I, a cultivator, have ended up in the wizarding world.

Chapter 240 Two Troubles
That day, Jemin finished his daily meditation.

After examining the increasingly complex Ring of Truth within his mental sea, he finally exited the meditative state with satisfaction.

After getting up, he habitually checked the two crystal cores that were slowly merging, which were suspended in the center of the energy field.

A stream of precise data is fed back from the instruments, showing their energy status.

Having confirmed that the energy fluctuations inside the two crystal cores were normal and stable, Jemin nodded in satisfaction.

These two energy cores are not like the low-end level two and level one items that he used to practice with before.

At this moment, the two energy cores before us are like miniature suns, one radiating suffocating heat, and the other like the essence of a millennia-old glacier releasing extreme cold capable of freezing the soul.

The core of that lava giant was the complete core of the level four lava giant that Jemin had "picked up" in the Frostfire Plane.

The other one was the core of a level three Yeti, which he later purchased at great expense from the academy's loot warehouse.

Jemin reached out and ran his hand across the light screen, carefully examining their slow, almost stagnant fusion progress, before finally shaking his head in resignation.

"As expected, you can't rush things..."

Because the energy intensity of these two cores is simply too high.

To perfectly integrate these diametrically opposed primal energies, one must never rush the process.

Even though Jemin's modification technology is becoming increasingly sophisticated, it will still take at least ten years, according to current calculations, to completely and perfectly integrate these two behemoths into a completely new whole.

Furthermore, the modified Black Giant will need to be nurtured into its full potential afterward.

Given the current energy level of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, this is an extremely difficult task, as each black giant requires a period of ten years to cultivate.

Fortunately, he doesn't lack this little bit of time for the time being.

Compared to this ambitious, centuries-long plan that is progressing steadily, Jemin now faces two main problems.

First, his cultivation level has hit a bottleneck!
After checking the implementation and recording the experimental data, Jieming sat cross-legged in the quiet room of the laboratory, concentrated, and entered a state of introspection.

As his consciousness sank into his body, he clearly observed the golden true essence within his dantian, which had turned into a liquid state and was now filled to its fullest extent.

His current cultivation level has firmly reached the perfect state of "Foundation Building".

Logically speaking, once you reach this level, you should take it a step further and condense the liquid into an elixir.

Achieving the Golden Elixir Dao, where "one can swallow a golden elixir and control one's destiny," should be a natural and logical outcome.

But the truth is, no matter how much he cultivated and comprehended the subsequent techniques in the "Qi Refining Method," Jieming always felt that he was separated from the Golden Core realm by an invisible and intangible membrane.

I feel that I'm missing a crucial "opportunity" to break through to the Golden Core realm.

Originally, Jemin thought that in this situation, with his wizard's mindset, he could simply "use his strength to break through the barrier to the next realm"—by constantly accumulating energy far exceeding that of other cultivators of the same level.

However, the reality left him feeling helpless.

Although his energy has been steadily increasing over the past few decades of continuous cultivation, its purity and total amount have even surpassed some cultivators who have just entered the Golden Core stage.

But he still didn't feel like he was about to advance to the Golden Core stage.

In recent years, by carefully examining the vast amount of information in the "Great Dao Library" deep within his consciousness, Jieming has gained a deeper understanding of the "cultivation of immortality" system.

I finally understood where the problem lay.

His idea is indeed correct within the wizarding system, but the "bottleneck" in the cultivation system is not something that can necessarily be broken through by "brute force".

This is because the underlying logic of the "cultivation of immortality" system is completely different from that of the "wizard" system.

In the earliest days of the cultivation world, which can be described as the ancient era when heaven and earth were first created, the so-called "cultivation" actually only had one realm: "qi cultivation"—or rather, the even more ancient "qi refining."

However, to attain immortality simply by cultivating a mouthful of pure and clean "innate qi" is extremely dependent on talent.

Its difficulty is so high that many people cannot even do the most basic beginner's work.

Therefore, later cultivators continued to evolve and explore, gradually subdividing the entire cultivation process and creating concepts such as "Qi Induction," "Foundation Building," "Golden Core," and "Nascent Soul."

Ultimately, this led to the current clear division of various realms. Therefore, theoretically speaking, each major realm in the "cultivation of immortality" system can actually be cultivated indefinitely.

Each realm is essentially a cultivation philosophy, in which one can continuously refine one's energy and enhance one's strength.

Until I can attain immortality at my current level!
This is completely different from the situation of wizards who, after reaching a certain level of perfection, cannot increase their power ceiling no matter how much they cultivate, if they do not advance to the next level.

The problem is that although Jemin thinks he has good talent, he is absolutely not arrogant enough to think that he can defy the heavens and cultivate to the level of immortality by relying solely on the "Foundation Building Realm" cultivation method!
What's more troublesome is that he doesn't even know why he can't get promoted.

So until that crucial "opportunity" is found, for the time being, we can only continue this tedious accumulation day after day.

As for the second question...

Jemin glanced at his personal points account on the terminal, which had turned into a deficit, and pressed his temples in exasperation.

Yes, he's broke again!

"Wait a minute, I remember I was a rich man, so why did I suddenly become a pauper after advancing?" Jemin scratched his head in frustration.

In fact, he was well aware that the high-intensity cross-species genetic modification and element core fusion research he was conducting consumed points and resources at an alarming rate!
To purchase various rare research materials, as well as expensive knowledge and data models, his savings have been depleted, even with the continuous income from adamant gold.

In addition, the profits from the Red Dust Potion have all been temporarily lost in the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool, which means that Jeming's points are seriously insufficient again!

"You're talking about ways to make money? What a coincidence, I've been wanting to know that myself lately!"

On the other end of the communication screen, after listening to Jemin's complaints about "difficulties in cash flow," Viola spread her hands at him without any regard for her image, her face clearly saying "I can't help you."

Hearing this, Jemin shook his head helplessly.

He felt he had completely lost his mind; how could he have thought of discussing this matter with this senior student who was also being exploited by Professor Clark to the point of near bankruptcy?

"Why don't you come with me to that dimension?"

"Never mind, I still have a lot of research that requires human intervention..."

As he shook his head and sighed, Jemin packed up the last batch of "Red Dust Elixir" that he had refined over the past few days and sent it over via a fixed teleportation array.

After doing all this, Jieming looked at his completely empty account and pinched the bridge of his nose in distress.

Just as he was about to close the pointless communication, Viola's next words made him stop what he was doing:
"Actually, I've always thought that it would be quite easy for you to make money if you wanted to."

"Why do you say that?" Jemin looked at her with some confusion.

Viola shifted into a more comfortable position on her lab chair, looking at him with a disappointed expression.
"I'm telling you, you're such a 'snatcher'! You have so many amazing skills that even I'm envious of, but you have absolutely no intention of selling them!"

“Although we wizards are very careful about our core technologies, I have never seen a freak like you who is so stingy that he doesn’t even intend to sell a scrap of technology!”

"After all, technology is iterative! And researching new technologies requires a lot of money. In this situation, packaging and selling those 'old technologies' that are somewhat outdated is naturally the most suitable and common way to obtain funds!"

“What’s more,” Viola’s voice carried a hint of seduction, “'Knowledge' is the highest form of hard currency in our wizarding civilization! If you have enough knowledge, you can get your hands on nothing but points or low-level military merits. You can even get 'high-level military merits' awarded by the 'Star Orbit Tribunal' itself!”

Viola's words were like a lightning bolt, instantly shattering Jemin's mental block caused by his "lack of money"!

His eyes suddenly lit up!
Yes!

Why didn’t I think of it?!

He always subconsciously regarded all the technologies he researched as his trump cards and core secrets, and never thought of selling them as "commodities"!

As Viola said, technology is iterative, and simply holding onto technology will only increase one's research costs.

"Thank you so much, senior! I understand!"

After realizing this, Jemin excitedly thanked her and then hurriedly hung up the communication!

Completely ignoring the fact that Viola was still waving her arms and shouting, "Hey! What good technology do you have? Hurry up and sell me a copy, I can take out a loan to buy more!" before the light screen went out.

Looking at the now-closed communication interface, Viola angrily bit her nails: "Ugh... that brat, so ungrateful!!!"

Unfortunately, Jemin could no longer hear her complaints, because at this moment Jemin was enthusiastically opening his experimental records and carefully selecting technologies that could be sold.

(End of this chapter)