But could he grow steadily without taking risks?
Fu Xian knew that this was a hopeless dream.
He might cultivate to the fourth and even fifth stage without any risk, but if he did so, his lifeti achievent would be the sixth stage.
In all these years, so many creation artists worked and cultivated in the immortal city, yet he saw each of them struggling to go further!
He didn’t know why, and he couldn’t fathom what the issue was.
But hearing of ten thousand year old monsters struggling to take a single step further...
He truly felt that such a person wasted most of their life not achieving anything of importance!
And his own path?
He knew that focusing on his clones would be putting the cart before the horse.
In his mind, there was a vague feeling.
Two stages – this was the limit. If his clones were more than two stages above him, he might have an issue controlling them. Even those two stages below might be too strongly influenced by a single thought of his, severing their path and making them puppets.
"The path is eternal, and my clones progress fast.
Mu Yan has entered the path and his cultivation will improve by leaps and bounds in just a few hundred years.
The fortune he generates will allow to et opportunities, if I don’t take them, then I will fall behind my clones.
At that point, when I’m only at the third stage while my clone is at the sixth stage... maybe the situation will reverse.
By then, my thoughts will be influenced by theirs, my comprehension will benefit them, and..." he didn’t continue, for he knew the path beyond would only lead to an inner demon.
A stern expression appeared on his face, determination spreading in his eyes.
He walked forward, knowing the risk of failure was becoming a part of the wall.
One step.
Ten steps.
Hundred steps.
Thousand steps.
Ten thousand steps...
He felt the world around himself gradually tightening, his heart hanging on a single thread.
Just then!
He took a final step and in front of him, a bright light appeared!
"3%!" – this was all he had left of the abundant spiritual power of before!
In front of him, an open space appeared.
The bright light in his vision ceded, revealing many natural ores shining brightly in blue colours.
In the centre of the space he saw a small pool, besides it, there were several more pools...
Approaching it with a look of curiosity, he suddenly felt his own fortune pool deplete by a whole third!
"This-!!!"
He saw the inside of the pool.
A small sphere of lightening, shaped like a water ball, hovered in the centre of the pool.
Looking to the left and right, at the pools, he saw several such spheres with a lower aura.
"Lightening Water Spiritual Potion!" he exclaid in shock.
"27 first stage potions, 9 second stage potions, 3 third stage potions, and one fourth stage potion!!!"
"How is this possible? Is this a cave dwelling of a senior?"
He beca scared for a mont – if it was an owned cave, then a fourth-stage cultivator might appear suddenly!
But looking all around, it truly looked like a natural cave.
"When I was young, I read a travelogue. I thought it was rely speculations and guesses, but to think this is true –
In places where a creation art is practiced a lot, the natural laws of that place might be corrupted by that creation art, actually leading to nature following the creation arts!
This Thunder Lake has always been used for water alchemy, so now, a true water alchemy potion was created by nature itself!"
He observed the potion and slowly understood its characteristics – "This potion was made from the fourth-stage material, the Lightening Water Essence, a resource generated by the Thunder Lake.
If I gained this essence, I could use it to comprehend lightening, gain a spiritual inspiration and even use it to cultivate.
But refined into a potion, this essence has leaped a whole rank!
It has beco a Breakthrough Material!!!"
Fifth stage natural materials could allow a cultivator to break through to the fourth stage, and high-grade refined potions could achieve the sa effect!
The best example of this is the Foundation Building Pill.
Natural materials of the third stage have the sa effect as a refined pill of the second stage!
And now, what he got was ten tis, no, a thousand tis better!
"Water, this is a water material! Perfectly suitable for my own water root! Now I only need a wood breakthrough material and break through in my talisman arts to the fourth stage, which would allow to directly reach the fourth stage!"
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