Cultivating the First Thread of Spiritual Qi, the Mysterious Space · Resources Doubled!

Great Spring Technique, a Wood Attribute Qi Refining Stage cultivation method, was one of the five most widespread and widely practiced Five-Element Attribute Qi Refining Stage cultivation methods in the Cultivation World.

Common as dirt did not mean it was truly bad.

Common as dirt meant it was basic enough, useful enough, and suited the broadest audience.

Besides, even if it was common as dirt, that was only within the Cultivation World.

In the Mortal World, the Great Spring Technique was still an immortal cultivation method one could only encounter by chance, never seek out. One still needed a Spirit Root to cultivate it.

Great Elder Li Guangyao said, "The Great Spring Technique. The Great Spring spiritual power cultivated through this method possesses an exceptionally pure Wood Attribute and brims with vitality. It can prolong one's life."

"Beyond raising one's spiritual power realm, it can strengthen the body, increase one's lifespan, and grant immunity to poison."

"Furthermore, as your cultivation level rises, you can cultivate Spiritual Sense. Once you possess Spiritual Sense, you can use it to probe objects, take Sword Flight, activate talismans, manipulate formations to kill enemies, and much more."

Li Qingyuan's eyes gleamed as he listened, filled with anticipation.

"There is another point, an especially important one~" The Great Elder stroked his beard and smiled. "Cultivating the Great Spring Technique will be of enormous benefit to your becoming a Spirit Planter."

The Great Elder said, "Our clan does not have many industries."

"Mining ore is too exhausting."

"Hunting Spirit Beasts is too dangerous."

"Raising Spirit Beasts takes too long."

"Planting Spirit Rice brings low returns."

"In our Li Immortal Clan, only the Clan Leader and I have mastered the Hundred Arts of Cultivation."

Li Qingyuan promptly gave him a worshipful look and said, "Great Elder Grandfather, you are amazing."

Sure enough, the Great Elder greatly enjoyed this, saying with considerable pride, "The Clan Leader is a Mid-grade First-tier Talisman Master, while I am a First-Rank Spirit Planter."

He continued, "Xiao Qingyuan, you have a Three-Element Spirit Root. You are the clan's future."

"In the future, you need only focus on cultivation and reach Late Qi Condensation as soon as possible."

"Therefore, you need not involve yourself in industries such as mining ore, hunting Spirit Beasts, or farming Spirit Rice. They either consume too much time or are too dangerous."

"However~" the Great Elder added, "according to clan tradition, every Immortal Seedling must enter a clan industry after cultivating for three years and contribute to the clan in exchange for Cultivation Resources."

"In order to keep you from seeming special and being ostracized by the clansmen, you may study the cultivation of spirit plants under me."

Li Qingyuan's Spirit Root aptitude could not be revealed. Thus, any special treatment could only be carried out in secret. If it were done openly, it would also stir the clansmen's dissatisfaction toward him.

People do not fear scarcity; they fear unevenness.

Human nature had always been thus.

Li Qingyuan immediately said, "Many thanks for your guidance, Great Elder Grandfather."

"Qingyuan will certainly not disappoint you."

"Good." The Great Elder smiled. "Come, let us continue studying the Great Spring Technique."

A day passed swiftly.

"Great Elder Grandfather, I will return home first. I will come see you again tomorrow." After respectfully bowing, Li Qingyuan left the Transmission Hall.

The Great Elder smiled so broadly that his mouth could not close. "Good child, go on."

Soon, with a creak, the door opened.

Clan Leader Li Guangao stepped out and asked, "How is this child's comprehension?"

The Great Elder smiled. "His comprehension is extraordinary, and his memory is outstanding. In just one day, he has already committed the thousand-plus words of the Great Spring Technique's mental method to heart and can recite it almost backward."

"His comprehension is also something I have never seen in my life. In his understanding of the Great Spring Technique's mental method, he far surpasses even my former self."

Clan Leader Li Guangao praised repeatedly, "Good, good, good. As expected of the Kirin Son of our Li Clan."

Time slipped by day after day.

Every day, Li Qingyuan followed Great Elder Grandfather to study the Great Spring Technique.

The only difference was that the location had changed—from the Transmission Hall to the small wooden hut in the Back Mountain Medicine Field.

The ten-acre medicine field had been reclaimed atop a First-Rank Incomplete Spirit Vein, where spiritual qi was abundant.

A hundred zhang beyond the medicine field, at the outskirts of the spirit vein, lay the Hundred-Acre Clan Spirit Field, specially used to grow Spirit Rice.

Each day, Li Qingyuan meditated in cultivation, contemplated the incantation, guided spiritual qi, drew it into his body, and turned it into his own use.

In the blink of an eye, Li Qingyuan had cultivated the Great Spring Technique for ten days.

On this day, Li Qingyuan sat cross-legged in meditation. His Sea of Consciousness was clear, while spiritual qi hummed between heaven and earth around him. Thread after thread of spiritual qi entered his body and circulated through his Meridians.

"Sink qi into the dantian and draw in spiritual breath; let the heart be like the Great Spring, embracing heaven and earth. Inhale and exhale like tides through the Meridians; spiritual resonance gathers and rests within the Purple Palace..."

Li Qingyuan felt more tranquil than ever before, as though he had become a great tree—a Great Spring Ancient Tree—utterly unmoving as it inhaled and exhaled heaven and earth.

Buzz, buzz!

Suddenly, a warm current rose within Li Qingyuan's dantian. A stream of emerald spiritual qi gathered there, then traveled through the Meridians in a Great Heavenly Cycle, flowed through the Ren and Du Meridians, opened the yin and yang of the human body, and finally converged in the Qi Sea.

"I did it~" Li Qingyuan rejoiced. "Haha, the first thread of spiritual qi is complete."

"Qi Condensation First Layer, achieved."

Suddenly, the Great Spring Technique within Li Qingyuan began operating on its own. The Great Spring spiritual qi abruptly became restless, surging from his dantian and flowing backward upward, straight toward the Mud Pill Palace.

Boom!

Spiritual qi poured into the Mud Pill Palace. Li Qingyuan's Sea of Consciousness instantly buzzed, his brain spun, and his eyes rolled back as he fainted.

"What is this place?"

"It is this?"

Li Qingyuan's spiritual power had actually entered his own Mud Pill Palace, where he saw a bronze-green Bronze Gate. It radiated ancient Dao Rhyme, mysterious and inscrutable.

"It really is it, the Bronze Gate."

In his previous life, after receiving his first paycheck in his first month of work, Li Qingyuan had gone to Antique Street to relax. Drawn by a sense of affinity, he bought a Bronze Gate.

Because he liked it, he had kept it on him ever since.

Li Qingyuan vaguely remembered that when his heart disease had suddenly flared up and he died from sudden cardiac death, the pain in his chest had made him clutch the Bronze Gate tightly in his hand.

After that, he had lost consciousness.

When his consciousness returned, Li Qingyuan was already inside Mother's womb, a fetus that had basically taken shape. Several months later, he was born into the Li Clan.

"I never expected you to come with me as well." Li Qingyuan's emotions were complicated. This Bronze Gate was the sole witness to his life in his previous world.

Li Qingyuan suddenly froze and murmured, "Was my transmigration an accident?"

"Or did it have something to do with you?"

Li Qingyuan stretched out his hand and gently touched the Bronze Gate.

Boom!

Suddenly, the Bronze Gate Glowed, swallowing Li Qingyuan and directly drawing him into a space.

When Li Qingyuan opened his eyes, he discovered that he had arrived in a mysterious space.

A thread of awareness entered his mind.

Li Qingyuan froze and murmured, "Mysterious Feminine Gate, Mysterious Feminine Space."

"So the Bronze Gate is called the Mysterious Feminine Gate."

"The space within the gate is called the Mysterious Feminine Space."

Naturally, Li Qingyuan was no stranger to the Mysterious Feminine Gate.

In his previous life, he had read quite a lot, including the Dao De Jing, where the Mysterious Feminine Gate was mentioned.

The "Mysterious Feminine Gate" symbolized the source from which heaven, earth, and all things were born, like a mysterious world capable of producing all things.

The Mysterious Feminine Gate was also the Gate of Creation.

Having gained ownership of the Mysterious Feminine Space, Li Qingyuan received a faint and indistinct piece of information.

His brows lifted as he exclaimed in surprise, "Replication?!"

"Is this for real?"

The next second, with a thought, Li Qingyuan's consciousness left the Mysterious Feminine Space and returned to his body.

He sat upright, took out the money pouch at his waist, removed a Spirit Stone, and said softly, "Collect!"

In the next instant, the Spirit Stone vanished and entered the Mysterious Feminine Space.

Li Qingyuan's consciousness saw a Spirit Stone humming and fluctuating within the Mysterious Feminine Space. It transformed into two streams of light and, after being replicated, became two Spirit Stones.

Their size, shape, and quality were completely identical—a perfect replication.

Li Qingyuan's breath caught, excitement appearing on his face.

"One Spirit Stone became two Spirit Stones!"

"Replication doubles them."

He knew that he had most likely obtained an extraordinary Great Opportunity, a great stroke of fortune.

In a word, his cheat had arrived!