Chapter 6: The Five Elements Technique

Chen Mobai checked the time; it was still over an hour before the first batch of students in the cultivation room would finish. He didn’t rush to leave and instead decided to ask more about the purification and enhancement of spirit roots.

"Yan Bingxuan’s family must have a high-level expert who knows that her spirit root can be transformed into an ice spirit root through the Frost Condensation Technique. Therefore, she has been working hard in this direction from the beginning of her cultivation."

"The method to purify and enhance spirit roots is more efficient and consumes less time and resources at lower cultivation levels."

"She is already in the late stage of the Qi Condensation realm at a young age, and conservatively estimated, she can attempt the Foundation Establishment three times. So she started to try to transform her spirit root into an ice spirit root before reaching the peak of Qi Condensation."

"Once successful, she can enter the Natural Academy, one of the top ten academies, without an exam. If she progresses further, she might even pass the assessment of the Four Great Dao Colleges and achieve a great leap forward."

The Four Great Dao Colleges were established by the five Nascent Soul elders who founded the Immortal Sect.

Every graduate of these colleges is a future high-ranking official of the Immortal Sect.

For thousands of years, the success rate of Foundation Establishment among the students of the Four Great Dao Colleges has exceeded eighty percent.

For Danxia City, a blessed land on the fringes of the Immortal Sect, the last person to be admitted to the Four Great Dao Colleges was the Red Robe True Person Yu Tianguang a hundred years ago, who has now successfully formed a Core.

After leaving the old man Ding’s office, Chen Mobai waited for about ten minutes and became one of the second batch of students to enter the cultivation room.

He placed his phone and activated the auxiliary cultivation recording mode, then entered a meditative state, once again practicing the Qi Nourishment Technique to refine the spiritual energy he had gained from taking the pills and make it his own.

Time slowly passed, and as usual, the Soul Binding Spell woke Chen Mobai up.

He walked out of the cultivation room, and outside, only a dozen or so unlucky students from the third batch remained.

Looking around, he spotted his desk mate Lu Hongsheng and a few classmates he often talked to. They exchanged greetings and then went home.

In the past, they would often have some spiritual tea and play small games to practice their spell usage after school.

But after entering the final year of high school, all these entertainment activities had been canceled.

The intense pressure of the upcoming exams had even made Lu Hongsheng, who was usually lazy due to his inferior spirit root, start to work hard.

Before going home, Chen Mobai bought a box of glass beads for practicing the circulation of spiritual energy from a convenience store on the roadside.

After getting home, he cut some small talisman papers while cooking and logged into an online trading platform, where he found only one local cultivator had placed a bid.

18 merit points.

It was a bit low, but Chen Mobai would have agreed to the transaction in the past, as his homemade products were definitely cheaper than those from regular stores.

But today, he wanted to explore the water palace transmitted by the turtle shell again, so he didn’t rush into the deal.

After eating and cleaning up, Chen Mobai returned to his room.

He carefully examined the turtle shell in his hand, but just like last night, it was just an ordinary old turtle shell, covered with soot and smoke marks, with no trace of spiritual energy.

If not for the magical journey last night, Chen Mobai wouldn’t have believed that this thing was actually a spatial magical tool.

He placed the turtle shell in the drawer of his bedside table and took out his phone, tapping on the app named "Gui Bao."

After exploring it last night, he had a basic understanding of Gui Bao.

It had three functions: "Return to City," which simply brought him back here.

Whether this city referred to his room or the place where the turtle shell was located still needed to be verified.

The other function closely related to "Return to City" was "Teleport," which, according to Chen Mobai’s understanding, was the culprit that sent him to the mysterious water palace yesterday.

The last function, "Proxy," was still a mystery.

Clearly, these three functions couldn’t be used without limit. Only when the virtual buttons in the app were raised and lit up would they respond to a touch. Currently, only "Teleport" was lit up.

Last night, Chen Mobai waited until three in the morning and discovered this. He used the teleport function again to go to the water palace.

However, he still found nothing, but after cultivating in the second-grade spirit land for a night, the aftereffects of the pills he had taken were reduced by about sixty percent.

Chen Mobai estimated that if he continued to cultivate in the water palace for two or three more days, he could eliminate the hidden dangers of breaking through with the pills and resume practicing the Five Elements Technique to enhance his Qi Condensation realm.

This was why Chen Mobai was bold enough to want to go back to the water palace and even try to break the restrictions in the rear hall.

This was a second-grade medium spirit land. In the Immortal Sect, renting such a level of spirit land would cost 160 merit points per month.

In other words, each day Chen Mobai cultivated in the water palace was equivalent to earning 33 merit points for free. In comparison, he could only earn about 20 to 30 merit points a month by cutting talisman papers.

Thinking about this, it was no wonder Chen Mobai didn’t care much about his small online business.

"Based on the time of the two round trips yesterday, the cooldown time for 'Teleport' should be six hours, while 'Return to City' is longer, at ten hours. The cooldown starts from the last use..."

Chen Mobai mentally calculated the time points of his two experiences last night and came to a preliminary conclusion.

Half an hour later, it had been exactly ten hours since he teleported back in the morning, and the "Return to City" button in his app became raised and lit up.

This way, if anything went wrong, he could immediately return.

Chen Mobai immediately hung a "Do Not Disturb" sign on his door, locked it, took a deep breath, and clicked the raised "Teleport" button in the Gui Bao app.

[Do you want to choose teleport location 1 (unnamed)?]

Chen Mobai tapped "Yes."

Then, a silver light flashed, and he seemed to turn into light, disappearing from the room after about five or six seconds.

Looking up, Chen Mobai faced the familiar underwater environment, suppressing the joy in his heart.

Although he didn’t know where this place was, at least he now had a secret base of a second-grade medium spirit land.

He took out the box of glass beads he had prepared and infused them with spiritual energy. The originally transparent beads began to emit colorful light. This was because the spiritual energy from the Five Elements Technique he practiced was a blend of the five elements.

The Five Elements Technique was a foundational method created by a Nascent Soul elder of the Immortal Sect after a thousand years of contemplation. Any cultivator practicing it would automatically transform their spiritual energy into the most suitable attribute for themselves, effectively customizing a Qi Condensation technique for each cultivator, perfectly matching their constitution and spirit root.

For example, Chen Mobai’s spirit root attributes were: Metal 23, Wood 27, Water 23, Fire 17, Earth 10.

So the spiritual energy he generated from practicing the Five Elements Technique would be 23% metallic, 27% wooden, and so on, perfectly matching his spirit root attributes.

Moreover, these five-element spiritual energies circulated and generated each other, promoting the enhancement of cultivation realms. This was the greatest reliance of the Immortal Sect, allowing the entire population to cultivate in the resource-poor Earth Origin Star.