Chapter 737: Chapter 737: Blending In

Time passed bit by bit, and Ji Yang didn’t know how much essence he had absorbed here; he just felt that his cultivation had entered an entirely new realm.

Indeed, standing here without making any move, Ji Yang’s cultivation had leaped from the third level of Qi Refining Practitioner to the thirteenth level.

What Ji Yang didn’t know was that the cultivation of Ancient Qi Cultivators was formidable. Ordinary Qi Refining Practitioners would enter the next major realm at the ninth level, and better ones would reach the next major realm at the twelfth level. His situation was rare, directly entering the thirteenth level before moving on to the next major realm.

Ancient cultivators placed great importance on personal progress. In their view, every cultivator was an existence who dictated their fate, not one to be ruled by heaven. Therefore, during cultivation, the first stage was continuously absorbing Qi to reach a limit in their True Yuan quantity, then preparing for survival—the second major realm was the Cave Heaven Realm.

Ancient cultivators believed that every Qi Refining Practitioner existed in this world by relying on themselves. Thus, they created their food and cultivation methods, leading to the development of the Blessed Lands and Caves.

The Cave Heaven Realm involves opening up a Blessed Land within oneself, and this Blessed Land develops with the Qi Refining Practitioner’s progress. The size of the Blessed Land also depended on the amount of True Yuan. If a Qi Refining Practitioner entered the Cave Heaven Realm at the ninth level, they would have a land equivalent to nine acres within themselves.

Of course, it wasn’t always nine acres—it would grow with the improvement of one’s cultivation level, and it could also expand with the integration of some unique treasures.

Starting from the ninth level, with every additional level, the area of the Blessed Land would expand tenfold; ninety acres at the tenth level, nine hundred at the eleventh, and nine thousand at the twelfth. However, at the thirteenth level, it wasn’t ninety thousand acres but a hundred thousand acres.

Ji Yang had no idea that such a situation existed. What was bred here was a kind of Void Nether Liquid, a treasure that Qi Refining Practitioners desperately sought to transform their Blessed Lands.

Ji Yang had come here inadvertently and benefited from the help of this natural energy. His cultivation shot directly up to the thirteenth level, and then naturally, due to reaching a critical point of True Yuan quantity, he broke through to the Cave Heaven Realm.

Just as Ji Yang saw those enveloping essences merging into his body, he noticed at the center of the Formation, there was a stone platform with some liquid floating above it.

As he watched, the liquid, drawn by an attractive force, moved towards Ji Yang and merged into his body from all around him.

As this liquid merged, colossal changes were occurring within his Blessed Land.

Ji Yang was thoroughly bewildered; he didn’t understand what was happening inside his body at all. His body was entirely incapable of any movement; everything was happening passively.

Then, he saw his Dantian being infinitely expanded, even generating a tract of land.

Indeed, it was land.

The essence of the Cave Heaven Realm was to transform into a Blessed Land, and within it, True Yuan would continuously merge and regenerate.

As the essence here vanished, the inside of the mountain returned to serenity, as if none of these extraordinary phenomena had ever occurred.

Then, Ji Yang felt a continuous stream of heat rising from underground.

With no suppression, the geothermal heat from the hot springs underground began to intensify.

Although Ji Yang wasn’t concerned about these things, he still retreated from the inside of the mountain belly.

After the oddities had ceased, Ji Yang also found that his body was able to move again.

Standing at the entrance of the cave, feeling the heat of the sun in the sky, Ji Yang had a dreamlike sensation.