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◈ Cultivating Underground ◈
Chapter 71
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A month later.
Two pillars stood at the entrance to the valley.
Qi Refining disciples carried timber between them, though there were no gates yet. From inside came the constant sounds of stone being cut and roofs being built.
The signboard above the two pillars bore a name.
Yeonha Sect.
“So you settled on this name after all.”
Song Gye-myeong nodded at Yi Hyeon’s words.
“I asked our fellow disciples from the other peaks, too. They all said it was fine.”
“And no one came up with anything better,” Ak Mu-gu added from beside him.
Yi Hyeon looked into the valley.
His fellow disciples were settling in better than he had expected.
Song Gye-myeong had notified a nearby outpost of Jewel Light Temple about the spirit vein’s location and their new sect’s name. Bang Je-un had arranged terms with a merchant company at the cultivator market to supply medicinal ingredients.
The formation masters who had come with them had installed a concealment formation to hide the sect grounds and a defensive formation to protect their homes. The artifact refiners were making equipment for the alchemy chambers and furnishings for the disciples’ quarters.
It would take more time to establish proper spirit fields, but they could buy medicinal ingredients to perform alchemy.
A few days earlier, they had delivered their first order of alchemical pills. Once they began earning money, everyone looked much brighter.
‘They should be all right now.’
Yi Hyeon had made several rounds of the surrounding area. He had found no demonic beasts that might threaten them. There were no beast dens or strange signs below the valley, not even in the underground bedrock.
Of course, there was no guarantee that nothing would happen in the future. Still, he could not stay here forever, waiting for demonic beasts that might never come.
These were not children. They were capable Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Danso Sect. Yi Hyeon decided to stop treating them like children.
That evening, Yi Hyeon had tea with Song Gye-myeong.
“I’ll be leaving tomorrow morning.”
“Yes. Has that time come already?”
Bang Je-un, who had been working on the accounts beside them, stopped writing.
“You’re leaving already?”
“Didn’t we agree from the start that I’d leave once I’d seen you settled?”
“We did, but...”
Song Gye-myeong handed Yi Hyeon a small jade token.
“Come and visit whenever life as an independent cultivator gets dull. There’ll always be a place for you to stay.”
“Haha, I will.”
...
The next morning.
Several people came outside the sect gate to see him off.
Ak Mu-gu patted Yi Hyeon on the shoulder.
“Bring some good spirit wine next time.”
“Aren’t you supposed to buy it for me, Senior Brother?”
“I have a sect to build now, don’t I? I can’t go wasting spirit stones.”
Mae So-gun gave Ak Mu-gu a sidelong look as he joked.
“If you give Junior Brother Yi errands like that, won’t he decide it’s too much trouble to visit?”
Yi Hyeon chuckled.
Bang Je-un cupped his fist.
“Junior Brother, thank you for everything. May good fortune follow you, and may you achieve longevity.”
“I owe you a great deal too, Senior Brother Bang. I hope everything goes smoothly for you!”
After saying his final farewell to Song Gye-myeong, Yi Hyeon rose into the air.
The low sect gate and its new signboard slowly receded into the distance.
* * *
Three days later.
In the backyard of a general store at a small cultivator market.
Yi Hyeon sat in a chair, wearing a white deer mask.
Across from him, a Qi Refining cultivator sat straight-backed with both hands held together.
“Elder White Deer. Your guide will arrive shortly.”
“Very well.”
Yi Hyeon lifted his teacup.
The identity he would use this time was that of a Two Heavens Society elder sent to the Seo Kingdom by the society leader.
Of course, no such elder had existed.
He had made one up himself!
He had first sent word through the existing network that Elder White Deer, whom the society leader trusted, would be visiting to inspect conditions in the Seo Kingdom. A meeting had been arranged accordingly.
The members here had never even seen the society leader wearing the Badger mask, so there was no need to appear as the leader.
‘Anyway, isn’t it down below?’
Yi Hyeon examined the ground beneath his feet.
He had expected to go beneath a storehouse as usual, or use a hidden passage beside a well.
Instead, the guide opened another back door and led him out of the market.
‘Where exactly are we meeting...?’
...
After leaving the market and traveling along the edge of the Vast Verdant Forest Sea, they reached a valley filled with mist between two cliffs.
The guide raised a spirit token at a set location, and a faint light spread out. Soon, part of the cliff blocking their way rippled like water.
A path lay beyond it.
As they followed it inside, low halls, storehouses, and a broad clearing came into view. A small flying boat undergoing repairs stood at one side of the clearing.
‘...?’
Yi Hyeon turned toward the inner cliff and briefly stopped.
A gigantic badger clung to the cliff.
It was a stone statue that looked five or six jang tall. With its front paws resting on a rock as it looked down over the valley, it seemed quite imposing.
‘...What is this?’
Familiar words were carved into a stone slab below it.
「Work as though your descendants, too, will belong to the Two Heavens Society, and you are laying the foundations of an empire where many families will live for generations.」
Yi Hyeon read it for a moment.
Those were his own words.
‘......’
He had casually added them when telling the members to expand their influence northward.
As Yi Hyeon looked at the statue, the guide carefully explained.
“We built it so we would never forget the society leader’s words.”
“I see.”
Yi Hyeon walked farther inside.
Masked cultivators were waiting in front of a hall.
The one at the front wore a heron mask. The aura flowing from this cultivator was at the middle Foundation Establishment stage.
Heron bowed deeply.
“I’m Heron, in charge of our affairs in the western Seo Kingdom. Greetings, Elder.”
The members behind Heron bowed together.
...
The reports began.
On the map spread across the table, cultivator markets, spirit veins, and trade routes were marked in different colors.
Heron first explained the situation with the underground vein seats.
“We’ve stopped using three locations since last year. Demonic beasts began coming and going, and our investigation suggested that Tier 2 demonic beasts had settled nearby. We temporarily assigned the members other vein seats and refunded the spirit stones for their remaining time.”
When Yi Hyeon nodded, Heron continued.
“Things here are a little different from the south. Finding a Tier 2 spirit vein isn’t especially difficult. The problem comes afterward.”
Heron pointed to several marks on the map in turn.
“There are too many demonic beasts.”
A cultivator in a brown mountain goat mask spoke from beside Heron.
“Our family didn’t have enough people to guard our spirit fields, so we began coordinating with two neighboring families, taking turns going out. Before we knew it, they had joined the Two Heavens Society too. Our membership grew that way, and now thirteen cultivation families are connected to the society in one way or another.”
Yi Hyeon looked at the map again.
‘The Two Heavens Society has become an alliance of independent cultivator families...’
At first, they had followed the original society’s method of using underground vein seats. Here, however, Tier 2 spirit veins were not particularly rare, so there was nothing wrong with simply settling aboveground.
As their surroundings changed, so did the society’s way of operating.
In this dangerous region, where demonic beasts often appeared, the Two Heavens Society’s strength had taken a different form. It had become a center around which nearby people could join forces.
By gathering and selling medicinal ingredients together, the members found it easier to bargain with merchant companies. Through members in other countries, they could also import equipment and seeds that were difficult to obtain here.
Joining brought benefits, so the society’s membership grew.
“But it wouldn’t be good for the Two Heavens Society to become too visible. Does everyone in each family know about us?”
“No. Only the family heads or a few people who handle communications know. The others believe they’re simply families that trade with and help one another. We strictly follow the original rules.”
Heron paused briefly.
“A great deal has changed from what the society did at first. I wasn’t sure how you would view that, Elder.”
Yi Hyeon leaned back in his chair.
“You should operate in a way that suits local conditions. As long as information about the Two Heavens Society and its members doesn’t leak, that’s fine.”
“Thank you.”
Next came reports on Jewel Light Temple’s patrol areas, restricted areas, and the demonic beasts recently hunted down. So far, Jewel Light Temple had never taken issue with anyone connected to the Two Heavens Society.
“Never interfere with or provoke Jewel Light Temple.”
“We’ll keep that firmly in mind.”
The discussion then turned to cultivators arriving from the south.
Large numbers of cultivators from the Danso Sect, Byeokra Sect, and Myriad Gu Sect had flooded into the Hyeon Kingdom, but few had come as far as the Seo Kingdom yet.
“When accepting cultivators from the south, assess them according to the existing rules.”
Yi Hyeon thought for a moment, then added,
“Avoid conflict with former Danso Sect cultivators whenever possible. Many of them are alchemists. Trading with them on good terms should be helpful.”
“Understood.”
...
After the reports ended.
“Take a look at these. I’d like you to appraise them. See whether they can be sold here, too.”
Yi Hyeon began taking items out of several storage pouches.
A set of curved throwing knives appeared on the table. A gourd, two shields, a pair of bracers, and a short spear followed. All were high-grade magical implements.
When a variety of Tier 2 talismans began piling up as well, a nearby member hurried to bring another small table.
Mid-grade magical implements and spare weapons came next. Bottles containing all sorts of alchemical pills, including Qi-Restoring Pills and Detoxification Pills, stood in rows. There were also several bottles of cultivation pills for Foundation Establishment cultivators.
As the magical implements and medicine bottles kept coming, another member hastily brought over a large third table.
Yi Hyeon nodded and opened the next storage pouch. A split human-skin shield dropped onto the table.
Clack.
Blue Toad, who was preparing an account book on one side of the room, flinched.
Blackened, dried tendons showed between the cut edges of the skin. An intact heart-protecting mirror was placed beside it. It had been a spare magical implement belonging to the cultivator who had carried the human-skin shield.
Next came the belongings of the gu adept who had spewed insect silk in front of the archer: a short sword, two throwing knives, spirit materials used to repair magical implements, and containers of demonic beast blood and medicinal powders. There were also pills that replenished vitality, and even a travel spirit token for the Geonyang Kingdom.
A long box was set down next. When its lid opened, metallic light gleamed within. Eight magical implement-grade arrows.
Along with them came two spare bowstrings, unfinished arrowheads, and spirit materials used to repair the bow.
Then came a bow broken in two. Heron’s gaze stopped on the severed ends.
“This is...”
It was a top-grade magical implement.
Its joint was broken, but the quality of its remaining restrictions and spirit materials could not be hidden.
Yi Hyeon put the broken bow away again.
“Hmm... I didn’t mean to sell that.”
Finally, he took out a flying sword, a mid-grade defensive magical implement, and wooden boxes.
They had belonged to the demonic cultivator who had died trying to ambush him from behind.
The flying sword was undamaged. It had merely lost its owner. Inside the wooden boxes were slips of paper listing the names and weights of the spirit materials.
All three tables were full.
Of the spoils he had taken from the Nammyeong Twelve-Sect Alliance cultivators, Yi Hyeon had already set aside the spirit stones and anything worth studying. These were only the remaining items.
What he had not taken out included the first half of the 《Mist-Condensing Art》, the Life-Sharing Gu rearing records, the unfinished shell magical implement and mirage clam pearl, shell fragments bearing formation inscriptions, and spirit materials. He had put the broken bow he had just brought out into that storage pouch as well.
He had also set aside a jade slip titled 《Spirit Bow and Arrow Repair Records》, found in one of the storage pouches he had obtained while escorting the flying boat.
It described how to straighten a warped bow, adjust where force gathered after replacing a bowstring, and inscribe connected restrictions on spirit materials that bent repeatedly.
Once he had laid out all the spoils he intended to sell, apart from the things he had kept, the hall fell silent.
...
The members gathered around the tables and began their appraisals.
Their hands moved faster and faster.
Blue Toad felt chills while looking at the spoils.
There were far too many unused talismans.
‘What in the world... Did the enemies not even have time to use their talismans or flee while facing the elder?’
Blue Toad looked at the split human-skin shield on the table. Its smooth cut was frightening enough, but the intact heart-protecting mirror and flying sword beside it felt even more chilling.
‘Were they killed before they could even use their magical implements? These aren’t newly bought, either. The handles and straps show signs of use...’
Blue Toad carefully asked,
“Elder. Did you... bring these from the south?”
“Yes. Some troublesome fellows got in my way on the journey here, so I picked up a few things.”
The elder answered casually.
‘On the way here?’
Those words circled in Blue Toad’s head.
What sort of places were the Gon Kingdom and Chang Kingdom now?
Places where great sects had abandoned their grounds and fled, and where even Golden Core cultivators were rumored to have died.
Yet the elder had passed through those lands and collected this many belongings from demonic cultivators.
‘Even an ordinary elder of the Two Heavens Society is this powerful...!’
...
Heron did not jump to conclusions as quickly as the newcomer Blue Toad.
There were many ways to obtain spoils.
These might have belonged to people the elder had personally killed, or they might have been a share divided among several elders.
That was not what mattered.
Why had the elder before them brought out such items on the very first visit?
‘This is... a test!’
Could they recognize magical implements from the south? Would they blindly pay full price for suspicious goods? Did they know where to sell each kind of item?
‘Yes. What’s the most important quality for a member of an organization that rules the world from the shadows? The ability to dispose of stolen goods safely and make a large profit from them!’
Despite belonging to the secret Two Heavens Society, Heron had spent all this time doing perfectly wholesome and legal(?) work. Now, seemingly entrusted with a shady task for the first time, Heron was terribly excited.
This was the kind of work a cruel and terrifying organization would do, just as Heron had always dreamed!
...
After carefully examining everything with the members, Heron brought the account book to Yi Hyeon.
“Elder. Here are the appraisal results.”
As Yi Hyeon looked through the book, Heron continued.
“There’s no need for you to wait long, Elder. We’ll pool the society’s spare funds with spirit stones from members who wish to buy these items and purchase them from you first. We can offer three hundred mid-grade spirit stones.”
‘Huh? That much?’
“Good.”
Heron nervously watched Yi Hyeon’s reaction.
“...May we proceed as quoted? Have we appraised them correctly?”
“Hmm? Is there a problem?”
“No. We’ll have everything ready by tomorrow morning.”
“Then do that.”
Yi Hyeon poured himself some tea and drank.
‘Selling all this at a cultivator market would’ve been a nuisance... This worked out well.’
...
The next day.
After receiving the spirit stones, Yi Hyeon gave some of his empty storage pouches to the members and packed his belongings.
He was rid of the cumbersome spoils at last.
“You are... truly excellent.”
Heron bowed.
“If you entrust us with such work again, we won’t disappoint you.”
“There’s no need to work for my sake. Just run the Two Heavens Society safely and follow the rules.”
Heron straightened.
‘An elder of the organization, yet unwilling to seek personal gain... Just how terrifying must the society leader be for an elder to behave so carefully?’
Yi Hyeon watched with satisfaction as the members divided up the stolen goods.
‘Creating the Two Heavens Society was worth it.’
They earned spirit stones for him, gathered information, and now even sold off his odds and ends.
It was a truly useful organization.
...
In a city in the Seo Kingdom.
Yi Hyeon stood inside a bookshop.
The shelves held many books he had never seen in the Gon Kingdom. There were tales about the demonic beasts and independent cultivators of the Vast Verdant Forest Sea, as well as adventures of monks who defeated monsters.
“I’ll take everything from here to here.”
...
Yi Hyeon headed southeast through the Seo Kingdom.
Avoiding large cultivator markets and roads crowded with cultivators, he checked the terrain and signs of activity around him from time to time.
Unlike the war-torn Gon Kingdom, however, the Seo Kingdom was generally peaceful.
After a roundabout journey of more than a hundred thousand li, a familiar mountain range appeared.
A remote land at the northwestern edge of the Gon Kingdom.
Yi Hyeon examined the area for a while, then slipped beneath the ground.
...
Underground Hideout No. 3.
Sssrrr.
Squeak?
Fuzzbees gathered around him.
When Yi Hyeon held out his hand, the first arrival landed on the back of it. The latecomers squeezed in beside it.
“Have you been well?”
Squeak, squeak!
He opened his spirit insect pouch, and the Fuzzbees that had traveled with him poured out, making the cavern even noisier.
Yi Hyeon first filled the water tank with the Spirit Rain Spell. Then he detached one of the bamboo water pipes, washed its interior, and fitted it back into place.
Next, he inspected the spirit fields, storehouses, and passages between the caverns in turn.
Once he saw that nothing was wrong, a warm, comfortable feeling settled over him, as though he had come home.
‘There’s no place like home.’
Yi Hyeon went to the storehouse and set down several storage pouches.
Then he took out the popular novels and neatly arranged them on the bookshelves. Looking at the shelves full of new books, he grew excited at the thought of the adventures awaiting him within their pages.
“I’ll make them last.”
Next, he organized his jade slips.
《A Clear Guide to Formations》, 《An Explanation of Formation Placement by Terrain》, 《Spirit Material Refining Methods》, 《A Comprehensive Guide to Magical Implement Restrictions》, 《Essentials of Restriction Inscription》.
These were the inheritances he had secured by spending all his contribution points before leaving the Danso Sect.
Beside them, he placed the 《Profound Yin White Bone True Scripture》 and 《An Introduction to Soul Stone Inscription》, which he had been studying for some time, along with the book containing Gwak Jin-myeong’s annotations.
He also took out the jade slip for the 《Spirit-Concealing Formation》.
‘It’s about time I tried making this, too.’
To do that, he first had to properly master the basics of Tier 2 formations and implement refining.
In the past, he had lacked inheritances, and the sect had assigned him a great deal of alchemy work.
Now he had inheritances to read, and time was the one thing he had plenty of.
The various cultivators of the Nammyeong Twelve-Sect Alliance had even supplied spirit materials for him to practice with.
He sorted the spoils he had kept rather than sold into separate spaces beneath his workbench.
...
A few days later.
A Bonefuzz stood beside the workbench.
Yi Hyeon examined the legs on either side of its body.
Then he held one of the broken bow’s limbs steady with one hand and pressed its end slightly with the other.
‘It’s quite tough.’
Examining the cut end, he saw thin layers of several spirit materials. Different materials had been used on the outside and inside, with fine restrictions running between them.
As he compared it with the explanations in 《Spirit Bow and Arrow Repair Records》, he gradually began to understand its structure.
Yi Hyeon lifted one of the Bonefuzz’s legs.
A faint sound came from inside as he bent and straightened its joint.
‘Could I use this here, too?’
The Bonefuzz could already fly, but there was still plenty of room to improve how it pushed off the ground. Its movements were a little stiff when it changed direction suddenly or sprang forward close to the ground.
What if it could gather force in its legs and release it all at once?
‘If I can make them like this bow limb, they should absorb some of the impact when it lands, too. But if they bend too easily, will they fail to support the body under strain? There’s a lot to study.’
...
Yi Hyeon then made his rounds of the spirit fields, checking the plants’ medicinal ages and reviewing his long-term plan for refining Foundation Establishment Pills.
* * *
Six hundred and ten years later.
The cultivation chamber in Underground Hideout No. 3.
A faint spiritual glow flowed from Yi Hyeon’s entire body as he lay there.
The light lingered briefly on his skin before sinking back inside.
Hoooo.
Yi Hyeon slowly exhaled.
Even after opening his eyes, he remained still for a while.
His spiritual sense traveled from his toes to his head, then swept deep within his body again.
Nowhere did any immature energy remain.
“At last... my whole body has reached Great Perfection in Qi Refining!”
He clenched and opened his hands.
His lower dantian was still at Layer 6 of Foundation Establishment.
Over the years, he had trained the rest of his body, which had remained at the beginning of Qi Refining Layer 9.
He had not spent all six hundred and ten years lying in the cultivation chamber.
He had tended his spirit fields, practiced spells, made magical implements and broken them, then melted the broken pieces down again.
He had completed the Spirit-Concealing Formation using formation implements he had refined himself. He had also fitted the Bonefuzz’s legs with new components based on the structure of the bow limbs.
Occasionally, he had gone aboveground to obtain supplies or buy books.
Underground Hideout No. 3 remained his base, but he had mostly cultivated at the Two Heavens Society’s vein seats, which rivaled Tier 2 spirit veins. If he had been cultivating his lower dantian alone, the process might have taken only a dozen or so years. Filling his whole body, however, required dozens of times as much spiritual qi.
As he traveled back and forth between the vein seats and his hideout to cultivate, all those years had passed before he knew it.
Yi Hyeon took a stone slab from his storage pouch. The wooden boards he had used as homemade status panels kept rotting, so he had replaced them with stone.
He swept the Soil Softening Art over several old entries, then carved new ones with the Seventh-Stem Metal Art.
【Age: 2,141】
【Realm: Foundation Establishment stage, Layer 6 (lower dantian), Qi Refining stage, Great Perfection (rest of body)】
【Spiritual Power: 1,548 → 1,908】
【Physique: Primordial Unity Body, Qi Refining stage, Great Perfection】
He looked down at the slab.
“I’m over two thousand years old.”
...
Spirit Field No. 3-2.
Yi Hyeon knelt beside a Jade-Condensing Grass plant and carefully brushed away the soil.
A jade-colored bulb appeared among its roots.
‘Its medicinal age is... about two hundred and thirty years.’
The Jade-Condensing Grass had finally reached the medicinal age required by the Foundation Establishment Pill formula. Yi Hyeon dug up a generous amount of soil around one plant to avoid damaging its bulb and fine roots, then transferred it onto a jade tray.
...
Spirit Field No. 2-3.
Rather than choosing from the Spirit-Storing Ginseng he had planted first, Yi Hyeon selected usable roots from a spirit field he had established later.
The ginseng he had planted first had already exceeded the upper medicinal age limit in the Foundation Establishment Pill formula.
Next, he descended to Spirit Field No. 3-5, where he grew the Fireheart Orchids.
Beyond the stone slabs shielding them from the earthfire vein’s direct heat, the Lesser Yang Stones steadily produced Lesser Yang qi.
The fine lines inside the Fireheart Orchids’ red petals were clear.
Yi Hyeon sat before them and checked their medicinal potency again and again.
Their properties matched those he had seen in the Hwacheon Secret Realm.
“These are ready, too.”
He placed the prepared Fireheart Orchids on a separate jade tray.
He now had all three principal ingredients.
...
The alchemy chamber in Underground Hideout No. 3.
The three principal ingredients and twenty-six kinds of supporting ingredients were laid out.
Hummm.
As the formation inscriptions on the floor brightened, earthfire passed through the fire vent and gathered beneath the pill furnace.
Yi Hyeon formed hand seals, and the flames split into fine strands.
The Fire-Dividing Thread Spell.
Countless fire threads crossed one another.
He handled the spell so skillfully that, had the disciples of the Danso Sect’s Yeonha Peak from long ago seen him, they might have mistaken it for the work of Golden Core Elder Dam Un-saeng.
Yi Hyeon’s hands began moving in a dazzling display.
...
A few days later.
Despite his incredible spell proficiency and his skill as a second-tier alchemist, Yi Hyeon failed to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill no fewer than three times!
It certainly deserved its reputation as a difficult pill to make.
Even so, after repeatedly recalling the scene of Dam Un-saeng performing alchemy, Yi Hyeon succeeded in making Foundation Establishment Pills on his fourth attempt.
Clank.
When he opened the lid, a beautiful, auspicious glow briefly lit the surroundings, and two ivory-colored pills floated up.
Only after checking them several times with his spiritual sense and the Qi-Observing Spell did Yi Hyeon smile.
“I did it.”
These were the first Foundation Establishment Pills he had ever made.
...
A month later.
Small jade bottles stood in rows on the table.
Each bore a Spirit-Sealing Talisman. Beside each bottle were records of its refinement date and pill-inspection results.
Yi Hyeon checked the last bottle, then closed the account book.
Seventy-two Foundation Establishment Pills.
“This should be enough.”
There were still plenty of principal ingredients left in the spirit fields. If he ran short, he could make more whenever he needed.
Yi Hyeon closed the fire vent, checked the formation inscriptions, and left the alchemy chamber.
...
A few days later.
After resting fully, Yi Hyeon lay in the center of the cultivation chamber.
He had ordered the Fuzzbees to stay away from the chamber and closed its stone door.
After one final examination of his body, Yi Hyeon took out the first Foundation Establishment Pill.
Gulp.
Yi Hyeon held the medicinal strength back from rushing into his lower dantian and focused it on a small area outside it. Once that area began refining spiritual qi into liquid true essence on its own, he stabilized it thoroughly before moving on to the next area.
...
Time passed.
The bottles of Foundation Establishment Pills emptied one by one.
...
A year later.
A faint mist hung inside the cultivation chamber.
Hummm.
At a certain moment, Yi Hyeon felt something strange.
He had moved only one part within his body, yet his entire body had responded.
Thump.
Stone dust rose lightly from the cultivation chamber floor.
Without moving, Yi Hyeon absorbed the last of the Foundation Establishment Pill’s medicinal strength and refined the spiritual qi he had newly taken in.
At last, a mysterious radiance bloomed from his whole body, and his prone form naturally rose into the air.
Yi Hyeon opened his eyes and smiled.
“It’s been a long journey.”
Now that his entire body, not just his lower dantian, produced liquid spiritual power, gathering and releasing that power from head to toe felt much more natural.
‘I see. I already had a great deal of spiritual power, but its different forms must have created a bottleneck in the flow.’
Yi Hyeon turned upright and stood on the floor, then took the stone slab from his storage pouch.
The light of the Seventh-Stem Metal Art flowed from his fingertips.
【Age: 2,142】
【Realm: Foundation Establishment stage, Layer 6 (lower dantian), Foundation Establishment stage, Layer 1 (rest of body)】
【Spiritual Power: 1,908 → 3,672】
【Physique: Primordial Unity Body, Foundation Establishment Level 1】
【Cultivation Art: Primordial Unity Single-Qi Art (Foundation Establishment Section)】
【Spells (Major Mastery): Supreme Unity Heavenly Dipper Sword Art, Essentials of Spirit Refining, ...】
【Spells (Perfect Mastery): Airborne Flight Spell, Essence-Condensing Grasping Hand, Fire-Dividing Thread Spell, Spirit-Guarding and Origin-Protecting Art, ...】
【Crafts: Alchemy, Tier 2; Formations, Tier 2; Artifact Refining, Tier 2; Puppet, Tier 2; Spirit Plant Cultivation, Tier 2; Insect Control, Tier 2】
Yi Hyeon fixed the stone slab to the cultivation chamber wall and admired it for a long time.
He was savoring the sight of his achievements.
“Excellent!”
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