Cultivating in the Wizard World-Chapter 268 - 239: Two Troubles

On this day, Jeming finished his daily meditation.

He examined the increasingly complex Ring of Truth in his Sea of Spirit, and only then did he contently exit the meditation state.

After getting up, he habitually checked the two crystal cores hovering in the center of the Energy Force Field, slowly fusing together.

A precise stream of data fed back from the instrument, displaying their energy state.

Confirming that the energy fluctuations inside the two crystal cores were normal and stable, Jeming nodded in satisfaction.

These two Energy Cores were unlike the low-level Tier One and Tier Two ones he had previously used for practice.

At this moment, the two Energy Cores before him, one radiated suffocating heat like a miniature sun, while the other emitted an extreme cold capable of freezing the soul, like the essence of a millennial glacier.

The core of the Magma Giant, among them, was the complete core of a Fourth Level Magma Giant that Jeming had "found" on the Ice and Flame Plane.

The other was a core of a Third Level Yeti that he later purchased at great expense from the academy’s spoils warehouse.

Jeming swiped his hand across the light screen, carefully checking their fusion progress, which was so slow it was almost at a standstill, and finally shook his head helplessly.

"Indeed, there’s no rushing this..."

As the energy intensity of these two cores was just too high.

To perfectly fuse such opposite Origin Energies at this level, one absolutely cannot be hasty.

Even though Jeming’s modification techniques had become increasingly perfect, it would still take at least ten years to perfectly fuse these two giants, according to current calculations.

Moreover, it would take even longer to cultivate the modified Black Giant into form.

Given the current energy standards of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, this is quite a difficult task, as each Black Giant requires a decade’s time for cultivation.

Fortunately, he was not short on time for the moment.

Compared to this grand plan that advances steadily over hundreds of years, Jeming’s immediate troubles were twofold.

First, his Cultivation Immortality Level was stuck at a bottleneck!

Having checked the implementation, recorded the experimental data, Jeming sat cross-legged in the quiet room of the laboratory, focusing, and entered a state of introspection.

His consciousness sank into his body, and he clearly observed the liquid golden True Essence in his Dantian and Sea of Qi, which was at its zenith.

His cultivation had stably reached the Realm of Perfection within the Foundation Establishment.

Logically, at this level, one should easily transition into Condensing Liquid into Pill.

Achieving the Golden Core Path, with the notion "Swallow a Golden Core into the belly, my destiny is mine, not Heaven’s," should be a natural progression.

Yet, in reality, no matter how he cultivated and comprehended the subsequent cultivation techniques in the Qi Cultivation Technique, Jeming always felt a thin, invisible barrier between him and the Golden Core Realm.

He felt that there was a crucial "opportunity" missing to break through to the Golden Core Stage.

Originally, Jeming thought, from a wizard’s mindset, he could "Great Strength Bricks Fly" - forcefully break through the gateway to the next realm by continually accumulating energy far surpassing his peers.

In reality, this left him feeling helpless.

Despite decades of continuous cultivation, his internal energy was steadily growing, its purity and totality even surpassing some cultivators who had just entered the Golden Core stage.

Yet he still felt no sign of advancing to the Golden Core Stage.

In recent years, through meticulously perusing the vast information within the Great Dao Book Pavilion deep in his consciousness, Jeming gained a more profound understanding of the Cultivation Immortality System.

And finally understood where the problem lay.

His idea indeed wasn’t incorrect within the Wizard system, but the "bottleneck" within the Cultivation Immortality System truly could not be overcome merely with "Great Strength Bricks Fly."

This is because the fundamental logic of realms in the Cultivation system is entirely different from the Wizard system.

In the earliest days of the Cultivation Immortality World, in that ancient era when heaven and earth first opened up, so-called "cultivation" actually only involved "Qi Cultivation" - or rather, a more ancient realm of "Qi Refining." 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

But wanting to achieve long life by cultivating just a pure and immaculate "Innate Qi" was extremely talent-dependent.

Its high difficulty meant many could not even get past the most basic entry level.

Therefore, in continual evolution and exploration, later cultivators gradually subdivided the entire cultivation process, creating stages like "Energy Introduction," "Foundation Establishment," "Golden Core," "Nascent Soul," and so on.

Ultimately they delineated the many clear realms we have today.

Theoretically speaking, every Great Realm in the Cultivation Immortality System can theoretically be endlessly cultivated.

Every realm is essentially a philosophy of cultivation, each capable of continuously refining one’s own energy and enhancing one’s strength.

Until one can achieve immortality with the current realm!

This is completely different from the wizards who, after reaching perfection at a certain level, find their power’s upper limit unchangeable unless they advance.

The problem is, although Jeming feels that his talent is decent, he absolutely does not arrogantly believe that by relying solely on the "Foundation Establishment" cultivation method, he can defy the natural order and reach the level of immortality!

What’s more troublesome is, he doesn’t even know why he cannot be promoted.

So before finding that crucial "opportunity," he can only continue this daily monotonous accumulation.

As for the second problem...

Jeming glanced at his personal points account, which had turned red, and pressed his temples with a headache.

Yes, he was out of money again!

"No, I remember I was a millionaire, why did I suddenly become poor after upgrading?" Jeming scratched his head in distress.

In fact, he also understands that the consumption rate of points and resources for such high-intensity cross-species gene modification and elemental core fusion research is terrifying!

To purchase various rare research materials, and those expensive knowledge and data models, even with the continuous income from refined gold, his savings have already run out.

Moreover, the profits from the Red Dust Potion were temporarily all invested into the Seventh Level Large Elemental Pool, which means Jeming’s points are seriously in deficit again!

"A way to make money? Funny you should ask, I was just thinking about that!"

On the other end of the communication screen, Viola, after listening to Jeming’s complaint about "financial difficulties," shrugged her shoulders without any concern for her image, her face written with "helpless."

Jeming shook his head helplessly at her words.

He felt he was completely out of his mind, wondering why he thought of consulting this senior sister, who was also near bankruptcy due to exploitation by Professor Clark, about this matter.

"Why don’t you come with me to that plane?"

"Forget it, I have a lot of research here that I can’t leave..."

Jeming, sighing and shaking his head, packed the last batch of "Red Dust Potion" he had refined during this period, and sent it through a designated teleportation array.

After doing all this, Jeming, looking at his account reduced to zero, squeezed the bridge of his nose in frustration.

Just as he was about to close this unproductive communication, Viola’s next words made him stop his actions:

"Actually, I always thought if you want to make money, it’s quite easy for you."

"Why do you say that?" Jeming looked at her with some confusion.

Viola changed to a comfortable position on her lab chair, looked at him with a "metal-block-head" gaze:

"I mean, you’re too ’protective’ of your food! You obviously have so many good technologies that even I am envious of, yet you have no intention of selling them!"

"Although we wizards guard our core technologies very strictly, I’ve never seen a freak like you, who doesn’t even plan to sell a bit of scrap technology!"

"After all, technology iterates! And researching new technology requires large amounts of funding. In this situation, packaging and selling those ’old technologies’ that are somewhat outdated to oneself is naturally the most suitable and common method of obtaining funds!"

"What’s more," Viola’s voice took on a hint of temptation, "in our Wizard Civilization, ’knowledge’ is the highest hard currency! If you happen to have good enough knowledge, forget about points or low-level military merits. Even ’High Level Military Merits’ issued directly by the Star Orbit Court are within your grasp!"

Viola’s words were like a flash of lightning that instantly tore through Jeming’s money-strapped stagnation of thought!

His eyes suddenly lit up!

That’s right!

Why didn’t he think of it before?!

He always instinctively regarded all the technologies he developed as his trump cards and core secrets, never considering using them as "commodities" for sale!

Just as Viola said, technology iterates, and holding the technology purely in hand will only increase his research costs.

"Thank you, senior sister! I understand!"

After figuring this out, Jeming excitedly thanked her, and then hurriedly shut off the communication!

Completely ignoring Viola, still waving her arms and loudly shouting "Hey! Then you brat, what good technology do you have, sell me a copy first, I can continue to loan money to buy it!" before the screen went dark.

Looking at the now-closed communication, Viola bit her nails in anger: "Ah... this ungrateful brat!!!"

Yet, Jeming could no longer hear her complaints, as he was now eagerly opening his experimental records, carefully selecting technologies that could be sold.