Secluded Cultivation in the Mine Valley and Technique Breakthroughs

Nether Abyss Mine Valley, third level.

Li Yuan returned once more to the Rock Terrace where the three spirit veins converged.

He took the Fourth-Order Alchemy Furnace from his Portable Small Realm and set it on a flat stretch of rock beside the Rock Terrace.

He tossed in the spirit materials, and pill fire rose.

Once the pill was formed, Li Yuan took one out and swallowed it.

The Medicinal Pill dissolved in his stomach, its gentle spirit power gathering toward his Nascent Infant and seeping into the dense membrane on its surface.

He circulated the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method.

At the same time, he shifted part of his spirit power to the demonic qi side and circulated the Dark Abyss Demonic Origin Art.

The spirit path and demonic path advanced along two parallel lines.

The purple permanent trait Demon-Spirit Homology allowed the two types of power to convert back and forth without any hindrance. The spirit power circuit of the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method and the demonic qi circuit of the Dark Abyss Demonic Origin Art operated within his body at the same time. Spiritual qi and demonic qi each occupied half the space in his meridians, never interfering with one another.

The dark golden spirit power and dark purple demonic qi within his Nascent Infant advanced simultaneously through cycles of refinement.

The total rate of growth gained by the Spirit-Demon Unification Nascent Infant through dual-path cultivation far surpassed that of cultivating a single technique. Improvements in spirit power quality would synchronously raise the quality of demonic qi through conversion, while increased demonic qi refinement in turn stabilized the Nascent Infant's overall structure.

During breaks in cultivation, Li Yuan used the Pulse-Probing Technique to conduct a final round of data collection on the spirit power flow in