My Cultivation Has a Progress Bar

"You look worried?"

Yu Lian rode a cloud up, landing on the eaves of the small courtyard’s roof. She found her usual spot, her emotions a mix of joy at being home and concern for Wang Ping.

Wang Ping had nothing to hide from Yu Lian. He reached out with his right hand and tapped lightly, first activating the illusion of the Water Moon Bell, then the courtyard’s seldom-used isolation Array. He replied to her, "I don’t know if Xiao Shan Lord’s advancement was successful. It’s best to be cautious."

Yu Lian lounged under the eaves, habitually glancing toward the spot where Tongyu Taoist liked to appear. "In that case," she said, "you shouldn’t have come back here."

A glint appeared in Wang Ping’s eyes. After a few breaths of silence, he looked at Yu Lian and said, "Even if things get bad, I want to face the hardship together with everyone at Qianmu Temple!"

Yu Lian tilted her head in thought for a moment. "That’s true!" she replied.

After his Primordial Spirit Consciousness recovered a little, he subconsciously swept it over Qianmu Temple. He saw his master and Yuan Zheng Taoist drinking tea and chatting, saw Ruan Chunzi meditating and resting deep within the Fire Institute, saw Tongyu Taoist sleeping beneath Dongshui Mountain, and saw every familiar blade of grass and tree at Qianmu Temple.

The familiar people and things calmed Wang Ping down. He remained in his current state, sitting alone by the Stone Table for Half an Hour as his worry and vigilance gradually faded.

’In this life, three in ten are followers of life, three in ten are followers of death, and three in ten, by their very actions in life, move themselves into the land of death. With my current cultivation, I am already among the elite of the Human Dao. Immortality is within reach, so what is there to fear?’

Wang Ping recalled the wisdom of Laozi from his past life, though he was twisting the meaning of the passage a bit. But who could blame him? He had already lived for nearly three hundred years!

He repeated the passage several times, and his mindset grew more open. Feeling liberated, he let out a laugh.

Yu Lian had already fallen asleep, but she opened one eye at the sound of Wang Ping’s laughter. After studying him for a moment, she fell back into a deep slumber. She hadn’t slept well at all this past year.

Wang Ping, however, focused his mind. He used his Primordial Spirit to access the portion of Xiao Shan Lord’s memories that had been unsealed in his Spirit Sea. On the way back, he had sensed it was a Cultivation Secret Technique, but he never expected it to be a Divine Secret Technique!

Wang Ping followed this stream of memory and tried to merge it using his Spirit Sea. It was a great success. With almost no resistance, he made the memories his own. Then, a panel of light popped up:

[Divine Secret Technique: All things under the Celestial Dao possess spirituality. The Divine Secret Technique is the sole orthodox Divine Technique, existing independently of the Mystic Sect and Heavenly Gate Techniques. A Cultivator must practice self-denial and discipline, enduring countless tribulations to achieve the supreme karmic attainment!]

[1. Enter a state of self-denial and meditate for ten years. It is best to have perfected your Qi Cultivation, or you might starve to death!]

[2. Establish your own faith and gather the spirituality of your believers unto yourself. In a state devoid of joy or sorrow, refine this spirituality into Divine Light. This may be attempted once per day until you have collected enough Divine Light. (Progress 0/100, Today’s Progress 0/1 attempt).]

[3. Use sufficient Divine Light to establish a Fantasy Divine Country within your Spirit Sea, which will better allow you to refine the spirituality of believers for your own use.]

[4. Use the spirituality of the Fantasy Divine Country to wash over your mortal body. This may be attempted once per day, and you must maintain a rational state devoid of joy or sorrow until your body is assimilated by the Divine Light. By doing so, you can extend your life. (Progress 0/100, Today’s Progress 0/1 attempt).]

[5. You must accumulate enough Divine Light to manifest the Fantasy Divine Country from your Spirit Sea into the real world. This will fulfill the basic requirement for casting Divine Skills. You need a base number of twenty thousand believers. (Progress 0/20,000).]

[6. Enter the fray yourself. Seal your memories and experience one hundred mortal lifetimes. With each rebirth, you will gain the recognition of the Celestial Dao.]

[7. Use these hundred lifetimes to strengthen your Divine Country and complete its embryonic form!]

[8. You need a Divine Technique Formation constructed from the spirituality of hundreds of millions of believers to forge the final form of your Divine Country.]

[9. The Divine Country requires at least seventy-two Earth Demon Rakshasas and thirty-six Celestial Spirit Divine Generals. Find suitable Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects to appoint to these positions.]

[10. Use the Divine Technique to connect with the Celestial Dao and establish a divine position to bring peace to all people.]

[Note 1: Self-denial cultivation requires distancing yourself from the mortal world. If your heart wavers, all your previous efforts will be for naught. You need to let your thoughts transcend the shackles of desire and human nature.]

[Note 2: Spirituality is a thing of heaven and earth; it cannot be refined by force. If the daily attempt is not successful, give up quickly. Otherwise, you will be devoured by the desires within that spirituality, which is fatal for a practitioner of the Divine Technique.]

[Note 3.1: The Fantasy Divine Country cannot bear unfathomable fantasies. Please act within your limits. Before you begin, it is best to use an existing fixed Array to suppress your desires. The Array Map is as follows...]

[Note 3.2: You need to maintain the vitality of your physical body as much as possible. It is necessary to practice Cultivation Techniques that help maintain physical vitality, or to consume life-extending Elixirs. Otherwise, you may die of old age at this step!]

[Note 4: When transforming your physical body with the Divine Technique, you must promptly replenish the lost Divine Light. At the same time, ensure that the hundreds of meridians in your limbs are not distorted by the Divine Technique, or you will be unable to assimilate your physical body. After each attempt to wash your body with the Divine Technique, you may use Qi Cultivation to perform one Grand Circulation to check if your meridians are unobstructed.]

[Note 5: Be cautious when spreading your faith. Believers are greedy. Do not satisfy their demands unconditionally. Otherwise, under the laws of Celestial Dao Cause and Effect, you will suffer unimaginable punishment.]

[Note 6: When you enter the fray, not only will your memories be sealed, but also your Magic. You must choose a Guardian you trust absolutely, or you may very well die for real during this process.]

[Note 7: You need to obtain the approval of the Celestial Dao. Kneel and pray every day, and one day you will receive a response. Forcibly establishing the embryonic form of the Divine Country will bring down a Celestial Tribulation. If your cultivation is at the Third Realm or higher, you can ignore this.]

[Note 8: Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it. Forging the final form of the Divine Country requires hundreds of millions of believers to willingly offer their faith. Forcibly seizing their spirituality will twist your mind, and your Divine Country will also descend into madness.]

[Note 9: Every Rakshasa and Divine General must pass their own Divine Tribulation, or they will be unable to enter the Divine Country. Furthermore, each appointment requires a significant portion of the Divine Country’s Fortune, so you must be cautious. Do not consider Spiritual Objects that are too feeble.]

[Note 10: The spirituality of all things is only a part of the Celestial Dao. It is foolish to attempt to challenge the Celestial Dao with a Divine Technique. Therefore, you can only submit to the Celestial Dao.]

Wang Ping carefully read the guide on the light panel. At first glance, cultivating the Divine Technique seemed simple, but after careful study, he realized it was something no human could possibly complete. Moreover, successfully cultivating it would mean completely shedding one’s humanity and becoming a god devoid of desire and human nature.

This was not the Path Wang Ping pursued!

However, Xiao Shan Lord had his own annotations. When he reached the fifth step, he skipped directly to the seventh. He used the Divine Technique as a supplement while majoring in the "Taiyan Talisman." He used the Heaven-Covering Talisman cultivated from the Taiyan Talisman to steal the trust of the Celestial Dao, and then used the fortune of a nation to construct a Divine Country Map.

Then, he used the fortune of the people to refine ten Celestial Swords, using these ten Celestial Swords as the foundation to build the embryonic form of his Divine Country.

’A genius!’ Wang Ping couldn’t help but marvel at Xiao Shan Lord’s brilliant idea. And now, those ten Celestial Swords were right inside his Spirit Communication Talisman.

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