Progress and a New Experimental Cultivation Method

Thus, regarding the special regulations the state had introduced to control information about classes,

Most people who had attempted to take a class had gone from initial hope to disappointment at their failure, and had gradually calmed down.

After all, who didn't want to become a genius?

Instead, they approved of the state's actions. Classes merely trained people into specialists in a single field; they offered no immortality or ability to extend one's lifespan.

Once these class holders had been trained, their breakthroughs would still be put to use through the state, ultimately benefiting everyone.

Most people on this platform were members who had explored meteorite impact zones.

Some had even encountered mutated creatures and survived with difficulty, so most were fairly practical.

Living their own lives well and not causing trouble for the state was good enough.

Wang An felt that perhaps he could get certified as a class holder when the time was right.

Of course, that would be after the restrictions on class holders were loosened. After all, once certified, he would have to cooperate with state research institutions and make targeted breakthroughs in various fields that were still lacking.

If his movements and time were restricted, leaving him no energy to pursue his own goals, the losses would outweigh the gains.

Thinking of this,

Wang An put down his phone and began cultivating.

At eleven o'clock on the night of April 6, the weather cleared. Moonlight flooded the earth.

In his rented room, Wang An gathered and refined a wisp of Greater Yin Qi into his body, then used the [Qi Refining] skill to refine 108 wisps of Greater Yin True Qi together in his dantian.

The Greater Yin True Qi, radiating a silvery-white glow, gradually began to form a full moon. Its shape grew increasingly solid, giving off a faint light.

When the gaseous full moon stopped changing and faint patterns began to appear on it, a piece of information surfaced in his mind.

[Innate Greater Yin Moonlight Spirit-Nurturing Wondrous Qi]: Its form resembles a silver moon. Its light shines with the yin nature of moonlight, nurturing the spirit and manifesting a wondrous method.

Wondrous method: Visualize Mystic Qi, reflect the moonlight, and nurture the soul.

In that case, this wisp of Mystic Qi had provided Wang An with a wondrous method of heaven and earth for increasing his spirit attribute.

According to the description of this wondrous method, he could visualize Supreme Yin moonlight and reflect it upon his soul.

Nurtured by this energy of heaven and earth, the soul would gradually grow stronger, transcend its former dispersed form, and gradually become unified and pure.

Ultimately, it would manifest behind his head as the form of the Supreme Yin Moon God, attaining the fruit of illuminating the wisdom of living beings and awakening the intelligence of all beasts.

Such a fruit was not something a mere mortal could hope to attain.

He brought up his panel to check the results of his cultivation over the past few days.

Wang An felt it was necessary to use [Qi Refining] to make up for his qi attribute, which was falling a little behind.

[Name: Wang An

Essence: 2.02

Qi: 1.89

Spirit: 2.53

Talents: Avatar, Qi Observation

Classes: Intelligent life-form, student, martial artist, archer, Qi Refiner

Skills: [Refining Essence into Qi, beginner, 72/100] [Compound Bow Archery, proficient, 300/1000]

Innate Qi: [Innate Greater Yin Moonlight Spirit-Nurturing Wondrous Qi]]

Basic cultivation methods such as Tai Chi Chuan, Eight Pieces of Brocade, and Mindfulness Meditation had already reached the limit of their ability to temper his body and no longer produced any gains. Even if he reached the peak of proficiency, he could not advance them to a higher level.

So Wang An had directly integrated them into the [Qi Refiner]'s [Refining Essence into Qi]. Once an attribute exceeded 2 points, the 0.04 attribute points that cultivation of [Refining Essence into Qi] had previously brought each day dropped to 0.02.

In other words, through [Refining Essence into Qi], he could now gain only 0.01 spirit and 0.02 essence and qi per day.

In the future, he would need to prepare some great medicine and use dietary supplementation to increase the rate of growth.

Now Wang An needed a new class or a new method to increase his attribute points.

To increase his cultivation speed, he needed a new, higher-level method to improve his physical attributes from a higher perspective.

As it happened, his Avatar had returned. The company had been selecting new exploration targets over the past few days, and regions with dozens of meteorite impact sites had basically already been visited by multiple exploration teams.

Fewer and fewer usable Class Change Stones remained.

Wang An therefore changed direction and began focusing on gathering information and records about areas with concentrations of meteorites.

So, over the next few days, his Avatar could experiment with [Refining Qi into Spirit], which followed [Refining Essence into Qi].

Now, strengthened by multiple classes and having studied various Taoist scriptures, Wang An was gradually gaining a clearer understanding of how to proceed along the path ahead.

The first stage of Refining Qi into Spirit: the Greater Heavenly Circulation, the union of heaven and earth, and the unblocking of all meridians.

It required completing the qualitative transformation from the Lesser Heavenly Circulation to the Greater Heavenly Circulation.

After a long period of correct cultivation of "Refining Essence into Qi," the true qi, or life energy, within the body would have become extremely abundant and pure.

When true qi filled the body to its utmost limit, it would naturally overflow from the governing Ren and Du meridians. Without the need for forceful mental guidance, it would automatically follow the clearest paths, breaking through and connecting all the body's fine meridians.

Finally, reaching "luminous clarity" was an inner experience.

It described a clear, bright, unobstructed awareness of the body's interior wherever consciousness reached, not light seen with the naked eye.

In fact, there was no specific "step-by-step" procedure for achieving this.

At its core was "non-action."

Building on mastery of the preceding Lesser Heavenly Circulation, the cultivator needed to enter a deeper state of stillness and concentration, abandon all conscious attempts at guidance, and simply maintain "observation," allowing the abundant energy to flow naturally according to its own nature.

Forcibly guiding it with the mind could all too easily cause qi and blood to run wild.

The second stage of Refining Qi into Spirit: gathering the great medicine, passing the gates in seven days, and ingesting it.

This step required taking the condensed embryonic "Golden Core," the great medicine, and safely moving it from the lower dantian to the upper dantian to seal and temper it.

After the Greater Heavenly Circulation of the first stage, in a state of extreme stillness and concentration,

Three inner flashes of light resembling the sun or lightning would appear in the lower dantian. These were regarded as physiological signals that the "great medicine" had been refined and was ready to be gathered.

Once refined, the great medicine's energy was immensely powerful, and a special method called "Five Dragons" was needed.

It was raised from the base of the spine along the Du meridian, forcing its way through the Jade Pillow Gate at the back of the head.

This gate was the most difficult, and a true master had to stand by and provide protection through a mental technique or manual method, preventing the energy from failing to pass the gate or going astray.

In mild cases, the result was a splitting headache; in severe cases, nerve damage.

Once the great medicine had successfully passed the gate, it was guided to the upper dantian and briefly nurtured with spiritual intent, then lowered to the middle dantian and sealed there.

This process was called "ingestion" and "moving the cauldron and changing the furnace."

Most crucially, this entire stage had to be carried out in a state of "great concentration," with the mind deeply tranquil and undisturbed by the slightest stray thought. The timing and control of the process had to be precise to the finest degree.

The third stage of Refining Qi into Spirit: nurturing the sacred embryo, ten months of gestation.