Inside the Liu Family's cultivation chamber.
Liu Bai stared at his system panel for a long time, hesitating, before finally making his decision.
"Choose... Dual Cultivation!"
"Ding. Does not meet the requirements for dual cultivation. Please attempt again after FrostSkin Jade Bone Art has reached Minor Mastery."
What?
This sudden halt left Liu Bai speechless.
Frost Skin Jade Bone, all laws merge into the body… So that's what it meant…"
Liu Bai came to a realization.
Although the Frost Skin Jade Bone Art was also a body-refining technique, it was clearly different from the Thunder God Body or the True Phoenix and Dragon Scriptures cultivated by Mu Chen in the original work.
At this moment, Liu Bai finally gained a more intuitive understanding of the two introductory lines of the Deity art.
After thinking for a moment, Liu Bai no longer hesitated and directly chose to upgrade the Frost Skin Jade Bone.
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Player: Liu Bai
Cultivation Level: Initial Phase of Spiritual Wheel Realm
Class: Spiritual Array Master (Rank 1)
Spiritual Pules: Grade 2 Human Pulse (12/500)
Constitution: Spirit-Skin and Jade-Bone Constitution
Techniques:
Blazing Sun Art (Fifth Layer 2650/2700)
Hundred Scrolls of the Dao of Arrays: Volume I (Initiated · Heart Array - Low Tier 0/1200)
Low-level Body-Forging Deity Technique: Frostskin Jadebone Codex (Minor Mastery 0/6000)
Mountain God Art (Not yet learned 0/200)
Skills:
Common-grade High-level [Wind-Piercing Finger] (Greater Mastery)
Common-grade High-level [Senluo Death Seal] (Greater Mastery)
Spirit-grade Low-level [Starshatter Fist] (Initial 0/100)
Spirit-grade Low-level [Blaze Step] (Greater Mastery, 0/1500)
Spirit-grade High-level [Great Sun Burning Sea Palm] (Minor Mastery 0/1200)
Arrays:
Flame Serpent Spirit-Breaking Array (Greater Mastery)
Experience: 3025
Beast Soul Points: 68
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"Hm? Upgrading the FrostSkin Jade Bone Art can also accelerate the awakening of spiritual Pulse?"
This was truly a pleasant surprise.
It seemed the main function of this FrostSkin Jade Bone Art was to improve one's aptitude, rather than directly providing combat power like the Thunder God Body.
Liu Bai inwardly gathered his consciousness to observe the changes occurring within his body.
The most obvious change was that his blood, flesh, and bones were now enveloped in a radiant, jade-like glow. Bones that were originally pale were now glowing with a luster resembling warm white jade.
Perhaps in the future, all the bones in his body would become like that skeleton—transformed into actual jade.
Only then would he be considered to have truly achieved "FrostSkin and Jade Bones."
Of course, the transformation of Liu Bai's body was not yet complete.
At this moment, the Spiritual Wheel in his Spiritual Sea was spinning rapidly, then suddenly ignited into a blazing flame. Following the pull of a glowing thread, it began to rise swiftly and eventually settled within the Heart Aperture.
"This is... Of the Five Elements, the heart belongs to fire. The spiritual energy cultivated through the Blazing Sun Art is also fire-attributed, so it's natural that it would be housed in the Heart Aperture."
But what about his Spiritual Sea?
In the Great Thousand World's spiritual energy system, all progression evolves from the Spiritual Sea.
For example, the Divine Soul that follows the Spirit Wheel is condensed in the Spiritual Sea. Even the Supreme Ocean is formed based on it.
"What the...?"
When Liu Bai focused his attention on the Spiritual Sea again, he was momentarily at a loss.
Because now, within his Spiritual Sea, another enormous light wheel was slowly rotating in the void.
"Two?" Liu Bai was dumbfounded.
If he cultivated the Mountain God Art now, would that create a third one?
What about future "Water Element"? "Metal Element"? "Wood Element"?
Or perhaps other attributes as well…
Sensing the spiritual energy within his body, Liu Bai discovered that it had more than doubled in density compared to before.
Just in terms of spiritual energy quantity, he could now rival cultivators at the Late Phase of the Spiritual Wheel Realm.
This delighted Liu Bai and gave rise to a bold idea.
"Add points to the Mountain God Art!"
"Ding. Congratulations, player has spent 200 experience points. Mountain God Art is now at the Initial stage."
Along with the system prompt, Liu Bai clearly sensed the Spirit Wheel spinning rapidly within his Spiritual Sea. Then, a slightly smaller wheel radiating with an earthy yellow light separated from it and swiftly descended toward his Spleen Aperture.
"Among the Five Elements, the heart corresponds to fire, the lungs to metal, the liver to wood, the spleen to earth, and the kidneys to water. I don't know how the others will behave, but if I can complete all five elements, what will happen then?"
Liu Bai kept wondering in his heart. Unfortunately, this would only increase the pressure on him, as gathering five elemental cultivation arts alone was no easy task.
Even though the Mountain God Art was only at the Initial level, it had already condensed a Spiritual Wheel. However, compared to the Blazing Sun Spiritual Wheel in the Heart Aperture, it was still far inferior.
But this was expected. After all, it was merely the first layer of an Initial Stage. Although it was a High-level Spirit-Grade cultivation art, its current level only equated to the Middle Phase of the Spiritual Movement Realm, so Liu Bai didn't hesitate and immediately invested another 1500 experience points, raising it to the second layer.
Boom!
Liu Bai felt his whole body tremble as spiritual energy surged, directly advancing him to the Spiritual Wheel Realm!
Afterward, a sense of immense and unshakable weight radiated from his spiritual energy, making his entire being feel solid and immovable.
This was clearly the effect of cultivating the Mountain God Art—it granted him a towering presence, like a mountain that could not be shaken.
"A High-level Spirit-Grade cultivation art really is powerful!"
What's more, the Mountain God Art came with an innate High-level Spirit-Grade offensive technique, Mountain-Shaking Divine Fist, whose might surpassed even that of the Great Sun Sea-Burning Palm by three levels.
When Liu Bai turned his awareness inward toward his Spiritual Sea again, he found that his Spiritual Wheels had more than doubled in size. Even the strongest cultivators at the Peak of the Spiritual Wheel Realm would likely fall short in terms of spiritual energy density compared to him.
And within the void of his Spiritual Sea, two ethereal lines of spiritual energy stretched down from above, connecting to the Spiritual Wheels in his Heart and Spleen Apertures.
One red, one yellow these two Spirit Wheels rotated like small vortices, continuously absorbing spiritual energy from the outside world and converting it into Fire and Earth attributed energy to nourish the Spiritual Sea.
"Five Elements mutually generate—fire generates earth, earth generates metal. Then next, I'll need to find a suitable Metal Element cultivation art."
If he could fully gather the Five Elements, then even if he couldn't obtain an ultimate technique comparable to the Great Pagoda Art, he could still rely on the combined strength of the Five Elements to ensure that his strength would not be far behind.
From the original story, it was evident that the Great Pagoda Art and the resulting Pagoda Tower were nearly bug-level existences offering not just the strongest defense but also powerful sealing capabilities.
That was how Mu Chen had managed to battle opponents above his level and even face multiple enemies alone.
Looking at his remaining experience, Liu Bai decided to also upgrade Mountain-Shaking Divine Fist to the Minor Mastery stage. At present, his spiritual energy was already as dense as that of a Divine Soul Realm expert, granting him the foundation to wield more powerful offensive techniques. With the might of the Mountain-Shaking Divine Fist, Liu Bai would certainly not let it go to waste.
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Player: Liu Bai
Cultivation Level: Initial Phase of Spiritual Wheel Realm
Class: Spiritual Array Master (Rank 1)
Spiritual Pules: Grade 2 Human Pulse (12/500)
Constitution: Spirit-Skin and Jade-Bone Constitution
Techniques:
Blazing Sun Art (Fifth Layer 2650/2700)
Hundred Scrolls of the Dao of Arrays: Volume I (Initiated · Heart Array - Low Tier 0/1200)
Low-level Body-Forging Deity Technique: Frostskin Jadebone Codex (Minor Mastery 0/6000)
Mountain God Art (Second Layer 0/3200)
Skills:
Spirit-grade Low-level [Starshatter Fist] (Initial 0/100)
Spirit-grade Low-level [Blaze Step] (Greater Mastery, 0/1500)
Spirit-grade High-level [Great Sun Burning Sea Palm] (Minor Mastery 0/1200)
Spirit-Grade High-level: [Mountain-Shaking Divine Fist] (Minor Mastery 0/1200)
Arrays:
Flame Serpent Spirit-Breaking Array (Greater Mastery)
Experience: 725
Beast Soul Points: 68
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For the following half-month, Liu Bai didn't step out of the cultivation chamber even once.
Through his own effort, he had pushed the Blazing Sun Art to the Sixth Layer, and as a result, his cultivation naturally advanced to the Middle Phase of the Spiritual Wheel Realm.
After that, Liu Bai focused solely on cultivating the Mountain God Art.
With the push from fire-attributed spiritual energy, the condensation speed of his earth-attributed spiritual energy reached an astonishing level. In just half a month, he had accumulated more than 1500 experience points.
Even though he hadn't advanced to the next layer yet, the earth-attributed spiritual energy cultivated through the Mountain God Art was now in no way inferior to the fire-attributed spiritual energy from the Blazing Sun Art. This was the benefit brought by a higher-grade cultivation art.
"Bai'er!"
Outside the cultivation chamber, Liu Qingtian called out the moment he sensed that his son had ended his cultivation.
Upon hearing his father's voice, Liu Bai pushed open the door and stepped out, seeing his father and two younger brothers standing there, all of them staring at him with bright eyes.
"Father." Liu Bai greeted respectfully.
But before Liu Qingtian could speak, the little rascal Liu Yang rushed over excitedly and shouted, "Big Brother, Big Brother! Did you break through again? Did you get stronger?"
This kid could only temper his body at home with basic fist techniques and hadn't even started sensing spiritual energy yet, so he wasn't even qualified to enter Northern Spiritual Academy.
"Yeah, I just broke through a moment ago," Liu Bai said casually, ruffling the boy's hair. Liu Yang grinned foolishly.
His words, however, made Liu Mubai's eyes flash with a hint of envy.
His big brother's cultivation speed over the past few months was honestly monstrous.
"Mubai, judging from how restrained your spiritual energy is now, I'd say you're nearly ready to guide spiritual energy into your body, right?"
There was no denying it. Aside from the cheat-assisted Liu Bai, Liu Mubai had the highest talent in the Liu Family. In the original work as well, had the Liu Family not been wiped out, it would have been inevitable for him to eventually reach the Three Heavens Realms .
In fact, if the opportunity arose, reaching the Sovereign Realm was not out of the question either.
"Ten days at most, Big Brother. I'll be able to guide energy into my body and break through to the Spiritual Movement Realm!" Liu Mubai declared confidently.
It should be noted that he had only joined the Northern Spiritual Academy six months ago. This cultivation speed was twice as fast as Liu Bai's.
"Excellent, excellent. Seeing all my sons growing up like this really fills this old man's heart with joy!" Liu Qingtian beamed at his three sons, his heart filled with pride.
"Hmph. Once your grandfather breaks into the Three Heavens Realms, this Northern Spiritual Realm will belong to our Liu Family!"
Liu Bai was speechless.
Just now, your tone was so heroic. I thought you were about to say something epic, but turns out that was it?
"Father, your mindset needs to expand. Don't just fixate on this tiny patch of land in the Northern Spiritual Realm…"
Liu Bai's words made Liu Qingtian pause. After some consideration, he asked, "Bai'er, are you suggesting the entire Hundred Spirit Heaven? Isn't that a bit too risky? From what I know, there are Sovereign Realm experts in the Hundred Spirit Heaven. That's far more powerful than the Three Heavens Realm!"
Now it was Liu Bai's turn to scratch his head. So in his father's mind, Sovereigns were already unbeatable?
How was he supposed to play this game?
"Father, let's not talk about this for now. Whether it's the Northern Spiritual Realm or the Hundred Spirit Heaven, both are far beyond the Liu Family's current reach. Maybe after I return from the Five Great Academies, we can talk about the future of Liu Domain then."
Liu Bai had never planned to develop on the Hundred Spirit Continent, because the one overseeing this continent was the Northern Profound Sect—a superpower that controlled four entire continents, with two Heavenly Sovereigns among its ranks.
Even though they were easily defeated in the original work by Mu Chen and his mother, to Liu Bai right now, this was a force he couldn't afford to provoke.
As for submitting to the Northern Profound Sect, Liu Bai had never even considered it.
At this moment, Liu Qingtian's eyes lit up. "That's right. I've been too impatient. Bai'er, your entry into the Five Great Academies is absolutely guaranteed. After a few years of cultivation there, you might even break into the Three Heaven Realm earlier than your grandfather."
Just the thought made Liu Qingtian feel even more excited.
Seeing this, Liu Bai could only shake his head helplessly and said, "Father, I'm guessing you didn't call me out just to say all this, right?"
"Oh, right, right. The Northern Spiritual Academy just sent word. The selection for the Five Great Academies is about to begin. Instructor Xi asked you to prepare to return to the academy."
"And also, the array diagrams you requested I managed to get you a few. Although they're all Rank One Array Diagrams, there's one Rank Two Array scroll among them…"
Now it was Liu Bai's turn to be delighted.
At present, even setting up Rank Three Spirit Arrays was within his ability, but unfortunately, he lacked the diagrams.
Looking at the three jade slips before him, Liu Bai reached out and picked one up.
"Ding. Detected One Spiritual Array: Wolf Spirit-Slaying Array. Would you like to record it?"
Next one…
"Ding. Detected Rank One Spiritual Array: Nine Heavens Thunder Spiritual Array. Would you like to record it?"
"Ding. Detected Rank Two Spiritual Array: Five Wheels Heaven-Splitting Array. Would you like to record it?"
Excellent. All three spirit arrays were powerful offensive arrays, and the minimum number of Array Seals required for their activation was at least twenty. Even the two Rank One arrays could unleash power comparable to Rank Two spirit arrays.
"All of them—Record!"
As Liu Bai's thought echoed in his mind, three new arrays appeared on his system panel. Since he had just enough experience to meet the entry requirements, he didn't hesitate and immediately invested all of it.
Looking at the newly updated attributes on his panel, a smile appeared on Liu Bai's face.
"The Five Great Academies… here I come."
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Northern Spiritual Academy, West Courtyard, Training Grounds.
At this moment, a large number of people had already gathered virtually every student still in the Heaven Class was present, including some of those who were normally as elusive as dragons.
Liu Bai stood there, and unlike the past when he was always alone, he was now surrounded by a few others.
"Brother Bai, I heard that after their training ended, Zhao Pei, Li Yuan, and the others immediately joined an adventurer team. They even trained for another month in the Northern Spiritual Fields. Maybe they've already broken into the Spiritual Wheel Realm!"
A youth reported the information he had gathered to Liu Bai with a serious expression.
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