Born with immortal seed

Chapter 305 The Prospects of the Cantongqi
Once the Glazed Fire God Body is cultivated, the skin will possess the true qualities of Glazed Fire Jade, absorbing spiritual energy and neutralizing damage.

Besides the "Short-Range Distance" technique, we can infer from Ge Cangzhen's tone that there is another secret method that involves mutual destruction.

The Five Crystal Glazed Body also played a significant role in helping Ge Cang Zhenren cultivate the Qian Tian Yuan Yang Divine Thunder Net to its current level.

If one did not possess a physical body superior to that of a fully formed Core Formation cultivator, how could one withstand the raging lightning-type spiritual power ravaging one's limbs and bones?

The reason I stopped cultivating after reaching the fourth level was that, besides the difficulty in finding two fifth-tier spiritual materials, Five-Crystal Divine Iron and Glazed Fire Jade.

More importantly, this body-refining technique deviated from his path.

The path of the Great Dao is fundamental; body-refining techniques are merely means to protect that path.

It is perfectly clear which is more important and which is less so.

However, Bai Zichen doesn't have this problem. The path he chose doesn't conflict with the Five Crystal Glazed Body, and he can pursue the highest realm that even the founding patriarch couldn't reach.

"What kind of power does the fifth level have? It is not even mentioned in the cultivation method... It is estimated that only by going back further, the founder of the Dao, Shaoyang Zhenjun and others have truly reached it."

Bai Zichen watched as the skin, which had originally resembled soft jade, slowly returned to normal, and the red glow around him gradually faded away.

"It takes eight years to enter the sect and sixteen years to complete the cultivation. Even I need that long. It's terrifying that Senior Brother Ge has made progress in both cultivation and the Glazed Fire God Body."

With his talent for alchemy, he could roughly estimate the time required for subsequent cultivation as soon as he started practicing.

The Five Crystal Glazed Body technique is notoriously difficult to master, which is why such a powerful body-refining technique remains relatively unknown, its true value hidden.

Of all the cultivators who have reached the Core Formation stage in the Qingfeng Sect throughout history, apart from the founding patriarch and Ge Cang, none have managed to cultivate to the fourth level.

Of course, Bai Zichen is about to become the third person.

It is quite common for a Core Formation cultivator to spend more than 20 years cultivating a supernatural power or secret technique.

Moreover, the powerful body-refining technique of the Glazed Fire God Body, once mastered, can almost allow a Core Formation True Person to leap to the top rank of Core Formation True Essence in Liang Kingdom solely based on physical strength.

Only Bai Zichen would feel that the process was too long and want to find a way to shorten it again.

"It's a pity that the body-refining elixir like the Five-Eyed Blood Bodhi in the secret hall is gone, otherwise it would save a lot of effort... Another method is to kill a powerful, blood-filled third-tier demon beast and use its flesh and blood to refine a batch of elixir."

However, even a dragon like the one that once occupied the Jade Moon Lake wouldn't be enough to have an effect on the Glazed Fire God Body.

Only the complete body of a peak-level third-tier demon beast can meet the requirements.

The red light in the pool faded, and the water temperature gradually returned to normal.

Previously, when Bai Zichen entered a deep meditation, the eye of the spiritual spring almost turned into a hot spring, with the gushing water enough to boil an egg.

The group of spirit fish were so frightened that they dared not rush into the spring anymore, and could only swim around on the periphery.

Knowing that the Glazed Fire God Body was only a matter of time for him and that there were no difficulties in its cultivation, he shifted his focus to the Cantong Qi.

This technique, which is touted as the fundamental method of the Qingfeng Sect, is neither a cultivation method nor does it possess any heaven-defying supernatural powers.

The difficulty of cultivating it is comparable to that of the Five Crystal Glazed Body; only Ge Cang Zhenren in the entire Qingfeng Sect has truly mastered it.

Due to various limitations, coupled with the disproportionate return on investment, Foundation Establishment cultivators in sects have basically given up on the Cantong Qi.

At most, they might stubbornly try to reach the first level, only to find that they truly lacked the ability and then decisively give up.

If this method had not been personally transmitted by Shaoyang Zhenjun across generations through divine thought, and not been decreed by the founding patriarch, it would never have remained in the position of the fundamental method of Qingfeng Sect.

"I've discovered that as long as the cultivation method is brought across the sea by the founding ancestor, no matter how effective it is, the difficulty of cultivation is heaven-defying... I don't know if it's due to the difference in styles between the cultivation worlds of the two places, or if the founding ancestor's fellow disciples all had heaven-defying talent and were not afraid of any restrictions."

It should be that as one's cultivation level increases, the difficulty of reverting to cultivation decreases considerably.

Bai Zichen spent half a month mastering the first level, and another fifty days to fully understand the second level.

Only then did they stop, finally understanding what Master Yang meant when he said that there was no way to guide them and that they had to figure it out themselves.

The third level of the Cantongqi (the Book of the Three Kinds) marks the first time he has failed in judging the timing of cultivation since he made the alchemical treatise "stop when it is time to stop, and act when it is time to act."

Just like the Glazed Fire God Body, he only needed to do a quick calculation to know that he would need to devote himself to it for seven years and one month before he could master it.

Alternatively, one could cultivate diligently and tirelessly for eighty-four years without external intervention, thus raising one's true essence to the limit of the mid-stage of Core Formation.

However, when the target was changed to the third level of the Cantongqi, it had no effect at all, leaving only chaos and blur.

This cultivation technique seems to not exist in the river of time at all; even with his unique talent, he could not predict or deduce the outcome.

"The first three levels are only for purifying true essence. Any auxiliary cultivation method can achieve a similar effect... and the cultivation difficulty is far less than that, so you can see significant results very quickly."

Bai Zichen remembered that Elder Yang had mentioned that the first three levels of the Cantong Qi could only purify true essence, and only from the fourth level onwards did it reveal its unique characteristics.

It can accelerate the refining speed of one's natal magic weapon, and at the deepest level, it can even enlighten the magic weapon's spirituality.

This is quite terrifying. You have to know that even a fourth-level weapon refiner is not confident in refining spiritual treasures. At most, they can infinitely increase the success rate of refining top-grade magic treasures.

The birth of spiritual treasures is mysterious and profound; no one can grasp the laws governing them.

It is not true that if the quality of the spiritual materials is high enough, and you find a master craftsman, you will definitely be able to forge a spiritual treasure.

Once refined, very few become spiritual treasures, especially in today's cultivation world.

More often than not, these are top-grade magical treasures that, after hundreds or thousands of years of use, have had their spiritual light sublimated, eventually meeting the standards of spiritual treasures at a certain point.

Thus, it leaped over the most important hurdle for the treasure and gained its own spirituality.

This is why the longer the history and the more orderly the lineage of a super sect, the more spiritual treasures it possesses.

The difficulty of advancing a spiritual treasure is unprecedented; even an ordinary cultivator could not accomplish it in one fell swoop, no matter how hard they tried.

Only through generations of inheritance, with cultivators practicing the same techniques working tirelessly, can one capture that one-in-a-lifetime burst of spiritual energy, a chance that is almost zero.

It was precisely because of this effect of the Cantongqi that Bai Zichen developed the desire to cultivate.

He possesses the Nine Yang Divine Fire Mirror; lacking only one innate Nine Yang True Fire, he can return to the rank of a top-grade magic weapon.

Moreover, having accumulated tens of thousands of years of experience, this magical treasure possesses its own spirituality, making it much easier to upgrade and enhance than other top-grade magical treasures.

More importantly, there are too few fourth-order flying swords in the cultivation world.

While third-tier flying swords can still be obtained through trading, treasure hunting, or self-crafting, the path to fourth-tier flying swords is much narrower.

In the cultivation world, since the destruction of the Taibai Sword Sect, there has been no record of directly forging a fourth-order flying sword.

They were either obtained from various secret realms and ruins, or they were the natal flying swords of those few Nascent Soul sword cultivators, which were forcibly upgraded from third-tier flying swords to fourth-tier flying swords.

Moreover, each of these fourth-tier flying swords is renowned and treasured by those sword-cultivating sects.

The Moonlit Sword is an exception among exceptions. When the Heavenly River Sword Sect set the rules for the Sword Tomb Secret Realm, they did not expect that someone could attract a fourth-tier flying sword to cross the border and come to them without entering the third level of the secret realm.

The deed was done, and since Tang Fei Zhenjun and Yan Yuanzai regarded Bai Zichen's talent as the number one monstrous sword cultivator since ancient times, they readily agreed to let the Moon Spin Sword recognize its master.

Otherwise, if it were any sword-cultivating sect, they would fight to the death if an outsider took away their fourth-tier flying sword.

Bai Zichen had taken this into consideration, knowing that the chance of obtaining another fourth-tier flying sword was extremely low, which is why he had this idea.

Can we use the Cantong Qi to elevate the third-tier flying sword, fully enlighten its spirituality, and achieve the fourth tier?

Through normal means, it's equivalent to directly transforming a top-grade magic weapon into a top-grade spiritual treasure, which is definitely impossible.

We can only hope that the Cantongqi (a classic text on the same subject) might create a sliver of possibility.

You don't need many; just enough to create two or three fourth-tier flying swords with this skill is sufficient.

"However, it seems that whether the Cantong Qi can enlighten a third-tier flying sword is unknown, but the cultivation time is a major problem..."

The inability to deduce a specific timeframe creates uncertainty for Bai Zichen.

In some ways, his time was more precious than that of any other Core Formation cultivator.

Because no matter which direction or field you invest in, you can reap rewards.

Other Core Formation cultivators might waste an entire sixty-year period for a single opportunity to advance, or spend hundreds of years searching for an ancient secret realm at specific times.

But Bai Zichen could never invest such a huge price. A hundred years of simply meditating and refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth would be enough to break through to the late stage of Core Formation.

"Let's leave it for now and ask Senior Brother Ge about it next time we see him..."

Regarding his progress in cultivating the Cantongqi, the only person in the entire Qingfeng Sect who could offer him guidance was True Person Ge Cang.

……

A corner of Qishan Mountain, on Da Mang Peak.

Although this mountain peak has a third-tier spiritual land, the original mines have long been exhausted, and the vegetation is barren. It has been fenced off by a Core Formation cultivator as a place for his natal spirit beast to live.

But a few years ago, the third-tier spirit beast was taken back by that elder.

A continuous stream of cultivators arrived at this Great Mang Peak Mountain. The giant airship in the sky blotted out the sun, casting a shadow that covered the entire mountaintop.

However, this magnificent and imposing giant airship is covered with crisscrossing and broken marks, and most of the tens of thousands of superimposed restrictive formations have lost their function.

The lead ship was in slightly better condition, but the other two airships had large holes torn in them, and there was still blood on the deck that had not been cleaned off.

The collapsed Divine Thunder Tower, the sword marks visible everywhere, the charred marks left by magic, and the huge holes blasted out by all sorts of magical artifacts tell the story of the fierce battle that took place on the airship.

Three years ago, five airships carrying over 30,000 cultivators from the Heavenly Principle Sect, along with tens of thousands of years of accumulated resources, formed a mobile formation and left their own fourth-tier spiritual vein, heading towards the unfamiliar Liang Kingdom.

(End of this chapter)