Instant Mastery, Terrifyingly Powerful

The jade slip detailed every step with absolute clarity.

Sensing spiritual energy, drawing it into the body, circulating it through the meridians, completing a full cycle, and condensing spiritual power.

Even the common mistakes made by novices were marked with warnings.

It was easy to understand and perfectly suited for a beginner.

"Simple."

Su Yun curled the corners of his lips.

He closed his eyes and adjusted his posture according to the jade slip.

He relaxed his shoulders, pressed his tongue against the roof of his mouth, and rested his hands flat on his knees.

Gathering his breath, focusing his mind.

He banished all distracting thoughts from his head.

The first step of cultivation: sensing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Ordinary mortals could never sense spiritual energy in their entire lives.

Those with ordinary spiritual roots needed at least ten days to vaguely capture a trace of it.

Even those with high-grade spiritual roots required several hours.

This was the universally accepted common sense in the cultivation world.

Su Yun emptied his mind and silently recited the sensing mantra.

One second.

Two seconds.

Thirty seconds.

Less than a minute.

He felt it clearly.

Floating in the air around him were countless tiny, faint, invisible specks of light.

Cool, pure, and gentle.

This was spiritual energy.

Su Yun was startled.

So fast?

He hadn't even deliberately exerted his will yet.

The next instant.

He gave a gentle nudge according to the technique.

The drifting spiritual energy stopped wandering and surged toward Su Yun's body.

The energy flowed through his pores, frantically drilling into his limbs and bones.

The cool current passed through his flesh, feeling warm and tingling.

It was so comfortable that he couldn't help but tremble slightly.

As the spiritual energy entered his body, it flowed slowly along his rudimentary meridians.

Su Yun opened his eyes abruptly, his gaze filled with astonishment.

"That's not right."

"The book clearly states that sensing spiritual energy is the slowest part for a novice, taking at least half a day."

"For others, it takes at least a few days."

"I did it in less than a minute?"

The Metal-type Heavenly Spirit Root was indeed heaven-defying.

But no matter how monstrous it was, it shouldn't be this exaggerated.

The only explanation.

Thousandfold Amplification.

That prismatic Mythical Entry.

It had started taking effect from the very first second of his cultivation.

"Awesome."

Su Yun suppressed the urge to laugh out loud and closed his eyes again.

Stay calm, stay calm.

A genius must learn to be restrained.

He continued to circulate the Golden Spirit Art.

The first step, spiritual energy entering the body, was completed smoothly.

The second step, guiding the spiritual energy to circulate through the meridians.

For an ordinary novice, spiritual energy is difficult to control once it enters the body; it scatters, clashes against the meridians, and causes unbearable swelling and pain.

It requires slow tempering, soothing, and guidance.

Yet, the spiritual energy pouring into Su Yun's body was absurdly docile.

The spiritual energy followed the path marked on the jade slip, drifting slowly.

Once.

Twice.

Three times.

A full cycle.

Every time the spiritual energy completed a cycle, it was purified once.

Impurities were automatically stripped away, leaving only the essence within his body.

A faint wisp of spiritual power began to slowly gather in his dantian.

While others cultivated by grinding away bit by bit, he had spiritual energy flooding his body, endless and inexhaustible.

The spiritual energy in the air was drained over a wide area.

Su Yun was immersed in his cultivation, forgetting time and the outside world.

The pure aptitude of the Heavenly Spirit Root, paired with the Thousandfold Amplification.

Absorption, purification, circulation, gathering.

Every step was magnified a thousand times.

What took others a day of cultivation, he completed in an instant.

The faint spiritual power accumulated rapidly in his dantian, growing from a wisp into a mass.

The white, pure spiritual power shimmered with a faint golden glow.

That was the unique color of a Metal Spirit Root.

The first level of the Golden Spirit Art was mastered.

Su Yun opened his eyes, his gaze clear and spirited.

He circulated the newly born spiritual power within his body, and a gentle yet resilient force flowed through his limbs and bones.

He couldn't help but grin, his heart filled with triumph.

Cultivation—was this it? It was too simple!

Sensing spiritual energy, guiding it into the body, circulating it through the cycles.

The threshold that took others ten days or half a month to cross, he had stepped over with ease.

There was no difficulty at all; he hadn't even had the chance to experience the boredom of cultivation.

"Mastering it in minutes, this is hardly a challenge."

Su Yun chuckled to himself.

It felt great, truly satisfying.

The Golden Spirit Art was firmly mastered, and his path of cultivation was completely opened.

He decided to strike while the iron was hot tonight, pushing through in one go to reach the first level of Qi Refining.

With a thought, he reached out and touched his storage bag.

With a clatter, twenty low-grade spirit stones were laid out on the ground in front of him, neatly arranged in a circle.

The spiritual energy at Heavenly Pivot Peak was indeed dense, but the free-roaming energy between heaven and earth was mixed with many impurities, making it slow and inefficient to refine.

It was far inferior to absorbing the pure spiritual energy directly from spirit stones.

The spiritual energy in spirit stones was condensed and pure, requiring no effort to refine, making them the most suitable for cultivation.

Su Yun did not rush to activate the spirit stones; he took a bottle of Body Tempering Pill from his storage bag, poured one out, and swallowed it.

The pill melted upon contact with his tongue, and a wave of warm medicinal power slid down his throat into his abdomen.

In the early stages of Qi Refining, not only was accumulating spiritual power important, but the foundation of the physique was equally critical.

If the physical body was not strong and the meridians were fragile, the higher his cultivation rose later on, the easier it would be to leave behind hidden dangers.

He intended to walk the path of both a magic cultivator and a body cultivator.

He would cultivate spiritual power and insights into the Dao while tempering his physical body and bones.

Magic cultivation allowed for long-range attacks and techniques, while body cultivation allowed for close-quarters combat; by not lagging in either, he could maximize his combat power.

The medicinal power slowly diffused throughout his body, nourishing his skin, flesh, tendons, and bones, bit by bit refining the frail foundation of his mortal frame.

Having made his preparations, Su Yun closed his eyes and sat cross-legged once more.

With a flick of his mind, he began to draw upon the low-grade spirit stones before him.

The pure spiritual energy sealed within the spirit stones immediately began to overflow, following an invisible pull.

Compared to absorbing the scattered spiritual energy from the heavens and earth, the energy from spirit stones was far more mellow, docile, and devoid of impurities.

The moment it surged into his body, he felt an incomparable sense of comfort throughout his entire being.

Coupled with the fact that he possessed a Golden Spirit Root, his efficiency in converting spiritual energy was terrifyingly high.

The spiritual energy entered his body with almost zero loss; there was no need for filtering or adjustment, as it could be converted directly into his own spiritual power.

The reserves of spiritual power within his dantian surged rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A wisp, a cluster, a sheet—it constantly filled and solidified.

Combined with the passive effect of Thousandfold Amplification, his cultivation speed was pushed to an absurd level.

Time slipped away bit by bit.

Less than an hour passed.

Boom—

A faint sound of an invisible barrier shattering echoed within his body.

The spiritual energy surrounding him suddenly retracted into his body, his dantian stabilized completely, and his spiritual power circulation formed its own cycle.

First level of Qi Refining, achieved.

Su Yun opened his eyes, clearly sensing the changes in his body.

His muscles and bones had become stronger, and his five senses were several times sharper than before.

His once thin and frail frame had been quietly transformed from within by the spiritual and medicinal powers.

"Hahaha!"

Su Yun could not help but chuckle softly.

He had not expected to step onto the path of immortality so quickly, becoming a genuine cultivator.

This feeling of transforming from a mortal into a cultivator was too wondrous, too magnificent.

The transition from a mortal to the first level of Qi Refining might seem like only a single step away, but in reality, it was a fundamental rebirth.

His lifespan, physique, senses, and strength had all crossed a major threshold.

After a brief moment of reflection, Su Yun did not pause for even a second.

With resources laid out before him, spirit stones in abundance, and the blessing of a Mythical Entry, there was no need to stop and waste time.

He closed his eyes once again and circulated the Golden Spirit Art.

As he continuously practiced the technique, his understanding of it deepened, quickly transitioning from the awkwardness of a beginner to smooth proficiency.

With the support of Thousandfold Amplification, his insights into the technique and his comprehension of cultivation were maxed out; the essence of a technique that would take others years to grasp, he had mastered in just a few short hours. It was outrageously powerful.

One by one, the spirit stones were absorbed and exhausted, turning into useless gray-white rubble that he tossed aside.