Cultivation Starting from Choosing Augments

Chapter 690: Chapter 270: Pleasant Surprise: Giant Sea Beast

Broken Blade Fiend was the seventh type of Evil Qi Xiao Chen had collected.

After the Yin Metal Fiend in his Dantian fully condensed, he had finally gathered all Five Elements Yin Fiends.

Therefore, once the profound rune was formed, the other four Yin Fiends began to tremble faintly, as if in resonance.

Furthermore, a faint suction force emanated from them, seemingly trying to draw in the nearby True Essence.

However, the pull was far too weak to affect the circulation of his True Essence.

’It’s been almost four years since I obtained the Mystic Sky Eating Secret Technique, hasn’t it?’

Xiao Chen recalled, sighing to himself. ’After all this time, I’ve finally met the conditions to cultivate the Five Elements Seal.’

Back then, the Lord of the Immortal Palace said he had comprehended a path to the heavens.

The claim might have sounded arrogant, but it wasn’t just empty boasting. On the contrary, it was well-supported.

So naturally, the Secret Technique he left behind was more than just a simple method for absorbing Evil Qi to aid breakthroughs.

If that were all it was, it would, at best, be a special kind of Secret Technique for Tier Breakthroughs. How could it possibly be worthy of being called a path to the heavens?

According to the Lord of the Immortal Palace’s design, the use of Evil Qi is divided into three major stages.

The first stage, just as Xiao Chen had been doing, involves finding and using Evil Qi to speed up one’s cultivation or enhance the power of one’s Magic.

This is considered just a simple application.

Only upon reaching the second stage—condensing the Five Elements Seal within the Dantian—does one truly begin to harness the power of Evil Qi.

It is only from this point forward that the Mystic Sky Eating Secret Technique would reveal its uniqueness, truly setting it apart from the legacies of other factions.

Haaa... Haaa...!

After briefly standing up to stretch his limbs, Xiao Chen sat cross-legged again and took several deep breaths.

He silently reviewed the Essentials of the Secret Technique in his Sea of Consciousness, recalling them word by word to ensure nothing was missed.

Only then, following the instructions of the Heart Method, did he draw a stream of True Essence from his Flawless Golden Core.

He actively guided it into the Yin Wood Seal.

Ordinarily, this action would have no effect.

Yet today, as the stream of True Essence entered it, the entire Yin Wood Seal trembled faintly. Then, it began to emit a cyan Spiritual Light.

Within the Spiritual Light, the image of the Sea Willow faintly emerged.

Then, under the combined influence of the Heart Method and the pull of the other Yin Fiends, the stream of True Essence flowed slowly from the Yin Wood Seal to the Yin Fire Seal.

From there, it moved sequentially to the Yin Earth Seal, the Yin Metal Seal, and the Yin Water Seal, before finally flowing back into the Yin Wood Seal.

Once all the seals were illuminated, their Spiritual Lights nearly touched.

Faintly, they formed the outline of a much larger seal.

Xiao Chen immediately began a second cycle, then a third...

It was like a Cultivator breathing in Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and completing one Great Cycle after another within their body.

With each cycle, the seal grew more distinct.

After a full day and night and exactly nine cycles, the seal finally became tangible.

’It’s finally over. This must be the Yin Five Elements Seal!’

Xiao Chen had been using Divine Sense Internal Observation to closely monitor the entire process.

Although in theory, the difficulty of condensing the Five Elements Seal lay almost entirely in collecting the necessary Evil Qi.

But he hadn’t let his guard down, only letting out a sigh of relief when he saw the Five Elements Seal finally take form.

At the same time, Xiao Chen noticed that not only had the stream of True Essence not been depleted during the nine cycles, but it had actually doubled in strength.

Now, it split directly in two.

One stream flowed into the Yin Five Elements Seal on its own, beginning another cycle without any need for his guidance.

The other, newly created stream of True Essence hovered in his Dantian.

Gradually, it was drawn toward the Flawless Golden Core and reabsorbed.

The process that followed was identical.

Without Xiao Chen needing to actively cultivate, the stream of True Essence, driven by the Yin Five Elements Seal, would flow through the various Yin Fiend Seals in sequence.

With each circulation, it would grow stronger by twenty percent, and then a brand-new stream of True Essence would be generated.

This was one of the three great features of the Yin Five Elements Seal: accelerated cultivation speed.

This feature was incredibly powerful!

First of all, when Xiao Chen cultivated normally, it took him two days to condense a single stream of True Essence.

Second, this True Essence Cycle didn’t conflict with a Cultivator’s personal cultivation at all.

Therefore, the Yin Five Elements Seal didn’t just double his cultivation speed.

If a Cultivator was willing to continue their personal cultivation after forming the Yin Five Elements Seal, the two processes could run simultaneously.

Third, Xiao Chen could now rely on Blood Crystals for rapid advancement on his path as a Body Cultivator.

In contrast, his progress as a Magic Cultivator was much slower.

Now, with the Yin Five Elements Seal, he could address this shortcoming, ensuring both his cultivation paths could advance side-by-side without one falling behind.

Finally, its effects weren’t limited to just the Golden Core Stage!

Even after Xiao Chen broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, he would still need to refine his True Essence.

And by that point, the total amount of True Essence required would only be greater.

At that stage, all Cultivators had to spend immense amounts of time accumulating True Essence and solidifying their Realm.

As far as Xiao Chen knew, many Golden Core Cultivators spent decades just refining their Magical Power.

It was conceivable that upon reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, refining True Essence alone would likely take a hundred years, or even several hundred.

Furthermore, Tier Four Spiritual Objects were much rarer than Tier Three ones.

One could say that the further one progressed on the path of cultivation, the more difficult it became to advance.