Seven days later!
While cultivating, Ye Qingxuan suddenly felt a vast yet gentle energy pour into his body out of nowhere, continuously merging and transforming with his spiritual energy.
Startled for a moment, Ye Qingxuan quickly reacted and began circulating the Di Yuan Jue at full force to work in tandem with this energy, breaking through his bottleneck.
Soon, in just a brief moment, the first drop of liquid spiritual energy condensed within Ye Qingxuan’s dantian.
Following the successful condensation of the first drop, a spiritual rain began to fall within his dantian. Drop after drop of liquefied spiritual energy fell, gathering into a small pool of spiritual power.
Simultaneously, Ye Qingxuan’s physical body began frantically absorbing spiritual energy from both the outside and within himself.
The minute particles of various elements within the spiritual energy were continuously absorbed by his body, drawn into the subatomic spaces deep within his flesh, and began to continuously refine and perfect Ye Qingxuan’s physique.
As his body’s microcosm was perfected, Ye Qingxuan’s physical form also began to transform. His bodily strength, meridian resilience, bone density, even all his organs, were elevated by a level.
The Di Yuan Jue that Ye Qingxuan cultivated appeared to be an earth-attribute technique, but it was actually a non-attribute technique that had incorporated a special earth-attribute spell.
Currently, most cultivation techniques in the Di Xuan Realm were non-attribute techniques, with only a very few being attribute-specific.
Because spiritual energy inherently contained all the elements of the world, cultivating non-attribute techniques was the most stable and allowed for the most efficient use of spiritual energy.
Cultivating a non-attribute technique not only enabled a cultivator to practice and use spells of all attributes but also allowed the spiritual energy to continuously integrate into the human body during cultivation, causing the body to evolve and transform with each advancement in realm.
On the other hand, cultivating attribute-specific techniques, while offering a unique path and potentially explosive power in the early stages, restricted the cultivator to practicing only spells corresponding to that attribute.
Spiritual energy originally contained all elemental particles of its native world. Attribute-specific techniques were extreme methods that assimilated all elemental particles in the spiritual energy into a single attribute.
Spiritual energy of a single attribute not only failed to nourish the body but also constantly disrupted the body’s balance, resulting in a very frail physique for the cultivator.
Therefore, cultivating attribute-specific techniques to later stages could seriously cause bodily imbalance, easily leading to Qi deviation, loss of control, and even bodily explosion.
Cultivating non-attribute techniques allowed a cultivator to practice spells of any attribute—a significant advantage—and also reduced the process of assimilating spiritual energy elements inherent in attribute techniques, speeding up cultivation!
It was precisely for these reasons that most attribute-specific techniques had long been phased out by the major top powers throughout the Di Xuan Realm’s long history of immortal cultivation.
The reason the Xuantian Sect required disciples with earth spiritual roots to cultivate the Di Yuan Jue was simply because having the corresponding spiritual root facilitated the learning of corresponding attribute spells, achieving twice the result with half the effort.
Even without the corresponding spiritual root, one could still cultivate such attribute spells; the difficulty would just be greater.
The two main effects of a spiritual root were to increase the speed of spiritual energy attraction and refinement, and to enable the cultivator to learn corresponding attribute spells more efficiently.
Within the Qingxuan Blessed Land!
As time passed, after Ye Qingxuan completely absorbed all the essence fed back upon the blessed land’s formation…
The aura around him suddenly burst outward, expanding. A pressure far exceeding that of Qi Refining Perfection emanated from his body into the surrounding air.
Ye Qingxuan slowly opened his eyes. Two dazzling rays of light flashed for a moment before gradually fading under his control, revealing his bright, clear eyes.
Sensing his cultivation level, Ye Qingxuan smiled with joy and said softly:
“Mid Foundation Establishment! The effect is quite good!”
That’s right. Because he had bound a late first-grade spiritual land, the blessed land that formed was directly a late first-grade blessed land. Thus, the essence feedback was greater, allowing Ye Qingxuan to reach the mid Foundation Establishment stage in one go.
Due to the unique connection with his bound clone, the Eternal Turtle, he could enjoy all the benefits of binding a blessed land while letting the Eternal Turtle bear all the constraints of the blessed land.
After his breakthrough, Ye Qingxuan was about to get up and examine his Qingxuan Blessed Land. Unexpectedly, the mysterious Xuanhuang-colored pearl in his mind, which had been quiet all along, began to tremble violently.
The next moment, before Ye Qingxuan could even react, a massive torrent of information poured out from this mysterious pearl, flooding into his mind space.
Ye Qingxuan directly fell into an unconscious slumber, passively receiving this vast influx of information.
Three days and three nights later, Ye Qingxuan slowly regained consciousness.
Ignoring the aching fullness in his mind, his eyes were filled with joy and excitement.
He had known it all along—the mysterious pearl that had traversed with him would not disappoint him.
Indeed, his guess had not been wrong. The surprise was even greater than he had imagined.
From the information he received, he learned that this Xuanhuang-colored pearl was a World Pearl, containing the complete legacy of the Earth Immortal Path.
It included not only the cultivation methods of Earth Immortals but also complete legacies covering alchemy, artifact forging, formation arrays, talismans, spiritual plant cultivation, beast taming, and all other aspects.
For now, he had only received some special information and all legacies below the Immortal realm. The remaining legacies had transformed into a halo of light, coalescing behind the brain of his solidified soul essence body within his mind space.
The reason the World Pearl had stirred when he first heard the term ‘Blessed Land’ was that the Blessed Land was one of the key elements in Earth Immortal Path cultivation.
It could be said that the ‘Blessed Cultivators’ researched and developed throughout the ages in the Di Xuan Realm were actually practitioners of an incomplete version of Earth Immortal cultivation.
True Earth Immortal cultivation methods did not just involve a Blessed Land; they also included a Grotto-Heaven!
The combination of Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land constituted the true Earth Immortal Path.
And the World Pearl in his mind was the perfect treasure for opening a Grotto-Heaven!
Only after opening a Grotto-Heaven could the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land complement each other, not only greatly increasing their auxiliary effects on the cultivator’s cultivation but also significantly reducing their drawbacks.
For instance, while Blessed Cultivators had their energy siphoned by the Blessed Land, slowing their cultivation speed by a hundredfold, in the Earth Immortal method, the complementary Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land would allow energy to flow and replenish each other, perfectly avoiding this issue.
Moreover, under the combined effect of Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land, the speed at which a cultivator’s spiritual root grew would also be greatly increased.
The benefits didn’t end there. After a Blessed Land advanced in grade, there would be essence feedback. Similarly, after a Grotto-Heaven advanced, there would also be essence feedback.
Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands were divided from the first to the tenth grade. If both a Grotto-Heaven and a Blessed Land were opened and cultivated to the tenth grade, they would provide Ye Qingxuan with twenty instances of essence feedback to enhance his cultivation.
Furthermore, a tenth-grade Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land, when fused into one, could evolve into a Small Thousand World, allowing Ye Qingxuan to become the master of a world.
By then, taking flight would be inevitable for him.
Of course, smoothly advancing a Grotto-Heaven or Blessed Land in grade was not that easy either.
The sole drawback of the Earth Immortal Path was that as the cultivator’s realm increased and the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land continuously advanced, the cultivator’s bond with them would deepen more and more.
Ultimately, success and failure would hinge on the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land, making ultimate transcendence difficult to attain.
