With Cultivation Simulator in a Chaotic World-Chapter 190 - 187: Foundation Establishment Without the Foundation Establishment Pill
[In the year 97,926 of the Celestial Sword Calendar, you joined the Battle Absolute Sword Institute, becoming an Outer Courtyard disciple.]
[As an A-Class Seed, you attracted a lot of attention upon entering the Sword Institute.]
[You began cultivating the techniques of the Battle Absolute Sword Institute.]
[In the same year, you learned the Ten Thousand Swords Technique and practiced it to the entry level.]
The teaching method of the Battle Absolute Sword Institute is quite different from that of the Jiuzhou Cultivation Realm.
Jiuzhou Sect typically combines free exploration with master-apprentice systems.
In the sect, disciples can choose their own cultivation techniques and then attend lectures by the Instructor Elder.
If noticed by an Elder, one could also become their apprentice and receive their teachings.
Here, though, everyone practices one unified method, similar to Pei Min’s previous life’s situation.
The Ten Thousand Swords Technique is the cultivation technique for the entire Sword Mountain River Wood Domain.
[In the year 97,927 of the Celestial Sword Calendar, you gained sudden insight while observing swords, breaking through the bottleneck of the Ten Thousand Swords Technique and reaching the middle stage.]
[In the same year, you defeated a senior brother who had been practicing for eight years in the Outer Courtyard Tournament, shocking the entire Outer Courtyard.]
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[In the year 97,928 of the Celestial Sword Calendar, you began to comprehend the Five Elements Swordsmanship, feeling the numerous mysteries it contained.]
[In the same year, you comprehended the Fire Element Sword Technique.]
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[In the year 97,929 of the Celestial Sword Calendar, you explored various ordinary Fire Attribute Sword Techniques, initially forming the Fire Sword Intent, and started exploring the entire Battle Absolute Sword Institute’s Sword Techniques to perfect your own Sword Intent with them.]
[You sat cross-legged on a mountain, understanding the universe, stars, and galaxies, feeling inspired.]
[You could sense rhythms within your body. Looking at the Five Elements Swordsmanship again, it seemed crude to you, but its structure could encompass countless things.]
[You decided to enhance and consolidate your original three sword intents while forming the Five Elements Sword Intent.]
[You spent the merit points you accumulated over several months to gain access to the second floor of the Outer Courtyard’s Scripture Pavilion.]
Pei Min came here solely for the Sword Dao.
Pei Min could vaguely perceive that the sword techniques of the Battle Absolute Sword Institute resembled mundane sword techniques but were of a fundamentally higher level.
Mundane sword techniques seemed like a truncated version of the Sword Mountain River Sword Technique.
"No need to form other sword intents, just use higher-level sword techniques to strengthen my existing sword intents..." Pei Min murmured to himself while walking through the Scripture Pavilion.
After cultivating at the Sword Institute for two years, Pei Min’s demeanor had not changed much, or even became more introverted.
The Scripture Pavilion contained no exposed books but rather floating crystal stones.
These crystals subtly revealed certain intents.
This was the second layer of the Scripture Pavilion, holding A-level Yuan Gathering Realm Sword Scriptures.
Pei Min looked towards one of the crystals.
The crystal appeared red, and upon closer inspection, exuded a faint sense of heat.
"Nine Swings Red Training Sword..."
This sword technique pursued extreme heat, and at Great Success, flames roared with every stroke. At Perfection, the Sword Intent could dry out several miles of land.
It was a first-class ultimate skill.
Sufficient to have disciples invest all their efforts in the Yuan Gathering Realm to study.
This is what’s different between Sword Mountain River’s Sword Institute and the Jiuzhou Sect. Jiuzhou emphasizes keeping techniques secret.
A sword technique like the Nine Swings Red Training Sword would at least be a core inheritance of a Foundation Establishment Sect in Jiuzhou.
Here, although there are thresholds, even mediocre disciples have the opportunity to exchange for such techniques after several years in the Outer Courtyard.
On the first floor, there are ordinary sword techniques available for free borrowing.
Pei Min’s Fire Sword Intent was formed from those sword techniques below.
Every sword technique was at the level of the Cloud-Breaking Sword Technique.
"This place is simply..."
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"This place is simply paradise for Sword Cultivators..."
Jiang Ming murmured.
In Jiuzhou, obtaining the inheritance of a Sword Cultivator was not as easy.
Jiuzhou insists on keeping techniques secret, whereas here, it’s a flourishing scene with a hundred schools contending, allowing Sword Cultivators to easily acquire sword techniques.
"But indulging too much won’t be beneficial. First, consolidate these four sword intents, then climb higher in Sword Mountain River..."
"By doing this, with the help of the Battle Absolute Sword Institute’s Scripture Pavilion, I can acquire a large number of sword techniques to enhance my Sword Dao cultivation, which in turn can stimulate my Unity Sword Body and improve my talent..."
Jiang Ming’s eyes lit up.
"However, before that, I need to earn merit points..."
Numerous thoughts flashed in Jiang Ming’s mind, and he refocused on the golden writing on the scroll.
[In the year 97,930 of the Celestial Sword Calendar, you achieved Great Success in the Nine Swings Red Training Sword, greatly enhancing your Fire Sword Intent.]
[You could feel a warm current flowing within your body, and your Spiritual Qi absorption speed began to increase.]
[In the same year, you broke through to the Late-Stage Yuan Gathering.]
The Sword Mountain River’s Sword Cultivation System seemed novel, but fundamentally was not much different from the Jiuzhou Cultivation System.
It still involved Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and Nascent Soul...
Only, it integrated many Sword Dao elements.
After the Yuan Gathering Realm comes the formation of the Sword Foundation.
In this realm, one must consolidate three different sword intents.
Three is the most stable number.
Using three sword intents as the framework to build the structure of the Sword Foundation, thereby forming the Sword Foundation.
But this realm was also called Foundation Establishment, although it was the Sword Foundation being established instead of the Immortal Foundation.
"And... the cultivators here surprisingly do not need Foundation Establishment Pills..."
Jiang Ming murmured.
Before the appearance of Foundation Establishment Pills, Foundation Establishment cultivators existed.
It’s just that at that time, the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators was far fewer than in later eras.
The appearance of Foundation Establishment Pills greatly increased the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators, instantly flourishing the Immortal Dao.
Latter-day cultivators mostly also needed to ingest Foundation Establishment Pills, even those who originally had the ability to break through to Foundation Establishment. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎
A Foundation Establishment Pill could save them a lot of time and also reduce the dangers of breaking through.
All benefits and no harm.
Sword Mountain River also has Foundation Establishment Pills.
But Sword Cultivators disdain the Alchemy Dao.
Sword Cultivators adhere entirely to the system from ancient Jiuzhou times when the Alchemy Dao was not yet flourishing, relying entirely on their Spirit Root for cultivation.
Of course, without Foundation Establishment Pills, there is still the Three Swords Breaking Wall Technique, which involves consolidating three sword intents.
The success probability by hammering down with the three sword intents simultaneously would not be much different from taking Foundation Establishment Pills.
Even those Sword Cultivators who have no other choice would only consume Foundation Establishment Pills if they struggled bitterly to breakthrough.
[In the year 97,931 of the Celestial Sword Calendar, the Outer Courtyard Grand Tournament, held every five years, began.]
[You participated in the tournament, and with the Nine Swings Red Training Sword, the fire roared, leaving no one before you able to withstand more than three rounds.]
[You swept through the tournament, securing first place in the Outer Sect Competition under the complex and envious gazes of the crowd.]
[You were awarded a top-level Immortal Sword Embryo and a large amount of merit points.]
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