Chapter 413 - 391: Breakthrough, A Matter of Course, The Celestial Pride List is Shaken

After returning to her cave-dwelling on Cyan Feather Mountain, Song Ciwan began using the Spirit Mimicry Technique to simulate and record all the materials, one by one.

The process was not easy. As a novice with the Spirit Mimicry Technique, her error rate was high when recording the properties of the Spiritual Materials. And if she wanted to use the technique to simulate the refining process, the initial recording had to be flawless.

To that end, Song Ciwan spent a great deal of time practicing the Spirit Mimicry Technique.

This "great deal of time" referred to time in the real world, not time within the Cultivation Space.

As for time in the Cultivation Space, Song Ciwan would trade away some human desires daily to acquire it, which she used to practice her other Magic and skills.

While this was routine, it is worth noting that during this period, she made the initial trade for all the accumulated human desires in the Heaven and Earth Scale that had never been traded before.

For example, from the Spirit Realm, there were the human desires of a Golden Core Cultivator: "You have sold human desires—the fury, shock, and resentment of a Golden Core Stage Immortal Seeker, weighing one jin and one tael. You have obtained the complete Golden Core Sensing Skill."

Golden Core Sensing Skill: Allows the user to sense the presence of other Immortal Seekers on the path of the Golden Core Dao within a certain range and resonate with them through this skill.

During this resonance, the power of both parties is amplified. The amplification ranges from a minimum of ten percent to a maximum of thirty percent.

The duration of this amplification depends on the energy expenditure of both individuals.

Song Ciwan: ...

’There’s always some strange new thing to broaden the mind,’ she thought. ’My repository of odd facts has grown again.’

For another example, she had the desires from Yao Ermei, which amounted to over five jin of Qi. Even though Yao Ermei was a mortal, it was still a significant amount. Song Ciwan sold it: "You have sold human desires—a mortal’s fear, panic, and agitation, weighing five jin and one tael. You have obtained the Divine Power Dharma Aspect: Heaven and Earth Transformation, First Layer."

Heaven and Earth Transformation, First Layer: Control over one’s size. Can shrink down to three inches or grow to over a hundred feet tall. Shrinking does not decrease one’s Power, while growing increases one’s physical strength.

’To think that a mortal’s desires could be traded for the Heaven and Earth Transformation!’

’It was only the First Layer, but having it opened the way for her to spend Primordial Pearls to specifically request the Second Layer, the Third Layer, and even more beyond that!’

Song Ciwan then sold another mortal’s desires that amounted to over five jin of Qi, this time from Aunt Wen’s daughter, Little Girl: "You have sold human desires—a mortal’s joy, confusion, and sorrow, weighing five jin and one tael. You have obtained the First Layer of the Basic Cultivation Method of Nourishing Essence Skill."

Nourishing Essence Skill: An orthodox Profound Sect cultivation method. It can nourish one’s Qi, strengthen the soul, and accumulate True Qi. One can cultivate it all the way to the Returning Void Stage of the Celestial Immortal Realm.

Although the Nourishing Essence Skill couldn’t compare to the Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting, its strength lay in being well-balanced and gentle, free of any corrupting influence. Song Ciwan, of course, had no intention of replacing her Main Cultivation Method. But, as always, it could serve as a reference for her own Cultivation, allowing her to draw useful parallels.

Next, Song Ciwan sold the desires of several Foundation Establishment Stage Immortal Seekers. Through targeted trades, she obtained the Second Layer of Heaven and Earth Transformation and the first three layers of the Nourishing Essence Skill.

The rest of the mortals’ desires, those that did not exceed five jin, no longer yielded a Cultivation Technique even on their initial trade. They could only be exchanged for cultivation time at a rate of one day per jin.

In the end, in addition to the complete Golden Core Sensing Skill, the first three layers of the Nourishing Essence Skill, and the first two layers of Heaven and Earth Transformation, she also obtained a Celestial Level Martial Technique: the Life-taking Finger!

This, too, was the complete technique.

Another ten days passed in a flash. With her month of seclusion about to end, Song Ciwan made a special trip out. Under a different identity, she sold some miscellaneous items in the city, earning eight thousand Primordial Pearls.

She then renewed her cave-dwelling for another month.

As for Yun Chong’s earlier message that the Heir of Prince Yun wanted to cover her rental fees indefinitely, Song Ciwan paid it no mind.

’I’ll rent it for as long as I pay for it,’ she reasoned. ’Once I’m gone, it won’t matter to me if the Heir of Prince Yun pays for thousands or even tens of thousands more Primordial Pearls worth of rent.’

She had made this point clear to Liu Siye as well.

Back in her cave-dwelling, Song Ciwan settled into a steady cultivation routine.

She used all ten of her daily trading opportunities to acquire cultivation time. Within the ethereal Cultivation Space, she focused completely on practicing the Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting and compressing her Dantian True Qi.

After emerging from the Cultivation Space, she would dedicate her efforts to practicing the Spirit Mimicry Technique, relentlessly simulating and recording the properties of various Spiritual Materials.

Her cultivation progressed in this calm and orderly fashion.

It was much like a Scholar, deaf to the world outside their window, focused solely on reading the Scriptures of the Saints and Sages.

One jin of desires from a Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator could be traded for a hundred years of time, while one jin from a Qi Refining Stage Cultivator was worth ten years.

Cultivating for a hundred years at a stretch was actually an unpleasant experience, as it made it easy to lose control of her emotions. Therefore, Song Ciwan typically only made a hundred-year trade once a day. For her other trades, she would only exchange desires equivalent to those from the Qi Refining Stage.

Another three days passed. On this day, Song Ciwan finally succeeded in using the Spirit Mimicry Technique to flawlessly simulate all the Spiritual Materials needed to craft the Fuyuan Pill. Elated, she was just about to trade for more cultivation time to enter the Cultivation Space and simulate the Alchemy process—

But at that very moment, ripples suddenly disturbed the surface of the True Qi Sea that had been accumulating in her Dantian for so long.

The water had filled to overflowing; the Qi had condensed like lead and mercury.

Violent waves churned in her Dantian Sea. A flash of insight struck Song Ciwan, and she immediately traded for thirty years of cultivation time, instantly entering the Cultivation Space.

Forgetting all about Alchemy, she sat down cross-legged and began to circulate the Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting with all her might.

A breakthrough!

She was breaking through to Divinity Transformation!

What was Divinity Transformation?

The Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting actually explained it quite clearly. When the heart and spirit merge, a divine consciousness is born, and one achieves Divinity Transformation.

To put it more plainly, the first step to Divinity Transformation was giving birth to a divine consciousness.

Forging one’s own unique divine consciousness within the Sea of Consciousness—this was the first clear sign of reaching the Divinity Transformation Stage.