Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme

Let’s not talk about the future for now.

As a person, one should focus on the present.

Xu Yang raised his hand and extracted the main gains from the Five Elements Mecha.

The first was the most fundamental—spirit crystals.

Tens of thousands of high-grade spirit crystals and over a thousand supreme-grade spirit crystals.

Spirit crystals are equivalent to spirit stones and contain nature’s spiritual energy; they are the most basic and also the most important cultivation resource.

Over the years, Xu Yang had been plundering everywhere, competing with the major Divine Martial forces in the Forty-eight Domains, managing to accumulate a hundred thousand high-grade spirit crystals.

Yet, previously in order to hasten the deciphering of the War God’s Atlas, he had taken out fifty thousand to set up the Primordial Spirit version of the Luotian Dajiao for the Dragon and Tiger Great Array, which consumed an enormous amount and cost a great deal.

However, there are gains for every outlay, and as the Dragon and Tiger Platform was part of the War God Heritage, possessing treasures like the War God’s Charts allowed for a continuous output of spirit crystals. One can imagine the accumulated wealth from such a heritage over ten thousand years.

It is only because the other two Divine Martial Venerables and the various cities in the Dragon and Tiger Domain shared some of it that Xu Yang did not manage to gather a million high-grade spirit crystals this time.

Although he obtained only tens of thousands now, it was not too bad. Whether for cultivation, aiding in alchemy, artifact refining, spirit plant beast mastering, or other skills production, these high-grade spirit crystals could play a significant role.

In addition, there were the supreme-grade spirit crystals, which are considered fourth-tier spiritual objects. They could be used by Divine Martial Venerables for cultivation or to set up formations. The main base arrays of each Divine Martial heritage were based on these.

For Xu Yang, these were even more useful; he could combine them with other materials to refine fourth-tier soul-communicating treasures and construct more Spirit-Treasure Mech Armors to obtain more Soul-transforming combat power to counter the major Divine Martial heritages.

Good stuff, no doubt about it!

Following the spirit crystals were the elixirs.

The Dragon and Tiger Platform was famous the world over for its pill concoction, much like the Evergreen Palace.

Yet, the Evergreen Palace’s Eternal Evergreen Pill was mainly known for prolonging life, ranking as a top-tier healing holy medicine and life-extending holy medicine. Even a Divine Martial Venerable, as long as they had a breath left, could be revived with this pill.

However, the Dragon and Tiger Platform’s Dragon and Tiger Golden Pills were primarily aimed at enhancing the body’s Qi Blood and Inner Yuan strength, ranking among the world’s top cultivation holy medicines. The constant emergence of multiple Divine Martial Venerables in each generation of the War God Heritage relied on this Dragon and Tiger Golden Pills.

Xu Yang was very interested in this.

With the Immortal Path system, Primordial Spirit cultivation, he had a deep research into elixirs, especially those that increase cultivation and assist in breaking through: Foundation Establishment had the Foundation Building Pill, Golden Core had the Golden Core Formation Pill, Nascent Soul had the Nascent Soul Condensing Elixir, and Divinity Transformation had the Soul Transformation Spirit Liquid.

Currently, the highest breakthrough elixir introduced by Wandao School, incorporated from the heritage of the Primordial Spirit World and the ancient Immortal Sects. It was the Deity-Transformation Spirit Liquid which, in conjunction with the Ancestor Master’s Altar, Luotian Dajiao, the cultivator themselves, and the added effects of their cultivation technique, had a breakthrough success rate of around fifty percent for achieving Divinity Transformation.

Fifty percent, neither low nor high.

Chu Nan, in whom Xu Yang had placed great hopes in the World of Dao and Law, failed above this fifty percent, unable to step into the Divinity Transformation Realm and had to head to the Yin Mountain Mansion to become a Ghost God.

Wondering how the Dragon and Tiger Golden Pills compared to the Deity-Transformation Spirit Liquid developed by Wandao School, whether they might have an advantage?

Xu Yang took them out, only to see a golden pill with dragon and tiger patterns on it, emitting a strange fragrance that refreshed the mind and caused an instinctive craving in the body to swallow the pill.

“Dragon and Tiger Golden Pill, the qi of the dragon and tiger?”

“Dragon and tiger represent the royal qi, the martial qi, the qi of Heavenly Punishments, and Earthly Evils!”

“Could this Dragon and Tiger Golden Pill have actually subdued the most untamed and hardest to refine qi of Heavenly Earth Prime Spirit, the Heavenly Punishments, and Earthly Evils, and transformed it into a golden pill?”

“Such elixir skills can enhance Qi Blood and benefit the Divine Soul, aiding both the physical body and the Primordial Spirit. They are even superior to the present-day Deity-Transformation Spirit Liquid developed by Wandao School and may even provide a bit of help for those advancing to Return to Void?”

“No wonder it’s a War God’s Treasure. With this elixir recipe, Wandao School will surely make further progress, cultivating more Soul-transforming Cultivators. In the future, this could even lay the foundation for advancing to Return to Void, making a breakthrough to Integration.”

“Brilliant!”

Looking at the Dragon and Tiger Golden Pill in his hand, even Xu Yang couldn’t help but exclaim.

This pill surpassed the Deity-Transformation Spirit Liquid, likely to assist cultivators in breaking through to Divinity Transformation with approximately a seventy percent chance.

From fifty to seventy percent, though only a twenty percent gap, the difference is as vast as that between heaven and earth.

If this Elixir Skill could be thoroughly mastered, perhaps Wandao School could mass-produce Soul-transforming Cultivators just as it does with Golden Core and Nascent Soul practitioners.

This “Subduing Dragon and Tiger Stele” can indeed produce such Spirit Pills; it seems that the War God’s Atlas indeed matches the previous conjectures. Even if it’s not an Immortal Treasure, it must be a Supreme Grade Immortal Artifact; otherwise, it could not possess such capabilities.

Moreover, that is but one of the forty-nine War God Charts. If all the charts and the Temple of War God could be collected, using this as the foundation for development, it’s possible to create an even more splendid Wandao School.

“It’s a pity the yield is too low!”

Xu Yang shook his head and put the only Dragon and Tiger Golden Pill into his Qiankun Sleeve.

The Dragon and Tiger Golden Pills are not plentiful in yield; it takes five hundred years to condense a single one. Apart from training successors, the Divine Martial Venerable himself also needs to consume them, and sometimes they need to be brought out for bargaining with powers such as the Evergreen Palace and the Iron Heart Fortress, which also follow the Divine Martial Heritage. Therefore, the number of Divine Martial practitioners in the Dragon and Tiger Platform is generally only two or three.

Although Xu Yang is currently in the Nascent Soul stage, his cultivation is not yet complete. Taking the Dragon and Tiger Golden Pill now would be wasteful. It would be better to save it for a breakthrough into the Divinity Transformation Realm when he has accumulated enough strength over time.

Besides the highest-grade Dragon and Tiger Golden Pill, there are also lesser grades, such as the Subduing Dragon Pill and Subduing Tiger Pill, as well as the rare treasures and Heavenly Earth Spiritual Objects exchanged with the pills at the Dragon and Tiger Platform.

As for the lesser pills, it goes without saying that they can be given to Su Shaoqing and the obedient Cultivation Martial Artists to enhance the strength of his subordinates, which is to strengthen his own power, to be able to improve production and increase profits…

Therefore, Xu Yang is never stingy with his subordinates.

As for the other Spiritual Objects, especially the fifth-tier Spiritual Objects exchanged for the Dragon and Tiger Golden Pill, there’s no need for much deliberation. They should all be used as materials for Immortal Artifacts. After breaking through to the Soul-Transforming stage, he will start refining Immortal Artifacts and Immortal Spirit Mech Armor.

After all, he suffers from a bit of paranoia; in this world, it’s highly possible that Martial Artists of a Sixth Order realm exist. Without the power of Immortal Spirit Mech Armor to rely on, it is really hard for one to feel at ease and sleep peacefully.

Thus, the harvest from this trip to the Dragon and Tiger Platform can be considered almost completely accounted for.

All that remains is…

With a thought from Xu Yang, the Spirit-Treasure Mech Armor beside him immediately shines with the Five Elements Divine Light.

“Boom!”

Blue, yellow, red, white, and black—when the Five Elements Divine Light shone, it revealed an object, which was none other than a towering stele resembling a mountain range.

The War God’s Atlas, the twelfth stele—Subduing Dragon and Tiger!

This was the greatest gain from the trip and the treasure that Xu Yang had longed for.

The stele was as big as a mountain, covered in Golden Seal Script of an unknown language, suspended in the air without any support, exuding an arcane aura from inside out, truly an extraordinary treasure.

The Divine Bridge Technique, Divine Martial, and even higher realm cultivation legacies are all contained within it.

It can absorb Heavenly Punishments and Earthly Evils, Dragon and Tiger Primordial Spirits, produce Supreme Grade Spirit Crystals and Dragon and Tiger Golden Pills, and even serve as the core of a Fifth Order Great Array.

Such a treasure, one can never have too many of it.

Xu Yang did not speak further but started to comprehend the War God Chart with his divine sense.

His Martial Arts cultivation is still trapped at Yuan Core realm, needing the Divine Bridge Technique to break through.

Although the Immortal Path system is not inferior, and even in his hands, it could completely overpower the Martial Path, that’s because he is the one using the Immortal Path techniques.

One Subduing Dragon and Tiger Stele alone can produce Dragon and Tiger Golden Pills and layout the Dragon and Tiger Great Array, showing that the martial techniques of the War God Heritage are not weaker than combined Taoism and Primordial Spirit Immortal Path techniques; it’s just that they are too scattered.

If someone could, like him, collect all forty-nine War God Charts and integrate the entire Martial Path system within one person, then that person’s Martial Path system would undoubtedly not be weaker than Xu Yang’s Immortal Path system, perhaps even superior, given that the status and power of the Temple of War God and War God’s Atlas are evident.

Of course, this comparison of strength and weakness is limited to systems and cannot be applied to individuals, especially someone like Xu Yang who has cheats—the power of the Attribute Panel and Skill Traits is undoubtedly strong, not weaker than any cultivation system.

Although he already has such cheats and his achievements in the Immortal Path are remarkable, in terms of cultivation and knowledge accumulation, Xu Yang has always been extremely greedy, never minding deepening his accumulation.

So, whether it’s the Martial Path or the Immortal Path, he wants it all!