As spiritual power and Spiritual Qi circulated according to the cultivation art, they transformed into pure true essence, further raising Su Shi'er's cultivation.
Time passed slowly.
Su Shi'er cultivated for a full three years. Only after he had completely mastered the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Qi Embracing Art and cultivated it to the fifth layer did he stop taking pills and using Spirit Stones.
"The Lesser Heavenly Cycle Qi Embracing Art truly is formidable. Now that I've cultivated it to the fifth layer, circulating it at full force can already reach ten times the normal cultivation speed. In only three years, it has taken my cultivation from the peak of the early stage to the middle stage of the Golden Core stage."
"But the price is enormous as well. Ten times the cultivation speed requires thirty times the resource consumption, and more than sixty percent of those resources are wasted."
"On top of that, One Person, Three Transformations already demands a great deal of power. With such terrifying resource consumption, even I—who possess the Heaven and Earth Furnace and abundant resources—can barely endure it. If it were another cultivator, wouldn't they be even more troubled?"
Looking at the noticeably emptier Storage Pouch and Storage Ring, even Su Shi'er, who had always prided himself on his considerable wealth, couldn't help feeling the pain.
After years of scrambling and striving, he had accumulated a vast supply of ready-made cultivation resources, yet nearly twenty percent had been used up in only three years. This made him deeply realize that, as the path of immortal cultivation progressed, the resources it required truly increased with every passing day.
For an ordinary cultivator, these cultivation resources would have been enough for at least ten years of cultivation.
"Although it wastes a great deal of resources, it exchanges