Cultivation Daddy

Chapter 202: Chapter 201: Li Zhang’s Double Breakthrough

A shockwave of golden light erupted from Li Zhang’s body, rustling the leaves in the courtyard.

"Ah!" Li Zhang gasped, feeling his bottleneck shatter instantly. He had jumped up by one cultivation level!

But the energy didn’t stop. The bottle vibrated, refining the ambient spiritual energy in the courtyard at an incredible speed and feeding it back into him.

Boom!

Another golden ripple burst forth.

Within just a few minutes, Li Zhang had broken through by two consecutive levels! Now he’s at the eighth level of Physical Body. He opened his eyes, and felt his sense had sharpened and his strength doubled.

"Wow! I feel so strong!" Li Zhang yelled, punching the air, creating a small whistling sound.

"Congratulations. You broke through two levels."

"Oh thank you, my dear father. As you can see, your fourth son is a genius." Li Zhang bragged shamelessly.

Li Jain smiled and rubbed his head: "Next time, do not touch strange items. Even if it became useful this time, it was still dangerous."

Li Zhang nodded obediently: "I understand." But after a moment, he asked quietly: "Father, if another treasure flies into my mouth in the future..."

Li Jain looked at him silently and Li Zhang shut his mouth in understanding.

Li Jain examined him carefully once more, his eyes filled with marvel. The treasure was even more extraordinary than he initially thought. It didn’t just store energy; it perfectly synchronized with Li Zhang’s breathing and physical movements, making his cultivation passive and highly efficient.

"This really is a top-tier treasure," Li Jain murmured.

That night, after the children returned home and went to bed, Li Jain did not sleep. He sat in the study with several jade slips, blank paper, and formation ink spread across the table. The little bottle inside Li Zhang’s body had given him a new idea. Li Zhang’s earth spiritual energy was naturally thick and strong.

Using his vast knowledge and research, Li Jain spent the entire night drafting, revising, and perfecting a brand-new, customized cultivation method. He named it the Heavenly Earth Treasury Art. It was designed to turn Li Zhang’s body into a literal living fortress.

The method allowed him to draw earth spiritual energy into his body, send it through the treasure for refinement, store excess power inside the bottle, and release it later as a purer force. If practiced properly, Li Zhang’s spiritual energy would become as steady as a mountain and as deep as a hidden spring beneath the earth.

He also found out that the bottle is a treasure called the Earth Vein Spirit Vessel.

By the time the first light of dawn broke through the South River City mist, Li Jain finally set down his brush, took the newly written scroll and left the space.

They went to the restaurant even earlier than usual.

After the sky cleared up, the children were already dressed up. They came to the dining room one by one to have breakfast. Li Zhang was among the first to sit down, practically bouncing in his chair with a wide grin.

He was still happy about his breakthrough. Although he wasn’t as competitive as the others when it comes to cultivation, he still didn’t want to fall too far behind them. The brothers were also happy for him, they kept congratulating him throughout the entire night.

"Father! Look!" Li Zhang exclaimed the moment Li Jain entered, flexing his right arm with pride: "I woke up feeling like I could punch through a stone wall! That bottle is still sitting right in my stomach, nice and warm. It feels like having a little furnace warming me up from the inside."

Li Jain smiled, walking over to pat Li Zhang on the head before taking his seat at the head of the table: "I am glad you feel energetic, Xiao Zhang. But having a powerful treasure inside you without proper guidance is like holding a heavy warhammer without knowing how to swing it. You might accidentally hurt yourself or waste its true potential."

"Swinging a hammer is my thing." Li Jingxuan muttered.

Li Jingsheng looked at him speechlessly.

Li Zhang blinked in confusion: "Wasted potential? But I already broke through two levels in a single day! I’m sure that counts as making good use of it."

"That was merely the initial surge of unrefined energy overflowing," Li Jain explained. He reached into his robe and pulled out the scroll, placing it on the table right beside Li Zhang’s plate: "This is what I spent the night creating for you. It is called the Heavenly Earth Treasury Art. You should cultivate this instead of your current cultivation method."

The surrounding brothers immediately perked up their ears. Li Yujian raised an eyebrow in surprise, while Li Yuhan leaned over from his seat to get a better look at the scroll. Even little Li Jingxuan stopped grumbling about his upcoming forging practice and looked over.

"A customized cultivation manual?" Li Yuhan asked with a whistle: "Father wrote an entire art just for the fourth brother in a single night? That’s incredible. Fourth brother, you’re very lucky."

The more Li Cheng thought about the situation, the more incredulous he felt. Idiots’ luck is really unpredictable. Nonetheless, he was still happy for Li Zhang to have this opportunity.

Li Zhang’s eyes sparkled like bright gems. He carefully picked up the scroll as if it were made of fragile glass, his hands trembling with excitement: "For me? A whole technique just for me?"

Li Jain nodded: "This technique turns your meridian pathways into an impregnable vault and uses the earth vein spirit vessel as an auxiliary core to compress and store spiritual energy. Rather than refining energy aimlessly, this art allows you to consciously control it. This way you’ll have more control over your progress than just cultivating aimlessly."

Li Zhang hugged the scroll tightly against his chest: "Thank you, Father! You’re the best! With this, nobody at Vermillion Sword Hall will ever be able to push me around again! I’m going to become a human fortress!"

"Do not be overly arrogant. After breakfast, before we head to school, come to the backyard. I will guide you through the first circulation cycle."

Li Zhang devoured the rest of his breakfast so fast that he beat Jingxuan’s record speed. He practically inhaled three meat buns and two bowls of spirit congee before rushing straight out to the courtyard.

Li Jain followed shortly after, finding Li Zhang sitting cross-legged on a large flat boulder in the center of the yard, trying his absolute best to look like a serene immortal master, though his twitching legs gave away his restlessness.

"Unroll the scroll and read the opening mnemonic first," Li Jain instructed, standing across from him.

Li Zhang carefully opened the scroll. As he read the lines aloud, the words resonated directly with the earth’s spiritual energy around him.

As soon as the last word left his lips, the swallowed glass bottle in his dantian let out a crisp, resonant sound, like a bell echoing deep underground. Li Zhang closed his eyes, instantly entering a state of focused concentration he had never achieved before.

Li Jain directs and guides him throughout the process. Li Zhang obeyed and followed all of his instructions clearly.

The Earth Vein Spirit Vessel acted like a giant spiritual pump, swallowing the rough spiritual energy from the surrounding atmosphere, compressing it tenfold, and pouring back a stream of pure, liquid-like golden essence into Li Zhang’s meridians.

Hummm—!

A thick layer of pale golden light erupted from Li Zhang’s skin, turning into a translucent barrier.

"Incredible..." Li Yuhan, who was watching from the doorway alongside Li Yujian, murmured in awe: "His aura is already as thick as a practitioner two full major realms above him."

Li Yujian sneered: "You’re not that high above him, how do you know?"

"It’s a metaphor, don’t read too much into it."

"Whatever you say." After a pause, Li Yujian suddenly asked: "Surely you have broken through already. Are you stuck at a bottleneck?"

Li Yuhan was surprised when he heard that. He didn’t expect him to ask that.

"I’m not stuck exactly... it’s just that I’ve encountered some problems. I will have Father take a look when he has time."

Li Yujian nodded and didn’t say anything further. Sometimes, he couldn’t understand his brother’s thoughts at all.

After completing three full circulation cycles, Li Zhang exhaled a breath of impure air. He opened his eyes, feeling lighter than a feather. He loves the feeling of the warm sensation in his stomach.

"Father! I did it!" Li Zhang said as he looked down at his hands: "I feel like if someone hits me with a wooden sword now, the sword will break before I even feel an itch!"

"What about a real sword?" Li Yuhan asked with a smile.

"Come on, it’s time for school. Han’er come see me tonight, I have something to discuss with you."

"Oh, OK dad."

Throughout the carriage ride to Vermillion Sword Hall, Li Zhang couldn’t keep still. Beside him, Li Jingxuan watched with envious eyes, while Li Yuhan kept teasing Li Zhang about becoming a human shield.

When they finally stepped off the carriage at the gates of Vermillion Sword Hall, the morning training drills were already under way. As Li Zhang walked onto the training grounds, several of his classmates immediately noticed the difference in his posture.

"Hey! Look at Li Zhang," A student nearby whispered: "Did he get taller overnight? Why does he look so intimidating today?"

"He broke through! His aura is completely different from yesterday!" Another student exclaimed in surprise.

"How lucky..."

"It’s not surprising, his father is a spiritual chef."

Li Zhang held his head high, enjoying the attention. Swallowing that mysterious bottle might have started as a bizarre accident, but with his father’s guidance and the Heavenly Earth Treasury Art, he knew his journey as a true cultivator had officially taken a huge step forward.

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