landbeastnovel Chapter 53 Cultivation Matters
Chapter 53 Cultivation Matters
After a while, Xi'er opened her eyes, a bright light flashing in them: "Brother, I've already talked to the sisters."
"Then let's begin our cultivation!" Cai Xuan walked to the four small golden gourds and sat cross-legged.
"Um!"
Xi'er responded and sat down on both sides with Yun'er, Shu'er, and Xin'er, the four little golden gourds swaying gently on the vine.
The sun rose slowly from the mountains, its golden rays gently bathing the earth. In that instant, it seemed as if all life was infused with new vitality, and all things in heaven and earth began to awaken.
The giant pumpkin vine swayed gently in the breeze, and the dewdrops on its leaves sparkled in the morning light.
In the distant mountains and forests, birdsong rose and fell, signaling the start of a new day.
Cai Xuan silently closed his eyes, focusing his mind on his dantian. A strange power connected him with the eight girls. It wasn't spiritual energy, nor internal energy, but a more fundamental and primal force.
This is the bond of blood, the resonance of destiny.
It is an invisible yet unbreakable bond formed among the nine people after they had perfected the Heaven-Mending Marrow cultivation. Like nine great trees, their roots intertwined underground, their branches touching in the sky. When the wind comes, they sway together; when the rain comes, they endure it together; when the sun shines, they grow together.
"Begin!" Xi'er's voice echoed deep within her heart.
In an instant, Yun'er, Shu'er, Xin'er, and the four little golden gourds all began cultivating according to the Primordial Chaos Crossing-the-World Treasure Raft she had just described.
Cai Xuan also began to cultivate according to the techniques he had memorized.
The first layer, "The Original Dao Chapter," discusses tracing back to the source of life, emphasizing the need to gather and unify the scattered essence, energy, and spirit within the body, returning to the original point of life—the primordial state before chaos and separation of Yin and Yang.
He guided his internal energy upwards along the Du meridian, through the three passes, into the Niwan point, and then downwards along the Ren meridian, returning to the Dantian.
One lap, two laps, three laps...
His internal energy flowed slowly through his meridians, each cycle carrying a trace of extremely pure life force, merging into every cell of his body. At first, the power was weak, like a gentle spring breeze, almost imperceptible. But soon, Cai Xuan sensed the difference. The energy of the eight cultivators, also operating the *Primordial Chaos Crossing the World Treasure Raft*, resonated with his, causing his cultivation to accelerate dramatically.
Nine times the efficiency bonus begins.
Countless streams of spiritual energy surged from all directions, converging on the location where Cai Xuan and the eight girls were. This spiritual energy was no longer flowing gently and slowly as usual, but rather with an unstoppable momentum, cascading like a waterfall and rushing like a river, continuously pouring into the nine people's bodies.
Under the impact of this spiritual energy, Cai Xuan's meridians, like plucked strings, emitted subtle sounds.
Suddenly, a brilliant golden light shone from Xi'er's body.
In the blink of an eye, its small body was enveloped in a rich golden light, looking like a rising sun.
The golden light was not static, but pulsating rhythmically, alternating between bright and dim, like the beating of a heart. The Primordial Treasure Raft for Crossing the World was operating at high speed within her body, and her bones emitted a faint "crackling" sound, as her bone marrow was being re-tempered and reshaped.
Mysterious patterns appeared on her skin, spreading from her fingertips to her arms, from her arms to her torso, and from her torso to her entire body.
The patterns resembled ancient runes, or a suit of armor evolved from the heavens and earth, enveloping her body layer by layer. With each pattern that appeared, her aura grew stronger, and her body became more solid.
Her physical body is transforming from an mortal being into a "treasure raft".
On Yun'er's side, it was the same, radiating light.
Streams of spiritual energy flowed in, and she cultivated according to her elder sister's instructions. Her muscles became increasingly firm, her bones increasingly dense, and her skin increasingly resilient. This was the Primordial Vat for Crossing the World, constantly strengthening her foundation.
After Shu'er, Shu'er, Xin'er, and the four little golden gourds cultivated the Primordial World-Crossing Treasure Raft, one after another, strange phenomena occurred.
Especially the four small golden gourds, within which the girls sat cross-legged, their hands forming mudras, circulating their spiritual energy according to the instructions recorded within the Primordial Ferry of Salvation. In an instant, green, cyan, blue, and purple precious lights intertwined and swirled, forming dazzling halos around the gourds.
Their breathing became long and deep, and with each breath, the spiritual mist inside the melon surged and billowed.
As their cultivation deepened, the light emanating from the melons didn't intensify; instead, it diminished and gradually faded. The light that was withdrawn was all refined into their bodies, becoming one of their fundamental strengths.
Suddenly, the black pearl that had been dormant in Cai Xuan's dantian moved, absorbing all the spiritual energy that had surged in, and then slowly exhaling some spiritual energy.
However, it was clear that the spiritual energy he exhaled was far purer and more concentrated than the previous spiritual energy. The pure spiritual energy emerged from his dantian and spread into his skin, flesh, tendons, bone marrow, and internal organs, continuously nourishing and strengthening his physical body.
Cai Xuan felt as if his body was undergoing an unprecedented transformation.
A force is not only strengthening his bones, muscles, and internal organs, but also reshaping his life essence and enhancing his potential.
His bones were cracking, not from breaking, but from rebuilding—the sound of old bone being replaced by new, denser, and stronger bone. His muscles were trembling slightly, not from fatigue, but from rebirth—the process of old muscle fibers being torn apart, absorbed, and replaced by new, stronger muscle fibers.
His skin was slightly warm.
That's not the burning sensation of a scald, but the burning sensation of tempering; it's the outer layer of skin peeling off, and new, stronger skin growing.
His internal organs writhed gently in the spiritual energy, each writhing more powerfully and harmoniously than the last. His blood surged through his veins like a roaring river, flowing throughout his body with immense power.
The spiritual energy continuously flowed into the body, circulating in the dantian and forming a huge spiritual vortex.
At the center of the vortex was the black pearl that had been swallowed. It hovered in the very center of the dantian, like a black hole, greedily devouring the surging spiritual energy, and then exhaling even purer and more concentrated internal energy after devouring it.
The color of the beads also subtly changes with each swallow and release.
The Primordial Vast Ferry for Crossing the World does not begin its cultivation from the most basic skin, flesh, bones, or internal organs.
It views the physical body as a whole, and uses spiritual energy to refine and solidify the physique little by little, just like a piece of iron ore being refined into iron, and then from iron into refined iron and refined steel.
Cai Xuan led Xi'er and the others in cultivating the technique. Gradually, the nine different energies merged together, forming a wondrous cycle.
Spiritual energy surged from heaven and earth, was absorbed and refined by Cai Xuan, and then distributed to the eight girls through blood ties; the girls absorbed the spiritual energy, cultivated their techniques, and fed back the residual energy and Daoist charm generated during their cultivation to Cai Xuan.
Cai Xuan then incorporated those lingering Daoist principles into his own cultivation, making his techniques even more refined and profound.
Back and forth, in endless cycles, like a perfectly closed circle, ever-renewing and without end.