Chapter 221: Completion of the First Part of the Cultivation Method

To create a five-element cultivation method, the most fundamental point is to simultaneously absorb five-element spiritual power.

This point is easily solved; with Wang Ping's understanding of spiritual roots, he only needs to condense a pattern like the Calming Spirit using five-element runes as the core.

Over the past year, he has completed this work.

After solving the problem of absorbing spiritual power, he next needs to consider improving the quality of his Golden Core, which is extremely important.

When a cultivator forms a Golden Core, it is merely an initial solidification process; afterward, through early, middle, late, and great perfection stages, the Golden Core is gradually refined.

In the Golden Core realm, the characters "gold" and "elixir" must be viewed both as a whole and separately; "gold" represents firmness and immortality, while "elixir" represents completeness—completeness of spiritual power and completeness of the soul, achieving total perfection.

During this process, the soul must also gradually unite with the Golden Core; the soul's complex components—will, thought, emotion, etc. —must achieve perfect union with the Golden Core.

The process of their union is also a purification of the soul; the Golden Core represents completeness, uniqueness, and the origin.

Only by achieving this can a pure Nascent Soul be formed when the Golden Core transforms into an infant.

Therefore, after solving the spiritual power issue, the second problem is how to make the Golden Core firm and immortal, with the elixir nature complete.

For over a year, Wang Ping has been thinking about this problem, and finally discovered that the five-colored divine light had become its greatest obstacle.

The five-colored divine light originates from the five elements but does not belong to them; in the Golden Core realm, to achieve total completeness, the five-colored divine light must be merged into the Golden Core.

Nowadays, the five-colored divine light is akin to a divine ability, yet not a divine ability; other Golden Core cultivators at this stage must comprehend their Dao technique to the second level, the Dao Manifestation realm, and then fuse the Dao technique with the Golden Core to form their natal Dao technique.

Thus, after breaking through to the Nascent Soul, the Dao technique will change from an artificially acquired postnatal trait to an innate one, becoming an innate Dao technique.

This is also the third level of Dao technique, the Innate!

This is like a ten-month pregnancy; in the Golden Core realm, fusing the Dao technique with the Golden Core and transforming together is like a child in the mother's womb, and when the infant is formed, that is the moment of its birth.

However, although the five-colored divine light originates from the five elements, when Wang Ping tried to merge it into his Golden Core, he found that no matter how, the moisture could not be integrated.

This is the problem he needs to solve next.

Wang Ping awoke from his contemplation; if he wants to create a Golden Core cultivation method,

First step, he needs to solve the spiritual power problem.

Second step, he needs to solve the problem of merging the Golden Core with the soul and gradually achieving completeness.

Third step, he must fuse the five-colored divine light into the Golden Core so it grows together with it; this step has two difficulties.

First, the five-colored divine light is neither a Dao technique nor a divine ability; it is a fusion of power, so how can he elevate it to the Dao Manifestation level under these circumstances?

Second, the five-colored divine light no longer belongs to the five-element powers; it is a new power born from the unification of the five elements, originating from them but now unrelated to them.

Fourth step, the Nascent Soul formation!

Now, the first step, Wang Ping has completed; through his five-element spiritual root, he has condensed a rune capable of simultaneously absorbing and converting five-element spiritual power.

Although his five-element Golden Core can be converted using a single five-element spiritual power, it cannot be used for cultivation; if his newly formed Golden Core were to rely long-term on absorbing a single five-element spiritual power to enhance it, it would be hard to guarantee that this method would not destabilize the five-element Golden Core.

Therefore, the safest situation is to simultaneously absorb the five types of attribute spiritual power.

Wang Ping knows creating a cultivation method is difficult, especially his kind, which will be extremely arduous, so he said it might take a century; of course, a century does not mean doing nothing and blindly creating the method.

He can simultaneously create and cultivate, because cultivation is not something achieved overnight; it likewise requires gradual progress.

For example, in the early Golden Core stage, the main goal is to let the Golden Core fully solidify and completely take shape, eliminating any danger of turbulence.

This step only requires completing the creation of the first-step cultivation method.

The first step, Wang Ping has already condensed the core rune; next, he must comprehend numerous runes to form a rune sequence, colloquially speaking, turning an outline into a complete book.

After all, what Wang Ping creates is a cultivation method, which ultimately must be expressed in text.

After breaking through the Golden Core, the Calming Spirit rune will undergo changes; Wang Ping now estimates he can refer to at least two thousand five hundred runes and above.

Meanwhile, a Golden Core realm cultivation method involves only around five hundred runes!

On the very day he entered War Lord Peak, Wang Ping lacked only three runes to complete the comprehension of the first part of his cultivation method.

As the sky gradually darkened, Wang Ping's body occasionally flickered with various lights, caused by the spiritual root changes triggered while contemplating the five-element spiritual root runes.

In Wang Ping's sea of consciousness, runes densely covered everything, all revolving around a central rune pattern.

That is the core of the cultivation method, that rune pattern capable of simultaneously absorbing five-element spiritual power.

At that moment, in his sea of consciousness, Wang Ping sketched the final three earth-yellow runes; thus, the first part of the cultivation method he created is now complete.

Wang Ping's eyes suddenly widened, revealing a hint of excitement; after over a year of breakthrough, he is finally about to begin absorbing spiritual power.

Let me see how fast this cultivation method's progress is!

Hum!

Wang Ping's body surface emitted five-colored light, dyeing the entire room in five colors.

Now it is night; the War Lord's residence suddenly gathered five-colored spiritual qi, instantly attracting many onlookers.

The spiritual qi of heaven and earth at War Lord Peak was already extremely rich; now, drawn by the operation of Wang Ping's cultivation method, droplets of spiritual fluid fell in his room and were quickly absorbed by him.

Originally, heavenly and earthly spiritual qi is attribute-less, but upon reaching the Golden Core stage, to harmonize with their own Dao, Golden Core cultivators absorb corresponding attribute spiritual qi; this is most important in the Golden Core stage, because due to the Dao technique, same-attribute power nurtures the Dao technique more thoroughly, whereas attribute-less spiritual qi falls short in this regard.

At the same time, same-attribute spiritual power greatly aids in the condensation of the Golden Core.

After passing this stage, the cultivator will return to their original state.

Therefore, as Wang Ping's cultivation method continuously operates, a large amount of five-colored spiritual qi envelops the War Lord Hall.

In the house where Wang Ping resides, droplets of five-colored spiritual fluid are sucked into his Golden Core one after another.

The five-colored Golden Core spins rapidly in his dantian, its emitted light growing ever brighter; since forming his Golden Core, Wang Ping has never before inhaled and exhaled heavenly and earthly spiritual power like this, so his Golden Core's absorption of heavenly and earthly spiritual qi is exceptionally fierce.

The cultivators secretly observing in War Lord Peak all showed shock; some privately praised: the War Lord's disciple is indeed extraordinary, merely through daily cultivation he can produce such might.

And in the room, while Wang Ping was cultivating, he suddenly exclaimed in surprise: "Why are the spiritual root runes increasing?"