Five Elements Technique

Chen Mobai checked the time. There was still more than an hour before the first batch of students in the Cultivation Rooms finished, so he was in no hurry to leave. He simply began asking more questions about purifying and improving Spirit Roots.

"Yan Bingxuan's family should have an expert. They knew her Spirit Root could be transformed into an Ice Spirit Root through the Frost Condensation Method, so from the very beginning of her cultivation, they worked hard in that direction."

"The lower one's realm is when using a method to purify and improve a Spirit Root, the less time and resources it consumes."

"She's already at Late Qi Cultivation at such a young age. A conservative estimate says she can make three attempts at Foundation Establishment, so she's now thinking of transforming into an Ice Spirit Root before reaching Qi Cultivation Perfection."

"Once she succeeds, she can enter the Natural Academy among the Ten Great Academies without an exam. If she goes one step further, it may not be impossible for her to pass the assessment of the Four Great Dao Academies and ascend to the heavens in a single step."

The Four Great Dao Academies were academies founded by the five Spirit Transmutation Ancestors who had created the Immortal Sect.

Every cultivator who graduated from them would be part of the Immortal Sect's future upper echelon.

For thousands of years, the Foundation Establishment success rate of students from the Four Great Dao Academies had exceeded eighty percent.

For Vermilion Cloud City, a Blessed Land on the edge of the Immortal Sect, the last person to be admitted to the Four Great Dao Academies had been True Person Scarlet Robe, Yu Tianguang, a hundred years ago. Now, he had already achieved Core Formation Success.

After leaving Old Man Ding's office, Chen Mobai waited for ten-odd minutes and became one of the second batch to enter the Cultivation Rooms.

After putting his phone in place and turning on the Auxiliary Cultivation Recording mode, he entered meditation and sat quietly. Once again, he circulated the Qi Nourishing Technique, tempering the spiritual power he had increased by taking pills and turning it into his own.

Time slowly flowed by. As always, the Soul-Calming Mantra woke Chen Mobai.

He walked out of the Cultivation Room's doors. Outside, only the dozen-odd unlucky ones in the third batch remained.

He looked around and spotted his deskmate, Lu Hongsheng, along with a few classmates he usually got along with. They greeted one another, then each went home.

In the past, classmates like them who got along well could still drink some spirit tea together after school and play a few little games that trained spell application.

But after entering senior year, all these recreational activities had already been canceled.

The urgent pressure of advancing to higher education had even made Lu Hongsheng, his deskmate who had always been lazy because of his poor Spirit Root, start working hard.

Before Chen Mobai went home, he bought a box of Glass Beads for practicing the circulation of spiritual power at a roadside convenience store.

After he got home, taking advantage of the time while the rice cooked, he cut some small Talisman Paper and logged onto the online trading platform. He found that only one cultivator from the same city had made an offer.

18 Merit Points.

It was a little low, but normally Chen Mobai would definitely have agreed to the trade. After all, his was a one-man small workshop product, so of course it had to be a little cheaper than a proper shop's.

But today, he wanted to explore that Water Mansion transmitted to by the Turtle Shell again, so he was in no hurry to do business.

After eating and washing up, Chen Mobai returned to his room once more.

He took that Turtle Shell into his hand and examined it carefully, but it was still the same as last night. It was just an ordinary old Turtle Shell, covered in traces of smoke and fire, without the slightest spiritual energy.

If not for yesterday's miraculous journey, Chen Mobai would never have believed that this thing was actually a spatial Magic Artifact.

He placed the Turtle Shell in the drawer of his bedside cabinet, then took out his phone and tapped the app named "Turtle Treasure."

After groping around with it all last night, he already had some understanding of this Turtle Treasure.

There were three functions. Return to city needed no explanation; it meant returning here.

As for whether this "city" referred to his room or to the place where the Turtle Shell was located, that still needed verification.

The other function closely tied to return to city was transmission. According to Chen Mobai's understanding, it was the chief culprit that had sent him to that mysterious Water Mansion yesterday.

Only the last one, Proxy, still gave him no clue.

Clearly, the three functions could not be used without limit. Only when the virtual buttons for these three interactive functions in the app protruded would there be a response when he tapped them. Right now, only transmission was lit.

Last night, Chen Mobai had waited until three in the morning. After discovering this point, he used transmission again and went to that Water Mansion.

However, he still found nothing. But after cultivating for an entire night in a Second Grade spiritual energy land, the aftereffects of taking pills had already been worn away by fifty to sixty percent.

Chen Mobai estimated that if he secluded himself and cultivated in the Water Mansion for another two or three days, he would more or less be able to eliminate the hidden dangers from breaking through by taking pills, then cultivate the Five Elements Technique again and raise his Qi Cultivation realm.

It was precisely because of this that Chen Mobai had plucked up his courage and wanted to go to the Water Mansion again, even to try breaking the Restrictions in the Rear Hall.

This was a Second Grade middle-grade Spirit Land. In the Immortal Sect, if one wanted to rent Earth Vein Spiritual Energy of this level, it would cost 160 Merit Points every month.

Converted that way, every day Chen Mobai cultivated in the Water Mansion was equivalent to freeloading 5.33 Merit Points. Pitifully, after working so hard cutting Talisman Paper, he only earned twenty or thirty Merit Points a month.

Thinking about it like this, it was no wonder Chen Mobai looked down on the little bit of business from his online small workshop.

"Judging by the two round trips yesterday, the cooldown time for transmission should be 6 hours, while return to city is a little longer and needs 10 hours. The cooldown starts counting from the last time it was used..."

Chen Mobai silently calculated the time nodes of his two experiences last night and reached a preliminary conclusion.

Half an hour later, exactly 10 hours had passed since he had transmitted back in the morning. The return to city button protruded and lit up before his eyes.

If he went once like this, should he discover that things looked bad, he could immediately return.

Chen Mobai immediately hung the "Secluded, Do Not Disturb" sign on his room door, then locked the door from the inside, took a deep breath, and tapped the protruding transmission button for Turtle Treasure on his phone.

Whether to choose transmission location 1 (unnamed)

Chen Mobai tapped yes.

Then silver light flickered. His entire body seemed to turn into light, and after roughly five or six seconds, he vanished from the room.

He looked up.

Facing the familiar underwater environment, Chen Mobai restrained the joy that came from the depths of his heart.

Although he did not know where this was, at the very least, he now had a secret base of Second Grade middle-grade.

He took out the box of Glass Beads he had prepared in advance and infused spiritual power into them. He saw the originally transparent beads begin to bloom with multicolored radiance. This was because the Five Elements Technique Chen Mobai cultivated had spiritual power blended from all five attributes.

The Five Elements Technique was a basic method created by a Spirit Transmutation Ancestor of the Immortal Sect after a thousand years of bitter contemplation. When any cultivator cultivated it, it would automatically transform into the spiritual power attribute most suitable for them. It was equivalent to tailoring a Qi Cultivation technique for every cultivator, one that best matched their physique and Spirit Root.

For example, Chen Mobai's Spirit Root Attribute was: metal 23, wood 27, water 23, fire 17, earth 10.

Then of the spiritual power produced by cultivating the Five Elements Technique, 23% would have Gold Attribute, 27% would have Wood Attribute... perfectly corresponding to his Spirit Root Attribute.

Moreover, these Five Elements Spiritual Powers circulated and generated one another. While cultivating, they could also promote an increase in realm. This was the Immortal Sect's greatest reliance for being able to let the entire population cultivate immortality even on Earth Origin Star, a land poor in resources.