The Second Ladder of Cultivation, the Simulation Begins (Please Keep Reading)

The Second Ladder of Cultivation, the Simulation Begins (Please Keep Reading)

Yu Ke finished the last meal of the afternoon.

Two meals a day.

He had not gotten breakfast.

Couldn't get up!

He sat quietly upright on the bed, eyes slightly lowered, sinking into thought.

Aside from the first four days after he had just transmigrated, when he had been muddleheaded, accepting eighteen years' worth of memories, his head aching faintly, his whole spirit listless, and he had slept for several days in bed, only then waking clear and normal.

By now.

Though "Celestial Reincarnation" had already lasted thirty years, in the real world, only three and a half days had passed.

Fortunately!

He had finally fixed the problem of the acupoints in his body.

However, the obstruction in his tendons and meridians still remained.

Every time he tried to guide spiritual qi into his body, that violent pain was like a sharp blade scraping bone, making it unbearable.

If he forced his cultivation, he feared it would only run counter to his wishes, the basket drawn up empty when success was in sight, and his meridians would be directly ruined.

Yu Ke shook his head. This definitely would not do!

Cultivation had to be mutual consent. If you tried to force it, what if the other party called the police...

This world.

The path of cultivation began with the First Ladder, also known as "Heavenly Cycle Qi Gathering." Many great sects each had their own names for it, such as dhyana, qi refining, nourishing vast righteousness, and so on.

At the start, all of them involved sensing the existence of spiritual qi.

Many people were blocked at this pass, as though by a heavenly chasm.

Great clans and noble families, in order to let their descendants travel the road of cultivation without obstruction, would even carry out "fetal nurturing" when the child had been in the womb for three or four months, laying a solid foundation for the child's cultivation path.

In Yu Ke's family, there were also several direct-line disciples who had enjoyed such treatment.

The cost of fetal nurturing was extremely high. It required a vast quantity of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, with calculations so precise they even had to be detailed down to every two-hour period.

The resources needed for just ten months of pregnancy were probably enough to pile into a small mountain of spirit stones.

However, what this towering cost brought in exchange was an astonishing effect.

The moment the child was born, they had already crossed the First Ladder of cultivation, their acupoints throughout the body brimming full, able to directly absorb the spiritual qi of heaven and earth into the body, providing tremendous convenience for opening the meridians afterward.

Without a doubt, on the road of cultivation, they had won at the starting line from the very beginning.

Yu Ke thought of an advertisement from his previous life.

"Mom will never have to worry about my cultivation again."

However, in this world, there were always some geniuses who seemed born destined to step onto the path of cultivation.

From the day they were born, they possessed a flawless true body, with purest innate qi naturally growing within them.

Once this kind of constitution was revealed to the world, it would draw the attention and frantic competition of countless great sects.

As long as they could grow smoothly and did not die young, their future achievements would surely be glorious, with the potential to assault the realm of great True Person.

In Yu Ke's memories, there was one among the collateral branches of the Yu Family who had possessed an "innate body" from birth. This news had even alarmed the family's old ancestor.

Because of that, the family did not hesitate to tilt resources toward nurturing her, and her parents' status within the family also rose with the tide as the boat rose.

"Sigh, the rich rely on technology, the poor rely on mutation."

Compared with that extraordinary talent, he felt his own aptitude was ordinary. He had only sensed the existence of spiritual qi at ten years old through cultivating the family technique.

But his parents had never given up their expectations of him.

In his memories, his parents had cared for him deeply. What was strange was that ever since he had joined the sect, even correspondence with them had grown scarce.

Since childhood, his parents had carefully arranged medicinal baths for him, intending to temper his bones and muscles and hone his will.

Only when he came of age had he been able to enter the Divine Firmament Sect, officially beginning the cultivation path of absorbing spiritual qi.

However, spiritual qi was wild and violent, difficult to tame.

Only by relying on the sect's exquisite techniques could it be guided step by step and transformed for one's own use.

With the slightest carelessness, one might suffer a backlash from spiritual qi and be heavily injured.

Yu Ke actually felt that the words "qi refining" were comparatively vivid. Refining qi meant using it for oneself.

Thus, one had to wait until the fleshly body had been cultivated to a certain realm before it could withstand the impact of spiritual qi and truly begin qi refining.

He needed to take every faint strand of spiritual qi, like fine threads, and carefully merge it into every acupoint in his body, until he had filled nine strands of spiritual qi. Only then would he count as having completed cultivation of this stage.

When one stepped into the realm of the Second Ladder—the Body Cleansing Realm—one began drawing in the spiritual qi between heaven and earth to scour the meridians within the body and dredge the acupoints.

This stage aimed to hammer and refine the bones and muscles, making them tougher, as though cleansing marrow and cutting bone, shedding the mortal body and exchanging the bones.

When all the meridians in the body had been opened and spiritual qi completed one heavenly cycle, that was perfection.

Yu Ke's predecessor had been at the perfected Body Cleansing Realm when he had kicked the bucket!

And now, if he did not consider the damage to his meridians, his cultivation realm should be at the First Ladder, the "Heavenly Cycle Qi Gathering" stage.

However, less than three months remained until the outer sect's first assessment.

In the past, this assessment was nothing more than going through the motions. Senior brothers and sisters from the inner sect would follow the roster and visit each household, simply checking everyone's cultivation.

But this time was different. For disciples like him, who had been in the sect for nearly five years, if they had not achieved a certain level of success on the Second Ladder and had not dredged most of their acupoints, they would face the fate of being expelled from the sect.

A trace of unwillingness flashed through Yu Ke's eyes.

Or he would be reduced to a menial disciple, spinning every day like a top, laboring from morning to night like an ox or a horse. Who could endure that!

This young master wanted to cultivate immortality!

Therefore, he had to repair his meridians as quickly as possible to ensure that he could smoothly pass this assessment.

As for the so-called outer sect grand competition and advancing to become an inner sect disciple, that was still far too distant.

As for entering Fairy Yunxiao's tutelage, that was even more like flowers in a mirror and the moon in water. Across the land of the three provinces, countless scions of aristocratic families yearned for it even in their dreams.

Rice had to be eaten one bite at a time, and the road had to be walked one step at a time.

For now, passing the assessment and staying in the outer sect was the urgent matter, the first priority.

He could not exactly force it the moment they met. That was very criminal.

When Yu Ke came back to himself from his deep thoughts, the sky had already darkened, and night had quietly descended.

He slowly got up and walked out of the room, gently closing the door of his own house.

He could not cultivate anyway, so he might as well sleep early and not stay up late.

Just then!

A white-clothed figure drifted leisurely into the courtyard. Yu Ke only glimpsed a back view before the west room lit up.

The new neighbor, the white-clothed youth, had returned.

Suddenly, a faint sound came from outside the gate. Yu Ke looked toward the sound.

A group of people walked carefully into the courtyard.

The one at the front was a beautiful female cultivator, her manner respectful.

Behind her were four or five servants dressed like restaurant waiters.

They carried exquisite food boxes in their hands. Clearly, they were here to deliver a meal.

The female cultivator respectfully knocked on the door of the west room, and only then did the servants behind her slowly walk in, every step seeming so humble.

Yu Ke instantly caught the fine patterning on the backs of those people's clothes, embroidered with the words "Blue Sea Tide Pavilion."

Blue Sea Tide Pavilion!

There was only this one in the outer sect!

Compared with the banquet last time, the Immortal Delicacy Tower, this was high-end by who knew how many levels.

The most expensive restaurant in the outer sect, bar none.

It was said that every ingredient was immortal-grade, and the prices were outrageously high.

His good friend Zhou Liang had once followed a little rich lady inside and tasted the rare delicacies and fine dishes there.

That flavor had given him enough bragging material for more than half a year.

At this moment, the door-to-door meal delivery service displayed even more clearly the noble status of the diner.

At Blue Sea Tide Pavilion, only the VIPs among VIPs could enjoy such service.

After all, in his previous life, door-to-door was always more expensive than roadside, and the quality was better.

Those who knew, knew.

In just a moment, an enticing fragrance wafted over, so rich it seemed able to seize the soul, making one's mouth water.

Yu Ke grew hungry just from smelling it!

Damn it.

Comparing yourself to others could anger a person to death. In this courtyard, one was a little rich lady, and the other most likely had an even thicker net worth.

I hated tall, rich, and handsome bastards the most!

Bang

He shut the door and went to sleep!

Deep in the night.

The Kun Void Cauldron in Yu Ke's mind trembled slightly, letting out a low and mysterious hum.

Immediately afterward, a faint light appeared on the cauldron's body, and clear subtitles manifested upon it:

[Cooldown ended. Begin Celestial simulation?]

Yu Ke woke in a daze.

Without hesitation.

"Celestial Reincarnation, activate!"

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