King of Creation
Chapter 217 - 214 The Shortcut to Condensing a Spiritual Power Seed

Chapter 217: Chapter 214 The Shortcut to Condensing a Spiritual Power Seed

"I told you before, the higher the cultivation, the greater the limitation of innate bloodline! And the key point of condensing a spiritual power seed during spirit transformation lies exactly in the deficiency of one’s innate bloodline!" Instructor Liao Feibai said at Donglai Edge Training Institute.

"Instructor Liao, are you saying that the main reason I can’t condense a spiritual power seed is because of my low innate bloodline?" Ye Zhen frowned and asked.

"Of course!"

Liao Feibai’s willowy eyebrows raised, and her eyes suddenly widened, "Otherwise, why would the sect choose martial artists based on their innate bloodline?

Do you think that just because you’ve advanced rapidly in your cultivation over the past two years, even surpassing so-called geniuses, that this innate bloodline isn’t an obstacle?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Zhen felt uneasy. Indeed, Liao Feibai had hit the nail on the head.

The sect has always selected individuals based on innate bloodline. Ye Zhen, initially having a mid-grade three veins innate bloodline, had faced countless contempt, and indeed, it had bothered him.

Look at me, with four veins of talent, isn’t I still cultivated to the peak of the Spirit Summoning Realm? My cultivation speed is even faster than these so-called geniuses, and my combat power stronger than theirs."

"A few years ago, I had the same thoughts as you! However, now I understand that the sect was right to choose based on innate bloodline!

Martial artists with lower innate bloodlines have to exert maybe several times or even ten times more effort to achieve the same cultivation level!

Kid, don’t be unwilling to accept this. The Spirit Transformation Realm is just the first barrier! Moving forward, the impact of the innate bloodline becomes larger and more significant. By the time you reach the Vein Forging Realm, it directly determines the heights of a martial artist’s achievements!"

"It can be said, when the cultivation breaks through to the Vein Forging Realm, the importance of innate bloodline will jump to the foremost position!"

"The foremost position? Isn’t that an exaggeration?"

This statement truly shocked Ye Zhen.

Innate bloodline is important, but it can’t be more important than cultivation techniques and resources, can it?

"Don’t believe it?"

"Take a simple example, in the Vein Forging Realm, the so-called ’One Meridian One Divine Power’, implies that one strand of innate bloodline can forge one martial arts divine power.

Can the talents of someone with four veins compare to someone with six veins?"

Hearing this, Ye Zhen’s pupils suddenly contracted.

"Are you saying, if I might enter the Vein Forging Realm, I can only forge four martial arts divine powers, while someone with six veins can forge six?"

"Of course! This is also why I said it was both a blessing and a curse when you obtained the Sword Heart Communication!

With four veins, you can only forge four divine powers!

And you have already prematurely occupied one vein with Sword Heart Enlightenment. If, in the future, you are able to complete this vein, so be it. If not, it’s like completely wasting a bloodline!" Liao Feibai explained.

Ye Zhen’s face suddenly tensed up. So, this was the essence of innate bloodline, and thus he had already wasted one of his bloodlines.

However, Ye Zhen was naturally resilient.

Upon rethinking it, only one person in the entire Black Water Kingdom had forged divine powers of the Vein Forging Realm, and not more than two handfuls had broken through to the Vein Forging Realm in the entire Black Dragon Domain.

Wasn’t it extremely fortunate for him to forge half a vein early?

In an instant, the slight depression he had just felt vanished without a trace.

"What, scared?" Liao Feibai asked with a smile.

"Scared my ass! I’ll worry about it when I reach the Vein Forging Realm! If everyone’s scared of this and that, then what’s the point in practicing martial arts? Why not just compare innate bloodlines and decide the outcome instead?

Besides, divine powers are nothing but a higher form of martial skill! Success depends on human effort. One clever trick can conquer everything. Having many martial arts divine powers doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll be useful!"

"Right now, my priority is to break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm. Instructor Liao, tell me, is there a shortcut to condense a spiritual power seed in a short time?" Ye Zhen said nonchalantly.

Listening to Ye Zhen’s words, a hint of admiration flashed across Liao Feibai’s eyes.

She really hadn’t misjudged him!

Ye Zhen had just spoken the profound mystery of innate bloodline!

It all depends on personal effort!

Everything depends on one’s own struggle, even if it means paying a little more!

"There are many methods, but they boil down to a few types!"

"Which ones?" Ye Zhen pressed.

"Any breakthrough cannot escape these five types: diligent practice, serendipity, sudden enlightenment, pills, heavenly materials and earthly treasures. Since you want to break through quickly, the method of diligent practice must be discarded," Liao Feibai explained.

Ye Zhen’s eyebrows twitched, and he suddenly asked, "Instructor Liao, if it involves diligent practice, how long would I need to successfully condense a spiritual power seed through spirit transformation?"

"If it’s through diligent practice, the sect has a secret manual called the Spirit Nourishing Technique. It cultivates that lifeforce within the spiritual power. Carefully nurturing your spiritual power for three years, with your divine soul power, there’s an eighty percent chance of successfully condensing a spiritual power seed after three years!"

"Prepare for three years, just for an eighty percent chance?" Ye Zhen was astonished.

"Emperor Yuankang has been stuck at the peak of the Spirit Summoning Realm for decades now, hasn’t he?"

"Without condensing a spiritual power seed, innate bloodline is like a tree without roots, water without a source, every use of bloodline spiritual energy depletes it!

The fundamental purpose of condensing a spiritual power seed is to use the innate spiritual energy of the innate bloodline to condense an origin seed for the bloodline, turning the bloodline into a tree with roots, water with a source!"

"An 80% chance is considered high! If you fail to condense this time, it will consume a part of the innate bloodline spiritual energy within your innate bloodline, and the success rate will decrease again the next time you try to condense!

The more times you fail to condense, the lower the success rate of condensing the spiritual power seed! This is also why many people are stuck at the peak of the Spirit Summoning Realm for their entire lives.

It’s because they have failed too many times in condensing spiritual power seeds, depleting the innate bloodline spiritual energy inside their innate bloodline, leaving no chance of success!

Similarly, the more innate bloodlines one has, the more innate bloodline spiritual energy they possess, and the higher the success rate of condensing spiritual power seeds! For example, those with the Seven Veins Heavenly Vein can condense the spiritual power seed directly—it’s truly a Heavenly Vein!"

Ye Zhen was somewhat surprised. "Caiyi said she also succeeded in condensing it effortlessly, is Caiyi also a Heavenly Vein?"

"Caiyi is only Heavenly.....," Liao Feibai’s words suddenly stopped halfway, his tone shifted, turning to look at Ye Zhen, "You’re not here because you failed to condense the spiritual power seed, are you?"

This statement gave Ye Zhen a big scare. Indeed, that was the case, and part of his innate bloodline spiritual energy might already be depleted.

Ye Zhen hurriedly shared the details of his attempt to condense the spiritual power seed with Liao Feibai.

"Good, consider yourself lucky! You had only triggered your own spiritual energy, not the innate spiritual energy in your bloodline, otherwise, you’d be in tears now!"

Hearing this, Ye Zhen breathed a sigh of relief; otherwise, he would indeed only be left with crying.

"Three years, that’s too slow. Instructor Liao, tell me about other methods," Ye Zhen said.

"Other methods are too rare to come by!" Liao Feibai said.

"Serendipity, you understand without me explaining. Falling into a cave, picking up an ancient secret technique or breathing in some Immortal Spirit Qi might just do the trick instantly!"

Upon hearing this, Ye Zhen smiled wryly, shrugging off the idea of such serendipity. Compared to the serendipities Liao Feibai talked about, Ye Zhen was fortunate to find the Stone Marrow Spirit Liquid, though it wasn’t much in comparison.

"If not serendipity, then this insight must also stand aside," Ye Zhen said.

"Not necessarily."

"The Universe Stone Formation Secret Realm of our sect is a great place for insight, especially for martial artists like you who are stuck at a bottleneck and haven’t yet wasted their innate bloodline spiritual energy. The chances of successful insight are quite substantial," Liao Feibai explained.

Upon hearing this, Ye Zhen was delighted.

"That’s great. I’ll talk to the Sect Leader right away to arrange another visit to the Universe Stone Formation Secret Realm as soon as possible."

However, Liao Feibai gave Ye Zhen a big roll of the eyes, "You think the Universe Stone Formation Secret Realm is your home? You’ve only been out for half a year and you already want back in?"

"This is a bit... but... but I’ve also made significant contributions to the sect..."

"Contributions, who hasn’t made a bunch? I’ve risked my life for the sect, and Lik Shi that old man has been wounded in blood battles several times. It takes five years to get a turn, and each turn is only three months! You were in there for half a year last time, breaking a big precedent.

Plus, you were lucky because it was the end of the rotation, all True Disciples, easy to queue jump! Now, it’s all Sect Elders in line, show your skills, try to cut in line!"

"So this won’t work, that won’t work, then tell me, what should I do?" Ye Zhen was completely frustrated.

"They say there’s a solution to every problem for those who are determined. Among your capabilities, only pills and heavenly materials and earthly treasures remain!" Liao Feibai said.

"There’s an upper-grade Earth level pill called the Spirit Storage Pill, which contains a trace similar to innate spiritual energy. After taking it, the success rate of condensing a spiritual power seed can increase by fifty percent!"

"Where can I find it? Who can refine it?"

"Only a Pill King can successfully refine such an upper-grade Earth level pill, and among the three great Pill Kings of the Black Dragon Domain, the Black Water Pill King is a mere namesake; the other two Pill Kings are all in the Phantom Divine Empire!"

"It is said that the Phantom Divine Empire releases a small amount of Spirit Storage Pills annually, appearing at auction houses, but the high price is such that even ordinary aristocratic families can’t afford them," Liao Feibai said.

"Auction house?"

Ye Zhen nodded. This was a viable option.

As for the price, Ye Zhen thought his current fortune was not too shabby.

"And heavenly materials and earthly treasures?" Ye Zhen asked.

"There’s a type of spirit grass called Jade Spirit Grass which contains a trace of innate spiritual energy. If one can find and consume it, it can greatly increase the success rate of condensing a spiritual power seed, at least by over sixty percent!"

"Where can I find it?"

"Legend has it that only in high grade or even supreme spirit crystal veins can Jade Spirit Grass, containing innate spiritual energy, be nurtured."

Ye Zhen’s jaw twitched upon hearing this.

Let alone supreme spirit crystal veins, even high grade spirit crystal veins were absent throughout the entire Black Water Empire.

Of course, just because the impoverished Black Water Empire didn’t have them didn’t mean other empires within the Black Dragon Domain didn’t. However, even if found, the chances of acquiring them were slim.

The sole mid-grade spirit crystal vein available in the Black Water Empire was always guarded by Sect Elders, let alone those in other empires.

But, at the very least, this was one direction.

After all, there is no difficulty in the world for those who set their minds to it!

After chatting a bit more and thanking Liao Feibai, Ye Zhen returned to Colored Clothes Peak with a heavy heart—this shortcut was indeed not easy!

After Ye Zhen left, Liao Feibai’s gaze lingered on the direction in which Ye Zhen had departed for a long time.

"I’ve told you all you need to know. The choice of path is yours to make...."(To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to go to QiDian (qidian.com) to vote for a recommendation ticket or monthly ticket. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read on m.qidian.com.)