Chapter 312: Promotion

[Realm: Nascent Infant Realm 4.9 billion/1 billion; Divine Sense: (1,001,000) ten thousand]

After parting with Wei Zhenjie, Hua Changxi returned to the bamboo house on Danyuan Peak and then checked her realm data.

Previously limited by her realm and physical strength, her divine sense intensity had been stuck at two million points. Later, due to body refinement, her physical strength did increase, but she lacked soul crystals for cultivation, leaving her divine sense without any growth.

After Nascent Infant, the next realm is the Spirit Platform Realm.

Opening the Spirit Platform means opening the Sea of Consciousness. As the name implies, the Sea of Consciousness is the space that accommodates divine sense, just as the dantian is the space that accommodates spiritual energy.

Once the Sea of Consciousness is established, after accommodating enough divine sense (soul power), one can condense a Primordial Spirit.

Upon condensing the Primordial Spirit, the cultivator enters the Spirit Condensation Realm.

Entering the Spirit Condensation Realm, once the Primordial Spirit is strong enough, it can detach from the body and exist in the world. After this, the cultivator enters the Out-of-Body Realm.

Spirit Platform Realm, Spirit Condensation Realm, and Out-of-Body Realm—these three stages, although absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to strengthen the physical body and expand the Nascent Infant is also important, the focus of cultivation lies in condensing, strengthening, and reinforcing the Primordial Spirit.

Once both the Primordial Spirit and the Nascent Infant have been cultivated to the extreme and perfectly merged, one enters the Dao Harmony Realm.

After a cultivator steps into the Dao Harmony Realm and masters the corresponding Dao principles, only then are they considered true "Immortals." Before that, they are merely cultivators.

During this period of stalled cultivation, Hua Changxi had been pondering the reason she could not open the Spirit Platform.

Tong Yao and the others all said her mental state was insufficient, but what exactly constitutes a sufficient mental state?

Hua Changxi looked inward at the Nascent Infant within her dantian and the black flame above it.

If the focus of cultivation in the three stages of Spirit Platform, Spirit Condensation, and Out-of-Body is on the Primordial Spirit, then the focus of the four stages of Qi Refining, Qi Sea, Core Formation, and Nascent Infant is on the Nascent Infant.

Her Nascent Infant's eyes were half-open and half-closed, and a black flame burned at the location of its heart. She often wondered if these two reasons were what prevented her from advancing.

The black flame could be excused as caused by external factors, but the Nascent Infant's eyes were not fully open. She did not know if others had also experienced such a stage.

Since it involved the Nascent Infant, she could not ask others bluntly. Even if she asked, they might not tell.

"I must continue to improve the Observation, Hearing, Inquiry, and Palpation Technique."

Currently, she could clearly see the dantian and Qi Sea of cultivators. If she continued to improve, could she see the Nascent Infant?

Raise the alchemist rank, improve the Observation, Hearing, Inquiry, and Palpation Technique...

Hua Changxi rubbed her forehead. Previously, she had focused entirely on cultivation, and her realm had indeed grown fast enough, but many other matters had been neglected.

She wondered if this was the reason her mental state could not keep up.

Hua Changxi took out the auction invitation given by Chu Junhao: "The Nine Abysses, Shock Gate Pass..."

As long as she continued body refinement, with the increase in physical strength, the amount of divine sense (soul power) she could accommodate would also increase, allowing her to continue strengthening her divine sense.

Strengthening divine sense required soul crystals, and soul crystals only existed in the Nine Abysses. Therefore, she had to go to the Nine Abysses no matter what.

After much deliberation, Hua Changxi sent a message to Zhou Shou: "Add Chu Junhao to the list of apprentices going to Branch Qihuang Hall No. 6 in November to learn alchemy."

After sending the message, Hua Changxi took out the two Taiyin Stones given by Wei Zhenjie and first pressed the Taiyin Stone engraved with the "Twelve Techniques of Soul Manipulation" against her forehead.

Soon, she read the entire contents of the "Twelve Techniques of Soul Manipulation" with her divine sense.

Perhaps because her divine sense was not too low, the contents of the "Twelve Techniques of Soul Manipulation" were easily memorized by her.

Of course, memorizing the contents did not mean she understood and thoroughly mastered the technique.

Hua Changxi did not immediately study the "Twelve Techniques of Soul Manipulation." Instead, she took out a blank Taiyin Stone and, following the operational steps in the "Soul Control Technique," began to engrave the "Nine Revolutions Mystical Art" onto the Taiyin Stone using her divine sense.

Manipulating divine sense was not too difficult. Spending several tens of thousands of points of soul power and less than half a day's effort, Hua Changxi successfully engraved the "Nine Revolutions Mystical Art."

After this whole process, she realized that divine sense was extremely useful. Used correctly, it could save a lot of time and energy.

Before this, whenever Hua Changxi explained and taught about first-grade spiritual plants and their processing methods, she had to designate a few apprentices to record on the spot, and later she had to organize and correct the records, which consumed considerable energy and time.

Now that she had learned to engrave techniques using divine sense, for the identification and processing of second-grade spiritual plants in the future, she could pre-engrave a copy using this method, hand it to a designated person, and after they read it with their divine sense, they could directly transcribe it.

Hua Changxi checked the sky. Seeing that it was already evening, she used a somersault cloud to go to the Heaven Division and handed the "Nine Revolutions Mystical Art" to Wei Zhenjie.

"Sit down and have some tea."

"No, I still have things to do tonight."

Watching Hua Changxi disappear into the sky in the blink of an eye, Wei Zhenjie picked up the Taiyin Stone and pressed it against his forehead. Soon, the entire contents of the "Nine Revolutions Mystical Art" were imprinted in his mind.

"Finishing this cultivation technique so quickly — your divine sense is no joke!"

After returning to Danyuan Peak, Hua Changxi began preparing the items needed for tonight’s visits to No. 4 Qihuang Hall and No. 5 Qihuang Hall.

When the sky began to darken, the selected hundred apprentices left Danyuan Peak one after another and headed for No. 4 Qihuang Hall.

The commotion at Danyuan Peak soon reached the ears of others.

"Hua Changxi will be giving lectures at No. 4 and No. 5 Qihuang Halls."

At the hour of Xu (19:00), Hua Changxi arrived promptly at No. 4 Qihuang Hall.

Inside the hall, besides the hundred apprentices from Danyuan Peak, there were also over a hundred other cultivators friendly with the Heavenly Master Mansion and the Taisu Palace.

Hua Changxi entered No. 4 Hall, noticed that several hall masters of the Qihuang Halls were present, greeted the person in charge, Wen Lanzhou, and with a wave of his hand closed the hall’s doors.

"Today we won’t hold class indoors; we’ll do it in the courtyard."

As soon as he said this, those who had been sitting inside hurriedly came out.

At that moment, Hua Changxi released the huge corpses of the Nascent Soul-stage giant lizard and giant rat, followed by a set of dissection knives of various sizes, and acupuncture needles of different lengths and sizes.

"Tonight, the main topic will be precautions for dissecting demon beasts. Acupuncture is a side topic. During dissection, spirit needles are mainly used to seal off spiritual power and prevent blood from flowing randomly..."

"When handling demon beast corpses, others can be a bit rough, but alchemists cannot..."

As Hua Changxi demonstrated with various knives, he also meticulously explained the muscle and meridian structures of the demon beasts.

Everyone present listened very attentively.

It was not until the fourth quarter of Zishi (around 2:00 AM) that the bodies of the giant lizard and giant rat were fully dissected.

"Alright, that’s it for today’s dissection class. Go back and take your time digesting what you’ve learned."

Hua Changxi cast a cleansing spell on himself, put away the giant lizard and giant rat, and led the hundred apprentices from Danyuan Peak to No. 5 Qihuang Hall.

Entering No. 5 Hall, Hua Changxi noticed that in No. 4 Hall there had been more cultivators from various sects; the Heavenly Master Mansion is backed by the Taisu Palace, so it’s only natural that the Taisu Palace has close dealings with other sects.

In No. 5 Hall, all members of the four major princely households were present, along with many from powerful noble families.

Hua Changxi took note of all this, closed the hall doors again with a wave, and at the same time brought out the corpses of four duck demons.

"Tonight I’m going to talk about how to extract demon beast blood..."

As the first light of dawn appeared, Hua Changxi led the hundred apprentices back to Danyuan Peak.

The Qihuang Pavilion and the Lingjing Pavilion also received the news at the same time.

"No. 4 Qihuang Hall teaches how to dissect demon beasts, and No. 5 Hall teaches how to extract demon beast blood?"

"Regardless, from now on we’ll follow Hua Changxi’s example and also teach these two topics in our halls."