“Miss Lin, thank you for showing me a clear path!” Zhang Zongnian said hoarsely, choking up, “I really don’t know how I can ever repay your kindness.”
Lin Xue gave a gentle smile and waved her hand, saying,
“It’s nothing. We’re friends, after all. If you really want to repay me, why not tell me about the cultivation techniques you humans use? I’m quite curious about your cultivation methods.”
She had killed several people already, but still hadn’t found a single book about cultivation techniques—only skill techniques and spells.
She was really eager to know if her system could record human cultivation techniques.
If it could, then maybe she could just keep adding points, and push through Refining Qi stage after stage, just like that?
Zhang Zongnian nodded heavily and said, “Since Miss Lin wants to know, I’ll write down the portion of the cultivation method I know for you.”
He stowed away the Heavenly Demon Transformation Art and the Beast Refinement Codex into his storage pouch, then rummaged inside to find a brush and a sheet of white paper, and immediately began writing with his left hand.
Lin Xue was a bit surprised that Zhang Zongnian actually wrote with his left hand, and his handwriting was quite neat, too.
After he finished filling up the entire sheet of paper, Zhang Zongnian put away the brush and handed the paper over.
Lin Xue was stunned. “That’s it?”
Zhang Zongnian nodded and said,
“This is the foundational technique we human cultivators use, the Changsheng Jue. But the part I know is only the beginner’s chapter—it can only be cultivated up to the sixth stage of Refining Qi.”
“If you want to cultivate further, you need the subsequent chapters. But those are only held by bigger clans and sects. Us little sects and small families can’t even see them.”
Lin Xue complained inwardly: The Xiuxianjie of this world is so dark! Not only is the Po Zhang Dan supplied in limited quantities, but even cultivation methods are monopolized. It’s really hard for low-level cultivators to find a way out.
No wonder this cultivation method is so brief; that’s why she hadn’t seen related books or jade slips in the storage pouches of those people.
It’s so short that anyone could memorize it by heart, so of course there’s no need to write it up as a book.
She took the paper, and sure enough, a notification popped up on her panel.
“New cultivation technique detected: ‘Changsheng Jue’ (Incomplete). Please read to record it into the system. After recording, you can learn it by using Experience points.”
Lin Xue skimmed the whole content in just a few glances.
The panel showed: ‘Changsheng Jue’ (Incomplete) has been successfully recorded, and the status column displayed (Unpracticed)+ after it.
She could actually add points!
Lin Xue was excited.
She now had a full five hundred points of Experience; she wondered what realm she could reach by spending them.
She tried investing ten points of Experience into ‘Changsheng Jue’ (Incomplete).
The status of ‘Changsheng Jue’ (Incomplete) changed to (Refining Qi First Stage) (Practicing)+.
Lin Xue sensed a subtle change in her Essence Core.
Originally, her Essence Core was empty, containing only a single Serpent Core, but now a faint trace of Lingqi had suddenly appeared.
However, that faint Lingqi, upon encountering the Serpent Core, immediately vanished like ice meeting fire.
Lin Xue recalled that the Heavenly Demon Transformation Art recorded a similar situation by a Demonic Beast Jiedan expert: Demon Aura and Lingqi cannot coexist in the body.
The Demonic Beast absorbs the essence of sun and moon, tempers the body, and produces Demon Aura.
But if one practices human cultivator methods—through inhaling and exhaling—the body generates Lingqi.
When the two meet in the body, they mutually annihilate.
That Demonic Beast expert, in order to practice human techniques, came up with a method: temporarily remove the Serpent Core from the Essence Core, let it enter a dormant state, and leave the Essence Core for Lingqi.
But if the Serpent Core is activated and returns to the Essence Core, all Lingqi immediately dissipates.
Only after the Serpent Core is moved out of the Essence Core and becomes dormant again, will Lingqi slowly return.
Seeing this, Lin Xue suddenly remembered an online game she used to play on Blue Star.
In that game, each sect had two types of internal energy, and every time you switched, your mana would be emptied.
So every time players switched their internal energy, they’d have to meditate to recover their mana—a process jokingly called ‘regaining blue’.
Looks like the Demonic Beast using the Heavenly Demon Transformation Art to practice the human Changsheng Jue results in the same thing.
It’s like having one body with both Demonic and Immortal paths of inner power.
If she wanted to generate Lingqi in her body, she’d have to move the Serpent Core out of her Essence Core, and all Demon Aura would vanish.
If she wanted to use Demon Aura, she’d activate the Serpent Core, and all Lingqi would be gone.
Every time she switched, it was just like switching internal energy in the game: mana emptied, ‘blue bar’ at zero, and she’d need to meditate to recover.
However, Lin Xue only planned to test out raising her cultivation realm with point-adding, so she didn’t bother moving her Serpent Core; she just kept investing Experience into ‘Changsheng Jue’ (Incomplete).
After adding ninety more points, the status of ‘Changsheng Jue’ (Incomplete) became (Refining Qi First Stage—Perfection) (Practicing)+.
She kept adding points.
‘Changsheng Jue’ (Incomplete) (Refining Qi Second Stage) (Practicing)+.
A hundred points later, Refining Qi Second Stage—Perfection.
Another hundred points, ‘Changsheng Jue’ (Incomplete) (Refining Qi Third Stage—Perfection) (Practicing)+.
The early phase of Refining Qi was already complete.
By now, Lin Xue’s cultivation in Changsheng Jue was on par with Zhang Zongnian.
She glanced at Zhang Zongnian at her side, feeling a bit smug and mischievous.
She thought: If Zhang Zongnian knew that I’d gone from zero to matching him at Refining Qi early-stage perfection, in just a few breaths and by simply adding points, after he struggled for over ten years, would he cough up three liters of blood?
She looked at her panel.
According to Zhang Zongnian, once you reach Refining Qi early-stage perfection, you must take a Lower-grade Barrier-breaking Pill to break through the bottleneck and reach the fourth stage, entering mid-stage Refining Qi.
But now the “+” after ‘Changsheng Jue’ (Incomplete) was still there—it hadn’t vanished, meaning she could keep adding points.
Could it be that, thanks to the system, she could just ignore bottlenecks?
Lin Xue wondered, and tried adding one more point of Experience.
‘Changsheng Jue’ (Incomplete) immediately changed to (Refining Qi Fourth Stage) (Practicing)+.
She felt a subtle change within her Essence Core.
Her Essence Core had obviously expanded, able to accommodate much more Lingqi.
In other words, her “maximum mana” had increased.
She had broken through the bottleneck.
She had advanced past the first bottleneck of the Refining Qi stage without any Po Zhang Dan.
Lin Xue was both surprised and delighted.
By this logic, she wouldn’t need Middle-grade Barrier-breaking Pills or High-grade Po Zhang Dan in the future, either.
She continued pouring Experience in.
After spending all one hundred ninety-nine remaining points,
‘Changsheng Jue’ (Incomplete) reached (Refining Qi Fourth Stage—Perfection) (Practicing).
At this moment, Lin Xue was already at the fourth stage of Refining Qi, about to step into the fifth.
Although her “blue bar” was empty—her Essence Core still vacant, with little Lingqi—
But as long as she wanted, by moving her Serpent Core out of her Essence Core and meditating for a while, she could fill it with Lingqi.
Lin Xue let out a long breath.
It really was exhilarating to have a cheat like this.
With just a few clicks, she could skip the dull, lengthy training and level up directly.
With this golden finger, her future was limitless!
Lin Xue was eagerly looking forward to gaining more Experience, soaring easily through Foundation Establishment, Jiedan, and even Yuanying and Huashen, becoming a legend of the Xiuxianjie.
Suddenly, she saw a streak of escaping light speeding towards her across the sky.
That escaping light looked familiar.
Lin Xue’s face, filled with pride and excitement, instantly turned to terror.
Ancestor in Foundation Establishment of the Yang Family!
He had actually chased her down!
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