Exploring Immortality Cultivation

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"A deviation is a great disaster! But a great disaster can also be an opportunity for the Heavenly Calculation Atlas to level up, a time for great creation!" Ai Qinglan said confidently, pointing at Wang Qi. "The cultivation techniques of Tianling Ridge are just that capricious!"

"Meow?" Mao Zimiao looked at Wang Qi, who was curled up and almost rolling his eyes back, feeling a bit sorry for him. "But... Xiao Qi doesn't look fine at all..."

"It's perfectly normal, perfectly normal!"

Normal your sister...

Wang Qi finally understood what was happening to him.

The Heavenly Calculation Atlas, this mental method, was inherently incomplete, just a halfway finished cultivation technique, with no offensive or defensive enhancements, no peculiar abilities.

It was known as the number one Divine Skill of the modern age simply because of "evolution."

Any cultivator could deduce this cultivation technique through their own efforts, and the final results varied from person to person.

But what was the driving force, or rather, the inducement for evolution?

Mutation.

In the process where progenitors copy their genetic information to their offspring, mistakes are bound to happen—these mistakes are mutations.

If, during this process, there is interference from external forces like radiation, the degree of mutation increases even further. There's a high chance this process could produce inferior offspring. However, there's also a chance the offspring could turn out superior to the progenitors!

Wang Qi's situation was just like this. The Heavenly Calculation Power inside his body was mutating, and as long as he guided this mutation positively, he could achieve a major breakthrough!

"But... under these circumstances... do you want me to sit in meditation and circulate my energy?" Wang Qi managed to squeeze out this sentence through his sore throat.

"That's true too!" Ai Qinglan propped her chin with her hands. "Looking at this trend, you're clearly heading towards degradation of the Heavenly Calculation Power, losing control over your mental method, and dying from your Cultivation dispersing!"

"Meow!" Mao Zimiao got anxious all of a sudden. "Senior Sister Ai, what should we do?"

"Give me a pat on the hands!" Ai Qinglan said confidently. "Xiao Miao, aren't you aware? Ask me for help, I have a way!"

Saying this, Ai Qinglan, without regard for Wang Qi being right in front of her, opened her chest, revealing a glimpse of white skin. She reached into her chest, searching around.

...This woman, her sense of propriety and thought processes are both broken, right?

Then, Ai Qinglan pulled out a bean pod, along with some vine. The other end of the vine was still inside her clothes. She held out the bean pod like a precious treasure to Wang Qi and Mao Zimiao. "Ta-da! The treasure of Jiyin, an Acquired Spiritual Root! Am I not impressive as a Senior Sister? The absolute cure!"

Mao Zimiao said with confusion, "This... looks like a pea, right meow? I remember it's a vegetable, rarely demonized, and without medicinal use..."

Rather than that, I'm more concerned about where this thing takes root. How do you usually manage to wrap it around yourself... This advanced play is beyond my comprehension...

Wang Qi complained internally.

"Brilliant! You've memorized the plant atlas well!" Ai Qinglan patted Mao Zimiao's head as a form of encouragement. "But besides demonized individuals, there are other unique individuals too!"

"This is?"

"Heavenly Calculation Ancestor Mendel's Enlightenment Object!" Ai Qinglan explained, "Before the Jiyin lineage was established in Tianling Ridge, Ancestor Meng once started a vegetable garden in the ridge and planted thirty-seven pea plants. Later, he used these thirty-seven peas and their descendants to crack the mystery of bloodlines and comprehended the path of bloodline inheritance, achieving enlightenment and a carefree state. It was in that vegetable garden where he reached enlightenment, and those thirty-seven pea plants, influenced by the celestial phenomenon as he did so, developed a divine intent and became unique Acquired Spiritual Roots!"

Wang Qi was startled. He really hadn't expected that the thing this woman had brought for her self-entrapment game would have such an incredible origin.

Mao Zimiao was also startled, "Is this one of those thirty-seven peas, meow?"

"How could it be," Ai Qinglan said with a somewhat regretful expression, "When I became the true inheritor of the Jiyin lineage, I was given a bean from the original plant. So, Senior Sister here—planted that bean. Although this bean isn't as infinitely useful as those thirty-seven, it's still a rare treasure of the Heavenly Calculation Dao, Life Path Dao. A cure-all!"

Having said that, Ai Qinglan peeled open the pod and took out a pea, "Here! Senior Sister's little pea! Ah!"

This woman... definitely knows her stuff, for sure!

"Ah." Wang Qi opened his mouth, and then he felt a small, sweet round pea stuffed into it, with a faint bean-like taste.

"Don't chew, just swallow," Ai Qinglan instructed.

Wang Qi gulped down his saliva vigorously, "Aren't you afraid I'll speak too hastily... bleurgh—"

After swallowing the pea, Wang Qi retched a few times, and the nausea began to subside slightly.

Ai Qinglan said, "This little pea from Senior Sister will temporarily help you control Heavenly Calculation Power, preventing your mana from becoming scattered. Once your stomach grinds the husk away and begins to digest it, the pure Spiritual Energy inside, as well as a hint of Ancestor Meng's understanding of the Great Dao, will merge into your cultivation of the 'Heavenly Calculation Atlas.' At that point, you'll have no choice but to meditate and digest this intake. This process will start in two hours, and if you're confident, you can start stimulating it now."

Wang Qi breathed a sigh of relief, "No need, I think I need to rest for a bit. Also... my shoulder really hurts!"

Ai Qinglan's delicate hand lightly brushed Wang Qi's wound. He felt an intense itching, a sign it was healing.

Then Ai Qinglan asked again, "By the way, Junior Brother, have you decided on your own path? I mean, you practice so many mental methods— which one is the primary, which are secondary, and which are just embellishments?"

Wang Qi nodded, "I have some ideas in mind."

"Oh, that's good," Ai Qinglan nodded, "This time, you can use the effect of the Meng Family bean to adjust the 'Heavenly Calculation Atlas' mental method, making it closer to your ideal path."

Wang Qi nodded to indicate he would remember.

"Okay!" Ai Qinglan clapped her hands, "Let's talk about serious matters. What do you think we should do with that guy over there?"

Wang Qi and Mao Zimiao looked over at Yang Jun, who was tightly bound by Ai Qinglan. The current Yang Jun could be thrown into any fantasy abyss or sci-fi games like "Spore" or "Radiation" without seeming out of place. The gray, deformed creature no longer resembled a human.

The tightly bound Yang Jun was still struggling, mumbling something unintelligible. Wang Qi listened closely; it was, "Demon Extermination... Demon Extermination..."

Wang Qi couldn't help but feel empathy. He sighed, "Possessed by an Outer Demon, it's not all his fault. There's no need to kill him now. We should find a Senior Brother who is skilled in 'Heavenly Entropy Technique' to see if there's any hope."

Ai Qinglan agreed with him wholeheartedly. With a light flick of her hand, another set of vines grew and wrapped Yang Jun into a coil of twine.

Wang Qi looked at the twine coil and then at Mao Zimiao, who complained, "Don't treat me like a cat, meow!"

"Pfft!" Wang Qi laughed deliberately. Then, he walked over to the "twine coil," gently patted it, and said, "This is what happens when you provoke a top student, underachiever."

As he spoke, Wang Qi released a stream of Heavenly Entropy Technique mana to probe Yang Jun's condition.

Then, the twine coil disappeared. (The novel "Entering Cultivation" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "Add Friends," search for the public account "qdread" and follow to catch up quickly!)