Immortal Refiner

Li Qing summarized his situation, feeling optimistic about his future cultivation.

After all, the Human Realm had stabilized. With the threat of the Formless Saint Ancestor eliminated, he could now focus on secluded cultivation within his cave abode, quietly honing his skills.

Now wielding the Immortal Slaughtering Sword, coupled with his perfected nascent soul realm cultivation and the dozen or so Thunderfire Cores he still possessed, Li Qing felt little fear even when facing a Divine Transformation stage cultivator.

He could now be considered one of the few at the very pinnacle of the Human Realm’s power structure.

”Next, I can afford to shift my focus slightly elsewhere,” he mused. ”For instance, whether these five elements spirit pearls might hold other hidden uses.”

With that, Li Qing retrieved the five elements spirit pearls that Su Xin had entrusted to him earlier.

Having reached the nascent soul realm, Su Xin no longer needed the Water Spirit Pearl for the time being and had simply given it to Li Qing.

The five spirit pearls, radiating brilliant light, orbited Li Qing. With each rotation, they spontaneously generated a substantial amount of pure five elements spiritual energy.

This spiritual energy was of little use to Li Qing himself, as his cultivation had already reached a bottleneck. Its only benefit was accelerating his mana recovery.

”The Five Elements are mutually generating and mutually restraining,” Li Qing observed. ”With all five pearls gathered, their ability to spontaneously generate spiritual energy is indeed impressive. But if that were their only advantage, it’s unlikely the Five Elements Spirit Saint would have been so obsessively collecting them.”

”There must be other hidden uses.”

Having said this, Li Qing focused his attention on studying the five elements spirit pearls, temporarily halting his cultivation.

He continuously manipulated the five spirit pearls in his hands, occasionally combining two or three to see if he could unlock any other miraculous functions.

Unfortunately, the moment even a single spirit pearl was missing, the cycle would break, rendering it impossible to generate five elements spiritual energy from thin air.

Next, Li Qing attempted to merge the five elements spirit pearls into a single entity, hoping to fuse them into one.

But he could find no way to achieve this. Each spirit pearl remained an independent entity, and he couldn’t forcibly merge them.

Attempting such a feat would likely lead to unpredictable and catastrophic consequences.

”I’ve heard that after reaching the divine transformation stage, one must strive for five elements harmony. Some cultivators even go to great lengths to complete their Spiritual Root.”

”But what exactly is this ’five elements harmony’?”

With this question lingering in his mind, Li Qing continued his in-depth study of the five elements spirit pearls.

In the blink of an eye, three years had passed.

During this time, Li Qing devoted his entire focus to the spirit pearls.

Regrettably, he made no significant breakthroughs. However, his understanding of the Five Elements arts deepened, becoming clearer than ever before.

Refusing to give up, Li Qing spent another year studying the five elements spirit pearls, but the results remained unchanged.

In the end, Li Qing reluctantly returned the Water Spirit Pearl to Su Xin, hoping it would ease her cultivation in the nascent soul realm.

With his research on the five elements spirit pearls temporarily concluded, Li Qing resolved to find time later to investigate the Spirit Pearl Divine Sect and seek out traces of the Five Elements Spirit Saint, hoping to gain some enlightenment from him.

Having shifted his focus away from the spirit pearls, Li Qing still had no intention of leaving seclusion.

He began refining his physical body, aiming to push his body arts cultivation to the peak of the fourth-tier. However, lacking supplementary spiritual objects, his progress in body refinement was painfully slow.

Even after two full years, his fleshly body remained stuck in the mid-fourth-tier, still some distance from reaching the late-fourth-tier.

Body refinement was inherently time-consuming, laborious, and resource-intensive. Even for someone like Li Qing, without the right opportunities, significant progress in a short period was impossible.

”It’s no wonder the path of body refinement has declined in the cultivation world,” Li Qing muttered, shaking his head.

In ancient times, when the cultivation world was brimming with spiritual energy and the great earth teemed with spiritual veins, cultivation resources had been abundant.

This era gave rise to numerous body cultivators, leading to the development of a vast array of body refinement techniques.

Unfortunately, times changed. After repeated invasions from the demon realm, the spiritual energy in the Human Realm grew increasingly thin, and cultivation resources dwindled drastically.

Body refinement techniques gradually faded from the stage of the cultivation world, resulting in a sharp decline in the number of body cultivators.

Yet Li Qing refused to give up. He had personally benefited greatly from body refinement, his formidable fleshly body granting him a significant advantage in combat.

However, given the current circumstances, he had no choice but to focus his efforts on cultivating his mana.

In the following days, Li Qing began to slowly grind away at the bottleneck of the divine transformation stage, attempting to weaken the barrier.

While not entirely fruitless, the progress was minimal, offering no hope of a breakthrough in the short term.

But this was no reason to abandon his efforts. Li Qing remained steadfast, meticulously grinding away at the barrier with unwavering focus.

When the monotony became unbearable, he would pick up the Dao Tribulation Limitless Sutra and, guided by the principles he had previously developed for the core formation realm Chapter, continue to refine his daoist arts.

Throughout this process, Li Qing continuously refined his daoist arts while also studying the core formation Chapters of numerous supreme-grade cultivation arts.

”Solidify true essence, merge the Golden Core into seamless unity, devour yin-yang and absorb heaven and earth, nourish the divine soul...”

The Dao Tribulation Limitless Sutra, created by Li Qing, emphasized the harmonious fusion of essence, qi, and spirit in the core formation realm—a crucial foundation for future breakthroughs to the nascent soul realm.

During his own core formation stage, Li Qing had not only cultivated a Golden Core but also mastered a secret technique called the Soul Core. Later, in the World of Eternal Night, he acquired the Qi-Blood Embracing the Core Cultivation Method.

By combining these two secret techniques, he refined his Golden Core to not only refine spiritual energy but also integrate his vital energy and divine soul.

This refined Golden Core would be of unparalleled purity. Once perfected, it would far surpass the Golden Cores of other core formation realm cultivators, granting him unmatched combat prowess in his realm.

Regardless of other considerations, this daoist art was exceptionally well-suited to his own cultivation path.

Thus, the Dao Tribulation Limitless Sutra was advanced to the late-stage core formation in one continuous effort, finally perfecting this Chapter.

As for the subsequent Chapters on the nascent soul realm, Li Qing remained clueless and had to pause his progress there.

This wasn’t a fruitless endeavor. Li Qing gained significant benefits, deepening his understanding and experience of his previous realms.

The unstable foundation caused by his rapid cultivation to the perfected nascent soul realm finally solidified.

With a solid foundation, Li Qing could now focus his efforts on breaking through to the divine transformation stage.

Another several years passed in this manner.

Unknowingly, Li Qing had lingered at the peak of the nascent soul realm for nearly a decade.

Yet, breaking through to the divine transformation stage still seemed distant, the barrier only slightly weakened by his efforts.

Just as Li Qing continued his secluded cultivation with unwavering focus, a spirit letter suddenly arrived from the Ten Thousand Treasures Merchant Guild.

The message was simple, consisting of a single sentence:

”The ascension platform has been forged. Fellow Daoist, please attend the ceremony!”

(End of the Chapter)

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