Bai Muxu, suspended in midair, sensed Ling Tianwei's strength atop Tianmen Peak constantly rising, yet he found it somewhat strange.
"Why is this brat's aura flickering in and out?"
Bai Muxu frowned, looking slightly puzzled.
"Could something have happened?"
"I gave him so many sacred healing medicines. There shouldn't be a problem, right?"
That was what Bai Muxu thought, but Ling Tianwei below had no idea that he had long since strayed from the original cultivation path of the Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation Method.
As the Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation Method took its first steps—at least, that was what Ling Tianwei believed.
After all, back then, because he could not absorb spiritual energy, Ling Tianwei had altered the Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation Method beyond recognition.
Furthermore, relying on the Fission Qi Gathering Method he had comprehended himself, Ling Tianwei continuously drew in the Five-Colored Spiritual Energy that had become exceptionally violent under his guidance.
Ling Tianwei did not care about mutations in spiritual energy or anything else. If cultivation stopped progressing, he simply believed there was a problem with the Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation Method.
Since there was a problem, it had to be corrected. Thus, while tampering with it, he used the knowledge from his former world and the various methods and manuals Bai Muxu had left him, patching and mending it piece by piece.
In his eyes, since the Fission Qi Gathering Method had worked, changing it a little more would not be a problem.
"I truly am gifted. A tiny manual, easily handled."
Ling Tianwei continued absorbing the Five-Colored Spiritual Energy. Visible to the naked eye, as he absorbed it, something like little worms seemed to squirm beneath his skin.
"I'm so swollen. It feels awful..."
"And it hurts."
Feeling the intense pain coming from within his body, his meridians bulged as spiritual energy surged like a swarm. The sight was terrifying beyond measure.
Even Ling Tianwei's face turned a sickly bluish-black.
At this moment, even Ling Tianwei failed to notice that the spiritual energy he had produced through all sorts of methods had long become violently terrifying.
His meridians were directly filled to bursting and tearing apart. This quantity of spiritual energy was simply not something a Qi Refining Stage cultivator could withstand.
Yet Ling Tianwei did not realize it in the slightest. Instead, he found it perfectly normal. In his eyes, the path of cultivation was inherently this painful and tedious.
So, it was normal.
Host, stop cultivating. You're going to explode...
The system in his mind watched Ling Tianwei's method, as crazed as a demon, and was already on the verge of collapse.
Under the system's scan, Ling Tianwei's entire body was already in ruins, his meridians all shattered and his Spiritual Platform cracked apart.
He was completely in a state of cultivation deviation. Immortal cultivation was not practiced like this.
Unfortunately, Ling Tianwei could not hear its voice and continued drawing energy in...
At the same time, blood seeped from all over his body...
Most importantly, under his reckless messing around, in less than ten days, he had actually reached the Fourth Level of Qi Refining...
At this moment, Ling Tianwei's meridians and Spiritual Platform completely collapsed. There was not a trace of blood in his face, and he looked as though he were about to die.
"It actually took me ten days to go from the first level to the fourth..."
According to Ling Tianwei's calculations, achieving Foundation Establishment in a Hundred Days was difficult—far too difficult...
"Foundation Establishment in a Hundred Days is as distant as the stars. Impossible. How could someone with talent like mine be limited by this?"
Ling Tianwei found it hard to believe. He possessed a Heavenly Spirit Root, yet he could not even achieve something as minor as Foundation Establishment in a Hundred Days.
"Could there be a problem with the Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation Method? I already modified it."
"Hahaha, I understand now. I must have been too conservative. Otherwise, why would my progress be so slow?"
Ling Tianwei's pale face lit up as though he had thought of something.
With that realization, Ling Tianwei immediately began rummaging through the storage ring Bai Muxu had given him.
Before long, manual after manual of secret arts and methods capable of temporarily erupting with one's potential and power were laid out before Ling Tianwei.
Having learned that relying on his current spiritual energy would not allow him to achieve Foundation Establishment after a hundred days, Li Tianwei had already decided to stop being conservative.
"Blood Burning Technique, Spirit Repelling Method, Demonic Spirit Art..."
Li Tianwei murmured the names of those methods. Without exception, they were cultivation arts that burned a person's potential and lifespan to erupt with power for a short time.
The Sacrifice Dao Undying Body provided immense assistance to all such cultivation arts. Beyond that, under the Sacrifice Dao Undying Body, cultivating these explosive methods would not harm one's foundation. It would only leave one weakened for a period of time.
Such power could allow Li Tianwei to touch a higher level, gain an understanding of higher realms, and then make a breakthrough.
"Then let's begin."
Li Tianwei did not care about all that. Since he wanted Foundation Establishment in a Hundred Days and to condense a supreme Dao foundation, he was destined to release every last bit of himself.
"Burning Blood, Burning Spirit... Bone Marrow Extraction, Life Shortening..."
Li Tianwei muttered as he continuously began casting these secret arts.
Boom...
In an instant, Li Tianwei's aura began climbing without end. From the Fourth Level of Qi Refining, it continuously stacked higher—the fifth level... the sixth level...
At the same time, because of the various Sacrifice Dao and explosive secret arts, the vitality throughout Li Tianwei's body had already reached the threshold of death.
And at this moment, the Sacrifice Dao Undying Body began displaying its might.
No matter how Li Tianwei squeezed every last drop from himself, how his vitality was stripped away and his flesh was destroyed, everything was collapsing, yet he remained separated from death by a thin line.
As he continuously squandered and erupted with power, Li Tianwei also sensed the existence of higher realms, a completely different kind of strength.
"Come! Stabilize it for me!"
Li Tianwei took out all kinds of sacred healing medicines and swallowed them once more.
The Five Element phenomenon above Tianmen Peak had long since vanished. The elder who had originally concealed those phenomena had also left long ago. The public explanation was that an immortal treasure had appeared within Lingxu Sacred Land, causing such a tremendous disturbance.
But those who knew the truth understood that this was merely a lie fabricated by the Holy Master of Lingxu to conceal the unreasonable monster that was Li Tianwei.
Bai Muxu had also returned to Tianmen Peak to wait. Over these ten days, he had sensed Li Tianwei's continuously rising aura with perfect clarity.
Although Li Tianwei had broken through to the Fourth Level of Qi Refining in such a short time, in Bai Muxu's eyes, it was still somewhat slow. It did not even match the phenomena he had caused.
Bai Muxu still remembered that he had already reached the fifth level of Qi Refining in ten days. It was the following five levels that had been most difficult, taking him nearly ninety days, and he had almost failed to complete them.
At Li Tianwei's speed, Foundation Establishment in a Hundred Days would be impossible.
Just as Bai Muxu was thinking this, Li Tianwei erupted, throwing out all kinds of secret methods.
He instantly soared to the Ninth Level of Qi Refining, looking as though he was about to step into the Tenth Level of Qi Refining Stage.
This caused Bai Muxu's heart to tremble.
"Something's wrong. Very wrong..."
"This aura is completely unlike a normal breakthrough. It's far too unstable."
"Could he have used a secret method? No, even a secret method could not raise him this much. Although every level of the Tenth Level of Qi Refining Stage doubles in strength, even if one burned potential and repeatedly doubled it with all kinds of Explosive Secret Methods, it would be impossible to soar from the Fourth Level of Qi Refining to the Ninth Level of Qi Refining. This is already beyond reason."
Sensing the abnormality on Tianmen Peak, Bai Muxu was already considering going up the mountain to take a look.
At that very moment, Li Tianwei's strength suddenly drained away, and the Ninth Level of Qi Refining instantly fell to the fifth level.
When he reached the fifth level of Qi Refining, Li Tianwei had already gained some understanding. Without hesitation, he began comprehending it at this fifth level of Qi Refining.
Spiritual energy rioted, and the backlash from forcibly using Explosive Secret Methods erupted at this moment. Yet under the might of the Sacrifice Dao Undying Body, a chill flowed through Li Tianwei's Spiritual Platform and pierced his entire body. Very soon, Li Tianwei shuddered as a surge of vitality emerged, beginning to mend the various abnormalities in his body.
Li Tianwei had anticipated this situation. Without hesitation, he drove that power through his entire body.
"Fission Qi Gathering..."
Boom...
Li Tianwei also took Spirit Stones from his storage ring and began stabilizing his realm and power.
"Sure enough, I was still too conservative. This is how cultivation should be done quickly! Squeeze out my talent, then burn it and put it to use."
Feeling that he had risen a level in less than an hour, Li Tianwei closed his eyes and carefully sensed it.