To achieve immortality, I cultivate using Qi Luck

Chapter 818: Chapter 352 Hidden Cards Jiang Cheng_2

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To want to crush them in one fell swoop and eradicate them—such an approach seems to greatly underestimate the opponent.

Yet taking advantage of this great war to successively eliminate tens of thousands, or even a hundred thousand soldiers from Ning Country, and cause their morale to plummet for a period of time, in the short term causing fear at the mention of Chu—this was still achievable.

And as long as that was achieved, then on the main battlefield, the gap in strength between Chu and Ning would gradually close from its original disparity, trending toward balance.

Balance meant equality; equality meant stalemate.

At that time, on the main battlefield, Chu State and Ning Country would be in a situation where neither could overcome the other, ultimately leading to a boring game of attrition and a contest of underlying strength.

However, achieving balance on the main battlefield would seem like neither side had suffered any losses.

But do not forget.

On the other three secondary battlefields, Chu State holds the advantage.

A stalemate on the main battlefield, advantage on the other three.

Then, once those advantageous battlefields are concluded and Chu State secures victory, the excess forces can be redirected to the main battlefield.

The situation of balanced stalemate would naturally incline towards Chu State.

Ultimately, the victory in this war would also belong to Chu State.

Therefore, on the main battlefield, as long as Lu Yuan managed to hold a stalemate, that would equate to victory.

Thus, his mastery of the Marsh Technique meant he effectively held the key to victory in this war, maintaining a crucial weight on the balance scale.

On the other three battlefields, Chu State was inherently positioned on invincible ground.

This main battlefield, Chu State similarly stood on the Invincible Land of Innate.

“However…”

When Lu Yuan thought about the Marsh Technique, he meticulously reviewed the essence of this spell in his mind and sighed softly, “To achieve the above effects, I will inevitably have to exhaust all my magic power.

With the thin and harsh Heavenly and Earthly Aura of today, once my magic power is completely used up, recovering and accumulating it would take at least half a year’s time.

In other words.

For half a year, I wouldn’t be able to continue advancing my cultivation, only purely replenishing my magic power.”

In The Age of Dharma Decline, replenishing expended magic power is difficult.

Back when Lu Yuan participated in the Inescapable Meeting, those Dao masters, True Persons, one after another, were miserly in their casting of spells, reluctant to use any powerful magic and instead resorted to nearly illusion-like spells to fool people.

Was it because the magic of Purple Cloud Taoist Master and others wasn’t refined enough, their cultivation not deep enough?

Of course not.

This was because magic power needs to be transformed from Spiritual Energy, and Spiritual Energy is fixed in amount; to use even a bit is to have that much less.

After being used, replenishing it also relies on time to accumulate.

This significant flaw rendered cultivators into a peculiar state of high burst damage, low sustainability, and long regeneration.

Everyone knew they were powerful, but also knew that they wouldn’t easily take action.

The strange balance that could be achieved between Immortal Sects and the secular world, despite asymmetric combat capabilities, is hard to attribute to anything other than the cherishment of magic power.

On a daily basis, cultivators meticulously calculate the use of the magic power they save for advancing their cultivation; how could they be willing to squander it on meaningless confrontations through spells?

With that energy and magic power, wouldn’t it be better to focus on advancing cultivation and achieving a Breakthrough Realm?

With deeper cultivation and breakthroughs reached, couldn’t one live for dozens or even a hundred more years?

But what does one gain from defeating others in a spell confrontation, other than some pride?

Being shrewd, of course, cultivators would not do something that was arduous and thankless.

Similarly.

Lu Yuan was just as shrewd, sparingly using spells only when he could not avoid it.

Even the two Avatars he possessed only consumed the minimum magic power necessary to sustain activity on a daily basis.

Normally, unless necessary, they would not engage in combat.

And should they truly need to fight, they would rely on the robustness of their physical bodies and engage solely with physical strength.

In doing so, it was the Avatar’s own capabilities that were expended, not an excessive amount of magic power, thus saving a substantial reserve of magic power and reducing the Avatars’ need to absorb Heavenly and Earthly Aura.

Yes, it’s about the Avatars absorbing less Spiritual Energy.

The creation of the Yellow Turban Warrior Avatars by Lu Yuan, aside from providing relief to the shortage of high-end combat strength in Chu, had an even greater purpose, which was aiding in his own cultivation.

Leveraging the Qi Luck brought to Chu by the appearance of the Avatars allowed him to cultivate faster.

Based on this goal.

In a time where every bit of Heavenly and Earthly Aura used is less for later, if the Avatars use more now, doesn’t that mean less for Lu Yuan in the future?

Thus, saving on the Avatars’ use of magic power meant that, later on, there would be more Spiritual Energy for Lu Yuan to use, enabling him to progress further on the Immortal Method pathway.

The same logic holds true.

Now, spending all his magic power, which is close to achieving the perfect state of Gathering Two Qi, is tantamount to having that much less Heavenly and Earthly Aura to use later on.

Nobody knows how much Spiritual Energy remains in the world today.

Perhaps, being short just that bit of Spiritual Energy that Lu Yuan used for recovery could mean that when he wishes to Breakthrough a certain realm in the future, he would find just not enough Spiritual Energy available, leaving him frustratingly stuck at that critical juncture.

Possible it is.

Therefore, this behavior equates to trading the future for the present.

Of course, that is something for the long term.

Even with the current scarcity of Heavenly and Earthly Aura, it would still take decades for Lu Yuan alone to completely deplete it.

That day is still a long way off.

To speak of nearer concerns.

Lu Yuan has now reached or can be said to be close to the perfect state of Gathering One Qi.

This stage is only about a year away from a Breakthrough to Gathering Two Qi.

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