Cultivating the Five Elements Heavenly Spirit Art

The Waste Elixir Chamber had remained untrodden for years.

Shen Fan was more than happy to enjoy the peace and quiet.

He immediately laid out the Five Elements Heavenly Spirit Art and began cultivating.

With the foundation of the Qi Guiding Art, cultivating the Five Elements Heavenly Spirit Art was as easy as turning over one's hand.

In less than the time it took an incense stick to burn, Shen Fan had already caught a glimpse of the doorway.

His talent might have been weak, but his comprehension was still quite good.

As the Five Elements Heavenly Spirit Art began to circulate.

The surrounding spiritual energy immediately found an outlet and started flooding toward Shen Fan.

But guess what happened?

Heh!

Traffic jam!

The surrounding spiritual energy did indeed begin gathering under the circulation of the Five Elements Heavenly Spirit Art.

But Shen Fan's utterly trashy first-grade Five Elements spiritual root was like a single-log bridge. The spiritual energy outside crowded together, completely unable to enter.

Shen Fan slowly opened his eyes and rubbed his slightly swollen head.

What was he supposed to do about this?

This talent was far too trashy!

But no matter what, he still had to cultivate.

Spiritual energy entered his body through the pores of his skin, gathered at the various acupoints, then surged along his spiritual meridians toward his dantian.

Because he possessed a Five Elements spiritual root, he first had to use the principle of mutual generation among the five elements to divide it up, preventing the elements from clashing. Only then could it enter the five spiritual roots for storage and refinement.

The dantian had always been regarded as a miniature "small world," and the five-element spiritual energy followed the cycle of mutual generation.

Wood gave rise to fire, fire gave rise to earth, earth gave rise to metal, metal gave rise to water, and water gave rise to wood.

Why were single spiritual roots so damn powerful?

Because there was only one of them. Cultivation was a broad, star-studded avenue, smooth and unimpeded.

A Five Elements spiritual root, however, split that broad avenue into five winding goat paths, drastically slowing the pace.

And one had to constantly beware of the danger of conflicting attributes.

For that very reason, cultivation was exceedingly difficult, and it came to be known as a trash spiritual root.

Yet if that were not the case, once a Five Elements spiritual root matured and reached the Golden Core stage, it could condense a Five Elements Golden Core whose power far surpassed cultivators of the same realm.

As spiritual energy entered his dantian.

Shen Fan immediately circulated the Five Elements Heavenly Spirit Art, gathering the spiritual energy at the center of his dantian.

The dantian itself was defined as the "mansion of earth spirit." Earth occupied the center and embraced all things.

After the five-element spiritual energy entered the dantian, it was first neutralized by earth spiritual energy, stripped of impurities, then divided and harmonized before being sent into the other four spiritual roots.

After one full circulation, Shen Fan opened his eyes in delight.

"This Five Elements Heavenly Spirit Art is truly marvelous!"

The original Qi Guiding Art merely absorbed spiritual energy wholesale, then refined it one by one through the five spiritual roots. The speed was so slow it made one want to weep without tears.

But now, this Five Elements Heavenly Spirit Art used the earth spiritual root as its foundation, dividing and harmonizing the spiritual energy after absorbing it.

One circulation allowed him to cultivate all five attributes at once, greatly reducing Shen Fan's required time.

But at that moment, Shen Fan suddenly widened his eyes, clutched his dantian, and collapsed to the ground.

"Hurts... hurts... it hurts!"

A piercing burning sensation suddenly erupted within his dantian.

"What's going on?"

Confusion surged through Shen Fan's heart, and a fine layer of sweat appeared on his forehead from the intense pain.

"Could there be something wrong with the cultivation art?"

"That shouldn't be! Old Man Duan wouldn't harm me!"

After a moment, the burning sensation gradually subsided.

Shen Fan did not dare circulate the Five Elements Heavenly Spirit Art again. Instead, he cautiously used the Qi Guiding Art to investigate.

As a thread of spiritual energy entered his body, Shen Fan examined the spot where the burning had occurred.

"So that's how it is!"

After investigating for a while, Shen Fan finally came to a sudden realization.

He looked around. Scorching heat filled the room.

The pain just now had come from the burning caused by fire spiritual energy entering his body.

This place was filled with Core Earth Fire. The Core Earth Fire contained fire poison, and the circulation of the Five Elements Heavenly Spirit Art had absorbed that fire poison as well.

But the fire poison was too powerful. Even the earth spiritual root could not remove it, allowing it to be absorbed by the fire spiritual root. The fire spiritual root could not withstand the erosion of the fire poison either, which was why he had suffered such agony.

That meant he could not continue cultivating here in the future.

Otherwise, if he accelerated the absorption of fire poison, forget a year—even three to five months would be enough to send him to his grave!

But scorching heat filled the entire area. Unless he moved far away from here, there was no solution at all!

Just then, Shen Fan caught sight of the first-grade top-quality Azure Water Fire Ward Old Man Duan had given him.

"This is a defensive spell. I wonder if it can offset the erosion of the fire poison?"

With that thought, Shen Fan impatiently began cultivating it.

But moments later, he opened his eyes again with a frown.

"This place is filled with Core Earth Fire. The spiritual energy contains pitifully little water-attributed spiritual energy. Cultivating this spell is like a seventy-year-old granny crossing the road—every step is a struggle!"

With that thought, Shen Fan immediately pushed open the door and walked outside.

The rising sun strove to pierce through the thick forest mist.

There was noticeably more moisture in the air.

Shen Fan immediately went beneath a large tree and began cultivating.

As the Azure Water Fire Ward circulated, the water-attributed spiritual energy stored in his water spiritual root was drawn out.

That cool sensation spread through his entire body along his spiritual meridians, making Shen Fan feel as though he had been cleansed.

The slight fire poison accumulated in his fire spiritual root was dispersed in an instant.

As water spiritual energy was released from within to without.

With Shen Fan's intent united as one, a water shield the size of a cuju ball appeared in his hand.

This was the effect of the Azure Water Fire Ward.

Fire warding did not mean controlling flames.

It meant suppression.

But moments later, the water shield dissipated, and that cool sensation vanished as well.

"The bit of spiritual energy accumulated in the water spiritual root of this first-grade Five Elements spiritual root is only enough to release the Azure Water Fire Ward once! And this defense... it's simply too awful to look at!"

Shen Fan gave a bitter smile.

But on second thought, he had succeeded directly on his first attempt at cultivation.

It seemed his comprehension really was quite good!

On the path of cultivation, talent was certainly important, but comprehension could not be underestimated either.

Otherwise, with a profound immortal cultivation method, if one's comprehension was lacking, one might cultivate for years without even catching a glimpse of the doorway.

The morning sun rose, and the mist dispersed.

The blazing sun and this Core Earth Fire were like heavenly thunder igniting earthly fire, instantly making the area within several li of the Waste Elixir Chamber turn dry and scorching.

"Looks like I can only cultivate at night or in the early morning from now on!"

Returning to the Waste Elixir Chamber.

Shen Fan hid the cultivation art and spell beneath his bed.

"It would be great if I had a storage bag!"

Looking at the bulging bed, Shen Fan said uneasily.

Afterward, Shen Fan went to the cooking area, opened the rice jar, and checked inside.

There was still half a jar of gleaming white rice.

Before coming here, Shen Fan had heard from the senior brother who had seen him off that someone would deliver the food and daily necessities here every month.

So he did not need to worry about even having food to eat like he had at the Spirit Field.

"With temperatures this high, aren't they afraid the rice will turn into popcorn?"

Shen Fan laughed, then scooped out some rice, added water, and drew some Core Earth Fire from the furnace opening to begin cooking.

Before long, the gleaming white rice was cooked.

Shen Fan immediately began wolfing it down.

As he ate, Shen Fan hesitantly took out the Corpse Refining Art Old Man Duan had left him.

If the Heavenly Xuan Sect discovered this kind of wicked cultivation art, there would be only one road ahead: death.

This Old Man Duan truly had nerves of steel!