Chapter 89: Qi Refining Perfection

Summer passed and winter came, the four seasons cycled in turn.

Du En's liver-training career went smoothly.

Counting from the day Ren Li officially left his post.

Fifty days later, Earth Bullet Technique broke through to Great Accomplishment.

Ninety days later, Breath Concealment Technique broke through to Perfection.

Ninety-five days later, Artifact Refining broke through to First Glimpse of the Path.

One hundred days later, Artifact Manipulation Technique broke through to First Glimpse of the Path.

Four hundred and eighty days later, cultivation broke through to Qi Refining Perfection.

Attention was gathered entirely onto a single point.

The mana and blood-Qi within the body, pushed by this pressure, circulated and advanced continuously through the limbs, bones, meridians, and dantian, gradually giving rise to a higher level of "heat"!

Qi Refining stage, refining Qi, refine!

"The quantity is high, but limited by the materials, they are at most first-tier mid-grade, without much significant help; in daily life, they can only be used to circle lines as a warning net..."

First Glimpse of the Path.

"However, it is not as if there are no situations that deviate from the basics."

The proportion of crystal dust further reached one percent, the meridians and blood marrow formally began to show signs of soft spiritual crystallization, and the bones revealed the first signs of hard spiritual crystallization.

Finally, it was time to perform spells to test it.

He thought this, slightly obsessive-compulsive.

The lifespan limit also increased by two years accordingly, which was also a normal situation.

They increased further, their proportion began to become obvious, reaching one-thousandth of the whole, and their influence also became obvious; the blood marrow and meridians began to show signs of spiritual crystallization.

At the same time, he mainly bullied those supervisors who did private work, extracting a hush-money fee from them, but perhaps the manager of this area was unexpectedly diligent, so the number of supervisors who dared to seek private gain was not large, and those who dared to reach out for first-tier high-grade spiritual materials were even rarer.

【Firm Spirit Art (Small Success 0/1000)】

One increase and one decrease, calculated together, the impact on the accumulation of cultivation base was basically non-existent; at the same time, the direct bonus brought by the breakthrough of the cultivation method still existed, giving him 15/100 accumulation now.

The words of the cultivation method echoed in his mind; the mana that was originally full and self-circulating paused, and when it moved again, it began to change, following a different form of operation.

Moving again, jumping, sprinting, testing the body after the radical change.

【Hundred Arts: Gathering and Appraising (Well-versed 0/50), Culinary Cooking (Small Success 0/100), Spirit Seeking (First Glimpse of the Path 0/20), Artifact Refining (First Glimpse of the Path 0/20)】

For ordinary cultivators, once they reached this stage, before breaking through, daily cultivation lessons would no longer have actual improvements, just a way to maintain and consolidate the cultivation base.

"Relatively speaking, it is the frontline laborers who can secretly embezzle a tiny bit during the process of digging stones and felling trees; like the late leader of the now-dispersed Stone Digging Gang, Shi Lei, who even dared to embezzle second-tier ones..."

Stacking the accumulation of the cultivation base, waiting until the accumulation is sufficient, reaching one hundred percent, one can naturally and logically break through to the next major realm.

It was originally about using the human body as a furnace and vitality as the fire to fiercely refine the incoming spiritual Qi!

Right now, with high pressure outside and high heat inside, under this dual push, changes arose spontaneously.

Du En felt his own changes, opened his eyes, glanced at the panel, and then looked around, only to see the ground was slightly messy, which were the traces brought by the concentrated surge of spiritual Qi just now.

【Spells: Earth Bullet Technique (Great Accomplishment 278/500), Sand Raising Technique (Perfection), Breath Concealment Technique (Perfection), Earth Armor Technique (Great Accomplishment 322/500), Artifact Manipulation Technique (Well-versed 180/500)】

Regarding this point, Du En had no way either.

Switch to a better cultivation method!

Cultivating a mid-grade method is simply better than a low-grade one; not just in the quantity and quality of mana, or the intuitive aspects like the body's lifespan, but even in inconspicuous and non-intuitive aspects like breaking through major realms, it actually has a certain amount of help.

【Spiritual Root: Low-grade】

Through one thing and another, this kind of situation was brewed.

Firm Spirit Art entry!

Just started learning.

But it did not stop; grains of crystal dust condensed and precipitated, and in the blink of an eye, there were hundreds and thousands of them.

【Cultivation Method: Yellow Earth Art (Perfection)】

So at this very moment, it was the best time to switch cultivation methods!

Du En remained sitting cross-legged, in the deep mountains and old forests, surrounded by one hundred hidden first-tier mid-to-low-grade magic artifacts, continuing to press on with his cultivation.

Then he raised his head and looked toward the wasteland where corpses were buried.

"Qi Refining is perfected..."

Du En's Yellow Earth Art had long since been practiced to the end; for these sixteen months, he had been pondering the Firm Spirit Art, and had basically mastered it three months ago, but because he felt the prerequisites were not good enough, he had not officially switched.

However, at the same time, due to the change in the mode of circulating energy, the human body's blood-Qi participated, formally practicing both law and body, plus some environmental requirements, and added to the fact that the total length of the meridians had increased by nearly two times... various reasons caused the time for each cycle of energy to be lengthened significantly, making the number of daily cultivation sessions drop to twenty-seven.

Furthermore, the dantian, which had originally been expanded to its limit, was now about ten percent deeper, and the meridians throughout the body had grown dense, intricate endings, reflecting the virtual and the real, achieving full coverage of the entire body.

With the change in the form of energy circulation, a large amount of spiritual Qi also began to be drawn and absorbed, especially the pure Earth-element spiritual Qi seeping out from the earth; they were not meant to be ingested, but surged and wrapped around, directly piling and pressing Du En in the very center.

"The change is very obvious; conservatively estimated, I can easily defeat the me who had just reached perfection, hmm, about three and a half of them..."

Therefore, those Qi Refining Perfection supervisors outside the border city would generally find ways to obtain mid-grade cultivation methods to attempt to switch.

Suddenly, Du En felt as if he had arrived at the very bottom of the deep earth, with heavy pressure attacking from all directions.

【Age: 22/148】

"Buried deep in the earth, rammed and compacted, with a firm shell outside and spiritual gestation inside..."

Ring ring ring~

The collision of crystal dust was like a crisp and clear piece of light music, naturally formed.

Thinking this, his footsteps moved.

It was as if at the bottom of the earth, at the edge of a spiritual vein, a piece of primitive spirit stone began to form.

Four hundred and sixty-two days later, Culinary Cooking broke through to Small Success.

Three hundred days later, Artifact Manipulation Technique broke through to Well-versed.

Let's go for it in one go!

As far as Du En knows and is capable of doing, there is one way.

Du En looked at his own lifespan limit, which was at least twenty years longer than the average Qi Refining perfection, and silently sensed the state of his dantian and meridians, which could no longer be expanded after the breakthrough, and his physical body and magic power, both of which were full and flawless.

However, starting from this direction is truly like looking for a needle in a haystack; it is not worth the loss and would waste precious time for nothing.

The body has obviously become stronger and more powerful.

Therefore, Du En did not do it; after maxing out the first stage of Artifact Refining, he stopped the actions of secretly searching for materials.

And for Du En, although both his physical body and magic power had reached the limit of the Qi Refining stage, his daily cultivation still had a clear and practical significance.

The Lacquer Shadow Dharma Robe could not help but flicker with abnormal spiritual light, with the sensation of a collision, as if friction was sparking.

【Divine Ability: None】

【Cultivation: Qi Refining Perfection (0/100)】

For example, the "Small Achievement" stage of the Firm Spirit Art stimulated numerous meridian endings, thereby making the body more sensitive and receptive to spiritual Qi; although the cultivation method itself did not bring about acceleration, this actual physical change still increased efficiency by about ten percent on top of the original cultivation foundation.

Even though low-grade cultivation methods are actually sufficient for use during the Foundation Establishment stage, and even though they do not actually pursue the further "Phenomenon Foundation Establishment."

Du En reached the limit of his Qi Refining perfection once again.

Driving a light carriage on a familiar road.

Compared to the influence of the Yellow Earth Art on the physical body, which is actually just a passive consolidation and accumulation, this new form of circulating and practicing the art connects the inside and outside of the meridians, drives the human body's blood and Qi, and realizes the direct mutual promotion and progress of both the magic power and the physical body.

From the vigorous gaseous magic power, translucent small particles instantly condensed, as inconspicuous as dust, and continued to circulate with the gaseous magic power.

The current related thoughts are also just skimming the surface, passing by lightly.

Reaching the perfection stage of a realm means that one's cultivation has reached the top; wanting to have further breakthroughs or changes usually can only be achieved by breaking through to a major realm.

Not until this moment did the refined Earth-element spiritual Qi stop surging and applying pressure, and the cultivation method circulating within the body began to level off, returning to a normal self-circulation.

Because at the various spiritual material production sites outside the city, whether it is wood or stone, as long as it reaches the first-grade high-rank, it will be strictly restricted and controlled.

He stood up, raised his hand and waved, and a gust of wind blew by, smoothing out those traces and also creating more traces.

"It seems that this lower-level connecting to and switching to a higher-level cultivation method can utilize the original accumulated foundation to charge directly to the 'Small Achievement' stage, but the basic cultivation efficiency has not been improved; that is to say, the perfection of the next level is basically equivalent to the 'Small Achievement' of the previous level."

Which is true dual cultivation of magic and body!

"Now that Qi Refining is perfect, having reached the current limit state, whether it is the physical body or magic power, there is no room for further progress; this is the optimum of the Qi Refining stage!"

On the way, with a wave of his hand, the magic artifact he refined himself flew out from the shadows, flying and shrinking like a fledgling bird returning to its nest, and tucked into Du En's embrace.

But in fact, there are also some slight differences.

Comprehending the Wasteland!

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