Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method

Seeing Ning Ri's face full of pent-up frustration, Chen Xingfeng showed a hint of satisfaction and added, "If you truly want to rent a spiritual root, come find me after the Heaven Defying Sect has tried and failed to help you improve your spiritual root."

"Cultivation gained through renting a spiritual root offers no benefit to your long-term future."

Only then did Ning Ri understand why Chen Xingfeng had not named a price. He had never intended to give him a Rented Spiritual Root in the first place.

At that thought, Ning Ri could not help but freeze—

So he had said all that just to tease him?

Chen Xingfeng asked again, "By the way, what is the reward for the task the Heaven Defying Sect gave you? I need to give you a jade token marking the task as complete before you can receive it."

As he spoke, Chen Xingfeng handed Ning Ri a piece of jade.

Ning Ri accepted the jade and thanked him before answering, "The task reward is [Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method]."

Chen Xingfeng was stunned. "With your current aptitude and cultivation being so poor, shouldn't they have given you something else? Giving you a Foundation Establishment cultivation method—you will not be able to use it anytime soon, will you?"

Ning Ri laughed heartily. "I asked for it myself. I want to see whether I can reach Foundation Establishment directly from the Third Stage Qi Refining without cultivating further."

Chen Xingfeng seemed to think of something. He said nothing and fell silent...

When Ning Ri left the Refining Room, he asked Chen Xingfeng for a token. He said he wanted to visit the other Refining Rooms in the Craftsmanship Tower and observe how high-level refiners forged artifacts.

The reason was simple.

He wanted to see whether [Heavenly Craftsman · Incomplete] could still gain skill points!

Chen Xingfeng agreed, even specially finding several high-level refiners to demonstrate their work for Ning Ri.

Those high-level refiners had originally not wanted to bother with Ning Ri, but after Chen Xingfeng brought out Ning Ri's work, they personally invited him inside...

Yet the results of the experiment left Ning Ri deeply disappointed.

Even as he watched beside the high-level refiners, his [Heavenly Craftsman] showed no sign of increasing.

He could only guess that Heavenly Craftsman might truly have reached its skill-point cap, or that he could not gain skill points while standing beside high-level refiners...

Therefore, he could only wait until he returned to the sect to investigate this matter further!

Afterward, Ning Ri requested a quiet room from the Craftsmanship Tower, one that could conceal the aura of his cultivation.

Before leaving the Craftsmanship Tower and returning to the Heaven Defying Sect, he planned to learn the [Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method] in the quiet room first.

Once Chen Xingfeng gave him the jade representing successful completion of the task, he discovered that the [Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method] had directly unlocked.

Since that was the case, he could study it properly!

The Craftsmanship Tower's quiet room contained only a table and a chair, with a lamp mounted on the wall. Ning Ri examined it and found the wall lamp quite new, indicating that the Craftsmanship Tower maintained its quiet rooms well.

He sat down, then opened the panel first:

[Host]: Ning Ri

[Skills]:

1. [Mortal Blade Technique]: 4 (Can Reset Points)

2. [Qi Refining Art]: 3 (Can Reset Points)

3. [Gale Step · Incomplete]: 3 (Maxed Out) (Can Reset Points)

4. [Crocodile Turtle Iron Bone Skill · Incomplete]: 0

5. [Spirit Absorption Technique]: 10 (Maxed Out) (Can Reset Points)

6. [Heavenly Craftsman · Incomplete]: 100 (Maxed Out) (Can Reset Points)

7. [Heaven Defying Soul Splitting Technique]: 20 (Can Reset Points)

8. [Lightning Control Palm]: 0

Free Skill Points: 107.

These were the skill points he had accumulated after refining artifacts.

Looking at those skill points, Ning Ri felt that his arsenal had never been so well-stocked. Especially when he thought that [Heavenly Craftsman] might greatly increase the efficiency with which he gained skill points, he became even happier...

However, the prerequisite was still figuring out why Heavenly Craftsman could increase.

Next, Ning Ri took out the jade slip Zhou Hai had given him.

The task details and task prompts within the jade slip had vanished, replaced by the contents of the Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method:

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[Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method: Build a Firm Heaven-Defying Foundation]

Ning Ri swiftly began skimming through it at ten lines a glance.

When he had previously learned Mo Cuidao's artifact-refining techniques, he had been considering exactly how he should read cultivation methods.

For the panel to record a cultivation method or technique and turn it into a skill, Ning Ri first had to finish reading the entire method or technique.

Of course, he could also practice it directly. Many of Ning Ri's life skills had entered the panel through his own direct practice.

However, practicing firsthand was certainly not as fast as reading.

And even reading speeds had their highs and lows.

At first, Ning Ri had read very carefully. But after experiencing Mo Cuidao's "imparting of the Dao," he discovered that even skimming ten lines at a glance did not prevent the panel from recording cultivation methods. Thus, his reading speed grew faster and faster.

Yet speed had its limit.

Ning Ri had tested it before. If he only looked at the title and then flashed through the entire text in an instant, the panel would not record the cultivation method.

For that reason, if he wanted to fully record a cultivation method, skimming ten lines at a glance was already the limit of his speed.

Very soon, Ning Ri had finished reading all the contents of the [Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method].

Whether he understood it or not was another matter, but he had finished reading it!

The instant he finished, a new skill immediately appeared on the panel:

9. [Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method]: 0

The moment this skill appeared, Ning Ri's heart immediately burned hot, surging with excitement—

In that case, with a single thought, he could become a powerful Foundation Establishment cultivator!

What Ning Ri had told Chen Xingfeng was not wrong at all.

He truly had been considering whether he could directly advance from the Third Stage Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment!

His confidence came from the panel!

Now, he was indeed restless with anticipation...

If it truly succeeded, Chen Xingfeng would likely be shocked beyond measure.

But just then.

After the Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method, four words suddenly appeared, shattering Ning Ri's beautiful dream.

9. [Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method]: 0 (Unable to Add Points)

The words "Unable to Add Points" were bolded in red.

When those four words appeared, Ning Ri froze—

Unable to add points?

Then, after thinking for a moment, he understood...

Free Skill Points decreased to 100.

He directly raised [Qi Refining Art] to 10!

When [Qi Refining Art]: 10 (Maxed Out) (Can Reset Points) appeared.

Ning Ri's expression suddenly changed. The incomplete spiritual root in his dantian abruptly trembled, and a stream of pure, crystalline spiritual energy seemed to arise from nothingness, suddenly surging out from his one thousand three hundred acupoints—as though, in that instant, Ning Ri had drawn an immense quantity of spiritual energy from the void...

Boom—

At that moment, spiritual energy surged and flowed through his limbs, bones, and meridians. Powerful, rich, and incomparably solid Qi Refining peak cultivation, as though tempered through a thousand hammerings and ten thousand refinements, filled Ning Ri's body.

At that moment, it was as though a gust of wind had risen within the quiet room. Ning Ri stood up, feeling utterly invigorated, so full that he wanted to roar several times and vent the brimming sensation brought by his power.

And once Ning Ri reached the peak of Qi Refining, he discovered that the Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method could have points added to it!

Seeing this, Ning Ri nodded slightly.

It seemed the panel was still a technology tree. Prerequisite skills were still important; otherwise, he could not climb the technology tree.

This left him quite regretful—

After all, he had been wondering whether he could obtain some Nascent Soul cultivation method somewhere and directly skip the Qi Refining stage to become a Nascent Soul cultivator.

And just as points could be added to the Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method, several lines of small text suddenly appeared beneath it.

Ning Ri's heart stirred at the sight. He could not help narrowing his eyes as he looked over...