Cultivation of Immortality: Starting from Fu Cultivation

Chapter 524 Xuantian Secret Realm, the gap brought by talent
Ever since the last inspection mission ended, Ye Qingxiao returned to Xuantian Sect and failed to reunite with Ye Qingxuan.

He used the contribution points he had accumulated over the years to exchange for a place to enter the Xuantian Secret Realm, and began to retreat into the Xuantian Secret Realm to comprehend the rules and seek a breakthrough in his cultivation.

"Xuantian Secret Realm?"

However, after Ye Qingxuan heard about the "Xuantian Secret Realm", he couldn't help but feel curious when he heard about this secret realm for the first time.

Seeing Ye Qingxuan's surprised expression, Ye Qingxiao realized at this moment that Ye Qingxuan actually didn't know about the 'Xuantian Secret Realm'.

After the initial surprise, Ye Qingxiao reacted and immediately introduced the "Xuantian Secret Realm" in front of Ye Qingxuan with great joy.

"Right? 'Xuantian Secret Realm' is not a secret in our Xuantian Sect. Qingxuan, you must know it. Hehe, let me tell you."

Finally, after a series of introductions by Ye Qingxiao and combined with Ye Qingxuan's own analysis, Ye Qingxuan finally had a preliminary understanding of the 'Xuantian Secret Realm'.

'Xuantian Secret Realm' is a secret realm of cave heaven that was forcibly opened up by the first ancestor of Xuantian Sect with his own powerful cultivation. It is also the largest secret realm currently controlled by Xuantian Sect.

Although the 'Xuantian Secret Realm' did not incorporate world creations such as world beads as its cornerstone when it was opened up, it did not have the potential to grow on its own.

However, over the past millions of years, the high-level cultivators of the Xuantian Sect who were about to die and whose lifespans were about to end, basically transformed themselves in the Xuantian Secret Realm, filling and forcibly expanding the 'Xuantian Secret Realm' with their own cultivation and rules.

Although in this process, most of the energy and source of rules of the high-level cultivators were recovered by the Earth Profound Realm when they were transformed into Taoism.

However, as a place of Taoism for high-level cultivators, the 'Xuantian Secret Realm' will still retain a portion of its energy and rules to subtly create the space of the 'Xuantian Secret Realm'.

It's just that the 'Xuantian Secret Realm' cannot grow on its own after all.

Even if there are a steady stream of high-level cultivators in the secret realm, they are forcibly expanding the 'Xuantian Secret Realm'.

However, after expanding to a certain extent, the energy and rules integrated by high-level cultivators during their transformation into Taoism began to play a negligible role in the expansion of the "Xuantian Secret Realm".

After millions of years of evolution, the size of the 'Xuantian Secret Realm' is only comparable to the size of a large state in the Dixuan Realm.

The only thing worth praising is that over millions of years, a steady stream of high-level cultivators have become enlightened in the 'Xuantian Secret Realm', which has greatly increased the growth rate of the spirit veins in the 'Xuantian Secret Realm'.

So far, although there has been no tenth-order spirit vein born in the 'Xuantian Secret Realm', nine ninth-order spirit veins have been born.

Unfortunately, due to the large number of high-level cultivators who were transformed into Tao in the 'Xuantian Secret Realm', the large amount of energy and rules released during the transformation were entangled with each other, forming a place of energy riots and disordered rules.

The turbulent energy and disordered rules in this special land require the "Xuantian Secret Realm" itself to absorb and digest for a long time before they can be calmed down.

Forced suppression and elimination will only damage the foundation of the "Xuantian Secret Realm", so the Xuantian Sect can only leave it alone and let nature take its course.

This has resulted in most areas in the 'Xuantian Secret Realm' being unable to allow cultivators to practice with peace of mind, and even unable to open up spiritual fields to grow spiritual medicines.

Apart from the cave dwellings opened up by Xuantian Sect using high-level formations in the nine ninth-level spirit veins, there are very few places in other areas that are calm and peaceful with a mild spiritual atmosphere.

However, although most places in the 'Xuantian Secret Realm' are not suitable for cultivators to meditate and practice, and absorb and exhale spiritual energy.

However, the fragments of rules that remain in these realms, scattered throughout the space, evolving disorderly and changing from time to time, are the best place for cultivators to comprehend the introductory rules.

It is precisely because of this that Ye Qingxiao spent the contribution points accumulated over the years to exchange for a place in the 'Xuantian Secret Realm' to comprehend the rules and seek a breakthrough.

However, after decades of hard contemplation in the 'Xuantian Secret Realm', Ye Qingxiao still failed to successfully comprehend the rules, condense the source of the rules and reach the threshold of breaking through the Dongxu Realm.

After learning about Ye Qingxiao's situation, Ye Qingxuan's eyes flickered slightly, and then he calmly poured a cup of tea for himself and Ye Qingxiao, and asked:

"Then what are your plans next?"

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's question, Ye Qingxiao looked at the teacup in front of him and had no mood to drink tea. He scratched his head in annoyance and said unwillingly:
"I plan to leave Xuantian Sect and travel around the Dixuan Realm. If that doesn't work, I'll enter the Qingmo Realm to experience life and death trials and seek a breakthrough."

He was a naturally impatient person, and after finally calming down and secluding himself for decades, he was unable to achieve the breakthrough he wished for.

In this case, he did not plan to continue his retreat and meditation, and prepared to leave Xuantian Sect to gain some experience first.

Anyway, the last sect inspection mission he carried out took hundreds of years. After the mission was over, he had a long period of time to practice on his own and no longer needed to carry out sect missions.

Seeing Ye Qingxiao's impatient look, Ye Qingxuan smiled slightly and said:

"Don't be anxious. Calm down and drink the tea in front of you first."

"What's wrong with this tea? It's not like I haven't drunk your enlightenment tea before. Although it can still help me calm my mind, that's all it is."

Seeing Ye Qingxuan asking him to drink tea, Ye Qingxiao simply rolled his eyes.

However, despite saying this, Ye Qingxiao still obediently picked up the teacup in front of him and drank it all.

But what Ye Qingxiao did not expect was that as soon as he drank the tea in the cup, a mysterious energy suddenly surged into his sea of ​​consciousness and enveloped his soul.

"This tea..."

Ye Qingxiao, who realized something was wrong, stood there in a daze with his mouth slightly open, but before he could finish his words, a steady stream of inspiration emerged in his mind, bringing him into enlightenment.

What Ye Qingxiao didn't know was that what he drank from Ye Qingxuan hundreds of years ago was only the fifth-level enlightenment tea.

What Ye Qingxuan was giving him to drink now was the sixth-level enlightenment tea mixed with the seventh-level enlightenment tea.

It’s not that Ye Qingxuan was reluctant to give Ye Qingxiao the seventh-level enlightenment tea directly.

However, no matter how good the seventh-level enlightenment tea is, the increase in enlightenment it brings is ultimately just an external force and cannot compare to Ye Qingxuan's innate enlightenment brought by his immortal soul.

If a cultivator's comprehension is increased too much in a short period of time due to the influence of external forces, and the magnitude of the increase is too great, it will exceed the upper limit that the cultivator's innate nature can withstand.

This would only backfire and put the cultivator's soul into a crisis of transformation.

Therefore, although Ye Qingxuan wanted to help Ye Qingxiao, he did not take the risk of letting Ye Qingxiao take the seventh-level enlightenment tea directly.

Looking at Ye Qingxiao who was gradually enveloped by the aura of Tao, Ye Qingxuan smiled slightly with great satisfaction.

He stroked his sleeves lazily, picked up the teacup in front of him, closed his eyes slightly, and slowly tasted the flavor of the sixth-level enlightenment tea mixed with the seventh-level enlightenment tea.

However, as time passed, the Tao aura surrounding Ye Qingxiao slowly dissipated.

After Ye Qingxuan failed to detect the fluctuation of the source of rules in Ye Qingxiao, a look of regret emerged on his face.

This sixth-level enlightenment tea is most effective when taken for the first time.

Ye Qingxiao did not break through this time, so the probability of him breaking through with the help of the sixth-level enlightenment tea next time will be greatly reduced. However, although Ye Qingxiao failed to comprehend the power of rules and make a breakthrough, Ye Qingxuan was not disappointed.

Because with Ye Qingxiao's spiritual root talent, the difficulty of breaking through the Dongxu realm is extremely great.

In addition, Ye Qingxiao is too young now, and can only be regarded as a junior among the average-talented cultivators in the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Due to the lack of years of accumulation, the failure of this breakthrough was not too beyond Ye Qingxuan's expectations.

Except for very few individual cases.

Under normal circumstances, a cultivator's spiritual root talent and comprehension talent are linked, so the cultivator with better spiritual root talent will generally have a good innate comprehension talent.

This is the essential difference in life between monks at the beginning.

Many cultivators believe that a breakthrough in realm only requires a flash of inspiration, but they do not know that the appearance of this flash of inspiration is inseparable from the accumulation and precipitation of years.

It doesn't mean that without enough years of accumulation and sedimentation, a cultivator can't have a flash of inspiration and make a breakthrough.

Rather, the more years of accumulation and sedimentation there are, the greater the probability that a cultivator will have a flash of inspiration and successfully break through.

Although they seem to be cultivators who have experienced the same amount of time, the more talented the cultivator is, the faster he will accumulate and settle, and the greater the probability of a breakthrough in a flash of inspiration.

In addition, in the process of taking natural treasures, the cultivator is also shortening the accumulation time.

Just like Ye Qingxiao now, after decades of seclusion and contemplation in the 'Xuantian Secret Realm', and now the enlightenment brought by the sixth-level enlightenment tea.

Although Ye Qingxiao has not made a breakthrough yet, his accumulation has increased significantly, and the probability of a flash of inspiration and a successful breakthrough in the future will also increase significantly.

This is also the reason why all forces like to recruit talented monks.

The better the spiritual roots of a genius, not only will he accumulate spiritual energy faster and more easily reach the limit of his current realm, but he will also accumulate insights into the world faster and more easily make breakthroughs in his realm.

In this case, disciples with better talents will have a greater chance of breaking through to high-level cultivators, and will consume fewer resources. How could the major forces not like this?

If the path of spiritual practice is compared to a long-distance race, then a person's talent is acceleration, and the natural treasures consumed during the race are a one-time, time-limited super acceleration.

After running for a certain distance, the monk will have the opportunity to jump to another track.

But the farther you run, the greater the chance of getting this jump opportunity and going to another track.

Others can soar into the sky with the help of acceleration, but you need to spend a lot of time or resources to complete a distance that others have walked inadvertently.

This is the talent gap.

It is precisely because of this that, although the great era of cultivation has arrived after the two worlds met, the major forces still prefer to recruit disciples with good talents.

Hunting the Green Demon Clan now can shorten the process of accumulating spiritual energy, and everyone is pretty much the same in this regard.

But the gap in understanding is not so easy to narrow.

The temporary improvement in enlightenment gained by sacrificing the source of the demonic vein can also be seen as taking some kind of disposable natural treasure, except that this natural treasure has no drug resistance.

Two cultivators at the same level fought in the Green Demon Realm to obtain the source of the demon vein.

Those with good talents may be able to seize the opportunity to make a breakthrough by sacrificing one source of magic veins, while those with poor talents may need to sacrifice several or even dozens of the same source of magic veins.

This is also the case for many strong people with mediocre talents who have grown up after going through untold hardships and consuming unimaginable resources. After their cultivation reaches a certain level, the first thing they do is to rebuild their foundation and talent.

Those who say talent is unimportant, simply don't have it.

If they have excellent talents from the beginning, the time and difficulty for them to grow up will definitely be greatly reduced on the original basis.

"What a pity, we still failed in the end. This thin line of separation is like a natural chasm."

After the Tao rhyme around Ye Qingxiao dissipated, Ye Qingxiao, who had just come out of the state of enlightenment, opened his eyes and said with great regret.

Looking at Ye Qingxuan who was smiling and looking calm, Ye Qingxiao couldn't help but ask:

"Qingxuan, what kind of tea is this? Why is the effect so amazing?"

After all these years of contact, he knew that his brother, who came from the same clan as him, was no ordinary person, but he still didn't expect that his brother could easily take out such precious treasures.

"This is also Enlightenment Tea, but it is only the sixth level Enlightenment Tea."

In response to Ye Qingxiao's questioning, Ye Qingxuan did not hide anything.

Although Ye Qingxiao knew the existence of the Tianfu store, Ye Qingxiao, who had just come out of seclusion, did not know that Ye Qingxiao's Tianfu store had been promoted to a star-level store.

Therefore, he did not know about the existence of the sixth-level enlightenment tea and the seventh-level enlightenment tea at this time.

Seeing Ye Qingxiao's astonished expression, Ye Qingxuan picked up the teacup and drank a sip of tea, then laughed and scolded:

"Okay, stop pretending to be amazed. You will definitely get your share of this sixth-level enlightenment tea."

As he spoke, Ye Qingxuan threw a box of sixth-level enlightenment tea that he had prepared long ago to Ye Qingxiao.

"However, this sixth-level enlightenment tea is most effective only when taken for the first time. The chances of you making a breakthrough with the help of the sixth-level enlightenment tea are slim."

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's words, Ye Qingxiao, who took the sixth-level enlightenment tea, smiled and said:

"It's okay. If continuing to take it doesn't have much effect, doesn't that mean it's still effective?"

"Besides, my Xueqin hasn't had it yet. I can bring it back for my Xueqing to drink."

Yu Xueqing's talent is five-element spiritual roots, which is even worse than Ye Qingxiao's current talent. After returning from completing the inspection mission with Ye Qingxiao, Yu Xueqing also entered the "Xuantian Secret Realm" to retreat and seek a breakthrough.

However, unlike Ye Qingxiao's impatient temperament, although Yu Xueqing failed to break through, she was not in a hurry to leave the "Xuantian Secret Realm".

Ye Qingxuan didn't care about how Ye Qingxiao was going to use the sixth-level enlightenment tea, so he said casually:

"It's up to you. When are you going to leave Xuantian Sect next? To practice on your own?"

Since the sixth-level enlightenment tea failed to help Ye Qingxiao break through, Ye Qingxuan estimated that he would not change his training plan.

(End of this chapter)