Chapter 227

Time passed.

Ye Qingxuan's seclusion this time lasted a full twenty years.

After twenty years in seclusion, Ye Qingxuan had naturally done far more than simply break through to the Soul Transformation realm.

As early as the fifth year of his seclusion, Ye Qingxuan had successfully broken through to the Soul Transformation realm and begun to stabilize his cultivation base.

At the very moment Ye Qingxuan formally broke through to the Soul Transformation realm,

a mysterious and profound power was naturally comprehended by Ye Qingxuan.

This power was precisely the profound rule required to break through to the Void Penetration realm.

Previously, limited by insufficient cultivation, Ye Qingxuan's comprehension of the profound rules had been suppressed.

After Ye Qingxuan broke through to the Soul Transformation realm this time, his cultivation base had reached the threshold capable of bearing the power of the profound rules.

The accumulations of past years erupted completely at this moment.

Ye Qingxuan's current strength, while not comparable to the peak of the Soul Transformation realm, was at least enough to fearlessly face the late stage of the Soul Transformation realm.

However, Ye Qingxuan was only at the early stage of the Soul Transformation realm and could only bear ten percent of the profound rule power.

All of them floated in Ye Qingxuan's spiritual sea, comprehended and controlled by him.

The spatial profound rule corresponding to the minor divine ability: Spatial Leap.

With the cultivation base of the early Soul Transformation realm, controlling the power of the profound rules, combined with the divine abilities Ye Qingxuan had comprehended,

the world-suppressing profound rule corresponding to the minor divine ability: World Suppression.

Twenty years had passed, and the seeds of divine abilities comprehended by Ye Qingxuan had long since transformed into the embryonic forms of divine abilities.

In the same year Ye Qingxuan broke through to the Soul Transformation realm,

the illusion profound rule corresponding to the minor divine ability: Form Change.

The five elements profound rules could actually be counted as six types of profound rules.

The cause-and-effect profound rule corresponding to the minor divine ability: Deceiving Heaven.

Once the profound rules emerged, Ye Qingxuan's combat power skyrocketed directly.

When his cultivation base further improved, the realm of profound rules he could control would inevitably rise in succession.

The life profound rule corresponding to the minor divine ability: Clone.

At the moment Ye Qingxuan advanced to the Soul Transformation realm,

during the advancement process of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land,

therefore, Ye Qingxuan, having just advanced to the Soul Transformation realm, was equivalent to directly controlling eleven types of profound rules.

But even so, Ye Qingxuan was already content.

Thus, these eleven types of profound rules were currently all lingering at the ten percent realm level.

The five elements profound rules corresponding to the minor divine abilities: Minor Five Elements Shield and Minor Five Elements Millstone.

The Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land had also grown to the peak of the third tier and begun advancing toward the fourth tier.

Ye Qingxuan continued his seclusion, beginning to comprehend divine abilities and condense the embryonic forms of divine abilities.

If the seeds of divine abilities were merely carving lines of patterns in the spiritual sea,

then the embryonic forms of divine abilities were comprehending more Dao patterns and condensing the embryonic forms of Great Dao characters, that is, the embryonic forms of Dao characters.

After breaking through to the Soul Transformation realm, Ye Qingxuan's immortal soul underwent another slight transformation, bringing a slight improvement to Ye Qingxuan's comprehension.

Comprehension could continuously improve alongside the rise of cultivation base and the transformation of the soul's origin.

It could be said that Ye Qingxuan, possessing an immortal soul, now had a level of comprehension that, even within the Immortal Realm, was considered upper-middle.

It was merely the shackle of cultivation base that prevented Ye Qingxuan from bearing higher-level powers, thus limiting the exertion of Ye Qingxuan's comprehension.

But even so, Ye Qingxuan's comprehension was a unique existence within the Earthly Profound Realm.

In just about five years,

Ye Qingxuan raised all seven seeds of divine abilities he had condensed to the realm of the embryonic forms of divine abilities.

In Ye Qingxuan's spiritual sea at this moment, eleven types of profound rules circulated around his immortal soul.

And in the palm of his immortal soul, seven embryonic forms of Dao characters floated, controlled by Ye Qingxuan.

After all the minor divine abilities he cultivated were raised to the level of the embryonic forms of divine abilities,

the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land was still swallowing external chaotic energy and void energy to expand itself and accumulate origin, and had not yet fully advanced to the fourth tier.

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan did not immediately leave seclusion but chose to begin improving his proficiency in the four arts of cultivation.

With the breakthrough in cultivation base, the power controlled by Ye Qingxuan himself further increased.

Now, with all the power Ye Qingxuan could currently control,

he could raise his proficiency in the four arts of cultivation to the late stage of the sixth tier.

After so many years, the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land of Ye Qingxuan had accumulated quite a few sixth-tier spiritual materials.

If it were merely to improve his own proficiency in the four arts of cultivation, Ye Qingxuan was not short of sixth-tier spiritual materials for practice.

Thus, Ye Qingxuan used the time of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land's advancement.

He began refining elixirs, forging artifacts, crafting talismans, and studying formations within the Qingxuan Grotto.

Time passed bit by bit.

Ye Qingxuan spent four years raising his proficiency in the four arts of cultivation to the late stage of the sixth tier.

Moreover, he took the opportunity to raise all the formations within the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land to the superior grade of the sixth tier during his study.

With the Smelting Great Formation, the Energy Conversion Great Formation, and the Earth Vein Great Formation all raised to the superior grade of the sixth tier,

the overall energy conversion efficiency of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land further improved.

Ten years after Ye Qingxuan broke through to the Soul Transformation realm,

after ten years of effort, the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land finally completed its transformation and advanced to the fourth tier.

The moment he advanced, a strand of primordial essence directly fed back into Ye Qingxuan's body, rapidly boosting his cultivation base.

While Ye Qingxuan diligently circulated his technique to cooperate with the primordial essence and elevate his cultivation,

the expansion speed of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land suddenly increased a hundredfold, and its area began to expand wildly.

It took Ye Qingxuan a year to fuse the primordial essence and raise his cultivation base.

Unfortunately, the higher the realm, the more immense the energy required.

The primordial essence fed back from the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land's advancement to the fourth tier was insufficient to raise Ye Qingxuan's Soul Transformation realm cultivation by even a minor sub-realm.

By the time all the fed-back primordial essence was consumed,

Ye Qingxuan's cultivation base had only taken a small step forward from the early stage of the Soul Transformation realm, failing to break through to the mid-stage.

Regarding this, Ye Qingxuan felt no discouragement.

He had expected this result all along.

The previous tier of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land was, after all, too low.

Ye Qingxuan was not disappointed that this advancement of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land failed to raise his cultivation base to the mid-stage of the Soul Transformation realm.

He had already prepared to remain in the Soul Transformation realm for a very long time.

Although his cultivation base did not advance further, the advancement of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land brought two unexpected joys.

First, Ye Qingxuan's fourth spiritual root had already formed in advance when the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land advanced to the fourth tier.

His fourth spiritual root was the Wood spiritual root, one of the Five Elements.

Second, it was the World Map, his innate magic treasure, which Ye Qingxuan had always been nurturing within the primordial essence of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land.

Accompanying the advancement of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land and Ye Qingxuan's breakthrough,

the World Map had now completely transformed, becoming an entity of the superior spiritual artifact tier.

With the World Map at the superior spiritual artifact tier, the power of the sub-maps it generated had also further improved.

Now, with the assistance of a superior spiritual artifact-tier innate magic treasure, combined with Ye Qingxuan's own four spiritual roots,

Ye Qingxuan's cultivation speed now rivaled that of a five-spiritual-root talent.

(End of this chapter)