All the heavens begin with the mind-monkey.

Zhe Xingsun glanced at the documents in his hands, then asked, "Brother, is it possible to achieve immortality through internal energy cultivation?"

The crowd felt a little familiar with the conversation between the two, but they quickly realized that it was the dialogue between Sun Wukong and Bodhi Patriarch in the original novel "Journey to the West".

However, upon hearing Zhe Xingsun's words, Chu Xuan immediately nodded and said, "Alright."

Hearing this, Zheng Zha couldn't help but jump out. He coughed and said, "Chu Xuan, don't try to fool people! I've seen that basic internal energy enhancement method too. It's similar to low-level qigong. Even if you exchange qigong for high-level qigong, it's just a B-level side quest that greatly increases your total internal energy, but it won't make you immortal, right?"

Hearing this, Zhe Xingsun followed his gaze, and Chu Xuan said without changing his expression, "That's because you overlooked the subsequent exchange. Although the advanced qigong at the main god's place is only B-level enhancement, if you want to break through to the next level after cultivating advanced qigong, you need to choose various named techniques, such as Hunyuan Yiqi Gong, Mingyu Gong, Undying Seal Technique, etc., which require A-level side quests to exchange for. And to exchange for these techniques, you also need advanced qigong or advanced internal energy as a foundation."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Zha immediately glanced over and indeed saw the martial arts exchange options.

But at this moment, Li Xiaoyi stepped forward and asked with some doubt, "I also saw that these martial arts skills have been exchanged, but they all seem to require A-level side quests to exchange for, right? Although those martial arts skills in martial arts novels are all peerless divine skills, even those masters in those novels, according to the records in the novels, many top masters could not survive the siege of a large number of mortal armies at that time."

"Take the Nine Yin Manual, for example. It also requires an A-level side quest to redeem, but in 'The Return of the Condor Heroes,' Guo Jing, who had already mastered the Nine Yin Manual and cultivated other peerless martial arts, still died from exhaustion while defending Xiangyang. Compared to other A-level exchanges in the Main God Space, even the Spider-Man bloodline from the B-level exchanges probably wouldn't be forced into such a desperate situation by an ancient mortal army, right?"

Upon hearing this, Zheng Zha realized what was happening and felt even more strongly that the strengthening of his internal energy cultivation might be the kind of growth-type trap exchange that Chu Xuan had mentioned.

Now that he has double C enhancements, he can't beat Arno, who only enhanced a low-level bloodline. Maybe it's the Qi Gong that Arno exchanged that's holding him back.

However, Chu Xuan shook his head and said, "If this were one of those divine skills from a novel, it certainly wouldn't be worth exchanging for an A-level side quest. But I previously found an internal energy manual with the same name in the main god's database, and it had a different price."

"For example, there is a version of the Nine Yin Manual that does not even require reward points or side quests. The main god's introduction is that this Nine Yin Manual is a scripture compiled by a Taoist in a world without magic. Even if you cultivate it, you will not be able to achieve anything remarkable. You can only increase your knowledge of Taoist techniques."

"There is another Nine Yin Manual, which can be redeemed with 100 reward points. The description says that it can be cultivated to the highest level of the Innate Realm. There is also another Nine Yin Manual, which can be redeemed with 1000 reward points. However, the description of this Nine Yin Manual is that if the practice is perfected, the Great Dao can be expected, and the Golden Core will be formed naturally. In other words, it can be cultivated to the so-called Golden Core Realm."

"However, I don't know if the golden elixir here is the same as the one recorded in the original Journey to the West, which says, 'Difficult! Difficult! Difficult! The Dao is most mysterious, do not take the golden elixir lightly. Without the right person to impart the secret, empty words will only leave your mouth dry and your tongue parched.' But most likely, the two golden elixir are different."

Chu Xuan said a few words, then changed the subject back: "Actually, the so-called internal energy exchange and qigong exchange will become a kind of growth trap in the end. It's just that most people only see the exchange at the beginning and think that internal energy can only be cultivated to the B level at most, while ignoring the cultivation of other mental techniques later on."

"Of course, there are benefits to cultivating internal energy. The biggest benefit is that if you have enough talent, you don't need to exchange it from the main god. You only need to cultivate an internal energy seed, cultivate it step by step to the level of advanced B-grade internal energy, and then spend some reward points from the main god, plus at most a D-grade or C-grade side quest, to exchange for a complete manual and cultivate it on your own."

"Of course, I think most people can't do that, otherwise the main god wouldn't have such a big price difference between directly exchangeable internal energy cultivation methods and secret manual-type internal energy cultivation methods."

When Chu Xuan spoke of what was ahead, the crowd reacted with some unease. After all, if one could exchange for an A-level item without even needing reward points, then it wouldn't matter if there were some traps involved.

But after hearing Chu Xuan's next words, they calmed down: if there's no way to successfully cultivate it, then what's the point of exchanging for it? It's just a waste of a few hundred reward points.

Zhe Xingsun listened to the conversation and then asked, "As you said, brother, if one can cultivate internal energy techniques to the Golden Core stage, can one achieve immortality?"

Chu Xuan said, "Perhaps you can obtain it, perhaps not. But there are other cultivation realms above the Golden Core stage, though those cannot be reached through internal energy cultivation methods. Instead, they require cultivation techniques, which can also be obtained from the Main God. Furthermore, the internal energy cultivation methods you practiced earlier can be seamlessly switched to cultivation techniques. Therefore, you only need to cultivate this path to achieve immortality."

Upon hearing this, Zhe Xingsun immediately perked up and said, "In that case, I will practice this internal energy cultivation method!"

As he spoke, Zhe Xingsun prepared to exchange the money.

Zhan Lan said from the side, "Brother Monkey, if you want to exchange for internal energy cultivation techniques, why not just exchange for the most basic internal energy cultivation manual? I checked, and the basic internal energy cultivation manuals at the Main God's place only require 10 reward points, without even needing side quests. You might be able to save your side quests and, along with other reward points, exchange for even stronger martial arts manuals."

Upon hearing this, Zhe Xingsun hesitated.

However, Chu Xuan chimed in, "Zhan Lan is right. Actually, that's what I was thinking of suggesting to you at first. And regardless of whether it works or not, you can exchange for it and cultivate for a while to see if you can master it. If not, then you can exchange for enhancements at the Main God's place."

Hearing Chu Xuan's words, everyone secretly believed that if Sun Wukong had exchanged for a martial arts manual, he would definitely be able to cultivate it successfully. After all, Sun Wukong's cultivation of internal energy techniques was already several major realms faster than others. If he couldn't cultivate it, they wouldn't suspect that it was Sun Wukong's fault, but rather that there were some traps in the internal energy techniques he exchanged from the main god.

After hearing what everyone said, Zhe Xingsun went to the main god and communicated with him with his eyes closed.

Immediately afterwards, a bright light appeared in his hand. When the light faded, everyone saw that he was holding three secret manuals.

Upon closer inspection, everyone saw that the books were "Basic Internal Skills", "Basic Qigong", and "Basic Chinese Martial Arts".