Chapter 9: the Ascension Assembly

Dream Dao Attainment, Opening Scheme Against Cultivators

Dream-Making Expert

After dawn, Lin Qi headed to his usual teahouse as always.

The chef at this shop made morning tea that suited his palate well.

Lin Qi even thought about whether he should kidnap the chef and take him along when he left.

Cultivation was not about bitter asceticism alone; occasionally, fine food was needed as a garnish.

But after thinking it over, he let it go.

Zhao Zijing had already explained to him the fate of a Qi Refining Realm cultivator who indulged in external pleasures and frittered away the years.

He now only wanted to reach Foundation Establishment as quickly as possible.

After Foundation Establishment, one could live eight hundred years.

There was plenty of time to savor the finest flavors of the Human Realm.

At worst, if he truly wanted to enjoy the mortal world’s splendor, he could simply craft a dream and revel freely within it.

Lin Qi calculated his plans for leaving Luojing and entering secluded cultivation.

He felt there was nothing much to prepare.

Previously, Lin Qi had worried that even if he obtained a cultivation technique, the Mortal World lacked spiritual qi, spirit stones, pills, and all manner of cultivation resources. His immortal path would likely be arduous and uneven.

But now Lin Qi already knew that cultivation in This Realm — at least at the Qi Refining stage — did not actually require many resources.

The key was only in condensing the Talisman Seed.

Or rather, the foundation of cultivation in This Realm was extremely solid.

The existence of the Talisman Seed, and especially the Immortal Talisman.

Perfectly resolved the drawbacks he had read about in cultivation novels, where one had to rely on spiritual qi, spiritual roots, and spirit stones to cultivate.

Once an Immortal Talisman was planted into the dantian, then as long as energy still existed in this heaven and earth, the Cosmos.

Then it could be purified and refined into cultivation sustenance.

Of course, this did not mean that cultivation in This Realm truly required no resources.

If one could have a large quantity of resources to assist cultivation, then the time needed to refine the Talisman Seed could be greatly shortened.

Lin Qi had estimated.

If resources were maxed out, with his current grasp of the Qi Refining stage’s cultivation barriers, plus the Infinite trial-and-error of dreams, he could cultivate to peak Qi Refining within ten years.

But even without any resources, relying entirely on his own cultivation.

Lin Qi felt that at most thirty years, he should be able to reach peak Qi Refining and attempt Foundation Establishment.

“I remember that among the pill formulas Zhao Zijing possesses, there is one called Qi-Nourishing Pill.”

“Although it is not the best Qi Refining pill.”

“The medicinal ingredients required by the formula can be obtained in the Mortal World.”

“If I can slightly improve it and increase the pill success rate, I could try using it as cultivation sustenance to speed up my progress.”

Lin Qi pondered for a moment, ate a piece of boneless chicken feet, and suddenly heard a commotion break out in the teahouse.

He made a few inquiries and learned that the uproar in the teahouse was because the Ascension Assembly had been postponed.

“Why would the Ascension Assembly suddenly be postponed for no reason?”