Duty and the Search

Mingyuan Immortal City, residence.

Cultivation continued.

Under the combined effects of upper-realm spiritual qi and multiple enhancements, the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method progressed steadily. The quality of his Nascent Soul spirit power increased slightly with every cycle, and the halo around the dark-gold Nascent Soul had grown denser and richer than when he had first arrived in the upper realm.

Both the quantity and quality of his Nascent Soul spirit power were rapidly rising.

The cultivation bottleneck of the Nascent Soul Early Stage had begun to loosen.

The accumulated spirit power in his dantian was already nearing the Early Stage's upper limit. The halo on the Nascent Soul's surface occasionally flickered with the faintest rise and fall in brightness, a sign that his spirit power was about to break through its current capacity.

Yet he was still one final step away from truly breaking through to the middle stage. The incomplete Nascent Infant Origin Return Method had already been pushed to its limit within the Early Stage. With the later portions missing, the breakthrough lacked the guidance and support of a cultivation method.

He needed the complete cultivation method.

For the time being, he set aside thoughts of a breakthrough and continued accumulating.

Several days later, a message arrived through his token.

Mingyuan Sect's rotation assignment.

Seventh Node Station under the Main Peak Grand Array. Five days of duty.

Main Peak Grand Array.

The outer-ring node rotations Li Yuan had participated in before had involved only the outermost auxiliary circuits of a Fourth-Order Array. The spirit power level was low, and the array structure was simple.

The subordinate node stations of the Main Peak Grand Array were different. They connected directly to the core spirit power circulation circuits of the Fourth-Order Main Array and served as crucial hubs in