Immortal Cultivation: Starting as a Fortune Cultivator - Chapter 29

Inside the special dimension of the Scripture Depository!

Among the books Ye Qingxuan had just read, aside from knowledge related to the advancement of spiritual plants and ley lines, were also recorded some secrets about Earthly Blessing Cultivators!

So, to contract a spiritual site, become an Earthly Blessing Cultivator, and transform an ordinary spiritual site into a Blessed Land, a cultivator must, before forming their Foundation Establishment Base and while their Essence, Energy, and Spirit are still unstable, separate a part of their own foundational Essence, Energy, and Spirit and fuse it into the spiritual site.

After a part of the cultivator’s foundational Essence, Energy, and Spirit merges with the land’s origin, contracting the land and granting them control over it…

From that moment on!

The cultivator and the land cultivate life together, seated steadfastly in one place, becoming an Earthly Blessing Cultivator!

The spiritual land, fused with the cultivator’s foundational Essence, Energy, and Spirit, undergoes a transformation, gains the opportunity to advance faster, and becomes a Blessed Land.

And this is the origin of Earthly Blessing Cultivators and Blessed Lands.

The reason Earthly Blessing Cultivators can use their Blessed Land to enhance their spiritual roots…

…is because a part of the cultivator’s foundational Essence, Energy, and Spirit has merged with the land’s origin, and the Blessed Land is also a part of the Di Xuan Realm.

Therefore, the emergence of Earthly Blessing Cultivators benefits the development of the Di Xuan Realm. With feedback from the realm’s origin, the spiritual roots of an Earthly Blessing Cultivator will naturally grow slowly over time.

The higher the grade of the Blessed Land, the greater the feedback from the Di Xuan Realm, and the faster the growth rate of the cultivator’s spiritual roots.

This was precisely the point that Ye Qingxuan valued when he chose to become an Earthly Blessing Cultivator.

But he never expected that becoming one required fusing his own foundational Essence, Energy, and Spirit!
He had originally planned to use his Eternal Turtle doppelganger to bear the limitations of being an Earthly Blessing Cultivator in his place. Given this new information, he wondered if the foundational essence separated from the Eternal Turtle doppelganger could substitute for his own Essence, Energy, and Spirit?

Well, let nature take its course!

Even if the plan to use the Eternal Turtle doppelganger to bear the limitations failed, it wasn’t as if he had no other hopes.
Mulling over his own little schemes, Ye Qingxuan continued reading.

After becoming an Earthly Blessing Cultivator, breaking through cultivation levels does not require undergoing heavenly tribulation; breakthroughs happen naturally.

This is because other cultivators plunder heaven and earth’s spiritual energy to break through, so the Di Xuan Realm naturally administers a test to see if they are qualified to occupy a portion of the world’s resources.

Earthly Blessing Cultivators, however, indirectly contribute to the Di Xuan Realm during their cultivation process, so the realm naturally does not send down thunder tribulations to hinder their breakthroughs.

“I never expected this pleasant surprise!”

Before reading these books, Ye Qingxuan was unaware of this point.

This discovery delighted him immensely!

After all, undergoing tribulation creates quite a commotion. Experiencing a tribulation within the Xuantian Sect would undoubtedly expose him to everyone’s eyes, which didn’t align with his planned development path.

Now, knowing that Earthly Blessing Cultivators break through without tribulation was even better. The fewer people who paid attention to him, the better.

Although Ye Qingxuan currently held a very favorable impression of the Xuantian Sect and thought quite highly of it, it was always wise to be cautious. It was better to keep his life firmly in his own hands.

Reading further, Ye Qingxuan learned why the cultivation technique he practiced, the Earth Origin Art, had become the exclusive technique for disciples of the Earthly Blessing Cultivator branch.

Under normal circumstances, the success rate of a cultivator separating their foundational Essence, Energy, and Spirit and merging it with a spiritual site is too low.

After continuous attempts by predecessors, the Earth Origin Art that Ye Qingxuan cultivated was eventually created.

During the cultivation of the Earth Origin Art, the practitioner continuously absorbs a portion of Earth Source Qi, integrating it into their Essence, Energy, and Spirit. Earth Source Qi is one of the fundamental energies of spiritual lands.

As a cultivator practices the Earth Origin Art, their Essence, Energy, and Spirit continuously fuse with Earth Source Qi.

By the time a cultivator practicing the Earth Origin Art reaches the peak of Qi Refining and is about to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm, their Essence, Energy, and Spirit have already integrated sufficient Earth Source Qi. At this point, contracting a spiritual site and merging their Essence, Energy, and Spirit with the land’s origin becomes much easier.

Through observations over generations, it was discovered that cultivators with an earth spiritual root who practice the Earth Origin Art can achieve twice the result with half the effort and basically face no risk of failure when contracting a spiritual site.

This was the real reason why the Xuantian Sect needed to screen for disciples with an earth spiritual root to become Earthly Blessing Cultivators!

It wasn’t that cultivators with other spiritual roots couldn’t become Earthly Blessing Cultivators, but only those with an earth spiritual root, after cultivating the Earth Origin Art, could achieve a one hundred percent success rate!

Furthermore, after an Earthly Blessing Cultivator dies, their Blessed Land can be re-contracted and inherited by another cultivator.

This is also the only opportunity for an Earthly Blessing Cultivator to directly contract a Blessed Land of the second rank or higher!

Other Earthly Blessing Cultivators can only start by contracting a first-rank spiritual site, transforming it into a Blessed Land, and developing it slowly.

However, a Blessed Land can only be inherited three times. After three inheritances, it will gradually transform into an ordinary spiritual site and merge back into the Xuantian Mountain Range. Many of the high-grade spiritual lands within the Xuantian Mountain Range were born this way.

Therefore, the quota to inherit a Blessed Land from a predecessor is extremely precious, as it can save a new Earthly Blessing Cultivator a significant amount of time. Currently, most of the high-grade Earthly Blessing Cultivators within the Xuantian Sect have accumulated their status through this process of inheritance over generations.
Ye Qingxuan knew his limits and didn’t harbor any covetous thoughts about such a quota. He also wasn’t particularly concerned about the limitation that a Blessed Land could only be inherited three times.

His Blessed Land would naturally endure eternally with him, Ye Qingxuan, and no outsider would ever get the chance to inherit it.

Turning the pages without stopping, Ye Qingxuan continued reading.

Suddenly, Ye Qingxuan paused. He had finally discovered the real reason why Earthly Blessing Cultivators didn’t have doppelgangers traveling outside.

So, the very thing that brings success also brings failure!

The fact that a part of the cultivator’s foundational Essence, Energy, and Spirit merges with the Blessed Land’s origin is precisely what turns the Blessed Land into a unique, external incarnation of the cultivator.

This was the main reason why the Earthly Blessing Cultivators within the Xuantian Sect didn’t cultivate doppelgangers to move about in the outside world.

It wasn’t just because cultivation methods for creating doppelgangers were extremely expensive, but more because the limitations imposed by the Blessed Land rendered ordinary doppelganger and puppet techniques useless.

Ordinary doppelgangers and puppets simply couldn’t leave the area of the Blessed Land.

Only an External Incarnation, condensed from one’s own foundational Essence, Energy, and Spirit, could break free from this restriction.

However, cultivating an External Incarnation has realm requirements and quantity limitations. A cultivator at the Nascent Soul realm can condense one External Incarnation, and a mighty cultivator at the Cave Void realm can condense a second!

When an Earthly Blessing Cultivator uses a special method to contract a Blessed Land, it already occupies the slot for the first External Incarnation. Therefore, for an Earthly Blessing Cultivator to condense another External Incarnation under normal circumstances, they would have to wait until they reached the Cave Void realm.

That’s the level of a Cave Void realm powerhouse!

Given the turtle-like cultivation speed of Earthly Blessing Cultivators, this was enough to make most of them despair and simply give up on the idea of forming an External Incarnation.

As for the cultivation speed of Earthly Blessing Cultivators being a hundred times slower, it was because after becoming one, ninety-nine percent of the spiritual energy they absorbed into their bodies was taken by the Blessed Land’s origin, leaving only one percent for the cultivator themselves.

However, this slow cultivation speed wasn’t without a solution!

The Blessed Land absorbs spiritual energy from the cultivator primarily because it lacks the energy for its own evolution, instinctively drawing upon the cultivator’s energy as an accumulation for its advancement.

Therefore, as long as vast amounts of energy were provided to the Blessed Land, it would naturally stop siphoning the cultivator’s pitifully small share!
Moreover, when the Blessed Land advanced in grade, it would provide feedback to the cultivator, directly increasing their cultivation level regardless of spiritual root limitations. This was one of the main methods for Earthly Blessing Cultivators to enhance their cultivation.

Not only that, under normal circumstances, consuming elixirs leads to the accumulation of pill toxins and the development of resistance.

Every so often, a cultivator must expend effort to cultivate special techniques or consume specially purified elixirs to cleanse the accumulated toxins from their body before they can continue using elixirs for cultivation!
As an alchemist, Ye Qingxuan was very aware of this point.

The reason he hadn’t developed a resistance to the Spirit Augmentation Pill yet was simply because the Spirit Augmentation Pill was a special type of elixir. Its effect acted directly on the spiritual root, rather than directly increasing his cultivation, so the side effects were much smaller.

However, ‘much smaller’ didn’t mean nonexistent. Given enough time, Ye Qingxuan’s body would eventually develop a resistance to the Spirit Augmentation Pill!
The Blessed Land, however, could help purify the cultivator’s body, resolving the issue of pill resistance. This allowed Earthly Blessing Cultivators to use elixirs for cultivation at a high frequency, compensating somewhat for their inherently slow cultivation speed!

But all of these methods to solve the slow cultivation speed of Earthly Blessing Cultivators required consuming a massive amount of resources.

To put it bluntly, those who voluntarily became Earthly Blessing Cultivators, and those disciples from the Xuantian Sect’s subordinate forces who were essentially dumped into the sect to become Earthly Blessing Cultivators passively…

…were basically seen as discarded pieces, responsible for producing resources, in the eyes of those subordinate forces. Why would they spend large amounts of resources to cultivate these discarded Earthly Blessing Cultivators?

After all, the final ownership of the Blessed Land didn’t belong to them anyway.

Compared to these people, the Ye Clan, while not a major power, had provided Ye Qingxuan with a considerable level of support!

As for the Xuantian Sect, its purpose in fostering Earthly Blessing Cultivators was for resources. Spending a few resources in the early stages to cultivate potential Earthly Blessing Cultivator disciples was already considered fulfilling their duty. Why would they expend enormous additional resources to boost the cultivation levels of these Earthly Blessing Cultivators?

The Xuantian Sect wasn’t a nanny for its disciples, after all; it couldn’t take care of everything for them.

This wasn’t unique to the Xuantian Sect; most other hegemon-level forces operated similarly.

This was the main reason why major hegemon-level forces were willing to cultivate potential Earthly Blessing Cultivator disciples in the early stages but were reluctant to invest resources in low-grade Earthly Blessing Cultivators.

It was simply because being an Earthly Blessing Cultivator was a massive resource sink. The resources required to cultivate an Earthly Blessing Cultivator into a high-grade cultivator were simply too vast.

Lower-grade resources were manageable, but high-grade resources were extremely tight, even for hegemon-level forces like the Xuantian Sect.

If they couldn’t cultivate an Earthly Blessing Cultivator into a high-grade one, then the investment during the low-grade stages—resulting in one or two second or third-rank Earthly Blessing Cultivators—was completely meaningless for a hegemon-level force like the Xuantian Sect.

After all, relying on the accumulation of time, and the fact that high-grade Earthly Blessing Cultivators would naturally emerge slowly after three inheritances of a Blessed Land, was sufficient.

High-grade Blessed Lands provided much greater assistance to low-grade Earthly Blessing Cultivators, after all.