Cultivation Advances Greatly

Ten years passed in the blink of an eye.

By the third year, Jiang Yun had refined seven restrictions on the Earth Spirit Pearl, which was the utmost he could refine with his Heavenly Immortal cultivation. Realizing that he had made no progress for a long time, he understood that his cultivation was still too low. He therefore placed the pearl before him and used his primordial spirit to draw out the Innate Earth Element Vital Energy within it. He circulated the Jianmu Tongtian True Scripture, refined the vital energy into his own magical power, and at the same time comprehended the Earth Element Law contained in the Innate Spiritual Light within the spiritual treasure.

During this cultivation, he seemed to have forgotten the passage of time, becoming completely immersed in it. Naturally, his cultivation also rose steadily. He quickly advanced from the early Heavenly Immortal stage to the middle stage, then the late stage, and finally the Heavenly Immortal peak. With the laws contained in the spiritual treasure available for comprehension, Jiang Yun easily crossed the Heavenly Immortal bottleneck and achieved the True Immortal realm. In the following years, he broke through to the late True Immortal stage before temporarily ending his Closed-door Cultivation.

By then, Jiang Yun's main body, Cloud Bamboo, had grown dozens of zhang tall. The offshoots that had sprouted around it had formed a bamboo forest covering half the valley. His roots no longer spread outward but plunged deep underground, nearly reaching the Earth Vein Node.

"My cultivation has improved considerably. It is time to continue refining the Earth Spirit Pearl." His primordial spirit sank into the pearl, and Jiang Yun began attacking the new restrictions.

Another seven years passed in the blink of an eye. Of the twenty-four restrictions within the Earth Spirit Pearl, he had refined eleven. That was his current limit. As for his cultivation, although he had focused all his energy on refining the spiritual treasure, his main body's breathing and absorption had still raised him to the True Immortal peak.

After cultivating in seclusion for so long, he felt the urge to move. Jiang Yun stretched lazily, and his primordial spirit stood in midair, surveying the surroundings through the array.

"Since being reborn, more than a decade has passed in the blink of an eye. As expected, there are no years in cultivation."

"Looking out, aside from my valley, everything within sight remains just as ruined and desolate. As the saying goes, when poor, cultivate one's own virtue; when prosperous, benefit the world. Since it is within my power, why not repair this place?"

Looking at the scene before him, Jiang Yun was moved, and he silently set himself a small goal: to restore vitality to the land beneath his feet.

During the War of Immortals and Demons, Luohou connected the Western World's Spirit Veins and Earth Vein Nodes with the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and used the formation's power to contend with Hongjun. After his defeat, he detonated the formation in a fit of rage, causing the Spirit Veins and Earth Vein Nodes to be affected, with most of them shattering as a result. From then on, the Innate Spiritual Qi in the Western World grew increasingly thin. By now, it had even declined from Innate Spiritual Qi to Acquired Spiritual Qi. No wonder the Western World would have so few talented people in later generations, and even its two Western Saints would have to come to the East to scrounge for resources.

Consider it: the East had numerous Spirit Veins, and the living beings naturally born there possessed deep origins, surviving in Innate Spiritual Qi from birth. The Western World was broken, so its living beings naturally could not compare with those of the East. Most were ordinary beings born in an acquired environment. With such circumstances, how could the gap not be enormous? If the West wanted to prosper, it could only come to the East more often to scrounge for resources and recruit talented people!

Only after living in this environment did Jiang Yun begin to understand the actions of Jieyin and Zhunti.

Without further digression, after establishing a goal, Jiang Yun took a brief stroll around the valley before returning to his main body.

His current cultivation was still too low. This level of cultivation was not enough to accomplish his goal, and he also needed to think carefully about some Dao Protecting Arts.

Since he wanted to repair the land and restore its vitality, based on what he had observed so far, there were several issues to resolve:

First, there was the demonic energy and baleful energy left behind by the great calamity. Mixed into the spiritual energy, they were violent and difficult to absorb and refine. There was also the soil pollution caused by various forms of Bloodline Filth.

Second, the countless innocent living beings had generated shocking resentment after dying, which needed to be pacified. Large numbers of Vengeful Souls drifted about in a daze.

Third, after the great calamity, large numbers of Spirit Veins and Earth Vein Nodes had shattered. As a result, the Earth Veins were clogged and difficult to straighten out. The various earthfires and earth energies that had originally circulated through the nodes no longer had an outlet. They were difficult to suppress, and once they erupted, they further damaged the environment and terrain.

To solve the first problem, he needed a purification method to purify the baleful energy, demonic energy, and all kinds of filth into pure spiritual energy. As for the resentment of the living beings in the second problem, the Diamond Sutra and Sutra of Rebirth from his memories could deal with it. As for the third problem, the Whip Mountain Move Stone technique among the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Techniques could move mountains and stones and alter the terrain. With the Earth Spirit Pearl in his possession as assistance, the problem should not be too difficult.

After thinking through these key points, Jiang Yun took out the Dao Derivation Disk and circulated his magical power to activate the treasure, beginning his deductions...

Another hundred years passed in the blink of an eye. This cultivation had yielded abundant results.

First, based on the characteristic of his main body's spiritual root—being able to devour various forms of demonic energy, earth energy, and other spiritual energy and transform them into pure spiritual energy to raise his cultivation—he deduced a powerful divine ability that could be cast by his main body, called the Divine Light of Purification. Once used, it could continuously dispel filth and restore spiritual energy.

Combining the inherited information with his comprehension of the formations within the Dao Derivation Disk, he also deduced and created a Spiritual Plant Purification Array. This array relied on the Innate Array Patterns obtained by comprehending the origin of his spiritual root, along with some spiritual roots and plants serving as its core nodes. Once the array foundations were set up and the Innate Array Patterns engraved, activating it would allow it to automatically absorb the chaotic spiritual energy and filth around it. After crushing them with the array patterns, it would restore the spiritual energy within and ultimately gather it into new spiritual energy.

Regarding the second problem, considering that reincarnation had yet to be established and that although the nether soil existed, he did not know how to enter it, Jiang Yun decided to follow the idea of the Buddha Kingdom in the Palm and create a world to temporarily accommodate and convert the Vengeful Souls. As it happened, he was himself a Congenital Cloud Bamboo, hollow inside, with each section containing a separate space. After making his deductions, he successfully opened a small space measuring a hundred li across within each bamboo section. He then fused all the small spaces together, ultimately forming a vast space ten thousand li across.

Although the space had now been opened, it was not very stable. Jiang Yun had a sudden inspiration and took out the Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Earth Spirit Pearl, guiding the Earth Element Spiritual Energy within it into the space. As the spiritual energy entered, he directed it with his primordial spirit, transforming it into earth energy that sank to the bottom. Gradually, a small Earth Vein formed, and the space immediately stabilized. Soil also developed atop the Earth Vein.

After this operation, Jiang Yun's main body underwent a tremendous transformation. The entire spiritual root suddenly surged to a height of a hundred zhang, and each bamboo section glimmered with a faint earthy-yellow light.

Moreover, as a constant stream of spiritual energy flowed in, his cultivation rose rapidly. Although he had only opened a small space, he had still comprehended a trace of the Space Law. Combined with having witnessed the birth of the Earth Vein, his comprehension of the Earth Element Law also rose swiftly, and he fell into a state of sudden enlightenment.

In merely a moment, Jiang Yun's cultivation broke through to the Mystic Immortal realm. That was not the end. After another half a year, his cultivation had reached the Mystic Immortal peak, only one step away from the Golden Immortal Realm, in which one shared the longevity of Heaven and remained imperishable through the ages.

The realms below the Golden Immortal Realm were essentially foundational cultivation: constantly strengthening the physical body and primordial spirit while initially observing and imitating laws. Beginning with the Golden Immortal Realm, however, since the physical body and primordial spirit had accumulated enough, one could start comprehending laws through the primordial spirit. It was precisely because the primordial spirit and physical body became imbued with the aura of laws that one could become eternally imperishable and share Heaven's longevity.

Jiang Yun's primordial spirit was still immersed in comprehension. At the moment of his sudden enlightenment, his soul fluctuations resonated with Heaven and Earth and connected to the Heavenly Dao supercomputer.

With the Heavenly Dao's computational power assisting his calculations, his thinking speed increased by more than tens of millions of times in that instant. Only then did he truly experience the greatest benefit brought by the spiritual treasure. For ordinary cultivators to comprehend laws, they had to raise their cultivation to the Golden Immortal Realm. Only the physical body and soul of a Golden Immortal or above could come into contact with laws without fearing the pressure they exerted.

But an Innate Spiritual Treasure contained laws within it. After refining a spiritual treasure, its protection of its master allowed the wielder to comprehend those laws at any time without worrying about their pressure, thereby rapidly increasing their own Dao attainment.