The so-called Dao fruit module was the concrete result of combining mental certification Dao fruits with empirical certification Dao fruits. It manifested what traditional Dao paths called spiritual attainment and fruition, transforming them into something that could tangibly improve a cultivator's cultivation and strength and evolve their essence of life.
Such things had existed since ancient times. Legends of ancient cultivators abounded with tales of ascending to immortality by swallowing a pill, achieving everything in a single leap, as well as senior masters imparting their power and various other shortcuts.
But unlike those scattered fortuitous encounters, Li Chen wanted to turn this into a large-scale online business model, using the principles of industrialization and modernization to mass-produce these cultivation provisions and achieve sustainable development.
This was, in fact, within the domain of external elixir arts, the earliest methods of cultivation.
In the Azure Billow Immortal Abode within materialized heaven, Li Chen was handling the recruitment of subordinates and the various affairs involved in launching the research effort. After confirming that funding and personnel were steadily arriving and that several projects he had assigned were on track, he sank into thought.
"Cultivation encompasses nothing beyond the internal and external. With external elixirs, gold, jade, and mercury slurry are refined into pills, and one dose brings ascension to immortality."
"During humanity's age of ignorance, many cultivators misunderstood the meaning of external elixir arts through a mechanically materialist outlook. They often mistook the properties of gold, jade, and similar substances for immortal properties, unaware of deeper existences such as spiritual energy and spiritual essence. Nor had they developed Dao-certification methods such as San Jie Gui Zhi or Investigating Things and Extending Knowledge."
"Because gold and jade have stable properties, and mercury slurry is imperishable, refining them into pills and swallowing them would supposedly