Cultivating Immortality: The Grandmaster of Seclusion
Chapter 62

What Is Cultivation?

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What was cultivation?

At first, Wang Chen believed cultivation meant sitting in a quiet chamber, circulating mana to complete a Heavenly Cycle.

Raising one's cultivation realm little by little.

However, after listening to the Purple Mansion cultivator's lecture, he gained a new understanding.

Cultivation did not actually have to follow the rules to the letter.

It could be woven into everyday life.

So Wang Chen began trying to practice his technique while tilling fields and pulling weeds, planting vegetables and feeding chickens, stoking fires and cooking meals.

His greatest problem at present was that his cultivation realm was not high enough.

The mere fourth layer of Qi Condensation was utterly unremarkable among the Yunyang Sect outer sect's hundred thousand cultivators.

Although the Cultivation Panel gave Wang Chen the ability to raise his cultivation rapidly, he wanted to become stronger even faster.

And the Five Elements Technique he cultivated happened to offer him that possibility.

The Five Elements Technique's greatest flaw was its mediocrity. It took all Five Elements affinities into account, without a single outstanding point.

Therefore, after advancing to the middle Qi Condensation stage, most cultivators would choose another technique suited to their primary affinity.

Yet for Wang Chen, whose Five Elements affinities leaned toward balance, the Five Elements Technique truly suited him.

The key was that this technique was upright, balanced, and gentle; cultivating it was as steady as an old dog.

There was virtually no chance of qi deviation.

Thus, Wang Chen was not afraid of experimenting himself into trouble, and worked hard to change his former cultivation habits.

At the beginning, he found it difficult to enter a cultivation state while doing other things.

It felt awkward and uncomfortable, and mistakes cropped up again and again.

If not for the Five Elements Technique's unique properties, combined

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