As he spoke to himself, Ning Wangshu couldn't help taking a deep breath, unable to hide his delight.
He had still been a little worried. There was no Immortal Qi in the world now. If his earlier idea of relying on the Western Emperor Scripture and that mysterious golden page to draw on the Immortal Dao origins within Immortal artifacts and convert them into Immortal Qi for cultivation didn't work, he would have wasted the Hedao Flower for nothing.
But now, he no longer had that concern.
The Hedao Flower directly raised his realm. As for how to "fill" his cultivation after his realm had advanced, bringing his cultivation up to match it, that was no different from normal cultivation.
In other words, Ning Wangshu was now fairly certain he could rely on the Immortal Dao origins within Immortal artifacts, converting them into Immortal Qi in the future, to raise his cultivation.
Even if he took it a step further and this method didn't work, it still wouldn't affect the realm he had already gained.
At worst, without Immortal Qi to cultivate and raise his cultivation, he simply wouldn't be able to bring it up to match his realm for the time being.
But that wouldn't change the fact that his realm had already reached the Mysterious Immortal level.
Someday, once there was enough Immortal Qi for him to cultivate and raise his cultivation, he would still be able to rapidly advance it to the Mysterious Immortal level!
No matter what, the Hedao Flower he had consumed wouldn't go to "waste."
As for the relationship between realm and cultivation, cultivators usually treated them as one and the same. In reality, though, they were different.
A useful comparison would be a bucket and the water inside it.
The realm was the