Chapter 61: Spiritual Power_1

Chapter 61: Spiritual Power_1

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Mr. Zhuang passed the Jade Slip of Tianyan Jue to Mo Hua:

“The Jade Slip for transmitting ancient cultivation techniques is a bit special, only when your cultivation reaches a certain realm can your divine sense inspect the cultivation techniques that follow. There are no restrictions on the techniques from the Qi Refinement Realm, but for the techniques from the Foundation Establishment Stage, only those who have cultivated the Tianyan Jue and reached the realm of Foundation Establishment can see them.”

“Most ancient cultivation techniques come with only one slip per technique. If the Jade Slip is lost, the technique is essentially lost as well. Even if there are several Jade Slips for some techniques, it is not certain that you can find them. The cultivation world is vast; looking for an obscure Jade Slip of an ancient technique is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Moreover, in my lifetime, I have only seen this one of the Tianyan Jue.”

“Therefore, you must take good care of this Jade Slip and never lose it!”

Mo Hua solemnly received the Jade Slip, feeling its weight increase in his hand, but his heart couldn’t help but leap with joy.

This is a genuine cultivation technique; by learning it, he would truly be considered a cultivator. He had officially taken the first step on the vast and boundless path of cultivation.

Mo Hua shared the news of Mr. Zhuang teaching him the cultivation technique with his parents.

Mo Shan was very happy. Although the spiritual power cultivated from this technique wasn’t abundant, the phrase “suitable only for Formation Masters,” showed it was extraordinary. Very few true Formation Masters ever emerged among the Loose Cultivators of Tongxian City.

Moreover, the technique was given by the profound and unfathomable Mr. Zhuang; naturally, it is incredibly precious, far superior to those techniques passed down among Loose Cultivators.

Knowing that Mr. Zhuang didn’t care much about common items like Spirit Stones, Mo Shan thought about how Mr. Zhuang had finished all the meat and wine that Mo Hua had delivered before, which must mean it suited the gentleman’s taste.

The next day, before dawn, Mo Shan went into the mountains in the dark. He hunted several Monster Beasts and, three days later, came down from the mountain carrying a large bundle. Inside the bundle was the most tender meat from the loin of various bovine and ovine Monster Beasts, so fresh that he didn’t even put it in a Storage Bag.

Liu Ruhua cleaned the meat and prepared it in various ways: smoked, fried, or stewed in sauce, creating a range of spicy and savory flavors, garnished with some green spices, and neatly placed in a food box.

She also took out several jugs of variously fragrant fruit wines that they made at home, along with a few boxes of freshly roasted, fragrant pine nuts, for Mo Hua to take up the mountain. She instructed Mo Hua to convey words of thanks like “not to disturb the gentleman in his ascetic cultivation, just to express gratitude.”

Mr. Zhuang accepted the food box without saying much, but he looked very pleased. Sitting in the bamboo pavilion, he ate a piece of meat and drank a cup of clear wine, enjoying it along with the breeze and mountain scenery.

Old Kui was quite satisfied with the pine nuts; the few boxes had just been handed over when they disappeared in front of Mo Hua’s eyes. Old Kui had tucked them away somewhere, not leaving any for Mr. Zhuang.

Mo Hua also brought some to the Bai siblings to express his thanks.

Bai Zixi ate two slices of meat and drank a bit more sweet osmanthus rice wine, her cheeks flushed red and her eyes brightly shining, like stars twinkling in the sky.

Bai Zisheng made a second attempt, “Then just give me beef to eat every day, and I’ll look after you as well.”

“You could buy it yourself.”

“Aunt Xue won’t allow me to eat just anything. She also told me to eat less of things that don’t contain spiritual energy.”

“Oh.”

“What do you mean, oh? I’m doing this to give you face...” Bai Zisheng said.

Mo Hua ignored him, and Bai Zisheng kept grumbling while Bai Zixi watched them silently, taking another small sip of the sweet fermented rice.

In the following days, Mo Hua gave up on the Breathing Technique and officially started cultivating according to the meridian chart and breathing methods described in Tianyan Jue.

After cultivating a few times, Mo Hua could clearly feel the difference.

The speed of assimilation was faster, the spiritual power refined was purer, and the meridians throughout his body felt more unobstructed.

The only issue was that after cultivation, there was nothing special about the spiritual power.

Mo Hua asked Da’hu, who cultivated the Fire-series Fierce Tiger Jue. After cultivation, Da’hu’s spiritual power would have a slight burning sensation, and any fire-series spells or physical techniques he practiced in the future would be more powerful.

Shuanghu cultivated the Solid Foundation Skill, which harmonized spiritual energy with blood qi after cultivation, strengthening the body when spiritual power circulated. Mo Hua had forgotten which cultivation technique Sanhu practiced, but after cultivation, his spiritual power also underwent some special changes.

Only Mo Hua’s spiritual power seemed to have no fundamental change compared to before.

The cycles of spiritual power refined through Tianyan Jue were also standard.

Compared with clan disciples like the Bai siblings, it certainly couldn’t match up, but compared to the average Qi Cultivation Loose Practitioner, it was slightly above average—not great, but acceptable.

Moreover, the only unique aspect of this cultivation technique might be that it consumed more divine sense during practice, several times more than the basic Breathing Technique.

However, the divine sense consumed during practice of the Breathing Technique, or any general cultivation technique, was already quite low, and even if it were several times higher, it would scarcely amount to anything—it wouldn’t even be enough to draw a single formation.

But Mo Hua never expected this technique to have anything particularly special about it.

For Mo Hua, the best cultivation technique was the one that saved spirit stones.