“Boom! Boom! Boom!”
As the Body Tempering chapter of the 《Origin Unity Art》 circulated, Ye Lin guided one wisp of Origin Ancestral Qi after another from his left eye into his spine.
During this process, the cultivation method firmly suppressed the restlessness of the Ancestral Qi, preventing even a shred of its aura from leaking out.
Once he finished guiding all twenty wisps of the absolute limit of Origin Ancestral Qi, he continued to run the cultivation method with all his might, condensing the Origin Dao Seed bit by bit.
Time flowed like water, and more than a shichen quickly passed in the blink of an eye.
After persisting for so long, Ye Lin finally managed to condense those twenty wisps of Origin Qi into a mysterious, grain-sized seed.
But this was only the first step. Next, he had to completely fuse this seed into his spine to truly complete the condensation of the Dao Seed.
Thus, without stopping for even a moment, he took a deep breath and continued to run his cultivation method, controlling his own flesh and blood to merge with the mysterious seed.
A quarter of an hour flew by. The mysterious seed ultimately transformed into a blood-red color, thoroughly intertwining with his flesh and blood.
“Whew, the Origin Dao Seed is finally complete.” Seeing the changes in the mysterious seed, Ye Lin smiled with deep relief.
Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he immediately guided another wisp of Origin Ancestral Qi from his left eye without pause, using it to irrigate the Origin Dao Seed.
The cultivation method stated that once the Dao Seed was condensed, either one's own vital energy or special energy could be used to irrigate it.
The Origin Ancestral Qi was a taboo energy that transcended rules, making it the perfect choice to irrigate the Dao Seed at this moment.
“Rumble!”
The moment that wisp of Origin Ancestral Qi drew near, the originally silent Dao Seed suddenly erupted with a terrifying, tempestuous suction force.
Immediately after, that wisp of Origin Ancestral Qi was instantly pulled in and devoured.
After devouring a single wisp of Origin Ancestral Qi, the Dao Seed only grew a tiny bit larger, showing no other changes.
“If one wisp isn't enough, then I'll use three, or five! I must break through to the Qi Condensation Stage before dawn.”
Seeing how much the Dao Seed could swallow, Ye Lin stopped holding back. He directly ran his cultivation method and guided three wisps of Origin Ancestral Qi to the Dao Seed.
“Rumble!”
An even more terrifying suction force than before emerged, instantly swallowing the three wisps of Origin Ancestral Qi completely.
Just as Ye Lin was preparing to guide the remaining Origin Ancestral Qi to continue the irrigation, the Dao Seed, which had barely changed, suddenly cracked open with several fissures.
Right after, a dark-red sprout about the size of a pinky finger broke through its shell, taking firm root within his spine.
The moment the sprout appeared, a brilliant, blood-red light suddenly burst from its single, tender leaf.
After leaving the sprout, these blood-red rays instantly surged into Ye Lin's entire body like raindrops.
Ye Lin felt his flesh, meridians, bones, and even every single cell being frantically strengthened by this blood-red light.
This process lasted for a full half-shichen. During this time, Ye Lin did not feel even a shred of pain; instead, his entire body felt warm and cozy, as if he were constantly bathing in the spring sunshine.
Once the strengthening ended, Ye Lin felt as if his body were overflowing with endless, explosive power.
Without any hesitation, he directly opened his personal game panel and looked at the cultivation column.
The description on the game panel read: 【Tenth Layer of the Body Tempering Realm - Extreme Realm, 307x Combat Power. Evaluation: Taboo Sovereign among peers of the same rank.】
“Holy crap, over three hundred times combat power?” The moment he saw those explosive numbers, Ye Lin was completely dumbfounded.
He had expected his combat power to soar, but he never expected it to skyrocket to such an absurd degree.
According to the common cultivation knowledge, starting from the Qi Condensation Stage, the gap in base combat power between each major realm was a hundredfold.
In other words, as long as he broke through to the Qi Condensation Stage now, his base combat power would crush all Foundation Establishment cultivators.
Of course, base combat power was only one of the key factors in measuring a cultivator's true combat power. After all, within the same realm, those with god-tier equipment and those without had completely different combat power, and the gap between those with cheats and those without was even harder to describe.
But regardless, with such heaven-defying base combat power, Ye Lin was absolutely invincible within the same realm. Even if the most monstrous and top-tier genius of the Myriad Heavens came, they would absolutely be no match for him.
“As expected of a taboo cultivation method, and as expected of that senior who shook the past and present. The senior and I are truly incredible.” After a long while, Ye Lin sighed in admiration.
【Ding! Congratulations on being the first player in this game to break through the Extreme Realm and touch upon the taboo. You have received a Mysterious Gift Pack. Please check your mail.】
At that moment, the game's system notification suddenly rang in his ears.
Ye Lin ignored the notification for now. After adjusting his state slightly, he checked the Qi Condensation chapter of the 《Origin Unity Art》.
This time, without any hindrance, he successfully saw the contents of the Qi Condensation chapter as he had wished.
“Continue to irrigate the Dao Seed sprout with vital energy or special energy, supplemented by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to condense the embryonic form of a Sea of Spiritual Power, in order to break through to the Qi Condensation Stage.”
Now knowing the method to break through to the Qi Condensation Stage, Ye Lin did not hesitate and immediately began running the Qi Condensation chapter of the cultivation method.
He guided the Origin Ancestral Qi to continue irrigating the dark-red sprout while taking out all ninety-three low-grade spirit stones from his storage bag.
“Boom! Boom! Boom!”
As the cultivation method circulated, both the Origin Ancestral Qi and the heaven and earth spiritual energy from the spirit stones rushed frantically toward the tiny sprout like ten thousand rivers flowing into the sea.
The tiny sprout then erupted with a suction force that was terrifying to the extreme, devouring every bit of approaching energy without refusal.
Finally, after devouring three more wisps of Origin Ancestral Qi and the spiritual energy of sixty low-grade spirit stones, the tiny sprout grew a bit larger, turning into a small sapling and sprouting its second leaf.
As the Dao Seed sprout grew and the second leaf—carrying the embryonic form of the Sea of Spiritual Power—appeared, Ye Lin's cultivation naturally broke through to the Qi Condensation Stage as a matter of course.
The so-called Qi Condensation Stage actually referred to the process of opening the dantian, converting the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into spiritual power, and utilizing that spiritual power in simple ways.
Once one broke through, their lifespan could reach two hundred years, and they could convert ordinary attacks into ranged attacks, resulting in a qualitative leap in lethality compared to the Body Tempering Realm.
In the process of breaking through to the Qi Condensation Stage, the most important thing was the accumulation of heaven and earth spiritual energy. The more spiritual power one had and the purer it was, the more terrifying their combat power would be.
The key to accumulating spiritual power lay in the size of the dantian, which was determined by both the number of Spiritual Roots and the strength of the cultivation method.
The more Spiritual Roots one had and the stronger the cultivation method, the larger the dantian they could open, and the deeper the cultivator's foundation would be.
Conveniently, Ye Lin met both conditions, and both of his were exceptionally outstanding.
Thus, while ordinary cultivators at the Qi Condensation Stage could only open a dantian the size of a bowl, and top-tier geniuses could at most open one the size of a lake, he directly opened up two vast oceans—one in his dantian, and the other on the second tender leaf of the Dao Seed sprout.
“It seems I'll have to find a way to earn a massive amount of resources now.”
Looking at his two eagerly waiting oceans of spiritual power, Ye Lin muttered to himself.
Although having more Spiritual Roots granted an incredibly terrifying foundation, it also meant that the time and cultivation resources required for a breakthrough would multiply.
However, he did not worry about basic cultivation resources.
After all, he still had thirty-one bottles of Qi Gathering Pills and thirty-three low-grade spirit stones in his hands right now.
With the 【Random Replication】 trait, he could sell a few Qi Gathering Pills every day and trade them for low-grade spirit stones.
Then, he could replicate the new resources he obtained. By repeating this bug-exploiting cycle, he would absolutely never run out of basic cultivation resources.
“I'll have to wait until after the freshman trial to think about these things. For now, I should equip the ‘Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda’ and start utilizing the many functions of this supreme treasure.”
With this thought, he directly ran his cultivation method once more.
“Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!”
As the cultivation method circulated furiously, wisps of blood-red spiritual power rapidly surged toward the palm of his left hand.
The tiny pagoda mark finally glowed with a mysterious gray halo, as if it had shed all its impurities and been reborn.
In the next instant, Ye Lin felt a connection with the ‘Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda,’ a bond of perfect harmony that allowed him to control it as easily as his own limbs.
It felt as though with just a single thought, the Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda would follow his commands as naturally as his own arms and fingers.
“What a fine treasure. May you accompany me forever on the road to longevity.” Looking at the glowing pagoda mark, Ye Lin said with a smile.
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