Chapter 46: Earth Immortal Inheritance

Seven days later!

While cultivating, Ye Qingxuan suddenly felt a massive and gentle surge of energy pour into his body out of thin air, continuously merging and transforming with his spiritual power.

Ye Qingxuan was slightly startled. Once he regained his composure, he began to operate the Earth Source Manual with all his might, coordinating with this energy to break through his own bottleneck.

Soon, after only a brief moment, the spiritual power within Ye Qingxuan's dantian began to condense into the first drop of liquid spiritual power.

Immediately following the successful condensation of the first drop, a spiritual rain began to fall within Ye Qingxuan's dantian. Drops of liquefied spiritual power fell continuously, gathering in his dantian to form a small pool of spiritual power.

Simultaneously, Ye Qingxuan's physical body began to voraciously devour the spiritual power from both the external environment and within himself.

The micro-particles of various elements within the spiritual power were continuously absorbed by Ye Qingxuan's body and brought into the Mustard Seed Space deep within his flesh, beginning to constantly refine and perfect his physique.

As his internal microcosm continued to perfect, Ye Qingxuan's body underwent a metamorphosis. His physical strength, the toughness of his meridians, the density of his bones, and even his internal organs were all elevated to a new level.

The Earth Source Manual that Ye Qingxuan practiced appeared to be an earth-attribute technique, but in reality, it was an attribute-less technique into which a special earth-attribute spell had been integrated.

In the current Di-Xuan Realm, most cultivation techniques are attribute-less; only a very small fraction are attribute-based techniques.

Because spiritual qi inherently contains all the elements of the world, practicing attribute-less techniques is the most stable method, allowing one to exert the maximum utility of the spiritual qi.

Practicing attribute-less techniques not only allows a cultivator to use spells of all attributes, but also ensures that during cultivation, the spiritual qi continuously integrates into the human body, allowing the body to undergo continuous transformation and evolution as one's realm increases.

In contrast, while attribute-based techniques may take a specialized path and can unleash astonishing power in the early stages, they only allow for the cultivation of spells corresponding to that specific attribute.

Since spiritual qi originally possesses all the elemental particles of its world, an attribute-based technique works by extremely assimilating all elemental particles in the spiritual qi into a single attribute.

Spiritual power consisting of only one attribute will not nourish the body; instead, it will constantly disrupt the body's balance, leading to a very frail physique for the cultivator.

Therefore, when attribute-based techniques are practiced in the later stages, they can cause severe bodily imbalance, making the cultivator prone to qi deviation or even exploding from internal pressure.

By practicing attribute-less techniques, a cultivator can master spells of any attribute—a massive advantage—and can also reduce the process of attribute-based techniques assimilating the elemental attributes of spiritual qi, thereby accelerating the speed of cultivation!

It is precisely for these reasons that most attribute-based techniques have long been phased out by the major top-tier powers in the long history of the Di-Xuan Realm's immortal path.

The reason the Xuantian Sect required disciples with earth-attribute spiritual roots to practice the Earth Source Manual was simply because having the corresponding spiritual root allows one to practice corresponding attribute spells with twice the result for half the effort.

Without the corresponding spiritual root, one can still practice such attribute spells, though the difficulty of cultivation will be greater.

The two main effects of spiritual roots are increasing the speed of spiritual qi attraction and refinement, and allowing one to achieve greater efficiency when practicing corresponding attribute spells.

Inside the Qingxuan Blessed Land!

As time flowed, Ye Qingxuan completely finished absorbing all the primordial essence fed back by the formation of the Blessed Land.

The aura surrounding him suddenly erupted and expanded, a pressure far exceeding the perfection of the Qi Refining stage permeating the air from within his body.

Ye Qingxuan slowly opened his eyes. Two dazzling beams of light flashed for a moment before slowly disappearing under his control, revealing his bright eyes.

Sensing his cultivation level, Ye Qingxuan smiled with joy and said softly

"Mid-stage Foundation Establishment! The effect is quite good!"

Indeed, because he had contracted a late-stage Tier 1 spiritual land, the Blessed Land was already a late-stage Tier 1 Blessed Land upon its formation. Thus, the primordial essence fed back was more abundant, allowing Ye Qingxuan to reach the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment in one leap.

Due to his special connection with his natal clone, the Eternal Turtle, he could enjoy all the benefits of contracting a Blessed Land while allowing his natal clone to bear all the constraints of the Blessed Land.

After the breakthrough, Ye Qingxuan was preparing to stand up to inspect his Qingxuan Blessed Land, but unexpectedly, the mysterious ochre-colored bead in his mind, which had been silent until now, began to vibrate violently.

In the next instant, before Ye Qingxuan had time to react, a massive torrent of information poured out from this mysterious bead, flooding his mental space.

Ye Qingxuan fell directly into an unconscious slumber, passively receiving this vast amount of information.

Three days and three nights later, Ye Qingxuan finally regained consciousness.

Ignoring the aching sensation in his head, Ye Qingxuan's eyes were filled with pleasant surprise.

He knew that the mysterious bead that had traveled with him could never disappoint him.

As expected, his guess was correct; the surprise was even greater than he had imagined.

From the information he received, he learned that this ochre-colored bead was the World Bead, which contained all the inheritances of the Earth Immortal Path.

It included not only the cultivation methods of Earth Immortals but also complete inheritances in all aspects, such as alchemy, weapon forging, formations, talismans, spiritual plants, beast taming, and more.

Currently, he had only received some special information and all the inheritances below the Immortal Realm. The remaining inheritances had transformed into a halo, condensing behind the solidified primordial soul body of his brain within his mental space.

The reason the World Bead had reacted when he first heard the term "Blessed Land" was because a Blessed Land is one of the keys to cultivating the Earth Immortal Path.

It could be said that the "Blessed Land Cultivation" researched by successive generations in the Di-Xuan Realm was actually a fragmented version of the Earth Immortal cultivation method.

The true Earth Immortal cultivation method involves not just Blessed Lands, but also Grotto-Heavens!

The combination of Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands is the true Earth Immortal Path.

And the World Bead in his mind was the best treasure for opening Grotto-Heavens!

Only after opening Grotto-Heavens can the Grotto-Heaven and the Blessed Land complement each other, which not only greatly increases the auxiliary cultivation effect for the cultivator but also significantly reduces defects.

For instance, in Blessed Land cultivation, the land might drain energy from the cultivator, causing the cultivation speed to slow down by hundreds of times. However, with the Earth Immortal method, where the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land complement each other and energy flows between them to balance one another, this situation can be perfectly avoided.

Furthermore, under the combined effect of the Grotto-Heaven and the Blessed Land, the speed at which a cultivator's spiritual roots grow will also increase significantly.

The benefits did not end there; just as a Blessed Land provides primordial essence feedback upon advancing, a Grotto-Heaven would do the same.

Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands are divided into tiers one through ten. If one could open all the Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands and cultivate them to the tenth tier, it would be enough to provide Ye Qingxuan with twenty instances of primordial essence feedback to increase his cultivation.

Moreover, once a tenth-tier Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land are merged into one, they can evolve into a Small Thousand World, allowing Ye Qingxuan to become the Lord of a world.

By then, it would be difficult for him *not* to soar to greatness.

Of course, advancing the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land smoothly would not be easy.

The only drawback of the Earth Immortal Path is that as one's realm increases and the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land continue to advance, the bond between the cultivator and the land becomes deeper and deeper.

In the end, one may succeed because of the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land, but one may also fail because of them, making ultimate transcendence a rare feat.

(End of Chapter)