He became the True Lord of Ten Thousand Laws starting from Liaozhai.

Having reached a bottleneck in his cultivation, Xu Yi felt he needed to make plans for the future. The deductions couldn't create any spiritual objects out of thin air for him; indeed, the system's capabilities were limited.

However, compared to other native cultivators in the cultivation world, he is already quite good. At least he has a cheat system, right? As long as he has a cheat system, Xu Yi has unlimited possibilities.

In just one day, he reached the peak of Qi Refining. Although Xu Yi was not familiar with the cultivation system here, such speed would be extremely fast no matter where it was.

However, according to the system's calculations, it would take nearly twenty years of continuous, uninterrupted cultivation without eating or drinking to reach this level. This was something Xu Yi dared not imagine. It seemed that his natural talent and aptitude were not that good, and he had relied entirely on killing his way up.

If he were just an ordinary person, and possessed such a technique, it would still take him this long, which suggests his talent is truly quite ordinary...

No, Zhang Qiuyu said that the spiritual energy in the human realm is very thin, and cultivators in the human realm are already greatly restricted. It seems that this has little to do with his talent. It's not that he has poor talent, but that the spiritual energy here is too thin. If he only cultivates the spiritual energy immortal path, his progress will probably not be very fast, and it may even affect his overall cultivation progress. In this case, perhaps choosing another path would be easier.

Body tempering? Xu Yi thought about it and realized that it wasn't impossible. However, he was still a little worried about body tempering. He had already seen that he needed five elemental spiritual objects to advance to the Foundation Establishment stage. Body tempering would require even more materials, such as medicinal baths and prescriptions for refining the body. All of these required a lineage.

There's no way to find these inheritances right now, so we'll just have to refine whatever we have. That's all we can do for now. We'll start refining other things when we're stronger.

In his view, the path of cultivation is all about quantity and quality. Nothing can withstand your relentless dedication; with enough effort, even an iron rod can be ground into a needle.

If you've put your heart and soul into it, then don't worry about the outcome anymore; it doesn't matter.

Xu Yi believed that he could absorb a lot of lifespan in the future. He had only killed a few snake demons, three of them. The lifespan of three snake demons was enough to bring him to the peak of Qi Refining. If he had a few more years and killed a few more great demons, he might be able to directly comprehend the Dao and ascend to immortality. This was not impossible.

Just as Xu Yi was thinking about these things, he suddenly noticed a change in his lifespan.

Lifespan: 20/180

After he advanced to the Qi Refining Perfection stage, his lifespan increased by one hundred years. No, it seems that it had already increased when he first advanced to the Qi Refining stage, but he didn't notice it.

"Just by cultivating Qi, one can have a lifespan of nearly two hundred years?" Xu Yi suddenly felt that the lifespan of cultivators in later generations seemed to be very short, pitifully short. Only those in the Dharma Aspect Realm could have such a lifespan; this was the rule of later generations.

However, the pressure from the Dharma Aspect Realm is much stronger than that from the Qi Refining Realm. The Dharma Aspect Realm is not something that a mere Qi Refining Realm cultivator can easily exploit.

This puzzled Xu Yi. Their life levels were clearly similar, yet their strength differed so much. But this didn't quite make sense either. However, existence is its own justification.

Xu Yi didn't know or understand what the cultivation system of later generations had become, or why it had to be mixed into that form. However, it seemed that this was something that 'he himself' had done.

There must be a reason for doing this. You may not understand it now, but you will in the future.

With only five years left to live, Xu Yi planned to use all of it to deduce the Qingxuan Yuyou Chapter, which was his strongest technique at the moment. The origami technique still had many limitations; he couldn't make spirit paper. Otherwise, the origami technique would have been a powerful aid, at least he found it very convenient to use.

As for the illusion technique, he has no plans to deduce this minor spell at the moment.

The feature of obtaining spells by killing monsters is no longer available. Without spells, Xu Yi is quite frustrated. It seems that ancient cultivators also had very few spells, and they probably felt the same way.

No, that's not right either, Xu Yi refuted himself. They had never witnessed the dazzling world of cultivators in later generations, with its diverse array of cultivation techniques and all sorts of spells. They had never seen it, nor had they imagined it. Their souls should not be so empty.

At least they won't be like Xu Yi, who spends all his time thinking about how carefree and happy he would be with so many spells.

I can't think about it anymore, it's affecting my life, haha.

Xu Yi muttered to himself as he lightly tapped the transparent blue panel, his finger touching the plus sign after "Qingxuan Yuyou Chapter".

[Expected timeframe: 5 years]

[Deduction begins...]

[Year 1: You begin studying a new spell in the Qingxuan Yuyou Chapter: Soul Binding. This is a spell that damages the soul. Cultivators all possess a divine soul, and the strength of the divine soul is also very important. Soul Binding can cause enormous damage to a cultivator's divine soul and can even separate the opponent's spirit from their body...]

[Year 2: Through continuous study, you have made great progress and can now fully inscribe the runes of the Soul-Binding Spell. The powerful runes mean that you need to spend more time and effort learning them...]

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[Year 5: In this final year, despite your tireless efforts, you still cannot fully grasp the wonders of Soul Binding. This time, you gained experience in inscribing runes...]

Five years...five years have been poured into it, and I still haven't learned how to inscribe the Soul-Binding Spell?!

The Soul-Binding Spell is very useful. If there are wandering souls, the Soul-Binding Spell can even capture them directly, then refine them, and finally make the wandering soul serve only him.

Each profession has its own expertise. The greatest use of the Soul-Binding Spell is actually for the soul, not for inflicting damage. This is excellent. As long as you understand your role, you will succeed in whatever you do.

However, for some seekers of the Dao who have no cultivation, this soul-binding technique is probably a devastating blow.

They were all ordinary people who had transformed from ordinary people. They originally had no cultivation. Even the newly advanced Seekers of the Dao were not that strong. They would never know how to strengthen their souls. Therefore, for these kinds of demons, attacks on the soul were inherently unsolvable.

This is also why Xu Yi wanted to learn how to capture souls quickly.

However, this calculation did not go as he wished; he did not learn it and needs more lifespan calculations.

Xu Yi was genuinely too lazy to study. With a cheat system, who would bother researching things themselves? He needed to learn how to make good use of the resources at his disposal.

"It's alright, let's keep looking, let's keep looking for seekers of the Way. This forest is so big, there must be plenty of them, right?"

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