Cultivation System: Stronger with Age

For those Earth Immortals whose cultivation Realm was maintained at the Late-Stage of Initial Tier Earth Immortal, most of them perished when they reached around eight thousand years of age! In other words, the lifespan limit for normal Late-Stage Initial Tier Earth Immortals was generally around eight thousand years, which was mostly consistent with what Lin Xuankong had heard from other Earth Immortals!

However, after Lin Xuankong broke through to the Early-Stage of Initial Tier Earth Immortal, his lifespan limit astonishingly increased to over twenty-nine thousand years! Among this, Lin Xuankong’s original lifespan limit was already over nine thousand years. The increase brought by breaking through the realm actually reached around twenty thousand years! Such an incredibly long lifespan limit was slightly higher than that of late-stage Fifth-Grade Earth Immortals, making Lin Xuankong naturally very delighted.

Twenty-nine thousand years, nearly thirty thousand years—such an astounding lifespan limit was longer than the time most sects in the Central Divine Dynasty Western Region had been established. Even in the Immortal Realm, Earth Immortals with such an exceedingly long lifespan were quite rare! After all, such a lifespan limit usually only appeared on Mid-grade Earth Immortals—those at Sixth Grade or above. In the vast Central Divine Dynasty Western Region, there wasn’t a single Sixth-Grade Earth Immortal. Even across the Five Great Domains of the entire Central Divine Dynasty, they were top-tier, extremely rare existences!

But Lin Xuankong couldn’t help but feel a bit puzzled. Why, after other Cultivators advanced from the Transcendence Realm to become Initial Tier Earth Immortals, did their lifespan limit only increase by around eight thousand years, whereas his increased by as much as twenty thousand years? Such a huge gap was comparable to the difference between Sixth-Grade Earth Immortals and Initial Tier Earth Immortals. What exactly was the reason behind this?

After thinking for a while, Lin Xuankong slightly shook his head and thought to himself: No records of such an extremely special situation are found in the numerous ancient texts of the Ten Thousand Laws Pavilion of the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect. If I want to know the reason, I will probably have to ask the three Grand Elders or the two Crane Ancestors of the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect. They are all ancient monsters with long lifespans; the two Crane Ancestors among them have lived for tens of thousands of years. Their knowledge and experience are naturally incomparable to a youngster like me who has lived for just over sixty years! They might know some of the peculiarities behind it!

Thinking of this, Lin Xuankong suppressed his doubts, and a smile appeared on his face. This time, achieving the Initial Tier Earth Immortal Realm under the Thirty-Six Great Celestial Immortal Tribulations brought improvements beyond just an increase in lifespan limit!

First, the complete metamorphosis of his body brought about an all-around enhancement. Before becoming an Initial Tier Earth Immortal, his body at the Perfection of the tenth level of the Transcendence Realm, although quite powerful, was still a mortal body with various limitations. The explosive power it could unleash and the damage resistance it possessed had a huge disparity compared to an Immortal Body! Now that he had become a true Earth Immortal, his physical power and defense increased dozens of times. He could also enlarge his body to become gigantic or shrink it to the size of dust at will. Such a body naturally possessed significantly enhanced survival and combat capabilities, incomparable to before!

Secondly, under the nourishment and transformation of the Celestial Tribulation Special Immortal Essence, Lin Xuankong’s Divine Soul Strength, which had previously reached a bottleneck at the Perfection of the tenth level of the Transcendence Realm, had now directly advanced to the First Level of the Immortal Tier, signifying a metamorphic enhancement in his Divine Soul Strength! Moreover, Lin Xuankong was astonished to discover that at this moment, with a mere Heart Thought, his Divine Soul could instantly withdraw into his Six Paths Golden Core! This meant that as long as Lin Xuankong’s Six Paths Golden Core was not destroyed, even if his body was annihilated and his head shattered, he could still survive and reconstruct his Immortal Body! In this way, Lin Xuankong’s survival ability had been greatly enhanced, approaching a near-indestructible state!

After all, the Six Paths Golden Core he possessed was completely different from the Golden Cores of ordinary Initial Tier Earth Immortals! The Golden Core of a typical Initial Tier Earth Immortal is already nearly indestructible; only the self-detonation of a Sixth-Grade Spirit Crane, derived from the Sect Protection Array of the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect, could destroy it. Besides that, the Golden Cores of the Fire Spirit Immortal Sect’s numerous Earth Immortals, when attacked by the Seventh-Grade projection clone of Great Success Yu Zhen Bodhisattva summoned by Lin Xuankong, only showed cracks and their Divine Souls were damaged; the Golden Cores of these Initial Tier Earth Immortals were not completely destroyed. One can imagine how sturdy an Earth Immortal’s Golden Core is... That was the full-power attack of a Seventh-Grade Earth Immortal!

And the Six Paths Golden Core, being a Golden Core so rare that it was hard for even one to appear among hundreds of millions of Cultivators, was evidently different from the Golden Core of an Initial Tier Earth Immortal, being far more sturdy. Therefore, even the full-power attack of a Seventh-Grade Earth Immortal might not be capable of destroying the Divine Soul protected by the Six Paths Golden Core! At the very least, a Sixth-Grade Earth Immortal, without self-detonating, could absolutely not kill a Divine Soul protected by the Six Paths Golden Core. This implied that Lin Xuankong’s survival capability had increased by an unknown number of times compared to before!

Of course, what was the upper limit of the Six Paths Golden Core’s sturdiness? Could it withstand the destructive power of a Sixth-Grade Earth Immortal’s self-detonation? Could it endure the full-power attack of a Seventh-Grade Earth Immortal, and how about the full-power attacks of an Eighth-Grade or a Ninth-Grade Earth Immortal? These were things Lin Xuankong might only realize in future battles. At the very least, he had no interest in summoning the Seventh-Grade projection clone of Great Success Yu Zhen Bodhisattva to beat himself up for a test!

The various enhancements brought about by advancing from the Perfection of the tenth level of the Transcendence Realm to the Early-Stage of Initial Tier Earth Immortal were, of course, not limited to these; the numerous improvements were simply countless!