The Art of [Borrowed Attunement], Meeting the [Chen Family Ancestor] Again, and Borrowing [Foundation Establishment]
"Ancestor, I have a favor to ask!" Chen Fan stirred the [lineage Fortune], drawing the [Chen Family Ancestor]'s divine sense to him.
He went straight to the point and told the ancestor his request.
—Borrowed Attunement to the [Foundation Establishment Realm]?
In fact, using [Borrowed Attunement] to access a rank and realm was not particularly rare. Some even used [Rank Severing] to help their juniors, though that involved [life-bound divine abilities].
Borrowed Attunement Rank had also been developed by a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
As everyone knew, when [Foundation Establishment] cultivators or [Qi Refining lower cultivators] reached a bottleneck and could no longer advance an inch for the rest of their lives,
they could either reincarnate, damaging their Dao Foundation in pursuit of fortune in their next lives,
or establish a lineage, or even join a [Sacred Land].
This would increase their lifespans and even improve the underlying nature of their fortune, allowing them to seek a breakthrough.
But this involved the [rules of heaven and earth]: once they achieved Dao Unification with the [lineage Fortune],
they could no longer leave the area it covered. From then on, they and the lineage would share glory and ruin alike.
Thus, [Foundation Establishment] cultivators generally would not do this unless they had no other choice. The [Chen Family Ancestor] had taken the latter path and already merged himself with the [lineage Fortune].
And so, one [Foundation Establishment] cultivator had developed Borrowed Attunement Rank, allowing [Qi Refining lower cultivators] to borrow his [rank] and thereby reach the [Foundation Establishment] level.
Though they were only watered-down [Foundation Establishment] cultivators, there was still so much they could do without being confined to the lineage's grounds. It was an alternative way of lifting that restriction.
Of course, this [Borrowed Attunement] had its drawbacks: [Foundation Establishment Dao attainment],