The Undying Immortal System

After dealing with Gougou, I focused inward and spent the next three months in near seclusion. While I did walk around the Pavilion a bit to talk with Mei, SuYin, YuLin, and others, my focus was on cultivation.

My original plan had been to spend three or four months at each level, slowly comprehend the dual-element technique, and then advance to the next. However, every day I became more and more dissatisfied with this dual-element technique. For all that it was labeled Mid-Profound, it was a piece of garbage.

The qi purity generated when cultivating it was terrible. At the level I was used to working at, the slightest burr in my qi could cause significant damage to my ingredients. I was used to a nice, smooth, laminar flow of qi that I could use to delicately cleanse each herb. With this cultivation technique, I was taking purifying pills daily to maintain a bare semblance of pure qi. While I had concocted countless pills for the Pavilion, my bank account was rather barren because of all the purifying pills I had to take.

The second problem was also something I expected but still hated. I couldn’t store nearly as much qi of a single type when using this technique. My total storage capacity remained the same, but now it was divided in two, so I was having to return to my apartment and cultivate to restore my qi far more often than I liked. This wouldn’t have been too much of a problem, though, if it weren’t for the last problem.

The way the qi filter and whirlpool affected cultivating to restore spent qi was atrocious. When I needed both fire and wood qi, I could cultivate at what I deemed a normal rate, but if my wood qi was full and I only needed fire qi, my cultivation speed plummeted. It wasn’t just a matter of only pulling in half the total possible. No, the wood qi would clog up the filter, only allowing trickles of fire qi through.

Overall, this cultivation technique was shockingly bad. Yes, it allowed for two types of qi to be cultivated, but the final effect was far worse than the Peak-Yellow technique I had been using. Before I moved on, I had to do something about this rotten technique.

The first problem was straightforward. Upgrade the qi filter. I wasn’t sure how yet, but I had plenty of references to work from.

The second problem was trickier. I essentially needed to increase my total qi reserves, but how? Remembering the effects of some of the other Profound rank techniques I had read, I began studying them more closely. That is where I found my solution to all three problems at once.

I had three techniques that all claimed to improve ‘qi density.’ They were all slightly different, but they seemed to function on the same basic premise. Open more acupoints, pull in qi from more places, and use the additional forces to compress the qi. The total benefit was minor, so they were only considered Low-Profound techniques, but the theory behind them was far more powerful.