Chapter 210 : Finally Forming Foundation Establishment
Chapter 210: Finally Forming Foundation Establishment
Formation Hall, the Hall Master’s cultivation cave residence.
“The Heavenly Evolution Cycle Art is difficult to achieve. Since junior brother knows when to retreat decisively and chose to directly establish Foundation, that too is a good thing.”
Yun Yishu slightly nodded, giving verbal praise on the surface, though she felt some regret within.
To have cultivated both the Qi Refining Aperture-Consolidating Method and the Seven Revolutions of Great Cycle Qi Refining within just a few years, this junior brother Chen’s heaven-defying comprehension was something she had never seen before.
If he had persisted for another ten or so years, it was not impossible that he could break through the Heavenly Evolution Cycle Art and become the first disciple in the sect to enter the threshold of this art.
Chen Beiwu did not correct Senior Sister Yun’s misunderstanding. From his heart, he said, “Thank you for the trouble, Senior Sister.”
To steal a thread of Heaven’s secrets, the harmony of heaven, earth, and man was indispensable.
He had already found the timing of Heaven. As for manpower, there was Gold Egg’s companion assistance and his own strong foundation.
What Chen Beiwu needed now to break through Flawless Qi Refining was merely a cultivation cave residence atop a superior spirit vein to complete the geography.
“A fourth-tier cultivation cave residence is rare. I can only do my best. I will give you an answer within three days.” Yun Yishu spoke.
By reason, a third-tier spirit vein was more than sufficient for a Qi Refining cultivator to break through Foundation Establishment and devour Heaven and Earth’s spiritual mechanism.
Yet considering Chen Zi’ang’s aptitude and potential comprehension, Yun Yishu still decided to make things easier for him.
Leaving Formation Hall, Chen Beiwu next went to the Alchemy Hall.
Unfortunately, Senior Sister Wan’er and Iron Egg were both in closed-door cultivation, seemingly refining a rather important pill.
There was no helping it. Chen Beiwu could only place his hopes on Senior Sister Yun, activate the Gate of Ten Directions, and return to the Immortal Alliance.
He temporarily canceled his appointment for True Monarch Ni Xia’s lecture, and directly sent a message to True Monarch Jiang Chuan, applying for a high-tier cave residence to cover up his breakthrough.
Knowing Chen Beiwu aimed at Flawless Qi Refining, True Monarch Jiang Chuan did not care about his absenteeism these past days, but instead asked, “How much certainty do you have?”
“One part.” Chen Beiwu did not dare make a guarantee.
“One part is enough.” True Monarch Jiang Chuan used his authority and directly approved a fourth-tier cave residence for Chen Beiwu, with a time limit of one year.
“Ugly words first—if you fail Flawless Qi Refining this time, and also cannot make up the basic credits of the elective course, then prepare to repeat a year.”
For the sect students of Yuqing Immortal Sect, repeating a year was not a good thing.
Because the higher the sect academy level, the greater the authority sect students would hold within Yuqing Immortal Sect, and the more advanced lectures they could attend—even gaining guidance from True Venerables of the Divine Transformation realm.
On the contrary, those who repeated for three consecutive years would be persuaded to withdraw early by Yuqing Immortal Sect.
“Weng!”
An hour later, Chen Beiwu swiped his card to enter the Fuyao Residence’s Wuyue Cave Residence.
Sensing the incomparably pure Heaven and Earth’s spiritual mechanism within the cave residence, Chen Beiwu could not help but take a deep breath and meditate on Tai Xuan Guarding-the-One.
At the same time, Senior Sister Yun used her connections to help him find a cultivation cave residence with a fourth-tier lower-grade spirit vein.
As the price, Chen Beiwu had to pay three thousand contribution points for the rental fee.
All preparations were complete—only the east wind was lacking.
Chen Beiwu circulated his visualization method, adjusting his state, quietly waiting for the heavenly timing to arrive.
The sixteenth day of the eleventh month, the day when all stars were extinguished.
At dawn, Chen Beiwu opened his eyes, activated his divine sense, and looked toward the sun in the sky.
Unlike usual, today the sunlight was especially dim. The radiance of the Great Sun’s essence was nearly imperceptible, matching the omen of All Stars Extinguished.
“Gulp.”
Gold Egg swallowed hard, his expression somewhat nervous.
Instead, Chen Beiwu’s face remained calm, as though it were not him breaking through today.
“Heaven’s secrets hide within tribulation, and within tribulation lies a thread of opportunity.”
“Turn through nine revolutions, seize half a wisp of Heaven, and one can forge a flawless foundation.”
According to the cultivation manual, at the terminal moment of the celestial phenomenon of All Stars Extinguished was when Chen Beiwu could circulate the Heavenly Evolution Cycle Art to steal Heaven’s secrets—the best opportunity.
Time passed bit by bit.
By Shen hour, the stars outside the firmament seemed pinched out by an invisible giant hand. The southern wasteland’s firmament abruptly turned pitch black.
“Rumble!” The spiritual mechanism pervading Heaven and Earth began to riot.
Even though the fourth-tier cave residence where Chen Beiwu was located was protected by the sect’s grand formation, one could still faintly hear the mourning cries of Heaven and Earth, as if Heaven itself wept for the extinguishing and vanishing of the stars.
Seizing the chance, Chen Beiwu circulated the Heavenly Evolution Cycle Art, reversing the Great Cycle. Borrowing the celestial changes, in one breath he shattered all twelve hidden meridians of the earthly branches within his body, forcibly breaking through the Twelfth Level of Qi Refining.
Boom!
At the instant the twelve hidden meridians of the earthly branches were shattered, the extreme Great Cycle circulation of mana within Chen Beiwu’s dantian sea of qi instantly collapsed, transforming into an incomparably vast flood of mana surging through his entire body. Behind him, a phantom Heavenly Evolution Wheel condensed, corresponding distantly with the pitch-black firmament.
Reversing the cultivation art, taking himself as the furnace, drawing Heaven’s celestial mechanism into his body—this was the most abnormal effect of the Heavenly Evolution Cycle Art.
“Fall for me!”
Chen Beiwu clenched his left palm, grasping his own essence, qi, and spirit. With his right finger he traced an arc, controlling the phantom Heavenly Evolution Wheel to intercept Heaven’s secrets.
In the next moment, the pitch-black firmament was suddenly pierced by an almost undetectable Dao rhyme, which fell into the phantom Heavenly Evolution Wheel.
‘It succeeded just like this?’ Chen Beiwu was slightly surprised.
According to the manual, during the process of stealing Heaven’s secrets, a Qi Refining cultivator had to endure unspeakable agony.
With firm will, one could endure the pain, transform Heaven’s secrets into a foundation within the sea of qi, and thus succeed in Flawless Qi Refining.
Those lacking willpower, however, would risk injuring their foundation, suffering grievous damage to their vitality, and becoming crippled.
Yet this time, Chen Beiwu’s theft of Heaven’s secrets was as easy as drinking water—without any pain.
‘Forget it. Perhaps I am that one-in-ten-thousand peerless genius.’ Chen Beiwu slightly shook his head.
Next, he circulated the cultivation art, guiding the stolen thread of Heaven’s secrets within the phantom Heavenly Evolution Wheel to revolve nine times in his dantian sea of qi, whereupon his aptitude would transform, and flawless Foundation Establishment would be achieved.
Yet at that very moment, Chen Beiwu suddenly sensed the stirring and yearning of the Spirit of Clearwood within his sea of qi.
His intuition told him that if he injected the phantom Heavenly Evolution Wheel, which had stolen Heaven’s secrets, into the Spirit of Clearwood, he too could condense a Dharma Body and succeed in Flawless Qi Refining.
Would he choose to establish Foundation through the Heavenly Evolution Cycle Art, or through the All Laws Converge, Heaven Book of the Divine Tree?
Chen Beiwu glanced at Gold Egg, then chose the latter without hesitation.
After all, the All Laws Converge, Heaven Book of the Divine Tree was a legendary-grade cultivation method that directly pointed toward Divine Transformation and Void Refining.
“Weng!”
At the instant the Spirit of Clearwood fused with the Dao rhyme of Heaven’s secrets, Chen Beiwu’s spirit left his body, and the world before his eyes transformed.
He saw the firmament split open, and an ancient tree of immeasurable height rose towering into the sky.
Boom!
As though Heaven and Earth overturned, a divine tree with branches supporting the sun and moon, roots coiling through the Nine Netherworlds, piercing through the cosmos, emerged before Chen Beiwu’s eyes.
It was the ancient Divine Tree that bore the Ladder to Heaven!
Faced with such a divine existence, Chen Beiwu merely gave it a glance, yet his eyes already burned with pain, blood flowing down from the corners.
Crash!
Atop the Divine Tree, a silver river fell from the void, seemingly born through the support of the tree. Within its waves floated the remnants of countless worlds, reflecting Chen Beiwu’s parallel selves across myriad worlds.
This river was not the Heavenly River, but the thread of Heaven’s secrets he had stolen using the Heavenly Evolution Cycle Art.
“Flawless is not without blemish. In tribulation, the true self is seen. What a marvelous All Laws Converge, what a wondrous path of cultivating with beasts!”
Having comprehended the true essence of the All Laws Converge, Heaven Book of the Divine Tree, the Divine Tree before Chen Beiwu collapsed, the silver river vanished, transforming into a pair of vertical golden dragon pupils.
Seeing the boundless might in those dragon eyes, Chen Beiwu smiled with confidence.
That was a true dragon, was the Divine Tree, was also the Heavenly River, and was likewise the Gold Egg that in the future would take the All Laws Converge, Heaven Book of the Divine Tree as its foundation!