Cultivation Technique

Astar or better to say Xuan li rested for a day, his body needed rest to recover from the ordeal it had just gone through.

The next day he started to experiment with his new abilities. He sat down in his residence, he was holding a bag in his hand. He focused and began manipulating the energy in the air to open the bag. when he first started hunting cultivators he had realized that all cultivators carried bags of holding which had special properties, they could only be opened by another cultivator because one needed to be able to sense Qi to open it.

he Manipulated the Qi of the bag in various ways, eventually, The bag opened and he started taking out various items and arranged them in specific ways. he didn't stop at one bag, he moved on to the next and the next after till all the bags he had collected were empty.

nearly a mountain of items was arranged around him, he began searching for cultivation techniques, any book or item that had writing on it was eventually read by him. Some of the cultivators he had hunted were talented and had high status thus they carried great treasures.

He found a total of 19 cultivators had carried cultivation techniques with them, amongst them 4 had also carried immortal Arts and spells with them. his heart began pounding with joy and he carefully memorized everything about all these techniques.

"Mortal transformation is the first step, to refine the body so that it can withstand Qi in liquid form. Heavenly Transformation is the second step. Only those at Heavenly transformation can fly, which means everyone I hunted was at that stage."

He murmured quietly "Mortal Transformation has 10 stages, Qi Sensation, Qi Gathering, four levels of Qi Condensation, blood purification, flesh refinement, bone tempering, organ strengthening. I currently am in Qi sensation, to achieve the next stage I have to gather Qi according to a cultivation technique."

"Every Cultivation technique has merits and flaws, cultivation techniques with fewer flaws and more advantages are higher ranked, I have 3 Mortal ranked ones that stop at the heavenly transformation stage. I have 10 low-grade Heavenly Cultivation Techniques that can let one achieve the third step. I have 6 high-grade heavenly level techniques that achieve Nirvana at completion."

He sighed "Unfortunately, none of them are suitable enough. I mean look at this one, Icyflame Sutra, one can wield ice and fire as they wish and combine them at completion to achieve an Iceflame Domain on the other hand at days one would feel very hot and at nights very cold, its speed relies on resources. this is the best one amongst these, and I don't like it. According to my understanding, the Cultivation technique is the most important foundation of cultivators, I need to come up with one myself, how hard can it be."

He studied alchemy and wrote books on days and studied cultivation techniques at nights. he had accepted certain responsibilities as a Grand scholar, if he hadn't done them daily he would have been found out long ago.

Days past and he realized creating a cultivation technique was way above his ability, he didn't give up though, just like when he hadn't given up on getting a spiritual root.

A cultivation technique had three parts for Mortal transformation, the first part was the method to breathe and absorb a specific type of Qi. Spiritual Qi consisted of many Types of Elemental energies and unknown things merging. The second part explained the way to gather and absorb it to refine the body and increase one's life force. The third part was how to trap the Qi within the body and condense it to liquefication.

One day as he was heading towards Zi bai's house to chat, he saw a young man carrying four bags filled with fruit, he was struggling greatly, apparently, the bags weighed more than he could carry.

The young man suddenly stopped and dropped the bags on the ground, he trusted them to the nearby shop owner, they were friends apparently, he picked one up and ran to deliver, then came back for the others, one at a time. This was something that happened every day on the streets and no one paid attention.

Xuan li's eyes were wide and blank, he looked at the same spot for the next hour, not moving an inch, the people nearby noticed and looked at him strangely.

Suddenly he began laughing and sprinted toward his residence with high spirits as if he had found out a great secret. the nearby pedestrians shook their heads and labeled him as a madman in their minds.

when he reached his residence, he closed the doors shut and ran into his room, He Murmured "the answer was so simple, why Bother Condensing Qi 3 times before tempering the body when you can temper the body as you advance in Qi condensation, 4 Condensations for 4 body refinement stages. one at a time, that way the body won't be damaged in any way and no flaws would exist as you advance."

He thought 'I will absorb the Qi as it is, there are certain things in spiritual Qi that seem very useful to the body, despite the fact that they are unknown, I won't filter them out. Absorbing it is very easy, my Spirit root will do it without a technique, as for Body refinement, I will do it according to the Icyflame technique but change the condensing part to suit my needs.'

'I Will name this technique Frost Flame Nirvana. Being reborn in Icy Fire, it seems appropriate.'

He sat in a lotus position and began Cultivating according to the new technique. A vortex of Spiritual Qi began manifesting around him. his body started absorbing Spiritual Qi at an insane rate. The power of his strange Spiritual Root showed itself.

His absorption rate was 100 times faster than ordinary cultivators, He had acquired extremely high talent for cultivation with his effort and wit.

He instantly broke through and Qi started gathering inside him.

He felt a strange force enter his body, it felt like steam and water vapor enter his body from all directions, it felt like his body was breathing independently. The Steam like substance was invisible when it entered his body but that instantly changed when it started circulating inside him.

According to his Cultivation technique, he started to guide the energy around his body, it slowly began getting strange and conflicting properties. it turned Azure colored with a Crimson tint mixed in. The Qi in his body started to feel cold and hot at the same time, it felt very bizarre.

A day passed and the feelings grew stronger, it got to the point that he couldn't gather any more Energy and Qi was starting to Condense on its own. He stopped there because he wanted to experiment with his power before proceeding.