I Have A Cultivation World Chapter 6 - 6: Five Elements Cultivation_1

Chen Mobai glanced at the clock, seeing that over an hour remained before the first group of students would finish their session in the Cultivation Room. Since he wasn't in a rush to depart, he continued to probe for more information regarding the enhancement and purification of Spirit Roots.

“Yan Bingxuan’s family certainly possesses experts. They identified that her Spirit Roots could be converted into the Ice Spirit Root via the ‘Frost Condensation Technique,’ so they guided her toward that objective from the very start of her cultivation.”

“The process of purifying and upgrading Spirit Roots is far less demanding in terms of time and resources when initiated at a lower realm.”

“Despite being just a young girl, she has already reached the late stage of Qi Cultivation. To put it conservatively, she can attempt Foundation Establishment three times, and her goal is to complete the transformation into an Ice Spirit Root before reaching Qi Cultivation Perfection.”

“If she succeeds, she could gain entry into the Nature Studies Academy—one of the top ten academies—without even taking an exam. Should she progress further, she might even pass the entrance trials for the four top Daoist Academies and reach the sky in a single bound.”

The four top Daoist Academies were established by the five Divinity Transformation old masters who originally founded the path of Immortal Cultivation.

Every single graduate from these institutions is considered a potential high-level cultivator of Immortality.

For thousands of years, the rate of successful Foundation Establishment among the students of these four top Daoist Academies has remained above 80 percent.

In Red Sandstone City, which is merely a blessed land on the outskirts of the Immortal Sect, the most recent individual to be accepted into the four top Daoist Academies was Yu Tianguang, who achieved Core Formation a century ago.

After departing from Old Man Ding’s office, Chen Mobai waited for about ten minutes before joining the second group entering the Cultivation Room.

He set up his cell phone, activated the Auxiliary Cultivation video recording mode, and entered a state of tranquility. He began to circulate the Qi Nourishing Technique once more, refining the Spiritual Power boosted by the pill he had consumed and making it his own.

As time ticked away, the Soul Stabilizing Charm jolted Chen Mobai awake at the usual hour.

He exited through the main doors of the Cultivation Room. Only a dozen or so unfortunate souls from the third batch were still inside.

Scanning the area, he noticed his desk-mate Lu Hongsheng along with a few other classmates he was friendly with. They exchanged brief greetings before heading their separate ways home.

Under normal circumstances, these close friends would often share Spiritual Tea and play minor games to hone their spellcasting after school.

However, all such leisure activities had been scrapped since they started their senior year.

The immense pressure of academic advancement had even forced Lu Hongsheng—who was usually quite relaxed due to his poor Spirit Roots and lazy nature—to start putting in real effort.

Before heading home, Chen Mobai stopped at a roadside convenience store to buy a box of glass beads, intending to use them to practice his Spiritual Power control.

Once home, he cut up some small charm papers while waiting for dinner to cook. He logged into the online trading platform and discovered that only one local cultivator had placed a bid.

18 Good Deed Points.

It was a bit low, and usually, Chen Mobai would have accepted. After all, his goods were from a small home workshop and were expected to be cheaper than those in professional stores.

But today, he was eager to return to the Water Mansion he had accessed through the Turtle Shell, so he wasn't in any hurry to close a deal.

After eating and tidying up, Chen Mobai went back to his bedroom.

He picked up the Turtle Shell for a thorough inspection, but it appeared exactly as it had the previous night. It looked like a common, ancient Turtle Shell, marked by smoke and fire, devoid of any hint of Spiritual Energy.

Had he not experienced that miraculous journey last night, Chen Mobai would never have guessed that this object was actually a space Magic Artifact.

Placing the Turtle Shell in his nightstand drawer, Chen Mobai pulled out his phone and opened the app labeled “Turtle Treasure.”

Having spent the previous night exploring it, he now possessed some understanding of how this “Turtle Treasure” functioned.

The three options—‘Teleport,’ ‘Return,’ and ‘Proxy’—could not be used without limit. They could only be triggered when their respective virtual buttons in the app became raised and illuminated.

Chen Mobai had waited until three in the morning the previous night to use ‘Teleport’ to reach the Water Mansion again. Although he hadn't found anything new, he had spent the entire night cultivating there, which had already cleared 50-60 percent of the side effects from his pill consumption.

He calculated that if he could sequester himself in the Water Mansion for another two or three days of cultivation, he could completely remove the risks associated with pill-aided progress. Then, he could resume the Five Elements Cultivation to raise his Qi Cultivating Realm.

This was the reason Chen Mobai had summoned the courage to return to the Water Mansion, even intending to attempt breaking the seal on the main hall.

That location was an intermediate-grade Rank-2 Spiritual Land. Renting a space with that level of Spiritual Energy within the Immortal Sect would cost roughly 160 Good Deed Points a month. By his math, every day he spent cultivating at the Water Mansion was like getting 5.33 Good Deed Points for free. Compared to the measly twenty or thirty points he earned a month by laboriously cutting charm papers, it was a massive gain.

Thinking of it this way, it wasn't surprising that Chen Mobai was losing interest in his small online shop.

“Based on my two trips yesterday, the cooldown for ‘Teleport’ seems to be 6 hours, while ‘Return’ is a bit longer at 10 hours. The timer starts from the moment of the last use…”

Chen Mobai mentally reviewed the timing of his previous two trips and reached a tentative conclusion.

Half an hour later, exactly ten hours had passed since his morning return, and the ‘Return’ button became raised and lit up before his eyes.

This meant that if anything went wrong, he could come back instantly.

Chen Mobai quickly hung a sign on his door that read “Do not disturb, in seclusion,” locked it from the inside, took a steadying breath, and tapped the glowing ‘Teleport’ button in the Turtle Treasure app.

[Do you want to teleport to location 1 (Unnamed)?]

Chen Mobai pressed [Yes].

A shimmering silver light immediately wrapped around him. Within five or six seconds, he vanished from the room, merging into the radiance.

When he looked up and recognized the familiar underwater surroundings, he fought to contain the excitement surging in his heart.

He might not know the exact location of this place, but he now possessed a secret base on an intermediate-grade Rank-2 Spiritual Land.

He pulled out the box of glass beads he had prepared and channeled Spiritual Power into them. The clear beads began to glow with multi-colored lights. This occurred because the Spiritual Power produced by Chen Mobai’s Five Elements Cultivation contained a mixture of all five elemental attributes.

The Five Elements Cultivation was a foundational technique developed by a Divinity Transformation old master after a millennium of meditation. Anyone who practiced it would find their Spiritual Power automatically shifting to the attribute that best suited them. It acted like a custom-tailored Qi cultivation technique, perfectly aligning with a person's constitution and Spirit Roots.

In Chen Mobai’s case, his Spirit Root attributes were: Gold 23, Wood 27, Water 23, Fire 17, and Earth 10.

Consequently, when he performed the Five Elements Cultivation, the Spiritual Power he produced was 23% Gold, 27% Wood, and so on—perfectly mirroring his natural Spirit Root composition.

Furthermore, these Five Elements Spiritual Powers would nourish and generate one another during cultivation. This not only aided in advancing one's Realm but also served as the primary foundation of the Immortal Sect, allowing people to pursue immortality even in a resource-depleted environment like the Earth Elemental Star.