[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-eternal-life-hundredfold-rewards":3,"chapter-eternal-life-hundredfold-rewards-eternal-life-hundredfold-rewards-chapter-387":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Eternal Life: Hundredfold Rewards",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},508792,766,"Chapter 387 - 225: Cultivation Method Deduction, Core Formation Middle Stage!","eternal-life-hundredfold-rewards-chapter-387",387,"\u003Cp>After storing the golden solids formed from the Golden Water, staying here held no more meaning for Qi Chuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Qi Chuan glanced at the white demon ape’s corpse on the ground, transformed into an escape light, and left the place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some time later, Qi Chuan returned to the Myriad Flowers Immortal Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon returning to his Tier Three Lower Grade Cave Mansion, Qi Chuan first decided to start training in the Taiyi Demon-Vanquishing True Technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following his usual practice, Qi Chuan began by carefully browsing through the Taiyi Demon-Vanquishing True Technique in his mind, meticulously comprehending the meaning of every word and sentence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He earnestly read it once after half a day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A slight enlightenment emerged in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, a line of characters appeared before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You meticulously read the Taiyi Demon-Vanquishing True Technique, trying to comprehend it, triggering tenfold critical strike, gaining ten times the insight, your understanding of the Taiyi Demon-Vanquishing True Technique slightly improved.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some insights into the Taiyi Demon-Vanquishing True Technique emerged in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After digesting them, Qi Chuan’s understanding of the Taiyi Demon-Vanquishing True Technique deepened significantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Qi Chuan did not show any joy, instead slightly frowning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the understanding in his mind told him that merely relying on hundredfold critical strikes to comprehend the Taiyi Demon-Vanquishing True Technique would not suffice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An additional medium was necessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That medium was the Wood Thunder Pine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wood Thunder is its name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This divine pine belongs to the thunder attribute type of divine wood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It typically grows in extremely harsh environments, naturally attracting heavenly thunder from above during storms, absorbing its powers to evolve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, such divine wood is exceedingly rare and hard to find.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost as rare as the Taiyi Demon-Vanquishing True Technique itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where was Qi Chuan to find it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Forget it, I can only let nature take its course.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Chuan sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not say he would give up on cultivating the Taiyi Demon-Vanquishing True Technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to cultivate it; understanding it came first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the Wood Thunder Pine, he would slowly search for it using the powers of the Myriad Flowers Immortal Sect. Once there’s news, he’d obtain it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the following days, Qi Chuan settled into a routine cultivation pace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Usually, he stayed within his cave mansion practicing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Periodically, he went to the Celestial Secret Mountain Range, utilizing the Bone-Eroding Evil Wind Cave, to refine the Bright King Technique, honing his physical body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Chuan didn’t intend to force a speedy breakthrough of the physical body realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the saying goes, haste makes waste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His physical body was now facing the transition from the pinnacle of Tier Two Body Cultivation to the Tier Three Early Stage Body Cultivator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This bottleneck was as challenging as breaking through from Foundation Establishment Perfection to the Core Formation Early Stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, it was by no means simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It required gradual grinding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, Qi Chuan possessed hundredfold critical strikes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By continuously cultivating the Bright King Technique in the Bone-Eroding Evil Wind Cave, he would eventually break through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no reason not to succeed in breaking through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From this perspective, the cultivation of Qi Chuan’s physical body and the enhancement of his divine soul realm were simpler and clearer compared to his mana cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike mana cultivation, where encountering a bottleneck required using various means to increase success probability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, there was a downside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That lay in the uncertainty associated with physical body and divine soul breakthroughs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At times, you might linger within a bottleneck for an extended period without a breakthrough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s somewhat mystical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conversely, with mana cultivation, reaching the critical point with sufficient preparation usually guaranteed success.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the huge difference between the two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite the difficulty, Qi Chuan spent half a month deducing the Taiyi Demon-Vanquishing True Technique thanks to the hundredfold critical strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now he was only left with the problem of finding the Wood Thunder Pine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a flash, six years had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On this day, Qi Chuan, sitting cross-legged on his bed in the cave mansion, suddenly opened his eyes, a gleam flashing past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My mana cultivation has finally reached the peak of the Core Formation Early Stage.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Chuan felt a bit pleased internally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to admit, taking just six years to reach the breakthrough threshold of Core Formation True Master realm was impressively fast, even to the point of absurdity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was, after all, the realm of Core Formation True Master!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Flame Marrow Pill refined from Celestial Heart Flame Marrow played a critical role.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition, the Tier Three Lower Grade Cave Mansion and the White Dragon Tripod’s double Spiritual Qi boost were instrumental.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lastly, the hundredfold critical strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With all these factors combined, Qi Chuan accomplished in six years what most ordinary Core Formation Early Stage True Masters would find difficult to achieve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Since my mana is at its peak, it’s time to... deduce the Eighth Layer of the Profound Celestial Spirit Devouring Sword Technique...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hint of helplessness appeared on Qi Chuan’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was when the drawbacks of the cultivation method became apparent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though powerful, the Profound Celestial Spirit Devouring Sword Technique only allowed Qi Chuan to cultivate to the peak of Core Formation Early Stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To break through further, he had to deduce the Eighth Layer of the Profound Celestial Spirit Devouring Sword Technique himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whereas, if he were cultivating another method, he could already begin to accumulate inspirational opportunities for breakthrough by now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, because further layers of the Profound Celestial Spirit Devouring Sword Technique could be derived and acquired personally, it offered considerable long-term benefits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, even if other methods were slightly stronger or of higher grade, they couldn’t be cultivated to the end; at a certain level, one would have to switch to an even higher-grade method anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>",969,"2026-05-30T12:33:57.748Z","2026-06-01T04:31:14.598Z",1,"novelbin.me","9c8e7b87a08d2e63296485ae5047f6586b40918d097f47236665f7b61e08c424","eternal-life-hundredfold-rewards-chapter-388","eternal-life-hundredfold-rewards-chapter-386",534,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Feternal-life-hundredfold-rewards-cover.jpg"]