Chapter 39: The Limit of the Technique

After having dinner and bidding farewell to Yu Daiyan, Lin Yang entered his room to rest.

Over the next few days, Lin Yang was in no rush to cultivate the Pure Element Technique directly. Instead, he went to the alchemy room in the back mountain first and refined several batches of essence and blood pills.

By consuming the pills, he refilled the internal energy within his Dantian, allowing the Dantian to be stretched to its limit under the fullness of the internal energy.

Then he prepared a substantial batch of pills to serve as logistical replenishment.

Only then did Lin Yang begin the cultivation of the Pure Element Technique.

Early in the morning on this day, he left Yu Daiyan’s courtyard, selected a quiet spot among the nearby peaks, faced the rising sun, and silently began to regulate his breathing.

Then, according to the method of breathing, expiration, inspiration, and intentional guidance recorded in the Pure Element Technique manual, he slowly adjusted his breath and commenced the intentional guidance.

With the prior cultivation experience of the max-level basic internal technique, although practicing the Pure Element Technique this time was not accomplished overnight, it went quite smoothly.

After trying a few times, the internal organs, meridians, and acupoints inside Lin Yang’s body began to vibrate in an unusual rhythm.

This force of vibration was guided by Lin Yang’s intention into the Dantian, passing through the layers of internal energy within the Dantian, straight to the exact center of the Dantian.

As this vibration wave landed in the exact center of the Dantian, the internal energy throughout the entire Dantian began to vibrate continuously.

Ultimately, a small vortex formed at the very center.

This vortex rotated continuously as the vibration progressed, with ripples expanding from the center outward to the surroundings, and then pressing against the outermost perimeter of the Dantian, causing Lin Yang’s Dantian to slowly expand outward under this pressure and vibration.

At the exact center of the vortex, a faint glow began to emerge.

Seeing this scene, a faint joy arose in Lin Yang’s heart, and he continued to calm his state of mind, maintaining this special method of breathing, expiration, and inspiration.

Time slowly flowed by—one day, two days, one month, two months.

In the blink of an eye, Lin Yang’s cultivation of the Pure Element Technique had reached eighty days.

On this day, Lin Yang did not cultivate, but sat quietly on the giant rock where he usually cultivated, frowning as he turned his vision inward to inspect his Dantian.

At this moment, his Dantian was vastly different from what it was eighty-plus days ago.

The size of the Dantian had expanded by more than half compared to before, and the internal energy inside the Dantian was distinctly layered.

The outermost layer consisted of relatively basic internal energy, while the further inward one went, the thicker the glow atop the basic internal energy became, just like ordinary water slowly turning into a gelatinous liquid.

And at the very center of the Dantian, a crystal-clear round pearl the size of a grain of rice, resembling a solid, rotated slowly.

Glinting light shone atop the round pearl, making it look like a tiny real pearl.

As the round pearl rotated continuously, a faint glow diffused into the surroundings, landing upon the surrounding internal energy, causing it to seem as if another strand of glow had been added to it, elevating its texture by a tiny bit.

The reason Lin Yang was frowning at this moment was that he noticed he was still twenty days away from completing the hundred-day Foundation Establishment, but he felt that continuing to cultivate the breathing method of the Pure Element Technique yielded no further effect.

The vibration formed by continuous operation could no longer continue to elevate the quality of this round pearl.

According to the records in the Pure Element Technique, this situation should only appear after the hundred-day Foundation Establishment was completed.

However, the elemental pearl inside Lin Yang’s body had reached the effect of the hundred-day Foundation Establishment ahead of time.

Lin Yang was not without his guesses: perhaps his capability for inner vision, combined with the max-level basic internal technique he had previously mastered, allowed the cultivation effect of the Pure Element Technique to be extraordinary for him, thereby causing his hundred-day Foundation Establishment to complete ahead of schedule.

Such a guess seemed closest to the truth in his eyes.

Yet, a few subtle worries remained in his heart.

After all, the concept of the hundred-day Foundation Establishment had existed for a long time; since it was called a hundred days, there was naturally a reason for it.

Lin Yang did not think he was the only genius throughout the ages.

After all, according to Zhang Sanfeng, even people like him who awakened memories of a past life were by no means few in number.

Since there were plenty of geniuses, why was this situation not mentioned in the Pure Element Technique regarding the hundred-day Foundation Establishment?

Precisely based on this point, Lin Yang worried that if he only conducted eighty days of Foundation Establishment, it might lead to hidden hazards in his future cultivation process.

Pondering back and forth, Lin Yang felt that this might be a hidden method left behind by Ancestor Chen Tuan or the ancestors of the Hidden Immortal Sect within this Pure Element Technique.

Just like the techniques in the web novels from his past life, after cultivating for eighty days, one had already practiced the technique to its limit.

As for whether one could cultivate to the hundredth day, perhaps that required the comprehension of future generations; only true geniuses could break through the shackles of the technique and step beyond its limits.

Thinking up to this point, Lin Yang’s eyes sparkled, feeling more and more that his guess was correct.

Just like the basic internal energy method he had wanted to create before—originally, he only wanted to create a similar basic internal technique based on the Qi Nurturing Pill, but wasn’t he still able to perform beyond expectations and create two even more profound techniques instead?

Since that was the case, why couldn’t he step even further on the foundation of the current Pure Element Technique and create an even more powerful technique?

At the thought of this, a sense of lofty pride surged in Lin Yang’s heart.

His original intention of going to consult Zhang Sanfeng was instantly cast to the back of his mind, and he began to research the breathing, expiration, and inspiration method of the Pure Element Technique.

As for the guidance method, it was quite ordinary—nothing more than guiding the vibration to the center of the Dantian, with nothing overly profound about it.

Lin Yang circulated the Pure Element Technique once again.

The Pure Element Technique that he had circulated continuously for eighty days ran within his body once more.

Regarding this technique, Lin Yang was already intimately familiar with it.

With just a bit of observation, he gained a sense of enlightenment regarding the profoundness of this breathing method.

If his max-level basic internal technique merely made the internal organs, meridians, and acupoints throughout his entire body vibrate together as one.

Then the Pure Element Technique divided this internal vibration into two, forming two sets of wave dynamics.

Just like ocean waves, one rising and one falling, one ascending and one descending.

This actually aligned with Daoist Yin-Yang philosophy.

As the saying goes, the Dao gives birth to One, One gives birth to Two.

Chaos gives birth to Taiji, and Taiji gives birth to Yin and Yang; perhaps this was the principle it referred to.

By splitting the max-level basic internal technique, which originally had only one wave dynamic, into two wave dynamics, and making these two wave dynamics impact toward a single extreme point, the resulting vibration would naturally be far stronger than a single wave dynamic.

This was also why the Pure Element Technique could form another layer of internal energy with even stronger texture on top of the internal energy refined by the max-level basic internal technique.

Since this technique referenced Daoist philosophy, and since One could give birth to Two, then naturally Two could give birth to Three.

Chaos gives birth to Taiji, Taiji gives birth to Yin and Yang, and after Yin and Yang naturally comes the Three Powers.

In other words, he could completely transform these two wave dynamics into three wave dynamics; at that time, his internal energy would naturally rise to a higher level on its original foundation.

It was not as if he had not thought about Yin and Yang giving birth to the Four Images, directly transforming into four wave dynamics.

However, the moment this thought arose, the Top Student System inside Lin Yang’s mind—which had shown no activity for a long time—began to vibrate frantically.

At the same time, a deep sense of crisis surged from the depths of his heart.

His subconscious told him that once he tried to experiment with such an idea, it would instantly leave him dead without a grave.

Having received the warning from his inner self and the unusual reaction from the Top Student System, Lin Yang naturally put away the arrogant thoughts in his heart and focused his research on the aspect of “Yin and Yang giving birth to the Three Powers.”