Hunyuan Immortal Sect

Chapter 388: Sixth Level of Foundation Building
Time flies like an arrow; in the blink of an eye, several years have passed.

In the dimly lit cultivation room of Luoyun Mountain, Song Xian sat cross-legged with his eyes closed. His spiritual power surged out of his Linghai acupoint like a flood, beyond his control, and traveled along the meridians in his body. After a long time, it gradually returned to the Linghai acupoint.

Once the restlessness of the spiritual energy within his body subsided, Song Xian slowly opened his eyes, his gaze clear and bright, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

Just now, his cultivation broke through to the sixth level of the Foundation Establishment realm, and his spiritual power reached 1550 points.

When one's cultivation reaches the Foundation Establishment Realm, although there may be bottlenecks, these usually occur at the juncture between the third and fourth levels of Foundation Establishment, or between the sixth and seventh levels, or between the ninth and tenth levels.

The process of advancing from the fifth to the sixth level of Foundation Establishment is a natural one, with an extremely low probability of encountering a bottleneck. He had predicted the breakthrough several months ago.

I finally broke through today, and although I am happy, I am not particularly excited.

After exhaling a breath of stale air, he regained his composure and entered the Niwan Palace. Inside, there was a giant, crystal-clear tree with hundreds of shimmering fragments hanging from it. On each fragment, the outline of Dong Xuanchen could be vaguely seen flickering.

This is the Tree of Memories after Dong Xuanchen's soul was shattered. About one-third of the tree's crown is white, representing fragments of memories he had viewed.

The lower two-thirds of the fragments were black, and he had not entered the contents of those fragments because his divine sense was insufficient.

Now that his cultivation has broken through to the sixth level of Foundation Establishment, his spiritual power has also increased significantly.

He attempted to enter the black fragment, and after successfully entering its interior, Dong Xuanchen's memories were displayed before him one by one.

This breakthrough in cultivation allowed him to unlock ten black fragments.

For some time afterward, Song Xian explored the contents of the memory fragments every day. During the dozen or so years that Dong Xuanchen went from the fifth to the sixth level of Foundation Establishment, he spent most of his time in the cultivation room and puppet hall, and rarely went out.

Song Xian controlled the flow of his memories, first quickly skimming through the past ten years. In a short time, he discovered Dong Xuanchen's extraordinary adventure, and then slowed down to examine it.

It was a treasure hunting experience. While he was out, he unexpectedly encountered two cultivators fighting. One of them was a disciple of the Thousand Machines Sect. By the time he arrived, the disciple had already been killed by the other.

He then chased after the thief, and after killing him, he found a golden pattern in the thief's storage bag. The sect disciple also had a golden pattern in his storage bag. The two patterns together formed a complete treasure map.

Clearly, the thief killed the Thousand Machines Sect disciple for this golden pattern.

After some research, he finally deciphered the information in the golden pattern and then went to a hidden place, a huge underground palace nest, concealed in a remote corner of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

As soon as he entered the underground palace, a vast expanse of poisonous black fog immediately filled the air.

Dong Xuanchen was almost killed by the black mist. Fortunately, he knew this by deciphering the information in the golden pattern and had prepared several high-level antidote pills in advance. Even so, he almost couldn't withstand the erosion of the black poisonous mist.

He finally managed to get through a corridor in the underground palace, found the mechanism, and entered another hidden passage. He walked along the narrow passage all the way to the center of the underground palace.

There stood a large, ancient-looking black hall, inside which were many strangely shaped statues, each resembling a demon from hell. The most prominent statue was a two-headed human with a dragon's tail, which looked quite frightening.

He found a mummified corpse inside the dragon-tailed, two-headed human statue, with its hands clasped around its abdomen and holding an ancient, black scroll with intricate patterns.

Dong Xuanchen put the ancient black scroll in his pocket and then carefully searched the main hall. He not only smashed all the strange statues to check if there were any secrets inside, but also dug up the entire hall. However, in the end, he found nothing except the ancient black scroll with its intricate patterns.

Because the entire underground palace was shrouded in black poisonous creatures outside the main hall, Dong Xuanchen was unable to explore other parts of the underground palace and had no choice but to leave through the tunnel beneath the main hall.

Upon returning to the Thousand Machines Sect, he immediately began studying the intricately patterned black ancient scroll he had obtained from the main hall. Soon, he discovered that it was an extremely profound secret manual of cultivation techniques. Since the scroll was untitled, Dong Xuanchen gave the technique his own name: Desolate Heaven Expansion Technique.

This is a secret manual for cultivating divine sense, which is divided into five stages, with the first stage corresponding to the Qi Refining stage.

The second stage corresponds to the foundation-building period.

The third stage corresponds to the Golden Core stage.

The fourth stage corresponds to the Nascent Soul stage.

The fifth stage corresponds to the Nascent Soul stage.

In addition, there is a divine sense attack technique inside, which Dong Xuanchen named the "Soul-Startling Technique".

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After learning about the ancient scroll's cultivation method from fragments of memory, Song Xian was overwhelmed with emotion.

He never imagined that such a big secret was hidden in this fragment of memory.

In the cultivation world, there has always been a saying about the four realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and Nascent Soul. As for above Nascent Soul, there are the ascended immortals. He had never heard of a realm above Nascent Soul called Deity Transformation.

Even his book, the Profound Heaven Fusion Fire Technique, only records cultivation methods up to the late Nascent Soul stage. Although it is called the first volume, it ends there. The location of the second volume is unknown, as is its contents.

However, this scroll of the Desolate Heaven Expansion Technique not only reveals the names of the cultivation realms after the Nascent Soul stage, but also has a complete record of the corresponding cultivation methods. It is a complete cultivation technique that can lead to the Divine Transformation stage.

It should be noted that Song Xian had never heard of the term "Transformation Realm" before, but now he had inexplicably obtained a complete Transformation Realm cultivation technique, which was almost revolutionary for him.

He remained stunned for a long time before he finally snapped out of his surprise.

No wonder Dong Xuanchen was able to break through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm. It was originally with the help of this complete Nascent Soul cultivation technique. Before him, no one in the Thousand Machines Sect had ever reached the Nascent Soul realm, the highest being the Golden Core realm. Not only did he break through to the Nascent Soul realm, but he also successfully cultivated to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

If he hadn't been seriously injured and his physical body hadn't collapsed while exploring for treasure, and hadn't made a mistake while using the Reincarnation Technique, his final achievement might have been more than just the mid-Nascent Soul stage.

Each level of cultivation in this Desolate Heaven Expansion Technique greatly increases one's spiritual power.

Judging from Dong Xuanchen's initial cultivation results, his spiritual power increases by about 60% with each major breakthrough. If he were to reach the Nascent Soul Realm, his spiritual power would be three times that of an ordinary cultivator.

While its effect cannot compare to the enhancement of fire-attribute spells by the Profound Heaven Fusion Fire Technique, it is still terrifying. It should be noted that high-level cultivation techniques related to spiritual sense are extremely rare in the cultivation world, because most spiritual sense cultivation techniques can directly improve one's spiritual sense power, unlike other techniques that only enhance the effects of spells.

The Mysterious Heavenly Fire Fusion Technique indirectly enhances the power of spells, which is different from directly improving a cultivator's spiritual power.

This is similar to the difference between enhancing one's own spiritual power and strengthening one's spells.

The Thousand Machines Sect cultivation technique he previously obtained, the Divine Profound Treasure Seal, was a low-grade Earth-rank technique, which could only be cultivated up to the early Golden Core stage, making it a rare and precious technique.

The Divine Profound Treasure Seal can also enhance a cultivator's spiritual power, but its effect is incomparable to that of the Desolate Heaven Expansion Technique.

The first to fourth levels of the Divine Profound Treasure Seal are equivalent to the transition from the early stage of Qi Refining to the early stage of Foundation Establishment, providing only about 20% of one's basic divine sense power.

Without much thought, Song Xian immediately made a decision: he would cultivate this Desolate Heaven Knowledge Expansion Technique.

With his current spiritual power, he can only control one second-tier low-grade puppet. However, if he cultivates the Desolate Heaven Expansion Technique to the fifth level, he can easily control two second-tier low-grade puppets, and even control three second-tier low-grade puppets at the same time to fight. This will greatly enhance his combat ability.

He originally practiced the Profound Origin True Scripture, but since obtaining the Profound Heaven Fusion Fire Technique, he has hardly practiced this technique anymore.

The reason is that compared to the Profound Origin True Scripture, the Profound Heaven Fusion Fire Technique is like a crow compared to a phoenix. His energy is also limited, and it is not worthwhile to spend so much time cultivating such a technique that does not improve one's power much. Therefore, he has devoted all his energy to the Profound Heaven Fusion Fire Technique.

Spending extra effort and time cultivating the Desolate Heaven Knowledge Expansion Technique is absolutely worthwhile; it's a very cost-effective endeavor.

Besides the Desolate Heaven Expansion Technique, the Divine Sense Attack Divine Power, the Soul-Shocking Attack Technique, is also formidable. Its greatest feature is its stealth, allowing it to launch attacks suddenly.

It is formless, colorless, and silent, yet it can directly attack the opponent's sea of ​​consciousness.

Any attack using divine sense requires transforming the divine sense into an attack method, condensing it into a certain form, or directly weaponizing it; in short, it involves a transformation process.

Song Xian had encountered a spiritual attack before. Before he obtained the Xuan Tian Fusion Fire Technique, he encountered a ghost general who had become a ghost cultivator. The ghost general transformed his spiritual sense into a visible radiance and launched a wide-range attack.

Fortunately, the ghost general was not very intelligent and did not know to focus his attacks on the leader; otherwise, he would have certainly died then and there.

A spiritual attack is no different from a regular spell attack. The only difference is that a spiritual attack targets the cultivator's Niwan Palace (the center of the head) and sea of ​​consciousness, while a spell attack targets the cultivator's physical body.

Both attacks can be blocked by defensive measures. Divine sense attacks are mostly used against cultivators with strong physical bodies. Its characteristic is speed; it does not require the gathering of spiritual energy and can be launched directly, often catching the opponent off guard.

Especially when facing opponents with strong physical bodies, such as cultivators like Kong Xiangyuan who possess the Vajra Body Protection Divine Power, ordinary attacks may not be able to harm their bodies, but attacks of the mind can have a surprise effect, allowing one to suddenly attack the opponent's sea of ​​consciousness when the opponent is not prepared.

However, spiritual attacks are rarely effective against equally tough-bodied demonic beasts. This is because the structure of demonic beasts is different from that of cultivators, and their cultivation methods are also different. Unlike cultivators, they do not have a special Niwan Palace to store their spiritual consciousness.

Their consciousness resides within their limbs, bones, and meridians, so attacks based solely on their consciousness are ineffective against them.

Correspondingly, demonic beasts generally do not possess the means of attacking with divine sense.

Compared to other spiritual attacks, the Soul-Shocking Technique is not only more concealed, silent, colorless, and formless, allowing it to launch attacks without warning, but it is also incredibly powerful.

When cultivated to its full potential, it can enhance one's divine sense attack power by two times, making it a perfect complement to the Desolate Heaven Expansion Technique.

The Desolate Heaven Expansion Technique can enhance one's basic spiritual power, while the Shocking God Technique can strengthen spiritual attacks.

The two complement each other. If one can cultivate the technique to the point where it is equivalent to one's own cultivation level, and then enhance it with spells, one will be hard to beat in a spiritual attack within the same level.

After leaving the secret room, he immediately found Su Zhirou and told her about the cultivation technique.

Su Zhirou already had a talent for puppetry, and if she were to cultivate the Desolate Heaven Knowledge Expansion Technique, the benefits to her would be self-evident.

This is also one of the advantages of this technique. For example, the Profound Heaven Fusion Fire Technique requires a fire-attribute spiritual root and a stone coffin made of a thousand-year-old Profound Yin Stone to cultivate. However, this technique has no restrictions and can be cultivated by any cultivator.

Song Xian planned to pass it on to the disciples of his sect, but of course, they had to be trustworthy disciples who had made great contributions.

Moreover, the teaching should be done in stages, not all at once. The first stage can be taught first, and the second stage can be taught after they break through to the Foundation Establishment stage and reach the peak of the first stage.

To the outside world, he claimed that this cultivation method was a low-grade Heaven-rank technique that could be cultivated to the early Nascent Soul stage, so that even if the news leaked, it would not attract the covetousness of major forces.

For disciples of sects, a low-grade Heavenly Rank cultivation technique is already an unforgettable high-level technique. No one would think that they can guarantee that they will be able to cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage while they are still in the Qi Refining stage.

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As night fell, the moon shone brightly and the stars were few. In the spacious and brightly lit hall of Luoyun Mountain, Lin Zixiang entered from outside and bowed to Song Xian: "Master, why did you summon me here?"

"Senior Brother Zixiang, I have a high-level cultivation technique here that may be beneficial to your cultivation. I wonder if you would like to cultivate this technique?" Song Xian got straight to the point. He decided to pass on the Desolate Heaven Expansion Technique to the sect's disciples. Apart from Su Zhirou, the first person he thought of was Lin Zixiang.

In terms of seniority, merit, and cultivation, no one in the sect is more qualified than him. Although Lin Zixiang often disagrees with him and sometimes contradicts him, and his actions sometimes disappoint him, he has never doubted his loyalty to the sect.

When it comes to matters of great importance within the sect, George Lam is still a reliable person.

It wouldn't make sense to bypass Elder Lin Zixiang and pass on the technique to other disciples of the sect.

"High-level cultivation technique? What high-level cultivation technique?" Lin Zixiang's eyes lit up. He knew that Song Xian had specially summoned him to talk about this matter, so it must be a very important cultivation technique. He was already thinking about it.

"It's a low-grade Heaven-rank divine sense cultivation technique called the Desolate Heaven Expanding Consciousness Technique." Song Xian didn't hide the name of the technique; it was a name Dong Xuanchen himself had given it, and no one else should know it.

Lin Zixiang frowned, feeling slightly disappointed. He had thought it was some extraordinary cultivation technique. Although a low-grade Heaven-rank divine sense cultivation technique was extremely rare, it was only one level stronger than the high-grade Earth-rank Xuan Yuan True Scripture. Moreover, both were cultivation techniques for cultivating divine sense, so there was not much difference between them, and it would not be of much help to his combat power.

He's only at the early Foundation Establishment stage right now, and he only thinks about the Nascent Soul stage in his dreams. Asking him to actually consider forming a Nascent Soul would be wishful thinking and a pipe dream.

(End of this chapter)