Chapter 1256 Casually growing stronger

Chapter 1256 Casually growing stronger

His cultivation technique automatically informed him about how cultivation changed now that he was in the immortal realm. For the most part, cultivation was now divided into two steps. The first, as usual, was to absorb energy into his body and refine it, though that too had become more complex than it was before.

Basically, prior to the immortal realm, cultivators in general just generically absorbed spiritual energy. Yet that was no longer sufficient within the immortal realm. Now, he needed energies of a higher level to cultivate. If, for example, he were in an environment such as Earth, which only had low levels and concentrations of energy, not only could not cultivate at all, but replenishing his energy reserves would also take much longer than usual.

In essence, a planet with a 2 star rating would barely be sufficient to sustain his level, but he would need the environment of a 3 star planet to be comfortable, and have sufficient energy to cultivate to reach a higher realm.

One of the reasons Lex did not need to absorb energy to directly reach level 5 Earth Immortal realm was because his body was already oversaturated with the highest quality energy he got from cultivating within the Midnight realm.

The cultivation technique did not give him a breakdown of energies, how they were ranked and differentiated, but Lex could simply inherently feel their differences. This was something he would need to study in greater detail, for what the cultivation technique did inform him of was that his growth will be affected by the type of energy he absorbs.

It also let him know of the most powerful and highest ranked energy in the universe: Protos Energy. How could he forget it? That was the energy he absorbed, in the smallest quantifiable amount to end up evolving his cultivation technique.

Something told Lex that it would not be easy to find such energy once more, or that he should depend on such an energy for his cultivation. While it might make him incredibly powerful, there was one drawback to cultivating with increasingly powerful yet rare energies. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

He'd already made a list of some impressively powerful ones he'd learned about, including Raiju, Phoenixes and even Djinn. But getting his hands on their corpses, the way he had with this dragon, would not be simple. These were matters for another time.

Lex closed his eyes and began cultivating. It felt so easy. It felt so simple.

When Lex was a mortal, spiritual energy traveled in his body via meridians, but now that he was an immortal, it flowed freely through his body, yet that did not cause any chaos either. There were patterns to the flow, traveling through a certain sequence, orbiting his Golden core, which was also the seat for his tenet when it was inactive. Lex felt his mind tremble as he came to a realization that the outline of the flow of his energy formed the array character for supremacy.

As the flow of energy within his body gained momentum, his body subtly started to absorb energy from outside. His cultivation technique kicked in, absorbing the strongest, most powerful attributes that the dragon underneath him could provide.

Yet, almost immediately, Lex felt a certain blockage. Something deep inside of Lex sensed that the gains he could get from the dragon were limited by his own body, and though his technique could strengthen and enhance his body beyond anything he was supposed to ordinarily achieve, it could not change what his body was on a fundamental level and so ultimately remained restricted.

This sensation did not come from his cultivation technique, but something deeper and more inherent to his existence.

Then his physique activated, in conjunction with his cultivation technique. Lex was under the impression that his physique could only work on other humanoid beings and not himself, yet that's exactly what was happening.

His physique was actively and subtly changing his body, allowing his cultivation technique to absorb even more from the dragon than it was already doing.