Longevity starts with learning

One year, two years, three years...

Ten years, twenty years, thirty years...

After the twenty years of retreat when he broke through the middle stage of the Golden Core, this retreat was so long that it seemed to have broken Chu Mu's record of retreat time.

The door of the retreat room had been closed for more than thirty years, without any movement.

In the cabin of the flying boat, Wangcai lay in front of the door, fiddling with the storage bag out of boredom. The palm-sized bag was tossed back and forth between his claws, and he was having a lot of fun.

At this time, as if he suddenly realized something, Wangcai got up and looked at the door that had been closed for decades.

At this moment, the faint array fluorescence flashing on the door also dimmed, and at the same time, the door slowly opened.

"Awoo!"

Wangcai roared, shook his tail and rushed over, running around Chu Mu who had just appeared behind the door like a madman.

Chu Mu smiled, and the loneliness of practicing in seclusion for decades seemed to have dissipated a lot at this moment.

He rubbed Wangcai's head and glanced back at the room, which was in a mess after each retreat.

This time was no exception.

In seclusion for decades, let alone other things, the consumption of elixirs alone is a terrifying astronomical figure.

If he had not been promoted to Jindan, and made a lot of money with his elixir and equipment, and accumulated a large amount of spiritual materials and spiritual objects, it would have been difficult to support this nearly sixty years of seclusion.

Even so, a few years ago, the elixirs accumulated for many years, as well as most of the spiritual materials and spiritual objects for alchemy, were basically consumed.

And under this huge amount of resources, the consumption of decades of spring and autumn, in exchange, is the slow growth of cultivation day by day.

This day-to-day growth is undoubtedly clearly reflected on the light curtain panel.

On the light curtain panel, the proficiency value of the Great Sun Sutra has jumped again.

If the opportunity of refining the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire allowed him to leap forward nearly halfway in his cultivation at the middle stage of the Golden Core, then this time, the decades of closed-door cultivation and the accumulation of a huge amount of resources have allowed this nearly halfway progress to be steadily advanced again.

Nine out of ten, the final step.

The distance to the late stage of the Golden Core is not far away.

Chu Mu estimated that if the resources were sufficient, he would be able to touch the boundary of the late stage of the Golden Core after another ten years of closed-door cultivation.

However, this time, it would be a little difficult to achieve a breakthrough naturally.

After all, in the way of cultivation, after reaching the Golden Core stage, the simple accumulation of mana is only a large part of the cultivation at the Golden Core stage.

The rest is in all aspects, such as the nourishment of the Immortal Fetus Golden Core, the further integration of the spirit, energy and spirit, and even the perception of cultivation...

It seems to be a whole existence.

Not to mention, he refined the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire, and the energy feedback led to a leap in cultivation. Then, he practiced the cultivation of pills for decades. The connection between them was too tight.

Cultivation needs to be stable. Even if the poison of the immortal pill is less, the accumulation of decades of spring and autumn will inevitably be a huge negative erosion.

The way of cultivation, the stability of the foundation, will directly affect the future of immortal cultivation.

All of this needs to be solved before breaking through the late stage of the golden elixir.

Otherwise, it will be a vicious cycle and cut off the immortal path.

Chu Mu raised his hand and wiped it, and the abandoned spirit stones and empty jade bottles piled in the room were immersed in a storage talisman.

As usual, the fingertips moved lightly, the storage talisman was broken, and these abandoned things were destroyed in the turbulence of space with the destruction of the storage house space.

At this time, Chu Mu looked at Wangcai who was still excited and running around, and a little perception did not exceed his expectations.

With the talent of heavenly bloodline and abundant resources, Wangcai's cultivation progress is better than his.

Up to now, Wangcai has crossed most of the realm of the middle stage of the third stage. If he did not have the opportunity of the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire, his cultivation progress would probably not be as good as Wangcai's.

"Talent..."

Chu Mu shook his head and smiled, but then he could not help but sigh.

Talent is destined by heaven, and the existence of spiritual root talent is like a thorn in his throat.

If the problem of spiritual root talent is not solved, it means that everything in front of him is just a mirage, and it will be shattered at any time.

After all, the higher his cultivation level, the fewer and rarer the resources that can be useful to him will be.

This point has already revealed many clues in his current Jindan realm.

What he needs, without exception, are rare and precious in the world.

It's just that his reputation as a master of both elixirs and tools and his wanton wealth have concealed this fact.

Just like the vast amount of elixirs he consumed during his decades of seclusion, any other cultivator, even the core disciples of those big forces, would never be as extravagant and arrogant as him.

In the past, he witnessed countless Jindan cultivators fighting for a few bottles of elixirs and hundreds of high-grade spirit stones in the Demon Suppression Islands.

This is the universal fact.

He is just an exception.

But how long can this exception last?

In this world of immortal cultivation, resources are limited.

There are also very few high-level cultivators.

There are countless monsters in the vast sea, how many fourth-level monsters can there be?

There are countless cultivators in Da Chu, how many Yuanying masters are there?

One day, when the resources he obtains are not enough to make up for the shortcomings of his spiritual root qualifications, it will undoubtedly mean that his immortal cultivation will inevitably stagnate.

With his poor spiritual root qualifications, he does not have enough resources to assist...

He still clearly remembers that he was only practicing Qi in those days. In those years when he first entered the immortal world, he was only practicing Qi at the first level. To him, it was a hopeless waste, let alone what he is doing now. The realm of golden elixir, even the higher realm that he had extravagantly hoped for.

Without sufficient resources, for him, it would basically be the end of the path to immortality!

This is basically an equation.

Until the flaw in his spiritual root qualification is resolved, this equation will always exist, stuck in his heart like a thorn, waiting for the day when it will explode completely.

Thinking about this, the joy that was originally due to the great improvement in cultivation has disappeared, and a haze that is difficult to eradicate has once again enveloped my heart.

It was as if every step he took now was not pursuing a higher realm of immortality, but running towards that desperate reality.

Flowers in the mirror and moon in the water, the end point... is collapse.

"I hope..."

Chu Mu took a deep breath and tried to suppress the billowing haze in his heart.

The truth was cruel, and all he could do was to do everything he could to resolve this cruel fact before it came.

Other than that, he didn't have any choice.

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