Innate Lesser Yang Sunlight Life-Nurturing Wondrous Qi and On Localized Qi Fields

He planned to rely on the Chunhe Aluminum Group's resources and channels to speed up his growth while actively exploring and collecting Class Change Stones, taking up more professions and steadily growing stronger.

As for joining the authorities and receiving their training, after he had his status as a professional certified, he learned that the country usually trained professionals to become scientists. That left him with little interest.

He preferred the feeling of controlling his own power. Although joining the authorities would bring him considerable benefits, he would also lose his freedom, and a single word from them could send him plunging into the abyss. Someone like him, with no parents, no children, no home, and no loans, was destined never to be entrusted with an important role.

Moreover, after taking up the Intelligent Life profession, he had awakened the Reduction talent.

[Reduction]

Function: You receive a 20% reduction in profession-related requirements.

It was precisely thanks to this talent that he had easily succeeded in taking up a profession with 1.2 essence and 1.2 spirit.

He therefore decided to develop independently, creating professions to suit his own ideas. As his abilities continued to grow, he believed there would always be a place for him in this world.

Meanwhile, Wang An's main body reorganized his somewhat cluttered panel and pulled up the Profession Panel.

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Name: Wang An

Essence: 2.48

Qi: 2.57

Spirit: 3.06

Talents: Avatar, Qi Observation

Professions: Intelligent Life, Student, Martial Artist, Archer, Qi Refiner, Mechanical Engineer, Technician

Cultivation methods: [Refining Essence into Qi (proficient, 82/1000)] [Refining Qi into Spirit (beginner, 26/100)]

Profession prerequisite skills: [Compound Bow Archery (proficient, 825/1000)] [Basic Taijiquan (proficient, 1000/1000)], [Health Qigong Baduanjin (proficient, 1000/1000)], [Mindfulness Meditation (proficient, 1000/1000)]

Profession skills: [Profession Guidance], [Focus], [Repair], [Precision], [Qi Gathering], [Qi Refining], [Flash of Inspiration], [Enhanced Perception]

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

Wondrous method: [Spirit-Nurturing Method]

His spirit attribute now had two advanced methods, [Refining Qi into Spirit] and [Spirit-Nurturing Method]. As a result, even though Wang An's spirit attribute had surpassed 3 points, it could still grow by 0.02 a day. At this stage, no medicine could increase his cultivation speed; only advanced methods could provide a slight improvement.

His qi attribute had [Refining Essence into Qi] and [Refining Qi into Spirit], and its growth rate was also fairly good, at around 0.04.

His essence attribute grew the slowest. Cultivating [Refining Essence into Qi] increased it by 0.02 a day.

However, when Wang An saw the sun formed from 108 strands of Lesser Yang Qi floating above the lake of essence and qi in his lower dantian, he felt a slight improvement in his essence and qi.

He had already finished gathering the heaven and earth qi-the Lesser Yang Qi-for the day. Using the [Qi Refining] skill, he began rapidly refining this Lesser Yang Qi together with the true qi in his dantian.

After an unknown amount of time, it gradually condensed into a rising sun that radiated warmth and nurtured all living things. As it slowly stabilized and faint patterns began to appear, a piece of information surfaced in his mind.

[Innate Lesser Yang Sunlight Life-Nurturing Wondrous Qi]: Shaped like the rising sun, its sunlight nurtures all things, sustaining life and revealing a wondrous method.

Wondrous method: Bathe in Mystic Qi and let its sunlight shine upon you, sustaining life and producing essence and qi.

After this [Innate Lesser Yang Sunlight Life-Nurturing Wondrous Qi] formed, Wang An felt a warmth spread throughout his dantian. The lake of essence and qi also became more active, and he could feel the process of refining true qi becoming faster and smoother.

Moreover, when he circulated the wondrous method and activated the sunlight shining upon him, he could feel the lake of essence and qi growing visibly. It would not be long before both his essence and qi attributes broke through 3 points.

"I need to speed up my research into the Feng Shui Master profession."

These past few days, apart from his normal cultivation, Wang An had certainly not been idle. Through observations from his Avatar's perspective and calculations of the feng shui qi fields and terrain, he had studied the process by which heaven and earth qi gathered in the monkey cave and the wild boar den.

Wang An now had a rough understanding of what kind of arrangement could make the heaven and earth qi in an area flow continuously toward a particular spot.

Although he did not yet know how to refine two different kinds of heaven and earth qi together into a new kind, that did not stop him from searching for patterns through experiments. He could first set up a localized qi field that would continuously gather the mountains' pure qi, then observe its effects and changes.

As it happened, the villa complex where Wang An lived had a fairly suitable terrain. It was shaped like the letter A, with the residential area enclosed inside the A and mountain forests on the other sides.

The ideal feng shui terrain for gathering pure qi would be funnel-shaped, surrounded by mountain forests on all sides with no exit. A simple arrangement could then gather the surrounding pure qi with extremely high efficiency. However, such perfect feng shui terrain generally did not occur naturally in the world.

The monkey cave gathered pure qi from the east and west, while the wild boar den was in a mountain forest that formed a somewhat irregular basin. It could gather the pure qi within the basin as well as that of the surrounding mountains, making it a relatively efficient localized qi field.

Over the past few days, Wang An had already calculated the trajectories of the pure qi based on the local feng shui terrain.

Placing Class Change Stones just anywhere would not work, of course. He needed to calculate the paths, flow rates, and the effects of time on the surrounding heaven and earth qi, making sure the arrangement would not obstruct and affect the flow of other qi, while accelerating the gathering of pure qi.

Given the huge opening in this location, Wang An needed to set up another localized qi field to hinder the loss of pure qi, in addition to the arrangement for gathering it.

He could draw on the water qi gathering at the southern opening, directing it northward to create a barrier and stop the pure qi from flowing out.

That would complete a localized qi field capable of continuously gathering pure qi.

Wang An estimated that an arrangement using the sixteen Class Change Stones he currently possessed could gather as many as twenty strands of pure qi a day. In other words, he would gather pure qi four or five times faster than before. This was a major breakthrough.

To set up a large feng shui qi field capable of affecting the magnetic field of an area, however, the local heaven and earth qi might need to gather to a certain extent and reach a particular state.

Although heaven and earth qi could be produced continuously in a given place, its function was to maintain the balance of the local qi field.

If Wang An kept gathering the pure qi of an entire area without regard for the cost, the trees and other living things elsewhere would be deprived of the nourishment provided by the circulation of heaven and earth qi. Their life processes would gradually slow, the ecosystem's capacity to sustain its cycles would decline, and ultimately the local ecosystem would be destroyed.

The production of water qi would decrease further, while the earth vein qi, without the ecosystem to transform it, would gradually settle and turn into some kind of pure earth qi.