A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 8

Chapter 8: Can’t one cultivate immortality without the small bottle?

Soon, Doctor Mo imparted new cultivation techniques to Han Li.

It was the incantation for the second level of the *Eternal Spring Technique*.

Zhang Tie, on the other hand, was taught the *Elephant Armor Technique*.

From then on, both seemed to have returned to the growth paths described in their respective books. However, there were also many subtle differences.

For example, compared to the book, they both encountered their respective preferred methods a month and a half earlier.

What subtle changes would a month and a half earlier bring?

…

In the days that followed,

Zhang Tie’s talent in cultivating the Elephant Armor Technique quickly became apparent,

truly impressing Doctor Mo.

Because in just one month, the honest-looking young man had mastered the first level of the Elephant Armor Technique, a skill that ordinary people struggled to grasp even after one or two years. Furthermore, he progressed rapidly, reaching the peak of the first level in just half a month.

This cultivation speed was probably second only to the old master who created the technique.

The Elephant Armor Technique is divided into nine levels.

The completion of the ninth level signifies the great success of the technique.

After mastering the technique, the practitioner’s body becomes as if clad in a layer of armor, impervious to blades and spears, and unaffected by fire or water. Not only are palm strikes and fist strikes no longer a threat, but even precious swords and blades struggle to penetrate their defenses and inflict serious damage. Furthermore, they possess boundless strength, capable of tearing apart tigers and leopards with their bare hands. Their stamina is enduring, allowing them to fight for days and nights without exhaustion. They are veritable walking weapons of war in the mortal world, truly formidable.

After Zhang Tie mastered the first level of the Elephant Armor Technique, his strength increased dramatically, and his skin became even thicker and more resilient.

The only drawback is that the practitioner must endure excruciating pain unbearable for ordinary people.

The first three levels are manageable; while the pain is intense, it remains within the limits of what most people can bear.

However, from the fourth level onwards, the difficulty increases dramatically, becoming extremely challenging. The difficulty level rises with each level, similar to the “Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique” in a certain martial arts novel from my previous life.

Well, this cultivation technique was inspired by the Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique when he wrote the book.

The only difference is that one doubles the cultivation time, and the other doubles the pain endured during cultivation.

Zhang Tie, in order to cultivate faster and better, followed Doctor Mo’s advice and chose to cultivate at the foot of the great waterfall on Chishui Peak.

Thus,

Han Li now had an excuse to frequently visit Chishui Peak.

Unlike before, when he was always on edge and apprehensive every time he left Shenshou Valley to search for the little bottle, fearing that Doctor Mo would follow him or happen to see him,

now,

taking secluded mountain paths to Chishui Peak to find Zhang Tie felt perfectly natural.

It wasn’t abrupt at all.

Unfortunately, even though he planned this for over a month, he still couldn’t find the little green bottle a month in advance.

He walked those paths every day, more than two or three times a day. He

had traveled back and forth countless times.

But he still couldn’t find the little bottle.

By this point, no matter how much he persisted, a grim answer had already formed in his mind:

the Heavenly Bottle probably didn’t exist in this world. Or rather, the Heavenly Bottle wasn’t even in Rainbow Cloud Mountain; it was most likely in the Spirit Realm or even the Immortal Realm.

Why was this?

Why was the situation different from the plot he had set in his book?

Han Li wouldn’t understand.

The thirty-six-year-old author, Wang Yu, wouldn’t understand either.

Only Wang Yu, who was over forty and had written the Mortal Realm Immortal Chapter, would understand.

…

What should he do if he couldn’t find the bottle?

Initially, Han Li was confused, anxious, unwilling, discouraged, and even felt despair. He

almost went mad because of it.

After all, he was just a small-time cultivator with four pseudo-spiritual roots. Without a background, resources, or the bottle, according to the various settings in his book, even if he were thrown into a major sect in the Great Jin Immortal Realm, a sacred place for cultivation in this world, and cultivated normally for a lifetime, he could only reach the sixth or seventh level of Qi Refining at most.

It was impossible to go any higher.

Unless he took d*rugs.

It was truly a case of: the pit he dug in his past life had fallen upon his newborn self as retribution.

The bullet fired in his past life had struck him squarely between the eyebrows in this one.

Immortality was out of the question.

Give up. Just

return to the village and enjoy his remaining years.

A torrent of negative emotions tormented him, keeping him tossing and turning for many sleepless nights.

Fortunately, he finally pulled through.

He had come to a realization. He

cast aside those negative emotions.

“Although I’ve lost my biggest cheat, the little bottle, I might still have other cheats!”

“I am the creator of this world, I know many opportunities intimately…”

“I possess information unknown to countless beings in this world, an advantage of foresight that no other being has!”

This alone was his biggest cheat!

“The Yellow Maple Valley Ascension Token in the hands of the Golden Light Master can help me join Yellow Maple Valley, enter the immortal sect, and even obtain a precious Foundation Establishment Pill.”

He didn’t dwell on the Foundation Establishment Pill.

However, he can use this Foundation Establishment Pill to obtain enough Qi Refining stage cultivation resources and even protective magic artifacts, giving him a certain degree of self-protection in the subsequent Blood Trials.

“The golden treasure chest and golden token within the Crimson Forbidden Land are not to be missed…”

The golden token is linked to the inheritance of an ancient Nascent Soul cultivator.

It involves the secrets and opportunities of the entire Crimson Forbidden Land.

With the gains from the forbidden land, the hope of Foundation Establishment is very high.

“Also, the golden pages in the hands of Li Huayuan and the barefoot giant from the Giant Sword Sect…”

Inside is the core inheritance of the Xuanjian Sect, a once righteous swordsmanship sect in Tiannan: the “Azure Origin Sword Technique.”

This technique helps with Core Formation.

After others ascend to the Spirit Realm, they can follow the cause and effect to find the Mahayana stage powerhouse Qing Yuanzi.

Perhaps, they can even become Qing Yuanzi’s disciple.

“Furthermore, Senior Brother Lin, one of the Foundation Establishment cultivators in Huangfeng Valley, is actually the former young sect leader of the Thousand Bamboo Sect in the far west of Tiannan. He possesses two inheritances: the ‘Great Evolution Technique’ and the ‘Puppet True Explanation’…”

As long as one obtains the inheritance, and becomes a Nascent Soul cultivator in the future, one can go to the far west to find the Great Evolution Divine Lord, the old grandfather from ten thousand years ago.

Learning from that old man and acquiring his inheritance would enrich his own foundation.

Moreover, the Great Evolution Technique could enhance divine sense and also aid cultivators in forming their Core and even Nascent Soul.

“Not only that, in the northern part of Yue Kingdom, there’s a hidden ancient teleportation array in an abandoned mine, leading to the Chaotic Star Sea…”

An ancient teleportation array was enough to create a powerful force comparable to a Star Palace.

It could also provide him with a continuous stream of cultivation resources.

Therefore, he was determined to obtain the ancient teleportation array.

He had to firmly grasp it.

At the location of the ancient teleportation array, there was also Ji Xuan’s corpse-inherited storage bag! In the original trajectory, he didn’t allow the original body to obtain Ji Xuan’s storage bag, but that didn’t mean the storage bag didn’t exist. Furthermore, Ji Xuan’s corpse contained a Heaven-Mending Pill, which had a tremendous effect on improving spiritual roots. Refining it over a hundred years could allow his spiritual root characteristics to reach a level comparable to dual spiritual roots.

This could greatly bridge the gap between him and geniuses.

“By the way, the painting on the fifth floor of the Void Heaven Palace’s inner hall mentions the ten-thousand-year-old spiritual liquid and the Soul-Nourishing Wood…”

“The Bodhi Bead in the hands of the Extreme Yin Old Demon…”

Both are helpful for nourishing and calming the soul, and aiding in the formation of the Nascent Soul.

“Especially the Thunder Bamboo and the Spirit Eye Tree that I mentioned in the [Abandoned Manuscript], planted in two rooms on the third and fourth floors of the Void Heaven Palace’s inner hall!” The Thunder

Bamboo has grown for sixty to seventy thousand years in the special environment of the fourth floor of the Void Heaven Palace, and has long since become a ten-thousand-year-old Golden Thunder Bamboo.

It is a seedling left by ancient Nascent Soul cultivators such as the Ice Soul Fairy for their descendants.

It can ward off evil and slay demons.

The Spirit Eye Tree is located in a special stone hall on the third floor of the Void Heaven Palace’s inner hall. After sixty to seventy thousand years of growth, it has produced countless special spiritual wood saps.

Moreover, the various spiritual herbs in the stone halls of the Void Heaven Palace’s inner hall are at least sixty to seventy thousand years old!

This is partly the reason why there are so many Nascent Soul stage monsters among the human cultivators in the Chaotic Star Sea.

The first and second floors of the inner hall are prepared for Core Formation cultivators.

They are planted with many spiritual herbs and medicines that can help Core Formation cultivators improve their cultivation.

It’s simply a matter of choosing which ones to use.

“Furthermore, there’s the high-grade mineral vein on Biling Island on the northern border of the Chaotic Star Sea, and that incredibly precious top-grade spirit stone…”

That top-grade wood-attribute spirit stone is also a top-grade spirit stone that is almost extinct in the lower realms. It’s an important cultivation resource that can help Nascent Soul cultivators, and even help those in the mid-Nascent Soul stage break through to the late-Nascent Soul stage.

He absolutely cannot miss it.

“There are many easy opportunities, but also many that are difficult to obtain. Five thousand years ago, the cave dwelling left by the Cangkun Master contained a remnant spirit within a painting. That remnant spirit was actually a lingering, dying thought of a demonic being who had reached the Nascent Soul stage. With the right methods, one could obtain much information about the seal of the Endless Sea Demon Abyss from it, thus gaining access to the Seven Spirits Island before everyone else could…”

The Seven Spirits Island had been nourished by the ten-thousand-foot-deep layer of pure spiritual energy at the bottom of the boundless sea for sixty to seventy thousand years. Even if the opportunities there weren’t enough to allow a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, they might still allow for a small advancement in Nascent Soul cultivation.

As long as he controlled the remnant demonic spirit and prevented it from entering first to plunder and destroy, all those benefits would be his.

With so much crucial, prescient information at his disposal, why would he need the Heavenly Bottle?

“Without the Heavenly Bottle, I can still cultivate to a high level and ascend to the Spirit Realm.”

“Without the Heavenly Bottle, I can still become a Mahayana Ancestor and even ascend to the Immortal Realm.”

“I, Han Li, need the Heavenly Bottle to become an immortal?!”

…

In a stone chamber carved from hollowed-out granite,

Han Li sat cross-legged in meditation.

This was his current place of seclusion,

specially arranged for him by Doctor Mo.

Cultivators often prefer quiet, and with this stone chamber for arduous cultivation, they could achieve twice the results with half the effort.

Not only that,

after confirming that he possessed spiritual roots, Doctor Mo also fed him carefully prepared medicine every day.

In addition, every few days, he would use some unknown herbs to make soups and medicinal baths for him.

Han Li didn’t know the names and functions of these herbs, but he was very clear that these things were precious to Mo Juren.

Because every time the other party used these herbs to help him with his medicinal baths, he looked reluctant and pained.

“Could these herbs be those rare spiritual herbs left behind by Yu Zitong, rich in medicinal power?”

Those are meant for cultivators at the sixth or even seventh level of Qi Refining.

Diluting them and using them for his medicinal bath is indeed a bit too extravagant.

No wonder Doctor Mo is so distressed.

(End of Chapter)