Seven days passed in a flash.
During that time, Chen Lin had not gone searching for treasures, but he had not been idle either. He took the opportunity to examine his own condition.
First, he confirmed one thing.
To increase his cultivation, he did indeed need to accumulate innate power. By repeatedly compressing and tempering it, he could extract origin essence and bring about a qualitative transformation in his origin seed.
In essence, it was the same as ordinary cultivation.
Under the immortal cultivation system, he would condense his origin seed into a golden core, then shatter the core to form a nascent soul, before advancing to the Spirit Transformation Realm.
The only difference was that he cultivated innate power instead of ordinary mana.
Yet that change made his cultivation progress excruciatingly slow.
The reason was that extracting innate origin from laws was extremely difficult.
Although his innate law origin allowed him to extract innate origin from laws, those laws contained very little innate power, and refining it was slow. His cultivation speed could not compare to that of ordinary cultivators at all.
One could not have both the fish and the bear's paw. Chen Lin could only accept that trade-off helplessly.
After some experimentation, however, he discovered that he could obtain some innate origin by refining crystal sand, which offered him a measure of comfort.
It was slow, but at least he now had a means of supplementing his cultivation.
Overall, the advantages of his innate origin seed far outweighed its disadvantages.
After all, aside from that one drawback, everything else was an advantage!
Chen Lin extended his hand and flicked a fingertip, conjuring a Lightning Ray. With a thought, he transformed it into a Wind Blade, then opened his hand and struck downward with his palm. A massive