Chapter 266: Half A Year Later, The Sixth Sea
Two months of quenching qi, this newly added ten thousand units of magic energy, the rejection has completely disappeared, and it can now be mobilized and transported at will.
“Phew!”
Li Weiyi exhaled a brilliant stream of qi mist from his mouth, opened his eyes, and revealed a smile: “Fifth order qi in Feng Fu, sixth order qi in Zu Tian, so that’s what it means.”
“Feng Fu is indeed very profound; the world barrier can directly absorb magic energy from heaven and earth, retaining its essence and discarding the dross, making the entire inner world a spring eye.”
“Repeated quenching, absorption, and removal—finally, the fifth order qi is formed!”
Looking toward the ship hull surroundings, the increasingly thick white mist and the boiling seawater clearly indicated that the Golden Crow was about to fly out from the seabed.
Thus, Li Weiyi whistled, summoning back the Seven Little Ones flying on the Xihe Flowers.
Then, he stored the jade boat and, with Zen Sea Observing Mist and Li Ling, returned through the space channel only five feet in diameter to the blood mud space of Shaoyang Star.
“Gulu!”
“Gulu!”
……
Bubbles the size of water jars emerged on the sea surface.
The seawater turned golden-red, and amid the dazzling divine flames, the Golden Crow burst out of the water.
In the past half year, with the support of a large number of Radiant Flame Pills and the Fusang Divine Tree, Li Weiyi’s mind power had broken through two realms in succession, reaching the Calamity Fire Realm. The spiritual light in the Spirit Realm had already been cultivated to completion.
Such a fast improvement speed naturally came at a great cost.
Just on purchasing Radiant Flame Pills, he had spent a hundred thousand Spring Coins, an enormous price.
Returning to the blood mud space, looking at the five boxes now half empty, Li Weiyi let out a long sigh, picked up a pen and account book, sat on the ground, and began calculating the accounts.
The bulk of the spending was on purchasing “spring fluid.”
Cultivating the sixth sea Feng Fu and seventh sea Zu Tian required refining “spring fluid” to nourish the inner world’s barrier, allowing continuous expansion and the cultivation of fifth order qi and sixth order qi.
Spring fluid is the essence substance condensed from the spring eyes of Dao Seed Realm martial cultivators, with each drop worth a thousand silver.
In cultivating the sixth sea, on average, expanding one cubic unit required consuming one drop of spring fluid.
Li Weiyi had previously had Yin Er purchase the spring fluid for him.
A total of fifty thousand drops were bought, with the Hidden Sect covering half and he himself covering half, costing two hundred and fifty thousand Spring Coins.
Li Weiyi definitely needed to stock up more, after all, his fifth sea of qi alone was already eighteen thousand cubic units, several times larger than that of other martial cultivators.
As a Hidden Person, the Hidden Sect’s resources could naturally be mobilized at will. But needing fifty thousand drops at once nearly made Yin Er cry; he scoured everywhere to gather them.
After all, Dao Seed Realm martial cultivators would never resort to selling spring fluid unless they were desperately poor.
A single Dao Seed Realm martial cultivator could only condense a few drops per day.
Other seventh sea martial cultivators consumed only a few hundred drops of spring fluid per month, which the clan’s Dao Seed Realm martial cultivators could easily provide. Unlike Li Weiyi, who had used ten thousand drops in just two months.
Li Weiyi closed the account book and sighed: “Cultivating the sixth sea, seventh sea, mind power, and the growth of the seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors—all require spending money. Fortunately, the Hidden Sect covered half…”
In the past half year, the seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors had devoured the two-thousand-year Seven Star Silver Fire Begonia given by Jiang Ning, as well as the medicinal herbs sent by Zuo Qiu Hong Ting to repay a debt, which were comparable to ten thousand-year elixirs, and they had also eaten quite a few Xihe Flowers.
Now, they had grown from seven inches to eight inches, and then from eight inches to nine inches.
Their cultivation and strength had advanced by leaps and bounds, but they ate so much that it made Li Weiyi’s heart race.
Because every additional inch required exponentially more thousand-year elixirs.
The Seven Little Ones’ current combat power could naturally compare to some Dao Seed Realm First Heaven martial cultivators, and their combat power would not lose to Cang Li, Long Dian, and others during the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival.
If their wisdom grew in the future, or if they summoned the insect swarm to assist, their combat power could naturally advance further.
However, they had to grow to one foot long to truly reach the Dao Seed Realm.
The Dao Seed Realm is divided into nine heavens.
First Heaven is “Seed Dao.”
Second Heaven is “Palpitation.”
Third Heaven is “Dao Birth.”
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From nine inches to one foot was undoubtedly a major hurdle; the Spirit Tablet Master said that swallowing thousand-year elixirs of three thousand years or older would make it relatively easier to cross.
Otherwise, they could only wait a few more years and accumulate slowly.
“With my current strength participating in the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, plus the Seven Little Ones, who could stand against me?”
Li Weiyi now had a perfected physical body and formed Dao Body; he was confident that against Five Seas Realm’s Ge Xian Tong and Luan Sheng Lin You, without either side using their trump cards, he could absolutely win easily.
One against two, or even one against three, was not impossible.
Jar Master crawled up from underground, his ashes fusing with the blood mud to form a blood mud person with an extremely powerful aura: “Still thinking about the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival? Let me help you calculate: in the Dao Seed nine heavens, the gap between each heaven is huge; only successor level geniuses can barely possess the ability to fight across one realm.”
“In other words, a successor breaking through to Dao Seed Realm First Heaven can fight across one realm against Second Heaven martial cultivators.”
“Ge Xian Tong and Luan Sheng Lin You’s aptitude, upon reaching Dao Seed Realm First Heaven, can fight across two realms, with combat power directly chasing Third Heaven martial cultivators.”
“With your current strength, against a Dao Seed Realm Second Heaven martial cultivator, you must use all your trump cards to have a chance. When you reach the seventh sea and fight Dao Seed Realm Second Heaven martial cultivators, it will be easier.”
“Half a year has already passed; with dragon seed assistance, their cultivation speed must be extremely fast, and their realms have definitely reached Second Heaven—it’s even possible they’re about to enter Third Heaven.”
Li Weiyi walked over and smiled: “Jar Master, I’m not arrogant; I’m very clear that the path others take ten or twenty years to complete isn’t something I can catch up to in a year or so. I’m more anxious than you in my heart, but anxiety is useless; Five Seas Realm must be accumulated slowly.”
“I heard that among those people, the youngest Cang Li polished for a full seven years in Five Seas Realm.”
“I’ve never had time to ask: what exactly is a dragon seed? Why can it make Dao Seed Realm martial cultivators’ realms improve so rapidly?”
Jar Master sat down on an empty box and explained: “I have to first tell you what a Dao Seed is.”
“Dao Seeds are extremely profound and hard to describe in words. Just like the Great Dao itself—you vaguely know what it is, but you just can’t grasp it.”
“To condense one’s own Dao Seed, we generally still need to borrow battle intent, using it as a bridge to communicate with the Great Dao and condense our own martial way seed. Subsequent cultivation is all based on it.”
Li Weiyi said: “Battle intent is born from compatibility with the wondrous laws between heaven and earth; in other words, is the Dao Seed the heaven and earth laws themselves?”
Jar Master thought for a moment: “Not yet at the level of heaven and earth laws! Cultivating a Dao Seed is the initial step in comprehending the Great Dao, still far from heaven and earth laws.”
“The method of using battle intent to condense a Dao Seed will be taught to you later.”
“Now, about dragon seeds.”
“Dragon seeds are actually the Dao comprehension of the Ancient Heavenly Emperor’s flying dragon, condensed into Dao Seeds. Planting it into Zu Tian allows martial cultivators to directly absorb and comprehend it, naturally several times faster—or even ten times—than condensing one’s own Dao Seed and slowly contemplating classics and exploring.”
Li Weiyi frowned: “Wouldn’t cultivating like this have limitations?”
Jar Master said: “No! Because the dragon clan’s cultivation method is one of the most supreme Great Daos between heaven and earth, with a complete and sound cultivation path and codex, more reliable than one’s self-explored martial way. Dragon seeds are themselves among the highest-grade Dao Seeds.”
“Of course, while refining and absorbing the flying dragon’s Great Dao comprehension, in the Dao Seed Realm, they will definitely also contemplate various codices to compatible with their own battle intent, without completely abandoning it.”
Zen Sea Observing Mist said: “I have a different view.”
Li Weiyi and Jar Master both looked over.
She said: “The dragon clan’s cultivation method is indeed a path to the supreme Great Dao, but to say it has absolutely no limitations is not necessarily true.”
Jar Master said: “What cultivation level does one need for those limitations to manifest?”
“Don’t forget, he is the person chosen by the bronze ship owner, the master of the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish, and a direct disciple of the Chan Sect.” Zen Sea Observing Mist said.
Jar Master pondered silently for a long time and nodded: “She’s right! Weiyi, I think the Chan Sect Twelve Loose Hands are not simple; since your master had you cultivate them from childhood, you should still use these twelve battle intents to condense your own Dao Seed!”
Li Weiyi said: “Wouldn’t that mean slowly comprehending and exploring on my own? In the Dao Seed Realm, I’d be left far behind by them?”
Zen Sea Observing Mist said: “You can cultivate both kinds: plant the dragon seed in Feng Fu, which can also mislead the world into thinking you’ve truly become an Inferior Root Dao Seed Realm martial cultivator.”
Li Weiyi said: “Cultivate two Dao Seeds? Where is there so much time; the cultivation speed would be even slower.”
“No, you have time, and more time than anyone else.”
Zen Sea Observing Mist’s gaze fell on the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish at Li Weiyi’s chest, that pale green fish eye: “The light red fish eye is Shaoyang Star, possessing extraordinary spatial power.”
“Aren’t you curious what the other fish eye of the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish is?”
Li Weiyi looked astonished and uncertain, holding the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish in his palm and examining it closely: “Master said it’s the Dao Ancestor’s brow bone… could it also be a planet?”
Zen Sea Observing Mist said: “My cultivation hasn’t recovered, so it’s hard for me to give you a definitive answer. But I dare say it’s definitely related to time. In Tai Chi, only time can complement and balance space.”
“After you reached the Calamity Fire Realm, every time you left and returned to the blood mud space, I observed closely; that pale green fish eye showed signs of flickering.”
“I guess that when your mind power attainment breaks through to Spirit Mind Master, it will reveal wonders related to time.”
Li Weiyi thought carefully, but it was hard to understand the wonders of time, and said: “So, what I should do most right now is hurry and cultivate mind power to become a Spirit Mind Master?”
“Spirit Tablet Master, how long will it take for my mind power to break through the great realm?”
The Spirit Tablet Master’s voice sounded: “You’ve only reached the Calamity Fire Realm for a month! Li Ling has cultivated mind power since childhood and has been at Calamity Fire Realm for how long, yet breaking through is still far off.”
“Spirit Mind Masters aren’t that easy! In the Jiu Li Divine Palace, that’s also elder-level master!” Li Ling said.
Li Weiyi said: “I can spend money on resources to shorten the cultivation time.”
“I’ve never heard of such resources. Even for the Jiu Li Clan, a ten-million-year ancient clan famous in Lingxiao Life Realm for spirit cultivation, Spirit Mind Masters under sixty are rare, with no shortcuts—this is a heavenly chasm.” Li Ling said.
Spirit Tablet Master said: “It’s not that there aren’t any…”
（Five Seas Realm’s realms were written too complexly, so the Dao Seed Realm was directly simplified to nine heavens.
Additionally, there are some pits not explained in these two chapters, like the Six Desires Talisman and such, which will be written later. My idea is to go fast when it should be fast, and write in enough detail when it should be detailed.）
