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Between nations and between Cultivators, the struggle for Blue-level Secret Realms became increasingly intense.
A large number of experts who broke through to the Divine Breath Realm discovered a problem: not everyone was capable of the Simultaneous Opening of the Three Palaces.
Many Divine Breath Realm Cultivators were unable to open the niwan palace to give birth to Divine Sense.
Ordinary people Cultivate the Heavenly Circulation Method for Refining Essence into Qi; this stage is Foundation Establishment.
Depending on the degree of cultivation of the Heavenly Circulation Method, Refining Essence into Qi is divided into First Refinement One Spirit, First Refinement Two Spirits... First Refinement One Hundred Spirits.
The more spiritual energy refined in each refinement, the deeper the Foundation.
Zhang Sheng cultivated the Heavenly Circulation Method to the Perfected State, reaching the terrifying First Refinement Ten Thousand Spirits.
Such a Foundation could be described as terrifying.
For the same Qi Sea Realm Perfection, the Dantian spiritual energy of the First Refinement Ten Thousand Spirits is ten thousand times that of the First Refinement One Spirit.
In the process of breaking through to the Divine Breath Realm, the spiritual dragon of the Qi Sea transforms into True Yang, rushing to the niwan palace and down to the crimson heart palace; only then can the three palaces be fully opened.
But for those below First Refinement Ten Spirits, the nine True Yang are weak and dim, unable to rush to the niwan palace, falling back into the Dantian.
Although these people also reached the Divine Breath Realm, their Foundation was too poor to burst open the niwan palace and crimson heart palace.
Unable to give birth to Divine Sense, their Realm could no longer improve, and their path of cultivation was cut off right there!
Once one breaks through to the Divine Breath Realm, the upward passage from the Dantian opens, and there is no longer a chance to start over.
This information quickly spread across the globe.
After it spread, it was actually a good thing, because there were more Cultivators who had not yet broken through to the Divine Breath Realm.
This situation gave those Cultivators who hadn't broken through to the Divine Breath Realm a chance to start over.
As long as they continued Refining Essence into Qi, improved their Realm in the Heavenly Circulation Method, and then vented all the spiritual energy in their Dantian to re-condense the spiritual dragon, they would be fine.
All of a sudden, the essence food pills and spirit food pills required for the Heavenly Circulation Method and Refining Essence into Qi became hot commodities.
Fortunately, the refining methods for these two types of Medicinal Pills were very simple, and many Cultivators knew how to refine them.
As for the raw materials, there was no shortage at all; spirit plants like gold spirit rice were everywhere on Earth today. Farming is rooted in the bones of the Huaxia people.
Although supreme-grade versions of these two Medicinal Pills were hard to come by, Low Grade and Medium Grade ones were plentiful on Myriad Treasures Net, and the price was only a tenth of what it used to be.
Unfortunately, there was no turning back after breaking through to the Divine Breath Realm; even the other Sequence Members were filled with regret.
However, circumstances were pressing; facing the threat of Secret Realms, they had no choice but to break through to the Divine Breath Realm.
Having top-tier Talent but not a top-tier Foundation was their personal regret, and Huaxia's regret as well.
Although every one of them was at least First Refinement Ten Spirits, if they could do it over, they would definitely insist on cultivating to First Refinement One Hundred Spirits or until no further progress could be made before breaking through to the Divine Breath Realm.
"If only I could help them re-Cultivate," this thought spontaneously arose in Zhang Sheng's heart.
Fortunately, First Cultivation University had once set a school rule.
Students who couldn't reach First Refinement Ten Spirits within a month of enrollment would all be expelled.
This also resulted in very few students breaking through to the Divine Breath Realm now, and even if they did, all three palaces were fully opened.
And those who hadn't broken through could continue Refining Essence into Qi.
This school rule was also emulated by other universities; this was Huaxia's fortune.
Now everyone knew that the path of cultivation is like building a tower; a ten-thousand-foot platform starts from the soil. To achieve a higher Realm, one must build a supreme Foundation... In the Alchemy room, four blue Jade Slips lay before Zhang Sheng.
Two of them were gains from killing Rodi, and the other two were obtained from killing Yao Beasts in the Kirov Blue-level Secret Realm.
Each one, if taken out, would be something countless Cultivators would covet.
Zhang Sheng pressed them to his forehead one by one, and waves of Divine Sense information flooded into Zhang Sheng's Sea of Consciousness.
The first one—"Primordial Chaos Heavenly Art".
What a pity; he had obtained this Divine Breath Realm Qi Refining Cultivation Technique before, so having a duplicate wasn't very useful.
"Slave Seal: Mental Energy condenses into a slave seal bead, which is planted into a living being's Divine Soul; with one thought the slave lives, with one thought the slave dies."
It was a mysterious Spell, but it required that the target not resist, and the target's Mental Energy could not be stronger than the caster's, otherwise the Slave Seal would lose its effect.
This imposed a huge limitation; after all, who would be willing to be someone else's slave?
Unless threatened with death; Zhang Sheng also thought of a way to use the Slave Seal.
"Surrender and live, resist and die!" Zhang Sheng believed there would be those who knew how to adapt to the situation.
The third Jade Slip recorded the production method for a second-rank Talisman.
Its name was the Explosive Flame Talisman, a super upgraded version of the Fireball Talisman, and its power was immense.
Zhang Sheng could instantly fire off a Moon Slash with a single thought, so he had little interest in these time-consuming and labor-intensive Talismans, and their activation speed wasn't as fast as instant-cast Spells.
The fourth Jade Slip recorded a second-rank spear technique, Mountain-Shattering Three Extremes Spear; its content was vast, and the spear moves were extremely mysterious, making it a very powerful close-combat method.
So far, Zhang Sheng had obtained several Blue-level Jade Slips in a row, but in his view, the value of the contents recorded within them was poles apart.
The Nine Tribulations Secret Codex obtained from the first Jade Slip was the most precious; in Zhang Sheng's view, the others were far from comparable to this Body Refining Cultivation Technique.
Truly strange!
The Primordial Chaos Heavenly Art was a Divine Breath Realm Qi Refining method, and it was finally time for Zhang Sheng to Cultivate it.
Spiritual energy flows from the Dantian through the Meridians of the whole body, with a complexity far exceeding Primordial Chaos Qi Refining; only when the spiritual energy passes through the whole body and completes a great circulation is one round of cultivation considered finished.
However, before it had even completed half a circulation, it failed!
Just like when he cultivated the Moon Slash Spell, second-rank Cultivation Techniques were extremely difficult, often requiring several attempts before succeeding once.
But,
Zhang Sheng looked at the talent panel before him in shock!
Even though he hadn't successfully completed a circulation, a line of text actually popped up on his talent panel.
"Detected learning Cultivation Technique—Primordial Chaos Heavenly Art, progress: 15%."
What's going on?
Not only that, Zhang Sheng discovered that his Talent had also changed.
"Awakened Talent: Once Certified, Forever Certified (Rank: Eternal Unique)"
The font had changed from the original black to gold!
This was the first time Zhang Sheng had called up his talent panel since killing Rodi.
Could it be because he devoured Rodi's Soul?
He hadn't experienced any other special events besides that; however, he didn't obtain his Devour Talent, but his own "Once Certified, Forever Certified" Talent had upgraded to Eternal Unique!
Eternal Unique!
Eternal Unique!
Zhang Sheng kept chanting these four words; it was wonderful!
Although he didn't get the Devour Talent and couldn't understand the meaning of these four words, what he could be sure of was...
His Talent had become even more powerful!
A fundamental change had occurred.
In the past, only after successfully performing a certain skill or Spell would the talent panel show: "Detected castable..., would you like to learn?"
Now, even if he failed to perform it successfully, the mastery progress would still appear.