Cultivation, Stabilizing the Purple Mansion, Comprehending the Dao in a Quiet Chamber

Inside the quiet chamber.

Xia Manggan sat cross-legged on a jade bed that emitted a hazy chill, using the methods of the Yin Yang Two Caves Scripture to draw in the Heaven and Earth origin energy around him with his divine sense.

This nimble Heaven and Earth origin energy circulated through the major meridians in his body before entering his dantian, eventually transforming into his own true qi.

This was the most basic step of Qi Refining cultivation: drawing qi into the body.

In contrast, the God-Demon Path began by cultivating the power of the physical body, then combining it with Divine Patterns to form divine power.

Qi Refining directly drew in Heaven and Earth origin energy, making it much simpler.

Especially since Xia Manggan's body was originally that of a Purple Mansion God-Devil, and a Perfect God-Demon Body forged through cultivating the Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Map.

The smoothness and resilience of his meridians far surpassed any Innate Dao Body.

Thus, while ordinary mortals might need years or even over a decade to step from the acquired realm into the Xiantian realm.

For Xia Manggan, it was as easy as taking a sip of water.

The moment Heaven and Earth origin energy entered his dantian, it began transforming into Xiantian true essence.

It directly skipped the process of tempering his meridians and flesh to strengthen his body.

Only a few breaths later.

All his true qi had transformed into true essence, signifying that he had officially embarked upon the path of Qi Refining immortality.

Splash.

Xia Manggan brushed his hand across his waist and retrieved a magic treasure from his Mustard Stone Space that resembled an ordinary wine jar from the marketplace.

It was an unranked storage magic treasure that could only hold wine.

Inside were the thousand jin of Essence Liquid that he had exchanged with Lady Ziyi using the golden Essence Card he had intended to use as gambling stakes when leaving Cave of Carefree.

It was fortunate that she had been so thoughtful, even specially finding an unranked magic treasure to hold the Essence Liquid.

Xia Manggan infused it with a strand of true essence and instantly refined the wine-jar magic treasure.

The seal on the wine jar immediately opened, and a stream of green liquid brimming with endless spirituality flowed out.

This was Essence Liquid.

The purest essence of Heaven and Earth origin energy.

It placed no burden whatsoever on the body and could be completely refined for one's own use in a short time.

"Splash~~~"

Xia Manggan opened his mouth.

The stream of Essence Liquid went straight into it.

Boom!

Almost instantly.

His dantian was filled with a tremendous amount of Heaven and Earth origin energy.

Then, under his control, all that Heaven and Earth origin energy rapidly transformed into true essence.

This was only possible because his Purple Mansion God-Devil body was strong enough.

Ordinary people who had just entered the Xiantian realm could at most use some spirit stones to assist their cultivation.

How would they dare to directly use Essence Liquid like him?

On one hand, it was far too extravagant.

On the other, their meridians and dantians simply could not withstand it.

Even though Essence Liquid was already gentle enough.

The swelling from that instant transformation alone would be enough to burst one's dantian, leaving no further chance at Qi Refining.

"Rumble~~~"

With an unlimited supply of Heaven and Earth origin energy transformed from Essence Liquid, the true essence in Xia Manggan's dantian accumulated at incredible speed.

In the blink of an eye, it became boundless, surging waves.

Then, guided by the methods of the Yin Yang Two Caves Scripture, all the true essence began spinning madly and compressing.

Before long, it formed two enormous vortices like Sea Eyes.

These two Sea Eyes relied on each other while remaining apart, rotating in opposite directions.

After all true essence passed through the compression of these two Sea Eyes, it was as though it had been purified once more.

The true essence that had nearly filled his entire dantian was instantly compressed by a great deal.

This was the additional advantage of a top-tier Qi Refining method.

If he had cultivated an ordinary Qi Refining method.

Then once the true essence in Xia Manggan's dantian reached its current level, he would already need to prepare to open his Purple Mansion.

But the Yin Yang Two Caves Scripture could purify it again, allowing the dantian to hold more true essence while making its quality even more refined than that of others.

Do not underestimate this small difference.

On the path of cultivation, especially in foundational Qi Refining realms such as Xiantian and Purple Mansion, this was the most crucial time to lay the foundation for immortality.

If one's foundation was just a little stronger than another's, then once their realms rose, that tiny difference might become a gap of tenfold or even a hundredfold.

"Again." Xia Manggan opened his mouth and inhaled once more.

Essence Liquid went directly into his body.

The true essence in his dantian, which had just settled down, immediately surged into raging waves again.

Those two mouthfuls of Essence Liquid amounted to more than twenty jin.

For others, that would have been enough to open a Purple Mansion and stabilize their Early Purple Mansion Stage cultivation.

Yet Xia Manggan was still unsatisfied.

He took several more mouthfuls in succession. Only after swallowing an astonishing hundred jin of Essence Liquid did he stop and focus on circulating his cultivation method.

Fortunately, I cultivated a Body Refining Divine Ability. My internal organs, including my dantian, are comparable to high-grade human-rank magic treasures. Otherwise, even if the Yin Yang Two Caves Scripture were of an even higher grade, I still could not contain so much Essence Liquid at the Xiantian realm.

Xia Manggan looked inward with his divine sense, observing the condition within his dantian.

At this moment, the two Sea Eyes were almost merging into one.

Their two central points drew closer and closer as they spun...

"Rumble~~"

As if Pangu were splitting Heaven and Earth apart.

After a thunderous blast, a void space was opened within his dantian, which had originally been a uniform mass of Chaos.

This void space was a strange place between illusion and reality.

Endless purple qi filled the space.

It was precisely the Purple Mansion that only Qi Refining immortal cultivators could open.

Normally, every person's Purple Mansion was the same.

The only difference was the size of the space.

Even someone like Xia Manggan, who had first cultivated a Purple Mansion God-Devil body before cultivating true essence to open his Purple Mansion.

Would merely possess a Purple Mansion slightly larger than that of ordinary Qi Refiners, giving him only a slight advantage.

But Xia Manggan's divine body was comparable to a high-grade human-rank magic treasure.

In terms of strength, it was enough to rival a true Myriad Phenomena God-Demon.

Furthermore, the cultivation method he practiced was the Yin Yang Two Caves Scripture, carefully prepared for him by that great power of a father.

Thus.

The moment Xia Manggan successfully opened his Purple Mansion, its size was more than twice that of an ordinary Purple Mansion cultivator's.

The larger the Purple Mansion, the greater the difference in its capacity for Origin Force.

By the time he had stabilized his Early Purple Mansion Stage cultivation, only a thin layer of Essence Liquid remained at the bottom of the wine-jar magic treasure.

Opening my Purple Mansion used roughly a hundred jin of Essence Liquid, while stabilizing my realm used more than eight hundred jin.

Xia Manggan nodded to himself.

According to the cultivation knowledge in his mind.

An ordinary Purple Mansion cultivator could only absorb around eighty jin of Essence Liquid upon reaching Purple Mansion Perfection.

Yet at the Early Purple Mansion Stage, he had already absorbed more than eight hundred jin of Essence Liquid.

That was fully ten times as much as an ordinary Purple Mansion Perfection cultivator.

Even Purple Mansion Perfection cultivators who cultivated immortal-rank methods probably possessed Origin Force only at this level.

In other words, although he was only at the Early Purple Mansion Stage, the abundance of his Origin Force already rivaled the most elite Purple Mansion Perfection cultivators.

I'll stop my Qi Refining cultivation here for now.

Xia Manggan smiled faintly and put away the wine jar.

When Qu Changqing and Beishan Hu saw him exchange for Essence Liquid earlier, they had both reminded him.

If he wanted to practice Qi Refining, he could cultivate at most to the Early Purple Mansion Stage and absolutely could not advance to the Purple Mansion Middle Stage.

This was because the Early Purple Mansion Stage merely stabilized the Purple Mansion space, and its impact on later cultivation was not too great.

But if he took another step and broke through to the Purple Mansion Middle Stage.

Then should the cultivation method he practiced be of too poor a grade, it would affect his future achievements and could not be changed.

Therefore, cultivation realms were tested when one entered a sect.

No sect would accept any cultivator whose cultivation had exceeded the Early Purple Mansion Stage.

Naturally, Xia Manggan did not need to worry about the grade of the cultivation method he practiced.

But to avoid trouble when entering the academy, he did not continue cultivating.

Moreover, in his view, given the abundance of his Origin Force, even if he relied only on Origin Force to control magic treasures, he would easily pass the Black-White Academy's entrance examination.

In the world of Desolate Era, the Dao Comprehension Realm is the foundation of everything.

Xia Manggan closed his eyes and began to comprehend the Great Dao.

That previous moment of enlightenment in Myriad Phenomena Hall had merely allowed him to form his own realm of Dao from the parts of his past-life learning that best fit this world.

But in his past life as Emperor Gan Yang Pan, how vast and varied were the scriptures he had read!

The Heavenly Scripture of Creation of the Creation Sect, the "Cosmos" and "Wan" chapters of the Supreme Sect's Supreme Elixir Scripture, the incomplete Past Amitabha Sutra of the Great Zen Temple, the complete Present Tathagata Sutra, the complete Future Non-Birth Sutra...

These scriptures and teachings were all the finest cultivation methods in the Yang God World of his previous life.

If the principles and concepts within them fused with the Great Dao of this Desolate Era world, what kind of power would they ultimately display?

Xia Manggan looked forward to it.

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