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After sensing the feedback from my Dao Lineage, I immediately returned to my residence and supplemented it with cultivation to consolidate this growth in the Dao Lineage. However, even this explosive growth only applied in comparison to the usual rate of increase; it could not let me leap to the next level in one go. It merely gave me a higher starting point before slowly advancing.
To my delight, this growth did not stop right away. Instead, it steadily rose through diffusion!
As my excitement grew, I gradually felt that the immortal qi from the second-grade qi plates could no longer satisfy me. I therefore went to the dojo where the second-grade qi plates were stored. Only the jade plates there could evenly distribute the Dao Lineage. After all, while I accepted feedback from my believers, I also had to return feedback to them, so the consumption of true immortal qi was enormous.
And it was not only me. Even the other cultivators within the Heavenly Unity Dao Lineage felt intense feedback, whether they preached the Dao or not, because of the blessings of the Dao Lineage. Some of them advanced, while others absorbed true immortal qi. This immediately caused the second-grade immortal qi plates to be consumed at a rapid rate!
A year's worth of second-grade true immortal qi was rapidly running dry at an unimaginable speed!
Under normal preaching, a year's supply of true immortal qi would certainly have been enough. But now, with the Dao-preaching fungi as a medium, preaching was no longer spreading from one to ten and then from ten to a hundred. Instead, it was expanding explosively all at once. I was not the only one consuming true immortal qi—my believers needed it too. Moreover, the living beings who had not cultivated before