Inheriting A Divine Cultivation Clan At The Start, All My Juniors Are Empresses

Yuchi still quite misses Yuan Xuan, not because he has any ideas of skipping stages with her, but simply because he believes that since she wants to practice seriously, he happens to be able to provide her with a good environment for cultivation. Moreover, he completely needs such a master beside him to boost his spiritual power. It’s beneficial for both of them, using the Ascension Gate more healthily.

"However, since she’s still not letting me go there, I won’t go directly for now. Coincidentally, Bu Huoran is coming over next year, and by then she will definitely go back to Cuncha City. When she returns to Cuncha City, on one hand, I can ask her to help me purchase some inch tea, and on the other hand, I can send a letter to Yuan Xuan, hoping to persuade her to come over."

"If Yuan Xuan helps me, my cultivation speed will undoubtedly reach an extraordinary level. Of course, now in the eyes of many people, the speed of my spiritual power increase is already rapid, but it all depends on who you compare it with. Compared to ordinary cultivators, this is invincible, but compared to those inherently powerful beasts in the Lower Three States, or that Black Flame I’ve never met..."

"Hmm, there’s no comparison, so I need to elevate my spiritual power to a certain realm." Yuchi looked at the Ascension Gate now wrapped in spiritual energy. He was originally quite happy, but now, thinking about it, he feels a bit helpless. "Yes, if it weren’t for finding Zi Yanran and the others this time, I would think my spiritual power is quite alright."

"As long as I don’t go roaming around the state capitals, my Spirit Storage Stage spiritual power is actually sufficient for me to accomplish many tasks, especially in the current phase of Jiangnan expansion. As long as I don’t seek trouble, pushing Jiangnan forward is a certainty... yet this time I just took a spin around the Lower Three States, how did I find myself quite inferior."

"Really just inferior to the point of being ridiculous... thinking about other cultivators, if they break through their spiritual power, they wouldn’t count it as a breakthrough if they don’t kill two of the same level and even transcend levels to kill a higher level; it wouldn’t be considered celebrating their hard-earned breakthrough, yet here I don’t feel that joy. Every time I break through, my view gradually expands, finding myself increasingly inferior."

"When I first broke through to the Qi Cultivation Realm, I was a happy little cutie, but the further I progressed, seeing more things led to the smile unknowingly diminishing. Even though my spiritual power is formidable now, reaching the Spirit Storage Stage, this feeling of high on none but low on others is painfully unpleasant."

"Perhaps this is like reading books, if you don’t know something, everything feels blissfully floating, taking ignorance as happiness. But as you see more, understand more, and the view gradually expands, only then do you realize you’re just a speck in the ocean. When you look back at your feet, you find a book-raised abyss, unable to return, unable to find the carefree joy of the past."

"Cultivation is the same; either you don’t cultivate and remain a happy mortal, or once you start cultivating, you’re doomed, falling into the vicious cycle of constantly needing to improve spiritual power. Clearly, my spiritual power is quite good now, meeting previous objectives and requirements, but still unsatisfied."

Feeling the rich aura around him, Yuchi doesn’t know what the highest realm of the Ascension Gate will be. Now it’s already the Sixth Realm. According to normal story logic, the Ascension Gate should be nine realms as the highest, but after so long, Yuchi feels the highest realm might not just be nine layers, especially when the Qi Cultivation Realm has thirteen layers... so nine layers shouldn’t be the end.

"It’s not just that the Qi Cultivation Realm has thirteen layers; even now there’s talk of tenth grade for spirit roots. I boast to the disciples that this is the Innate Spiritual Body, but if the spirit root reaches tenth grade and then there’s an eleventh grade, how can I boast? Should I say it’s a Spirit King reincarnated or a Spiritual Vehicle drifting? Ahhh... why does this world seem increasingly obscure, becoming hard to understand."

"Luckily, I still have so many disciples around me, luckily Yin Shuang is still here with me. This feeling is rather nice; at least during this stealthy forward journey, I’m not too lonely, nor do I face moments of bewilderment looking back to find no one there, only a chihuahua’s grin baring at me."

While Yuchi was pondering these issues, on the other side Qin Lanyu had already rushed into the Yuncao Tower. She could see the tower’s colorful lights and the frenzy of growth among various medicinal herbs... now these herbs seemed insane, growing more ferociously than if they’d been doped with steroids, even exaggerating to the point where the flowering and fruiting process lasted only for a short incense stick’s time. If it surpassed this incense stick duration, the fruit would revert back to the medicine field, turning into a crop failure.