Cultivation Daddy

Chapter 193: Chapter 92: Instant Breakthrough Miracle (1)

The two customers who ordered the Instant Breakthrough dish were led to the fifth floor.

Compared with the noise and lively atmosphere below, the fifth floor was very quiet. The moment they stepped onto the floor, the spiritual energy around them became denser and steadier.

The walls were carved with faint silver lines from the formation, and it seems like the lamps hanging in the corridor were carrying a calming effect.

Hou Mingyu led the way: "The fifth floor currently has four breakthrough chambers. Two are prepared for you. Once you enter, please do not leave before the process ends. If anything feels wrong, press the jade bell beside the cushion. Someone will come immediately to assist you."

The middle-aged man nodded, but his fingers were trembling slightly.

His name was Cao Wen. He had been stuck at the late stage of Spiritual Sea Realm for nine years.

Nine years was common in this world of cultivation and martial arts but it was not short.

In the beginning, he believed that his breakthrough would come naturally. He was confident that as long as he worked hard, it wouldn’t be impossible for him to advance in two or three years.

He was talented enough in his youth, and although he was not a genius that big sects would fight for, he was still someone his family had once placed hopes on. But three years passed in the blink of an eye, then five.

By the eighth year, even his own confidence began to rot away like old wood left in rain.

He had bought pills, asked elders for advice, joined hunts, entered small secret realms, and spent almost all his savings on cultivation resources. Every time he thought he had touched the door to the Soul Palace Realm, the spiritual energy in his body would scatter at the final moment.

He came to the Spiritual Tavern opening today mostly because of curiosity. He didn’t expect to hear the words Instant Breakthrough. More importantly, he didn’t expect himself to actually believe it. But maybe he’s desperate enough and is looking for an easy way out.

Cao Wen looked at the chamber door in front of him and took a deep breath.

Beside him, the young woman from the merchant family looked calmer. Her name was Lin Ruoqing.

She was younger than Cao Wen, only thirty-four. She had reached the late stage of Spiritual Sea Realm two years ago, and because her family dealt in spiritual goods, she had never lacked resources. But resources alone could not guarantee a smooth breakthrough. Her spiritual sea was too active, and every time she tried to gather it into the Soul Palace foundation, her spiritual energy would rush too fiercely and injure her meridians.

Her father warned her not to force it, and her mother told her to wait. But waiting also had a cost.

In South River City, a merchant family without enough strong cultivators could only remain polite to everyone. If she broke through to the Soul Palace Realm this time, her position in the family would rise immediately.

Lin Ruoqing looked toward Hou Mingyu: "Are you certain that this chamber can protect us if something goes wrong?"

Hou Mingyu said, looking at the closed door: "I can’t promise that nothing will go wrong. Breakthrough always carries risk. But I trust my master, and you should too. Master Li prepared the dish and the chamber together. As long as your foundation is sufficient and you follow the instructions, the chance of success is high."

Cao Wen gave a dry laugh: "At this point, a high chance is already enough."

Hou Mingyu nodded and handed each of them a small jade plate:

"The dish will be served inside the chamber. After eating, sit cross-legged on the central cushion and guide your spiritual energy naturally. Do not rush, let the medicinal food lead your spiritual sea into gathering."

Lin Ruoqing looked at him sharply. "Medicinal food?"

Hou Mingyu smiled. "All spiritual food is medicinal in some way. Otherwise, how can you explain the effects?"

It made sense, Cao Wen didn’t have a word to refute.

"Then let us begin."

The two entered separate chambers, and the doors closed behind them.

Outside the chamber, Li Yujian stood quietly with a recording jade in his hand. Li Cheng stood beside him, observing the flow of spiritual energy through the chamber formations. He is very curious about formation, so Li Jain assigned the both of them on the upper floors.

Hou Mingyu looked at them and asked: "Young Master Yujian, Young Master Cheng, are you two allowed to stay here?"

Li Yujian nodded: "Father asked us to observe the changes in the formation."

Hou Mingyu smiled faintly: "Ok, I will take my leave then."

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Inside the first chamber, Cao Wen sat before a low table looking at the food in front of him with puzzled eyes. The Instant Breakthrough dish was not what he expected. He thought it would be something fierce and heavy, perhaps a bowl of blood-red soup or a plate of blazing beast meat.

Instead, what was placed before him was a bowl of pale golden rice covered with clear sauce, a small serving of jade-white fish, three slices of an unknown red spirit fruit, and a cup of spirit wine.

Cao Wen stared at it for a long moment, muttering to himself: "Can this really help me break through?"

His voice sounded strange even to himself. But the fragrance rising from the bowl was enough to answer his question. The more he smelled the aroma, the more his spiritual sea reacted. It was like a sleeping lake being called by rain.

Cao Wen picked up his spoon. Even if he doesn’t undergo a breakthrough, he has to enjoy this food that he pays for with his hard earned money. His first mouthful entered his body like warm light. His spiritual energy, which was all over his body, suddenly began to gather.

Cao Wen’s eyes widened. He immediately understood, this was no joke.

He stopped doubting and began eating faster, but then remembered Hou Mingyu’s warning and forced himself to slow down.

In the second chamber, Lin Ruoqing also froze after the first bite.

Her spiritual sea had always been too fierce. But the moment the food entered her body, the chaotic waves began to circle inward, layer by layer, no longer crashing against her meridians.

Lin Ruoqing’s fingers tightened around her chopsticks: "This..."

She finished the dish, then immediately sat cross-legged on the central cushion.

Outside the chambers, the formations lit up at almost the same time.

Li Cheng’s eyes lit up: "They’ve started."

Li Yujian looked toward the formation lines beneath the floor: "Yes."

"Elder brother, once you reach the peak of the Spiritual Sea, you can just have the instant breakthrough dish and advance to Soul Palace directly." Li Cheng said, there was a strange feeling of envy in his voice.

"It’s ok, I’m not in a hurry." Li Yujian replied. After he absorbed that poison his cultivation had been unusually fast. Right now, he was at the upper middle of the Spiritual Sea realm. Father hasn’t said anything either, so he can only continue to cultivate at this speed.

The pressure on the fifth floor began to rise. At first, only those upstairs sensed it.

Then the change spread downward. On the first floor, several customers who were eating suddenly paused.

A man holding a spoon lifted his head. "What is this pressure?"

"It came from upstairs."

"The fifth floor?"

"Are they really breaking through?"

The entire tavern slowly grew quieter. The people who had been mocking earlier also stopped talking for a moment.

One of them frowned: "It could be a formation trick."

His companion nodded quickly: "Right. How can food cause an instant breakthrough? Maybe the people upstairs were already about to break through." But even as he said this, his voice lacked confidence. The coincidence was too coincidental.

A breakthrough from Spiritual Sea to Soul Palace was not a small matter. The surrounding spiritual energy began to gather toward the upper floors. The formations built into the tavern guided the flow upward without affecting the other floors, but everyone could still feel the change.

On the fifth floor, Cao Wen sat on the cushion with sweat covering his forehead. His spiritual sea surged in his dantian, gathering, compressing, and rising toward the space of the soul.

For years, this was where he always failed.

Every time he reached this moment, the energy would scatter. But this time, a warm force wrapped around his meridians and guided the spiritual energy upward like invisible hands.

Cao Wen clenched his teeth, he was excited but also a bit afraid. He had waited nine years.

Nine years of watching younger cultivators surpass him, pretending not to care when people called him stagnant.

He had to smile when others said he had a stable temperament, while the truth was that he had no choice but to be stable because his path stopped.

Now the door was in front of him. He could feel it. The Soul Palace foundation began to form.

A faint shadow of a palace appeared in his spiritual consciousness.

Cao Wen roared softly, and the spiritual energy in the chamber suddenly rushed into his body.

Boom! The first breakthrough pressure erupted.

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