Chapter 4306 — Attributes and Achievements
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
Yet once past the Nascent Soul stage, one level higher—once one reached the Mystic Ascension stage, the Mountain Opening stage, and other realms truly profound and unfathomable, of which the world at large scarcely knew—everything was different.
It was not that heavenly treasures all lost their effect, nor that there were no corresponding miraculous elixirs. Rather, the auxiliary pill needed for a Nascent Soul cultivator to break through to Mystic Ascension—the Mystic Ascension Golden Core—was exceedingly scarce!
That the materials required for refining it were scarce was one thing; the main point was that this pill was a top-grade seventh-tier elixir, one that even a Yellow-tier seventh-grade alchemist could not refine. Only the legendary Mystic-tier alchemists could! And Mystic-tier alchemists were beings of legend—even if such a one existed, they would not lightly refine a Mystic Ascension Golden Core for just anyone.
Therefore, breaking through to the Mystic Ascension stage essentially depended on oneself. However vast and wealthy Chenxing Academy might be, it could not find someone to refine Mystic Ascension Golden Cores for these Nascent Soul disciples, and so it simply ruled them out altogether.
At that point, the only way to climb higher was to rely on one's own strength and foundation to achieve a natural breakthrough. And of the natural breakthrough methods explored to date that required no pills and truly worked, there was only one: cultivating heart methods of two attributes, circulating and fusing them together, and finally charging through the gate.
Beyond that, there was no other way to break through. So possessing two spiritual root attributes was the most basic requirement on the road to the Mystic Ascension and Mountain Opening stages, while three or four attributes made breakthrough all the easier—what people commonly called better aptitude!
This was what Wei Hebei had meant earlier: whether one possessed two or more spiritual root attributes directly determined the ceiling of strength one could attain, and no one could change that. The utmost limit of a single spiritual root attribute was the Nascent Soul stage; unless one could find someone to refine pills, no heavenly treasure, however fine, would avail.
"One must cultivate heart methods of two attributes at once, and only after they fuse can one break through?" This analysis, set down so earnestly in the booklet, utterly overturned Wei Zhao's former understanding.
After all, from the mortal world onward, the notion instilled in him by the outside world had always been that a cultivator could cultivate only one heart method and oral formula. It was said that after ascending to the Heavenly Dao one might have a chance to change it once, but that too was merely a change—not at all the simultaneous cultivation of two heart methods described here.
More crucially, the text explicitly stated that what needed to be cultivated was not simply two heart methods, but two heart methods of different attributes—and that was the very key to charging through the gate.
Wei Zhao could not help but wonder: cultivating two heart methods of different attributes at the same time—would that not truly court qi deviation?
Then, on second thought, he had not even heard of the Mountain Opening stage before; above that level, it was only natural that many things remained unclear to him. Just as back in the mortal world—who knew what lay above the Heavenly Dao, and who knew how one ought to cultivate it?
One's tier directly determined one's horizon and understanding. What had seemed inconceivable in the mortal world was long since taken for granted now. Likewise, the things Wei Zhao found so staggering upon first hearing of them would cease to astonish him once he truly reached such a realm.