Mid-Grade Earth-Tier Cultivation Art!

"System!"

"Consume 500 origin crystals to exchange for 500 years of cultivation time. Deduce the Azure Mystery True Fusion Art with all my strength!!!"

Rumble!!!~~

The moment the words left his mouth, Chen An felt his mind shake. Immediately afterward, countless memories and experiences of deducing the Azure Mystery True Fusion Art flooded into his mind.

In the first year, Chen An combined the circulation route of the Azure Mystery True Fusion Art with the innate true qi within his body, deducing a Xiantian Realm cultivation art time and again.

Failure!

In the fifth year, he learned from his previous lesson, dismantling the incomplete framework of a Profound-tier cultivation art, stripping away its muddled, sluggish, antiquated qi-circulation methods, and redrawing the qi-gathering circuit of his dantian.

But innate true qi possessed unique properties, while the foundation of the old art ran deep. The old and new forces clashed violently, repeatedly damaging his meridians.

Failure!

In the tenth year, he fused the cultivation routes of the arts he had previously cultivated and attempted to reconstruct the art. Yet his foundation was too shallow.

Failure!

In the hundredth year, failure!

In the two-hundredth year, failure!

Years flew by under the system's accelerated flow of time—conceived time and again, overturned time and again, reshaped time and again.

In the five-hundredth year, after hundreds of millions of deductions, he finally managed to vaguely deduce a Xiantian Realm cultivation art based on the Azure Mystery True Fusion Art.

But just as the cultivation art was about to be fully deduced, with only the final step remaining—

[ Ding! The five-hundred-year deduction period has been exhausted. Cultivation terminated! ]

The system's icy prompt suddenly exploded in his mind, forcibly interrupting every deduction process.

The flowing power of deduction instantly cut off, and the profound essence of the cultivation art pouring into his soul came to an abrupt halt.

The embryonic Xiantian cultivation art that was about to take shape suddenly froze. Its incomplete qi-circulation patterns hung within his dantian and sea of consciousness, while the old and new qi pathways remained stuck at the crucial point of fusion, neither advancing nor retreating.

Just the slightest bit more, and it would have succeeded. Yet at this most critical juncture, the cultivation years converted from origin crystals had been completely exhausted, forcibly halting every deduction.

Chen An opened his eyes, a trace of regret and disappointment flashing across his face.

Five hundred years, hundreds of millions of trials and refinements—he had forcibly elevated and transformed a Profound-tier cultivation art, carving out a great path toward a Xiantian cultivation art, yet he had ultimately failed to take the final step.

"Then I'll continue!"

Chen An's gaze darkened as he made his decision in an instant.

Originally, he had only planned to spend five hundred years deducing the cultivation art, stopping when it was enough.

But now that the brand-new cultivation art was only one step from completion, with success right before his eyes, there was no way he could abandon it halfway.

What was more, the investment of five hundred years and five hundred origin crystals was already a genuine sunk cost.

If he stopped now, all those hundreds of millions of deductions, all those countless trials, errors, and adjustments, would go down the drain and be wasted for nothing.

By his estimation, at most another hundred years of deduction would be needed for this Xiantian cultivation art, transformed from the Azure Mystery True Fusion Art, to be completely perfected.

An Earth-tier cultivation art that surpassed the Profound tier and was worth more than two hundred thousand origin crystals was worth the investment.

"System!"

"Consume 200 origin crystals and continue deducing the Azure Mystery True Fusion Art!"

Although he felt that roughly a hundred years would be enough to complete the deduction, Chen An still invested an extra hundred years of deduction time to be safe.

Boom!!~~

Within Chen An's consciousness, the torrent of cultivation-art deductions that had abruptly stalled moments ago instantly restarted.

The incomplete cultivation-art pathways that had been stuck at the critical point began to flow again. The broken qi-circulation patterns reconnected, and the hundreds of millions of halted calculations resumed their frenzied operation.

The embryonic cultivation art based on the Azure Mystery True Fusion Art fully revived. The deduction experience accumulated over the previous five hundred years, the fragmented framework of the old art, and the qi-path trajectories refined through repeated adjustments all merged into one.

The incomplete cycle of circulation, the nodes for drawing in heaven and earth's origin qi, and the method for compressing innate true qi began, over the long course of deduction, to be completed, refined, and brought into a closed loop one by one.

Fifty years, eighty years...

In the eighty-seventh year, the new cultivation art was finally perfected.

Even so, the deduction did not stop.

Because the purchased deduction time had not yet been exhausted, and the system's power of deduction continued to operate.

The cultivation art continued to optimize. The meridians through which the original art circulated were adjusted bit by bit, making its operation smoother, allowing it to absorb more of heaven and earth's origin qi and convert purer innate true qi.

[ Ding! The two-hundred-year deduction period has been exhausted. Cultivation terminated! ]

Chen An sat where he was, silently receiving and integrating the new cultivation art within his mind.

After a long while, Chen An opened his eyes and slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, a smile appearing on his face.

Earth-tier!

And not merely an ordinary Earth-tier cultivation art, but a mid-grade Earth-tier cultivation art!

This time, the cultivation art deduced from the Azure Mystery True Fusion Art was not the low-grade Earth-tier cultivation art he had expected, but a mid-grade Earth-tier cultivation art.

Mid-grade Earth-tier—this was a supreme cultivation art that touched upon the Grandmaster Realm.

The new cultivation art was based on the Azure Mystery True Fusion Art, stripping away all the outdated, mixed, and incomplete flaws to reconstruct a complete circulation route.

Founded upon a method of multilayered compression, it emphasized extreme condensing and layer-by-layer purification, refining true energy and congealing essence, perfectly matching the foundations of Xiantian Realm cultivation.

It could draw in heaven-and-earth spiritual energy from a far wider range, doubling its refinement and conversion efficiency. The flow through the meridians was smooth and unobstructed, while every thread of Xiantian true energy was relentlessly squeezed, condensed, and cleansed of impurities through repeated cycles.

Not only could it rapidly expand the dantian's sea of qi and stabilize one's Xiantian cultivation, it could also polish the fundamental quality of true energy day after day, shortening the distance to transforming Xiantian energy into astral force and paving an incomparably smooth grand road toward breaking into the Grandmaster Realm.

"Let's try it!"

With a thought from Chen An, the new cultivation art began operating on its own.

Buzzz!!!~~

Suddenly, the world essence within several miles erupted into violent turmoil.

The spiritual energy that had originally drifted idly through the air no longer floated about languidly. As though drawn by an invisible force, it gathered with the howling rush of a gale, madly surging toward him from all directions.

The newly optimized meridian circulation routes opened completely, the path of qi flawless and rounded, without the slightest obstruction.

Vast quantities of world essence streamed endlessly into his body through every pore and acupoint, flowing through the exquisitely reconstructed qi routes.

The heaven-and-earth spiritual energy entering his body was immediately screened, filtered, and cleansed layer by layer by the cultivation art's power. Its mixed and turbid energy was stripped away and dispersed on the spot, leaving behind only pure origin energy. It then poured into his dantian, where it underwent repeated compression, condensation, and settling through the specially designed method, rapidly transforming into Xiantian true energy of utmost purity and density far surpassing what he had refined before.

"Hah!!!~~"

Chen An stopped cultivating and exhaled once more, a delighted smile rising to his face.

"I bet right!"

"Whether it's the range at which this new cultivation art draws in world essence or its efficiency in converting it into Xiantian true energy, it's at least ten times greater than before."

"More importantly, this cultivation art seems able to circulate on its own without needing to be actively driven, continuously refining world essence and converting it into Xiantian true energy."

"That means that even if I don't cultivate myself, this art can cultivate on its own and make me stronger."

"It's basically a free cultivation cheat!"

However, Chen An did not care all that much about this feature of the new cultivation art.

After all, he had never needed to cultivate in the first place.

"Since this cultivation art was improved on the basis of the Azure Mystery True Fusion Art, then I'll call it the Azure Mystery Force-Congealing Art!" After pondering briefly, Chen An gave the cultivation art a new name.

"Now, let's see the cultivation results of a mid-grade Earth-tier cultivation art!"

"System, convert all my remaining balance into cultivation time and add it to the Azure Mystery Force-Congealing Art!!!"