Chapter 6: Spirit Construction Pavilion

In the eyes of He Song, who is already immortal, nothing is more important than safety.

Lin Cong's path is not suitable for He Song.

Rather than risking his life outside, it's better to cultivate steadily within the Immortal Market.

The concentration of spiritual energy within the Immortal Market is incomparable to the outside world.

Cultivating within the Immortal Market is much faster than outside.

This is why rogue cultivators all want to enter the Immortal Market, and why the rent in the Immortal Market is so expensive.

Spiritual energy.

Is never free.

Shaking his head.

He Song dismissed the idea of venturing out and pushed open the door to enter his house.

First, he prepared a meal for himself, then began to meditate and cultivate Qi.

Having just performed the Art of Spirit Rain for half an hour, the spiritual energy within He Song's body was almost depleted.

Fortunately, the spiritual energy within the Immortal Market is abundant, allowing for rapid recovery of spiritual energy.

But He Song still spent two quarters of an hour to fully restore the spiritual energy within his body.

Next was cultivation.

Cultivation in the early stages of Qi Refinement only requires the systematic absorption of spiritual energy from the world to increase the amount of spiritual energy within oneself.

Once a certain threshold is reached, one can break through to the next level.

For example, breaking through from the first level of Qi Refinement to the second level only requires systematic cultivation, with no bottlenecks during the breakthrough.

Only when breaking through from the early stage of Qi Refinement to the middle stage.

Or from the middle stage of Qi Refinement to the late stage, will bottlenecks appear.

Many cultivators get stuck in the early stage of Qi Refinement, making no progress for decades.

Many cultivators struggle in the middle stage of Qi Refinement, unable to break through to the late stage.

For example, Meng Guan from the Spirit Medicine Pavilion has been stuck at the sixth level of Qi Refinement for several years, unable to break through to the seventh level, which is why he was assigned to the Spirit Medicine Pavilion as a minor manager.

The existence of such bottlenecks.

Is a reflection of a cultivator's talent.

In this world, one must possess a spiritual root to introduce Qi into the body and become a cultivator.

And spiritual roots also have grades.

The five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Those with all five elements are pseudo spiritual roots, belonging to the category with the worst talent.

Missing one of the five elements results in a four spiritual roots, with much better talent than pseudo spiritual roots.

Missing two of the five elements results in a three spiritual roots, with relatively fast cultivation speed, forming the backbone of various families and sects.

Missing three of the five elements results in an earth spiritual root, with cultivation speed faster than three spiritual roots, and is a good seedling that no family or sect would miss.

Missing four of the five elements results in a heavenly spiritual root, with only one spiritual root, thus when cultivating techniques of this spiritual root, the speed is incredibly fast, and any sect or family would spare no effort to compete for such a fairy seedling.

In addition, there are some mutated spiritual roots, which are not something ordinary people can come into contact with.

Generally speaking.

One cultivates techniques corresponding to the spiritual roots one possesses.

For example, He Song possesses metal, wood, fire, and earth, four spiritual roots, with a talent of four spiritual roots.

Thus, He Song would have no difficulty cultivating the earth technique, Thick Earth Method.

But, if someone gave He Song a water technique, even with four spiritual roots, He Song would be unable to cultivate it.

The reason is simple, He Song lacks a water spiritual root.

And there are also differences between spiritual roots.

Spiritual energy affinity is an extremely important point.

The higher the spiritual energy affinity, the faster the cultivation speed.

For example, He Song possesses metal, wood, fire, and earth four spiritual roots, but after testing, his spiritual energy affinity is highest for earth.

Thus, when cultivating earth techniques, He Song's cultivation speed is the fastest.

Once cultivating metal, wood, or fire techniques, He Song's cultivation speed would decrease accordingly.

Thus.

Whether one can choose the technique most suitable for oneself becomes an important part of whether a cultivator can overcome bottlenecks.

If one cannot find the technique most suitable for oneself, and has no other means to obtain it, once a bottleneck comes, one can only resign to fate, tormented by the bottleneck.

Thinking of this.

He Song couldn't help but sigh again.

The luck of his previous body seems really good.

His highest spiritual energy affinity is for the earth spiritual root, and being within the territory of the Thick Earth Sect, he casually spent one spirit stone to purchase the Thick Earth Method that can be cultivated directly to the ninth level of Qi Refinement.

Now, cultivating the Thick Earth Method, He Song temporarily doesn't need to worry about the issue of techniques.

Following the cultivation route of the Thick Earth Method, He Song quickly immersed himself in cultivation.

Strands of spiritual energy were absorbed by He Song, then transformed into his own spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy within He Song's body began to gradually grow.

In the blink of an eye, a day and night passed quietly.

Only when he was unbearably hungry did He Song open his eyes again.

One cultivation session.

Lasted a day and night.

Feeling the slight increase in his cultivation within his body, He Song secretly calculated.

At his current cultivation speed, it would take a full two years to raise his cultivation to the second level of Qi Refinement.

Two years to break through from the first level of Qi Refinement to the second level.

Such a cultivation speed is not slow.

On the contrary, it is already a relatively fast cultivation speed.

He Song's earth spiritual root has a relatively high spiritual energy affinity, making his cultivation speed faster than the average four spiritual roots.

Although not as fast as the cultivation speed of three spiritual roots, it is still among the best of four spiritual roots.

In addition, it is also because He Song is in the Bamboo Mountain Immortal Market, a place abundant with spiritual energy, that he has such a cultivation speed.

If in a place with sparse spiritual energy, He Song's cultivation time would likely be even longer.

"Not bad, two years to break through to the second level of Qi Refinement, such a cultivation speed is much faster than the average four spiritual roots."

Finishing his cultivation and standing up, He Song was quite satisfied with his cultivation progress, nodded, and then began to prepare a meal.

At this moment, he is still just a small cultivator at the first level of Qi Refinement, unable to be like those great cultivators who do not need to eat or drink.

As for fasting pills.

A bottle of ten costs two spirit stones, and one only lasts for ten days without hunger, which is still too luxurious for He Song for now.

The ordinary rice he bought earlier is more suitable for a small cultivator like He Song.

Although a bit troublesome, but who let He Song only have a little over thirty spirit stones on him now.

After eating.

He Song once again came to the spirit land he was responsible for.

After performing the Art of Spirit Rain for half an hour, He Song carefully observed the growth of the spirit rice seeds, and finding nothing unusual, he returned to the Immortal Market.

Today.

Is the day to pay the monthly rent.

On the first day of each month, all cultivators renting in the Immortal Market need to go to the Spirit Construction Pavilion under the Immortal Market to pay the monthly rent.

Ten spirit stones per month for rent, not a single one can be missing.

If unable to pay.

Rogue cultivators will be immediately kicked out, forced to make a living outside the Immortal Market where spiritual energy is sparse.

Unless

"Fellow Daoist, you look unfamiliar, are you newly employed in the Immortal Market?"

(End of Chapter)