Starting as a spiritual plant master, may I eventually become the master of all lands.

Chapter 101 The Art of Extracting Yuan and Using Soil to Create Clouds

Half a month later, in the cave's stone chamber.

Song Chuan looked inward and noticed that his aura seemed to have changed subtly from before.

Her appearance remained unchanged, but her overall demeanor had become gentle and serene, giving her an approachable quality that made people want to get close to her at first sight.

He has completed the transformation of the Earth elemental energy; this is the first step of the "Earth Prison Seed Technique".

If one starts cultivating from the Qi Refining stage, it won't be this fast. Moreover, where can a Qi Refining cultivator find such a good Earth Spirit Vein? Unless they rent it from the Five Spirits Pavilion, which is unaffordable.

He flashed and disappeared into the underground of the stone chamber.

There is a thick spiritual vein here, which is the Earth Spiritual Vein, formed by the intertwining of spiritual veins and earth veins!

In fact, spiritual veins and earth veins are sometimes the same, and sometimes very different.

Generally speaking, spiritual veins are superior to earth veins. Spiritual veins emit spiritual energy with attributes, some of which are mixed and complex, while others have a single attribute and are more refined.

Spiritual veins are places where cultivators practice and cultivate spiritual plants. Although one can cultivate without the help of spiritual veins, the progress will be much slower.

Earth veins, on the other hand, are places formed purely from the earth's soil layers, imbued with a trace of earth elemental energy. They vary in size and are intricately interwoven underground. The naked eye and divine sense of a Qi Refining cultivator are completely unable to detect even the smallest earth veins.

Spiritual veins and earth veins sometimes overlap, so they are simply called spiritual veins and not earth veins.

Song Chuan entered the Earth Spirit Vein and sensed the core node of the vein. The place with the most concentrated spiritual energy was right below the meditation stone chamber.

He took out a small bottle and placed it aside. He then began to form hand seals with his hands, the hand gestures being complex and varied.

Each hand seal must be applied precisely to a specific point on the spiritual vein, without the slightest error.

This is the "Essence Extraction Technique" from the "Earth Primordial Essence Cultivation Technique," which is specifically designed to extract the essence and origin of spiritual veins, namely "Earth Essence." This technique may seem simple, but it is actually quite profound!

After casting dozens of spells, Song Chuan stopped, and suddenly yellow specks of light gathered in his spiritual veins and entered the bottle.

These scattered points exude pure earth elemental power, carrying the gentle and refreshing essence of the earth, making people feel extremely comfortable.

He then went to another part of the spiritual vein and continued to extract earth elemental energy. Extracting only from the core nodes of the spiritual vein would damage it, so he naturally wouldn't do such a foolish thing.

An hour later, Song Chuan saw that the earth spirits had gathered enough, so he stopped and returned to the stone chamber.

Those scattered earthworms gathered into a wisp, about five or six inches in size, resembling a luminous ribbon of yellow sand.

He looked at the wisp of earth element, but suddenly a terrifying thought occurred to him: if the Essence Extraction Technique could extract the source of spiritual veins, could it also extract a cultivator's mana or something else? He felt a chill run down his spine.

The "Earth Primordial Essence Cultivation Technique" doesn't look like an evil technique at all, but the Essence Extraction Technique has a bit of a demonic cultivator feel to it.

He had never seen any demonic cultivators in the Eastern Region. The Qi Kingdom was located in the northeasternmost part of the Eastern Region, close to the East Sea. Under the rule of the six major sects, there were not many such cultivators.

He shook his head, sat cross-legged, and tapped a small bottle. The earth elemental was drawn out and swam towards the Qihai acupoint, three inches below his navel.

He then lightly made a hand seal, and as soon as the Qihai acupoint opened, the earth element entered the dantian and was sealed away by him.

Next, he needs to seal five types of earth elements: the Wu Earth Element and the Four Seasons Earth Element. Once he has gathered the Yin-Yang Earth Element and the Four Seasons Earth Element, he can proceed with the first step of his cultivation technique: planting the seeds and condensing them into earth element Dao seeds.

After the seed is planted, the Foundation Establishment stage begins. The first step is to refine the "Three Prisons," namely the Niwan Prison, the Heart Palace Prison, and the Qi Sea Prison, which are the three dantian of the human body.

When Song Chuan was building his foundation, he had already connected his three dantian, allowing his magical power to flow freely.

The "Earth Prison Seed Cultivation Technique" requires that the three dantian be cultivated into three interconnected prisons. Every time a cultivator absorbs a trace of spiritual energy and transforms it into magical power, it is completely sealed away, without any leakage. This is the essence of using oneself as an earth prison.

In fact, this is a further reinforcement of the three dantian, allowing cultivators to gradually reach the state of full essence, abundant qi, and vigorous spirit!

After completing the Three Prisons, one must continuously cultivate this Earth Element Dao Seed. To form a Core, one must cultivate this Earth Element Dao Seed to its ultimate potential.

There are two methods. One is the slow and steady process, which involves meditating and absorbing the earth's spiritual energy to complete the cultivation.

Another method is to find various types of earthworms to supplement this basic seed, which will speed up the cultivation process!

Even a fool would know that the second option is the better choice. The first option requires at least dual spiritual roots to have any chance of forming a core, and even then, the process would be extremely slow.

Looking at the time, it's early spring now, and there are still almost two months until the last month of spring, Chen month.

Spring belongs to the element of wood, and this Chen month is the element of earth, so he needs to go to a wood-type spiritual vein to collect it.

As for the Earth element, he remembered that it was located below an unused cave, so he decided to learn a few spells before going there.

Turning to the spell section of "Earth Prison Seed Technique", the first spell is called "Borrowing Earth to Form Clouds"!

Although this technique can be practiced from the Qi Refining stage, it is a high-level earth escape technique that improves with the cultivation level and must be practiced using one's own earth spiritual power.

This escape technique is completely different from ordinary earth escape, as it can be used both above and below ground.

If used on the ground, it can turn soil into clouds and ride them to escape!

Because the image of Earth (己土) in the sky is clouds, which represent moistening energy and form rain. There is also a saying that "when the sky brings timely rain, clouds appear in the mountains and rivers." This method of using earth to form clouds is derived from this.

The "Earth Primordial Essence Cultivation Technique" requires cultivators to use their own earth spiritual veins to build their foundation, and the first spell also requires earth spiritual power to cultivate, which can be said to be very comprehensive.

This escape technique, when used to ride the clouds, is like having a flying artifact, greatly benefiting those in the Qi Refining stage. It eliminates the need for a separate artifact, and its speed rivals that of a high-level flying artifact. However, it is, after all, an escape technique, and it consumes a considerable amount of mana.

Once you reach the Foundation Establishment stage, this escape technique is comparable to a top-tier flying artifact, though it's not as fast as the Azure Mist Shuttle.

As for how quickly one can reach the Core Formation stage, he had no idea.

This escape technique is somewhat useless to Song Chuan on the ground, but underground, it is far superior to the earth escape technique in his "Earth Escape Technique".

Besides its extremely high speed underground, this escape technique blends seamlessly into the earth's veins, making it undetectable even by those in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage. It's just unknown whether those in the late-Foundation Establishment stage can discern its nature.

He suddenly remembered the wooden and stone lurking talisman that Tian Shanyi used when capturing the cave salamander, and the earth-遁 talisman that could merge into the earth's veins.

He'll have to go back to Yuewei Hall to study the information about the Muke race later.

The technique of using soil to create clouds is a time-consuming skill for Qi Refining cultivators, but it is much simpler for him, a Foundation Establishment cultivator. However, it still took him a full five days to master.

Inside the largest stone chamber of the cave, Song Chuan played with a small handful of soil. He tossed it with his hand, and the soil instantly turned into a small patch of yellow cloud. The yellow cloud enveloped him, and Song Chuan disappeared into the cloud.

With a flick of his wrist, Huang Yun instantly passed through the stone wall and arrived outside the cave. After circling in the sky for a while, Song Chuan, having enjoyed the experience, exclaimed, "Wonderful!"

I didn't expect Earth Release to turn into Cloud Release, heh!