Chapter 53: A Cultivator Has a Calamity

Chapter 53 – A Cultivator Has a Calamity

Tai’an Island, within the Island Protector Formation.

“Bottle Neck? Heaven’s Doom?” Li Fan flipped through the purchased Miscellany of Cultivation and frowned slightly.

Ever since he had returned from the Ten Thousand Immortal Island a few days ago, he had not stopped cultivating for a moment either.

Originally, he had thought of striking the iron while it was hot and breaking through to the late stage of Qi Refining in one go.

However, it was clear that he already felt that he was not far from breaking through, but no matter how much Li Fan practiced, he always felt that he was just a hair short.

It is this little seemingly subtle gap, but it is like a moat, blocking in front of Li Fan.

After looking through the Miscellany of Cultivation, Li Fan finally confirmed that he had encountered a bottleneck.

In the ancient times of cultivation, there was the term bottleneck of cultivation.

During cultivation, one’s cultivation might get stuck at a certain node and not progress an inch.

In today’s Immortal Cultivation World, bottlenecks had an even greater impact on cultivators.

Since the middle stage of Qi Refining, every Immortal Cultivator was bound to encounter a bottleneck when breaking through each small layer of the realm.

This kind of bottleneck could not be broken through just by a single hard cultivation.

One must look for the chance in one’s own meditative senses in order to melt it away and successfully break through.

This chance could be seeing a painting and drinking a cup of tea.

It could also be a temporary epiphany, a flash of light between life and death struggles.

There may also be a casual remark from a bystander, a careful instruction from a senior.

In short, there is no rule to follow, only to see the “heavenly number” in the underworld.

The existence of this bottleneck, undoubtedly to a large extent suppressed the cultivation speed of immortal cultivators.

It is like a plague from above, blocking cultivators from practicing.

Thus, cultivators also called it the Heaven’s Doom.

Anyway, now this Heaven’s Doom had descended on Li Fan’s head.

It made his plan to break through in a short period of time fall through.

Sitting in the big formation for a few days, Li Fan did not even have the slightest feeling in his heart of where his chance for a breakthrough was.

Knowing that this matter could not be forced in a short period of time, he was not in a hurry and temporarily put down the cultivation of the Minor Diffractive Water Decree, and turned to cultivate the Thousand Mechanisms Jade Huan Gold Chapter.

The Thousand Opportunities Jade Huan Gold Chapter had five levels, which corresponded to the five major realms of Innate, Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Jindan, and Yuanying in the ancient times.

The innate realm was a relatively special category of existence in certain sect techniques from the ancient times.

It is about discharging all the tainted breath after birth and returning to the pure realm of the innate.

Those sects believed that it would be easier to comprehend the Heavenly Dao if they started cultivating from the innate realm.

Both the speed of cultivation and the upper limit would be far greater than that of ordinary cultivators.

The Tian Ji Sect was one of the sects that advocated that all cultivation began from the innate.

However, since the new law replaced the old law, cultivators have plundered the heavens and seized the earth, no longer emphasizing the unity of heaven and man.

Naturally, there was no more talk of qi returning to the innate.

However, the most fundamental part of the entire technique of the Thousand Mechanisms Jade Huan Gold Chapter was the realm of the innate.

So what Li Fan had to do was to refine qi instead of innate and complete the first layer of cultivation.

Generally speaking, substituting a higher realm for a lower realm would naturally be downwardly compatible, and cultivation would often be easier.

But things were not so easy when it came to the differences in cultivation systems between ancient and modern methods.

Especially since Li Fan was still just a beginner who hadn’t practiced for a few years, the relevant knowledge reserves were severely lacking.

This was also the reason why Li Fan had previously spent a large number of years just getting started.

This was still after taking the Liuli Dan and having the enlightenment bonus.

Now, after Li Fan’s cultivation of the Little Diffractive Water Decree had fallen into a bottleneck, he began to turn to the second layer of the Thousand Mechanisms Jade Huan Gold Chapter.

He planned to cultivate both techniques to the middle stage of Qi Refining at the same time to see if he could use this to break through the bottleneck.

After all, merit laws were precious in this era, and it really wasn’t common for ordinary cultivators like him to be able to cultivate multiple merit laws at the same time.

According to the description of the Thousand Opportunities Jade Huan Gold Chapter, after successfully cultivating the second layer of the gongfu, one would be able to master the divine ability of “recognizing opportunities”. The so-called “Recognizing Qi”, as the name implied, was the ability to distinguish and sense the various qi in heaven and earth.

This was also the foundation of the Thousand Mechanisms Jade Huan Golden Chapter.

Only by first distinguishing and sensing the qi, could it be captured and refined afterwards.

The difficulty of practicing the second layer of the gong method was even more difficult than Li Fan had imagined.

If the Little Diffractive Water Decree was simple and clear in telling you how to cultivate without a shred of nonsense.

Then this “Thousand Mechanisms Jade Huan Gold Chapter” was to hide how to cultivate in a bunch of metaphysical words, allowing you to speculate and ponder on your own.

Not only that, but also from time to time interspersed with some of the perception of the Heavenly Dao, the use of canonical anecdotes that happened in the ancient cultivation world, and so on.

All sorts of mess mixed together, Li Fan only read the dizziness of the brain, the gas and blood surging.

After reading it once, it seemed like he understood it. Waiting until one’s own cultivation to realize, in fact, did not understand anything.

Fortunately, Li Fan is not a person who gives up lightly.

Even if it was difficult, Li Fan was patient and drilled his senses word by word.

In Li Fan’s diligent cultivation, another year passed.

There was little progress in the cultivation of the Thousand Mechanisms Jade Huan Gold Chapter.

Li Fan was not discouraged.

When he went to Ten Thousand Immortals Island for the second time to receive the agent’s payment, he used all of the 800 contribution points and the 5 Taian Fruits that he had saved up over the past two years to exchange them for some ancient gongfu cultivation tips.

After that, Li Fan turned on the Assisted Cultivation Mode in the Heavenly Xuan Realm.

There was no cultivation technique, just reading these insights and cross-checking them with the experience he had summarized over the past year.

As if enlightened, all the difficulties that he could not understand in the past were answered at this moment.

Seeing the highlights, Li Fan could not help but dance and rejoice.

At this moment, Li Fan just a little bit understand the so-called the Dao, death can be carried out at night.

Five days passed quickly.

Li Fan, who had realized something, hurriedly rushed back to Tai’an Island and began to close up again.

This time, when he practiced again, it was really not the same as before.

All the obscure and difficult to understand places in the gongfu have been clarified, and naturally there is no obstacle in practicing.

Li Fan’s mind was quickly immersed in it.

Cultivation was unknown for years.

On this day, a golden misty aura that was very different from the water attribute aura appeared in Li Fan’s dantian out of the blue.

Li Fan snapped his eyes open, his face showing joy.

“The second layer of the Thousand Mechanisms Jade Huan Gold Chapter has finally been practiced.” Li Fan let out a long sigh of relief.

Stretching his slightly stiff body, he turned his head to look at the time, and for a moment, he was in a bit of a trance.

Unexpectedly, this seclusion actually lasted for a whole year.

And in Li Fan’s senses, he merely felt like he had slept in general.

Fortunately, hard work was always rewarding.

Li Fan’s heart moved, and as the golden aura converged in his eyes, he performed the “Discerning Opportunity”.

“Let me see what the so-called Heaven and Earth Qi is really like.” Li Fan’s mood was a little excited as he tried out his divine ability for the first time.

He looked towards Tai’an Island.

However, he saw a picture that made his heart skip a beat.

Thick black dead qi, like dense dark clouds, shrouded the entire Tai’an Island!
The thick dead qi was almost like substance, reflecting the still daytime Tai’an Island as if it were the netherworld!
The spell was withdrawn and cast again.

After looking at it several times in a row, Li Fan was sure that he was not mistaken.

“How could this be?” Li Fan was stunned.

Suddenly, as if he finally remembered something, he hurriedly changed into the Water Mirror Technique and looked towards himself in the mirror.

Only to see that
Li Fan in the mirror, the dead qi converging on his head was a thousand times higher than the mortals in the island!
(End of chapter)