Invincible Beyond Heavens: Cultivating With A Broken EXP System

Although Ye Beichen’s current strength placed tremendous pressure on him, trying to suppress Li Yun with aura alone was nothing more than wishful thinking.

Li Yun calmly circulated his three cultivation arts. In the next moment, a thunderous surge of qi erupted from his body, crashing outward and instantly dispersing the pressure Ye Beichen was exerting on him.

“Li Yun, I did not expect that with nothing more than half step Xiantian Realm cultivation, you could so easily disperse my aura. You do have some methods.”

After seeing Li Yun effortlessly neutralize his aura, a trace of surprise flickered through Ye Beichen’s eyes. That surprise quickly turned into a cold sneer.

“Unfortunately, no matter what tricks you possess, they are meaningless before someone like me who has already broken through to the sixth level of the Xiantian Realm. Ten days ago, I still regarded you as an opponent. Now, I do not. In my eyes, you are no different from chickens and dogs. Suppressing you would be as easy as flipping my hand. You are not worthy of standing against me.” Ye Beichen said proudly.

“Ye Beichen, do you truly believe that in this entire world, you are the only one capable of breaking through?”

Li Yun responded with a sneer of his own. His expression remained calm as he looked at Ye Beichen and spoke in an unhurried tone. “There is still one full month before the New Disciples Ranking competition. In that time, no one can predict what will happen. Are you not afraid that speaking with such confidence now will only end in embarrassment later?”

“Heh. Who will embarrass whom will naturally be revealed during the New Disciples Ranking competition,” Ye Beichen replied arrogantly.

With that, he no longer paid Li Yun any attention and turned around to leave.

Li Yun watched Ye Beichen’s retreating figure, his eyes narrowing slightly. “This person is truly arrogant,” he thought.

“I did not expect Ye Beichen to break through to the sixth level of the Xiantian Realm only a few days after entering Martial Ascension Gate,” Zhu Ximen said to Han Lingxue with a serious expression. “It seems we must push ourselves even harder. If things continue like this, when the New Disciples Ranking competition arrives in a month, I am afraid we may not even have the qualifications to fight him.”

Ye Beichen’s breakthrough did not only place heavy pressure on Li Yun. Zhu Ximen and Han Lingxue felt that same sense of oppression as well.

As Zhu Ximen finished speaking, the three of them turned and returned to their respective residences.

Li Yun returned to his residence and went straight into the cultivation room without any delay.

Inside, he sat down cross legged and gradually settled his breathing, allowing his mind to become calm and focused. After that, he took out all the Heaven and Earth treasures he had exchanged from the Contribution Hall in preparation for this breakthrough and arranged them neatly around himself.

Li Yun picked up one of the Heaven and Earth treasures and swallowed it. Almost immediately, a vast surge of energy flooded his entire body. Without hesitation, he began circulating his three cultivation arts at the same time and officially started impacting the Xiantian Realm.

The step from Half Step Xiantian Realm to the true Xiantian Realm was enormous. This gap did not only represent the amount of resources required for the breakthrough, but also one’s cultivation talent. If a cultivator lacked sufficient talent, no matter how many resources they possessed or how hard they tried, they would never be able to step into the Xiantian Realm.

This was the reality for countless martial artists. Many could advance from the Body Tempering Realm to Half Step Xiantian Realm, but going beyond that threshold was something only a small number could achieve.

Li Yun, however, felt no anxiety at all. With his Supreme Foundation, his cultivation had no upper limit. As long as he had enough resources, his realm would rise steadily. That was exactly what he was doing now.

When he sensed that a single treasure was insufficient, Li Yun swallowed another Heaven and Earth treasure and continued his cultivation without pause.

A few minutes later, he took another.

Then another a few minutes after that.

As he continued consuming one treasure after another, even Li Yun himself felt astonished. Any one of these Heaven and Earth treasures would normally be more than enough for an ordinary cultivator to break through from Half Step Xiantian Realm to Xiantian Realm. Yet for him, they were barely sufficient. His Supreme Foundation was like a bottomless abyss that could not be filled so easily.

Fortunately, Li Yun had anticipated this situation. That was why he had exchanged such a large number of Heaven and Earth treasures from the Contribution Hall in advance.

He continued swallowing one treasure after another at regular intervals, never stopping his cultivation.

Two full hours passed in this manner.

Bang.

A violent wave of qi suddenly erupted from Li Yun’s body. The robe he was wearing was instantly torn apart, and the ground beneath him shattered as he sat cross legged. Spider web like cracks spread rapidly across the floor.

“I finally broke through to the Xiantian Realm,” Li Yun muttered with excitement as he examined the newly opened dantian within his body.

“Hm?”

As Li Yun examined his dantian, he immediately noticed something unusual. Most of the space inside was completely empty. Only at the very center did a fist sized globe of black gaseous mist float quietly. Circling around that black gaseous globe were two distinct seeds, slowly revolving as if drawn by an unseen force.

“What is going on?” Li Yun was stunned. “From everything I know, when someone breaks through to the Xiantian Realm, their internal energy transforms into qi and fills the entire dantian in a gaseous form. But my dantian is almost empty, with only this fist sized mass of gas floating at the center.”

No matter how he thought about it, the situation made no sense.

However, when Li Yun focused his attention on the two seeds orbiting the black gaseous globe, his expression changed again. From them, he could clearly sense sword intent and killing intent.

“Could these be my Sword Intent Seed and Killing Intent Seed?” Li Yun muttered in shock.

He had never heard of intent seeds, or even fully formed intent, existing in a tangible form inside the dantian. From what he understood, intent was a conceptual power born from comprehension and experience, something intangible by nature. Yet now, these seeds were clearly present within his dantian.

At that moment, a surge of information suddenly appeared in Li Yun’s mind. It came directly from the system, instantly answering all of his doubts.

“So that is how it is. I possess chaos qi instead of ordinary qi resulting in something very different from ordinary people,” Li Yun murmured.

Because he had the Primal Chaos Body, his cultivation path was fundamentally different from that of ordinary martial artists.

When others broke through to the Xiantian Realm, their internal energy transformed into normal qi. For Li Yun, however, his internal energy transformed into chaos qi.

The fist sized globe of black gaseous mist at the center of his dantian was precisely chaos qi. Although it appeared small, Li Yun instinctively knew that its size was deceptive.

According to the information provided by the system, this fist sized mass of chaos qi was nearly infinite. No matter how much chaos qi Li Yun consumed, it would never truly be exhausted. This boundless nature was what made chaos qi so terrifying.

What astonished him even more was another discovery. When cultivating his flame, wind, and lightning cultivation arts, he could freely convert chaos qi into any single elemental qi without worrying about conflicts between different elements.

Previously, when he was still at half step Xiantian Realm, if Li Yun circulated all three cultivation arts and then used a flame based martial art, only his flame cultivation art would fully empower it. The wind and lightning cultivation arts would provide only a minimal boost, since their elemental natures differed.

Now, however, things were completely different.

With chaos qi as the foundation, Li Yun could use all three cultivation arts simultaneously to strengthen a single elemental martial art. His flame cultivation art would enhance his flame techniques, but his wind and lightning cultivation arts would also contribute their full power. There was no longer any elemental restriction.

This extraordinary effect was possible only because of chaos qi.

As for the Sword Intent Seed and Killing Intent Seed revolving around the chaos qi, the system described them as quasi chaos seeds. Chaos Seeds were extremely mysterious, and even the system contained very little detailed information about them.

What Li Yun understood for now was that his Sword Intent Seed and Killing Intent Seed had not yet fully transformed into true Chaos Seeds.

As for when they would complete that transformation, or how it would happen, Li Yun had no answer yet.

“I should focus on getting myself familiar with this chaos qi.” Li Yun muttered as he began to use his martial arts using his chaos qi.

Like this time began to pass and then came the day of competition.

Dong. Dong.

A deep bell toll reverberated throughout the entire Martial Ascension Gate.

“Hm. It seems the New Disciples Ranking competition is about to begin,” Li Yun murmured. He paused briefly, then shook his head with a faint smile. “Time to get the New Talent King status.”

With that thought, Li Yun stood up and left the room, heading straight toward the Martial Battle Hall.

By the time he arrived, the vast hall was already crowded with people. A large number of Martial Ascension Gate disciples had gathered, and lively discussions echoed throughout the space, filling the air with excitement and tension.

Li Yun calmly walked toward the contestant seating area. The moment he took his seat, several strands of qi aura immediately locked onto him.

There were four in total, and their owners were Ye Beichen, Lu Changsan, Zhu Ximen, and Han Lingxue.

Their intentions were obvious. They were probing Li Yun’s strength, eager to see how much he had improved over the past twenty days.

When they sensed his aura clearly, their expressions changed almost at once. Li Yun had already broken through to the Xiantian Realm and reached the first level. From what they remembered, he had only just stepped into the half step Xiantian Realm back in the Eternal Sky Secret Realm. Now, he had broken through again in such a short time.

The speed of Li Yun’s cultivation genuinely shocked them.

While they were assessing him, Li Yun was doing the same in return.

“I did not expect that during these twenty days, their strength would also increase by such a noticeable margin,” he thought to himself. “As expected of true genius martial artists.”

When he carefully observed their figures and sensed the powerful primal energy fluctuations concealed within their bodies, a subtle change appeared in his expression. He let out a quiet sigh of amazement that only he could hear.