The ancient giant bear hiding in the world of immortal cultivation

Chapter 406 Tool Pill

"You have successfully cultivated a Grade 5 Ruyi Golden Spirit Pill."

"You have mastered the fifth level of the Metal-type Daoist technique, the Profound Iron Barrier; you have mastered the fifth level of the Metal-type Daoist technique, the Sharpness!"

"Your lifespan has increased by 1000 years, and is now 5214 years."

"Your health and stamina have increased by 5000 points, currently totaling 59000 points."

"Your basic agility, basic strength, and basic defense have reached a bottleneck and cannot be improved. They are currently at 1000 points."

"Your cultivation is in a contradictory, dangerous, unstable, and incomprehensible state. Please find a solution as soon as possible, or destroy this Grade 5 Ruyi Golden Spirit Pill."

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The four clowns issued a warning.

Two days later, Wang Wu, with the help of his older brother Dai Tou, successfully cultivated the fifth-grade Ruyi Golden Spirit Pill, as easily as eating and drinking.

However, Wang Wu did not incorporate this Grade 5 Ruyi Golden Spirit Pill into his acquired cultivation system. In other words, he always kept it wrapped and isolated by his innate Qi and blood to avoid it reacting with the Ice-Fire Spirit Pill and the Green Wood Spirit Pill, because that would definitely be a cataclysmic battle.

However, he was neither in a hurry nor worried.

Because whether it's the Green Wood Spirit Pill, the Golden Spirit Pill he's currently using, or the Earth Spirit Pill he's about to cultivate, they're all tools he uses to increase his lifespan, improve his basic attributes, handle logistics, and provide support.

He rarely uses these tools in his daily battles. The purpose of cultivating these three tool pills was clear from the beginning: to deploy the second Five Elements Spirit Array.

In this way, one is innate and one is acquired; only then can it be considered perfect.

For most people, this behavior would be suicidal, but for Wang Wu, it was quite easy.

At this moment, Wang Wu stopped trying to continue cultivating the Golden Spirit Pill and stopped troubling Brother Daitou.

He began to complete the last step, which was cultivating the earth elemental root. This time, he didn't have his older brother's help, but he didn't need to cultivate it to a very high level.

Just produce one Grade 9 Earth Spirit Pill to make up the numbers.

Everything was for the purpose of deploying the Five Elements Spirit Array.

Normally, this requirement isn't too difficult.

However, Wang Wu's current state is quite strange and complicated, and full of unstable bugs, so he is very cautious and carefully consumes earth spirit stones to cultivate earth spirit roots little by little.

It took about three months to barely cultivate a less-than-perfect earth spiritual root, the kind that would be looked down upon by ordinary cultivators.

But Wang Wu didn't mind; as long as he could make up the numbers, it was fine.

Next, he painstakingly spent another three months successfully cultivating a Grade 9 Earth Spirit Pill. It was truly an incredibly difficult feat.

His behavior was simply defying the heavens.

It's like having two wives (with ice and fire spiritual roots) at home, a concubine with a green wood spirit, and secretly keeping a fourth mistress on the side. Now they even want to have another one. This is a recipe for disaster, with the possibility of going into a demonic state and being overthrown at any moment.

Or the kind of situation where the slightest disturbance outside could wipe out everything.

However, the outside environment is just too good. It would be wonderful to have a cave where I can cultivate in peace without worrying about safety.

"Phew, this is so damn exhausting!"

Wang Wu looked haggard. It was too difficult. Is this cultivation? This is clearly suicide!

Was it easy for him to obtain this small Earth Spirit Tool Pill?
Thank goodness, the hardships and difficulties can finally end from today onwards.

Let's begin deploying the second Five Elements Spirit Array!

This time it's much easier. With the level 18 Spiritual Essence talent in charge, first deploy at the Ice and Fire Spiritual Pill, then at the Green Wood Spiritual Pill, and finally at the Ruyi Gold Spiritual Pill.

Finally, they quickly deployed the Earth Spirit Pill.

It's like weaving a large net.

The moment the large net was successfully woven, he also successfully isolated the five kinds of elixirs.

From this moment on, these five spirit pills will no longer be directly responsible to Wang Wu. Instead, any opinions or emotions he may have will be vented on the Five Elements Spirit Array, which will then act as a buffer to prevent him from being directly impacted.

In other words, this is equivalent to a firewall, a system that can accommodate five magic pills.

Essentially, Wang Wu can still enjoy the benefits of the five spirit pills without having to bear the consequences.

The one who created this Five Elements Spirit Array is truly a genius.

This is the true essence of the Five Aggregates Mending the Heavens Technique.

At this moment, Wang Wu no longer simply circulated the demon core and spirit pill.

Instead, it only operates the Innate Five Elements Spirit Array and the Acquired Five Elements Spirit Array. The two are like a vast galaxy, encompassing millions of things, and naturally, they can accommodate five demon cores and five spirit cores.

However, this process is somewhat slow.

Compared to the rapid circulation of innate blood and qi at 6,400 times per second, compared to the circulation of acquired ice and fire spiritual energy at 3,600 times per second.

These two Five Elements Spiritual Arrays take a full year to complete one cycle of operation.

The drag on was, of course, the Earth Spirit Pill, and the infighting among the other four spirit pills.

But it's not a big problem.

The wonder of the Five Elements Spiritual Array lies in its ability to mend the deficiencies of the heavens.

The excess of Ice and Fire Elixir can be transferred to Earth Elixir, Green Wood Elixir, and Metal Elixir by adjusting the amount of the excess.

We made adjustments little by little in this way.

This process is slow, but absolutely safe.

Wang Wu wasn't in a hurry. He simply kept operating, sensing, searching, and perfecting. It was somewhat similar to getting on the bus first and buying the ticket later.

That is, first deploy the Five Elements Spirit Array, then cultivate the elixir.

His cheap master once said that being an earth immortal is actually about solving the question of where one comes from and where one is going, and in this process, one forms one's own Dao.

This "Tao" refers to his understanding of himself, his understanding of the external world, and how to communicate with it.

Time flies, and a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

The two Five Elements Spiritual Arrays also successfully completed a full cycle.

In just one cycle, Wang Wu consumed ten million points of spiritual energy.

His strength didn't seem to have increased much; he only advanced from the ninth grade to the eighth grade of the Earth Spirit Pill.

This is the only change that can be concretely observed.

It's hard to imagine that with ten million points of spiritual energy, it would take a whole year to upgrade a Grade 9 Earth Spirit Pill to Grade 8.
Those cultivators would laugh their heads off.

But in reality, this is an adjustment between two Five Elements Spiritual Arrays, just like the process of refining, adjusting, internally depleting, compromising, balancing, and finally achieving resonance between the ice and fire spiritual energies.

Therefore, it can be slow, but it really cannot be fast.

Three years passed in this way, and Wang Wu's two Five Elements Spirit Arrays had once again completed three cycles, with no increase in speed. In fact, it took three years to upgrade the Earth Spirit Pill to the seventh grade.

The consumption of spiritual energy has not decreased at all; in three years, it has reached 30 million points of spiritual energy.

Fortunately, Wang Wu is now a ninth-rank elder, receiving 20,000 points of spiritual energy as a daily bonus. Over the past four and a half years, he has accumulated approximately 30 million points of spiritual energy, allowing him to continue operating the innate and acquired Five Elements Spiritual Arrays.

It is worth mentioning that this kind of operation cannot produce spiritual energy.

Because the business was expanded too much, it incurred too many losses.

Wang Wu estimated that only when the speed of this innate and acquired circulation can be restored to one cycle per month can the spiritual platform's pure energy be produced again.

This is the price.

no way.

In layman's terms, Wang Wu's actions were akin to expanding territory on a map.

His innate bloodline system is like a prosperous metropolis with a population of tens of millions that he already possesses.

The Acquired Ice and Fire Elixir System is another medium-sized city of two million people under his control, which is also very prosperous.

Qingmu Lingdan is a relatively prosperous county town.

Jinlingdan is a very prosperous town.

Tulingdan is a small village in the Gobi Desert.

However, without developing the Earth Spirit Pill, Gold Spirit Pill, and Green Wood Spirit Pill, he directly gathered these five spirit pills together, drew a circle around them on a map, and declared it to the outside world as a prosperous metropolis with a population of ten million.

The slogans have been shouted, the face has been gained, the name has been secured, but the substance is lacking.

So this is just the beginning.

Forty million points of spiritual energy is nothing, and thirty million points of spiritual energy is even less; they're far from enough.

The road ahead is long and arduous!
In the blink of an eye, another three years have passed, and another 30 million points of spiritual energy have been poured in, but the Earth Spirit Pill is still stuck at the seventh grade.

Nothing has changed.

But the external environment has changed.

On this day, Wang Wu had just finished his year-long cycle of Qi circulation when, without warning, he felt a chill rise in his heart, which then quickly spread throughout his body. For a moment, he felt as if his demon core and spirit core had been frozen.

However, it only lasted for a moment, because his innate and acquired Five Elements Spiritual Arrays immediately intervened, dissipating and absorbing the coolness without making a sound.

Silky smooth throughout!

This left even Wang Wu speechless.

He was stunned by how terrifying the mysterious chill was; his demon core and spirit core were as fragile as a mortal's flesh and blood against a Maxim.

They were also astonished by the vastness and depth of the foundation of the two Five Elements Spiritual Arrays.

Because its resistance to that mysterious coolness does not rely on any ingenious structure, nor does it involve any magical or complex changes.

It relies solely on the fact that the area is large enough and the coolness is evenly distributed.

Yes, this seems simple, but in reality, it is an extremely difficult thing to do, just like getting five billion people on Earth to work together and share the pressure and benefits equally.

No one else could do it, but these two Five Elements Spiritual Arrays did.

This isn't just awesome, it's downright ridiculous!
Wang Wu suddenly realized that his overall strength had likely broken through the fourth level of Earth Immortal, which is the first and most difficult threshold among the ninth level of Earth Immortal.

Although he didn't have a specific concept of how to overcome the threshold, he definitely broke through it.

"Could it be that the major and minor cold periods of the twenty-four solar terms are about to arrive?"

Wang Wu was quite curious, because even his cheap master, the old gray man, seemed to treat the twenty-four solar terms with great care.

Just then, several messages suddenly appeared in the Hidden Origin Jade Talisman, which had been dormant for almost eight years.

However, it was issued by the headquarters of the Hidden Origin Society.

"The Lesser Cold, one of the twenty-four solar terms, is approaching and will last for ten years. It is estimated that the maximum value of the Cangming Cold Air will reach level 5. All branch altars are requested to make preparations for disaster prevention and relief, and to ensure the basic living conditions of mortals and low- to middle-level cultivators in their jurisdictions. They are also required to patrol and maintain the Hidden Origin Bell and its base at all times."

"Ten years from now, the Great Cold solar term will arrive, lasting for ten years. It is estimated that the maximum value of the Cangming cold air will reach level 8. All branches are requested to make preparations in advance. Do not leave the city unless necessary, and do not go into seclusion unless necessary. Let us unite as one and overcome the difficulties together!"

(End of this chapter)