Lou Xiaoyi's schedule was very regular.
In fact, there was no need for him to focus on any particular direction of swordsmanship. His main focus was the strength of the seven Sword Spirits. He needed to bridge the gap between them and not think of the Four Seasons or Jue Cheng whenever he fought. This was not beneficial to the diversity of his swordsmanship.
Every day, the Sword Spirits were released to roar between heaven and earth. This was their happiest time. However, this was also the happiest time of their organization and discipline. This was because they were not out for a walk, but to practice their swordsmanship.
Lou Xiaoyi did not deliberately pursue anything. This was different from when he first started learning swordsmanship. He did not need to tire himself out like a dog.
In his arrangement for himself, the most important thing was that he must set aside a few hours of idle time every day, allowing him to wander around, let his imagination run wild, or look up at the starry sky in a daze.
He looked at the stars, counted them, and savored the eternity of time. Correspondingly, the extremely viscous transcendence energy in his dantian slowly flowed through the ripples of starlight.
At his current level, the number of stars he could perceive was close to three hundred. This was also the source of his star power. According to the Big Dipper Star Scripture, he could actually activate his cultivation technique and enter the Core Formation state at any time, but he did not do so.
Core formation was a technical job. It required a long-term strategy!
Xuanyuan's Great Dao Cultivation Techniques included the Great Dao Cultivation Techniques of all the sects in the Five Rings. When a cultivator was at a critical juncture, there would be a corresponding secret technique. It was not completely a matter of luck and waiting for the Heavenly Dao to open its eyes.
For example, the Big Dipper Scripture of the Star System. When a cultivator's transcendence energy and spirit reached a certain level, and the cultivator felt that his state of mind, transcendence energy, and body were enough to withstand the impact of Core Formation, then he could activate the secret technique and enter the Core Formation state. With a large amount of resources, he could charge towards the upper level!
The problem was that the secret technique did not guarantee a hundred percent success rate! In fact, if a cultivator wasn't meticulous enough in other aspects, or if there was a fundamental error in the direction of their Core Formation, or if there was a flaw in their state of mind, etc … even if they used a secret technique, the chances of success were very slim. This was the reason why most cultivators would fail time and time again at the Core Formation stage.
Secret techniques could advance the process of Core Formation from a technical standpoint! However, it couldn't influence the direction of the Core Formation process. What really influenced the success of the Core Formation process was many other things, some mysterious and unseen reasons.
Therefore, the preparations before a cultivator's Core Formation were not something that could be done on a whim. They needed to spend a very long time to sort out their own cultivation path, ideals, direction, and so on. It was equivalent to looking back on one's own life and finding the thing that was closest to one's heart.
Those so-called successful people who had a flash of inspiration had already made preparations in this aspect long ago. They were only waiting for that trace of inspiration in the unseen world …
Of course, the Big Dipper Scripture also had a secret technique to activate the Core Formation. Moreover, as a top-notch Great Dao Technique, it contained more than one secret technique!
It was divided into three types: the Seven Stars Core Formation Technique, the Four Nine Galaxies Technique, and the Heavenly Cycle Illumination Technique.
The Seven Stars Core Formation Technique referred to relying on the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper to form the Core. This was also the most common Core Formation Technique in Daoism. Because ordinary cultivators were limited by their own aptitude and affinity with the stars, they didn't have the opportunity to get close to the stars under the dense and thick atmosphere. Therefore, for many people, it was very realistic to only comprehend a dozen stars in their lifetime. It was very normal for them to choose the Seven Stars Core Formation Technique when they finally formed their Core.
The Four Nine Galaxies Technique was not something that every cultivator who cultivated the stars could do. It required the cultivator to have an extraordinary talent for the stars and to be able to comprehend the power of more than forty-nine stars, including the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper, within a short hundred years of Foundation Establishment!
As for the Heavenly Cycle Illumination Technique, it required the cultivator to comprehend more than three hundred and sixty-five stars. When they formed their Core, it was as if they were bathing in the real Milky Way. It was a true high-grade technique, but also a freak technique, because basically no one had the ability to do this!
What was the difference between secret techniques that used different stars to form their Core?
It wasn't in power! Instead, it was in the future cultivation technique's depth and success rate!
The more stars the secret technique used during the Core Formation, the higher the margin for error, and the easier it was to achieve the Jin Dan. However, how could it be easy to perceive more stars?
For a cultivator of the Star System, it was a contradiction between perceiving more stars to increase the success rate during the Core Formation, or studying the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper in exchange for more time to break through.
Lou Xiaoyi's path could only be the Heavenly Cycle Illumination Technique, because his affinity with the stars had already surpassed seven stars when he was still in the early stages of Foundation Establishment. When he was in the middle stages of Foundation Establishment, he had nearly a hundred stars. When he was in the Great Circle of Foundation Establishment and felt the desire to form his Core, his comprehension of the stars had already neared three hundred.
There was no reason for him not to use so much of his comprehension of the stars to increase his success rate during the Core Formation. Therefore, he had come here, where the atmosphere was thin, in order to complete the Core Formation as soon as possible!
Fifty years, at least one star a year. The time frame was still considered relaxed.
Lou Xiaoyi hoped that this would be a leisurely period of time, and not one where he would be forced to become a dog by the pressure. If the burden was too heavy, it would cause a psychological imbalance, and the gains would not make up for the losses!
He did not do anything strange. He did not carefully examine the desert on this planet inch by inch, nor did he dig a well to try to find something … His behavior was exactly the same as that of every old cultivator who had been sent here. He guarded the sand tower and passed day after day in boredom.
In fact, he had no interest in the sand planet itself. He also did not think that this planet would have anything special left for him after ten thousand years of cultivators staying here!
His attention was not on this! Instead, it was on a certain area in the void where the tall spire of the Message Pagoda pointed!
His Star System was different from normal Star System. The difference was that his Star System was a combination of the stars of the Positive and Negative Worlds. This gave him a powerful fighting strength, and it was impossible for the stars to be blocked by others. There were countless benefits.
However, the disadvantage was that when he formed his Core, he would not only need the support of the stars of the Positive World, but also the stars of the Negative World!
This was basically impossible for a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator to do with his own ability!
If he wanted to break through the Negative World, he would need a powerful foreign floating raft, at least the cultivation strength of a Yuanying expert. Moreover, he was not sure how to do it. When the floating raft jumped between the two worlds, how would he distribute the proportion of the stars he sensed? Time? How much?
If he needed a day to form his Core, would he have to let others ride the floating raft and go back and forth between the two worlds for a day?
Would he start from the Positive World and then go to the Negative World? Or would he stay in the jumping state and feel the stars of the two worlds at the same time? Would it be easy to maintain this state?
There were too many uncertainties! He did not have the heart to find others to help him. Whether it was the Daoist Masters of the Thousand Virtues Peak or Weijian Mountain, or the mysterious sacred weapon in the Peacock Palace … When a cultivator needed someone to help him form his Core, he would fall into a disadvantage!
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