Four in One: Dao Seed Martial Dao Cultivation System

Three months later, Liu Yi gazed at the 100 External Brains neatly arranged before him, unable to conceal his excitement.

He swiftly linked the External Brains together with his Divine Sense, then infused them with spiritual power.

In an instant, he clearly felt his deduction and calculation power increase tenfold.

Cultivation Methods that had once taken him considerable time to deduce now yielded results in the blink of an eye.

"Good heavens, these External Brains really are powerful, but their power consumption is terrifying."

He had spiritual power stored in 129,600 acupoints throughout his body, yet even that would not sustain a full-power deduction for a day.

Once his spiritual power was exhausted, he would lack the means to protect himself if he encountered danger.

For him, with his lack of security, the risk was too great.

He immediately decided that he would run deductions at full power for no more than five double-hours a day before shutting down the External Brains to restore his spiritual power.

Even so, this would greatly accelerate his progress in deducing the cultivation system.

Not only that, he also planned to use them to try to comprehend the Time Principle and Space Principle of the Spacetime Realm.

The reason he had this idea was that, as far as he knew, Golden Core Realm cultivators of outstanding comprehension in this world could already comprehend a trace of a Great Dao Principle.

With his own comprehension and the aid of the External Brains, he had hope of comprehending the Time Principle and Space Principle.

Even if he could grasp only the barest surface of them, it would be an immense gain for him.

After all, both were supreme Principles, and they were also key Principles for creating his own Cultivation Method later on.

With that thought, he immediately began deducing the cultivation system he had envisioned.

The core of this cultivation system was the union of "essence, Qi, spirit, and Dao" into one:

"Essence" referred to the physical body, "Qi" was the True Power gained through cultivation, "spirit" represented the soul, or divine soul, and "Dao" was the Great Dao Principle one chose for oneself.

When "essence, Qi, spirit, and Dao" became one, the human body would become a self-contained microcosm, capable of sustaining itself.

Afterward, one would only need to keep expanding one's Dao and comprehending Principles to naturally promote the growth of essence, Qi, and spirit, without deliberately cultivating the three separately.

As the Dao grew more complete, the human body microcosm would grow stronger like a young sapling, undergoing transformation and sublimation in every respect.

But to reach the extraordinary realm where "essence, Qi, spirit, and Dao" became one, he had to advance steadily, step by step. It could not be achieved in a single bound.

He planned to begin by uniting essence and Qi, then proceed to uniting Qi and Dao, and finally unite spirit and Dao.

Through this step-by-step fusion, essence, Qi, spirit, and Dao would gradually merge until they were indistinguishable, finally reaching the extraordinary state of four in one.

In this state, one's combat power would be formidable; even a casual strike would combine "essence, Qi, spirit, and Dao" in a single attack.

The first realm of this cultivation system was the Body Tempering Realm, which focused on training the physical body and replenishing essence and Qi.

The Body Tempering Realm was divided into six stages: flesh refinement, skin refinement, sinew transformation, bone tempering, internal strengthening of the five viscera and six bowels, and Qi and Blood.

Ultimately, cultivation in the Body Tempering Realm would produce the Heaven and Earth Furnace, using the body as a furnace to refine the power of heaven and earth, taking it in without letting it out and doubling cultivation speed.

The second realm was the Innate Realm. Cultivators had to use Qi and Blood to open the Ren and Du meridians, thereby condensing Innate True Qi.

The third realm was the Divine Sea Realm, or Foundation Establishment Realm, in which True Qi would turn liquid.

At the same time, cultivators had to determine the direction of the Dao they would follow in the future and comprehend a compatible intent or a trace of a Great Dao Principle.

Cultivation in the first three realms was mainly intended to achieve an initial fusion of essence and Qi.

The fourth realm was the Dao Seed Realm, or Golden Core Realm. Cultivators had to fuse their comprehended intent or Principle with True Power and nurture a Dao Seed within their Dantian.

The formation of a Dao Seed meant that Qi and Dao had been united.

Thus, an initial connection was also established between essence, Qi, and Dao.

Since the core of this cultivation system lay in nurturing a Dao Seed, he named it the "Dao Seed Martial Dao Cultivation System."

Liu Yi opened his eyes wearily, his heart full of helplessness.

"I never expected these 100 External Brains to consume spiritual power so frantically. Even my mental power can barely keep up."

A moment later, his spirits rose again. His gains this time had been tremendous.

In just five double-hours, he had not only perfected the first four realms of the cultivation system, but also deduced a Cultivation Method called the Martial Scripture.

He had also settled on his own path of cultivation: cultivate the Great Dao of the World, condense his Dao Seed into a World Seed, and then split heaven and earth to create a world.

However, this path was destined to be strewn with thorns.

To reach his goal, he would not only have to master the two core Principles of time and space, but also comprehend many Great Dao Principles.

Relying on his own efforts alone, there was no telling how many years it would take to achieve anything.

"It seems creating a system to assist my cultivation can't wait any longer."

He clenched his fist, a determined light flashing in his eyes. "Only by using a system to gather the wisdom of all living beings can I comprehend Great Dao Principles faster. Otherwise, if I rely on myself to comprehend the Dao, it might take until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse."

As soon as the thought arose, he focused his mind and circulated his Cultivation Method, entering a state of regulated breathing to restore his depleted spiritual and mental power.

Time flowed swiftly, and two years passed in the blink of an eye.

During that time, Liu Yi relied on his astonishing perseverance and comprehension to continually perfect the Dao Seed Martial Dao Cultivation System and the Martial Scripture, pushing his cultivation to the Peak of the Divine Sea Realm.

With the powerful aid of the External Brains, he also spent day and night comprehending the mysteries of the Spacetime Realm, grasping a trace of the Time Principle and Space Principle.

Not only that, he also grasped the principles of the Five Elements' mutual generation and restraint and the cycle of yin and yang, successfully comprehending a trace of the Five Elements Principle and Yin-Yang Principle.

On that foundation, he even refined a rudimentary form of the Great Dao of the World.

Although his cultivation had advanced in leaps and bounds, one matter left Liu Yi thoroughly vexed.

Little Yellow had actually gone astray!

Little Yellow had followed Liu Yi since he was young, and over the past few years, he had enjoyed no small amount of the rare medicinal herbs treasured by the clinic.

Liu Yi had also used True Power from time to time to tend to Little Yellow's sinews and bones and strengthen his physique.

Little Yellow was now as sturdy as a young calf, and he had even awakened his intelligence.

But things had developed completely beyond Liu Yi's control. Who could have expected Little Yellow to take such a liking to the massage services at the brothel?

Liu Yi himself had only been to the brothel once, and had hurried away after merely eating a meal. He had never set foot there again.

If Liu Yi had not taken Little Yellow in when he was young, and if Little Yellow had not resembled the Chinese village dogs of Liu Yi's previous life, carrying a trace of his longing for that life,

he might have thrown Little Yellow away, rather than treating him as an anchor to tether his own humanity,

lest, as his cultivation grew ever deeper in the future, he gradually lose sight of his original self, become cold and unfeeling, and turn into someone who regarded all living beings as mere ants.