Published: March 3, 2025
Chapter 903: Late Stage Bottleneck
With the assistance of body refining sacred medicine, when the new Transformative Dragon Grass matured, Liu Yu was able to successfully reach the peak of the early fourth stage after consuming just two complete plants.
One year later, after consuming a four-thousand-year-old Transformative Dragon Grass, he smoothly broke through to the mid fourth stage.
After the body refinement breakthrough, his progress was still rapid, and at this point, he had already made significant strides.
If the fourth stage of body refinement were divided into nine small levels, Liu Yu was currently at the fifth small level.
It is precisely because of such remarkable effects that Transformative Dragon Grass is called the sacred medicine for body refinement!
However, throughout history, it is feared that no cultivator has been able to use it as frequently as Liu Yu does.
"Essence" directly exists in the material world, which makes it very stable compared to "spirit" and "qi," and it is nearly impossible for it to experience explosive growth.
However, as long as the right method is found, by consistently consuming Transformative Dragon Grass like Liu Yu, the physical body can undergo rapid transformation in various aspects.
Of course, this transformation cannot defy common sense; it cannot be completed in an instant or in a day or two.
Instead, it involves going through thirty years of time.
"The foundation of body refinement is incredibly solid, and with the help of Transformative Dragon Grass, breaking through the bottleneck is even simpler than the breakthrough to the mid nascent soul stage back then."
Flipping through the ancient texts on cultivation techniques, recalling the process of his body refinement breakthrough, a glimmer of memory flashed in Liu Yu's eyes.
He still remembers that during his breakthrough that year, although there was bleeding from the seven orifices, it was merely a surface phenomenon; the actual transformation of his body went smoothly.
During the breakthrough, the golden blood that flowed from his seven orifices, even after leaving his body, still frantically absorbed the spiritual energy from the heavens and earth to maintain its existence.
Even though the blood had no consciousness, it instinctively absorbed everything that could be absorbed to sustain its existence.
Not just during the breakthrough, bloodshed had also occurred during previous cultivation sessions.
Because he realized this, his perspective slightly changed, leading him to believe that the paths of "immortality" and "reproduction" were not in conflict.
This realization led to his later summoning of Liu An and accepting him as a registered disciple.
While Liu Yu made rapid progress in qi refinement and body refinement, he did not neglect spirit refinement.
After thirty years, his spiritual consciousness had already improved from the initial seven hundred seventy miles to an astonishing nine hundred fifty miles!
The threshold for breaking through the divine transformation bottleneck, recognized by the higher-ups in the cultivation world, is a thousand miles. Liu Yu was now only fifty miles away.
At this rate, it is highly likely that before reaching the late nascent soul stage, he would elevate his spiritual consciousness to a thousand miles!
What does nine hundred fifty miles mean?
Generally speaking, a nascent soul early stage has a spiritual consciousness between two hundred to three hundred miles, the mid stage between three hundred to five hundred miles, and the late stage between five hundred to seven hundred miles.
At the peak of nascent soul stage, it typically hovers around eight hundred miles.
With a range of nine hundred fifty miles, it means that Liu Yu's nascent soul mid stage consciousness has already surpassed that of most peak true lords.
At the nine hundred miles level, a difference of one hundred fifty miles is quite significant; at this moment, if he were to employ a spiritual consciousness secret technique, he could deal effective blows to the Primordial Spirits of great cultivators.