Ning Zhu returned to the camp of the three generals, and without resting,
immediately took out the four bricks of national power in his tent.
The Two-Pillar Nation was founded upon the virtue of water, thus the four bricks of national power
bestowed upon Ning Zhu were all black as ink.
Upon the surface of the bricks, subtle ripples could be faintly discerned,
like the dark currents of the deep sea.
Ning Zhu had previously attempted to absorb national power to aid in cultivation,
with excellent results. Now, with practiced ease, he sat cross-legged on the futon,
surrounded by floating clouds, and formally began to absorb the national power.
The bricks of national power showed no obvious change in his hands, yet wisps of national power
infiltrated Ning Zhu’s body.
Tenfold!
Ning Zhu could clearly feel that for the same amount of national power infused,
his cultivation gain had increased by a full tenfold!
“Having become Mu Lan’s husband, these four bricks of national power are equivalent to forty for me.”
This was indeed a tremendous gain!
In the previous ambush, Ning Zhu had also put in considerable effort. He would have to endure
this kind of battle nine more times, risking death each time, and achieve similar military merit,
to possibly obtain forty bricks of national power.
But simply by changing his identity, the efficiency of absorbing these bricks of national power
suddenly surged to such an extent.
It greatly reduced risk and saved him immense time and effort.
More importantly, this privilege would last for a considerable period,
until Ning Zhu and Mu Lan separated.
There was nothing more to say, the next step was to continuously absorb the bricks of national power.
A large amount of national power flowed in, quickly dissolving and transforming
into Ning Zhu’s three-dantian cultivation.
Spirit, Qi, Essence!
The Bright Mirror Spiritual Light Dantian, the Five Qi Heavenly Pivot Dantian,
the Blood Earth Demonic Sinew Dantian!
The three great dantian were quickly filled to the brim, causing Ning Zhu a painful
feeling of distension.
He hastily activated the Three Sects’ Supreme Techniques to actively digest.
Because the conversion of national power bricks was quite thorough and direct,
Ning Zhu’s “digestion” speed was extremely fast.
Repeating this countless times, by the time the second day dawned,
Ning Zhu in his tent had finally absorbed all three bricks of national power.
The remaining brick of national power was temporarily useless.
Now, whenever he circulated any cultivation technique, he felt a distending pain
in the corresponding dantian. Their respective cultivations had reached a temporary bottleneck,
each reaching the limit of what the dantian could currently bear.
In the Upper Dantian, the heavens and earth were like a giant mirror, within which countless
small mirrors, tens of millions, floated peacefully.
In the Middle Dantian, the five qi converged like a pillar, supporting the sky and treading the earth,
hundreds of times thicker and more magnificent than before.
In the Lower Dantian, robust blood vessels covered the earth, and blood qi surged within them,
emitting the crashing roar of waves.
“Such progress has saved me at least nine years of accumulated effort.”
“The bricks of national power are indeed effective!”
“Of course, the identity of Mu Lan’s husband played a crucial role.”
Next, it was not about cultivation accumulation.
Ning Zhu closed his eyes, and after entering samadhi, he felt the natural rhythm of the
upper, middle, and lower dantian. This rhythm was filled with mysterious Dao韵.
The rhythms of the three dantian were different, yet upon careful observation, one could find
that the rhythms between them were subtly and closely related.
“Next, I must purify my cultivation, eliminate impurities,
and make the connection between the three dantian even tighter.”
Cultivation requires both addition and subtraction.
The former increases quantity, while the latter enhances quality.
This practice spans a cultivator’s entire life, not just confined to the Foundation Establishment stage.
Mirror Platform Spirit Enlightenment Technique!
The body is the Bodhi tree, the mind is the bright mirror platform.
At all times, cleanse it diligently, lest it gather dust.
Ning Zhu’s Divine Sea cultivation began to rapidly decrease.
Within the Bright Mirror Spiritual Light Dantian, countless mirror-fragment divine senses,
even with a trace of dust or imperfection, would be voluntarily dispersed.
After thus reducing a thousand faces of bright mirror divine sense, the Upper Dantian was
clear and bright.
Ning Zhu followed suit, purifying his Five Elements magic power and refining his blood essence.
The cultivation in the three dantian was greatly reduced, and the feeling of distension was gone.
Ning Zhu began to cultivate again. This time, no matter which of the Three Sects’ Supreme Techniques
he activated, he felt a sense of clarity, like a clear sky stretching for thousands of miles,
azure and cloudless, smooth and unimpeded.
Furthermore, when any cultivation technique was circulated, it could evoke a response from
the other two dantian.
When he channeled with full force, even the cultivation in the other two dantian produced fluctuations.
However, these fluctuations were not intense.
“The first stage of Foundation Establishment – Unimpeded Opening of the Dantian – I have reached it!”
At this moment, Ning Zhu was certain that he had stepped onto the first step of the Foundation Establishment stage.
Unimpeded Opening of the Dantian!
Purify the heart and clear obstacles, cultivate the dantian.
Cultivators must cleanse the impurities in their cultivation, ensuring that the dantian field
is not mixed with external objects, nor disturbed by them, merely laying a clear foundation
for future cultivation.
To reach this stage, there are two key points.
The first is to reach the upper limit of cultivation. Only then, with nowhere further to advance,
can one sense more clearly, making it easier to remove impurities.
The second is to remove impurities. This requires excellent cultivation techniques. Many techniques
are ineffective in this regard. Cultivators with good conditions can indirectly achieve
the effect of removing impurities through certain means among the hundreds of cultivation arts.
Cultivators with poor conditions can only make do and proceed to the next step of cultivation,
powerlessly burying hidden dangers for future Core Formation.
Ning Zhu, through the national power bricks, reached the first key point.
And the Three Sects’ Supreme Techniques he cultivated, being top-tier, made the removal of
impurities effortless!
Ning Zhu took out the only remaining brick of national power again and began another round of absorption.
He once again filled the purified three dantian to the brim, then slowly activated his cultivation technique.
This time, when the technique was activated, the corresponding dantian could not advance further,
but the fluctuations in the other two great dantian became very intense.
In the violent fluctuations, the cultivation in the two great dantian was drawn out
and poured into the activated dantian.
In an instant, Ning Zhu’s ears roared, his vision turned bright white, and he entered a state
of extreme bliss.
The fusion of essence, qi, and spirit gave him a strong sensation, as if returning to the time
of creation, when heaven and earth were separated and the elements of earth, water, fire, and wind,
yin and yang, and the universe were shaped.
When he came to his senses, his cultivation had again greatly decreased.
The fusion of essence, qi, and spirit cultivation was not a depletion, but a qualitative change –
in the corresponding dantian, tiny buds were created.
These buds would grow strong in the future fusion of the Three Treasures, slowly maturing
into precious medicines.
Each precious medicine was a condensed essence of considerable essence, qi, and spirit cultivation,
but the components of the precious medicine in each dantian were different.
This is another stage of early Foundation Establishment – the generation of precious medicine!
Thanks to the bricks of national power, Ning Zhu crossed the first stage and was climbing the second.
Ning Zhu cultivated for a moment, and the only remaining brick of national power was also consumed.
From another perspective, the precious medicine generated is the condensation of cultivation essence.
In a sense, it bypasses the limitations of dantian capacity.
Once the precious medicine matures, actively absorbing it is like consuming internal medicine,
which will lead to a breakthrough in the dantian’s capacity limit, and the most crucial point –
the fusion of the three treasures of essence, qi, and spirit!
This is the cultivation treasure that has developed throughout the history of the cultivation world,
achieved through the improvements of countless generations. The fusion of the three treasures
of essence, qi, and spirit is the primary condition for forging a Golden Core.
In ancient times, the probability of cultivators forming a Golden Core was very low.
When the secret technique of generating precious medicine was widely promoted, it immediately
caused a surge in the number of Golden Core cultivators at that time.
By now, all new methods have incorporated this secret technique, integrating it into one body,
making it an important process that almost all Foundation Establishment cultivation techniques must undergo.
“I need more bricks of national power, and the more the better,” Ning Zhu opened his eyes,
ending this cultivation session.
At this stage of precious medicine generation, cultivators actually spend much more time
on cultivation each day than before.
Some cultivators even cultivate day and night, yet cannot reach their limit.
This specifically depends on the cultivator’s cultivation talent, cultivation technique, and so on.
Ning Zhu was currently in this situation.
When he circulated the Mirror Platform Spirit Enlightenment Technique, it would draw upon the
magic power in the Middle Dantian and the energy in the Lower Dantian.
As a result, after circulating the Mirror Platform Spirit Enlightenment Technique once,
more precious medicine seeds were generated in the Upper Dantian, and the spirit, magic power,
and energy in the three dantian all decreased significantly. Among them, spirit decreased the most,
consuming ninety percent, while the decrease in magic power and energy was about thirty percent.
Therefore, when Ning Zhu wanted to cultivate the Middle Dantian, he had to first regulate
the essence, qi, and spirit of all three dantian to their maximum extent before cultivating.