[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-treasure-immortal-basin":3,"chapter-the-treasure-immortal-basin-the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-15":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Treasure Immortal Basin",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2355198,4608,"Chapter 15: The Method of Cultivation","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-15",15,"\u003Cp>“Senior brother, senior brother, senior brother…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng rushed in from outside the alchemy room, through the courtyard, and arrived outside Hao Yun’s chamber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He found Hao Yun wearing a black Daoist robe, strolling leisurely inside his room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You… are you well?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng looked astonished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh!” Hao Yun said: “I’m fine… wasn’t it because I ate the Supreme Golden Bone Elixir you gave me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heh… I used to think that Supreme-grade and High-grade elixirs were completely different things, and I thought that was just an exaggeration!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Turns out it’s true!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Golden Bone Elixir has four grades: inferior, medium, superior, and Supreme!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hao Yun looked at He Pingsheng and began counting on his fingers: “With my injuries, if I didn’t use any elixir and relied solely on natural recovery, it would take about four months!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you swallowed one inferior Golden Bone Elixir, that time would shrink directly to two months!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If it were medium grade, about one month would suffice!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If superior, half a month is enough!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But what you gave me was Supreme—Supreme-grade elixir—and it worked instantly!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In just half a stick of incense, I was fully recovered, with zero side effects!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Astonishing!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Hao Yun spoke, he nodded, then looked at He Pingsheng and asked: “By the way… did you find out what I asked you to look into?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I found out!” He Pingsheng said: “I heard from Zhang Da and the others that Linglong and the other two disciples involved were punished—they’re to reflect in silence for three days on the teleportation square!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Three days of reflection?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hao Yun shook his head: “Not bad. This punishment isn’t severe. I broke so many bones, and they only get three days of reflection—how lucky they are!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t worry—after this three-day punishment, Linglong won’t come bothering me again.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come, sit down!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hao Yun gestured to He Pingsheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two sat down on opposite sides of the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng noticed a large bowl and some fruit on the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought Hao Senior Brother was going to treat him to fruit!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t move!” Hao Yun slapped his hand and said: “Today I’ll explain the principles of cultivation to you… listen carefully!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you understand the difference between spirit roots?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng said: “I do.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hao Yun asked again: “Do you know why single-spirit-root cultivators advance faster?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pah…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hao Yun slammed the black iron bowl down in front of He Pingsheng: “For example… the bowl’s mouth represents a person’s spirit root!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is a single-spirit-root.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“During cultivation, all spiritual energy flows through the bowl’s mouth into the body!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you understand?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng nodded: “Oh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hao Yun took out two crisp pears and placed them inside the bowl—they filled the bowl’s mouth completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Look… now, these two pears inside represent a dual-spirit-root!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Each pear is one spirit root.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now look… isn’t each spirit root in the dual-spirit-root much thinner than the single-spirit-root?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng understood—he nodded: “Yes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The iron bowl was the single-spirit-root!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside it, two pears—each representing one spirit root of the dual-spirit-root—showed clearly that the single-spirit-root’s diameter was twice as wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hao Yun said: “You see… for example, a wood-fire dual-spirit-root cultivator cannot cultivate both roots simultaneously, because the human meridians are only one system!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When channeling and refining fire spiritual energy, you cannot refine wood spiritual energy—do you understand?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So although dual-spirit-root cultivators have two roots, only one is useful!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And that one root’s thickness is only half that of the single-spirit-root!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Half the thickness means only a quarter of the cross-sectional area—so the amount of spiritual energy flowing in during cultivation is only a quarter!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s the difference!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A dual-spirit-root cultivator’s theoretical advancement speed is only one-quarter that of a single-spirit-root cultivator!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng nodded: “Understood.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good!” Hao Yun took out the two pears and placed three tangerines into the iron bowl: “Look… this is a triple-spirit-root!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Triple-spirit-root—thinner still, and even slower to cultivate!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He removed the three tangerines and added four eggs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The eggs were even smaller.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the smallest were five plums placed together in the bowl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The plums were smaller than the eggs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Look for yourself!” Hao Yun said: “You’re a five-spirit-root—you have five roots… each one is nearly one-tenth the thickness of a single-spirit-root!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“With the same resources and the same scripture, a single-spirit-root cultivator takes only ten years to go from Qi Refining Level One to Twelve!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ll need a hundred years!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tell me—how do you catch up? How do you cultivate?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hao Yun’s analogy was spot-on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng had no reply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at it this way, cultivation was truly unfriendly to five-spirit-root cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was almost hopeless!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the next moment, He Pingsheng’s fighting spirit flared again: Yes… cultivation is indeed unfriendly to five-spirit-root cultivators—but so what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have the Treasure Basin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this, why fear bad spirit roots?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My roots are thin, so I absorb spiritual energy slowly—but the spiritual energy in heaven and earth is coarse and sparse; even dual-spirit-root cultivators can’t fully tap their roots’ potential, let alone single-spirit-root ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if I eat elixirs every day?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they’re all Supreme-grade elixirs?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who knows who’ll advance faster in the end?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hao Yun continued: “I’m a four-spirit-root, you’re a five-spirit-root… we’ll never reach Foundation Establishment in our lifetimes!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But… since you want to cultivate, I do have a basic breathing and qi absorption method.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Take a look—but don’t expect too much.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, Hao Yun pulled out an old-looking book.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gently placed it on the table and pushed it toward He Pingsheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng’s heart pounded with excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thing he’d longed for had finally arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the cover, vertical characters read: Basic Breathing and Qi Absorption Method!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Seven days!” Hao Yun held up a hand: “I’m giving you seven days—no copying, only memorization!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I just want you to look at it—not to cultivate it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Because I memorized this from memory back then… the first three levels might be correct, but beyond that, I can’t guarantee anything!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“About… eighty percent is wrong.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng’s face darkened: So crude?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But three levels is better than none!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes… senior brother… I’ll take it and study it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng took the book, bid farewell to Hao Yun, returned to his bedroom, closed the door, and began reading carefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng took the book, bid farewell to Hao Yun, returned to his bedroom, closed the door, and began to read carefully.\u003C\u002Fp>",1068,"2026-06-21T04:08:57.694Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","f852d9bb5f3636226e94603d5a75b59dd66f934515965c706e92ed73ab9f5c1b","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-16","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-14",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-treasure-immortal-basin-cover.jpg"]