Wang Daoyuan was preparing to switch to the Five Elements Primordial Art. The Five Elements Cultivation Technique of a Golden Core cultivator beckoned to him. If not for the patriarch, he would have started to switch long ago.
Before starting, he carefully comprehended the cultivation technique.
The Five Elements Primordial Art was based on common basic cultivation techniques, plus the conversion of the five elements spirit energy and nourishment of the body.
The five viscera of the human body corresponded to the five elements: the heart was fire, the liver was wood, the lungs were metal, the kidney was water, and the spleen was earth.
The Five Elements Primordial Art cultivated the five elements spirit energy and used spirit energy to nourish the corresponding viscera, strengthening the body.
Therefore, this cultivation technique had a certain body tempering effect and was considered a relatively advanced body tempering technique.
Ordinary body tempering techniques only strengthened the body and ignored the viscera.
If the human body was compared to a tree, the Connate Qi and viscera were the roots and trunk, and the muscles and bones were the branches and leaves.
Regardless of whether the roots and trunk were dead or alive, only the branches and leaves were strengthened. A gust of wind could blow the tree down.
The Five Elements Primordial Art strengthened the roots. When the roots and trunk were strong, the branches and leaves would naturally be luxuriant. Only when the roots were deeply rooted could the tree resist the wind.
In the early stages, the Five Elements Primordial Art's body tempering effect was not significant. It only made the body stronger and had more Qi and blood. The strength of the body could not be compared to those body tempering techniques that tempered the muscles and bones.
But in the long run, ordinary body tempering techniques overdrafted the body's potential, while the Five Elements Primordial Art strengthened the body in all aspects.
However, the speed at which the body and cultivation improved together was simply too slow.
Wang Daoyuan had unlimited resources, but it would take him ten to twenty years to reach the Greater Mastery Realm, unless he was lucky enough to obtain a high-level spirit item.
It was conceivable that ordinary cultivators could not even be satisfied with spirit grains for every meal. How much time would it take to cultivate this damn cultivation technique?
However, with the space in the spirit pearl, he did not lack resources and did not have to worry about others.
If he could cultivate to the Greater Mastery Realm in more than ten years, he would only be in his thirties.
Even in a large sect, a peak Qi Refinement Realm cultivator in his thirties could be considered an upper-class level.
After understanding the Five Elements Primordial Art, Wang Daoyuan officially began to cultivate.
Because the Primordial Five Elements Technique could change the attributes of the five elements, he did not need to cultivate it from scratch.
All he needed to do was to circulate his cultivation technique and convert the water spiritual energy in his Dantian into the five elements.
Then, he condensed the Five Elements Spiritual Energy into True Essence and merged it into his blood to form Blood Essence, which nourished his five internal organs and strengthened his entire body.
Wang Daoyuan cultivated for a few hours every day, and spent the rest of his time refining talismans and cultivating the Soul Chasing Whip Technique.
Five Elements Daoist's whip technique was not entirely for close combat. Instead, it was based on the sword techniques of sword cultivators.
After he reached Foundation Establishment, he could use the Soul Chasing Whip Technique. Every lash of the whip would create a gust of wind, just like the sword qi of a sword cultivator. It was a long-range attack.
Although the whip itself was not suitable for the Sword Manipulation Technique and could not fly on the whip, its power and attack range were not inferior to the Sword Manipulation Technique.
The ultimate move of this whip technique was called the Soul Hunting Whip. It could unleash five types of spiritual energy with a single whip, and its power could crush most tier-2 spells.
Zhao Baoguo's Five Consecutive Whips could be said to be a shortcut. He could not unleash all five elements at once, but only one type of spiritual energy.
Although it was far from the full power of this move, it was still not difficult to beat up cultivators of the same level.
If he did not rely on the Soul Extinguishing Bell, it was very likely that he would have fallen into the hands of Zhao Baoguo.
After cultivating in the Spirit Spring Cave for more than two months, Wang Daoyuan converted the spiritual energy in his body into the Five Elements Spiritual Energy. His five internal organs, meridians, and Dantian were all nurtured.
Although there was no change in his cultivation, his overall strength had undergone an earth-shaking change.
The total amount of spiritual energy in his Dantian was twice as much as before. His physical strength had also greatly increased. The strength of his meridians and internal organs had increased a lot.
In addition, the Soul Chasing Whip Technique could be considered a small achievement. Now, he could face Zhang Dacheng head-on.
After cultivating the Five Elements Primordial Technique, he finally understood why Zhao Baoguo was so difficult to deal with.
Firstly, the Five Dragon Soul Chasing Whip saved spiritual energy. Secondly, the Five Elements Primordial Technique's spiritual energy was abundant. Thirdly, the Five Elements Primordial Technique had a great advantage — fast recovery.
Just in terms of recovery speed, a penta spirit root cultivator who cultivated the Five Elements Primordial Technique might surpass a heavenly spirit root cultivator.
The Five Elements Primordial Technique also recorded the reason for the fast recovery.
Because the five elements engendered each other, the attribute of spiritual energy was constantly changing. Finally, it reached a state of balance between the five elements. This state would form non-elemental spiritual energy.
Unless it was near a single attribute spirit vein like the Jade Dragon Spring, there would be more water spiritual energy than non-elemental spiritual energy.
In places far away from such spirit veins, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was basically non-elemental.
Take a cultivator who cultivated a water-elemental technique as an example. When a cultivator absorbed non-elemental spiritual energy into his body, he needed to use the technique to break down the non-elemental spiritual energy into the five elemental spiritual energy. Then, he would use his own water spirit root to refine the water-elemental spiritual energy into his own spiritual energy.
When the water-elemental spiritual energy was refined, it would become less and break the balance of the five elements. The other elemental spiritual energy would be transformed into water-elemental spiritual energy through the mutual engendering of the five elements.
In the end, all the spiritual energy would be transformed into water-elemental spiritual energy and refined into the cultivator's own spiritual energy.
As for the other elemental spiritual energy, it would take time to transform into water-elemental spiritual energy.
If one could only transform one unit of water-elemental spiritual energy in a breath's time, no matter how fast the water-elemental spiritual energy was refined, only one unit of water-elemental spiritual energy could be refined into spiritual energy.
This was called the "spiritual energy transformation bottleneck" by immortal cultivators.
This bottleneck was unavoidable even for those with heavenly spirit roots.
As for penta spirit root cultivators who cultivated the Five Elements Primordial Technique, they could directly ignore the bottleneck of spiritual energy transformation.
They could break down non-elemental spiritual energy into five-elemental spiritual energy and refine the five-elemental spiritual energy at the same time. When recovering their spiritual energy, there was no need to change the spiritual energy's attribute.
If one cultivated a water-elemental technique, one could cultivate in a water-elemental spirit vein or spirit eye without worrying about this bottleneck.
However, one could not avoid this bottleneck when traveling outside or facing enemies unless they consumed water-elemental spiritual objects all day long.
This also reflected the usefulness of cultivation resources. With the support of a large number of water-elemental spiritual objects, one's cultivation speed would not be affected by this bottleneck.
As long as there was sufficient spiritual energy, penta spirit root cultivators could always maintain the fastest refining speed. On the other hand, heavenly spirit root cultivators could not achieve the fastest refining speed.
Therefore, in a place where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was mostly non-elemental, without the assistance of spiritual objects, the recovery speed of penta spirit root cultivators could theoretically reach ten times that of heavenly spirit root cultivators.
Of course, this was only the recovery speed.
In terms of cultivation speed, heavenly spirit root cultivators were far superior to other cultivators.
Cultivation speed was not only about absorbing spiritual energy and transforming it into spiritual energy, but also condensing spiritual energy into Quintessential Essence.
A cultivator's cultivation speed was the process of increasing the quality and quantity of Quintessential Essence.
The process of condensing spiritual energy into Quintessential Essence mainly depended on one's spiritual root aptitude.
Heavenly spirit root cultivators could only cultivate spiritual energy of one attribute, which was extremely pure.
As for multi-spirit root cultivators, even if they cultivated single-elemental techniques, during the cultivation process, their spiritual roots of other attributes would also refine a small amount of spiritual energy into spiritual energy, resulting in a heterogeneous spiritual energy.
The purer the spiritual energy, the higher the quality of the condensed Quintessential Essence, and the faster the condensing speed.
The height of the spiritual root directly determined the speed at which the spiritual energy condensed Quintessential Essence. The higher the spiritual root, the faster the condensing speed.
Heavenly spirit root cultivators only had one spiritual root, and their spiritual energy was extremely pure.
Furthermore, the spiritual root's shadow was longer than nine inches, and the condensing speed was faster. These were the two advantages. This was the reason why heavenly spirit root cultivators were far superior to other cultivators.
Wang Daoyuan, a penta spirit root cultivator, recovered spiritual energy the fastest, but condensed Quintessential Essence the slowest.
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