I manage female characters in all the heavens.

Master Yunjin's voice was not loud, but every word was clear, each syllable like pearls falling onto a jade plate, echoing in the quiet room.

She started with the general principles, then went on to explain the key points in each section, each sentence a gem, each word profound and subtle.

With Nie Xiaoqian's current mental strength, her memory has already reached a level of almost photographic memory. She only needs to listen to it once to memorize what Master Yunjin recited.

Such a memory was rare in Yun Jin's limited life, which amazed her and naturally increased her memorization speed.

However, as more and more of the inherited knowledge was acquired by "Nie Xiaoqian", she secretly frowned.

She discovered that the Danyang Sect's inherited cultivation method seemed to be different from what she had imagined. There was no process of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to refine it into magical power, and then advancing step by step like Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, etc.

The core of "The Jade Liquid Elixir Record" is a technique that involves swallowing a special precious jade liquid, refining one's own life essence into magical power, and then using that magical power to transform the swallowed jade liquid into pills to store the magical power.

The level of cultivation is determined solely by the quantity and purity of one's magical power, as well as the degree of mastery over spells.

There are no clear divisions of realms, nor are there any barriers between realms.

This is actually somewhat similar to martial arts training—the terms "third-rate," "second-rate," "first-rate," and "top-rate" in the martial arts world are just evaluation levels, not the existence of any fixed barriers between levels that need to be overcome.

This characteristic has both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that there is no level gap, so there is no level bottleneck, and everyone can continuously become stronger by accumulating experience.

The downside is that there are no level differences, which also means there is no significant boost when breaking through levels. You have to accumulate strength bit by bit to become stronger.

According to this practice, the human body has leaks and cannot store magical power, so it must rely on external objects.

At the same time, the power of heaven and earth is impure; it can be borrowed but must never be absorbed into the body.

Cultivators need to refine the pure spiritual essence of the human body to form magical power, and then use this magical power to activate magical artifacts and spells, thereby leveraging the power of heaven and earth to fight enemies. This is the righteous path.

It is precisely because of this method that humans, with only a few decades of cultivation, can fight against great demons who have cultivated for thousands of years.

Even if humans cultivate for decades or hundreds of years, their magical power is still extremely weak compared to that of demons. However, by using their meager magical power to manipulate the power of heaven and earth, they can achieve a tremendous leap in destructive power.

Demons rely entirely on their own magical power to cast spells, while human cultivators mainly borrow the power of heaven and earth. This is the most fundamental difference between demons and human cultivators in this world.

After learning all this, "Nie Xiaoqian" suddenly realized the truth, but was also quite disappointed.

In her view, this was not cultivation at all.

It's like practicing martial arts only having fighting techniques but no training methods, or cultivating immortality only having techniques but no cultivation methods.

Without improving the cultivator's inherent nature, there is only an increase in pure power, and one cannot attain immortality at all.

Furthermore, since the source of magical power is the refinement of one's own essence, if one cannot make up for this deficiency with external things during the cultivation process, it will actually shorten one's lifespan!

She finally understood why there seemed to be no human powerhouses in this world who had lived for hundreds or thousands of years.

Even monsters like the Black Mountain Demon could only be defeated by humans under a hundred years old, such as Yan Chixia and Zen Master Baiyun.

Damn it, cultivation doesn't increase lifespan at all. No matter how high your cultivation level is, you'll still die in a few decades or a hundred years. Yan Chixia, Zen Master Baiyun, and others were already the humans with the highest cultivation levels at that time, so it's only up to them to fight!

Despite her disappointment, Nie Xiaoqian listened attentively to Master Yunjin's lecture and carefully memorized the Danyang School's legacy.

Although this is not the "cultivation" she wanted, even just the "fighting techniques" are invaluable.

Having learned these skills, she will be able to cast various spells in the future, which will greatly enrich her combat methods.

Moreover, the power of a spell depends on two factors: the caster's own magical power and the amount of power from heaven and earth that can be borrowed. Its power is virtually limitless.

Once she cultivates to a certain level, the output of her magic will far surpass her current martial arts, which are almost impossible to improve.

If nothing unexpected happens, she will return to being the number one in the world in the next world. She plans to let the powerful Iron-Blooded Marquis experience the power of magic and use it to defeat him in a dimensional war.

Previously, in the worlds of The Legendary Twins, The Condor Heroes, and The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, she relied on her unparalleled martial arts skills to sweep across the world.

Now, she has gained an even higher level of power, allowing her to defeat the world's number one opponent from a lower dimension.

She had no desire to experience any thrilling, evenly matched duels. She was a staunch advocate of the "level of power" principle, and she would never engage in a fair fight if she could defeat someone of lower dimensionality.

Today she will learn magic to use it to subvert the world's number one dimension and then go to an even higher world to gain more power before returning to A Chinese Ghost Story to subvert the world again.

This is her way!

After spending most of the day, Yun Jin finally recited all of Danyang Sect's inherited techniques, spells, magical artifacts, and pill refining methods to "Nie Xiaoqian" and gave her a brief explanation.

She originally thought that even if Nie Xiaoqian was exceptionally intelligent, it would take her several days to memorize all the content. Then, she would have to spend several years explaining it to her, helping her understand the various key points, secrets, and essentials, before she could cultivate on her own and embark on the right path of cultivation.

As a result, "Nie Xiaoqian" once again shocked Master Yunjin.

Not only did he memorize all the content after listening to it only once, but his understanding was also very profound, no less than that of a disciple who had been studying for several years. His comprehension was simply astonishing!

"Master, you flatter me."

"Nie Xiaoqian" smiled modestly, "This disciple has only picked up some fragments of ancient books before, and has been studying them since childhood, so I can be considered to have a certain foundation."

"Now that I have received the complete teachings from my master, and can apply them to other situations, I have made such progress. It is nothing special."

Master Yun Jin nodded, acknowledging the explanation, but still couldn't help but praise, "Even so, your talent is the highest among my three disciples. Given time, your achievements will surely surpass mine!"

Nie Xiaoqian smiled but remained silent.

Is it possible that, without needing time, I could be above you right now?

"Thank you for your guidance, Master."

Nie Xiaoqian respectfully bowed to Master Yunjin, saying, "This disciple will certainly cultivate diligently and live up to Master's expectations!"

Master Yunjin looked at her, becoming more and more satisfied and pleased. He laughed heartily and helped her up.

"Good! Good disciple! Go back and digest what you have learned today. Tomorrow I will test you and give you some more guidance. If there is anything you don't understand, you can come and ask me at any time."

"Yes, Master."

Nie Xiaoqian left the quiet room and closed the door.

She stood outside the door, looked up at the setting sun in the sky, and a slow smile appeared on her lips.

Then he turned around and walked towards his room.

Back in her room, she couldn't wait to begin practicing the "Jade Elixir Rejuvenation Record," attempting to condense her first strand of magical power.

She sat cross-legged on the futon, closed her eyes, and silently recited the profound incantation in her heart again and again.

Refining one's own essence to form magical power is actually very similar to cultivating true qi, only the final product is different. In essence, they both belong to the process of refining essence into qi, which she is very familiar with.

Following the method in "The Jade Elixir Refining Record", she quickly grasped the power needed to refine her own magical energy.

With her powerful will, she guided, compressed, and purified it, and then used the methods recorded in "The Jade Elixir Record" to stimulate and transform it.

A moment later, a wisp of extremely subtle, warm and jade-like cool air quietly emerged deep within her dantian.

That is magic power.

Chapter 183 Heavenly Jade Liquid, Passionate Senior Sister, Condensing the Dao Foundation

The moment the magic appeared, "Nie Xiaoqian" felt the huge difference between magic and true energy.

Compared to true qi, which constantly displays overwhelming power even when stored in the dantian and can provide a powerful boost to the human body simply by circulating it,

This wisp of magical power seemed to have no direct power whatsoever and could not bring any enhancement to the human body, but its obedience and activity far exceeded that of true qi, and it was extremely mysterious. Simply by existing, it strengthened her perception of heaven and earth.

She tried to use her mind to guide the wisp of magic power to her fingertips, and it obediently flowed along the meridians without any stagnation, as smoothly as controlling her own limbs.

While true qi can also do something similar, it requires her to constantly restrain it with her mind, otherwise it will instinctively exhibit destructiveness.

Magic seemed to have become a bridge connecting her with heaven and earth, giving her the initial foundation to borrow the power of heaven and earth.

She could clearly sense that beyond the barrier formed by the Danyang Pendant around her, the world was filled with dense yin energy, resentment, and malevolence...

These foul odors were originally unrelated to her, but at the moment the magic was born, she seemed to be able to "touch" them through this faint magic power and sense their flow and changes.

Simply by releasing magical power from the body in a special way to activate it, one can spontaneously mobilize the corresponding mysteries of heaven and earth to bless oneself and bring the spell to fruition.

"These are the methods that cultivators should have..." she thought to herself.

No matter how strong one's martial arts skills are, they are ultimately the power of a mortal, while magical power is the true key to transcendence.

Although this road is not good enough yet and cannot lead to the sky, it has already taken the first step, which is a good start.

However, this wisp of magical power soon began to dissipate and overflow from the body.

She could clearly feel that the wisp of magical power she had just gathered was like a grain of sand that could not be held, dissipating from every pore of her body and vanishing into the air.

She tried to store it in her dantian, but found that even her dantian could not prevent the power from dissipating.

The dantian was like a leaky bucket; the magical power only stayed in it briefly before flowing outwards and quickly dissipating completely.

She frowned, her inner energy circulated, and a vortex of energy suddenly unfolded, attempting to forcibly gather the dissipating magical power with its spiraling suction.

The vortex aura did have some effect, confining the magic power within its range and slowing its dissipation. However, even so, the magic power was still decomposing and leaking out at an extremely rapid pace.

In no time, the magical power dissipated completely, and "Nie Xiaoqian" felt that she had permanently lost a small part of her original essence.

"As expected, it didn't work." She opened her eyes, not surprised.

The human body itself has flaws and cannot store magical power, as clearly stated in the "Record of Jade Elixir".

Not only is the cultivation method in "The Jade Elixir Record" like this, but according to Master Yunjin, all human cultivators and all cultivation methods in this world are like this.

Using suitable external objects to support magical power is the right path for cultivating immortality in this world.

She didn't know whether this phenomenon was normal, a characteristic of the world, or abnormal, and as a beginner, she had no ability to change it.

There might be such a thing in the future, but for now, let's just stick to the traditional way of cultivating immortality in this world.

The Danyang Sect established its sect on Tianqiong Mountain because this place produces a spiritual material called "Tianqiong Jade".

By putting Tianqiong Jade into the furnace and refining it with various precious medicines, Tianqiong Jade Liquid can be formed. After taking it, one can use magic power to condense it into a pill in the body, thus forming the unique Dao foundation of the Danyang Sect.

As a direct disciple of the Danyang Sect's leader, Nie Xiaoqian naturally didn't need to personally refine the Heavenly Jade Liquid; she could directly receive a portion of it from the sect to condense her Dao foundation.

However, condensing the Dao Foundation is not 100% successful; on the contrary, the probability of failure is quite high. If this batch of Heavenly Jade Liquid fails to condense the Dao Foundation, you will have to collect materials and refine it yourself if you want to use the next batch.

This does have a strong resemblance to the Foundation Establishment Pill in traditional cultivation.

The Heavenly Jade Liquid is extremely precious, and even the Danyang Sect did not store much of it; each portion was treasured in their vault.

To receive her share of the Heavenly Jade Elixir, "Nie Xiaoqian" had to go to the treasure vault in person. Furthermore, she had to use it in a specially set-up cultivation room outside the treasure vault and could not take it back to her own room.

Master Yunjin told Nie Xiaoqian that the treasure vault is now managed by her eldest disciple, Wen Lingxi, who is also Nie Xiaoqian's senior sister and is a very easy person to talk to.

When she needs the Heavenly Jade Elixir, she can just go to the treasure vault and find the senior sister; there's no need to be shy.

Nie Xiaoqian had no shame whatsoever; she was determined to take what she was entitled to, and she would also find a way to take what she wasn't supposed to.