Chapter 146: Nascent Soul Realm

Three days later, Ye Qingxuan encountered no bottlenecks.

His consciousness merged with the Golden Core, activating his own spiritual power.

Long ago, when he used the Immortal Soul to merge his consciousness with the source of Essence, Qi, and Spirit, he had already fulfilled this requirement in advance.

Thus, after Ye Qingxuan's cultivation base reached the peak of the Golden Core realm, his cultivation naturally broke through to the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

The moment he broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, the source energy obtained from sacrificing the corpse of the Green Demon Clan was rapidly consumed, transforming into vast spiritual power that merged into the nascent form of Ye Qingxuan's Nascent Soul.

Bolstered by this immense spiritual power, Ye Qingxuan's Nascent Soul instantly took shape.

The Golden Core in Ye Qingxuan's dantian, previously wrapped by the World Map's sub-map, had now transformed into a three-inch Nascent Soul.

The Nascent Soul within the dantian was surrounded by a chaotic hue, draped in a Dao diagram with flowing Daoic rhymes.

This Dao diagram was none other than the sub-map condensed from the source of Ye Qingxuan's innate magic treasure, the World Map.

Ye Qingxuan continuously absorbed spiritual energy from the outside world, converting it into his own spiritual power for his Nascent Soul to consume, thereby stabilizing his cultivation base.

Most of the spiritual power consumed by the Nascent Soul was directly converted from Ye Qingxuan's spiritual roots.

A small portion was spiritual power converted by the World Map's sub-map after absorbing external spiritual energy, supplied for the Nascent Soul's absorption.

Ye Qingxuan's innate magic treasure, the World Map, acted like a spiritual root appearing out of thin air, accelerating his cultivation speed.

This was one of the advantages of cultivators forging their innate magic treasures.

As the Nascent Soul inhaled and exhaled spiritual power, it continuously refined and purified the cultivator's own spiritual power.

After being refined and purified, this spiritual power would circulate through Ye Qingxuan's entire body again via the Nascent Soul.

Ye Qingxuan's physical body began to continuously absorb even more refined spiritual power, undergoing transformation as cells throughout his body started to evolve rapidly.

Moreover, Ye Qingxuan's bones, tempered by the Nascent Soul-level spiritual power, gradually turned as white as jade, emitting a gentle, soft glow.

Even Ye Qingxuan's meridians became crystal clear, with both flexibility and width greatly improved.

The breakthrough in realm and the transformation of the entire body meant that Ye Qingxuan's speed of absorbing external spiritual energy would surge once more.

Although the previous realm breakthroughs could not temporarily alter the speed at which a cultivator's spiritual roots converted spiritual power.

However, after the cultivator's physical body transformed, the speed of absorbing spiritual energy increased significantly, allowing high-density spiritual energy to undergo deep compression within the body, compressing several threads of spiritual energy into one.

This could indirectly improve the efficiency of the spiritual roots converting spiritual power.

Therefore, even with the same talent of four-element spiritual roots, the spiritual power converted in one year of cultivation at the Nascent Soul realm was naturally incomparable to that at the Golden Core realm.

After Ye Qingxuan's breakthrough.

The true form of the World Map, which was perfecting itself and growing by inhaling and exhaling energy within the source of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.

Seemed to suddenly break through its constraints, its rank directly rising to the Spirit Artifact level, and breaking through straight to the mid-grade Spirit Artifact level.

After reaching the mid-grade Spirit Artifact tier, the Daoic rhymes on the World Map grew even more intense.

The mountains and rivers depicted on the map seemed to come alive, appearing and disappearing, revealing the nascent forms of various elemental mysteries and rules.

After breaking through in cultivation, Ye Qingxuan did not leave seclusion immediately.

There were still many things he needed to do.

First was to elevate the levels of the Four Arts of Cultivation, with the Art of Arrays being Ye Qingxuan's primary target.

To build a city in the lower world of the Profound Wood Realm and resist attacks from the Green Demon Clan, arrays were indispensable.

Although the market within the Profound Heaven Sect sold array discs for sixth-grade arrays.

If one's cultivation in the Art of Arrays did not reach the corresponding level, the full array could not be perfectly replicated when deploying the array disc, naturally diminishing the array's power. Moreover, once his cultivation in the Art of Arrays reached the sixth grade, he could completely forge city components within the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land and inscribe arrays upon them.

Then, he could have his clone transport the city components directly to the Profound Wood Realm, accelerating the clone's city-building speed.

After finalizing his plans, Ye Qingxuan entered seclusion once more.

Subsequently, spending three years, Ye Qingxuan first elevated his cultivation in the Art of Arrays and the Art of Artifacts to the sixth-grade tier.

Since he intended to build a city in the Profound Wood Realm, he naturally had to achieve the utmost possible.

By elevating his cultivation in the Art of Artifacts to the sixth-grade tier, the city components he forged would naturally be of a higher rank.

Unfortunately, Ye Qingxuan was currently only at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land was still at the third-grade tier.

After Ye Qingxuan advanced to the rank of a sixth-grade Artifact Forger, the forging level he could currently achieve was only the high-grade Spirit Artifact level, and the quality was not particularly good.

High-grade and supreme-grade Spirit Artifacts were magic treasures commonly used by those at the Soul Transformation realm.

To forge high-grade and supreme-grade Spirit Artifacts, one naturally needed to utilize the power of the Soul Transformation realm.

Ye Qingxuan was currently only at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm; even within the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, he could receive the land's support.

But the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land was ultimately only at the third-grade tier.

Do not be misled by the vast size of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land; as a small world, most of its power was used to maintain its own operation.

Therefore, the power granted to Ye Qingxuan was not much.

With the support of his early-stage Nascent Soul realm cultivation and the third-grade Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, it was already quite remarkable that Ye Qingxuan could step onto the threshold of a sixth-grade Artifact Forger.

Even if the quality of high-grade Spirit Artifacts was poor, their power was still far greater than that of mid-grade Spirit Artifacts, so Ye Qingxuan was already satisfied.

After elevating his cultivation in the Art of Arrays and the Art of Artifacts to the sixth grade, Ye Qingxuan did not continue to improve his cultivation in the Art of Alchemy and the Art of Talismans.

He planned to first forge the city components, and only after successfully building the city in the Profound Wood Realm would he slowly elevate his cultivation in the Art of Alchemy and the Art of Talismans.

As for the layout of the city, Ye Qingxuan already had a clear goal.

Inside the city, Ye Qingxuan planned to arrange it in the pattern of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, combining them into a sixth-grade Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams Guardian Great Array.

And upon the city walls, Ye Qingxuan planned to set up a sixth-grade Great Array of Slaughter.

Only with one attacking and one defending could he establish himself better in the Profound Wood Realm.

If the Great Array of Slaughter was used well, it might bring him considerable gains upon its first use.

Thinking of this, a smile involuntarily appeared on Ye Qingxuan's face.

However, as he smiled, Ye Qingxuan's smile froze.

The next second, Ye Qingxuan bitterly smiled and patted his own forehead.

Because the only few sixth-tier materials needed to refine a high-grade magic treasure had already been used up by Ye Qingxuan.

The sixth-tier materials in the previous inventory had been acquired piecemeal during the operation of the Tianfu shop.

According to current market prices, even a single unit of the lowest-quality sixth-tier material costs 600 supreme spirit stones.

If the entire city were built using sixth-tier materials, the cost would be an astronomical figure; he might go bankrupt outright.

After hesitating for a moment, Ye Qingxuan set aside his outrageous idea.

"Forget it. A city forged from third- and fourth-tier materials is not bad either."

(End of this chapter)