Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method

Seeing Ning Ri's frustrated expression, Chen Xingfeng showed a hint of satisfaction on his face. He continued, "If you truly want to rent a spiritual root, and if the Heaven Defying Sect's people can't help you improve your spiritual root, then come find me."

"Cultivation gained from renting a spiritual root won't benefit you in the long run."

Only then did Ning Ri understand why Chen Xingfeng hadn't mentioned a price – he had never intended to rent him a spiritual root at all.

Thinking this, Ning Ri couldn't help but freeze—

Was he just messing with him by saying all that?

Chen Xingfeng asked again, "Oh right, what was the reward for the mission the Heaven Defying Sect gave you? I need to give you a mission completion mark so you can receive it."

With that, Chen Xingfeng handed Ning Ri a jade slip.

Ning Ri took the jade slip, thanked him, and replied, "The mission reward is the [Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method]."

Chen Xingfeng was stunned. "With your current poor aptitude and cultivation, shouldn't they have given you something else? You won't be able to use a Foundation Establishment Cultivation Method anytime soon, will you?"

Ning Ri chuckled. "I asked for it myself. I want to try if I can achieve Foundation Establishment directly at Third Stage Qi Refining without cultivating."

Chen Xingfeng fell silent, lost in thought...

As Ning Ri left the Refining Room, he asked Chen Xingfeng for a token. He said he wanted to visit other refining rooms in the Craftsmanship Tower to observe the refining methods of high-level artifact refiners.

The reason was simple.

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

Chen Xingfeng agreed and even found several high-level artifact refiners to demonstrate for Ning Ri.

Those high-level artifact refiners initially didn't want to bother with Ning Ri, but after Chen Xingfeng presented Ning Ri's work, they willingly let Ning Ri in...

The experimental results, however, left Ning Ri very disappointed.

Even while watching beside the high-level artifact refiners, his [Heavenly Craftsman] showed no signs of increasing.

He could only guess that perhaps [Heavenly Craftsman] had truly reached its skill point cap, or maybe he couldn't gain skill points by simply being near high-level artifact refiners...

Therefore, he would have to wait until he returned to the sect to research this matter further!

Next, Ning Ri requested a quiet room in the Craftsmanship Tower that could conceal his cultivation aura.

Before leaving the Craftsmanship Tower and returning to the Heaven Defying Sect, he planned to learn the [Heavenly Craftsman·Incomplete] in the quiet room first.

After Chen Xingfeng gave him the jade slip representing mission completion, he found that the [Heavenly Craftsman·Incomplete] was directly unlocked.

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

The quiet room in the Craftsmanship Tower consisted only of a table and a chair, with a lamp on the wall. Ning Ri observed that the wall lamp was quite new, indicating that the Craftsmanship Tower maintained its quiet rooms well.

He sat down and immediately opened his panel:

[Host]: Ning Ri
[Skills]:
1. [Mortal Blade Technique]: 4 (Respecifiable)
2. [Qi Refining Art]: 3 (Respecifiable)
3. [Gale Step·Incomplete]: 3 (Capped) (Respecifiable)
4. [Crocodile Turtle Iron Bone Skill·Incomplete]: 0
5. [Spirit Absorption Technique]: 10 (Capped) (Respecifiable)
6. [Heavenly Craftsman·Incomplete]: 100 (Capped) (Respecifiable)
7. [Heaven Defying Soul Splitting Technique]: 20 (Respecifiable)
8. [Lightning Control Palm]: 0
Free Skill Points: 107.

These were the skill points after artifact refining.

Looking at these skill points, Ning Ri felt his ammunition reserves were fuller than ever. He became even happier, especially when he thought about how [Heavenly Craftsman] might allow his skill point gain efficiency to become extremely high...

However, the prerequisite was still finding out the reason for [Heavenly Craftsman]'s increase.

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

The mission content and hints in the jade slip were gone, replaced by the content of the [Heavenly Craftsman·Incomplete]:

[Heavenly Craftsman·Incomplete: Forge an insurmountable foundation]

Ning Ri quickly began scanning the text, reading a page a glance.

When he was learning Mo Cuidao's artifact refining techniques last time, he had already been considering how he should read cultivation methods.

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

Of course, he could also learn directly through practice. Ning Ri had many life skills that he had directly practiced into the panel.

However, the speed of practicing after getting started is definitely not as fast as the speed of reading.

And there are also differences in reading speed.

Ning Ri was very serious when he first started reading, but after experiencing Mo Cuidao's "preaching," he realized that even if he read ten lines at a glance, it wouldn't affect the panel's recording of cultivation methods, so his reading speed became faster and faster.

But even speed has a limit.

Ning Ri had experimented. If he only looked at the title and then quickly skimmed through the entire text, the panel would not record the cultivation method.

Because of this, if he wanted to fully record the cultivation method, reading ten lines at a glance was already the limit of his speed.

Soon, Ning Ri finished reading the contents of the [Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method].

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

The moment he finished reading, a new skill was immediately generated on the panel:

9.[Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method]:0

The moment this skill appeared, Ning Ri's heart immediately burned with excitement and passion--

With this, he could become a powerful Foundation Establishment cultivator with just a thought!

What Ning Ri said to Chen Xingfeng was actually not wrong.

He was indeed thinking about whether he could directly go from Third Stage Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment!

His confidence came from the panel!

Now, he was indeed itching to try...

If it really succeeded, Chen Xingfeng would probably be greatly surprised.

But just then.

Behind the Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method, four characters suddenly appeared, shattering Ning Ri's "beautiful dream."

9.[Heaven Defying Foundation Establishment Method]:0(Cannot Add Points)

Cannot Add Points was in bold and red.

When these four characters appeared, Ning Ri was stunned--

Cannot Add Points?

Immediately after, he pondered for a moment and understood...

Free Skill Points decreased to 100.

He directly added [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 suddenly trembled. A pure and clear spiritual energy seemed to be generated out of thin air, suddenly surging out from the thirteen hundred acupoints, as if Ning Ri had absorbed a large amount of spiritual energy from the void at that moment...

Boom--

Spiritual energy surged and flowed through his limbs, bones, and meridians at this moment. A powerful, dense, and solid Qi Refining peak cultivation, as if tempered through a thousand trials, filled Ning Ri's body.

At this moment, the quiet room seemed to be swept by a gust of wind. Ning Ri stood up, feeling refreshed all over, making him want to shout loudly to vent the sense of fullness brought by his power.

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

Seeing this, Ning Ri nodded slightly.

It seemed the panel was like a technology tree, and prerequisite skills were very important, otherwise, the technology tree couldn't be climbed.

This made him feel regretful--

After all, he had been thinking about where he could find a Nascent Soul cultivation method to skip the Qi Refining stage and become a Nascent Soul directly.

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

Seeing this, Ning Ri's heart stirred, and he couldn't help but squint his eyes and look over