Stellar Ascension
Seeing the system screen, Lin Xuanyu fell silent.
Godly technique? My ass!
This thing would completely cripple him if he cultivated it!
Nothing could be trusted these days!
Empyrean Technique? More like "make you disabled" Technique.
Sighing, he turned his attention to the Federation Technique.
This one was used by almost everyone in this world.
Well, at least according to the memory he received from the system.
[Cosmic Alliance Essence Cultivation Technique (+)
Type: Cultivation Technique
Effect: Standard cultivation Technique used by the majority of cultivators. Increases cultivation speed by a moderate amount. Focuses on steady energy absorption and body refinement at late-transition realm.
Limitations:
- Average cultivation speed, not suitable for rapid breakthroughs.
- Limited to the Core-formation stage
Potential Risk: none]
Somehow the federation technique is way better than the Empyrean Technique.
Who would've thought that.
He turned his gaze to the Special Evolution Points (SEP). According to the system, SEP had one main purpose: to instantly evolve anything into its perfect and final version, removing all flaws, side effects, and limitations at once.
In contrast, normal Evolution Points worked step by step. Each point could be used to improve something to the next stage or fix specific issues, like reducing side effects or removing a limitation.
Evolution Points were also needed to combine or fuse techniques.
Since he had SEP, he would without a doubt use it on the cultivation technique. There was no way he was going to cultivate a technique with flaws and side effects.
His first priority was to perfect his cultivation technique.
"System, fuse both Cosmic Alliance Essence Cultivation Technique and Empyrean Technique and Evolve them using SEP" Lin Xuanyu said to the system with some anticipation.
He was excited to see what these cultivation techniques would evolve into.
Tti-ting!
[Fusing Cosmic Alliance Essence Cultivation Technique and Empyrean Technique]
[Completed]
[Cosmic Empyrean Cultivation Technique has been created]
Without even waiting to show the cosmic empyrean technique, the system started the evolution process using the Special Evolution Point.
[Evolution in process....]
[Skipping several evolution process....]
Tt-ting!
[Evolution Succesful!]
[Cosmic Empyrean Technique-> Stellar Ascension Technique]
The moment the system message appeared, Lin Xuanyu froze.
His surroundings blurred and faded into an empty whiteness. For a moment, it felt like he had left his body, watching himself from afar.
Then, something strange happened.
Thump!
A deep, steady sound echoed in his mind, like the beating of a heart. It grew louder, filling his head and distorting the world around him until he couldn't focus on anything else.
In the middle of this emptiness, a bright and complicated grey light appeared.
It pulsed, flashing along with the rhythm of the heartbeat, growing faster and faster.
Suddenly, it burst apart, sending waves of light outward, expanding rapidly like it would cover everything.
At the same time, the spiritual energy inside him surged uncontrollably, as if it was about to explode.
A sharp pain shot through his legs and spread upward, becoming stronger with every second.
"Ugh…" A groan escaped his lips as his knees gave out, and he fell to the ground, his eyes wide with shock and discomfort.
Even in the midst of pain, his mind felt unusually sharp.
The spiritual energy rushed toward his head in a torrent, fueling a state of hyper-awareness.
His thoughts moved with unnatural speed, far beyond what any normal person could achieve. Despite the agony coursing through his body, his mind seemed to accelerate, processing everything with startling clarity.
What was happening?
Lin Xuanyu didn't know, but the pain coursing through his body was intense, coming from the meridians that had been opened through cultivation.
Wait… were the meridians closing?
Even through the pain, he could sense it clearly.
The open meridians in his body were sealing themselves, layer by layer.
A new barrier was forming, stronger and more resilient than before.
At the same time, the meridians damaged by cultivating the Empyrean technique were also being repaired, growing sturdier with every passing moment.
Even the unopened meridians, which had always been blocked by natural barriers, were being reinforced and strengthened.
Slowly, the pain began to fade. Lin Xuanyu gasped for breath as clarity returned to his mind, and in that moment, a flood of new information surged into his consciousness.
It was the Stellar Ascension!
In an instant, everything became clear. The spiritual energy that had once flowed through his body had completely vanished.
Yet, even without the energy, Lin Xuanyu could feel it—his body was twice as strong as before, perhaps even more.
At that moment, Lin Xuanyu found himself in a daze.
It wasn't the changes in his body that left him stunned but rather the sudden transformation in his mind.
Now, everything within a 10-meter radius—every sound, vibration, and even the smallest movement—was being transmitted back to him with perfect clarity. It was as if the world around him had become an extension of his senses.
On top of that, he noticed strange energies floating around the room.
It was faint yet unmistakable. Somehow, he instinctively knew that if he tried to touch it, it would enter his body without any resistance, flowing into him as naturally as water into a stream.
One of those energies was the spiritual energy of this world and no ordinary being could ever see it directly with naked eye without refining it using cultivation technique.
There was no doubt about it—this was spiritual perception, a gift that cultivators unlocked only upon reaching the legendary Transformation Stage.
As Lin Xuanyu reviewed the information transmitted by the Stellar Ascension, he was momentarily speechless. Forget about his Evolution System—this technique alone felt like a cheat!
At first, he thought something had gone horribly wrong, assuming his cultivation had regressed.
But that's not the case, The stellar Ascension Technique helped healing his broken meridians and at the same time completely removed all the spiritual energy in his body because it was incompatible with the cultivation technique.
Starting now, he cannot cultivate using Spiritual energy, he would need to use the most ancient energy that existed since the primordial beginning, Cosmic energy.
It turned out that his earlier cultivation, which he had thought of as decent, didn't even qualify. Stellar Ascension outright labeled the spiritual energy in his meridians as trash—literally.
To even begin cultivating Stellar Ascension, the energy entering one's body had to be of the purest kind. Without it, breaking open the first meridian would guarantee certain death.
The stellar Ascension Technique contained an ability called Stellar Refinement Method where it is possible to refine bits of cosmic energy that exist within spiritual energy, because of cosmic energies purity it's quantity in spiritual energy was very small.
For now, the Stellar Ascension contained information up to the 12 sub-levels of Core Formation—the stage that followed after Transition stage.
Core Formation required one to form a connection with the heaven and earth, cultivating 12 energy cores within the body. This was a crucial step toward reaching the legendary Transformation Stage.
Only by achieving the 12th level of Core Formation would he be able to access the second part of Stellar Ascension.
Even so, Lin Xuanyu couldn't help but marvel at the technique. Not only did it awaken his Spiritual Perception, but it also rebuilt his body to perfectly align with its requirements.
The process was nothing short of miraculous.
Not only that, but it also came with amazing abilities!
Stellar Refinement was just a teaser; the real abilities came with Core Formation and beyond!
Speaking of rebuilding his body, Lin Xuanyu noticed the sticky black substance covering him. It was the impurities expelled from his body during the transformation.
He wanted to explore the other details of the Stellar Ascension Technique in detail, but for now, it was time to take a shower.
[Stellar Ascension - The Ultimate Cultivation Technique, without flaws. One must refine the most ancient energy that birthed the myriad worlds in order to cultivate.
- Stellar Refinement (unlocked)
- Stellar Imprint (Locked) (Unlocked at second realm)
- Stellar Domain (Locked) (Unlocked at third realm)]
- ??? (Locked) (Unlocked at fourth realm)
- ??? (Locked) (Unlocked at fifth realm)]