2: Celestial Star Chart, Early Stage of Qi Refining

Late at night.

In the storage room of Yuxu Temple.

With a rustling noise, under the dim light, Yu Xuzi was rummaging through things, looking for something.

A moment later.

"Found it!"

Yu Xuzi held a book with heavily yellowed pages and walked out quickly: "This is the one!"

"Whew~"

He gently blew a breath, clearing the dust, and six large characters appeared on the cover: Travelogue of Ten Thousand Miles in Ten Kingdoms.

Yu Xuzi had read this book when he was a child.

However, after so many years, the contents recorded inside had become somewhat blurred.

After all, born an orphan and lacking playmates since childhood, he had no other entertainment; reading the Daoist scriptures and books in the temple was his greatest joy.

"I didn't expect an ordinary travelogue to actually hide a Secret Manual for Qi Refining cultivation!!"

"The author of this book is anonymous; I wonder who left it behind?"

Yu Xuzi flipped through the travelogue and took a cursory look, finding that the content was indeed exactly the same as the Legacy he had received.

The only difference was that the Legacy he obtained had highlighted and organized the Basic Qi Refining Art hidden between the lines.

"Choosing the Opportunity, bestowing the reward..."

Yu Xuzi muttered to himself, gaining some understanding of the operating mechanism of that bronze pavilion.

He had personally recorded his Master's life. Because it possessed a certain so-called "True Meaning of Fate," it was recorded by the bronze pavilion, which eventually chose one Opportunity from his Master's life to bestow upon him.

Because of this travelogue, Xuan Chengzi must have also read it.

Of course, Xuan Chengzi certainly didn't know that the Qi Refining cultivation method hidden within was detected by this mysterious bronze pavilion.

And since there were rewards for "Individual Fate Records," there should presumably be rewards for "Group Fate Records" as well.

"An item of the immortals is actually so powerful."

"I wonder what use this bronze star compass has?"

...Early the next morning.

Purple Qi comes from the east as the red sun first rises.

At a certain cliffside behind the temple.

Yu Xuzi followed the method in his mind, discarded distracting thoughts, sat cross-legged, and began his first cultivation.

Attempting to sense that ethereal Heaven And Earth Spiritual Essence.

Unfortunately, after several hours, he only felt his legs go numb; the surroundings remained empty and deathly silent, with no gains at all.

"The Cultivation Technique says that anyone capable of Qi Refining cultivation must have the corresponding talent, also known as—Spiritual Root!"

"Could I not have a Spiritual Root?"

Yu Xuzi suddenly felt a bit uneasy.

But in an instant, he immediately forced himself to calm down.

"Since I was born with these two extraordinary treasures, I shouldn't be without a Spiritual Root; I must be overthinking it."

"Too much is as bad as too little; I'll try again tomorrow!"

Exhausted in body and mind, Yu Xuzi stood up and returned to the temple.

He planned to transcribe a few more life records of other Grandmasters in the temple to see if it would trigger the bronze pavilion again and yield other rewards.

Unfortunately, they all failed one by one.

The bronze pavilion had no reaction at all.

"Is it because I must have personal contact or even experience with them?"

"Or maybe rewards cannot be repeated, and this entire Yuxu Temple only has this one immortal item?"

In the dark night.

Yu Xuzi stood silently before his Master's grave, rambling on with idle talk.

Widely recruiting Disciples, spreading the law to the world, and revitalizing Yuxu Temple?

He had no such intention.

But regarding cultivating for Immortal Ascension and living forever, he was interested.

Very much so!

Moreover, it seemed that if he wanted to obtain more Opportunity rewards and continue his cultivation in the future, he could not stay at Yuxu Temple for a long time.

Otherwise, wouldn't the function of the bronze pavilion be wasted?

Of course, that was a matter for the future.

Without the power to protect himself, Yu Xuzi would not run around... In the following days, Yu Xuzi cultivated diligently without fail. Even though he didn't seem to change much on the surface, he could endure the loneliness.

He also took the time to take out all the ancient texts in the temple and check them one by one, hoping to find other content regarding cultivation, but unfortunately, he found nothing unusual.

Or rather, if there was something hidden, he couldn't see it.

Until ten days later.

Still in the early morning, meditating by the cliff.

Amidst the absolute silence when his body and mind were both empty, Yu Xuzi suddenly felt a coolness soaking into his pores, as if he were submerged in a clear spring.

Immediately after, a wisp of warm air, thinner than a strand of hair, suddenly seeped in quietly from the Baihui Point on the top of his head.

Yu Xuzi "saw" it!

Strands of white light, following the specific path recorded in the [Basic Qi Refining Art], began to travel with difficulty through his parched Meridians.

Wherever this airflow passed, it brought an indescribable sensation of soreness, numbness, swelling, and pain, yet it was accompanied by an unprecedented sense of comfort.

After One Cycle of circulation was completed, this weak airflow finally sank into his Dantian below the abdomen and settled there steadily.

"This is Magic Power!"

Early Stage of Qi Refining, achieved!

Yu Xuzi snapped his eyes open, and a subtle, almost imperceptible glint flashed through his dark eyes.

In an instant, he felt his senses sharpen.

The sounds of autumn insects flapping their wings and leaves touching the ground outside were clearly audible, and he could even see the fine dust floating in the air distinctly.

"I really do have a Spiritual Root!"

"Ten days to refine Qi, my Spiritual Root shouldn't be bad either!"

In his great joy, Yu Xuzi suddenly felt a slight heat in his hand.

Spreading open his left palm, the faint trace of the cyan circular disk mark was now flowing with light, appearing incredibly solid.

Suddenly, a palm-sized bronze star compass, engraved with the stars of the heavens, manifested from illusion into reality, appearing out of thin air in his left hand!

Its appearance was exactly the same as the massive star disk he had seen before in the void of his consciousness!

A piece of information naturally became clear in his heart:

【Myriad Heavens Star Disk】

This was its name!

Only when he had refined Magic Power himself could he initially activate it.

In the future, when his cultivation became profound and he had accumulated enough Magic Power, he could drive this disk to locate and travel between the myriad heavens and ten thousand worlds!

The higher the cultivation, the more powerful the worlds he could travel to.

"Traveling through worlds..."

Stroking the cold star disk and feeling the weak but real Magic Power in his body, Yu Xuzi looked toward the mountains.

The cold mountain wind blew against his face, fluttering the hair on his forehead and stirring the unwillingness to be ordinary in his heart.

He had thought he would spend the rest of his life in such an ordinary way, but the appearance of these two companion treasures had opened the door to Immortal Ascension and eternal life for him.

Treading through the myriad heavens and universes, recording the rise and fall of the Mortal World.

To see the rise and fall of immortal sects, and to travel through the cycle of birth and death of the Major Thousand Worlds and the Civilizations of Ten Thousand Races, it should be very interesting... Half a year later.

The nineteenth year of yonghe in the Yu Kingdom, March.

On Cangqing Mountain.

Amidst the uninhabited forest, bursts of crackling explosions rang out.

"Boom—!!"

With a loud crash, air waves surged and flames shot into the sky.

A large pit, about a zhang wide and several feet deep, was left on the spot.

It was precisely the Fireball Spell!

One of the ten-plus most basic Spells of the Qi Refinement Stage recorded in the Basic Qi Refining Art!

"Finally succeeded!"

Looking at the terrifying scene before him, Yu Xuzi let out a breath, and the fifteen strands of thin Magic Power circulating in his body finally calmed down.

When he cultivated thirty strands of Magic Power, he would be considered to have entered the Middle Stage of Qi Refining.

"I have already mastered the Vine Spell, Quicksand Spell, Golden Blade Spell, Ice Shield Spell, and Fireball Spell among the Five Elements Spells."

"It seems my Spiritual Root is quite good, but the Vine Spell was the fastest to practice, and the Fireball Spell was the slowest; there are still differences between different attributes."

After a moment of contemplation, without tidying up the messy forest, Yu Xuzi turned and returned to the temple.

Today, his cultivation has gotten on the right track, and he barely has the power to protect himself; it is time to make plans for the future.

The Qi Refining Art Cultivation Technique states that before Immortal Ascension, there are five Realms of human Qi Refining cultivation:

Qi Refining, Dao Foundation, Profound Fetus, Dharma Image, Primordial Spirit!

And then comes the True Immortal!

Each Realm is divided into Early Stage, Middle Stage, Late Stage, and Peak.

As cultivation deepens, a Cultivator's requirements for the external environment and cultivation resources will also become higher and higher.

The spiritual essence on Cangqing Mountain is not abundant, and it was never a spiritual mountain or blessed land to begin with; staying here forever, who knows how many years it would take to Cultivate to the Peak Qi Refining.

Not to mention that the Basic Qi Refining Art is just an ordinary low-level Cultivation Technique, lacking even the method to break through to the next Realm, the "Dao Foundation Stage"... Perhaps it's time to go down the mountain and take a look.

Presumably, as long as he doesn't actively intervene in disputes, records in secret, and Cultivates silently, there shouldn't be any danger.