BXBX NOVEL Chapter 522: 522: There Won’t be a Bottleneck _1
Although there was no more marriage to women who had passed the Tribulation stage, quite a few women at the Combine Body stage from the Holy Lands were given to Qin Changqing.
There were even some who had achieved Integration Perfection and who had been sleeping for countless years.
These women, all hailing from past periods of slumber.
The cultivators themselves were not bad either.
Having reached Integration Perfection, how could they be bad?
It was rumoured that after marrying Qin Changqing, their cultivation speed would increase. Considering Qin Changqing’s outstanding and impressive nature, they all ended up with the idea of marrying him.
And so, Qin Changqing’s home was becoming increasingly crowded with concubines at the Combine Body stage.
Several years later, on the day that a first-grade spiritual root descendant was born, Qin Changqing’s spiritual root finally reached the first-tier as well.
“I’ve attained the first-tier spiritual root.”
Qin Changqing was filled with a sense of achievement as he looked at his system panel.
After many years, he had finally attained the first-tier spiritual root.
“First-tier spiritual root.”
After crossing more than a thousand years, finally, Qin Changqing’s spiritual root reached the first-tier.
For Qin Changqing, this was of great significance.
Finally.
He, who once possessed a mere Different Spiritual Root without any grade, had now obtained the top-tier spiritual root in this world.
First-grade spiritual root!
Regardless of whether it was a Different Spiritual Root or not, a first-grade spiritual root could be considered a true genius.
A Different Spiritual Root was just more unique, possessing some other characteristics.
A first-grade spiritual root was already the highest grade of spiritual roots.
Even an Immortal Spirit Root was a first-grade spiritual root, just a Different Spiritual Root.
Of course, there were some differences between first-grade spiritual roots.
For example, Qin Changqing discovered that his spiritual root could still continue to accept Reciprocal Feeding after reaching the first grade.
Spiritual roots determine the amount of Spiritual Qi that can be stored in your body each time you cultivate.
Ordinary people without spiritual roots, even if an Immortal filled their bodies with Spiritual Qi, their bodies would leak the Qi and not retain any of it.
Though spiritual roots are less important to body cultivators, the absence of a spiritual root would greatly affect even those cultivators.
The higher the grade, naturally, the more that can be left behind.
However, even an Immortal Spiritual Root can’t achieve 100% retention. Qin Changqing’s spiritual root was still able to continuously accept Reciprocal Feeding, indicating it could still be further strengthened.
“I wonder if there’s a limit to the spiritual root, and if I reach that limit, what reward will I receive?”
Such thoughts had begun to make Qin Changqing curious.
Though curious, he presently had no way of knowing the answer.
However, Qin Changqing was not in a hurry.
He’d think about it later.
After ascending to the first-tier spiritual root, Qin Changqing quickly noticed that the consumption of his tribulation energy had significantly decreased.
Previously, he was consuming twenty points a day, equivalent to extinguishing two hundred years of cultivation. This was several times larger than the consumption during the fourth decline.
Now, the consumption of his Tribulation energy had been drastically reduced, needing only a few points a day, which wasn’t much more compared to the fourth decline.
“It’s really effective.”
Qin Changqing stated lightly.
Indeed, it was effective.
This consumption was closely related to the quality of his spiritual root.
Other cultivators passing the Tribulation accumulate their power through continual cultivation to resist the Decline Kalpa.
The fifth decline may target the heart, hence it is mostly spiritual, but the consumption of True Origin is also not insignificant.
Qin Changqing, on the other hand, used his Tribulation energy to resist, which compared to other cultivators in the fifth decline, consumed even greater amounts of True Origin.
With this reduction, Qin Changqing was finally relieved.
Originally, according to the previous consumption rate, even though a wave of great rewards was about to come, Qin Changqing found it somewhat difficult to get through the fifth decline.
Consider this: he had to consume two hundred years of cultivation each day. This meant almost ten thousand years of cultivation would be consumed in a year. If it weren’t for the abundant rewards Qin Changqing had previously accumulated, he wouldn’t have been able to endure these twenty years.
Now though, things were much better.
Surviving was no longer an issue.
Moreover, for him, having a first-grade spiritual root was already quite a blessing. It was equivalent to upgrading the engine of his top-of-the-line Rolls Royce from a second-tier Spirit Root 2.0T to a 3.0T.
Although the 3.0T engine was still somewhat inadequate, it was now able to drive the top-of-the-line Rolls Royce very effectively.
Seeing that having a first-tier spiritual root was so beneficial, Qin Changqing’s mood improved significantly.
In high spirits, Qin Changqing decided to take a stroll. Discovering that the Luo Ying Fairy was in secluded cultivation, he decided to harass the several Combine Body witches for a while.
Now, his mood was even better.
These Combine Body witches, after giving up on resisting Qin Changqing, felt very helpless as he kept tormenting them.
They had already borne several generations of children for Qin Changqing.
If this continues, it would only be a matter of time before these Combine Body witches willingly surrender.
Qin Changqing wasn’t in a hurry, he had plenty of time.
Even so, reaching the first-tier spiritual root didn’t stop Qin Changqing from taking more concubines.
After the Five Declines of Heaven-Man have passed, and he reaches the Mahayana stage, he will still need to accumulate cultivation experience to reach Mahayana Perfection and ascend.
Those Mahayana cultivators from the various Holy Lands who are in the Spirit Realm failed to reach Mahayana Perfection even after ten thousand years and thus failed to ascend. They had no choice but to enter the Spirit Realm.
Moving from Mahayana to Mahayana Perfection may sound simple, as it is merely an increase within the same Realm.
Indeed, simplicity defines it.
After all, there is basically no bottleneck along this journey.
Moving from Mahayana to Mahayana Perfection merely requires the accumulation of cultivation.
However, the amount of cultivation that needs to be accumulated is even greater than the amount needed to move from ordinary human to the Mahayana stage.
Of course, the time Qin Changqing would need to reach Mahayana Perfection shouldn’t be too long.
After all, he now possesses a first-grade spiritual root.
Even if he needs a bit more cultivation to level up, the tens of thousands of years of cultivation that he possesses should be more than enough.
This is merely an issue of rewards.
Even if he needs a bit more, he could just acquire another round of rewards.
For Qin Changqing, what demands the most cultivation has always surprisingly been passing tribulations instead of actual cultivation.
Because he needs to pass through them in such a short amount of time.
Think about it, others take tens of thousands of years to pass through the Five Declines of Heaven-Man whereas he only needs a few hundred years. He has saved tens to hundreds of times the amount of time.
This time-saving is not free.
Therefore, after Qin Changqing reaches Mahayana, the time it takes for him to reach Mahayana Perfection, given the current progress of rewards, should only be a few decades.
Once he reaches Mahayana Perfection, he will know how to become Immortal!
“Become Immortal!”
Qin Changqing’s gaze hardened.
Becoming Immortal, becoming a god, was something he had been looking forward to for over a thousand years.
However, the crisis of the Spirit Realm Passage opening in a few decades cannot be ignored.
Therefore, when he had some spare time, Qin Changqing continued to manufacture magic beans.
What he was making now were all magic beans with greater consumptions.
He decided to make some first and save them for later.
After each time of production, Qin Changqing would spend a few years replenishing his True Origin before continuing with production.
The consumption of True Origin was just too high.
Replenishing True Origin also required quite some time.
If he didn’t use Upper and Medium-tier Spirit Stones, the time needed would be even longer.
With the experience he accumulated, Qin Changqing also continued to strengthen other aspects of himself.
And so, another decade quickly passed.
More than half of the 99 waves of Decline Kalpa in the fifth decline had already passed.
He was getting closer and closer to attaining Mahayana.