Exchange Cultivation?

"In an instant, he entered Embryonic Breathing. How interesting. He was born without a Spirit Root, yet his Breath Sensitivity could be this strong?"

"This Lü Yuan is no ordinary fellow-"

After Lü Yuan kicked him to death over their bet, Wang Yan had just returned home, countless grass-mud horses galloping through his heart while he was unsure whether to say what he wanted to say.

When he came back to his senses, he saw Elder Hun's remnant soul slowly appear, stroking his beard with his right hand as he sighed in wonder.

"Elder Hun, what is Breath Sensitivity? Can strong Breath Sensitivity alone let someone enter Embryonic Breathing so quickly?" Wang Yan couldn't help asking.

He wasn't jealous; he was simply curious.

Normally speaking, anyone who had opened their apertures could enter the Embryonic Breathing realm if they spent enough time on it.

But the question was how much time-

Wang Yan didn't know how quickly the celestial dragons of the Upper City could do it.

But he knew all too well the average time it took elementary school students of every talent level in Mingyang City to enter Embryonic Breathing after opening their apertures.

The fastest took less than a month, while the slowest took more than three.

Those with two Spirit Apertures could generally sense Embryonic Breathing within a month. If their Spiritual Qi Aptitude was higher, even two weeks wasn't impossible.

Lü Yuan's situation went without saying. When Wang Yan proposed competing with him, he had already prepared for the worst.

But with Elder Hun's help, he might not necessarily have been inferior to Lü Yuan.

He had originally envisioned a race against death with Lü Yuan, the two of them remaining hot-blooded archrivals who refused to yield an inch, just as before.

But instead, he had been kicked to death the very next second. Who could keep a straight face after that?

Elder Hun naturally knew what he was thinking and had come to the same conclusion himself, so he too looked rather dejected.

"Breath Sensitivity is the innate strength of a person's ability to sense Embryonic Breathing."

"Generally speaking, only those born with Spirit Roots have it, and the higher the quality of their Spirit Roots, the greater their talent for Breath Sensitivity."

"So it's perfectly normal that you don't know about it."

"As far as I know, some people with strong Breath Sensitivity can enter the Embryonic Breathing realm extremely quickly as soon as they begin cultivating."

"Among my contemporaries in my era, quite a few were just as fast as Lü Yuan was just now."

"It's not something you can gain by envying it..."

"I just didn't expect that boy to have such talent despite being born without a Spirit Root. Could he really be a cultivation genius?!"

After all, it wasn't as though he had an undiscovered Artificial Spirit Root and had actually been using a replaceable Artificial Spirit Root to sense Embryonic Breathing all along, right up until today, was it?

Who would believe that?

After letting his imagination run wild, Elder Hun cleared his throat and comforted Wang Yan again:

"Still, Little Yanzi, there's no need to lose heart. With your master's guidance, and with your own Pseudo Spirit Root-level talent recovering, you won't necessarily be any worse than that boy Lü Yuan in your future cultivation."

"You only lost just now because of the difference in information. Your master was also at fault for failing to think things through-"

"But your master believes in you. Before long, you'll surely win back that fourth-grade Technique Method you just lost!"

Wang Yan stared at Elder Hun with dead-fish eyes. Less than optimistic about that, he asked in return:

"Do you guarantee it?"

Elder Hun smiled and nodded. "I guarantee it."

"Of course, if you really can't win it back, your master can simply take him in as a disciple too and make him your junior brother. Wouldn't that be another way of winning?"

Wang Yan rolled his eyes, a little exasperated. "So... you actually just prefer the new over the old and want to replace your disciple, don't you?"

Elder Hun corrected him indignantly. "That's only human nature... Ahem, no, how could you think that of your master? Am I that kind of person?"

"Then if you got a new disciple, what would you do with the old one?"

Elder Hun, whose mind had been poisoned by modern short-video culture, answered instinctively, "Of course I'd put the old one on [Swap Swap]..."

Black lines covered Wang Yan's face, and he shouted, "Master!"

At Wang Yan's retort, Elder Hun awkwardly came back to his senses. For a moment, the little rented room was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Meanwhile, Lü Yuan, who had gained a fourth-grade Technique Method, the [Fulfill the Root and Reflect Back Talisman Method], for nothing, was already lying on his bedroom bed.

Delighted, he had entered the consciousness space to share the good news.

But at that very moment, he and Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan, whom he had just called in as well, sensed a phenomenon that made them believe it.

"You've got to be kidding..."

Spurred on by his bet with Wang Yan, Punk Lü Yuan had pressed on in one vigorous burst and directly attained Embryonic Breathing, confirming that he could now bring things into the space.

But before he could share that joy and the fourth-grade talisman method with Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan, he was already struck by an even greater shock.

Now that he and Lü Yuan both had cultivation, they could clearly sense that

they could do more than just bring things in to lend or give to each other.

The two of them now had the feeling that they could actually exchange their cultivation!

"Shall we try?" Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan, who had just entered, found it very interesting and was the first to speak.

If that were true, it would be much easier for Punk Lü Yuan to protect himself when he faced dangers stronger than himself in the future.

As long as Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan cultivated fast enough, even if Punk Lü Yuan cultivated a little more slowly, he would have Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan's cultivation to help him, and nothing would go wrong along the way.

"Let's try!" Punk Lü Yuan naturally understood what this meant too, so he answered with great excitement.

Exchange cultivation-

The two silently repeated those words at the same time, and in the next instant, Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan's presence visibly weakened.

Punk Lü Yuan, by contrast, had only just entered Embryonic Breathing, yet his presence now surged to unprecedented heights!

His body in the real world also sent vibrations through its surroundings. Merely failing to control the presence leaking from him was enough to throw his bedroom into complete disarray.

Embryonic Breathing Fourth Layer. Was this what the Embryonic Breathing Fourth Layer felt like?

The power that had suddenly surged through his body, along with the soothing sensation brought by Southern Dipper Life Breath, made Punk Lü Yuan moan despite himself.

"I feel like I could punch a cow to death right now!"

The classic one-punch cow kill-

But that was no illusion. It was true.

After Punk Lü Yuan adjusted to the sensation, he clenched his fists and felt as though he had inexhaustible strength throughout his body.

A single blow would be enough to shatter monuments and split rocks, far surpassing the boost his years of practicing ox-and-horse martial arts had given him!

"It's not that weak."

Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan corrected him, holding his head. He had no idea how Punk Lü Yuan had connected the Embryonic Breathing Fourth Layer with a cow.

He had tested just what his cultivation could do.

With Embryonic Breathing behind it, an ordinary punch could crack the ground. What was killing a cow with one punch compared to that?

Punk Lü Yuan didn't argue. After all, it was only an immature comparison, and he was currently using someone else's cultivation.

He played around with Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan's cultivation for quite a while before reluctantly returning it to him.

"I thought it was heaven-defying enough that we could profit from the price difference between two worlds-"

"But now it looks like buying low and selling high is secondary. Exchanging cultivation is the biggest surprise since I entered Embryonic Breathing!"

Even after exchanging cultivation back with Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan, Punk Lü Yuan still couldn't suppress the smile on his face.

I'm delighted that we can exchange cultivation-

You'd have to be a god to keep from smiling!

Hiding your cultivation and playing the pig to eat the tiger, cautious-cultivator style, still demanded too much skill and talent.

Got a more wheelchair-friendly method to recommend?

Yes, brother, yes I do.

Punk Lü Yuan could already imagine facing someone in a future crisis whose realm was higher than his own but lower than Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan's.

He could imagine the look on that person's face when his cultivation suddenly did a sit-up, surpassed theirs, and ran them over like a speed bump.

But after his heartfelt delight, Punk Lü Yuan turned to serious business.

Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan watched in surprise as he pulled out two texts, a Cultivation Method and a Technique Method, neither of which came from the Immortal Book.

Sixth-grade Cultivation Method: [Burning Instruction (Self-Named)]

Fourth-grade Technique Method: [Fulfill the Root and Reflect Back Talisman Method]-