: Unhindered Field Opening

Author: Gu Zhenren

Date: 2025-01-05

Ning Zhuo returned to the Three Generals Camp and, without resting, immediately took out the four bricks of national power in his tent.

The Kingdom of Liang Zhu was founded on the virtue of water, so the four bricks of national power Ning Zhuo received were as black as ink.

On their surfaces, faint ripples could be seen, resembling the undercurrents of the deep sea.

Ning Zhuo had previously tried absorbing national power to aid his cultivation, achieving excellent results. Now, he was even more adept. Sitting cross-legged on a cushion with clouds swirling around him, he began to draw in the national power.

The bricks showed no obvious change in his hands, but strands of national power seeped into his body.

Tenfold!

Ning Zhuo could clearly feel that with the same amount of national power infused, his cultivation growth had increased tenfold!

"By becoming Mu Lan's husband, these four bricks of national power are effectively like forty for me."

This was undeniably a huge gain!

In the previous ambush battle, Ning Zhuo had put in considerable effort. To achieve similar military merits and potentially earn forty bricks of national power, he would have to go through nine more such battles, each time risking death.

But simply by changing his status, his efficiency in absorbing national power had skyrocketed to this extent. It significantly reduced risks and saved him immense time and energy.

More importantly, this treatment would last for a long time, until Ning Zhuo and Mu Lan separated.

There was nothing more to say—the next step was to continuously absorb the national power bricks.

A large amount of national power poured in, quickly dissolving and transforming into the cultivation of Ning Zhuo's three dantians.

Spirit, energy, and essence!

The Mingjing Lingguang Dantian (Upper Dantian), the Wuqi Tianshu Dantian (Middle Dantian), and the Xuedi Mojin Dantian (Lower Dantian)!

The three dantians were soon filled to the brim, giving Ning Zhuo a painfully bloated sensation.

He promptly activated the three superior techniques to actively digest the energy.

Since the conversion from the national power bricks was thorough and direct, Ning Zhuo's "digestion" speed was extremely fast.

After countless cycles, by dawn the next day, Ning Zhuo had absorbed all three bricks of national power inside his tent, leaving the last one temporarily useless.

Now, whenever he circulated any cultivation technique, he felt a bloating pain in the corresponding dantian. Each dantian's cultivation had reached its current limit.

In the Upper Dantian, the world resembled a giant mirror, with millions of smaller mirrors floating peacefully within.

In the Middle Dantian, the five energies converged like pillars, supporting heaven and earth, now a hundred times thicker and more majestic than before.

In the Lower Dantian, thick blood vessels covered the ground like a vast expanse, with blood energy rushing through them, producing roaring waves.

"Such rapid progress has saved me at least nine years of accumulation."

"National power bricks are truly effective!"

"Of course, my status as Mu Lan's husband played a key role."

The next step was no longer about accumulating cultivation.

Ning Zhuo closed his eyes and, after entering a meditative state, felt the natural rhythms of his three dantians. These rhythms were filled with mysterious Dao charm, each dantian pulsating differently. Yet, upon closer reflection, he could sense a subtle, close connection among them.

"Next, I need to purify my cultivation, eliminate impurities, and make the connections between the three dantians even tighter."

Cultivation involves both addition and subtraction.

The former increases quantity, while the latter enhances quality.

This principle runs throughout a cultivator's life, not just unique to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Mirror Platform Spirit Enlightenment Art!

"The body is the Bodhi tree, the mind a bright mirror stand. Now it must be wiped clean, letting no dust land."

Ning Zhuo's spiritual sea cultivation rapidly decreased. In the Mingjing Lingguang Dantian, any mirror-like spiritual thought with even a speck of dust or flaw was actively dispersed.

After reducing over a thousand mirror spiritual thoughts, the Upper Dantian became completely clear.

Ning Zhuo followed the same method, purifying his elemental法力 and refining his blood essence.

The cultivation in all three dantians had significantly decreased, and the bloating pain was gone.

Ning Zhuo began cultivating again. This time, no matter which of the three superior techniques he activated, he felt a clear and smooth sensation, like a cloudless blue sky, without any obstruction.

Moreover, activating any technique could elicit responses from the other two dantians.

When he fully exerted himself, the cultivation in the other two dantians even fluctuated, though not intensely.

"The first stage of Foundation Establishment—Unhindered Field Opening—I have achieved it!"

At this moment, Ning Zhuo was certain he had stepped onto the first tier of the Foundation Establishment phase.

Unhindered Field Opening!

Purify the mind and remove obstacles, cultivate the dantian fields.

Cultivators must cleanse impurities from their cultivation, ensuring the dantian fields are free from external influences and disruptions, laying a clear foundation for future cultivation.

To reach this stage, two key points are essential.

First, cultivation must reach its limit, so that no further progress is possible, allowing for clearer perception and easier impurity removal.

Second, impurities must be eliminated. This requires superior techniques. Many techniques are ineffective in this regard. Well-off cultivators can use methods from the hundred arts of cultivation to indirectly achieve purification. Those less fortunate have to make do, proceeding to the next step of cultivation and reluctantly sowing hidden dangers for future Core Formation.

Ning Zhuo achieved the first point through the national power bricks.

And the three superior techniques he cultivated were top-tier, making impurity removal effortless!

Ning Zhuo took out the remaining national power brick and began another round of absorption.

He once again filled his purified three dantians to capacity, then slowly activated his techniques.

This time, when a technique was activated, the corresponding dantian could no longer advance, but the fluctuations in the other two dantians became very intense.

Amidst the intense fluctuations, cultivation from the other two dantians was drawn out and infused into the dantian where the technique was active.

Boom!

In an instant, Ning Zhuo's ears rang, his vision turned white, and he entered an incredibly wondrous state.

The fusion of essence, energy, and spirit felt intensely vivid, as if he had returned to the creation of heaven and earth, shaping the elements of earth, water, fire, wind, yin, yang, and the cosmos.

When he came to, his cultivation had significantly decreased again.

The fusion of essence, energy, and spirit wasn't a mutual depletion but a qualitative transformation—producing tiny sprouts within the corresponding dantian.

These sprouts would grow robustly in future fusions of the three treasures, gradually developing into precious herbs.

Each precious herb was an essence compressed from considerable cultivation of the three treasures, though the composition varied in each dantian.

This is the next stage of early Foundation Establishment—Precious Herbs Sprouting!

Thanks to the national power bricks, Ning Zhuo had crossed the first stage and was climbing toward the second.

After cultivating for a while, Ning Zhuo used up the last national power brick.

From another perspective, the sprouted precious herbs represented the condensed essence of cultivation, somewhat bypassing the dantian's capacity limits.

Once the herbs matured, actively absorbing them—consuming internal medicine—would lead to breakthroughs in dantian capacity and, most crucially, the fusion of the three treasures: essence, energy, and spirit!

This is a gem of cultivation developed over generations in the world of cultivation, refined through countless improvements.

The fusion of the three treasures is the primary condition for forming a Golden Core.

In ancient times, the probability of cultivators forming a Golden Core was very low. When the secret of Precious Herbs Sprouting was popularized, it caused an explosion in the number of Golden Core cultivators at the time.

Nowadays, various new methods have incorporated this secret, integrating it as a crucial process in almost all Foundation Establishment techniques.

"I need more national power bricks, and the more, the better." Ning Zhuo opened his eyes, ending this session of cultivation.

Upon reaching the Precious Herbs Sprouting stage, the time cultivators spend on daily cultivation actually increases significantly.

Some even cultivate day and night without reaching their limits.

This depends on the cultivator's innate资质 and cultivation techniques, among other factors.

Ning Zhuo was currently in this situation.

When he activated the Mirror Platform Spirit Enlightenment Art, it drew energy from the Middle Dantian and essence from the Lower Dantian.

After one cycle of the art, more precious herb seeds sprouted in the Upper Dantian, while the spirit, energy, and essence in all three dantians decreased significantly. Spirit power decreased the most, by ninety percent, while energy and essence each dropped by about thirty percent.

Therefore, when Ning Zhuo needed to cultivate the Middle Dantian, he first had to regulate the three treasures in all dantians to their peak before proceeding.

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