[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu":3,"chapter-eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-chapter-14":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Eternal Cultivation: Starting from the Blessed Cultivator",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1902300,2538,"Chapter 14: Earth Source Art","eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-chapter-14",14,"\u003Cp>Three days later!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After undergoing layers of inspection and assessment, Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao finally successfully joined the Xuantian Sect after swearing the Sect's Dao Oath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It can only be said that the Xuantian Sect truly lives up to its reputation as a hegemonic power; even with the reduced difficulty of the assessment, nearly one in ten people in the Reception Hall were eliminated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The annual sect entry assessment, while not overly difficult, lowered the requirements for cultivation talent and perseverance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the Xuantian Sect did not lower its standards for personal character. It preferred to have fewer members rather than accept the unworthy; the sect would not let one rotten apple spoil the whole barrel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, Long Tian, who had clashed with Ye Qingxuan a few days prior, failed the assessment within a illusion formation and missed his chance to join the Xuantian Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, the Xuantian Sect is not short of disciples!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since this was merely the annual entry ceremony, the high-level members of the Xuantian Sect did not appear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At most, an Elder-level figure appeared only during the Sect's Dao Oath segment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This shows that the Xuantian Sect does not care much about these disciples recruited annually; most of their talents do not meet the standards required for the high-level members to take them as personal students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shortly after Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao joined the Xuantian Sect, Mo Tian found the two. Under Mo Tian's arrangement, Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao were quickly separated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxiao became a menial disciple of the Xuantian Sect, taken by Mo Tian to the Menial Hall of the Xuantian Sect for cultivation, and required to complete the sect's menial tasks every day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Ye Qingxuan, being a reserve disciple for the Blessed Cultivators, he was taken to the Blessed Cultivator Hall, a building at the foot of Xuantian Peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a reserve Blessed Cultivator of the Xuantian Sect, Ye Qingxuan was completely exempt from performing any sect tasks; the sect would provide sufficient cultivation resources for his practice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone in the Blessed Cultivator Hall was essentially in the same situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, those willing to become Blessed Cultivators generally possessed very poor talent, mostly having first or second-grade spiritual roots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those with slightly better talent and a glimmer of future prospects generally would not choose to become Blessed Cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, even though they did not need to perform sect tasks and the sect provided sufficient resources for cultivation, the cultivation speed of those in the Blessed Cultivator Hall remained extremely slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all this back-and-forth, Ye Qingxuan finally settled down in the Xuantian Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After entering the Blessed Cultivator Hall, Ye Qingxuan quickly received the first cultivation technique of his life—the Earth Source Art!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Earth Source Art is also the exclusive cultivation technique for all reserve Blessed Cultivator disciples; all Blessed Cultivator disciples cultivate the Earth Source Art!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cultivation techniques are divided into nine grades, from first to ninth. Ye Qingxuan did not know the specific grade of the Earth Source Art; he had temporarily only received the first four layers of the technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first four layers of the Earth Source Art were sufficient for Ye Qingxuan to cultivate up to the Golden Core realm, equivalent to a fourth-grade technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After obtaining the Earth Source Art, Ye Qingxuan eagerly entered his own private courtyard. After activating the formation inherent to the courtyard, he began his first cultivation experience in life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the initial cultivation, one must sense the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, guide it into the body, and refine it into one's own spiritual power before truly stepping into the Qi Refining realm!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan sat cross-legged, suppressed the excitement in his heart, emptied his mind, and strove to sense the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the state of meditation, time passed quickly; in the blink of an eye, a whole day had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not until late at night, when Ye Qingxuan was awakened by hunger, had he still failed to sense the spiritual energy or step into the Qi Refining realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Ye Qingxuan did not feel discouraged, nor did he rush to continue cultivating. Instead, he left the courtyard, went to the supply point of the Blessed Cultivator Hall, and collected enough food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Returning to his private courtyard, after a hearty meal, Ye Qingxuan chose to sleep deeply to restore the mental energy consumed that day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This continued for two days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the third day, thanks to the dense spiritual energy environment within the Xuantian Sect and Ye Qingxuan's extraordinary soul,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan successfully sensed the spiritual energy on the evening of the third day, smoothly guided the qi into his body, refined the spiritual energy to transform his first wisp of spiritual power, and officially stepped into the first layer of the Qi Refining realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan became the first person among those who entered in the same batch at the Blessed Cultivator Hall to break through to the Qi Refining realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After breaking through to the Qi Refining realm, due to being in an unfamiliar environment, Ye Qingxuan, out of caution, did not report it immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His talent was not the highest among those in the same batch; breaking through too quickly would be unreasonable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, after breaking through to the first layer of the Qi Refining realm, Ye Qingxuan chose to hide his progress and did not intend to report it to show off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, being the first to break through brought no rewards, so there was no need to report it so soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, he had always been cultivating in seclusion in his courtyard, so no one would notice him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After breaking through to the Qi Refining realm, ordinary food was no longer useful to him; basically, the spiritual energy his body automatically absorbed daily was sufficient to provide the energy his body consumed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, while hiding his own progress and living in seclusion to consolidate his cultivation base at the first layer of the Qi Refining realm, Ye Qingxuan also secretly monitored the cultivation progress of others in the same batch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this period, Ye Qingxuan attempted to refine the mysterious bead in his mind, but it had no effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Ye Qingxuan somewhat disappointed, but he did not feel discouraged; after all, the bead was in his mind and could not run away; sooner or later, it would serve him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After consolidating his breakthrough cultivation base, Ye Qingxuan took out the storage ring given to him by the family head, Ye Yu, refined it with his meager spiritual power, and successfully recognized it as his master to open the storage ring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the storage ring was a space of eight cubic meters, containing numerous spiritual medicine seeds prepared by the family head for him, a pile of jade slips and books, and thirty thousand low-grade spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a thought, he took out a spirit stone and put it back, feeling very amazed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"By the way, I seem to still have ten Qi-Guiding Pills and three hundred low-grade spirit stones!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Ye Qingxuan remembered the reward given to him by Ye Yonglun after he achieved first place in the family assessment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He found the small purple bag given to him by Ye Yonglun in his pack. Ye Qingxuan similarly refined it with spiritual power and discovered it was a storage bag with a capacity of one cubic meter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking out the Qi-Guiding Pills and the three hundred low-grade spirit stones from the storage bag, he put the spirit stones into the storage ring. Ye Qingxuan picked up a Qi-Guiding Pill and examined it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elixirs are divided into nine grades, from first to ninth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Qi-Guiding Pill is a first-grade elixir that can increase the speed at which Qi Refining cultivators draw in spiritual power, accelerating the cultivator's cultivation speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Driven by curiosity, Ye Qingxuan decided to try the feeling of using the Qi-Guiding Pill to assist his cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he took out a Qi-Guiding Pill, put it in his mouth and swallowed it, then entered a cultivation state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, with the assistance of the Qi-Guiding Pill, Ye Qingxuan's speed of drawing in spiritual energy increased by about thirty percent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan felt a slight joy in his heart and immediately seized the time to cultivate, accelerating the refinement of the spiritual energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One first-grade Qi-Guiding Pill can maintain its effect for two double-hours!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But soon, Ye Qingxuan discovered a problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His speed of drawing in spiritual energy did indeed increase, but his efficiency in transforming the spiritual energy did not improve much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the spiritual energy enters the body, the cultivator must use their spiritual root to refine the spiritual energy and transform it into their own spiritual power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After taking the Qi-Channeling Pill, although the speed of drawing in spiritual energy increased and more spiritual energy entered his body, the improvement in conversion efficiency was negligible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At best, it only meant the concentration of spiritual energy within his body rose, passively boosting conversion efficiency by a tiny margin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sensing this change, Ye Qingxuan wore a bitter smile and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As expected, even with the superior cultivation environment and elixirs of the Xuantian Sect, the cultivation speed of a single-element spiritual root remains limited. Ultimately, my talent is simply too low!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spiritual veins are everywhere within the Xuantian Sect, with countless high-grade spiritual veins; the concentration of spiritual energy inside is at least a hundred times that of the outside world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, Ye Qingxuan's cultivation speed within the Xuantian Sect would not be a hundred times faster than in the outside world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of this is due to the innate limitation of Ye Qingxuan's single-element spiritual root's spiritual energy conversion efficiency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the Xuantian Sect, Ye Qingxuan's cultivation speed, at most influenced by the higher concentration of spiritual energy and without any elixir assistance, is only about three or four times faster than outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If it's slow, so be it! There is plenty of time. Besides, I refuse to believe there is no solution to this problem within the Xuantian Sect!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan thought to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Backed by the Xuantian Sect, he might find solutions to many problems within its walls. This is the confidence that comes from relying on a hegemonic power, and one of the reasons he chose to join the Xuantian Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>",1726,"2026-06-12T14:26:54.351Z",1,"Qwen3.5 122B","e4b1f348754928b277c2e362f74b602c379ba993f760fb059aa08a91e8a0ca4c","eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-chapter-15","eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-chapter-13",660,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Feternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-cover.jpg"]