【Ding! It has been detected that you are refining blood qi. The trait 'Diligence Compensates for Clumsiness' has been activated. Your refining speed has increased 100-fold.】
【Ding! It has been detected that you are cultivating. Your identity as the Eldest Senior Brother of the Outer Academy of a Yellow-grade Cultivation Academy increases your cultivation speed by 35%, and your identity as a handyman disciple of the Creation Dao Palace increases your refining speed by 2000%.】
Ye Lin had only just begun running his cultivation method when the notification tones of two consecutive buff enhancements rang out in his mind.
With these enhancements combined with the thousand-fold time dilation of the Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda, his cultivation speed here was 2.035 million times faster than that of an Earth-grade cultivator in the outside world.
“Rumble!”
Under the boost of such a terrifying cultivation speed, the moment he ran his cultivation method, the True Dragon Beads were rapidly refined one after another. The blood qi extracted by the Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda from his kills of the evil spirits was also being frantically absorbed by him.
After the massive amount of blood qi was rapidly refined by his cultivation method, he followed its pathways to pour all of this deep, abyss-like blood qi onto the Dao seed seedling within his spine.
Nourished by this immense amount of blood qi, the Dao seed seedling grew at an extremely rapid pace.
In just half a day, the originally tiny Dao seed seedling grew into a small sapling, and a third leaf condensed upon it.
The first blood-red leaf represented blood qi, housing a Sea of Blood Qi within it. The second light-blue leaf represented spiritual power, containing a Sea of Spiritual Power.
As for this third, pale-gold leaf, it represented the soul, and within it, a Sea of Divine Thoughts was currently breeding.
“The Dao seed seedling has finally grown. Now, the Sea of Blood Qi within the blood qi leaf has been completely filled.
“Next, as long as the Sea of Spiritual Power and the Sea of Divine Thoughts are filled, I will be able to unlock the Foundation Establishment chapter of the 《Origin Unity Art》, refine the Foundation Establishment spiritual materials, and completely break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage.”
Seeing that the Sea of Blood Qi was already filled with the power of blood qi, Ye Lin did not hesitate to run his cultivation method once more.
“Rumble!”
With his heaven-defying buffs, the moment he ran his cultivation method, the world's spiritual energy from the countless mid-grade spirit stones around him surged wildly toward him like ten thousand rivers flowing into the sea. Obviously, he was going to fill the Sea of Spiritual Power this time.
It was worth mentioning that the so-called Foundation Establishment was actually the process of gathering all the spiritual energy in one's body, compressing and condensing it into spiritual liquid, and forging a Dao foundation in the dantian. Through this, one would sever their mortal roots and officially step into the ranks of cultivators.
For ordinary cultivators, breaking through to Foundation Establishment required only two steps. First, refining spiritual power to fill the dantian and compressing the gaseous spiritual power within the dantian into a liquid state.
Second, after compressing the spiritual power, to prevent it from suddenly exploding, they needed to use Foundation Establishment spiritual materials to condense an object in the center of the dantian as a suppression mechanism. This was known as the Dao foundation.
If the Dao foundation was successfully condensed, it would become the core of the dantian. From then on, without needing to run any cultivation method, the Dao foundation would automatically absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to replenish the depletion of the dantian and the body.
This was the real reason why cultivators could achieve Bigu once they reached the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Not only that, but any spiritual energy absorbed in the future would be automatically processed by the Dao foundation and compressed into liquid spiritual power. There was no need for the cultivator to spend time and effort running their cultivation method to convert it.
Of course, the above only applied to normal, ordinary cultivators.
Any true genius, before breaking through to Foundation Establishment, would basically choose to cultivate their physical body in addition to their spiritual power. Those with stronger backgrounds might even cultivate their soul at the same time.
All of this was because when condensing the Dao foundation, one would receive a baptism of heaven and earth of varying intensity. At this moment, the stronger a cultivator's foundation, the more benefits they would receive, which would be of greater help to their future cultivation.
However, this did not mean one could just cultivate multiple paths at will. First, one had to possess extremely high talent; second, one had to have the corresponding cultivation methods; and finally, one needed guidance and the corresponding special cultivation resources.
Ye Lin didn't have any mind-blowing talent for the time being, but he had a whole body of heaven-defying cheats.
For spiritual power cultivation, he had the 《Origin Unity Art》; for his soul, he had the 《Soaring Fairy Visualization Chart》 and the Heaven-grade soul-type method 《Nine Cauldrons Soul-Suppressing Seal》; and for body cultivation, he had the Immortal King-grade method 《Circulating Heaven Stellar Art》.
Most importantly, he possessed the 'Origin Dao Seed', which could unify the three types of cultivation into one, keep them in perfect balance forever, and even provide a massive feedback boost to his own body.
As for cultivation resources, he had the Heavenly Dao-grade Power of Yin-Yang, a massive amount of mid-grade spirit stones, the quasi-immortal-grade True Dragon Beads, and so on. He was not lacking in the slightest.
Time flowed like water, and in the blink of an eye, three days had passed inside the Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda.
Because of the trait 【Endless Dantian】, the size of his dantian would increase by one zhang every day. This effect also applied to the Sea of Spiritual Power within the Dao seed leaf.
This was why, even with such powerful buffs, it still took him three whole days and consumed over five million mid-grade spirit stones to finally complete the filling of the Sea of Spiritual Power.
“Thank goodness the multiplier of my 【Random Replication】 trait has stabilized at 1,000x, allowing me to replicate cultivation resources in large quantities. Otherwise, I really wouldn't be able to afford a trait that increases the dantian size by one zhang every day.”
Seeing that just breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Stage had swallowed over five million of his mid-grade spirit stones for the Sea of Spiritual Power, Ye Lin couldn't help but click his tongue.
However, the more it swallowed, the more would be fed back into his own dantian after the breakthrough. This was a guaranteed win.
“Next, it's time to fill the Sea of Divine Thoughts.” After stretching thoroughly and standing up to loosen his muscles and bones, Ye Lin took out the 《Soaring Fairy Visualization Chart》 to gaze upon it, thereby growing his soul.
【Ding! It has been detected that you are tempering your soul. The trait 'Diligence Compensates for Clumsiness' continues to trigger. Your soul gains are being multiplied 100-fold.】
The moment he took out the visualization chart to look at it, the game notification sounded in his ears.
Paying it no mind, he remained fully focused on gazing at the 《Soaring Fairy Visualization Chart》.
The fairy in the painting was just as before, ethereal and lifelike, yet her face remained obscured and unseeable.
“Buzz!”
Ye Lin originally thought that this time, it might take him dozens of days or even longer to grow his divine thoughts enough to fill the Sea of Divine Thoughts on the Dao seed leaf.
After all, the game had warned him that the fairy in this visualization chart could not be gazed upon for a long time, otherwise unspeakable and indescribable great horrors would occur.
Therefore, he could only watch for a short period before taking a break, absolutely refusing to look for too long.
But what made Ye Lin's hair stand on end in an instant was that shortly after he began staring at the visualization chart, an incomparably pure clump of divine thoughts power suddenly flew out from the finger of the fairy in the painting and shot straight toward him.
“Holy crap, is some great horror descending?” This sudden turn of events completely dumbfounded Ye Lin.
What the hell, he hadn't even looked at it for that long!
However, this was the world of the Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda. Here, he was heaven itself.
With just a casual wave of his hand, that incomparably pure clump of divine thoughts power was instantly caught in his grasp.
Looking left and right, he found no hidden dangers. Recalling that every time he killed an evil spirit, the game would prompt him that the 《Soaring Fairy Visualization Chart》 was extracting and refining the evil spirit's soul, Ye Lin finally came to a conclusion:
“Is the fairy visualization chart feeding back to me after absorbing and refining the souls of the evil spirits?”
With this thought, he no longer overthought it. The moment he ran his cultivation method, he instantly refined the clump of divine thoughts power in his hand.
After all, he had the trait 【Time Walker】; if anything went wrong, he could just die and reverse time.
“Buzz!”
This clump of divine thoughts power was extremely dense. Having only just refined it, it filled about eighty percent of the newly condensed Sea of Divine Thoughts on his Dao seed leaf.
Another five days flashed by, and Ye Lin finally completed the filling of the Sea of Divine Thoughts.
At this very moment, the Sea of Blood Qi churned, the Sea of Spiritual Power surged, and the Sea of Divine Thoughts billowed endlessly. All of them were waiting for him to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, after which they would feed back into him.
“It's time to break through!”
Taking a deep breath, Ye Lin first accepted the inheritance of the Foundation Establishment chapter of the 《Origin Unity Art》 within his left eye.
This Taboo-grade cultivation method came with max-level proficiency, so the moment it was inherited, Ye Lin could use it directly.
“Rumble!”
Without the slightest hesitation, he ran the Foundation Establishment chapter of his cultivation method and began to frantically compress the gaseous spiritual power within his dantian.
With such a heaven-defying cultivation method, combined with the 100-fold gain boost from the trait 'Diligence Compensates for Clumsiness', it didn't take him long to completely compress all the gaseous spiritual power inside his dantian into a red-gray liquid spiritual power.
At this moment, the liquid spiritual power was extremely violent and unstable, so he directly refined the long-prepared 'Power of Yin-Yang', forging a black-and-white Yin-Yang Dao foundation step-by-step in the center of his dantian.
As time passed, all 1,001 wisps of the Power of Yin-Yang were completely used up by him. His Dao foundation also thoroughly stabilized into a black-and-white stone pillar that pierced the heavens, firmly suppressing the center of his dantian.
Lightning flashed across the stone pillar, sword shadows danced upon it, and the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth circulated over it. There was also an obscured, chaotic matter flowing around it.
Obviously, this Dao foundation was engraved with Ye Lin's Sword Spiritual Root, Thunder Spiritual Root, and Five Elements Spiritual Roots, as well as the Chaos Spiritual Root formed by the fusion of these Spiritual Roots.
【Ding! Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment has been completed. Do you choose to undergo the Taboo Tribulation? If passed, your Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment will take a step further and become a Great Dao Foundation Establishment.
If you fail, your body will perish and your Dao will dissolve... Because your pre-requisite task was completed with a Perfect grade evaluation, you are 100% guaranteed to pass the Taboo Tribulation.
Players may also directly choose the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment to break through in cultivation.】
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