Published: March 3, 2025
The middle divine light flashed and then vanished.
The vast spectacle of cultivation also disappeared along with it.
Feeling the barely perceptible increase in his cultivation level from this session, Liu Yu frowned slightly.
"At the current cultivation speed, reaching the peak of the nascent soul early stage will likely take around two hundred and fifty more years," he murmured.
"And this is under the condition of having the spiritual energy supply from Heavenly Peak and continuous hard work."
Calculating the rate of his cultivation, Liu Yu arrived at the time needed to reach the early peak stage.
The magical power required for the nascent soul realm is immense, akin to the concept of the "sea of magical power" in the dantian.
Furthermore, each time he breaks through a small realm, the total amount of magical power required increases significantly, usually by multiples of the previous realm.
Of course, this does not imply that the efficiency of a nascent soul cultivator in refining spiritual energy decreases; on the contrary, the improvement is substantial compared to the golden core realm.
It’s just that, relative to the magical power accumulation required, the small improvements from daily cultivation are indeed too little, far too little.
It's like trying to fill a vast dried-up ocean with just a large wooden barrel—it's incredibly inefficient.
To complete this monumental "project," the time needed could easily span hundreds of years, plus he still needs to overcome numerous challenges in his cultivation journey.
Due to the scarcity of high-level resources, most nascent soul cultivators can only consume a few elixirs and spiritual objects on average every hundred years.
To reach the peak of the nascent soul early stage, at least four hundred years may be required, not including the time needed to break through the bottleneck from early to mid-stage.
Thus, more than half of the true lords remain stuck at the nascent soul early stage until they pass away.
This scenario is similar to the situation during the foundation establishment and golden core stages, where the vast majority of cultivators don’t even qualify to attempt breaking through to the later stages.
This illustrates the difficulty of cultivation in the nascent soul realm.
After the "ancient great war," the decline of spiritual energy in the cultivation world is not well understood by low-level cultivators.
Only by reaching the nascent soul realm can one truly appreciate this despair!
Compared to ordinary nascent soul cultivators, who typically require around four hundred years to progress from early stage to early peak, Liu Yu is considered quite fast.
With the addition of the "Infant Nurturing Pill" which enhances his cultivation by fifty years, he will take only about three hundred years—one hundred years less.
"Two hundred and fifty years to reach the early peak."
"Who would have thought that my ordinary aptitude during the low realm has somehow made me a 'genius' today?!"
Reflecting on this, Liu Yu couldn't help but smile wryly.
In the nascent soul realm, the impact of spiritual root aptitude becomes negligible.
The speed of cultivation primarily depends on the foundation of the nascent soul.
This foundation is greatly influenced by the quality of the golden core.
Liu Yu has a ninth-grade golden core, making him quite outstanding among the true lords, coupled with a two-color nascent soul which gives him an exceptionally solid foundation.
Even in the Central Domain, his aptitude ranks among the best, only comparable to true lords from holy land-level powers, truly qualifying him as a "genius."
The influence of the secret method of conception not only increases the chance of succeeding in divine transformation in the future but also plays a very intuitive role in cultivation within the nascent soul realm.
It can deepen the nascent soul's foundation and accelerate the growth rate of the nascent soul. True lords who cultivate using the secret method will clearly have a faster cultivation speed than ordinary true lords.