With Cultivation Simulator in a Chaotic World-Chapter 58: Seeking the Dao Through Martial Arts
At the same time, a mysterious and profound feeling surged through Jiang Ming’s entire body.
This sensation was fleeting. For that moment, Jiang Ming could feel the surroundings becoming distinctly clearer... no, it was the world that had become clearer to him.
This is... Five Spirit Roots!
The cultivation talent Jiang Ming had been yearning for!
The experience of Five Spirit Roots came and went quickly, and Jiang Ming soon no longer felt anything special.
Having Spirit Roots without anyone to guide them onto the Immortal Path would just lead to them becoming dust after a hundred years. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
"Cyan Cloud Breathing!"
The Cyan Cloud Breathing Technique is moderate and balanced, most suitable for laying a foundation.
The first step in cultivation is to sense Qi sensitivity.
When an Acquired Martial Artist breaks through to the Innate stage, they also need to sense Qi sensitivity, but it’s called opening the Heaven and Earth Bridge, connecting with the world.
Compared to breaking through to the Innate stage, Qi Refining is somewhat simpler.
However, with the sensation of Qi, the Inner Strength and Qi-Blood within Jiang Ming began to surge, taking the initiative to fuse and form the Heaven and Earth Bridge.
Jiang Ming hadn’t yet sensed Qi, but under the stimulation of Cyan Cloud Breathing, he unexpectedly broke through to the Innate Realm first.
The Inner Strength and Qi-Blood inside his body blended seamlessly, and the surrounding Spiritual Qi was drawn through the Heaven and Earth Bridge, infusing into his body.
A sense of power filled him, and Jiang Ming could feel his physical body strengthening, with the True Qi flowing through his Dantian and meridians feeling like potent fuel, enabling him to perform at will.
Unintentionally, a willow grows into a shaded grove.
Jiang Ming had previously struggled to break through, but now, having given up the Martial Dao to pursue cultivation, he nevertheless broke through to the Innate Realm.
Jiang Ming meditated quietly in the Cultivation Space for three days and three nights, consolidating his cultivation.
He could now feel the presence of the invisible particles in the air around him, the so-called Spiritual Qi.
The cultivation of an Innate Martial Artist involves absorbing Spiritual Qi from the air and merging it with one’s Inner Strength to form True Qi.
In contrast, cultivation directly involves converting Spiritual Qi into a higher form, True Essence.
A small detour cannot deter Jiang Ming from transitioning to cultivating the Immortal Dao.
The Cyan Cloud Breathing Technique began operating.
The Five Spirit Roots emerged, and with the breakthrough to the Innate Realm, Jiang Ming bypassed the process of sensing Qi sensitivity.
The surrounding Spiritual Qi flooded into Jiang Ming’s body, with True Qi rapidly transforming into True Essence, filling his entire body with a unique power.
At the same time, the True Essence coursed through his meridians and surged into his head, bringing about an indescribable sensation as if he had gained a 360-degree sight, able to perceive everything within two meters around him.
This is Divine Sense, a power exclusive to cultivators.
Breaking through to the Innate Realm and transforming True Essence carries two benefits compared to directly sensing Qi sensitivity.
The first is that the body is much stronger after being cleansed by True Qi.
The second is that converting True Qi to True Essence saves time that would otherwise be spent accumulating True Essence, providing an accelerated stage of rapid Spiritual Qi absorption during the conversion of Inner Strength to True Qi.
With a flip of his hand, Jiang Ming produced a storage bag.
It was a trophy won by Li Jin, a mortal who slew a cultivator.
The Simulator also features a Storage Space, but it can only store items originating from the Simulator.
Items obtained by Jiang Ming in reality cannot enter the Storage Space.
Yet, within the storage bag lay the relics of that cultivator.
According to Jiang Ming’s estimation, the cultivator’s level was most likely at the Qi Refining Fourth Layer, or possibly the Qi Refining Fifth Layer.
With a Mid-level Magical Artifact as a trump card, this cultivator was considered relatively well-off.
However, compared to Zhu Chen, it’s nothing significant, but it is quite suitable for Jiang Ming, who just stepped into the Qi Refining First Layer.
True Essence surged into the storage bag.
In Jiang Ming’s Divine Sense, a space manifested immediately.
The space wasn’t large, about two cubic meters in size.
Within the Storage Space were a dozen pill bottles, five complete Spirit Stones and a few fragments, a small stack of about seven or eight talismans.
There was also a standard Low-Tier Magical Artifact cyan robe from the Cyan Cloud Sect, along with some clothing.
Additionally, there were two Jade Talismans for recording purposes.
Besides these, there was nothing else.
Jiang Ming revealed an interested expression on his face and began examining these items.
Having seen so much alongside Zhu Chen, Jiang Ming hadn’t learned any spells, but he did acquire a fair amount of cultivation knowledge.
Among the pills were six bottles of Cultivation Pill Qi Gathering Pills, five bottles of Healing Elixir Yellow Medicine Pills, two bottles of Bone Powder Pills for treating external injuries, and one bottle of Red Dragon Pills for combat eruption.
Usually, a cultivator in the Qi Refining First Layer would be fortunate to have one bottle of Qi Gathering Pills in their storage bag.
It’s difficult to recognize the talismans, among which two seemed to be for defense, while the remaining six were mostly ordinary offensive spell talismans like Wind Blade Skill and Fireball Skill.
Jiang Ming simply spent Simulation Points to exchange for the remaining two talismans, the Wind-controlling Talisman and Invisibility Talisman.
If there were no recorded spells in those two Jade Talismans, then these talismans would be Jiang Ming’s only means of displaying Immortal methods.
Jiang Ming’s Divine Sense probed into the Jade Talisman, lines of text appeared.
One was a Qi Refining Technique named Cyan Wood Technique, a technique for mid-stage Qi Refining transfers, which wasn’t very useful for Jiang Ming at his current stage.
The other recorded a spell, which Zhu Chen hadn’t practiced, Cyan Yuan Skill. This spell, a Wood Attribute Skill, is used for healing and purifying negative states, and is considered high value among Wood Attribute Skills.
Jiang Ming would have preferred an offensive spell.
Cyan Cloud Breathing doesn’t have any attack techniques.
Jiang Ming shook his head, sat in a meditative posture, and began cultivating, slowly absorbing the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to enhance his True Essence.
A month quickly passed.
At first, his cultivation progressed visibly, but gradually it felt like it was stagnating.
This is the tedious aspect of cultivation.
Jiang Ming opened his eyes, taking the Thousand-year-old Ginseng and reishi placed in front of him and swallowing them directly.
These precious herbs also contained a fair amount of Spiritual Qi, and combined with their medicinal power, consuming them directly had considerable benefits.
Jiang Ming couldn’t wait for the day he learned Alchemy Skill.
As time went by, the Thousand-year-old Ginseng, Thousand-year-old Ganoderma, and Celestial Snow Lotus were exhausted.
By this time, Jiang Ming had been sitting in meditation for four months.
Jiang Ming then turned to swallowing Qi Gathering Pills, continuing his breathing and cultivation.
In the Cultivation Space, there was no interference. Although the surrounding Spiritual Qi’s concentration wasn’t high, it remained constant despite Jiang Ming’s breathing.
In cultivation, time passes unnoticed.
Two years went by rapidly...
Suddenly, Jiang Ming opened his eyes and took a Vermilion Fruit in one gulp.
The Vermilion Fruit melted as soon as it entered his mouth, transforming into a warm current flowing into Jiang Ming’s Dantian.
As time passed, a soft popping sound occurred.
The True Essence within him surged significantly at once.
Qi Refining Second Layer, success!
