Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme

Chapter 75: Chapter 53: Harvest (Summary, Data Flow)_1

Translator: 549690339

Eight hundred years, a lifetime, has ended once again.

This time, there was no mood for reciting poems.

Because the spirit was a bit exhausted, and the soul somewhat heavy.

This was unavoidable.

Although possessing the trait of “Youthful Forever,” which kept his body perpetually young, the aging of the soul was not included in this.

The dusting of the soul, with the body not old yet the spirit waning, and ultimately the heart dying and the spirit dissolving, or the soul becoming overrun by demons and perishing in the Heavenly Demon Catastrophe, are all common occurrences.

Therefore, the cultivation of the soul is very important. Martial Artists in the Four-Realm Condensing Spirit who fail to perfect their souls will never achieve the Grandmaster Realm, let alone step into a higher one.

Xu Yang’s soul was complete, having stepped into the fifth realm, Embracing Core and co-dao, shattering the void, but eight hundred years of time still dusted his heart with weariness, tinting it with traces of old age.

So…

Xu Yang, holding the Jade Seal in his hand, slowly closed his eyes, and his mind cleared in an instant, as if cleansed and purified. The heaviness of the years and the fatigue of time washed away swiftly, restoring vigor to his soul and returning it to youth.

The Heshi Jade!

The Imperial Jade Seal!

This was a rare treasure capable of cleansing the soul and strengthening the Divine Soul.

Even in the world of Great Tang, methods for directly enhancing the Divine Soul and improving the level of one’s heart condition were scarce; they could only be achieved by concentrating on something and growing through the path of Enlightenment, without direct methods of cultivation.

Otherwise, reaching the Grandmaster Realm would not be so difficult.

Although there are no direct methods to cultivate the Divine Soul and improve one’s heart condition, some treasures do possess such wonderful uses.

For instance, the Bodhi Tree that the Li Clan offered him as tribute from Tianzhu Country, planted atop Heaven Martial Mountain, and this Heshi Jade, the Imperial Jade Seal, representing the ultimate symbol of power in the Central Plains Dynasty.

All these treasures could effectively enhance the power of the Divine Soul and improve the cultivation of one’s heart condition, with the Heshi Jade being the most potent.

Therefore, Xu Yang had “transported” it back.

Zhuanzhou Mengdie enabled the passage between existence and nonexistence by consuming the power of the Divine Soul, allowing the exchange of skill traits, cultivation levels, and various items between his true body and avatars.

Among them, the skill trait transfer had the lowest cost, followed by cultivation, with items being the most burdensome.

To transport the Heshi Jade, Xu Yang spent a full four hundred years: the first two hundred strengthening his Divine Soul with various methods and rare treasures, and the next two hundred were spent in a weakened state of his

Divine Soul after succeeding in the transfer, recovering and replenishing it.

In other words, to obtain the Heshi Jade, Xu Yang sacrificed many skill traits.

But it was worth it. The world level of Great Tang was not much higher than that of Great Zhou; in a few hundred years, no earth-shattering skill traits had emerged.

Xu Yang had long ago selected the most effective and cost-efficient ones to transfer, giving up only the chicken ribs, tasteless yet regrettable to discard. It was not a loss to exchange them for the Heshi Jade.

The Heshi Jade, which could effectively increase the power of the Divine Soul and improve the cultivation of the heart condition, held an extremely significant strategic value for one who could dream as Zhuanzhou and travel through countless worlds. It was essential capital for starting his legacy.

Having addressed the issues of a dusty heart condition and an aging Divine Soul, the next step was the cultivation technique.

There wasn’t much to say about that.

The Martial Arts Scripture had gained another lifetime’s accumulation, advancing further from a hundred-foot pole, having fully deduced the systems of Four-Realm Condensing Spirit and Five-Realm Co-Dao, and due to the blending of Longevity Jue, Heavenly Demon Strategy, Mercy Sailing Sword

Scroll, and Heavenly Blade Eight Styles among the top martial arts, the arts of Dao Protection in repelling enemies and battling had also greatly increased.

With the method for Proving the Dao and achieving eternal life, as well as the art of Dao Protection in combat, coupled with medical, pill, and formation Imowledge, Xu Yang’s foundation of cultivation had deepened by a substantial amount. He already did not need to worry about issues such as cultivation practice and techniques for a while.

Besides, he had sat in contemplation in the Temple of War God for over ten years, comprehending the War God’s Atlas, gaining many insights and understandings that, if integrated into the Martial Arts Scripture, could lead to further innovation and indirect knowledge and even possibly offer a glimpse into realms above Embracing Core and co -dao.

Therefore, there was no issue with cultivation techniques!

Having spoken about the acquisitions of items and techniques, the last was the foundation of his existence. The Attribute Panel, Skill Traits!

Xu Yang

Lifespan: 54/210

Cultivation: True Qi Stage

Existing skills:

Eating, sleeping, breathing, cooking, fishing, boating, farming, disguising, knife sharpening, using hidden weapons, swimming, slaughtering, walking, archery, craftsmanship, reading…

New traits:

Dreaming (Zhuanzhou Mengdie, Cyclic Rebirth)

Teaching (Patient Guidance, Mutual Learning, Leading by Example, Spreading

Martial Arts to the World, Making Everyone Like a Dragon, All Age Mentor)

Martial Practice (Heaven rewards hard work, Cleansing Marrow, Eternal

Youth, Martial Path Communicates with God, Founder of Martial Scripture,

Unity of Heaven and Man)

New skills:

Formation (Rock Formations, Blend False with True)

Taoist Skills (Whim, Divination with grassroots, Watching people and looking at qi, Dragon seeking and acupuncture)

Medicine (The magic hand rejuvenates, Medicine cures diseases, Golden needle crossing acupoints, Qi moving across the palace, Yanluo returns life)

Planting (Exotic flowers and herbs, Weather Controlling, Abundant Harvest, Robust Growth, Pest and Disease Reduction)

Although Xu Yang had lived for more than eight hundred years in the Great Tang world, after deducting the over four hundred years spent on transporting the Heshi Jade and various other expenditures, only a little over three hundred years were actually available for practicing skills and acquiring traits. Therefore, the newly added skills and traits this time were not too numerous and could be analyzed one by one.

First is Dreaming, where Zhuanzhou Mengdie goes without saying, but the focus is on Cyclic Rebirth, the second four-character trait with a golden light effect after Zhuanzhou Mengdie, involving the power of “reincarnation..”