Cultivation

"Isn't this too good?" Ye Chen muttered with a stunned look after reading through all the descriptions.

He had gotten three divine items, a supreme item, and an emperor item.

Although he was unaware of how good these grades were, with the wars happening because of it, he could guess these they must be heaven-defying.

"Well, as long as it can help me pick up fairies, it won't be bad," he said as he grabbed the long wooden ancient box before opening it.

Inside were ninety golden needles divided into short, medium and long needles.

"A pity that they aren't weapons," he shook his head slightly and closed the wooden box before placing it on the table.

He then opened the red box, which had the two blue lotuses inside but had grown from the one stem.

After taking a deep look, he closed the lid and placed the box away with extreme care.

He didn't have any intention of giving this to anyone because he wanted to try planting this lotus.

If he could mass produce it, he would be the greatest man in the whole cultivation world.

"I should ask Yunqi to secure a forbidden area tomorrow," he muttered before closely looking at the snow-white pearl.

In the description, the system said it was dangerous. Nevertheless, he wasn't afraid of the unknown.

However, to use this, he needed to cultivate first.

Hence, he shifted his gaze to the black ancient book in his hand.

As for the big Myriad Book on the bed, he decided to read it after cultivating.

"Divine Resonance Art's, although it has the disadvantage of not breaking through the big realms without dual cultivating, it is still beneficial; moreover, the grade is very high," he muttered to himself and started flipping through the ancient book in his hand.

There was a big introduction here, taking about ten pages.

After reading through all of it, he understood how this cultivation art worked and what the breakthrough conditions of big realms were.

"I can cultivate up to the ninth stage of Qi gathering by myself. However, after that, I will need to dual cultivate with a partner who is in the same realm as me or higher than me. Only then I will be able to break through the big realm and enter the first stage of the next realm."

Ye Chen pondered out loudly while wondering how he should convince Li Mei into dual cultivating with him.

In his previous life, he had done many things, except getting into relationships and having sex.

It's not like he didn't want to, but he didn't have any leisure to do.

Once he had tried to hook up with a beautiful woman only to find she was an experienced doctor and was going to steal his organs after drugging him.

He had no choice but to shut her down there for eternity before deciding not to hook up with anyone in the cities of war.

Because of this, he didn't have any experience in this field.

"Well, there's no hurry; I have plenty of time to learn this," he said to himself and sat down in the lotus position.

After this, he gazed at the Divine Resonance Art's manual, which had more than a thousand pages.

There was no hesitation, and he started reading through it with focus.

With the divine power of 'Heavenly Comprehension' he was able to understand everything easily.

Moreover, he wasn't aiming to finish the book; he only wanted to learn the first part, which will suffice him until the ninth level of Qi gathering.

As for the latter, he will learn slowly day by day.

Hence, he only focused on the first fifteen pages, reading again and again for two hours just to confirm he wasn't missing anything.

Only after he was sure did he place the book away and closed his eyes to start cultivating.

The first realm of cultivation was the Qi gathering stage. In this realm, everyone senses the spiritual Qi around them and inhales it before circulating through a specified path in their bodies.

For Ye Chen, this step was extremely easy. It was not because of his talent but because he was a mountain and had control over spiritual Qi here.

So, he only needed a thought, and the Qi around him entered his body with obedience.

If anyone saw this, they would cry out tears of blood because sensing the spiritual Qi for the first time was like finding a needle in a haystack. Even the cultivators with higher talent would find it a little hard.

But for Ye Chen, this was easy as breathing. Moreover, the spiritual Qi around him was quite obedient and circulated through the path he designated to them.

Soon a cycle was complete, then second, third, fourth, and it kept for nine cycles.

When the tenth cycle started, Ye Chen felt he had reached the bottleneck, and no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't complete the last cycle.

'Hmm? My dantian is absorbing spiritual Qi?' he thought with a frown as he felt the Qi flowing inside the dantian without him doing anything.

He didn't hesitate and activated his 'Divine Eyes' before gazing into the dantian, which was like a hollow space.

There was nothing expectational here, except in the middle of dantian a golden root floated in the void, devouring the spiritual Qi greedily.

'This…' Ye Chen was stunned at this; however, he didn't delay and started to inhale the spiritual Qi more rapidly.

Because of the spiritual root, the Qi inside his body was almost exhausted.

If he let it go like this, then he would fail to enter the first stage of Qi gathering.

It wouldn't be a death, but it would be very painful; hence, he kept inhaling the Qi to surpass the devouring speed of spiritual root.

But in response, the golden spiritual root increased its suction force, consuming every bit of spiritual Qi that was entering his body.

Witnessing this, Ye Chen couldn't help but frown.

'Is there a problem with cultivation technique, or is it because my body is different and so is the spiritual root?' he pondered while once again inhaling the large amount of spiritual Qi.

He was a mountain spirit, so he didn't have any problems no matter how much Qi he absorbed.

However, as the amount increased, a whirlpool of spiritual Qi formed around him. Which slowly yet surely got bigger and bigger.