Primordial Spirit Cultivation Arts

Li Yu felt a little moved. Ever since his failed attempt at Foundation Establishment, Song Lingxi was the only person who had shown him kindness.

But now, he had no choice but to disappoint her.

"Cousin, thank you, but after failing at Foundation Establishment, I've seen through life. For the days I have left, I only want to live in peace and see out my years."

For the first time, intense emotion swept across Song Lingxi's rather cool face. She grieved for his misfortune and raged at his refusal to fight.

"Rotten wood cannot be carved!"

After leaving him with those words, the emotion in Song Lingxi's eyes faded, turning into the coldest indifference.

By coming to warn him, she had already done right by her conscience.

From now on, whether Li Yu lived or died, her conscience would be clear.

A Jade-White Lotus flew out of Song Lingxi's ring. Without looking back, she stepped onto the flower and flew away in a streak of spiritual light.

Watching her graceful figure disappear, Li Yu sighed.

He did not want Song Lingxi to misunderstand him, but the opportunity the tablet offered was simply too heaven-defying. He could not let anyone know about it. He only hoped that, if he had the chance someday, he could apologize to his cousin in person.

Seeing that the sky had darkened, Li Yu returned to his cave abode, activated the restrictions on the entrance, picked up the tablet again, and opened the Galaxy Platform.

By now, he could no longer go a single day without it.

After spending some time watching Ji Ganlin's stream, he finally caught Xue Feng coming online. Li Yu immediately asked about his various experiences and doubts while cultivating the Purple Glow Art.

Although he had watched all the videos once, the Purple Glow Art was, after all, a cultivation art from the Galaxy Alliance. To Li Yu, it was still rather advanced, and many of its subtle intricacies eluded him.

Especially the four realms of Whirling Illumination, Illumination, Integration, and Purple Mansion.

These did not exist in the Eastern Lands. Even after watching the videos for reference, Li Yu understood only bits and pieces.

Only the most basic Qi Refinement realm was something he could fully grasp, thanks to his wealth of experience from spending forty years rooted in it.

Xue Feng vaguely remembered the fan with the username "Taiyi Zhenren." When he saw that Li Yu's fan score had risen from zero to ninety-nine, indicating that he had purchased videos from his shop, his smile grew even brighter. "You've come to the right streamer with your questions! Come on, let me answer them one by one, tailoring each explanation to your questions in the most direct, straightforward, to-the-point, no-nonsense, easy-to-understand way possible..."

Xue Feng was a small-time streamer. Besides hoping to become famous and earn Star Coins, he streamed to fill the boring hours outside his Body Tempering practice. A devoted fan like Li Yu was a rare find, so he put his heart into teaching him.

"Whirling Illumination means using your spiritual sense as the core to condense a single point within the Crimson Palace. This point is the origin of your future core formation and Nascent Soul Formation. It is of paramount importance, like a great sun shining over your entire body. Once you achieve Whirling Illumination, it's like a stellar system gaining its sun: the overall framework of your cultivation is established. As long as your spiritual sense remains, even if only the faintest thread survives, there is no risk of your true essence running out of control..."

Li Yu was astonished. The Whirling Illumination realm directly resolved the most crucial cause of failure in Foundation Establishment: true essence running out of control.

In the Eastern Lands, the hurdle of Foundation Establishment was met head-on through sheer strength, using spiritual sense to draw the spiritual substance of heaven and earth into the body. As true essence absorbed spiritual energy, it would instantly swell severalfold, breaking through every barrier along the way. Yet during this process, the cultivator's spiritual sense did not grow. Those with shallow foundations could instantly lose control of their true essence and die as their bodies burst apart.

Li Yu had done fairly well. He had struggled on for three days and nights before feeling his spiritual sense begin to scatter. Even then, he had held on until his meridians ruptured before reluctantly severing the true essence that formed his foundation and abandoning Foundation Establishment.

"Could you explain what the Crimson Palace is?" Li Yu took advantage of a pause after Xue Feng finished a section to ask about the unfamiliar term.

Xue Feng, who had been about to take a drink to soothe his throat, froze. Still, for the sake of his devoted fan, he patiently answered a question that should have been taught in kindergarten. "The Crimson Palace is the middle dantian. You don't know what the middle dantian is either? I..."

It was nearly dawn before Xue Feng stopped, using the excuse that he needed to absorb Great Sun Ascendant Purple Qi. He had spent the entire night answering Li Yu's elementary-school-level questions.

Before ending the stream, Xue Feng finally could not resist offering a suggestion. "Your fundamentals are weak. You might consider enrolling in a class and starting with introductory first-grade material. Otherwise, a question someone else could understand in one lesson takes you an entire night. That's really far too slow for effective teaching. Besides, learning more will help with Illumination."

Li Yu felt deeply ashamed, but his fierce desire to improve immediately drove him to ask Xue Feng where he could enroll.

He had a clear understanding of himself. His fundamentals were not merely weak-they were practically nonexistent.

After all, outer disciples in the Five Lotus Sect had no masters to guide them. Apart from the Transmission Elder's few lectures each month, they spent most of their time studying and figuring things out on their own.

Under such circumstances, only those true geniuses blessed with extraordinary comprehension could emerge like an awl piercing through its pouch.

"Find a few streamers who work as kindergarten teachers and check them out. Their shops should have videos of the relevant courses," Xue Feng said.

After he finished speaking, Li Yu saw the livestream go dark, indicating that Xue Feng had ended his broadcast.

Li Yu glanced at his own window. It was still late at night.

That meant he and Xue Feng were not beneath the same sun.

The world was vast indeed.

As he marveled at this, Li Yu searched for instructional videos covering elementary educational fundamentals. To his delight, the vast majority were free. Even those that charged only asked for a token price of 0.1 Star Coins.

Compared with the Five Lotus Sect, where even seeking instruction from the Transmission Elder required a tuition gift, the Galaxy Platform was practically a paradise.

The only problem was that there was far too much content.

Tens of thousands of people were explaining the Whirling Illumination realm alone.

Caught in this blissful dilemma, Li Yu chose the videos with the highest view counts and began watching.

In the days that followed, Li Yu cultivated the Purple Glow Art and practiced Body Tempering morning and evening. He spent all his remaining time holed up in his cave abode, cramming the Galaxy Alliance's twelve-year compulsory education fundamentals. His days were thoroughly fulfilling.

During this period, Li Yu also searched for information about the twelfth level of Qi Refinement.

He discovered that, despite the Galaxy Alliance's extremely detailed division of cultivation realms, Qi Refinement had only early, middle, and late stages. To them, the Qi Refinement realm was merely kindergarten level. Cultivation was not particularly important; the key was nurturing good character and habits, along with the ability to learn and work with one's hands.

Only upon entering elementary school did the fierce competition in cultivation begin. Whirling Illumination and Illumination laid the foundations and received particular attention.

Li Yu's failed Foundation Establishment attempt had led him to obtain the opportunity offered by the tablet, so it could be considered a blessing born of disaster. Had he successfully established his foundation with the shallow roots of his ninth-level Qi Refinement,

even abandoning his cultivation and starting over would have cost him lifespan and potential.

After learning this much, Li Yu searched for the Galaxy Alliance's cultivation arts.

Then thousands upon tens of thousands of Primordial Spirit cultivation arts, regarded as closely guarded secrets by the Five Lotus Sect, appeared before his eyes.