Translator: 549690339
Time flies.
Years pass swiftly like a shuttle.
Days go by one by one, yet the tasks in He Song's hands do not seem to get any fewer.
Since Wei Fan returned from Green Wall Immortal City, He Song has been immersed in the joy of learning skills.
Fireball Skill.
Light Body Skill.
It took He Song a total of twenty days to master these two basic skills.
These two basic skills are similar to the Spirit Rain Skill and Spirit Arrow Skill.
Naturally, the time required for cultivation would not have much difference.
With a stronger soul as foundation, He Song's cultivation speed has always been far ahead of other cultivators.
However, while practicing the Fireball Skill and Light Body Skill, even after reaching a proficient level, He Song never forgets to set aside time to practice daily.
Practicing skills helps cultivators deepen their understanding of the skill and to be more comfortable controlling it.
Increase in power.
Time needed for casting is reduced.
These are the extra effects that frequent practice of skills would bring about.
Apart from cultivating these two skills, He Song's daily cultivation speed is much faster than before.
Thanks to the high-quality Qi-Gathering Elixir brought back by Wei Fan on behalf of Meng Guan, He Song's cultivation speed has become terrifyingly fast when combined with his practice within the Spirit-Gathering Array. Initially, He Song guessed it would take him at least four years to advance from the fourth to the fifth tier of Qi Refining.
However, by being in the Spirit-Gathering Array and taking the Qi-Gathering Elixir, He Song's cultivation level broke through from the fourth-tier to the fifth-tier of Qi Refining in just three short years.
Although it wasn't a significant breakthrough in the realm.
Compared to He Song's original estimation, it was a whole year faster.
Such a rapid increase in cultivation speed both surprised and delighted He Song.
The fully functioning Spirit-Gathering Array, plus the ten Qi-Gathering Elixirs, had surprisingly effective results.
He Song even considered investing all his spirit stones into elixirs to maintain such extremely rapid cultivation speed.
With such a rapid cultivation speed, by the time he reached the Qi-refining late stage, he would definitely be able to obtain even more resources.
Moreover, he could live in the inner courtyard of the Immortal Pavilion, greatly improving his quality of life.
But, after weighing the pros and cons through thoughtful consideration and verification, He Song shook his head and dismissed the idea.
The Qi-Gathering Elixir cost thirty spirit stones per bottle.
With his annual income of ninety spirit stones, he could only afford to buy three bottles of the elixirs per year.
Thirty Qi-Gathering Elixirs would be just enough for one month's use.
After purchasing three bottles of Qi-Gathering Elixirs, there would be no hope for learning any new skills.
All the spirit stones would go to buying elixirs.
How could any be left for purchasing skills?
If he purchased three bottles of Qi-Gathering Elixir each year without keeping any spirit stones, he might not even be able to afford mortal rice.
In addition to that, after consuming the bottle of Qi-Gathering Elixirs brought back by Wei Fan on Meng Guan's behalf, He Song discovered that the elixir had side effects, namely elixir poison.
After consuming an entire bottle of Qi-Gathering Elixir, He Song noticed that by the tenth Qi-Gathering Elixir, the elixir's effect in improving his cultivation had somewhat diminished.
At the same time, when He Song circulated the spirit power within his body, it had become more difficult to mobilize than before.
The ease of controlling the spirit power in his body was significantly different from before.
There was a feeling of obscure obstruction.
However, within a month of taking the elixir, the spirit power in his body returned to its original state.
This confirmed to He Song that after eating a bottle of ten Qi-Gathering Elixirs, the elixir poison in his body would take a month to completely dissipate.
The existence of elixir poison was also the reason why He Song abandoned the idea of taking elixirs to rapidly increase his cultivation level.
Having spirit power that could not be freely controlled and faced with immense resistance in circulation is taboo for cultivators.
If one were to fight with others, such obscure power would hardly be a match for cultivators of the same realm.
Even when breaking through bottlenecks, such obscure power could become a huge hindrance.
At the same time.
Because He Song was constantly in the Spirit-Gathering Array, the obstructed feeling in the circulation of spirit power in his body would slow down the speed at which he absorbed spirit Qi.
As the speed of absorbing spirit Qi decreased, naturally, it would affect the speed of growth of spirit power in his body.
In this way, after the rapid growth of spirit power after taking the elixir, and the loss of spirit power due to the slowed down absorption of spirit Qi within a month after the elixir poison entered the body, they would offset each other.
He Song was astonished to find that his cultivation speed after taking the elixir was only a bit faster than the normal speed of absorbing spirit Qi in the Spirit-Gathering Array.
It couldn't reach the original expectation at all.
After coming to this conclusion.
He Song completely dismissed the idea of spending all his spirit stones on purchasing elixirs and quickly improving his cultivation level.
Spending all spirit stones on buying elixirs, as opposed to not spending them and just absorbing the spirit Qi in the Spirit-Gathering Array, didn't make much difference in cultivation speed.
In this case, why bother contributing all his spirit stones to an elixir refiner?
It would be better to use these spirit stones to buy skills, spirit amulets, artifacts, and so on to enhance his own strength.
After all.
He Song was constantly in the Spirit-Gathering Array, and his cultivation speed was much faster than that of ordinary cultivators.
And the Spirit-Gathering Array was the root cause of all this.
If it weren't for He Song successfully setting up the Spirit-Gathering Array, how could he have had such an extraordinary cultivation speed?
He Song, who was in the Spirit-Gathering Array, usually cultivated much faster than other cultivators.
However, this also meant that taking elixirs didn't improve his cultivation speed significantly.
This at least saved the cost of buying elixirs.
Now.
Three years have passed.
He Song's cultivation level has successfully broken through to the fifth -tier of Qi Refining.
He has taken a small step out of the Qi-refining mid-stage, and when he breaks through to the sixth-tier of Qi Refining, he will need to consider whether to take the challenge himself or, like Meng Guan, save spirit stones to go to Green Wall Immortal City to buy Breakthrough Elixirs.
During these three years, He Song has not forgotten to continue studying 'Array Tao Introduction'.
After three years, and with the experience gained from studying the Spirit-Gathering Array, He Song has thoroughly mastered the Illusion Array in 'Array Tao Introduction', and successfully inscribed several Array Foundation techniques required to set up the Illusion Array,
"With the Illusion Array, I can obscure vision, hide my aura, and confuse minds; I don't have to worry about the spirit field I'll set up outside being discovered by others. I'm one step closer to opening a spirit field!"
He Song, who had just inscribed all the Array Foundations for the Illusion Array, had a faint smile on his face at this moment.
He spent three fulfilling years cultivating, studying, managing the spirit field, gathering with Wei Fan or other friends, and contacting distant friends with Sound Transmission Skill.
With all these experiences, He Song did not feel too lonely during these three years.
Now, having completed all Array Foundations for the Illusion Array, He Song felt extremely delighted.
However, the next step was to set up the array.
He Song's face gradually became serious, and his eyes swept across the quiet room, intending to set up the Illusion Array in his own quiet room..