Developing My Own Cultivation Method? (Please Keep Reading!!!)

The bottleneck in his Spiritual Power was not that his talent was insufficient to support further progress, but that his Spiritual Power had grown so strong it was nearly breaking free of his body's restraints.

At that moment, Xu Yuan roughly understood why Gu Yue's Spiritual Power had been so absurd in the original story, yet still seemed somewhat understandable in the early stages.

If the body had not fully developed, overly powerful Spiritual Power could instead lead to accidents.

After all, she had chosen to cultivate again. Though she differed greatly from ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts that rebuilt themselves, her body was still merely a human body fused with the Silver Dragon King's bloodline.

The Silver Dragon King had never excelled in physical strength, so she had not displayed an overly heaven-defying physique in the early stages. However, her physical constitution had undoubtedly always been astonishing.

"If it weren't for the limits of my body, after a year, my Spiritual Power shouldn't be only two hundred and ten points. Even three hundred might not be the limit."

When Xu Yuan had first awakened, his Spiritual Power had surged rapidly. In one month at the Heaven Dou City Forging Master Association, it had risen from eighty-one points to ninety-nine, only because he had been stuck at the small bottleneck of the Spirit Connection Realm.

It might have been a brief period of rapid growth brought on by awakening his Martial Soul, but as his body developed and his Spiritual Power level rose, the rate at which his raw numerical value increased should not have decreased.

The further Spiritual Power advanced, the harder it became to improve. That did not mean that gaining ten points a year in the Spirit Origin Realm became impossible upon reaching the Spirit Connection Realm. It was simply that ten points seemed insignificant in the Spirit Connection Realm. Even if the same amount of cultivation could raise it by twenty or thirty points, it would still seem insignificant.

"Physical constitution is still far too important." Xu Yuan knew that strengthening his body would be his most urgent goal in the coming years of cultivation.

Under normal cultivation and development, his Spiritual Power would always remain in the top tier among his peers. But in this era of Legend of the Dragon King, Spiritual Power exceeding the norm was the only achievement Xu Yuan could really bring out.

"At the very least, I need to reach Gu Yue's level at the same age. Only then can I contend with them in the end, right?" That was Xu Yuan's judgment.

Moreover, the same age he referred to was their age in the middle and later stages.

"Before I turn thirteen, my Spiritual Power must surpass Gu Yue's from the same period!"

Back to the point.

Xu Yuan's purpose in entering the Spirit Ascension Platform this time was clear: to raise his Spirit, upgrading the Five Elements Spear Spirit to the Thousand Year level.

If one considered cost-effectiveness alone, raising the first Soul Spirit's cultivation at the first ring was the optimal choice. At that time, the spiritual energy gained from killing Soul Beasts in the Spirit Ascension Platform would be absorbed by a single Soul Ring rather than divided among several.

However, raising a Soul Spirit to the Thousand Year level while still a Soul Master meant that the second ring would also gain a Thousand Year Soul Ring from that Soul Spirit.

Bearing two Thousand Year Soul Rings at Level 20 placed no lower a demand on the body than bearing one Thousand Year Soul Ring before Level 20.

No, it was more than one level higher.

At Level 19, after tempering every aspect of one's body to the limit, one might be able to withstand the pressure of a Thousand Year Soul Ring. Yet with only a single level's difference, breaking through to Level 20 and immediately obtaining a second Thousand Year Soul Ring would be hell-level difficulty.

Of course, if he let his imagination run wild, there seemed to be a compromise. For example, after reaching Level 20, he could control the first Soul Spirit so it did not add a Soul Ring, fuse with a second Soul Spirit—a Hundred Year Soul Spirit—and keep the second ring at the Hundred Year level.

But the premise of that idea was having enough Spiritual Power to support a Soul Master simultaneously absorbing a Thousand Year Soul Spirit and a Hundred Year Soul Spirit. That was beyond what the Spirit Connection Realm could accomplish; it required the Spirit Sea Realm. Yet Spiritual Power at the Spirit Sea Realm generally also meant one's physical constitution was sufficient to bear two Thousand Year Soul Rings.

So, ideas could exist, but they could also be disproven.

Above all else, numbers could prove whether a conjecture was reasonable and whether something could be achieved.

That was mathematics.

"My body can bear a Thousand Year Soul Ring without issue. As for two Thousand Year Soul Rings, it should be about the same."

After all, Xu Yuan was the disciple of the Body Sect's Sect Master. Over the past year, he had consumed no shortage of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that enhanced physical constitution.

Mu Ye merely forbade him from using Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to raise his Soul Power. He had never said Xu Yuan could not use them to improve his physical constitution.

Of course, most Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures promoted Soul Power while improving physical constitution. At times like that, Mu Ye would use a Body Sect Secret Technique, perfectly bringing out the medicinal effects while consuming the treasures so that almost none of the energy leaked into his Soul Power.

As he released his Spiritual Power, Xu Yuan felt unprecedented ease.

"Inside this Spirit Ascension Platform, it seems my Spiritual Power isn't restricted at all."

Because of his body's carrying capacity, Xu Yuan's Spiritual Power had been constrained in quantity. He could only compress it as much as possible, which naturally made his Spiritual Power's elemental control extraordinarily powerful.

Xu Yuan guessed that Gu Yue's excessive elemental control might have stemmed from the same reason.

Now that he had entered the Spirit Ascension Platform and lost the restraints of his body, Xu Yuan's higher-quality Spiritual Power spread outward.

Without the limits of a container, his originally high-quality Spiritual Power began to disperse and dilute freely.

"After I return, my Spiritual Power should condense again. Experiencing these two processes repeatedly may help me develop a method for training Spiritual Power."

Because his Martial Soul was his brain, Xu Yuan had considerable talent for research. He also wanted to develop cultivation methods of his own, with Spiritual Power and body tempering being the two directions he focused on most.

Now, he had found inspiration for developing a Spiritual Power cultivation method.

Xu Yuan, lost in thought, suddenly changed expression.

He immediately leaped up, holding the Heaven Origin Brush as he looked behind him.

Three massive fireballs exploded where he had been standing, the blast carrying flames in all directions. Three connected, charred craters had been blasted into the ground.

Through his Spiritual Power perception, Xu Yuan could vaguely "see" that beyond the sea of fire formed by the exploding fireballs, the Three-Headed Flame Lions had faintly surrounded him.

Suddenly, the Three-Headed Flame Lions pounced, crossing the barrier of flames and charging straight at Xu Yuan.

His Spiritual Power had detected the Three-Headed Flame Lions long ago, so Xu Yuan did not panic as he responded.

The Three-Headed Flame Lions consisted of two large ones and a small one. Even the smallest appeared to have two hundred years of cultivation, while Xu Yuan roughly judged the two larger Flame Lions to have six hundred and five hundred years of cultivation respectively.

Outside, Xu Shengqun's expression changed slightly. He had not expected Xu Yuan to encounter an attack from such a lineup the moment he entered the Spirit Ascension Platform.

However, recalling Xu Yuan's cultivation results over the past year, he relaxed slightly.

Still, his heart remained somewhat tense.

Cultivation was only cultivation, after all. Whether one could apply what one had learned in actual combat was also crucial.

Fortunately, as he watched through the screen, Xu Yuan remained calm and reacted promptly. What he did next even made Xu Shengqun clap in praise.

Xu Yuan held the Heaven Origin Brush without transforming it into the Heaven Origin Spear, instead swinging the brush through the air.

Water!

The Heaven Origin Brush traced through the air as Water Element power gathered, forming a massive current.

Under Xu Yuan's control and beneath the Heaven Origin Brush's strokes, streams of water twisted from every tricky angle, completely sealing off the Three-Headed Flame Lions' paths.

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