Before leaving Qingshan Village, the progress of the “Lifeless Vacuum Sensing Chapter” was at level five.
But within less than a month after coming out, the progress reached level nine, and it was about to Breakthrough.
Even Wang Sheng had not expected such a speed of improvement.
“Indeed, prolonged solitary study won’t do,” he realized somewhat.
The reason he could improve so quickly was partly because the “Lifeless Vacuum Sensing Chapter” had not yet had a Breakthrough, but more importantly, it was due to his philosophical discussions with Qiao Nian.
Additionally, these days he had been focusing on this chapter of the scripture, so he was on the verge of a Breakthrough.
A five percent progress; based on his current rate of improvement, he could reach one hundred percent in just one week.
“A week’s time, huh, just about enough time to reach the next city!”
Wang Sheng did not hesitate; he let Liu Jian’an and the others get off the tiger carriage and run along, while he began his Cultivation.
Time flew by, and with deliberate cultivation, the “Lifeless Vacuum Sensing Chapter” successfully had its Breakthrough after a week.
This chapter was one of only two Cultivation Techniques Wang Sheng had obtained that could elevate someone to the level of a top Great Grandmaster, and it also came with a matching secret technique—the other being the Body Cultivation Method he had just acquired from Zhu Xiao.
As a Cultivation Technique, the main function of the “Lifeless Vacuum Sensing Chapter” was to enhance one’s “Divine Thought.”
However, since Wang Sheng’s “Divine Thought” was already very strong due to his practice of the Inner Core Skill, the help it provided up to level eight was not much, although there was an improvement, the effect was minimal.
Only after reaching level nine did the enhancement of the “Divine Thought” truly become significant.
This enhancement also gave birth to a kind of spiritual power.
Wang Sheng knew that this power was actually the power used by the White Lotus Demon King; even without Divine Thought, he could use the spiritual power to employ the Spirit Secret Technique within the “Lifeless Vacuum Sensing Chapter.”
Of course, Wang Sheng did not retain this power; even pure Divine Thought was not inferior to this power in the slightest.
In fact, because Wang Sheng had gone through the three transformations of Blood Qi, physical body, and Perfect Refining, the quality of his Divine Thought was exceedingly strong, much stronger than this spiritual power, so naturally, there was no need to retain the spiritual power.
For “Divine Thought” to transform into a perceivable Divine Thought, it must fuse with Qi Blood Power; the process for spiritual power was similar.
But the current state of Wang Sheng was actually quite special; he was in the stage of Perfect Refining, in the phase of quenching the afterglow of refining.
Normally, this afterglow would diminish over time, enhancing one’s own great medicine.
However, as the new spiritual power merged with “Divine Thought” to form perceivable Divine Thought, this afterglow unexpectedly strengthened.
Initially, when the Breakthrough had not occurred, this strengthening was not unlimited, so the impact was not significant.
But after this Breakthrough, Wang Sheng briefly cultivated and found that the afterglow seemed to be enhanced once again.
Without the Breakthrough, the “Lifeless Vacuum Sensing Chapter” could reach the top level of a Great Grandmaster, but after the Breakthrough—
Wang Sheng also did not know how to describe this state.
Quenching the fire, quenching the fire, this fire seemed hard to extinguish.
Cultivating one’s own great medicine inherently meant fusing together one’s own cultivation gains at this stage.
Yet, as he cultivated the “Lifeless Vacuum Sensing Chapter” to Breakthrough, there appeared a situation where the power within himself was not entirely refined.
And it would continue to increase gradually with his cultivation.
“This is not something good at all!”
Too much of a good thing can be harmful.
His great medicine was already refined, complete and seamless; simply refining the afterglow should have been enough. Any more than that would not be a good thing for the already formed great medicine.
Even with the presence of a progress bar to fall back on, he still wanted to find a solution as quickly as possible.
“How should I do it?”
Currently, there was nothing too bad happening, the added aftereffects could still be digested and wouldn’t affect the main cultivation, so in looking for a solution, he couldn’t be hasty.
“There are two possible solutions right now. The first is to temporarily give up practicing the ’Lifeless Vacuum Sensing Chapter,’ thereby preventing any further increase in my spiritual power and easily resolving all the problems.
The second is to find a new destination for these increases in ’Divine Thought’ and digest them, but where can they be digested?”
Wang Sheng murmured to himself, constantly thinking.
If it really came to it, he would just have to stop cultivating temporarily.
But to enter the next level of Refining Qi into God, he definitely couldn’t do it in a short amount of time; it would require a considerable period because, after all, shorter times in cultivation realms are a relative concept. Pausing the process was a transition, but not something that could be ended at will.
Unable to utilize such a treasure trove for such a long time made Wang Sheng feel like he was at a loss.
Therefore, he preferred the second solution.
Eventually, he did find a suitable method.
“I remember the ’Five Internal Organs Containing God’ also has something to do with ’Divine Thought,’ right?”
The Five Internal Organs Containing God, nurturing the Five Internal Gods.
The progress bar “Five Internal Gods at Birth” brought about by breaking the limit of Five Elements Fist three times began nurturing a God-figure in each of Wang Sheng’s five internal organs.
And these Five Internal Gods are actually the signs of the will reaching its extreme; spirit, soul, consciousness, intent, and will would each be contained within the heart, lungs, liver, spleen, and kidneys.
And all of these things could actually be encapsulated by the term “Divine Thought.”
This “Divine Thought” was not the same as the other; the Divine Thought harbored in the heart was a manifestation of individual power.
Whereas the cultivated “Divine Thought” was a combination of these powers, a comprehensive force.
According to the theories of the “Heavenly Thought Scripture,” spiritual power could actually also be the power of the soul.
But Wang Sheng was accustomed to summarizing it with the term “Divine Thought.”
Therefore, practicing the “Lifeless Vacuum Sensing Chapter” to the point of Breakthrough and enhancing the “Divine Thought” might be used to nurture the Five Internal Gods, allowing them to advance rapidly.
Once the aftereffects were digested, he wouldn’t have so many concerns.
Putting thought into action, Wang Sheng found a method and started thinking of ways to transfer this enhanced part of his spiritual power.
He thought this would be a challenge, but it turned out to be unexpectedly smooth.
Firstly, Wang Sheng had strong control over his powers, channeling the spiritual power to his five organs through the meridian routes wasn’t a problem at all.
Not just that, once the spiritual power reached its destination, Wang Sheng operated Five Elements Fist and the “Divine Thought” automatically dispersed, entering their respective organs without any conflict.
“How smoothly this has gone saves me a lot of trouble!”
With a solution at hand, Wang Sheng naturally discarded any reservations and started to cultivate the post-Breakthrough “Lifeless Vacuum Sensing Chapter” with all his might, experiencing its wonder after the Breakthrough.
He also gradually began to compare it with the “Heavenly Thought Scripture” and started to restore and perfect the techniques within it.
Most crucially, Wang Sheng wanted to integrate the secret techniques from the “Heavenly Thought Scripture” into his own cultivation.
Originally, this would be quite difficult, but after the Breakthrough, Wang Sheng felt that with just a bit of effort, he should be able to achieve this.
Feeling the new knowledge in his mind, Wang Sheng revealed a look of great anticipation.
Perhaps it wouldn’t be long before he could summon the Heavenly Thunder—a technique that cultivators originally know.
Creating something from nothing was difficult, but now the foundation he had accumulated gave him great confidence…