Chapter 526: The Profound Heaven Secret Realm, the gap brought by talent

Ever since the last inspection mission ended and Ye Ye Qingxiao returned to the Profound Heaven Sect only to find that a reunion with Ye Ye Qingxuan was fruitless.

He spent the contribution points he had accumulated over these years to exchange for a quota to enter the Profound Heaven Secret Realm, beginning to seclude himself there to comprehend the rules and seek a breakthrough in his cultivation base.

"Profound Heaven Secret Realm?"

However, upon hearing "Profound Heaven Secret Realm," Ye Ye Qingxuan, who was hearing about this secret realm for the first time, couldn't help but feel a bit curious.

Looking at Ye Ye Qingxuan's surprised expression, Ye Ye Qingxiao realized at this moment that Ye Ye Qingxuan actually didn't know about the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm."

After the initial astonishment, Ye Ye Qingxiao, having recovered, immediately began to boastfully introduce the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm" to Ye Ye Qingxuan with great enthusiasm.

"Right? The 'Profound Heaven Secret Realm' isn't exactly a secret within our Profound Heaven Sect, Ye Qingxuan, you couldn't possibly not know about it, right? Hehe, let me tell you..."

In the end, after Ye Ye Qingxiao's series of introductions and combining them with Ye Ye Qingxuan's own analysis, Ye Ye Qingxuan finally had a preliminary understanding of the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm."

The "Profound Heaven Secret Realm" was a cave-heaven secret realm forcibly opened by the first-generation ancestor of the Profound Heaven Sect with his own powerful cultivation base, and it is also the largest secret realm currently controlled by the Profound Heaven Sect.

Although the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm" did not incorporate world-creation items like World Pearls as a foundation when it was opened, resulting in it lacking the potential to grow on its own.

But for millions of years, the high-order cultivators of the Profound Heaven Sect whose lifespans were coming to an end and were about to pass away have basically all chosen to Dao-ize themselves within the Profound Heaven Secret Realm, using their own cultivation bases and rules to fill and forcibly expand the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm."

Although during this process, most of the energy and sources of rules were reclaimed by the Di Li Xuan Realm when the high-order cultivators Dao-ized.

But as the place of Dao-ization for high-order cultivators, the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm" would ultimately still retain a portion of energy and rules, used to subtly transform the space of the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm."

It is just that the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm" ultimately cannot grow on its own.

Even if there is a continuous stream of high-order cultivators Dao-izing within the secret realm to forcibly expand the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm."

But after expanding to a certain extent, the role that the energy and rules integrated during the Dao-ization of high-order cultivators can play in the expansion of the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm" begins to become negligible.

After millions of years of evolution, the surface area of the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm" is merely comparable to the size of a superior large province in the Di Li Xuan Realm.

The only thing worth praising is that the continuous Dao-ization of high-order cultivators in the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm" over millions of years has caused the growth rate of the spirit veins within the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm" to rise significantly.

Up to now, although no tenth-order spirit veins have been born in the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm," nine ninth-order spirit veins have been born.

It is a pity that due to the large number of high-order cultivators Dao-izing within the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm," the large amount of energy and rules dissipated during Dao-ization have entangled with each other, forming places of energy riots and rule disorder.

The rioting energy and disordered rules in these special territories require the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm" itself to absorb and digest them over a long period of time before they can subside.

Forcibly suppressing and eliminating them would only damage the foundation of the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm," so the Profound Heaven Sect can only let them be and let nature take its course.

And this has led to the fact that most areas within the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm" cannot allow cultivators to practice with peace of mind, and it is even impossible to open up spirit fields to plant spirit herbs.

Except for the cave dwellings opened up by the Profound Heaven Sect within the nine ninth-order spirit veins using high-order arrays, there are very few places in other areas that are calm and have gentle spiritual energy.

However, although most places in the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm" are not suitable for cultivators to sit in meditation and practice or inhale and exhale spiritual energy.

But the rule fragments that are dissipated throughout the space in these territories, which evolve in a disorderly manner from time to time, are chaotic and changeable, and remain behind, are the best places for cultivators to comprehend introductory rules.

It is precisely because of this that Ye Ye Qingxiao spent the contribution points he had accumulated over these years to exchange for a quota to enter the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm" to comprehend rules and seek a breakthrough.

It is just that after bitterly comprehending in the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm" for decades, Ye Ye Qingxiao ultimately failed to successfully comprehend the rules and condense the source of rules to reach the threshold of breaking through to the Void Penetration Realm.

After learning about Ye Ye Qingxiao's situation, Ye Ye Qingxuan's gaze flickered slightly, and then he calmly poured a cup of tea for himself and Ye Ye Qingxiao, asking while opening his mouth:

"Then what are your plans next?"

Hearing Ye Ye Qingxuan's question, Ye Ye Qingxiao looked at the teacup in front of him without the slightest mood to drink tea, scratching his head in frustration, and said unwillingly: "I plan to leave the Profound Heaven Sect to travel around the Di Li Xuan Realm. If that really doesn't work, I will enter the Qing Mo Realm to experience life-and-death tempering and seek a breakthrough."

His temperament was already quite impatient, and after finally settling down to seclude himself for decades, he was unable to break through as he wished.

Since that was the case, he didn't plan to continue to seclude himself and practice in a regular manner, preparing to leave the Profound Heaven Sect to gain experience first.

Anyway, the sect inspection mission he performed last time took hundreds of years, and after the mission ended, he had a long period of time to practice on his own, without needing to perform sect missions anymore.

Looking at Ye Ye Qingxiao's impatient appearance, Ye Ye Qingxuan smiled slightly and said:

"Don't be in a hurry, calm down and finish the tea in front of you first."

"What's wrong with this tea? It's not like I haven't drunk this Enlightenment Tea of yours before. Although it can still have a slight effect of calming the mind and spirit for me now, that's all it does."

Seeing Ye Ye Qingxuan asking him to drink tea, Ye Ye Qingxiao rolled his eyes directly.

However, despite saying that, Ye Ye Qingxiao still honestly picked up the teacup in front of him and drank it in one gulp.

But what Ye Ye Qingxiao didn't expect was that just after drinking the tea in the cup, a mysterious and profound energy immediately poured into his sea of consciousness and wrapped around his Primordial Spirit.

"This tea...?"

Ye Ye Qingxiao, who noticed something was wrong, stood there blankly with his mouth slightly open, but before he could finish speaking, a continuous stream of spiritual inspiration appeared in his mind, leading him into an epiphany.

What Ye Ye Qingxiao didn't know was that what he drank at Ye Ye Qingxuan's place hundreds of years ago was only fifth-order Enlightenment Tea.

And what Ye Ye Qingxuan gave him to drink now was sixth-order Enlightenment Tea mixed with seventh-order Enlightenment Tea.

It wasn't that Ye Ye Qingxuan was reluctant to give Ye Ye Qingxiao seventh-order Enlightenment Tea directly.

It was just that no matter how good seventh-order Enlightenment Tea was, the increase in comprehension it brought was ultimately an external force, which could not compare to the innate comprehension brought by Ye Ye Qingxuan's immortal soul.

If a cultivator's comprehension is affected by external forces and increases too much in a short period of time, and the span of the leap is too large, exceeding the upper limit that the cultivator's innate essence can withstand.

Then this would only be counterproductive, causing the cultivator's Primordial Spirit to fall into the crisis of Dao-ization.

Therefore, although Ye Ye Qingxuan wanted to help Ye Ye Qingxiao, he didn't take the risk of letting Ye Ye Qingxiao take seventh-order Enlightenment Tea directly.

Looking at Ye Ye Qingxiao, who was gradually wrapped in Dao rhyme, Ye Ye Qingxuan smiled slightly with great satisfaction.

Slightly lazily stroking his sleeves, he picked up the teacup in front of him, closed his eyes slightly, and slowly savored the charm of the sixth-order Enlightenment Tea mixed with seventh-order Enlightenment Tea.

However, as time passed, the Dao rhyme surrounding Ye Ye Qingxiao slowly dissipated.

After Ye Ye Qingxuan did not detect any fluctuation of the source of rules on Ye Ye Qingxiao, a look of regret couldn't help but appear on his face.

This sixth-order Enlightenment Tea only has the best effect when taken for the first time.

Ye Ye Qingxiao didn't break through this time, and the probability of him wanting to break through with the help of the efficacy of sixth-order Enlightenment Tea next time would be significantly reduced. However, although Ye Ye Qingxiao failed to comprehend the power of rules and make a breakthrough, Ye Ye Qingxuan was not disappointed.

Because in terms of Ye Ye Qingxiao's spirit root talent, the difficulty of wanting to break through to the Void Penetration Realm was inherently extremely great.

Coupled with the fact that Ye Ye Qingxiao is too young now, he can only be considered a junior among the Deity Transformation Realm cultivators with average talent.

Lacking the accumulation of time, this breakthrough failure did not exceed Ye Ye Qingxuan's expectations too much.

Except for a very small number of individual cases.

Under normal circumstances, a cultivator's spirit root talent and comprehension talent are linked, so cultivators with better spirit root talent basically do not have too bad innate comprehension talent.

This is the gap in the essence of life between cultivators from the beginning.

Many cultivators think that a breakthrough in realm only requires a flash of inspiration, but they don't know that the appearance of this flash of inspiration cannot be separated from the accumulation and precipitation of time.

It is not to say that without sufficient accumulation and precipitation of time, a cultivator cannot have a flash of inspiration and make a breakthrough.

It is just that the more accumulation and precipitation of time, the greater the probability that a cultivator will have a flash of inspiration and successfully break through.

It seems that they are all cultivators who have experienced the same amount of time, but the higher the talent of the cultivator, the faster the speed of accumulation and precipitation, and the greater the probability of having a flash of inspiration and making a breakthrough.

Besides this, in the process of taking heavenly materials and earthly treasures, a cultivator is also equivalent to shortening this accumulation time.

Just like Ye Ye Qingxiao now, after decades of seclusion and comprehension in the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm," as well as the epiphany brought by the sixth-order Enlightenment Tea now.

Although Ye Ye Qingxiao still failed to make a breakthrough now, his accumulation has increased significantly, and the probability of having a flash of inspiration and successfully breaking through in the future will also increase significantly.

This is also the reason why all forces like to recruit talented cultivators.

Talents with better spirit roots not only accumulate spiritual energy faster and reach the limit of their current realm more easily, but even their accumulation of comprehension of heaven and earth will be faster, making it easier to make breakthroughs in realm.

Under such circumstances, the probability of disciples with better talent breaking through to become high-order cultivators will be greater, and the resources consumed will be less. How could major forces not like them?

If the path of cultivation is compared to a long-distance run, then a person's talent is acceleration, and the heavenly materials and earthly treasures taken during the long-distance run are one-time, time-limited super acceleration.

After running a certain distance, the cultivator has the opportunity to jump to another track.

But the further you run forward, the greater the probability of obtaining this jumping opportunity and heading to another track.

Others can soar into the sky by virtue of acceleration, while you need to spend a lot of time or resources to finish a distance that others have walked inadvertently.

This is the gap in talent.

It is precisely because of this that although the great age of cultivation after the two worlds bordered has arrived, major forces still prefer to recruit disciples with good talent.

Hunting the Qing Mo clan now can shorten the accumulation process of spiritual power, and everyone is about the same in this regard.

But the gap in comprehension is not so easy to shorten.

The temporary increase in comprehension obtained by sacrificing the source of magic veins can also be seen as taking some kind of one-time heavenly material or earthly treasure, it is just that this kind of heavenly material or earthly treasure has no drug resistance.

Two cultivators of the same realm struggle in the Qing Mo Realm to obtain the source of magic veins.

Those with good talent may be able to grasp the opportunity to make a breakthrough by sacrificing one source of magic veins, while those with poor talent may need to sacrifice several or even more than a dozen sources of magic veins of the same kind.

This is also the first thing that many strong people with mediocre talent, who have gone through thousands of hardships and consumed unimaginable resources to struggle to grow up, do after their cultivation reaches a certain level is to reshape their foundation and talent.

Those who say talent is not important are just because they have no talent.

If they had excellent talent from the beginning, the time and difficulty for them to grow up would definitely be significantly reduced on the original basis.

"It's a pity, in the end, it still fell short. This thin line is like a natural chasm."

After the Dao rhyme around Ye Ye Qingxiao dissipated, Ye Ye Qingxiao, who had broken away from the state of enlightenment, opened his eyes and said with great regret.

Looking at Ye Ye Qingxuan opposite him, who had been smiling and looking slightly calm and indifferent, Ye Ye Qingxiao couldn't help but ask:

"Ye Qingxuan, what kind of tea is this? The effect is actually so heaven-defying?"

After these years of contact, he knew that this brother of his who walked out of the clan together was not simple, but he still didn't expect that this brother of his could easily take out such precious heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

"This is also Enlightenment Tea, but it's just sixth-order Enlightenment Tea."

Facing Ye Ye Qingxiao's inquiry, Ye Ye Qingxuan did not hide it.

Although Ye Ye Qingxiao knew about the existence of the Tianfu shop, Ye Ye Qingxiao, who had just come out of seclusion, did not know that Ye Ye Qingxuan's Tianfu shop had already been promoted to a star-rated shop.

So he didn't know about the existence of sixth-order Enlightenment Tea and seventh-order Enlightenment Tea at this time.

Looking at Ye Ye Qingxiao's exclamation, Ye Ye Qingxuan picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, then laughed and scolded:

"Alright, stop making an exclamation look, this sixth-order Enlightenment Tea will not be short of your share."

Saying that, Ye Ye Qingxuan threw a box of sixth-order Enlightenment Tea that had already been prepared to Ye Ye Qingxiao.

"However, this sixth-order Enlightenment Tea only has the best effect when taken for the first time, and the probability of you wanting to make a breakthrough with the help of sixth-order Enlightenment Tea is not high."

Hearing Ye Ye Qingxuan's words, Ye Ye Qingxiao, who took the sixth-order Enlightenment Tea, smiled and said:

"It's okay, if the effect of continuing to take it is not great, doesn't that mean it still has an effect?"

"Besides, my Xueqin hasn't drunk it yet, I can take it back for my Yu Xueqing to drink."

Yu Yu Xueqing's talent is a five-element spirit root, which is not even as good as Ye Ye Qingxiao's now; after returning from completing the inspection mission with Ye Ye Qingxiao, Yu Yu Xueqing also entered the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm" to seclude herself and seek a breakthrough.

It is just that unlike Ye Ye Qingxiao's impatient temperament, although Yu Yu Xueqing failed to break through, she was not in a hurry to leave the "Profound Heaven Secret Realm" and come out of seclusion.

Regarding how Ye Ye Qingxiao planned to use the sixth-order Enlightenment Tea, Ye Ye Qingxuan didn't care at all, so he said nonchalantly:

"As you wish, when do you plan to leave the Profound Heaven Sect next? To gain experience alone?"

Since the sixth-order Enlightenment Tea failed to let Ye Ye Qingxiao break through, Ye Ye Qingxuan estimated that he would not change his plan for gaining experience.

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