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Chapter 589 - Three Hundred Seventy-Three: The Secrets of Origin Qi

Chapter 589: Chapter Three Hundred Seventy-Three: The Secrets of Origin Qi

In his hazy consciousness, Xu Yuan felt an unprecedented clarity.

He wasn’t sure if it was an illusion,

but at that moment, he even thought that he could sense the flow of Origin Qi within others’ bodies.

So this is...

how she saw the world.

And just as the thought arose, Xu Yuan dumbly suppressed his own muddled musings.

It must be an illusion.

Among the few present, even the weakest Xiao Bai was half a step into the Primordial, and although his Dao Charm had been wasted, his cultivation still remained at the peak of the Great Grandmaster, not to mention Tianyan and Lou Ji.

If the Celestial Fates Divine Soul really had the power to inspect souls across several major ranks, Jiatiange wouldn’t have been able to hide in the shadows for nearly ten thousand years.

However, apart from that, Xu Yuan gradually sensed some things he had never felt before.

In his past cultivation, Origin Qi had always been a colorless, formless gaseous substance.

But with the empowerment of the Celestial Fates Divine Soul, the Origin Qi in Xu Yuan’s eyes seemed to have taken on various colors.

Blue, red, purple, green...

They were faint, but clearly visible, intertwining with each other, yet also repelling each other, filling every corner of his vision.

"Origin Qi... has colors too?"

With a hint of doubt, Xu Yuan looked at the delicate and indifferent face of the girl beside the bed.

Subconsciously, he felt that these colors, imperceptible to the will-spirit, must be the attributes of Origin Qi.

Just like the five element spiritual energies in novels from his previous life.

"Yes."

The voice of Tianyan was soft, but her reply directly negated Xu Yuan’s speculation, "During cultivation, cultivators absorb Origin Qi into their bodies, and when they pass away, they return it to heaven and earth."

"......"

Upon hearing this, Xu Yuan was stunned for a moment, then pulled at the corner of his mouth.

Right, even the world of cultivation must obey the law of conservation of energy.

The words of Tianyan didn’t halt; she spoke slowly in her crisp, youthful voice:

"The pure Origin Qi of heaven and earth, after being circulated within a cultivator’s body for a lifetime by their cultivation technique, will inevitably be infused with the cultivator’s essence. It is the legacy those passed-away cultivators leave in this world."

She paused for a moment,

then reminded in a low voice:

"Xu Yuan, in the future, try not to inhale and exhale Origin Qi that carries the essence of deceased cultivators. Your cultivation is still shallow; the influence should be minor on you."

Bearing the dizziness, Xu Yuan was somewhat puzzled:

"Will this Origin Qi affect cultivators? If such Qi can influence us, wouldn’t all the cultivators throughout history be susceptible to it?"

"......."

Tianyan did not reply immediately, but first glanced at Lou Ji, contemplation flickering in her beautiful golden eyes as if she was hesitant to reveal the reason.

As someone keenly aware, Xu Yuan understood in the moment he saw Tianyan’s expression that this question might be related to some secrets. He didn’t continue to press her, simply chuckling:

"If it is inconvenient to talk about, then it’s enough for me to be aware of it."

Tianyan softly shook her head, and slowly took a seat on the edge of the bed:

"Actually, it’s not that there’s anything that cannot be spoken of. Even if Chief Lou knew, without the Yantian Art, she would still be powerless to do anything."

"....."

Lou Ji’s phoenix eyes slightly narrowed, but she made no sound.

Although she controlled many secrets under Dayan’s heavens, she was not an all-knowing Saint after all.

She knew that after the death of a cultivator, the Origin Qi within their body would dissipate into the heaven and earth as the corpse decayed, but she did not know that this would affect the Origin Qi between heaven and earth.

Above some secrets and foundations, the Prime Minister’s Mansion still could not compare to Jiatiange, an ancient sect that had existed since time immemorial.

Tianyan then slowly whispered:

"The contamination of heaven and earth’s Origin Qi by cultivators has always existed throughout history, but after being filtered through cultivation techniques, impurities within the Origin Qi absorbed into one’s body are reduced to less than one thousandth, producing no side effects for the cultivator. However, this is under the premise that they never come into contact with the breakthrough threshold of a Saint in their lifetime."

"The Sacred Origin of Saints is the most pure substance in this world, tolerating no impurities. Even if filtered through cultivation techniques, the minuscule impurities that remain can form an insurmountable chasm-like bottleneck when a cultivator attempts to break through to become a Saint."

Xu Yuan also looked at Lou Ji, hesitantly asking:

"Sister....."

During his time in the Northern Frontier, he had attempted to break through to sainthood in the form of a specter and had not sensed this so-called chasm.

"She’s not wrong."

Lou Ji confirmed Tianyan’s statement, her long, narrow eyes half-closed in contemplation, and with a hum of laughter and a curl of her lips, she said, "No wonder the bottleneck I faced when attempting a breakthrough back then was so formidable. So, there are such secrets hidden within."

As she spoke, she glanced at Xu Yuan on the bed, his golden pupils sparkling, and smiled charmingly:

"Changtian, you do not need to worry either. While it’s difficult to break through the bottleneck of a Saint, our Prime Minister’s Mansion also has strategies to deal with it. Otherwise, your father and maternal uncle, and... heh, they would have been unable to break through to the realm of Saints either."

There are always more solutions than difficulties.

Though most cultivators without the Celestial Fates Divine Soul know what happens without understanding how it occurs, what the world lacks the least are geniuses.

Methods to stubbornly overcome this bottleneck and achieve sainthood are not few and far between.

As she was musing,

Lou Ji suddenly became serious and respectfully gestured to the young girl sitting on the edge of the bed, saying earnestly:

"Saintess, for this favor, I, on behalf of the Prime Minister’s Mansion, owe you one."

The methods to break through to become a Saint are incredibly precious. Although her words were few, this Saintess had indeed disclosed a method to overcome the threshold of becoming a Saint to them.

Moreover, it was a method that could cut off the creation of that insurmountable bottleneck from its root.

Even though the method required the Celestial Fates Divine Soul, which she no longer needed, this intelligence was an extremely valuable treasure for the vast Prime Minister’s Mansion.

Without the Celestial Fates Divine Soul to differentiate Origin Qi, having a general direction would allow the Geometry Institute to develop specific formations as solutions.

And one should remember that the timespan of a great power is counted by centuries; if not useful to the older generation, training new generations of powerful individuals was certainly possible.

Looking at the woman whose demeanor had shifted so swiftly, Tianyan’s response was quite aloof:

"No need, as long as Xu Yuan has the Celestial Fates Divine Soul, he would have discovered this eventually."

Upon hearing this, Lou Ji also reined in her previous seriousness and chuckled, her arms crossed over her chest, tauntingly saying:

"This is not for you to decide. If I say the Prime Minister’s Mansion owes a debt, then it does."

"Then do as you wish."

"Right, this debt is owed by the Prime Minister’s Mansion. If anything happens to Changtian, it will be my personal account to settle."

"Fine."

"Saintess, your ’emptiness’ is really dull."

"Oh."

"....."

With that, the room became quiet for a while.

Those present had neither the inclination to delve deeper into the issue of cultivators contaminating the Origin Qi of heaven and earth at this critical junction, nor the desire to squabble.

All were looking at Xu Yuan, who sat properly cross-legged on the cot.

In this quietude, Xu Yuan’s condition gradually stabilized.

The characteristics of the Celestial Fates Divine Soul were slowly consolidating within his will-spirit, and some hazy fragments of memory began to surface before his eyes....