Chapter 7: The Method of Refining the Spirit

  "You're indeed the one I've chosen, although your innate talent is a bit lacking, you make up for it with your quick wit. This is exactly what I'm looking for. You guessed right, I do need your help to escape from the Hongmeng Pearl. As a reward, I'll give you benefits beyond your wildest imagination."

  "Let's hear it..." Chu Yi said with a smile.

  "With the help of the true self, within a hundred years, you can cultivate to the realm of transforming into a god. Isn't this enough? You have already begun to practice the way of cultivating truth, what does becoming a god in a hundred years mean, shouldn't you be clear about it..."

  In Chu Yi's hand, the book "Xiū Zhēn Zá Jí" starts with a sixteen-character preface: "Ten years before heaven, one hundred years of golden elixir, one thousand years of primordial infant, transformation of spirit follows fate."

  These sixteen words can be said to have fully expressed the difficulties of the cultivation path, and also made Chu Yi doubt what Bai Zhi said about "hundred years to become a god".

  "If you need something from me, anyone can talk nonsense, show some sincerity."

  "Kid, you're not willing to suffer a loss. Fine, I'll pass on the 'Heavenly Spirit Conquest' to you now. This is the method of cultivating one's spirit, far beyond your understanding of ordinary cultivation methods. With this technique, it's as if you've taken a step into heaven..."

  "Will you fight against the heavens?"

  "What's so special about your superior technique?" Chu Yi asked skeptically as he listened to the other person's exaggerated claims.

  "Compared to heavenly-level techniques? Don't be ridiculous, they can't even be compared. One is a method for cultivating immortality, the other is a method for cultivating divinity. One is in heaven, one is on earth, how can you compare them?"

  "What is meant by 'cultivating one's spirit'?" Chu Yitai didn't care about all that and asked directly.

  "Cultivating immortality is a necessary condition for cultivating the spirit, and only when one has successfully cultivated immortality can they cultivate the spirit..."

  "How can I cultivate it?"

  "Get 'Heavenly Spirit Devouring Decree' and you can cultivate it!"

  Chu Yi's words seemed to have touched a sore spot in Bai Qi, and his tone was tinged with a hint of regret as he said: "If it weren't for the sake of obtaining this 'Xiu Shen Lü Tian Jue', I wouldn't have ended up in this state today. And yet you're still hesitating, truly infuriating."

  Chu Yi had always been a person who thought three times before acting, and upon hearing this, his eyebrows furrowed slightly as he said: "From what you're implying, it seems that you're after the 'Xiu Shen Lie Tian Jue' and that's why you ended up trapped in the Hong Meng Pearl. Which means to say, you yourself have never cultivated this technique?"

  "You're half right."

  Bai Qi's voice was no longer as cold and deep as before, with a hint of nostalgia: "This deity is not trapped in the Hongmeng Pearl, but rather inhabits it. As for the 'Xiu Shen Lü Tian Jue', this deity has indeed never cultivated it, and even the physical body no longer exists, so how can it be cultivated?"

  "Then I've become your test subject."

  Bai Qi angrily said: "You little brat, if you're not willing, I absolutely won't force you. You can spend your whole life practicing those rotten street-level cultivation techniques."

  "I said, Uncle Bai, don't jump to conclusions so quickly, I'm just asking, didn't say I wouldn't learn."

  "I'll try to cultivate it first, hoping that we can both get what we need. If I succeed in transforming my spirit and return to Earth, you can avoid the disaster and escape from the Hongmeng Pearl. What do you think?"

  "Listen up, I'll pass on to you the 'Heavenly Spirit Devouring Heaven Technique'..."

  After a long time.

  "This thing is also too difficult to cultivate..."

  Chu Yi didn't show any joy after getting the "Xiu Shen Lue Tian Jue" from Bai Qi's transmission, instead his eyebrows were tightly furrowed.

  "If I cultivate according to this 'Refining Spirit and Conquering Heaven Manual', the amount of spiritual stones consumed will be at least ten times that of an ordinary cultivator. I spent three years in the mine, barely managing to gather enough spiritual stones for cultivation up to the Pre-Heavenly realm. By analogy, even if this manual has a speed of progress far surpassing other cultivation methods, without sufficient consumption of spiritual stones, isn't it equivalent to nothing..."

  "Indeed, this is a problem, but there are ways to solve it."

  Bai Qi's voice once again echoed in Chu Yi's mind, "In the Xuan Yun star, I still have a cave mansion. Although it is only the smallest of my three major cave mansions, what is stored inside is enough to allow you to cultivate until the Hua Shen stage."

  "What a wonderful thing!" Chu Yi said without any politeness: "Where is the cave mansion?"

  "This... " Bai Qi said with a hint of embarrassment: "Youxuan Valley."

  "A familiar-sounding place name, seems like I've heard it before, huh?"

  "Isn't that right, the sect's headquarters of the Supreme Primordial Yang Sect... The territory of the nine major sects, how can I, a cultivator at the Pre-Heavenly stage, get there... Even if I could get there, with my meager cultivation, how could I possibly enter the cave mansion you mentioned without being detected in the sect's headquarters?"

  "This is something you have to work hard on yourself."

  Bai Qi said with a hint of exhaustion: "Earlier, our spiritual connection consumed a lot of my energy. I will be dormant for a period of time to recover slightly. You must take good care of this Hongmeng Pearl..."

  It didn't give Chu Yi a chance to complain, the Hongmeng Pearl, which was originally flashing with white light, returned to its original appearance as a broken stone pearl. No matter how many times Chu Yi called out, he couldn't hear Bai Qi's voice again.

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  Ten days later, accompanied by Chu Yi's clear whistle, a group of cyan-colored flames with crimson red inside burst out from his palm.

  "Fierce Flame Palm"

  A palm full of spiritual energy burst out, and the flames of different colors seemed to have come alive, flying out at a speed that was hard to discern with the naked eye. The high temperature that could melt gold and iron instantly burned the hard rock layer into a liquid, and with one palm, it actually blasted out a depression two feet deep.

  This result made Chu Yi extremely surprised, to know that before converting the true yuan force in his body into divine yuan force, Chu Yi's full-strength "Ling Flame Palm" could at most only blast open a few feet deep in the rock layer, and this was still something he had only managed to do after raising his cultivation power to the eighth boundary of the Pre-Heaven.

  Now, because of the "Xiu Shen Lue Tian Jue" cultivation method's abnormal requirements for accumulated cultivation, after Chu Yi completely converted his true yuan power into divine yuan power according to this method, his original first heaven eighth boundary strength actually regressed to the first heaven initial boundary.

  It's just that relying on this congenital initial cultivation, it has a destructive power far surpassing Chu Yi's past congenital eighth realm. Just this point is enough to make Chu Yi take back the many distrusts and doubts he had previously expressed towards Bai Qi.

  No matter what Bai Qi's intentions were, at least the "Xiu Shen Lie Tian Jue" he passed down was a top-notch technique that could drive all 10 million cultivators on Xuan Yuan Star crazy.

  What Nine Great Supreme Sects' ancestral ultimate techniques, what Heaven-grade cultivation methods, are not even worth mentioning in the face of "Xiū Shén Lì Tiān Jué", this is no longer something that can be compared with just two words "difference", but rather should be distinguished by "tier". One cultivates immortality, one cultivates divinity, completely not on the same level.

  As for the use of divine yuan force, Chu Yi knew very little about it. However, he had an advantage in that he dared to try, and after spending several days practicing, he became proficient in the various uses and releases of divine yuan force. Although Chu Yi's cultivation realm was still at the initial stage of Xiantian, his combat strength far surpassed that of a Xiantian eighth-order cultivator, and even compared to a Xiantian ninth-order cultivator, he was not much inferior.

  After this change, Chu Yi resolutely abandoned his plan to continue exploring the depths of the cave, especially after possessing the divine yuan force. Chu Yi's spiritual sense had greatly improved, and he even possessed a kind of crisis sense that he couldn't explain himself. This feeling was very subtle, and every time Chu Yi planned to explore deeper into the cave, a strong sense of crisis would arise in his heart.

  If it were before obtaining the "Xiu Shen Lu Tian Jue", even if there was a sense of crisis, Chu Yi would still hold the idea of seeking wealth and danger, and rashly rush into it.

  At this point, Chu Yi had already cultivated the "Xiu Shen Lie Tian Jue" which far surpassed the heavenly level. He no longer needed to risk his life for some spirit stones, a better cultivation method was taking shape in his mind.