Inside the quiet room.
Xia Manggan sat cross-legged on a jade bed that emitted a misty chill, using the method of the Yin Yang Two Caves Scripture to draw in the surrounding Heaven and Earth origin energy with his Divine Sense.
This lively Heaven and Earth origin energy circulated through the major meridians in his body before entering his dantian, where it was ultimately transformed 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 flesh, then combining it with Divine Patterns to form Divine Power.
The Qi Refining path directly drew upon the origin energy of Heaven and Earth, making it much simpler.
Especially since Xia Manggan's body was originally a Purple Mansion Fiendgod, and a Perfect God-Demon Body cultivated through the Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Map.
The openness and toughness of his meridians surpassed even any Innate Dao Body.
Thus, ordinary mortals might need several years, or even more than 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 cleansing his meridians and flesh and strengthening his body.
Just a few breaths later.
All of his True Qi had completely transformed into True Essence, signifying that he had officially stepped onto the path of Qi Refining immortality.
Whoosh.
Xia Manggan brushed his hand across his waist and took out a magical treasure from the Mustard Stone Space, one that resembled an ordinary wine jar from the marketplace.
This was an unranked Storage Magical Treasure that could only store wine.
Inside were one thousand jin of Essence Liquid, which Lady Ziyi had exchanged for him using the golden Essence Card he had intended as gambling stakes when he left Cave of Carefree.
It was considerate of her to think of it and specifically find an unranked magical treasure to hold the Essence Liquid.
Xia Manggan injected a thread of True Essence into it and instantly refined the wine jar magical treasure.
The seal on the jar immediately opened, and a stream of green liquid brimming with boundless spirituality flowed out.
This was Essence Liquid.
The purest essence of Heaven and Earth origin energy.
It placed no burden on the body and could be fully refined for one's own use in a short time.
"Whoosh~~~"
Xia Manggan opened his mouth.
That stream of Essence Liquid went straight into it.
Boom!
Almost instantly.
His dantian was filled with an enormous amount of Heaven and Earth origin energy.
Then, under his control, all of that Heaven and Earth origin energy rapidly transformed into True Essence.
This was only possible because the Divine Body of his Purple Mansion Fiendgod was strong enough.
When ordinary people had just entered the Xiantian stage, at most they used some spirit stones to assist their cultivation.
How would they dare use Essence Liquid directly like him?
On one hand, it was far too extravagant.
On the other, their meridians and dantian simply could not withstand it.
Even though Essence Liquid was already gentle enough.
The instant expansion during its transformation alone would be enough to rupture one's dantian, leaving no further chance to cultivate Qi Refining.
"Rumble rumble~~~"
The True Essence in Xia Manggan's dantian accumulated at terrifying speed, supplied without limit by the Heaven and Earth origin energy transformed from Essence Liquid.
In the blink of an eye, it became endless billowing waves.
Then, guided by the method of the Yin Yang Two Caves Scripture, all the True Essence began spinning and compressing madly.
Very quickly, it formed two enormous vortices, like Sea Eyes.
These two Sea Eyes depended on one another while remaining separate, spinning in opposite directions.
After all the True Essence was compressed by these two Sea Eyes, it seemed to be purified once more.
The True Essence that had nearly filled his entire dantian was immediately condensed by a great deal.
This was the additional advantage granted by a top-tier Qi Refining method.
If he had cultivated an ordinary Qi Refining method.
Upon reaching the current amount of True Essence in Xia Manggan's dantian, he would already have needed to prepare to open his Purple Mansion.
Yet the Yin Yang Two Caves Scripture could purify it further, allowing the dantian to contain 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 important time to lay the foundation for immortality.
If one's foundation was just a little stronger than another's, once their realms rose, that small difference could become a gap of tenfold or even a hundredfold.
"Again." Xia Manggan opened his mouth and inhaled once more.
Essence Liquid directly entered his body.
The True Essence in his dantian, which had just settled down, immediately surged into a raging tempest once more.
Those two mouthfuls of Essence Liquid amounted to more than twenty jin.
For others, that would have been enough to open their Purple Mansion and stabilize their Early Purple Mansion Stage cultivation.
Yet Xia Manggan was still unsatisfied.
He took several more gulps. 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 Human Rank high-grade magical treasures. Otherwise, no matter how high the grade of this Yin Yang Two Caves Scripture, I could not contain so much Essence Liquid at the Xiantian realm.
Xia Manggan turned his Divine Sense inward and observed the condition within his dantian.
At this moment, the two Sea Eyes were nearly merging into one.
Their two central points drew closer and closer as they spun...
"Rumble~~"
As if Pangu were opening Heaven and Earth.
The dantian, originally a single expanse of Chaos, split open after that explosive roar, creating a void space.
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 lay in the size of its space.
Even for someone like Xia Manggan, who had first cultivated a Purple Mansion Fiendgod body before cultivating True Essence to open his Purple Mansion.
At most, his Purple Mansion would merely be somewhat larger than that of an ordinary Qi Refiner, giving him only a slight advantage.
But Xia Manggan's Divine Body was comparable to a Human Rank high-grade magical treasure.
In terms of toughness, it was enough to rival a true Myriad Phenomena God-Demon.
And the cultivation method he practiced was the Yin Yang Two Caves Scripture, carefully prepared for him by that great expert of a father.
Therefore.
Once Xia Manggan successfully opened his Purple Mansion, its volume was more than twice that of an ordinary Purple Mansion cultivator.
With a larger Purple Mansion, the difference in the amount of Origin Force its space could hold became even greater.
By the time he had stabilized his Early Purple Mansion Stage realm, only a thin layer of Essence Liquid remained at the bottom of the wine jar magical treasure.
Opening the Purple Mansion used roughly a hundred jin of Essence Liquid, while stabilizing my realm used over eight hundred jin.
Xia Manggan nodded inwardly.
According to the cultivation knowledge in his mind.
An ordinary Purple Mansion cultivator, even upon reaching Purple Mansion Completion Realm, could only absorb around eighty jin of Essence Liquid.
Yet while still in the Early Purple Mansion Stage, he had absorbed more than eight hundred jin of Essence Liquid.
That was a full ten times what an ordinary Purple Mansion Completion Realm cultivator could absorb.
Even a Purple Mansion Completion Realm cultivator practicing an Immortal Rank method 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 was already comparable to that of the most elite Purple Mansion Completion cultivators.
I'll stop my Qi Refining here for now.
Xia Manggan smiled faintly and put away the wine jar.
When Qu Changqing and Beishan Hu had seen him exchange for Essence Liquid earlier, both had reminded him.
If he wished to cultivate Qi Refining, he could at most cultivate to the Early Purple Mansion Stage. He absolutely could not reach the Purple Mansion Middle Stage.
This was because the Early Purple Mansion Stage merely stabilized the Purple Mansion space and did not have much impact on future cultivation.
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 no longer be changed.
That was why cultivation realms were tested when one entered a sect as a disciple.
No sect would accept any cultivator whose cultivation had surpassed the Early Purple Mansion Stage.
Xia Manggan naturally did not need to worry about the grade of his cultivation method.
But in order to avoid trouble when entering the sect, he did not continue cultivating.
Moreover, in his view, with the current abundance of his Origin Force, even if he relied solely on Origin Force to control magical treasures, he could easily pass the entrance examination of Black-White Academy.
In the world of Desolate Era, the Dao Comprehension Realm is the foundation of everything.
Xia Manggan closed his eyes and began comprehending the Great Dao.
His previous moment of enlightenment at Myriad Phenomena Hall had merely allowed him to take the parts of his past-life learning that best suited this world and form his own Dao Realm.
But in his past life as Emperor Gan Yang Pan, the scriptures he had read were incredibly vast and diverse!
The Heavenly Scripture of Creation of the Creation Sect, the "Cosmos" and "Space Law" chapters of the Supreme Sect's Supreme Elixir Scripture, the incomplete Past Amitabha Sutra of Great Zen Temple, the complete Present Tathagata Sutra, the complete Future Non-Birth Sutra...
These scriptures and teachings were all the greatest cultivation methods in his previous life's Yang God World.
If the principles and concepts within them merged 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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