I'm determined to become an immortal!

"Could it be a bug?"

He Sheng was greatly puzzled. He looked more closely at the water droplets arranged in three rows, and then focused his mind on the minus sign for the array technique item.

Try it and you'll see.

Swish.

The array technique was rapidly regressed once again, and He Sheng stopped it when it had just regressed to the level of a first-grade low-level perfect.

【art】:

[Tier 1000 Low-Grade Array Master: 1/1000]

(Total practice time: two years, three months and eight days)

After this setback, the total training time for array formation techniques decreased by 1667 days.

If the general cultivation time were doubled as before, it should have increased by 3334 days of cultivation time, but according to the water clock, this is not the case.

[Current available total training time: 10 years, 11 months, 14 days]

"Only 2500 days of general training time were added?"

He Sheng calculated carefully that when he was at the first-level high-grade, the cultivation time was reduced by 2 times.

However, once you reach the mid-grade first rank, the cultivation time is reduced by 1.5 times.

Clearly, this is not a bug, but a specific pattern.

To verify his idea, He Sheng added the general training time back to the array technique. After several attempts, the pattern remained the same.

Simply put, this is not a multiple return, but an exchange ratio between immortal skill cultivation time and general cultivation time, or a time rate.

Taking the first-tier superior array master stage as an example, when reverting, the general cultivation time is reduced by 2 times, and when adding it back, the general cultivation time is also consumed at 2 times the time rate.

He also discovered that the time rate of array formation techniques at the first-tier low-grade stage is 1.2 times.

Therefore, when he reverted his array formation skills to the level of a beginner:

[Tier 1 Low-Grade Array Master: 1/1000]

(Total practice time: one day)

The total general training time obtained is:

[Current total available cultivation time: thirteen years, seven months, and nine days]

After this series of experiments, He Sheng gradually got the hang of it.

The reason why the water clock is divided into three categories, namely, art, method, and technique, is probably because the three have different methods of cultivation.

"Spell" refers to a type of magic, which is the simplest to cultivate, relying entirely on one's own magical power and not requiring external aids.

Therefore, its time rate is 1.

In other words, the exchange rate between the training time for a specific skill and the general training time is 1:1.

But it's different whether it's "art" or "law".

"The cultivation of immortal arts naturally requires a lot of external materials, and the art of array formation is no exception. Whether it is refining array plates or array bases, a lot of spiritual materials are required."

Furthermore, the higher the level of the formation involved, the higher the requirements for spiritual materials will naturally be.

Therefore, the higher the level of immortal skill, the higher the time efficiency.

This is the water clock itself using time as currency, regulating and balancing its internal mechanisms.

Once He Sheng understood this, he naturally gained a deeper understanding of the "golden finger" that allowed him to "return to time".

"The cultivation of techniques requires the support of external spiritual energy. Ordinary cultivators need to consume spiritual food and pills or be in a place with abundant spiritual veins to practice breathing exercises. Otherwise, they simply cannot complete the practice."

The higher one's cultivation level, the more spiritual energy one needs to absorb.

Therefore, the time rate of the [law] should also fluctuate.

[Qinglan Water Elemental Skill, Level 6 (Beginner): 1/100]

(Total cultivation time: eleven years, seven months and seven days)

He Sheng glanced at the information about the Qinglan Water Element Technique and prepared to try it out to see if it matched his guess.

He immediately added a month to the cultivation time of Qinglan Water Yuan Gong.

[Qinglan Water Elemental Skill, Level 6 (Beginner): 51/100]

(Total cultivation time: eleven years, eight months and seven days)

He Sheng sensed the state of his internal magical power and found that not only had his newly broken-through cultivation been completely consolidated, but the magical power in his dantian spiritual sea had increased by more than a hundred drops!

The general training time has been reduced by two months.

[Current total available cultivation time: thirteen years, five months, and nine days]

"In other words, at the late Foundation Establishment stage, the time ratio is 2, meaning the exchange rate between cultivation time and general cultivation time is 1:2."

Through continuous experimentation, He Sheng's mastery of the time-lapse mechanism improved significantly, and ideas for enhancing combat capabilities immediately emerged in an endless stream.

"Based on the time loop's assessment of my current cultivation, doesn't that mean I only need about sixty months of standard cultivation time to instantly raise my cultivation to the late-stage Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment?!"

Based on a 2x time rate, it means that in reality, only thirty months of cultivation time are needed for the Qinglan Water Element Technique to reach the sixth level of perfection, which is also the ultimate perfection of the entire technique.

Intermediate-level cultivation techniques can only be practiced up to this stage; they make no mention of the Core Formation process.

"Thirty months may seem like only two and a half years, but it's actually twelve hours a day. If it were Brother Piao, who used to practice the Qinglan Water Element Technique for five hours a day, it would actually take six years."

It is indeed faster than Piao Ge's cultivation in the early to mid-stages of Foundation Establishment, but this is the effect of my cultivation technique enhanced by the Mindful Ripples Intent, so it's not surprising.

He Sheng had previously enhanced his cultivation technique with the Mindful Ripples Realm, which not only greatly improved the effect of circulating his energy throughout the body but also significantly reduced the time required for the practice, resulting in such an effect.

The level of one's magical cultivation is the primary factor influencing combat strength, and He Sheng always kept this in mind.

Although he originally wanted to study how to make himself a mechanic monster, he still had to first address the real-world problems.

"In case anything happens later, I'll raise my cultivation to the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment first, so I can deal with it more easily."

Once he made up his mind, He Sheng stopped thinking about anything else and focused his attention on the plus sign after "Qinglan Water Element Technique".

Whoosh!

As if riding a rocket, the level of Qinglan Water Element Technique began to rise rapidly.

Beginner, intermediate, advanced, master, perfect!

After two and a half years of dedicated cultivation, your "Qinglan Water Element Technique" has reached the Great Perfection realm, and your cultivation level has also been raised to the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment.

Unfortunately, this is only an intermediate-level technique and cannot allow you to advance further.

This line of cultivation information looked brief, but He Sheng could sense changes in his dantian and spiritual sea.

His spiritual sea had more than doubled in size, and his magical power had increased to 9,600 drops!

Feeling the surging and vast magical power within his body, He Sheng felt that his magical power had doubled since he first entered the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

After all, according to the previous quantitative algorithm, when he first entered the late stage of Foundation Establishment, his mana value had already reached 7200 points.

Now, at the peak of Foundation Establishment, based on 9,600 drops of mana, the mana value has become 14400 points, exactly double.

"With my current level of magical power, which is several times stronger than when I first arrived, I should be able to hold out for more than an hour if I fully activate the Rippling Water Escape technique."

It shouldn't be a problem to travel more than two thousand miles downstream in a short time.

With such a powerful ability to escape, He Sheng felt much more at ease.

Despite the increasingly intense fluctuations of magical power outside the Water Palace and the obvious shaking inside, he calmed himself down and focused his mind on the "Clear Wave Water Control Technique".

"I'll use up all the remaining general training time; I wonder if there will be any new gains?"

[Current total available cultivation time: 8 years, 5 months, and 9 days]

He Sheng glanced at the general cultivation time, then focused his mind and began to frantically increase the cultivation time of the "Qinglan Water Control Technique".