Primordial: Downloading Saint Cultivation at the Start

"Alright, let us return."

After teasing them, Tongtian continued.

As his words fell, auspicious clouds bloomed beneath the feet of the Three Pure Ones, Jiang Chen included.

Before everyone's eyes, the clouds carried Jiang Chen and the Three Pure Ones slowly into the air, shooting straight toward the heavens before vanishing beyond the horizon in an instant.

Kunlun Mountain.

Inside a certain cave abode.

Only Jiang Chen was present here. This was his residence.

Having acknowledged Tongtian as his master, he naturally had to cultivate alongside his master. However, his master had only just become a Saint. After returning to Kunlun Mountain and settling Jiang Chen in, he had gone into seclusion.

Jiang Chen was quite happy with this arrangement. Putting aside the fact that he had only just obtained the system, he still had not properly taken stock of the vast quantity of heavenly treasures he had acquired earlier. This was the perfect time to sort through them.

"System, open the download panel."

Jiang Chen said.

The system had previously stated that download speed was affected by his own strength. Now that he had stepped into the Earth Immortal realm, the download speed would naturally increase. He could take this chance to see just how fast it had become.

Whoosh!

[Tongtian the Saint Cultivation]

Total: Unknown.

Progress: 0.01%.

Download Speed: 200kb/s.

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[Laozi the Saint Cultivation]

Total: Unknown.

Progress: 0%.

Download Speed: 194kb/s.

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[Immortal Slaying Sword]

Total: Unknown.

Progress: 0%.

Download Speed: 212kb/s.

...

One download notification after another appeared, and Jiang Chen immediately understood.

"I never expected the download speed to be roughly ten times faster than before."

Delight flashed through Jiang Chen's eyes. He had not expected such an enormous change. There were eight targets being downloaded at once, and each was still ten times faster than before?

Would that not mean he could complete the downloads even sooner?

Just as Jiang Chen had thought, the system's voice suddenly rang out the moment the thought crossed his mind.

"Ding dong, successfully downloaded 0.01% of [Laozi the Saint Cultivation]!"

"Ding dong, successfully downloaded 0.01% of [Yuanshi the Saint Cultivation]!"

"Ding dong, successfully downloaded 0.01% of [Immortal Slaying Four Swords]!"

"Ding dong, successfully downloaded 0.01 of [Top-tier Innate Divine Spirit]!"

"Ding dong, [Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda]..."

"Ding dong, [Taiji Diagram]..."

"Ding dong, [Pangu Banner]..."

Seven notifications sounded in succession. Aside from [Tongtian the Saint Cultivation], the progress of every downloaded target had advanced a little.

As the notifications ended, a warm current erupted within Jiang Chen's body. In that instant, it felt as though countless soft little hands were caressing him, making him involuntarily let out a murmur.

This was a leap of the soul, incomparably blissful!

Yet this warm current was still too small, and it soon vanished.

However, after it disappeared, Jiang Chen's personal panel underwent a considerable change.

Name: Jiang Chen

Cultivation: Early Heavenly Immortal

Cultivation Method: Shangqing Dao Method

Constitution: Innate Dao Body

Divine Abilities: None

Spiritual Treasures: Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner, Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, Hunyuan Cudgel, Tianyuan Xuanbird Hook...

Items: Nine-Turn Golden Elixir, Life Fruit, Immortal Peaches, Dragon Scale Fruit, Purple Jade Pill...

Download Targets: Tongtian the Saint's cultivation, Immortal Slaying Four Swords, Top-tier Innate Divine Spirit, Laozi the Saint's cultivation, Yuanshi the Saint's cultivation...

Other than divine abilities, Jiang Chen had undergone earth-shaking changes. Especially after the Great Powers had given him their "meeting gifts," the Spiritual Treasures and Items sections were now obscenely well-stocked.

As for the Shangqing Dao Method, Tongtian had transmitted it to him through Spiritual Sense before entering seclusion.

Yet what Jiang Chen cared about most was still his Early Heavenly Immortal cultivation!

A Heavenly Immortal!

He had never expected that downloading the cultivation of the other two Saints would actually let him break through an entire major realm!

At this sight, delight could not help but appear in Jiang Chen's eyes.

For a moment, he even had the illusion that cultivation breakthroughs were far too easy!

After all, he had only just arrived in the primordial world. Including the time spent taking a master, how long had it even been? It had taken less than a day for him to rise from an ordinary mortal straight to the Heavenly Immortal realm. In terms of breakthrough speed, apart from Innate Gods, probably no one could compare to Jiang Chen at this moment.

After his strength broke through, Jiang Chen immediately opened the download panel and checked his current download speed. When he discovered it had reached 300kb/s, joy spread across his face.

kb/s!

Compared to before, his download speed had now increased by more than half!

Only after checking the download speed did he take out the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls. With a wave of his hand, he released all the heavenly treasures within.

Whoosh!

The moment the heavenly treasures appeared, the cave abode filled with dazzling colors as countless lights of Dao Rhyme bloomed. The sheer number of heavenly treasures was overwhelming to the eye.

"One Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, one Nine-Turn Golden Elixir, one High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, plus nine heavenly treasures and seventeen Low-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasures."

With a sweep of his Spiritual Sense, Jiang Chen instantly understood the extent of his gains this time.

Then, with a thought, he put away the Innate Spiritual Treasures—the Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner and the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls—and turned his gaze toward the remaining heavenly treasures.

There was naturally no need to say much about the two fine Innate Spiritual Treasures; Jiang Chen had already regarded them as means of protecting himself in the future. As for those Low-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasures, he did not think much of them.

"Sacrifice the Hunyuan Cudgel, Tianyuan Xuanbird Hook, Star Heaven Staff..."

After pondering for a moment, Jiang Chen immediately sacrificed all seventeen Low-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasures.

This was also the result of careful consideration. After all, he neither valued nor had any use for these Low-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasures. He might as well make use of waste and use them to increase the system's download speed.

"Ding-dong. Which target's download speed would you like to increase?" the system asked.

Hearing this, Jiang Chen could not help but freeze. Couldn't he increase them all?

After all, children were the ones who had to choose. Adults wanted everything.

The system seemed to understand Jiang Chen's confusion and immediately explained, "Naturally, you can increase the download speed of all targets. However, this system advises the host to complete downloading one item first. After all, you cannot become fat with a single bite."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Chen suddenly understood. After the system's guidance, he immediately realized the mistake in his previous thinking.

What a joke—those were Saints of an era! Especially their cultivation; the total amount was unimaginably vast. Even sacrificing all seventeen Low-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasures would probably still be nowhere near enough!

If, after sacrificing everything, none of the three Saints' cultivations had finished downloading, that would be disastrous. Not only would he lose a huge number of Spiritual Treasures, but his own cultivation would also stagnate for the time being. In the short term, it would be an enormous loss.

But if he accelerated just one target, the download speed would be faster, and once the download was complete, he could obtain the benefits sooner. It could be said that this method offered the best value for the cost!

It was like downloading little movies. If he downloaded seventy or eighty at once, the download speed would be split apart, and in the end he would not finish downloading even one in the short term. He could only wait miserably, staring at the covers and shedding futile tears. One could well imagine the frustration of knowing how enticing the contents were yet being unable to watch them.

Jiang Chen in his previous life... ahem, Jiang Chen's friend had experienced this firsthand.

But downloading only one was another matter entirely. Not only could it finish downloading faster, he could also watch it immediately. While watching, he could download another one, and once that one finished downloading, he could click to watch it too... Thus formed a virtuous cycle!