Chapter 167 - Chapter 167: 100 Foundation Establishment Realm Fourth

Chapter 167: 100 Foundation Establishment Realm Fourth

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The legacy of the amalgamation of ice and fire left by Taoist Bing Yu and Taoist Jie occupied his attention, kindling both excitement and anticipation within his heart. However, his insight into the principles of ice and fire was too superficial in comparison to those ancient Taoists who had dedicated hundreds of years cultivating the joint understanding of these elements. Given his limited understanding and the lack of time, just six months in total, he could not hold a candle to these veteran cultivators.

“Ice and fire represent the yin and yang of heaven and earth. They embody two extremes that can give rise to unity…” As Su Yu contemplated these principles, his brows occasionally knitted in thought and then eased as he gained new insights. Such an enlightenment made time seem to whizz by in an instant.

While Su Yu’s true self remained within the ice and fire cave dwelling for closed-door cultivation, his puppet avatar occasionally ventured out to welcome the visiting Taoist Xiuyu.

He put aside all other matters to focus his attention on understanding the legacy pertaining to the merging of ice and fire, creating his original fusion techniques, refining and nurturing the internal Ice-Fire Bead treasure, and observing the convergence and fusion of the dual forces in the ice-fire cave dwelling…

As he attempted to create and understand the Ice-Fire Secret Art, Su Yu continued with his daily cultivation. Thanks to the impressive power accumulated within the ice-fire cave and the Ice-Fire Bead, Su Yu increased his cultivation at an unprecedented speed.

This opportunity was indeed one of the significant benefits of the Ice-Fire cave dwelling possessing three realms.

Half a month later, Su Yu first put into practice his self-created Ice-Fire Secret Art. The technique, however, proved to be unsuccessful as it could not trigger or absorb nature’s spiritual energy.

After a month, Su Yu attempted the technique for the tenth time, but ended up failing once again. He only managed to develop a flame-attribute mana, which was of no use to him.

Four months later, Su Yu made great strides in his cultivation. His Earth Escape Skill successfully broke through to the fourth level of the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Half a year later.

“Let’s try again and see if it works this time.” Su Yu took a deep breath and stopped guiding the power of the Ice-Fire Bead, shifting his focus to practicing his self-created Ice-Fire Secret Art. He had already tried almost a hundred times and was getting accustomed to it.

Helped by his technique, threads of ice and fire spiritual energy from the surrounding heaven and earth began converging and integrating into Su Yu’s body.

Once these threads of dual-attribute spiritual energy circulated around his body for one full cycle, they abruptly transformed into a wisp of Heavenly Frost Mana and Phoenix Rebirth Mana. However, these two wisps of mana were very weak.

Under the guidance of the Ice-Fire Secret Art, the two types of mana began intertwining and fusing.

“Ommm!”

Following a point from Su Yu’s finger, a thread of Ice-Fire Mana transformed into an ice dragon and a fire phoenix which intertwined and soared through the air, executing an Ice-Fire Spell. It subsequently hit a three-tiered spirit mineral stone that glowed gold and was known as Yao Jin Hao Spirit Stone.

Bang!

The ice dragon and fire phoenix exploded, unleashing a formidable force comparable to a spell cast by a cultivator at the third or fourth level of the Qi Refinement Realm.

Seeing this, Su Yu was overjoyed, he clenched his fists and exclaimed, “I made

The technique, despite being new and exhibiting just the power of the first realm of Qi Refinement, had already demonstrated such potential. There was no doubt that his Ice-Fire Secret Art was feasible.

The beginning of all things is the hardest. Now that he had obtained this initial success, he could attempt to elevate his Ice-Fire Secret Art to integrate the Heavenly Frost Mana and Phoenix Rebirth Mana of the Foundation Establishment Realm.

He turned his attention to the proficiency panel.

[Name: Su Yu.] [Cultivation Level: Fourth Level of Foundation Establishment.]

[Life Span: 68/273.]

[Cultivation Techniques: Green Wood Year Ring Skill (Second Circle Fourth

Rotation, Proficiency: 23-44%), Xuan Ming Thick Earth Technique (Thirteenth Level, Proficiency 23-44%), Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Sutra (Third Realm, Proficiency: 86.71%), Heavenly Frost Descent (Second Realm, Proficiency:

86.71%), Mystic Crocodile One Hundred and Eight Body Refinement

Techniques (Fourteenth Layer, Proficiency: 34.29%), Blood Whale Swallow

Moon Skill (Second Realm, Proficiency: 60%), Gold Cicada Technique (Second

Level, Proficiency: 93.16%), Earth Escape Skill (Fourth Level of Foundation

Establishment, Proficiency: 23-44%), Ice-Fire Secret Art (First Level of Qi

Refinement, Proficiency: 0.01%). ]

[Spells: Wood Tether Technique (Perfected)… Earth Escape Technique

(Perfected), Xuan Ming Armor Technique (Perfected), Ground Dragon

Overturning Sky Technique (Perfected), Xuan Ming Dragon Locking Technique

(Perfected), Heavenly Palace Wondrous Technique (Perfected), Giant Tree

Spirit Subduing Technique (Perfected), Omniscient Dragon Slaying Technique

(Perfected), Ice-Fire Spirit Summoning Technique (Proficiency 3.84%),

Dragon Flying Phoenix Dancing Technique (Proficiency 2.13%), Ice-Fire

Purgatory Technique (Proficiency 2.42%), Yin-Yang Escape Technique

(Proficiency 1.07% I

“Thanks to the legacy of the understanding of ice-fire passed down by Bing Yu and Jie Dao, along with the Three Realm Ice-Fire Cave Dwelling.” Su Yu took a deep breath.

Without their assistance, he could never have progressed this smoothly.

After six months of secluded cultivation, the dense ice-fire power originally accumulated in the ice-fire cave dwelling had significantly depleted.

Only the standard spiritual energy typical of a three-realm cave dwelling remained now.

About ten percent of the power in the Ice-Fire Bead was consumed as well.

After all, the Ice-Fire cave dwelling was relatively small, its diameter measuring only two miles. Thus, it had a limited capacity to accommodate and accumulate the ice-fire power.

Despite this limitation, the power that had been accumulated in the dwelling over this half year had resulted in a significant increase in Su Yu’s cultivation level.

The level of his dual attribute mana in earth and wood had reached the fourth level of the Foundation Establishment Realm.

The level for his dual attribute mana in ice and fire had attained the third level of Foundation Establishment Realm.

Only after achieving these did he completely deplete the power accumulated in the cave dwelling.

“Now that I have successfully created the Ice-Fire Secret Art, all that remains is to perfect it.” Su Yu gently exhaled a breath that was as cold as ice and hot as scorching flame. He silently gave a sigh of relief, surprised that each step on this difficult path felt like an arduous journey. He was now one small step closer to his goal of achieving the five elemental unity.

“At the fourth level of the Foundation Establishment Realm, my lifespan has increased to 273 years. I’ve added 41 years since advancing from the second level of Foundation Establishment Realm. My total lifespan is quickly approaching 300 years, which is similar to that of the pseudo-Celestial Pill Realm.” Su Yu contemplated while looking at the proficiency panel.

On his list of cultivation techniques, the realm and proficiency levels of the Earth Escape Skill were already on par with the Green Wood Year Ring Skill and Xuan Ming Thick Earth Technique.

As for the newly created and just-initiated Ice-Fire Secret Art, it was still at the first level of the Qi Refinement Realm.

In contrast, the cultivation and proficiency levels of the Heavenly Frost Descent and Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Sutra, which had been automating under the influence of the inferior mystical Ice-Fire Bead, remained balanced even after half a year had passed..