Chapter 80: Secret Magic Technique to Enhance Aptitude

For more complex methods, enlightenment comes through engaging in hobbies like calligraphy, painting, playing musical instruments, chess, or sword dancing. By doing so, one gains insight into nature, and when the time is right, a sudden epiphany can occur, greatly expanding one's spiritual sense.

In summary, this book, "Secrets of the Foundation Establishment Three Gates," provided Wang Yu with practical guidance and a clear path forward, proving to be immensely beneficial.

For those who complete all three gates, breaking through to Foundation Establishment is a natural progression, encountering no difficulties.

The role of the Foundation Establishment Pill is also closely linked to these three gates.

For example, the low-grade Reverse Blood Pill is a Foundation Establishment spiritual pill that only affects the physical body. It replenishes a cultivator's vital energy and blood, strengthens their physique in a short period, and makes their meridians more resilient and unblocked.

The mid-grade Foundation Establishment Pill, on the other hand, simultaneously affects both the Vital Energy and Blood Gate and the Spiritual Energy Gate. While replenishing vital energy and blood, its medicinal power allows spiritual energy to be more easily refined and compressed.

The high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill is a miraculous elixir that benefits all three gates simultaneously, increasing a cultivator's chances by 50-60%. Combined with their own accumulation, success is almost guaranteed unless they are extremely unlucky.

This also involves the issue of utilization efficiency.

A Three-Spirit Root is the most standard, allowing for normal absorption of the medicinal power of any spiritual pill.

A Four-Spirit Root is half as effective, with only 50% absorption.

A Five-Spirit Root is even worse, with less than 10% absorption. Only the gentle medicinal power of top-grade spiritual pills can be fully absorbed.

This was the real reason Wang Yu felt the high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill wouldn't help him. However, if he adhered to the Three Gates standard, he could still break through on his own, even without the pill.

After all, his foundational conditions were not poor.

Regarding the Spiritual Energy Gate, with the help of the Profound Essence Flower, his spiritual energy had already reached a semi-liquid state, meaning he had completed half of this gate. It was foreseeable that by the time he could break through to Foundation Establishment, his cultivation technique would certainly be upgraded to the second tier.

With a cultivation technique perfected to the Foundation Establishment stage, controlling the spiritual energy of a peak Qi Condensation cultivator should be smooth sailing, if not effortless.

Compressing and fine-tuning spiritual energy would certainly not be an issue.

As for the Spiritual Sense Gate, the Lunar Moonlight power channeled by the Grand Yin Ghost Eyes could cleanse the soul and enhance spiritual sense. This was a rare secret method that allowed for spiritual sense improvement even during the Qi Condensation stage.

Furthermore, being proficient in alchemy, smoothly controlling a vast spiritual sense would not be a problem either.

Only the Vital Energy and Blood Gate posed the most critical challenge.

Firstly, he was missing an arm, which meant his total vital energy and blood were already lower than average, along with corresponding meridians. The lifespan he burned when entering the path also significantly impacted his vital energy and blood reserves.

Coupled with his weak meridians due to his crippled spirit root, it could be said that all his disadvantages converged on the Vital Energy and Blood Gate.

Unfortunately, there was no mention of a top-grade Reverse Blood Pill. Otherwise, refining a top-grade Foundation Establishment Pill himself would have been the perfect solution.

As it stood, he either had to improve his innate talent or try cultivating a secret technique that enhanced his physique.

The Frigid Blood Art offered a tiny bit of help in this regard, but it was truly minimal, barely better than nothing, and nowhere near as potent as the Divine Power Corpse Arm.

"This might also be a solution."

All in all, during his time researching ancient texts in the Scripture Hall, Wang Yu's understanding of cultivation deepened significantly. Some of the ancient books, thicker than a human head and filled with obscure language, he was able to fully comprehend using the placement slot. His gains were truly abundant.

Currently, Slot Four primarily held the Profound Yin Hand, often serving as a flexible, adaptable slot that could be adjusted at any time.

These fulfilling and highly productive days continued for nearly three months.

This lasted until September of Wang Yu's eighth year in the outer sect.

He finally found information regarding talent improvement. There weren't many texts, just three, and they were merely small stories interspersed within the biographical records of the Reverse Spirit Blood Sect.

Among the five Nascent Soul sects of the Scarlet Kite Demonic Domain, he focused on the Reverse Spirit Blood Sect's portion, as proximity granted an advantage. Information about other demonic sects was sufficient with a general understanding.

In the demonic path, a widely circulated secret technique was known as:

The Grand Foundation Seizing Art!

It was applicable to those with miscellaneous or crippled spirit roots who found it difficult to establish their foundation.

Simply put, one would capture a Foundation Establishment cultivator alive, empty their Qi Sea, and sever their spiritual sense.

Then, by employing the Grand Foundation Seizing Art, one would completely devour everything from that cultivator. This secret method could be used in the late Qi Condensation stage, and upon success, the practitioner would become a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

However, it could not fundamentally alter one's spirit root talent; whatever it was originally, it remained the same after seizing the foundation.

It seized Foundation Establishment cultivation, not core attributes like one's foundation or spirit root. Its spread was widespread, with all Nascent Soul demonic sects in the Scarlet Kite Demonic Domain possessing corresponding inheritances.

Even the righteous path had collections of it.

This method also had a side effect: the Grand Foundation Seizing Art could only be used once in a lifetime, after which it would be difficult to break through to the Core Formation stage. For those with low innate talent, this side effect was negligible.

After all, if they couldn't even break through to Foundation Establishment, who would care about the Core Formation realm?

The text merely mentioned it and introduced it in a step-by-step manner. While this secret art didn't meet Wang Yu's requirements, it could serve as a cover.

If he were to continue operating within the Reverse Spirit Blood Sect in the future, the Grand Foundation Seizing Art could perfectly explain his Foundation Establishment despite having a crippled spirit root.

After all, his cultivation speed was already fast, which could be attributed to burning lifespan. However, breaking through to Foundation Establishment in the future would have a completely different significance.

He filed this term away in his mind, and then the second demonic secret art for improving talent appeared before his eyes.

Its name was the Blood Spring Malicious Art!

This secret method was a core inheritance of the Reverse Spirit Blood Sect, unattainable without being a true disciple. Its description was roughly divided into three parts:

Blood Sacrifice, Cocoon Transformation, and Rebirth.

The Blood Sacrifice required a hundred Qi Condensation cultivators of the same age and cultivation stage if practiced by a Qi Condensation cultivator. The closer their birthdates were, the better the effect, with perfectly matching birthdates achieving a perfect blood sacrifice.

By extension, if a Foundation Establishment cultivator practiced this malicious art, a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators would be needed, with the same conditions.

Draining blood to form a spring was the "Blood Spring."

Then, using souls as fuel, the Blood Spring would be brought to a boil. One would enter it to transform into a cocoon and wait for forty-nine days to complete a blood exchange.

This would grant one a Blood Spirit Root, a talent comparable to a Heavenly Spirit Root.

It was a complete transformation, akin to rebirth!

The steps were detailed, supported by historical examples, and logically cohesive, making them convincing. However, as soon as it came to the specific contents of the secret method, not a single word was mentioned.

Wang Yu read it repeatedly, reluctantly putting it down.

This kind of core inheritance was only available to true disciples, a status he was far from achieving. Furthermore, the lower one's cultivation, the easier it was to meet the conditions.

The described perfect Heavenly Spirit Root state would likely require a hundred cultivators of the same age and cultivation stage whose birthdates perfectly matched his own, making this condition quite difficult.

It was difficult to acquire and even harder to cultivate.

This was beyond the capabilities of someone like him, which was truly a pity.

When he moved on to the last demonic secret art with clues, Wang Yu's eyes suddenly brightened, and a suitable candidate quickly came to mind.

This third secret art was called the Demonic Fetus Profound Essence Secret Incantation. This technique had no cultivation requirements; any cultivator could practice it. Its core involved chanting the secret incantation daily to transform oneself into a "Profound Essence Demonic Fetus."