There were no tricks to advancing from the First Realm of Divine Diagram to the Third Realm of Divine Map. You simply piled up Profound Yellow Essence. Once you had enough, everything would fall into place. But don't underestimate that step of accumulating Profound Yellow Essence. For an ordinary cultivator, even moving one step higher meant a hard slog measured in decades.
There was no other way. Profound Yellow Essence was simply too rare. Even as an immortal official, with many avenues for obtaining resources, gathering it all together wasn't easy. Xu Yi had taken office and managed to get over a hundred pieces of Profound Yellow Essence from his subordinates, but an opportunity like that was bound to be rare.
Besides, while he had subordinates, he was also someone else's subordinate. If you really got embroiled in the world of immortal officials, the low-ranking officials often couldn't even afford the customary gifts exchanged between colleagues, let alone save anything. Thus, Profound Yellow Essence was hard to come by, and advancing in cultivation was even harder.
Breaking through from the First Realm to the Second Realm took at least several hundred, even a thousand pieces of Profound Yellow Essence. Everyone had different fortunes and aptitudes, so the amount they spent varied as well. When it came to breaking through, Xu Yi had always prepared for the worst. He decided to save up three thousand pieces of Profound Yellow Essence before making his move.
Obviously, simply grinding away on his salary wasn't realistic. He decided to find a few sponsors first. The first person he thought of was Xiang Yingxin. When Xiang Yingxin received his message, he was in a secret chamber regulating his mind. Although he had ultimately emerged from the Fifth Supervision's prison unscathed, the psychological trauma had already