Chapter 226: Seven Layers
After a lively New Year, Mo Hua turned thirteen.
He had grown taller, though only a little. He did not look much different—still that small cultivator.
Aside from drawing Array Techniques each day, Mo Hua devoted most of his thoughts to cultivation.
He had already reached perfection at the Sixth-Layer Qi Refining and would soon touch the bottleneck in his cultivation, facing the threshold of the Mid Qi Refining Stage.
Once he broke through the bottleneck, he would become a cultivator of the Late Qi Refining Stage.
The Late Qi Refining Stage brought him closer to Foundation Establishment.
The cultivation world was vast, with countless cultivators. Those in the Qi Refining Stage were merely ants, while attaining Foundation Establishment was the first step in changing one's fate on the path of cultivation.
Foundation Establishment built the foundation of one's Dao.
No matter how firm one's Dao Heart was, without Foundation Establishment, everything was empty talk.
That day, Mo Hua rose at Mao Hour and cultivated as usual.
Suddenly, his Qi Sea trembled, and his Lingli began circulating rapidly.
Mo Hua's spirits lifted. He took out Spirit Stones and quietly began cultivating. As he refined the Spirit Stones, they formed pure Lingli that gathered in Mo Hua's Qi Sea until it overflowed.
Then, just like the bottleneck he had encountered during his first breakthrough.
The overflowing Lingli traveled upward along his meridians and gathered at Baihui Acupoint. Upon reaching the Heavenly Gate Acupoint, it seeped inward like threads of silk into his Sea of Consciousness, where it drifted and wove together, forming a spiritual curtain.
This spiritual curtain was a Riddle Array, and also the bottleneck he needed to overcome while cultivating the Heavenly Derivation Art.
Mo Hua was both expectant and uneasy. He calmed his heart,