537: Chapter 537 Magic Power

Star Academy.

Liu Estate.

[Ding! Congratulations Host, your one-thousandth offspring has been born. Spiritual Root: Grade Eight. Reward: High-Grade Spirit Stone * 15]

[Ding! Congratulations Host, your number of offspring has reached one thousand. Reward: Special Rank Seven Top-Tier Cultivation Technique: Heaven-Seizing One-Qi Creation Technique.]

No children were born in the Liu Estate today; it was likely a grandson or granddaughter born somewhere else.

The number of grandchildren was increasing. Among the one thousand descendants, Liu Xuan had eight hundred and eighty-six sons and daughters, and one hundred and fourteen grandchildren.

'This isn't bad. According to the System's patterns, the next achievement milestone should be two thousand descendants. It's time for the younger generation to step up!'

Liu Xuan planned to establish a Family System soon to encourage those descendants with low talent to marry and have children as much as possible.

He didn't expect them to produce highly talented children; he only wanted to strengthen the Family Bloodline and obtain the System's achievement rewards sooner.

However, his children were different from him; having children would delay their cultivation. They needed to choose between diligent cultivation and marriage.

To encourage them to actively produce offspring, Liu Xuan decided to further increase the childbearing subsidies, allowing those with lower talent rankings in the Family to obtain better cultivation resources directly through having children.

He would discuss the specific details with Lin Xue'er later; for now, all of Liu Xuan's attention was on the Rank Seven special Cultivation Technique rewarded by the System.

"A Cultivation Technique reward... it's a bit average!"

Liu Xuan currently didn't lack techniques. For Body Refining, he had the Kunpeng Swallowing Heaven Body Refining Method, and for Qi Refining, he had the Great Five Elements Hunyuan Method. They were more than enough!

Even if he obtained a higher-rank technique, he would still have to Cultivate it slowly. The more Advanced the technique, the harder it was to master; he estimated that few of his children would be able to Cultivate it.

Although it would greatly improve the Family's foundation in the long run, it would be hard to see results in the short term.

Compared to high-rank techniques, Liu Xuan preferred high-rank Spirit Treasures or even Immortal Artifacts. Even if he couldn't fully unleash their power, they could be used as array cores for large arrays.

For example, with the nine heavens thunder source bead, if given some time, the Thunder Pool Array could not only refine the body but also block even a Spirit Transformation Dao Lord if integrated into the Star Array's defensive barrier.

Of course! It would be even better if it directly rewarded Immortal Pills or Heaven And Earth Treasures that could significantly boost cultivation, reaching the goal in one step.

Liu Xuan claimed the reward with a slightly disappointed expression. A milky-white ball of light shattered in his Sea of Consciousness, turning into a Qi-like gas that merged into his Golden Core.

*Buzz~*

*Thump, thump!*

*Thump, thump!*

The Golden Core shone brilliantly, and his heartbeat sounded like a drum. Textures resembling blood vessels and Meridians appeared on its surface, as if it might come to life at any second.

"Peak Golden Core!"

Before Liu Xuan could even get excited, a mysterious stream of information flooded into his Divine Soul.

The Heaven-Seizing One-Qi Creation Technique, a Rank Seven top-tier Cultivation Technique, could be cultivated up to the Body Integration Late Stage.

This technique was different from normal ones; it wasn't even a primary Cultivation Technique but an auxiliary one similar to a secret art.

To Cultivate the Heaven-Seizing One-Qi Creation Technique, one didn't need to switch from their original technique. They only needed to refine their Dharmic power into 'True Qi', which could fuse with the original technique without changing its attributes.

Turning Dharmic power into True Qi was equivalent to upgrading the original technique.

True Qi had many benefits. Once mastered, the power of all spells would double, acting like an enhanced version of Dharmic power.

Most impressively, it could double a Cultivator's speed of progression, including doubling the success rate of breaking through Bottlenecks.

This is too Heaven-Defying!

A Cultivator who would originally reach Foundation Establishment at sixty could do so at forty after cultivating this technique, and their combat power would be twice that of an equivalent Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

A Cultivator who normally needed two hundred years for Core Formation could achieve it in one hundred years with this technique, making them comparable to a top-tier Prodigy.

However, True Qi had a fatal drawback: once mastered, the rate of Lifespan consumption would also double.

In other words, the many benefits of True Qi were actually traded for at the cost of one's Lifespan.

Trading Lifespan for cultivation speed was a very difficult choice for ordinary Cultivators.

For instance, an average Qi Refining Cultivator who broke through to the Qi Refining First Layer at age twenty could live peacefully until one hundred and twenty if nothing went wrong.

But once they chose to refine their Dharmic power into True Qi, their original remaining hundred years of life would become fifty. If they hadn't reached Foundation Establishment by sixty, they would die from a depleted Lifespan.

Even if they luckily succeeded in Foundation Establishment, the added Lifespan would be halved. While other Foundation Establishment Cultivators could live for three hundred years, they could only live for over a hundred.

Of course, this was for Cultivators with average talent. For geniuses, as long as they kept breaking through Realms and increasing their Lifespan limit, this drawback could be completely ignored.

Moreover, this abnormal Lifespan consumption could be delayed or compensated for to some extent, so the overall effect was still quite good.

Especially for those Cultivators stuck at a Foundation Establishment or Golden Core Bottleneck, just a step away from a Breakthrough, this technique was no different from an immortal method.

Based on all this information, the Heaven-Seizing One-Qi Creation Technique could at most be considered a secret art with special effects; it didn't deserve to be called "Heaven-Seizing," much less "Creation."

What made Liu Xuan's heart race with excitement was that True Qi could also be refined into qi of creation.

qi of creation had no special characteristics; compared to ordinary Dharmic power, it was just purer. It didn't speed up cultivation or Lifespan consumption.

It seemed unremarkable, and even casting spells with it was no different from using one's own Dharmic power.

However, a Cultivator who mastered qi of creation had one advantage: they could directly refine others' True Qi, plundering their cultivation results.

Furthermore, True Qi was different from Dharmic power. When a Cultivator of True Qi died, their True Qi wouldn't dissipate and turn into Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi like Dharmic power; instead, it would gather toward the Cultivator who had refined qi of creation.

"This isn't 'Heaven-Seizing Creation' at all—this is a Demonic Technique!"

A milky-white 'seed' appeared in Liu Xuan's hand. Only one person could master qi of creation; everyone else could only Cultivate True Qi, becoming fodder for another after death.

"The Heaven-Seizing One-Qi Creation Technique... without this Seed of Creation, others are merely cultivating the Heaven-Seizing One Qi Method!"

"Heaven-Seizing One Qi Creation... what is seized is others' True Qi, and what is achieved is one's own creation."

"No wonder True Qi speeds up Lifespan consumption—it's for fear that people won't die fast enough!"

A genuine Demonic Technique. The more Cultivators of True Qi there were, and the faster they died, the more rapidly the one who mastered qi of creation could increase their cultivation, silently plundering the results of others' lifelong hard work.

"A Demonic Technique is good!"

It didn't matter what kind of technique it was; what mattered was that the effect was indeed Heaven-Defying.

Liu Xuan didn't plan to Cultivate it himself; instead, he intended to give the Seed of Creation to one of his offspring. Since cultivation could be stacked, the effect would be the same as if he cultivated it himself.

As for the Heaven-Seizing One Qi Method, it needed to be spread. Anyone who wanted to Cultivate it could do so; he didn't plan to force anyone, it would be entirely voluntary.

As long as they successfully cultivated True Qi, the Merchant Alliance could recruit them and provide these Cultivators with preferential treatment to help them reach higher Realms.

In many matters, force is not a good method; instead, it easily provokes resistance and suspicion. Only guidance and encouragement can achieve better results.