Immortality and cultivation begin with full comprehension.

Chapter 284: Finding Joy in Suffering
Sipping spiritual tea and occasionally picking up a spiritual fruit or two to savor, Li Yunjing found reading much easier.

During the first month of his imprisonment, Li Yunjing did not cultivate. Instead, he reviewed all the books, countless cultivation techniques, supernatural powers, and spells he possessed.

Having finally found some peace and quiet and cut off all social interaction, Li Yunjing ate and drank well here. After re-examining what he had learned, Li Yunjing actually gained many new insights.

In particular, the contents of the Foundation Building section of the Divine Firmament Jade Book are profound and extensive, covering all aspects; it is a comprehensive treasure.

The contents of this book are extremely detailed. After a month of reflection, Li Yunjing finally began his cultivation.

His cultivation this time began with the "Divine Firmament Jade Book," the first and second volumes, which contained various methods for condensing true essence, the secrets to operating supernatural powers and spells, methods for strengthening the body, and the inherent mental training methods.

Inside the small building, spiritual energy flowed slowly. Under Li Yunjing's guidance, all the spiritual energy formed a surge around him and rushed into his body.

This training lasted for a month.

After Li Yunjing mastered the "Divine Firmament Jade Scroll," he also activated the "Five Thunder Orthodox Method," and the two techniques were activated simultaneously.

Li Yunjing even stood up, his hands constantly forming hand seals. The hundreds of supernatural powers and spells he had learned were activated by the two cultivation methods, "Divine Firmament Jade Book" and "Five Thunder Orthodox Method," and were constantly manifested in Li Yunjing's hands.

Next, Li Yunjing changed to a new cultivation method. He had a top-grade Five Elements Spiritual Root, which was very powerful, so naturally he could not give up the Five Elements cultivation method.

In particular, Li Yunjing also possesses two other techniques, the "Five Elements Withering and Flourishing Technique" and the "Reversing the Innate Five Elements Technique," which are extremely useful and perfectly suited to Li Yunjing himself. They can activate various supernatural powers and spells, and in terms of power, they are even more powerful than when activated by the "Divine Firmament Jade Scroll" and the "Five Thunder Orthodox Method."

Finally, Li Yunjing even spent half a year merging the two techniques, "Five Elements Withering and Flourishing Technique" and "Reversing the Innate Five Elements Technique," into one, which became "Reversing the Innate Five Elements Withering and Flourishing Technique."

If Li Yunjing had started using his supernatural powers, the power would have been 10. Now that he has mastered the "Reversal of the Five Elements of Innate Life and Death Technique," he can increase the power of all his supernatural powers and spells to 15.

A year later, Li Yunjing finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had mastered all three cultivation techniques and reached the pinnacle of his understanding.

After a year of arduous training, Li Yunjing took a few days to rest, practicing his boxing, stretching his legs, eating some good food, and drinking some fine wine and spiritual tea. He was quite carefree.

Once Li Yunjing recovered, he continued his cultivation, working on the higher-level third-tier techniques "Heavenly Fire Divine Flame Seal" and "Fire Dragon Divine Light Transformation".

These two supernatural abilities are extremely powerful!

The Heavenly Fire Divine Flame Seal is an extremely powerful offensive divine ability, arguably the strongest five-element offensive divine ability in Li Yunjing's possession.

The "Fire Dragon Divine Light Transformation" is an extremely powerful fire-based movement technique with incredible speed, making it an unparalleled method for traveling, chasing enemies, and escaping.

The "Fire Dragon Divine Light Transformation" and "Wind Catching Shadow Technique" have worked together to help Li Yunjing a lot in the past. When these two techniques are combined, they are definitely a life-saving supernatural power for Li Yunjing.

Of course, Li Yunjing's abilities were definitely not up to the limit in cultivating this third-tier technique.

Li Yunjing only mastered the parts he was capable of learning.

In this way, Li Yunjing practiced all the supernatural abilities and techniques countless times, and his combat power increased significantly once again.

After completing these trainings, Li Yunjing spent another year specifically studying the "Divine Firmament Forging Technique" and the "Moonlight Method," two cultivation techniques for the spirit.

Both of these cultivation techniques are at the third level and have tremendous effects.

The higher the level, the more difficult the cultivation.

Deep underground, the "Moonlight Technique" no longer needs to be practiced.

The "Divine Firmament Forging Technique" was constantly being practiced by Li Yunjing. All of its contents filled his sea of ​​consciousness. If Li Yunjing had not already tempered his spirit, he would have been lost in it long ago and unable to extricate himself.

The content of "Divine Firmament Forging Technique" was too much, giving Li Yunjing a huge headache.

The difficulty of mastering this technique far exceeded Li Yunjing's expectations.

Li Yunjing sat motionless on the futon, his mind in a serene and detached state of mind, seemingly detached from worldly affairs.

Countless strange phenomena appeared in his sea of ​​consciousness, each one clearly revealed.

The mental techniques of the first and second volumes of "The Divine Firmament Forging Technique" manifested countless strange phenomena within Li Yunjing's sea of ​​consciousness, allowing him to understand the true principles within.

At the same time, Li Yunjing's body was continuously absorbing spiritual energy, forming a huge vortex around him that kept rolling and flowing into his body.

At this point, Li Yunjing no longer cared about the consumption of spirit stones.

For the past two years, the "Spirit Gathering Array" has never stopped, and he has been consuming countless mid-grade spirit stones without a second thought...

Li Yunjing was in almost the ultimate state, constantly emanating powerful auras that made the entire small building exude a sharp aura.

If it weren't for the surrounding arrays, restrictions, and talismans sealing it off, the aura of Li Yunjing would likely have shocked even the Foundation Establishment cultivators at the seventh, eighth, and ninth levels imprisoned on this floor.

As the days passed, Li Yunjing's mind was completely focused on his consciousness, leaving him no time to worry about the depletion of his wealth.

Li Yunjing had already released puppet mechanical beasts to serve him. He input the commands, and as soon as the spirit stones in the "Spirit Gathering Array" were used up, the puppet mechanical beasts would insert new spirit stones to continue converting spiritual energy.

As time went by, Li Yunjing's body maintained its powerful aura without any change, but the flow of spiritual energy was becoming somewhat insufficient.

As the spiritual energy surged, Li Yunjing's cultivation level also increased. The energy within his body grew stronger, and powerful auras surged with each breath.

The storage of true essence in Li Yunjing's body has almost doubled!
Within Li Yunjing's meridians, streams of true energy flowed and swirled, immense in size. Wherever they passed, they nourished Li Yunjing's internal organs, making them even stronger, and widening many of his meridians.

Li Yunjing's entire body became stronger and filled with boundless power.

Unbeknownst to him, with the "True Essence Pill" replenishing his needs internally and the "Spirit Gathering Array" converting spiritual energy externally, Li Yunjing's cultivation naturally broke through to the third level of the Foundation Establishment Realm!

Of course, Li Yunjing no longer cared about improving his cultivation level.

What he was most concerned about was the sea of ​​thunder deep within his own consciousness, where the rolling thunder almost never stopped.

Driven by the "Divine Firmament Forging Heavenly Secrets Technique", the area of ​​light in the sea of ​​consciousness is growing larger and larger, and some truths can already be vaguely seen in the sea of ​​thunder.

Li Yunjing "saw" that deep within the sea of ​​thunder, a faint scepter was rising and falling.

The scepter was crackling with lightning. With a single tremor, a thunderous boom erupted, and countless bolts of lightning burst forth.

Streams of lightning power erupted from Li Yunjing's sea of ​​consciousness, entering his brain and various organs of his body.

The boundless power of lightning significantly cleared Li Yunjing's mind, making his comprehension of the "Divine Firmament Forging Thousand Machines Technique" much easier. Moreover, Li Yunjing made a new discovery: upon introspecting his body, he saw wisps of electric arcs flashing across his entire skeleton.

His entire skeleton transformed into lightning bones, making him a true Heavenly Thunder God Body.

Now, in terms of physical strength alone, Li Yunjing feels that he can punch a Foundation Establishment Realm sixth level cultivator to death.

Another six months passed, and Li Yunjing continued to stimulate the depths of the Thunder Sea with his "Divine Firmament Forging Heavenly Secrets Technique," causing the scepter to manifest repeatedly.

Li Yunjing felt that if his spirit were stronger, he might be able to shake that scepter.

As for truly drawing the scepter out of one's consciousness...

Li Yunjing is still far from reaching that level.

Li Yunjing believed that even those at the Golden Core stage might not be able to achieve this.

In the sea of ​​consciousness, Li Yunjing's "Heavenly Thunder Emperor Seal" was nothing compared to the scepter deep within his consciousness.

After reaching a certain limit in his cultivation, Li Yunjing stopped training his spirit and began to balance work and rest. He then chose to read books related to the five deputy positions.

Li Yunjing read through all the books on weapon crafting, alchemy, formations, puppetry, talismans, and other related topics.

Anyway, no one will bother Li Yunjing during his three years in prison.

For the remaining six months, Li Yunjing could enjoy reading to his heart's content.

Over the past three years, Li Yunjing has completely forgotten everything outside of himself; nothing can attract him anymore.

On the contrary, during these last six months, Li Yunjing was so pleased with what he saw that he took matters into his own hands and tried out his new ideas.

He refines elixirs, writes and paints talismans, crafts artifacts, creates puppets, and enhances his array skills.

In these days, Li Yunjing is reaping more and more rewards.

In the realm of alchemy, Li Yunjing can almost guarantee the success of every batch of "Nourishing Spirit Pills," and he is very likely to produce seventh-grade "Nourishing Spirit Pills."

As for the "True Essence Pill," he was so skilled that he could refine it with his eyes closed, and almost every batch was of quality above grade seven.

During these days, Li Yunjing even refined a fifth-grade "True Essence Pill," breaking through his own limits.

If it weren't for the scarcity of pill formulas, there would be no problem in calling Li Yunjing a second-tier advanced alchemist.

As for weapon crafting, Li Yunjing purchased a lot of materials and used them all up.

His weapon-refining skills are already very proficient; he has crafted four low-grade spiritual weapons in recent days.

Li Yunjing now has a high degree of confidence in dealing with spiritual artifacts of this level.

While I wouldn't say the refining is guaranteed to succeed, I'm about 60-70% confident.

With this level of skill, even if you went to "Tiangongtang", you would still be a top-notch craftsman.

Li Yunjing even doubted whether Yang Wenzheng was as capable as himself!

Besides his significant progress in alchemy and weapon crafting, Li Yunjing also gained profound insights into the cultivation of formations.

The "Minor Five Elements Array" was originally destroyed, but Li Yunjing refined it again and actually created a second-tier "Major Five Elements Array" array plate.

Furthermore, the "Mysterious Ice Array" was also upgraded to the second tier under Li Yunjing's reforging.

Li Yunjing currently possesses as many as three second-order formations.

As for talismans, Li Yunjing has an extremely high talent, and this is also his first secondary position.

Li Yunjing possessed a wide variety of magical abilities, including minor, major, and supreme ones, totaling over a hundred different kinds.

Li Yunjing was able to write down each of these spells and supernatural powers in the form of talismans.

Li Yunjing is definitely a top-tier second-level master in talisman making!
If the sect's "Talisman Making Hall" found out, they would probably regret it deeply, wondering how they could have let Li Yunjing join the "Seven Star Palace"!

Finally, regarding puppets, Li Yunjing's crafting skills haven't improved much; he can only craft puppets at the early stage of the second tier.

It wasn't that Li Yunjing's technique was unskilled, but rather that his mental strength had limited room for improvement and was difficult to enhance.

He only managed to maintain his level as a second-tier beginner puppeteer by practicing "Puppet Technique".

Over the past three years, Li Yunjing's cultivation has been extremely taxing. He has used up a full thousand "True Essence Pills," and the "Spirit Nourishing Pills" he has been refining have not been used up as quickly as he has used them. Now, not a single one remains.

Of course, the greater the consumption, the greater the reward.

Now that Li Yunjing has advanced to the third level of the Foundation Establishment Realm, his divine sense has increased to twenty-five miles.

Such powerful spiritual energy almost overwhelmed a cultivator at the seventh level of the Foundation Establishment Realm!
In particular, Li Yunjing's "Heavenly Secrets Technique" has also made some progress, and he has become more sensitive to his own fortune and misfortune, making it more difficult for others to scheme against him.

Besides the consumption of pills, there was also the consumption of spirit stones. In addition to running out of all the mid-grade spirit stones, Li Yunjing also used more than 100,000 low-grade spirit stones.

As for high-grade spirit stones, Li Yunjing went all out when he broke through his realm, consuming a full thirty of them!
This allowed Li Yunjing to break through to a new realm in just three short years.

Now, his prison sentence will end in a month.

Li Yunjing packed up all his belongings.

At this point, Li Yunjing no longer focused on absorbing spiritual energy. The remaining time was insufficient to improve his cultivation, so there was no need to waste spirit stones.

His spirit stones didn't come from nowhere.

Of course, Li Yunjing thought he was being very frugal, but if ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators outside knew about it, they would definitely curse him out.

For the past month, Li Yunjing sat cross-legged on a futon, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth while studying the "demon beast egg" in his hand. In Li Yunjing's perception, the life force of this "demon beast egg" was becoming stronger and stronger.

This little thing should hatch in the next few days!
(End of this chapter)