Novelink Chapter 5: Cultivation Routine
Chapter 5: Cultivation Routine
chapter 5: cultivation routine
[ quick status ]
[ age: 1 year, 254 days. ]
i woke from my slumber and extended my spiritual senses to gain awareness of my surroundings.
this was now part of my routine and i had become so accustomed to it that it felt mostly automatic.
first, as i woke up, i would extend my senses to their limit. though i had a passive perception radius, i could only gain detailed information on things within or just slightly beyond my radius if i directed my sentience to it. this, and moreso with distance, was very exhausting. i became aware that this effort and my capacity to exert it was limited. this fatigue would affect the speed at which i could cultivate qi.
[ cultivation speed: 4 qi/day. efficiency: 3% ]
this was not very fast, even now as i was fully rested. back then, the support module informed me that my cultivation target was at a whopping 3000 qi. and that was only to reach the mid qi refining realm.
that would take over two years.
i knew intrinsically that, even though i could spend that much time to cultivate my spirit to the mid qi refining realm, the next stage would take even longer. because the basic breathing method i used to cultivate qi even though i do not actually breathe did not have a bottleneck at the late qi refining period, the next stage would be the peak qi refining realm, and then i could form a foundation.
even if i had to guess conservatively, i think it would take me longer than fifty years to build my foundation and extend my lifespan.
i would only die of old age six times over before i built my foundation. no big deal.
lastly, and most uselessly, a way to increase my cultivation speed considerably was to directly burn my lifespan in order to achieve it. this was out of the question.
my lifespan was a precious resource that i could not just waste on an inefficient cultivation method.
i had made other advances in this time, which i consider far more important. the reason why my routine was to extend my senses to their limit, despite this affecting the speed at which i could cultivate, was because i could train them by doing so.
[ soul perception ] - grade d - rank 89
when my rank and grade improved from e to d it nearly doubled my perception radius. the last improvement was at rank 50, so i am hopeful that i would gain another improvement at rank 100. the more i could see the better.
with my current meager perception radius of around 25 meters, i was as good as blind, even though i could see everything in that radius in all directions which was useful.
so this had been the first step of my routine and the one i had put most of my effort in within the last seventy days or so.
the next step was to absorb the insights which i had gained, but i had unfortunately completely exhausted this resource in my last awakening cycle. i considered obtaining more manuals suitable for my cultivation level, but decided against it. i knew that i could obtain insights through the practical approach as well, and at the moment, i was not so interested in alchemy or refining.
finally, with my diminishing consciousness i would actively cultivate my body, compressing my vitality down and absorbing the surrounding qi in order to progress my cultivation.
[ early vessel refining progress: 98.1% ]
one more feeding cycle and i would break through to the vessel hardening stage. for the first time in my existence, as far as i could remember, i felt excitement.