The Great Sun's Divine Essence Changed Again and Again? A Glimpse of a Heaven-Shaking Opportunity!

"Dad, I want to try this twice."

"For the first attempt, open your mind. I'll imprint the visualization method's divine essence deep within your consciousness. Then visualize it and see whether it draws heaven and earth essence toward you, and whether the soul power in your dantian is guided into your meridians to form a self-contained cycle."

"If that doesn't work, we'll try the second approach."

"My soul power is too weak to guide your Soul King-level soul power through your meridians. I'll use my spiritual power to point out the meridians involved in the circulation route. You'll have to move your soul power yourself to follow along, and memorize the order in which it travels through them."

Jiang Ming pondered this, took a moment to digest it, then nodded.

"Simple enough. I've got it all down. Dongjun, let's begin."

Then Jiang Ming sat on the ground, facing the rising sun.

"Since it's called the Great Sun Visualization Method, facing the real sun while visualizing another one in my mind should help."

"...Possibly."

Jiang Dongjun wasn't sure either. He gave a vague answer and sat cross-legged on the ground as well.

After all, the sun he had studied while first creating the method wasn't the real sun. That morning, he hadn't had time to test whether practicing beneath the sun would improve his cultivation speed.

Yin Spirit, leave the body!

This time, forty-three thoughts, crystalline as diamonds, emerged from the crown of his head.

Thanks to pushing himself to the limit the day before yesterday and repeatedly studying that blazing sun, Jiang Dongjun's spiritual power had improved slightly again.

The forty-three thoughts approached his father, Jiang Ming, and surrounded him.

Great Sun Visualization Method, activate!

In an instant, the crystalline thoughts all turned brilliant gold, like miniature suns. One pressed against Jiang Ming's brow.

The blazing divine essence invaded with overwhelming force!

"Dad, your spiritual cultivation is a little low. Make sure you work on improving it."

"Now empty your mind, work with me, and visualize!"

Boom!

Drawing on his own spiritual cultivation, Jiang Dongjun directly imparted the essence to him. A blazing sun burned deep within Jiang Ming's consciousness.

Dazzling! Majestic! Fervent! Overbearing! Sacred!

The advantage of this direct impartation was precision.

With the great sun's divine essence correct, it was like entering the right bank account password. A wondrous field formed, giving birth to a miraculous "force."

From the moment it emerged, it drew heaven and earth essence toward him and guided the mighty soul power in Jiang Ming's dantian into his meridians, coursing through his entire body to form a self-sustaining cycle.

Jiang Dongjun watched the meridians his father's soul power passed through and noticed something wrong.

Why was it so different from my circulation route?

Had something gone wrong with his cultivation?

No! Absolutely not!

There was no error in the visualization. The great sun's divine essence he had imparted couldn't have been purer.

The soul power flowed smoothly through the meridians without any sluggishness, conflict, or reversal, and grew almost imperceptibly stronger as it circulated.

A possibility occurred to Jiang Dongjun, stirring a faint excitement.

He suppressed his restless emotions and quietly observed the circulation of soul power within his father until it completed a full cycle and returned to his dantian, having grown an almost imperceptible fraction stronger.

After comparing the two, Jiang Dongjun discovered that the number of meridians involved in his father's soul power circulation was nearly a third fewer than the number involved in one of his own cycles.

Something had gone wrong with the cultivation after all.

Had the cultivation method been simplified, lowering its efficiency?

No, I think this is a good thing. This more streamlined soul power circulation route should be the cultivation method best suited to Dad's aptitude, constitution, and Martial Soul!

In other words, I've struck something huge!

I thought I'd already given my fledgling Great Sun Visualization Method more than enough credit. Who knew I'd still underestimated it? Could it allow every cultivator who visualizes it to spontaneously develop the cultivation method best suited to them?

Compared with the complete Mysterious Heaven Skill... it was still hard to judge.

The Mysterious Heaven Skill could give ordinary people innate soul power, turning the rotten into the miraculous. Whether the Great Sun Visualization Method could do the same remained a question mark.

Jiang Dongjun understood perfectly well that, at its current stage, it most likely couldn't.

But that was fine. There was no need to lose heart.

The Great Sun Visualization Method could still grow. It was only in its fledgling stage right now: version 1.0.

By continuing to use soul liquid to "add points" and studying the blazing sun within the Mysterious Space, he could steal more of its divine essence as his spiritual power improved. There would be versions 2.0, 3.0, 4.0... and many, many more.

Jiang Dongjun didn't stop imparting the essence.

He wanted to imprint the great sun's divine essence permanently in his father's mind-to teach him to fish.

Yet gradually, something else seemed wrong.

The visualization method's divine essence was actually changing?!

With a thought, Jiang Dongjun continued to let it happen. He even weakened the impartation to accommodate it.

The sun within his father's consciousness seemed to burn even more fiercely.

Its color gradually changed to crimson. It no longer resembled a star, but a spherical furnace. The aura it radiated was more aggressive, savage and violent, bent on burning everything to nothing!

Using my Great Sun Visualization Method as the original foundation, Dad has forged his own path!

Clearly, this was a passive transformation with little to do with Jiang Ming himself. His talent simply didn't allow him to be that badass.

Heavens, the great sun's divine essence I stole from that Mysterious Space packs one hell of a lasting punch!

Jiang Dongjun was filled with wonder.

As time passed and the changes to the visualization method gradually stabilized, Jiang Dongjun discovered that his father had also entered Deep Meditation.

That should be about enough.

The dimmed thought withdrew from his father's brow and returned to his own body. Mental fatigue washed over him like a tide.

Imparting the essence consumed far too much spiritual power.

Fortunately, his spiritual cultivation was a cut above his Soul King father's. Otherwise, attempting such an impartation would have been nothing but a dream.

A wisp of sandalwood fragrance drifted into Jiang Dongjun's nose, instantly easing much of his mental fatigue. He took several deep sniffs.

He turned his head to look.

Sure enough, his mother had brought an incense burner and placed a stick of Soul-Nourishing Incense inside.

"Deep Meditation? Looks like your father-and-son experiment succeeded."

"Mom, don't worry. You'll experience everything Dad did too. I wasn't certain before, but the changes in him have given me my answer. You'll definitely be able to cultivate the Great Sun Visualization Method, and it'll definitely become the meditation method best suited to you!"

"Then I'll look forward to it." Diwu Ying smiled gently. "By the way, I just crushed the Communication Bead. The covert agents your maternal grandfather's family stationed in the city will be here shortly. Nobles have their own networks of contacts, so gathering all the ingredients for the Immortal Spirit Fungus Soup won't be difficult."

"Mom, go wait in the front courtyard. I'll stay here and watch over Dad."

"All right, I'll head to the front courtyard. I left buns and steamed egg cake on the table. Remember to eat."

After his mother, Diwu Ying, left, Jiang Dongjun summoned his Martial Soul and gazed at the Gilded Fireball with a strange look in his eyes.

--Density: 1100 kg/cubic meter (0/8)

Eight chances? I just used them all up the day before yesterday. Where did these come from?

Yesterday, all I did was finish Deep Meditation and eat a thousand-year crystal peach... Wait, could it be my physique!

11 + 8 = 19!

Can my current physique withstand a nineteen-hundred-year Soul Ring? That should be about right.

Jiang Dongjun's eyes lit up. He felt he had unraveled the rules for adding points to "density."

Since he had to guard his father, he didn't rashly "add points" or send his consciousness into the Mysterious Space to study the blazing sun.

At noon.

His mother brought lunch and told him that someone from the Viscount's Estate had already taken the ingredient list. Everything would be gathered and delivered in a little over a month at most.

Afterward, she stayed in the courtyard with Jiang Dongjun to stand guard.

At dusk, Jiang Ming emerged from Deep Meditation. His soul power level had reached 59.

After dinner, Jiang Dongjun began teaching his mother the Great Sun Visualization Method.

The same thing happened again.

The great sun Diwu Ying visualized within her consciousness changed in the later stages, becoming more vibrant. It seemed to transform into a living egg, with fine, featherlike patterns clearly visible across its surface.

As a visualization method suited to her took shape, it naturally brought another opportunity for Deep Meditation.

Leaving his father in the courtyard to guard his mother.

Jiang Dongjun returned to his bedroom, took out the little metal bottle, and pulled out its stopper. He could almost smell the fragrance of the soul liquid.

Add points! Add points!