The Undying Immortal System Chapter 66: Life 60, Age 19, Martial Disciple Peak

The following year was quite peaceful.

Every other month, I advanced my cultivation, and I spent the intervening ti studying any small changes to my body. The enhanced technique provided by the Dao was far more powerful than I could have hoped, and as long as I cultivated correctly, there was zero impact on the qi flows in my body at each step of cultivation. Using that as my guide, I was able to correct the thousand tiny errors I made in the process and smoothly advance to Martial Disciple Peak.

At the sa ti, I helped i and SuYin cultivate their techniques. The ones they were using were far from the quality of my own, but I was still able to help them improve beyond the limits of what I had originally written down. Because of her age, i cultivated at a slightly faster pace to reach Martial Disciple Peak at the age of 20. SuYin was younger, only 19, so she allowed herself to go slower and had only reached Martial Disciple 7.

While i should advance to Martial Master this year, I wanted her to wait until I had completed my study of the Martial Master dual-elent technique. If I could improve it, it would allow to provide significantly better guidance for i during her breakthrough. She had nine months before qi stagnation would set in, so I was a little rushed, but as I told her, qi stagnation isn’t too terrible when you have unlimited access to Perfect pills.

On other fronts, I continued my pursuit of Rank 1 and 2 alchemy mastery. After I completed the order for the Su Clan, open discontent had been silenced. I wasn’t sure if it was gone, but my ability to more than fill the role left open by Zhong left others with little room to attack . According to WuJing, the Pavilion had begun sending most of my pills outside the Wastes since the people here were too poor to afford them. This was the first step to our goal, but I needed to take on the role of a peak Grandmaster Alchemist before we could step outside this small corner of the world.

I continued my study of herbalism using the flowerbed in my apartnt, but my results were mixed. I didn’t have a teacher, the techniques I was using were substandard, and the location of my plants was less than ideal. Still, I was slowly gaining an understanding of the process. I monitored the dicinal energy in plants from the mont a seed was created to the ti they were ready for harvest. The small changes in its structure, and the accumulation of toxic energy, was a complex interplay between the plant and its environnt. While I could learn so of this from books, the more I watched, the more I felt I needed soone to guide .

After arranging everything through i, I was finally ready to break through to Martial Master once more.

After sitting down in my cultivation room, I made my final preparation.

“System, move my temporary reset point to this mont.”

Confird. Cost 19,706 credits. 25,806 credits remaining

This wasn’t where I wanted to place it. I wanted it to be nearer to when I was Martial Master Peak. However, I planned to create a new Rank 2 cultivation technique, and I was hoping to trigger a new discount. If I waited until after I did so to create the temporary reset point, I would just be burning that discount for no good reason.

That done, I began working on my cultivation technique.

Improving the Mid-Profound technique to a basic Peak-Profound technique seed like an incredibly simple thing to do. The only difference was improving the quality of the ridians to match a Peak-Yellow technique. After studying the manual for a short ti, I had quickly realized that the original author had used weaker ridians simply because this technique would be incredibly difficult with Peak level ones.

The cultivator needed to create two ridians simultaneously, always keeping the flow of fire and wood qi throughout the body balanced. Creating a single peak ridian had challenged greatly the first ti I did it, and that was after I already had years of practice with weaker ones, so I could imagine that a Peak version of this technique would be nearly impossible for the average cultivator.

After constructing several practice ridians, I quickly concluded that it would be no problem for . My enhanced affinities and experience were enough to easily cultivate this technique at a Peak level, but that wasn’t good enough. That wouldn’t make a ‘novel’ cultivation technique, only a slightly improved one. I needed to go further.

There were two key issues I wanted to address. First, the dantian. The Rank 3 technique I used previously had cut holes in my ridians for qi to flow to and from my dantian. After living with that cultivation for years, the only word I had to describe it was janky. It felt like soone created a ridian system and only later realized they needed to attach a dantian, so they kludged together a way to make it fit. That wasn’t acceptable. I wanted a cultivation system designed to work together properly.

The other problem that I was fixated on was the layout of the ridians. Why were so many Martial Masters going crazy? What was wrong with them? I finally had an answer. The flows of energy through the body were what affected the mind. If ridians were placed exactly on top of the existing flows, it would speed them up, making the effect more pressing, but it should be manageable for nearly anyone. If they were misaligned, or completely misplaced, they interrupted the flow of energy through the body leading to ntal deviations.

The Twin Mountains Sect encouraged disciples to cultivate Rank 1 and 2 techniques with completely different energy flows. If disciples were extrely patient, and allowed the qi flows to completely settle after each breakthrough, it wouldn’t be ideal, but they may be able to cultivate without too many problems. However, the more they cultivated without returning to baseline the worse the ntal deviations would get. Worse, even with a perfect ascension, this mix of cultivation wouldn’t lead to a strong cultivator.

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I needed to perfectly place my ridians to match my natural qi flows precisely. Where qi naturally diverted towards the body’s dantian, I would leave openings in my ridians, allowing qi to move freely there and back even before I made a proper storage vessel at Rank 3. Leaving holes in my ridians may be questionable, but it seed to be the best option unless I was willing to throw away all standard practices and form my dantian first.

Still, I didn’t believe this was enough to be truly novel. I needed to push further.

Referring to the Rank 2 versions of the techniques I used for insights previously, I found two different options for enhancing a Martial Master’s cultivation. One had eight additional ridians placed throughout the chest and head. This seed interesting, but the placent of these additional ridians didn’t match any of my current qi flows, so I was hesitant to use it. The other two created countless capillary ridians throughout the body to follow ever smaller tendrils of qi. This idea would be significantly more work, but I believed it was an excellent fit for my Rank 1 technique which utilized additional acupoints.

Plan in place, the only question I had remaining was how big to make the ridians. They should contain the natural flow, but they should also be capable of holding larger quantities transferred from around the body. I was worried, though, that if they were too big it might reduce the pressure.

With no better idea, I began experinting. I created an arm ridian that was the sa size as the natural qi flow, but after testing it a bit, I realized that it was constricting the rate at which qi wanted to move. I carefully dispersed that ridian, venting the qi back into the environnt, and started again. I slowly increased the size until I reached a diater I was happy with.

Using that sample ridian as my reference, I began working on my first true chest ridians. The fire and wood qi in my body followed different paths, so I carefully made separate channels for them. Every centiter, I created several small capillaries to follow tiny tributaries that branched throughout my chest. I was not willing to pause for a mont in this process. I wanted each ridian to be completed in a single sitting to avoid any small defects from arising.

I ended up swallowing ridian Builder Pills like they were candy. Each ti, I had to take two, one for each elent, and after several hours I also had to begin taking Fasting and Restorative pills to avoid eating or sleeping.

The process of making a single pair of ridians went on for days, but when I finally finished, what I saw was a thing of beauty. The placents weren’t completely perfect, but they were close. My only disappointnt was I didn’t get an announcent for a novel technique, but that wasn’t too surprising, I wasn’t done yet.

After a quick rest and a real al, I got back to work. With the first pair in place, the qi flows for my new ridians had slightly shifted, so I worked mostly from mory to try to place them where they should be, not where they currently were. Again, I was less than 100% successful, but it was close enough. Once I was finished, I let my qi flow through them, enhancing my body and internal organs. Once again, I had ascended to Martial Master.

System Alert: A novel cultivation technique has been created. The Focused Hearth Fire Mantra. Rating beyond Peak-Profound Rank 2 Wood-Fire Cultivation Technique. Would you like to submit this technique to the Dao?

“Yes!”

Submission Successful. Contribution Confird. Calculating… Reward: 50% discount for the next purchase below 2,000,000 credits.

Note: Profound Rank 2 techniques will no longer qualify you for further discounts.

Information flooded my head and I collapsed to the ground. Countless calculations for qi flow, ridian size, proper placent, and ways to alter the weave to best accommodate branching ridians poured into .

After I finally regained my senses, I looked at my brand-new ridians and wanted to cry. They took over half a month to create…

Taking a deep breath, I slowly and carefully began to unweave and disperse them. I couldn’t allow myself to use such terrible ridians.

A month later, I left my cultivation room, once more a Martial Master 1.

I finished in ti, but I still needed to hurry to ensure i was able to advance before it was too late. I opened my door to begin searching for her, but she was standing right outside.

“Hey Fang, ready?” she grinned.

I shook my head. “It feels like you’re showing off…”

“Just excited. I only have around half a year left, need to get to it!”

“Alright,” I said, “co on in.”

We both headed to my cultivation room. It was a bit cramped with the two of us, but the isolation helped with focus.

I examined her energy body as I had done several tis before. Everything was clean, and she showed no signs of impurities from either poor cultivation or bad pills. The flows within her were vastly different from my own, so her ridians would need to be placed very differently, but the new knowledge I gained made understanding the necessary changes easy.

“Have you been practicing?” I asked.

i held out her hand and began forming a practice ridian. I examined it and frowned. Comparing it to the manual I had given her, she did an excellent job, but…

“We need to fix that, it’s not right,” I said, trying to understand my thoughts. “The weave isn’t right.” I held up my hand and created a large example. “Can you do this?”

i examined my altered ridian for a long ti before trying it. Even after several attempts, it wasn’t quite right. There were small, nearly imperceptible burrs in the weave. It would have worked, but it wasn’t perfect.

“It will take ti,” she finally said, shaking her head.

“Let …” I reached out with my water affinity and tried to manipulate her qi. She had a high enough affinity that it was difficult for to wrest control of it, even with it far outside her body. “Can you, I don’t know, let move your qi? I’m not sure if it’s sothing you can consciously do.”

Either she knew what to do, or her blessing kicked in, but suddenly I was able to manipulate her practice ridian like it was my own.

“Alright,” I said, a little excited, “I think this will work. Start forming your first ridian but give partial control. You focus on gathering qi and placing it into a rough weave. I will perfect it and make sure its size placent is correct.”

i nodded and got to work.

Compared to constructing my ridians, the process was a breeze. In less than a day, i had a brand-new Peak-Yellow ridian. After two, she stepped into the realm of Martial Master.

“Thank you, Fang,” she said. This ti, she didn’t cry. She didn’t show much of any emotion.

“You’re welco, i.”