299: Cultivation Power

[Ever since your Breakthrough to Soul Transformation, you have noticed that your usual methods of Cultivation yield little to no results.]

[Regarding the many intricacies of the path of immortal Cultivation ahead, you were like a blind person feeling their way, completely without a clue.]

[Fortunately, you met Qin Yang this time.]

[He was once a Protector of the Qin Immortal Clan, and his cultivation had previously reached the Void Refining Realm. Naturally, he understood the various theories and mysteries of the different Realms of immortal Cultivation.]

[Qin Yang poured you a cup of tea and said slowly, "This is only natural."]

["Before the Nascent Soul stage, Cultivation focuses on accumulation, such as refining Spiritual Qi into spiritual power to fill the Dantian, climbing step by step."]

["But once you step into Soul Transformation, the essence of life is already different. Relying solely on the intake of energy makes it difficult to make even an inch of progress."]

[You mused, "You mean... starting from Soul Transformation, Cultivation is no longer about the stacking of energy, but turns toward the comprehension of the Dao?"]

["Exactly," Qin Yang nodded slightly.]

["The Soul Transformation Stage is the stage of first understanding and preliminarily applying the Laws."]

["But to Breakthrough to Void Refining, one must deeply harmonize with a Law, and even transcend its surface to reach the Origin."]

["Gaining entry to a Law is easy, but making progress is difficult, and achieving Perfection is as hard as ascending to the heavens."]

["The threshold for the Void Refining Realm is to Cultivate at least one Law to Perfection."]

["What else?" you pressed.]

["For a Void Refining Cultivator, the Physical Body and Primordial Spirit must reach perfect harmony, namely the Three Flowers Gathering at the Peak and the Five Qi Towards the Origin," Qin Yang explained.]

["One must Cultivate the three aspects of essence, Qi, and spirit to their Peak and fuse them completely; at the same time, harmonize the Five Elements Qi represented by the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys to allow the Physical Body to achieve a Leakless Dao Body."]

["In this way, one can withstand the next step: the Void Power."]

["Void Power?" Your voice carried a hint of excitement.]

["The Void Power is a power that only Void Refining Cultivators can master," Qin Yang's tone was grave.]

["It is similar in principle to the Primordial Spirit Power you wield in the Soul Transformation Stage... but it belongs to a completely different level."]

["When your Law is at Perfection and you are at your Peak state, you must use your strongest Law Power to actively tear through the spatial barriers of the world you are in."]

["This is a life-and-death trial of Primordial Spirit transition... You must wrap your Primordial Spirit in the Perfected Law and charge into the endless Void Realm behind the spatial rift."]

["In the Void Realm, you will encounter two tribulations."]

["The first is Void Assimilation, where the power of nothingness will continuously erode and decompose your Primordial Spirit until it is assimilated by the Void Realm."]

["The second is the Law Baptism, where the Law you primarily Cultivate will be tempered and tested within the Void Origin."]

["Only if your Primordial Spirit is not assimilated, but instead absorbs part of the Void Origin, completes the transformation from reality to void, and safely returns to your Physical Body, is it considered a success."]

["This process is called the birth of the Void Primordial Spirit—this is also the source of how Void Refining Cultivators can condense primordial spirit clones."]

[You mused, "So, the potential of a primordial spirit clone isn't limited to what ordinary Void Refining Cultivators show?"]

["Naturally," Qin Yang smiled slightly.]

["As the Realm rises, the potential of the primordial spirit clone will also continuously grow."]

["And by using the newly born Void Power to find a relatively stable coordinate within the void turbulence and opening up a miniature space of your own... that is the prototype of a Grotto-Heaven World."]

["Successfully opening a Grotto-Heaven World is the true sign of stabilizing the Void Refining stage."]

["From then on, you will be a Cultivator with coordinates and territory in the Void Realm."]

[You thought of your own situation: "My Space Law is currently only at the entry level, so I can only teleport within real space and cannot shatter the Void Realm."]

["Correct," Qin Yang nodded.]

["With the Space Law at entry level, you can only use space to escape within real space; if you Cultivate it to Perfection, you can shatter the Void Realm and perform Void Teleportation... that is almost impossible to intercept or capture."]

["Therefore, trying to kill a Void Refining Cultivator is extremely, extremely difficult."]

[Hearing this, you immediately thought of the tianshu giant eye from the past; it had escaped using this very method.]

["The path of immortal Cultivation is actually a series of leaps and ascensions in the levels of power one masters," Qin Yang continued.]

["Each higher level is a dimensional reduction crush over lower-level powers."]

["From the Spiritual Qi of Qi Refining, the spiritual power of Foundation Establishment, Golden Core power, Nascent Soul Power, Primordial Spirit Power, and even the Void Power..."]

["As for higher-tier Cultivators, they must master the Law Power, and even the Power of the Great Dao."]

["Power of the Great Dao?" You couldn't help but feel excited.]

[After all, your immortal slaying sword could invoke Power of the Great Dao, and you had always been curious about this.]

["Under the Great Dao, countless related Laws are governed," Qin Yang's tone was solemn.]

["To master a Great Dao, it is rumored that one must reach Mahayana Perfection and undergo the baptism of a Heavenly Tribulation before it is possible to touch it."]

["For example, the Law of Fire is merely the rule that makes things burn, while the Great Dao of Fire is the ultimate Origin of the power of burning."]

["One who masters a Great Dao is nearly the Dao itself; they can define rules and cause non-combustible things to be burned conceptually."]

["And it is said that even higher... " He paused slightly, his voice slow and heavy, "there is also the Power of Origin."]

["That is the source of the Great Dao, the ultimate components that constitute the world, such as Chaos, Grandmist, and Taiji."]

["At this level, it is the power of creation and destruction, beyond what words can describe."]

[You nodded, roughly understanding the logic—]

[Using Power of the Great Dao against the Law Power is like using a mathematical theorem to solve an applied problem based on that theorem.]

[While the opponent is still struggling within the problem, you have already rewritten the problem's basic formula.]

[Just as if you redefined: 1 + 1 = 3.]

[Then, from that point on in your world, three would be what everyone perceives as two.]

[And the Power of Origin defines '1' from the very source.]

[This is the so-called dimensional reduction strike.]

[No wonder the Immortal Slaying Sword Art is so powerful.]

[No wonder the Liu Clan Immortal Family fears the immortal slaying sword so much.]

[If the Immortal Slaying Sword Art is Cultivated to Major Achievement, a Void Refining Cultivator would likely find even escaping a luxury in the face of Power of the Great Dao—]

[The Power of the Great Dao has already rewritten the Foundation of the Laws, and the Void Power is also under its definition. To where could one possibly escape?]

[Unfortunately, the Immortal Slaying Sword Art you currently hold is only at the entry level, far from reaching the stage of such rewriting.]

[Because this world inherently runs under the Great Dao, and with your current Realm, you are not yet sufficient to shake the Great Dao Foundation of the world itself.]

[You couldn't help but wonder, could the calamity that wiped out the Qin Clan also be related to the Immortal Slaying Sword Art?]

[You thought of the Power of Origin again and muttered excitedly, "I didn't expect that above the Great Dao, there is also the Power of Origin. I wonder if it has anything to do with the world origin."]

[Qin Yang smiled and shook his head: "The path of the Dao is long and endless; do not be overly ambitious."]

[Suddenly—]

[Both of your gazes turned toward the City Lord's Mansion simultaneously.]

[With your current strength, your perception has become extremely keen.]

[So even without deliberately spreading your Divine Sense, you could detect subtle energy fluctuations within the City Lord's Mansion.]

[Moreover, this distance was not considered far for you.]

[You immediately spread your Divine Sense and looked toward the City Lord's Mansion.]