Several years later.
Qi Refinement Way, Copper Immortal Island.
Inside a mid-grade fourth-tier cave abode, every last trace of spiritual qi had vanished without a trace, as though it had been drained away by some invisible black hole...
Fang Qing opened his eyes atop the Clear-Heart Meditation Mat. "Handing this Devouring Sea Method to my second Nascent Soul is equivalent to cultivating it on my own... The results are not bad. Unfortunately, cultivation in the Nascent Soul Realm is difficult in the end. If I rely entirely on bitter cultivation, advancing will not be accomplished in a day or two."
For the past few years, he had relied on his second Nascent Soul to cultivate automatically, naturally because he had more important matters to attend to.
For instance... expanding "Origin Spring Ripple" to the Purple Mansion level!
With Fang Qing's current attainment in [Winnowing Basket Water], this was somewhat difficult, but far from impossible.
After all, he still had "Longlasting Sweet Rain" as a reference.
"Compared to 'Longlasting Sweet Rain,' this 'Origin Spring Ripple' is like the difference between the orthodox path and a side branch..."
"But if I were a [Winnowing Basket Water] True Lord, immortal and indestructible myself, why would I spread my own lineage? Would I be happy to have more True Lords fighting over [Winnowing Basket Water]? It would already be good enough to pass down only a side-branch lineage... Once they cultivated to Perfected Purple Mansion in the future, I could promote them into immortal retainers. They would count as capable subordinates..."
"This is like the Buddhist Scriptures passed down by the Lord of the Charnel Forest. They might not even be the orthodox [Maiden Earth] teachings... Now that Sangji has received my personally transmitted secret scripture of the 'Death-Terror Aspect,' his hopes of cultivating