Everyone's Immortal Cultivation: Starting from a Junior Talisman Maker

Chapter 182 Thirty Years of Diligent Cultivation Leads to Breakthrough to the Fourth Level of the Golden Core (Please Subscribe!)
Yang Feng discovered that continuously improving his spiritual root aptitude over the years had brought him many benefits.

Firstly, in terms of cultivation, it allows him to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth at a faster speed.

This made him more efficient than others in both improving his cultivation level and restoring his mana.

Secondly, there is the quality of the magic power.

As he continuously improved his five elemental roots, the magical power he cultivated was of a higher quality than that of other cultivators who practiced two or three elemental techniques.

His higher quality magic power will undoubtedly give him a greater advantage in future battles and breakthroughs in cultivation.

In particular, if Yang Feng could raise his Five Elements Spiritual Root aptitude to the Heavenly Grade level.

That would greatly reduce the difficulty for him to break through to the Nascent Soul realm and transform his core into a Nascent Soul in the future.

Finally, there is the comprehension of the true meaning of the Great Dao.

Yang Feng discovered that he had raised all five elements of his spiritual root aptitude to the Earth grade level, which also greatly helped him in comprehending the corresponding Great Dao principles.

This made Yang Feng eager to raise all five elements of his spiritual root aptitude to the Heavenly Grade level as soon as possible.

However, after his spiritual root aptitude was fully upgraded to the Earth grade, the only way to further improve it was to consume fourth-grade heavenly and earthly treasures that could enhance his spiritual root aptitude.

Fourth-tier treasures are extremely rare in their Xia Kingdom.

Even his master, True Monarch Mingwu, couldn't produce many fourth-tier treasures that could enhance spiritual root aptitude.

As a result, Yang Feng's spiritual root aptitude has not improved for more than 20 years since he achieved the Immortal Golden Core.

However, right now, as Yang Feng has mastered the experience points of the "Third-Order Chapter of the Divine Forging Visualization Method" and obtained a fourth-order treasure material.

Yang Feng believed that in the future, as he gradually cultivated the other two main techniques and their corresponding third-tier spell experience points to the Great Perfection stage, he would obtain a large number of fourth-tier treasures from the system.

Sooner or later, he will be able to raise all five elements of his spiritual root aptitude to the Heavenly Grade level.

After absorbing and digesting all the energy contained in the green grape spirit fruit, Yang Feng then tried to circulate the "Forging God Visualization Method, Third Stage" once again.

He was shocked to discover that his efficiency in absorbing and refining spiritual resources, as well as in tempering and condensing his spiritual body, had increased significantly compared to before.

Yang Feng estimated that, at the current rate of cultivation, with sufficient resources for soul cultivation, he could shorten the time it would take to break through to the third stage, fourth level of soul cultivation by at least two or three years.

Unlike magical power cultivation and physical cultivation, which can be accelerated by improving one's spiritual root aptitude and the grade of one's precious body, this spiritual cultivation is different.

To accelerate the cultivation of the soul, one can only increase the proficiency of the soul cultivation techniques.

Fortunately, Yang Feng has a liver experience panel, as long as he is willing to spend a lot of time and energy to learn and study it.

He can then rely on the positive feedback provided by the system panel to gain a lot of experience through continuous correction, thus gradually improving his proficiency in a skill to perfection, without even encountering any bottlenecks along the way.

After mastering the "Three Stages of the Divine Forging Visualization Method", one can achieve the highest level of mastery.

Yang Feng glanced at the system panel and found that, just as he had predicted, reaching the Perfect Realm would require 160 million experience points.

This amount of experience points is more than all the experience points he accumulated from the initial learning stage to the advanced stage.

Yang Feng estimated that it would take at least another twenty or thirty years to master the "Third Stage of the Divine Forging Visualization Method".

"Hey, let's take it slow!"

Yang Feng sighed helplessly, and then continued to cultivate according to his own cultivation plan.

……

Time flies, and four years have passed in the blink of an eye.

That year, Yang Feng turned 128 years old.

Yang Feng's mother, Zhang Yunya, became depressed after her husband, Yang Qilin, passed away, which caused her health to deteriorate.

Even though Yang Feng and Yang Ningning have tried every means to comfort and guide their mother over the past few years.

The two even put aside their cultivation and took her to travel to various famous immortal cities and scenic spots in the Xia Kingdom.

None of this could cheer her mother up or improve her health.

Yang Feng passed away shortly after turning 128, at the age of 155.

Afterwards, Yang Feng and Yang Ningning arranged a funeral for their mother.

He buried his mother and father together.

With this, Yang Feng lost another family member in this world.

In just a few years, Yang Feng watched helplessly as his parents passed away one after another, which made him realize once again the ruthlessness of the path of cultivation.

Even Yang Ningning, upon seeing that her parents had only lived to be a little over 150 years old due to their low cultivation level, passed away one after another.

He realized that he had encountered a bottleneck in his spiritual practice.

Even with Yang Feng's frequent guidance, he was still unable to cultivate his main cultivation techniques and corresponding second-tier spells to perfection.

So after her mother passed away, she was unwilling to stop at the Core Formation stage in her life.

I decided to go out and explore, to gain some experience.

She wondered if, before the age of 120, she could, like her brother, elevate her cultivation in the three aspects of Dharma, Body, and Spirit to the level of Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer Perfection and Second Stage Ninth Level Perfection, thus meeting the conditions for attempting to break through to the Immortal Golden Core.

Yang Feng, upon learning that his younger sister planned to venture out and gain experience for a while, did not object.

After all, her younger sister is already 104 years old this year. Under his guidance and help over the years, she has already raised her cultivation in the three aspects of law, body, and spirit to the ninth level of Foundation Establishment and the ninth stage of the second tier.

They already possess the conditions to break through to the True Core Realm.

If she can raise her physical and spiritual cultivation to the perfect level in the next ten years or so, then...

Perhaps in the future, there is a certain hope of achieving a half-step Golden Core or an Immortal Golden Core.

Therefore, when Yang Ningning told him that he had decided to change his identity and go out to explore and gain experience for the next ten years or so, Yang Feng was also giving his sister a lot of protection.

He also used his connections to get Li Wenying a leave of absence for a period of time, so that Li Wenying could secretly protect his sister's safety and report on her situation to him every now and then.

After all, after his parents passed away, Yang Feng only had his younger sister Yang Ningning as his family.

Yang Ningning was someone he raised from a young age.

Over the years, she has seen Yang Ningning work very hard in her cultivation, and he has also devoted a lot of effort to nurturing her.

Therefore, she also hoped that her younger sister could achieve immortality like him in the future.

"Alas, Mother is gone, and my younger sister has gone out to gain experience. The whole manor is becoming more and more deserted!"

After seeing Yang Ningning off, Yang Feng looked at the huge manor. Apart from the butler in charge of managing the manor and a group of gardeners, there were no other familiar relatives. He sighed helplessly.

He then had no choice but to go into seclusion and devote all his thoughts and energy to spiritual practice.

……

In a blink of an eye, two months later.

That day, Yang Feng sat cross-legged in the cultivation room.

As the cultivation path of the Five Elements Technique for Core Formation continued to circulate within his body, the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth constantly surged into Yang Feng's body.

Ultimately, Yang Feng absorbed and refined it into strands of pure Core Formation power, which flowed into the Golden Core within his dantian. Meanwhile, as Yang Feng circulated his cultivation technique...

A message notification would occasionally appear before his eyes:
"During your practice of the Five Elements Golden Core Formation Technique, your understanding of it has slightly improved. Five Elements Golden Core Formation Technique experience points +16, +19..."

"..."

At a certain moment, as Yang Feng's years of accumulated experience underwent a qualitative change, his understanding of the "Five Elements Cultivation Technique" entered a new realm.

Then, a new prompt appeared before Yang Feng's eyes:
"Congratulations on successfully upgrading the Five Elements Technique to the Great Completion stage. You are rewarded with a fourth-grade low-level treasure material, Heavenly Silkworm Cocoon. The reward has been sent to your system inventory. You can open the system panel to view the details."

Upon seeing the new notification appear before him, Yang Feng immediately stopped cultivating, opened the system panel, and looked at the rewards in his inventory.

"A fourth-grade low-level Heavenly Silkworm Cocoon, a defensive spiritual treasure. It is a defensive cocoon woven by a fourth-grade Heavenly Silkworm, which can isolate and resist the soul and magic power attacks of a Nascent Soul cultivator in the early stage."

Yang Feng was overjoyed after reading the information about the silkworm cocoons.

Immediately, a thought struck him, and he took the silkworm cocoon out of his system inventory.

"Shh..."

The next second, Yang Feng held a pure white, oval-shaped silkworm cocoon the size of a goose egg in his hand.

Yang Feng ran his hand over the silk on the cocoon and found it to be extremely hard; even with his cultivation level, he couldn't budge it an inch.

Immediately, Yang Feng mobilized his internal magical power, as well as the power of his soul and blood, and infiltrated the silkworm cocoon to try to refine it. He found that the fourth-order Heavenly Silkworm cocoon was extremely slow to refine.

Of course, the main reason is that Yang Feng's current cultivation level is too low.

It took Yang Feng several days to finally refine it.

"receive!"

A few days later, after Yang Feng had completely refined the silkworm cocoon, he immediately put it into his body with a thought.

Then, with a thought, he summoned the Heavenly Silkworm Cocoon again, and the cocoon completely enveloped Yang Feng.

Yang Feng tried to control his natal magic weapon to stab at the cocoon that encased him, but found that he couldn't even cut a single silk thread inside.

Subsequently, Yang Feng tried to use the true meaning of fire, water, and earth, along with several third-tier techniques he had learned, one by one, but found that none of them could cause the slightest damage to the celestial silkworm cocoon.

In particular, when he launched a soul attack at the cocoon, he discovered that it could directly block his soul attack.

"This fourth-tier defensive magic treasure is indeed extraordinary."

After testing the defensive capabilities of the silkworm cocoon, Yang Feng was very satisfied.

According to the system's description, this fourth-grade low-level silkworm cocoon can isolate and resist attacks on the soul and mana of cultivators in the early stages of the Nascent Soul Realm.

This means that with this Heavenly Silkworm Cocoon, no one below the Nascent Soul Realm will be able to break through his defenses.

This made Yang Feng feel much more secure.

However, Yang Feng realized that these fourth-tier treasures were extremely rare. Even his master and his third senior brother, both Nascent Soul cultivators, didn't have many of them.

Since he doesn't usually go out, if outsiders knew that he possessed a fourth-tier spiritual treasure, they would inevitably become suspicious.

This made Yang Feng wary.

For the time being, it's safest to keep this silkworm cocoon in the system inventory.

After all, Yang Feng didn't know whether a Nascent Soul cultivator could sense that he had refined and stored the fourth-tier Heavenly Silkworm Cocoon within his body.

It is said that one should always be wary of others.

At this stage, Yang Feng has no ability to resist a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator.

He wouldn't dare risk his life and fortune.

Even over the years, Yang Feng has always been quite cautious whenever he goes to the Heavenly Palace to listen to his master preach.

He always waited until his master finished the lecture and returned to his residence before daring to open the system panel to check what he had learned during the lecture.

With that thought in mind, Yang Feng then put the silkworm cocoon back into his system inventory.

Since he has already refined the Heavenly Silkworm Cocoon, he can take it out of his inventory whenever he wants to use it.

After advancing the "Five Elements Cultivation Technique" to the Great Completion stage.

Yang Feng discovered that his efficiency in refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth by circulating the "Five Elements Technique: Core Formation Chapter" was significantly faster than before.

In the past few years, Yang Feng has almost raised his magical power to the perfect third level of the Golden Core stage.

Yang Feng originally estimated that it would take him more than half a year to raise his magical power to the fourth level of the Golden Core stage.

He has now elevated the Five Elements Technique to the Great Perfection stage.

He estimated that the time could be shortened by at least one month.

……

Six months later.

On this day, after twelve years of cultivation, Yang Feng finally raised his magical power to the perfect third level of the Golden Core stage.

He immediately chose to go into seclusion, determined to try to break through to the fourth level of the Golden Core stage.

"Om..."

Yang Feng sat cross-legged in the cultivation room, swallowed a pill, and silently circulated the "Five Elements Technique: Core Formation Chapter" in his mind. He refined all the pure spiritual power in the pill and transformed it into strands of pure golden core power, which flowed into his dantian.

Yang Feng then began to mobilize the power of his Golden Core, constantly attacking the barrier that covered the surface of the Golden Core.

"Bang bang bang..."

Over the past few years, Yang Feng has cultivated a third-tier spell to the point of mastery.

This gave him extremely strong control over his own Golden Core magic power.

Yang Feng mobilized the power of his Golden Core and broke through the barrier covering the surface of the Golden Core in just a few hours.

And as that barrier of confinement was broken...

Yang Feng then saw that the barrier of confinement merge into his golden core.

This immediately improved the quality of his Golden Core magic power significantly.

Furthermore, as the barrier that imprisoned him was broken, Yang Feng's golden core immediately expanded, allowing it to contain more golden core power.

"Congratulations on your breakthrough to the mid-stage of the Golden Core Realm. You are rewarded with a fourth-grade low-level treasure, Ninefold Azure Water. The reward has been sent to your system inventory. You can open the system panel to view the details."

Immediately afterwards, a message notification appeared in front of Yang Feng's eyes.

Upon seeing this, Yang Feng immediately opened the system panel and looked at the rewards in his inventory.

"Fourth-grade low-level Ninefold Azure Water can be swallowed directly. It can enhance a cultivator's water-attribute spiritual root, but it is only effective for cultivators whose water-attribute spiritual root affinity is below 90."

After reading the information about the Ninefold Azure Water, Yang Feng discovered that it was another fourth-tier treasure material for enhancing spiritual root aptitude.

Immediately, he took the Ninefold Azure Water from his inventory.

(End of this chapter)