Longevity by Grinding Skills

Chapter 533: Chapter 533: Cultivation Knows No Time

Besides unfailingly circulating the Divine Sky Nine Heavens Profound Vault Undying True Scripture for one hundred and eight Grand Circulations every day to accumulate a meager amount of Skill Level.

Over-cultivating wouldn’t work either.

Once he cultivated the True Scripture to Great Circulation Perfection and his Dharma Body reached its limit, continuing to cultivate would cause his Magical Power to overflow, leading to regression instead.

This was where the talent, aptitude, and comprehension of different Cultivators became apparent.

Some people, upon reaching Circulation Perfection, might have their daily cultivation progress measured at ten, while for others it was merely one.

Over time, the difference would naturally become enormous.

Xu Yunfan was only able to manage this thanks to his Attribute Panel, as well as most of Chu Chennan’s fortune, which allowed him to consume Elixirs as if they were water.

In addition to this, he poured a great deal of energy into other fields.

The Array Dao was a foundation he had always valued.

Whether for protecting his abode, setting up arrays to kill enemies, arranging the space within a Grotto Heaven after opening one, or for Energy Gathering and Concentration, a profound mastery of the Array Dao would always grant a significant advantage.

Thanks to the assistance of his Attribute Panel and Zhang Ziyang, who resided within the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, Xu Yunfan’s progress in studying the Array Dao was extraordinary.

He took out the many Array Dao classics and Jade Scrolls he had collected and immersed his Heart and Spirit in them. Whenever his comprehension hit an obscure and difficult point in array theory, or when he got stuck while deducing Rune connections, he would use his Divine Thought to communicate with the soul in the banner.

Although Zhang Ziyang was trapped inside the banner without a physical body, his talent and comprehension were so astonishing that Xu Yunfan practically saw him as a Celestial Being. With just a cursory glance, Zhang Ziyang could grasp the key points, draw further inferences, and point directly to the crux of the matter.

"How can you still not remember? The trigrams Li and Dui for water, to condense the Water Essence..."

Zhang Ziyang said with some helplessness as they faced the slightly complex Profound Origin Water Control Array.

Xu Yunfan, his face burning with shame, could only swallow his pride and continue to accept Zhang Ziyang’s one-on-one instruction.

Heaven have mercy, he was the one who had started studying the Profound Origin Water Control Array first.

Yet Zhang Ziyang had only looked at it for a short while before dissecting its True Intent.

His comprehension was inhuman.

Under Zhang Ziyang’s guidance, Xu Yunfan grasped the core essence of his words, made it his own, and constantly cross-referenced it with the classics.

’You have successfully comprehended the Array Dao. Your Initial Understanding of Array Dao Skill Level +1’

Seeing the notification float up in his field of vision, Xu Yunfan couldn’t help but let out a breath of relief.

’Good. As long as the Skill Level increases, my understanding of arrays will deepen. At least I won’t have to feel like a complete idiot.’

Xu Yunfan used his Attribute Panel to visualize the deduction process, rapidly absorbing the insights into the Array Dao that Zhang Ziyang revealed in that space between the virtual and the real.

Array Dao Runes flowed like a river of stars through his mind, while structural deductions were repeatedly dismantled and reassembled in his Sea of Consciousness.

This type of training, which required immersing his Heart and Spirit in precise calculations and profound insights, was completely different from the arduous cultivation of the Divine Sky Scripture, which focused on energy gathering and internal tempering. It completely filled the mental downtime in his cultivation schedule, making every day feel packed.

So packed, in fact, that Xu Yunfan sometimes felt like running away from it all.

Of course, what made him feel even more like a fish in water was his Sword Dao cultivation.

Leveraging the truly exceptional Sword Dao talent and comprehension of his Clone Han Stone, combined with the boost from his own Attribute Panel, not practicing the Wansheng Sword Sect’s Wansheng Sword Technique would have been a criminal waste.

This Sword Technique was not merely a Sword Cultivation True Method; it was more like the foundation of the Sword Dao, a great tower built from the ground up. It was a Dharma Gate that expounded upon the Origin of the great Dao of the sword, pointing directly toward the realm of turning the illusory into reality—the realm of All Swords Return to the Sect.

As long as he cultivated the Wansheng Sword Technique to Perfection, practicing any other advanced sword technique afterward would be twice as effective with half the effort.

On the back mountain of Divine Sky Peak, amidst rarely-visited cliffs, Xu Yunfan had carved out a hidden platform.

He would be here at the first light of dawn, practicing his Swordsmanship.

Initially, Xu Yunfan would silently link his vision with that of his Clone Han Stone. Wielding a Mortal Iron Longsword, he meticulously practiced the Basic Sword Forms according to the diagrams in the Wansheng Sword Technique.

Thrust, cleave, lift, sweep, parry, point...

His movements were slow and clear. With every strike, he focused his heart on feeling the transmission of Strength and the flow of intent along the blade’s trajectory.

Gradually, the Mortal Iron Longsword was replaced with a Low Grade Magic Sword. Sword Qi began to emerge from his body, forming a sharp edge without any infusion of Magical Power.

When he slowly channeled the faint Thunder Power drawn by the Divine Sky Scripture into the blade, each swing would produce a faint CRACKLE in the air, and golden serpents of electricity would flicker in and out of sight within the sword’s light.

The Divine Sky Thunderbolt already contained the brilliant might of the heavens, possessing both deadly killing intent and speed.

The Sword Dao, in turn, represented ultimate sharpness and versatility.

It was only natural that the Wansheng Sword Technique’s philosophy of controlling ten thousand swords and embracing endless change would create a wondrous resonance with the Divine Sky Scripture’s concept of the birth, death, and flow of thunderbolts.

Borrowing the Sword Dao talent of his Clone Han Stone, the Wansheng Sword Technique was rapidly approaching the Perfection Realm.

And in each instant that the thunder light and Sword Qi merged and harmonized, he could feel his own understanding of the thunderbolt’s destruction and rebirth deepen. As a result, the Skill Level on the Wansheng Sword Technique’s panel jumped far more quickly than that of the Divine Sky Scripture.

Day after day, year after year.

On Divine Sky Peak, the clouds gathered and dispersed, and countless seasons passed.

Many things may have happened in the world outside his abode, but for Xu Yunfan, who sat in meditation on the peak, wholly focused on his secluded cultivation, time seemed to both stretch and compress.

Those fellow sect members, all Foundation Establishment Daoist Masters, who had once tried to curry favor or fish for information, eventually took the hint after being turned away at his door multiple times and stopped visiting.

The reputation of "Xu Yunfan of Divine Sky Peak is in arduous secluded cultivation and pays no mind to external affairs" quietly spread among the lower-level disciples of the Primordial Sect.

Just as he wished, Xu Yunfan naturally became a "Hermit Cultivator" within the Sect, maintaining a low profile.

This was, of course, exactly what he wanted.

Within the Primordial Sect, no one who could become a Foundation Establishment Daoist Master was a fool. Since he was now an underling of True Monarch Qing Yuan, keeping a low profile was the King’s Dao.

Xu Yunfan had long stopped counting the specific years. But based on the cycle of the seasons and the subtle changes in the Cultivation Technique within his body, he knew with clarity that the Skill Level of his Divine Sky Scripture, through slow but steady daily progress and by gulping down handfuls of Elixirs, had finally crawled to 999 points.

He was just one final step away from the Great Success Realm, which signified the imminent birth of a Grotto Heaven Embryo.

Seeing this, Zhang Ziyang couldn’t help but sigh with emotion.

"Yunfan, you finally did it."

Xu Yunfan: "..."

’Zhang Ziyang is being discouraging again. According to his calculations, if he were the one cultivating the Divine Sky Scripture, he would have reached Perfection in twenty years at most. Isn’t that just a blow to one’s confidence? How can I, even with my cheats, not compare to him?’

Xu Yunfan refused to believe it.

This day was no different from any other.

With his Heart and Spirit focused and calm, Xu Yunfan circulated the Divine Sky Nine Heavens Profound Vault Undying True Scripture along its prescribed path.

Although the total volume of the vast Magical Power in his body was not increasing quickly, decades of continuous refinement, guided by the increasing Skill Level on his Attribute Panel, had set him on the most perfect path of advancement, making its quality far surpass that of his peers.

His Magical Power flowed ceaselessly through his Eight Extraordinary Meridians and the acupoints throughout his body, finally sinking into the crystal-clear vessel of his Dao Foundation.

This Dao Foundation, like a miniature universe containing a vast nebula, floated silently at the core of his Dantian Qi Sea.

Visit and read more novel to help us update chapter quickly. Thank you so much!