Dragon Devouring Cultivation

Chapter 427 Civilization
In the imperial city's square, tens of thousands of cultivators stood outside, their eyes fixed on the figure standing in the square with fervent gazes.

That was the most outstanding genius in this area, who advanced from the Qi Refining stage to the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage in just seventy years. And today is the day that this genius named Ji Wu breaks through to the Tribulation.

"Empress, is it possible that Ji Wu has successfully ascended to heaven, opening a path to the heavens for this world?" The emperor, standing on the top floor of the imperial city, looked out at the square and asked the empress, who was dressed in a magnificent palace robe, who was accompanying him.

The emperor's cultivation was inferior to that of the empress, hence this question.

"If Ji Wu can't do it, others will continue. One day they will be able to open this path to heaven!" The Empress looked up at the sky, her eyes filled with hope as she murmured.

Although she was at the late Foundation Establishment stage, her resources were limited, and at her age, it was almost impossible for her to advance any further.

But she was full of confidence in the future. Countless cultivators had risked their lives to test spiritual medicines and had already found some ways to use them. As long as they continued to work tirelessly, more spiritual medicines would surely be mastered.

With the aid of spiritual medicine, cultivation resources will no longer be a hindrance to cultivation. At that time, countless Foundation Establishment peak cultivators like Ji Wu will surely emerge, and some cultivators will be able to successfully ascend.

"Perhaps Ji Wu can ascend to heaven in one go. I also want to see what the outer heavens are like!" The emperor laughed loudly upon hearing the confidence in the empress's words.

In the square, Ji Wu stood solemnly. He swallowed several kinds of spiritual herbs in his hand, which turned into energy and entered his body. He then circulated his cultivation technique to convert the energy into spiritual power.

His cultivation had already reached the Great Perfection realm. When this spiritual energy entered his dantian, his dantian collapsed.

In the center of his dantian, a golden elixir quietly formed.

Feeling the urgent need of the Golden Core for spiritual power, he gritted his teeth and, despite the backlash from consuming too many spiritual herbs, ate several more raw herbs.

The elixir transformed into energy, circulated within the body several times, and then became spiritual power, which was absorbed by the golden core.

Before he could fully stabilize his cultivation, dark clouds gathered in the sky, signaling the imminent start of the tribulation for advancing to the Golden Core stage.

"Huh!" Li Zhen was comprehending the rules when he suddenly sensed something and his mind fell on the clone continent in the small world.

He saw that the clone race had formed a civilization, and what surprised him even more was that one of the clones was preparing to undergo the Golden Core Tribulation.

He remembered that the cultivation method he left for the clone race was very basic, and with that simple method, the clone race was able to cultivate to the Golden Core realm.

Although only about sixty years have passed outside the world since the first generation of clones, more than six hundred years have actually passed within the small world region designated by Li Zhen.

Over six hundred years, with thirty years as one generation, that's twenty generations. The number of clones has grown from two thousand to nearly ten million.

Cloned humans even formed states and entered feudal society.

Li Zhen couldn't help but secretly nod in praise of the high talent of this cultivator named Ji Wu.

To be honest, taking seventy years to advance from the Qi Refining stage to the peak of Foundation Establishment and then to the Golden Core stage doesn't make him a top genius in the Immortal Kingdom.

The problem is that Li Zhen did not pass down the various arts of cultivation in this world. Although the clone continent has naturally occurring spiritual herbs and spiritual veins, it lacks alchemy techniques and a spirit-gathering array.

Consuming raw spiritual herbs has a severe backlash on the body. If a cultivator consumes too many raw spiritual herbs, their body will suffer from hidden ailments, or even collapse.

Ji Wu, without any resources, used the most basic and simple techniques to cultivate all the way to the Golden Core stage.

Li Zhen examined Ji Wu's body and discovered that he possessed a Heavenly Spiritual Root, and that among cultivators across the entire Clone Continent, the probability of having an Earthly Spiritual Root was as high as 10%.

This ratio is terrifying. In the Immortal Kingdom, it's difficult to find even one person with an Earth Spirit Root among millions of people, but on the Clone Continent, almost one in ten cultivators has an Earth Spirit Root.

Through analysis, he learned the reason behind it.

The cloned cells he chose were taken from the corpse of a Nascent Soul True Monarch. In addition, he used the Dragon Heart Space to remove traces of other worlds from the cells, making them incredibly pure.

Most importantly, the clone was created by him personally, and he was a god in the small world, representing the will of heaven and earth of the small world.

The clones he created were favored by the small world and were blessed by the fortune of heaven and earth.

In this way, as clones are passed down from generation to generation, their spiritual roots are not weakened, but rather maintain a certain balance.

"I bestow upon you a magic weapon to help you overcome your tribulation!" Upon seeing that Ji Wu was about to undergo his tribulation, Li Zhen casually tossed aside a low-level defensive magic weapon and said.

His voice, carrying the mandate of heaven, reached Ji Wu's ears as if listening to the will of heaven. "Thank you, heaven and earth, for this gift!" Upon seeing the defensive magic weapon falling from the sky, Ji Wu bowed deeply in gratitude to heaven and earth.

As a native of the clone continent, upon hearing Li Zhen's voice, he instinctively believed it to be the will of heaven and earth, and in a sense, it was real.

The defensive magic item automatically recognizes its owner, eliminating the need for manual recognition and saving a lot of time.

At the same time, the methods for using defensive magic weapons were also transmitted to his brain.

In the clone continent, let alone magical treasures, there aren't even any real magical artifacts.

The cultivators mined spirit ore and processed it like agricultural tools. Low-grade spirit ore could be softened by mortal fire and processed into the initial blanks of magical artifacts.

But that's all. The magical artifact still needs to be inscribed with runes, which is something that cannot be created out of thin air in just a few hundred years.

The initial blanks of magical artifacts produced by this method are, in other words, semi-finished products, only sharper and harder than ordinary iron.

Ji Wu mastered the defensive magic weapon and infused it with spiritual power.

The defensive magic weapon flew up to his head and grew larger, forming two layers of defense.

One was a defensive shield activated by a defensive magic weapon, and the other was the defensive magic weapon itself enlarging and blocking Ji Wu's head.

"Heaven and earth bestow this treasure; heaven and earth truly possess a will!" the Empress exclaimed in disbelief.

"If Ji Wu successfully transcends his tribulation, then appoint him as the Imperial Preceptor!" the Emperor declared in a deep voice.

Blessed by the voice of heaven and earth, his status is too noble. In addition, he has achieved the Golden Core. Not to mention the Imperial Preceptor, even if Ji Wu wanted to become emperor, he would have to abdicate.

With the defensive magic treasure and the presence of Li Zhen, a deity representing the will of heaven and earth, Li Zhen believed that if Ji Wu could successfully overcome the tribulation, the heavenly tribulation would naturally be passed.

After three bolts of heavenly lightning, Ji Wu successfully survived the tribulation and became a Golden Core True Person.

The ascension that Ji Wu believed in, and the ascension that almost all Foundation Establishment cultivators believed in, did not occur.

The reason why Foundation Establishment cultivators believe that advancing to the Golden Core stage is equivalent to ascension is because when they become Foundation Establishment cultivators, they discover that the limit of this world is the peak of Foundation Establishment.

To achieve the Golden Core, one must leave this world.

However, when Ji Wu became a Golden Core True Person, the Foundation Establishment cultivators felt that the limits of heaven and earth had increased, but Ji Wu could clearly sense that the limits that heaven and earth could contain had increased from the peak of Foundation Establishment to the peak of Golden Core.

"A single Immortal Transmission Stele allows one to comprehend the Great Dao!" Li Zhen's voice echoed across the clone continent.

Then a stone tablet fell from the sky and landed in the center of the Imperial City Square.

He left behind a hundred arts of cultivation, a variety of techniques, and a complete cultivation system on the stone tablet, a cultivation system that can lead directly to the Nascent Soul stage.

Of course, he also left the technology of the Immortal Kingdom in the stone tablet, which could be learned by people in the clone continent who lacked spiritual roots, in order to improve the living conditions of the clone continent.

The clone continent is enormous. Although it is only a part of the small world, the small world is now half the size of the Immortal Kingdom. Even a small part of it is enough to accommodate billions of people.

With a population of less than ten million, the development of the clone continent is extremely limited.

With Li Zhen's intervention and the acceleration of tenfold, the clone continent quickly transitioned from a feudal society to a social system similar to that of a celestial kingdom.

A large number of clones received more scientific education, and various machines and equipment that were originally only available in the Immortal Kingdom were manufactured on the clone continent.

With the development of methods for refining elixirs, spiritual herbs were processed more effectively, and the methods for cultivating spiritual plants allowed them to evolve from being harvested in the wild to being cultivated on their own.

Under this great development, a large number of elixirs were refined.

With the help of the elixirs, the cultivators' cultivation levels improved rapidly.

A year after Ji Wu advanced to the Golden Core stage, many cultivators continued to attempt to break through to the Golden Core stage. Most of them failed due to insufficient preparation, but they also gained a lot of experience.

(End of this chapter)