noffsinger Chapter 152: Nine-Five Scripture
Chapter 152: Nine-Five Scripture
Chapter 152: Nine-Five Scripture
Goosebumps littered Tianyi’s body as he stood with his back straight like a steel rod in front of his mother. Yet, his gaze was anywhere but forward, landing everywhere but his mother. He was unable to hold his head up like a child who knew he had committed a wrong. Tianyi had to fight every instinct in his body not to bend his neck and fidget with his hands.
This was the second time.
The second time his mansion was destroyed. The first was when he tested out the nuclear self-detonation technique, and now it was the second time.
“Yi’er,” Mengfei started as she started stroking Tianyi’s head. The feeling of Tianyi’s hair at her touch felt especially soothing. “It’s only a mansion. But this is the second time already. You should move into Jade Peak Palace permanently.”
“I don’t want to impose. In addition, I feel that it might be dangerous...” Tianyi trailed off.
“You’ve already destroyed two mansions now,” Mengfei said, causing Tianyi to feel as if she stabbed a dull knife into his heart. “Your realm does not allow the sect to construct an immortal rank abode for you. Rather than build another mansion for you that will be destroyed, it will be better for you to live in Jade Peak Palace.”
“What if I accidentally destroy Jade Peak Palace as well...?” Tianyi said.
“The Jade Peak Palace combined with the Jade Peak Seal is able to fight off immortal emperors for a short period of time and immortal monarchs indefinitely. You aren’t even a true immortal yet, so there is no possibility of that occurring.” Mengfei patiently explained with no hints of doubt in her voice at all.
Tianyi had no rebuttal for that. In the end, he could only nod his head and agree to Mengfei’s demands. He was already over thirty physically and fifty mentally, so he felt shame still mooching off his mother. Not that he wasn’t still mooching off of her, but living apart gave an illusion that he wasn’t completing mooching off of her.
When Tianyi left, Mengfei found a smiling growing on her lips as she laid back on the couch of the main hall. She had attempted to get Tianyi to move back into Jade Peak Palace after his mansion was destroyed, but Tianyi refused. More than once, Mengfei regretted allowing Tianyi to live on his own. She regretted even more that she allowed him to move out at a young age.
Did Tianyi resent her? Is that why he didn’t want to move back in? Mengfei pondered. She had read that a child needed their mother’s attention the most when they were young, but due to her immature emotions at the time, she allowed Tianyi to move out and could even be said to have neglected him. At the time she had no understanding of raising a child and so followed what she knew. Namely, pushing the duty to a servant, like her emperor-father and consort-mother had done to her.
Maybe Tianyi secretly resented or had misgivings due to his experience when he was young, and that’s why he didn’t want to live with her. Mengfei had concluded. But now, it all changed.
Mengfei had successfully tricked Tianyi into living with her again!
With her prestige, as long as she paid the price, she could easily build an immortal-rank mansion for Tianyi. But that would mean living separately, so she convinced Tianyi not to. And now, they would have more time to interact. Mengfei held her chin in her fingers. She had read that mother’s often tucked in their child when they slept at night. Since she didn’t before, should she start doing it now?
Or maybe she could help feed Tianyi. She recalled that she only needed to place the food in front of the infant Tianyi, and he would eat by himself. The book said the process of personally feeding the baby was an essential ritual in establishing feelings between mother and child.
Most of them just collapsed into themselves or exploded, some even imploded. After the first one exploded, Tianyi decided to move his experiments to where the rubble of his mansion lay. Although he was confident in the Jade Peak Palace’s sturdiness, he couldn’t calm himself down emotionally.
After a year of experimentation, Tianyi felt as if he created a skeleton for his new cultivation method. It had taken many failures before he was finally confident enough to create a clone to cultivate it, but there were several requirements. For simplicity’s sake, Tianyi temporarily based the individual names of the realms on spiritual cultivation.
In the Qi Gathering Realm, the cultivator will absorb qi and create tiny stars in their body. Using these stars, they would discover open twelve meridians and temper their body in preparation for creating a martial body. At the same time, the souls would be enlightened by the starlight. At this stage, the cultivator wouldn’t understand the method’s complexity, and all they could do was follow the instructions. Thinking about it, Tianyi felt that his cultivation method was still of mysteries that he himself did not fully understand as if operated on some primordial law.
Opening the twelve meridians and preparing the body as a vessel was the only first step in this realm. The most crucial aspect was to open the eight extraordinary meridians. The number of extraordinary meridians opened would decide which grade the cultivator could cultivate.
The first grade would be the weakest grade that allowed the cultivator to form one spiritual core and one nascent soul.
The second grade allowed the cultivator to form two spiritual cores and one nascent soul.
The third grade allowed the cultivator to form three spiritual cores and two nascent souls.
The fourth grade allowed the cultivator to form four spiritual cores and two nascent souls.
The fifth grade allowed the cultivator to form five spiritual cores and three nascent souls, which Tianyi dubbed the Five Emperor Cores, Three Sovereign Souls.
The sixth grade allowed the cultivator to form eight spiritual cores and four nascent souls. Tianyi named this one the Eight Symbolic Cores, Four Direction Souls.
As for the seventh grade, that was Tianyi’s current grade with nine spiritual cores and five nascent souls, the supreme grade. Since it could no longer be merely called the Sole Extreme Yin, Eight Trigrams Yang Core Revolution Formation, Tianyi renamed it to the Nine Mandate Cores, Five Heaven Souls.
Ignoring the Foundation Establishment Realm, what is achieved in the Qi Gathering Realm is what decides the cultivator’s future in the cultivated Tianyi’s method. Of course, even if a cultivator opened all eight extraordinary meridians, they would not necessarily be able to cultivate the fifth, sixth, or seventh grade. The best a cultivator could cultivate without treasures was the fourth grade, but Tianyi had a bad feeling about it, maybe because it had double fours, which symbolized double death.
The fifth form was still okay. As long as the cultivator had a master or a force backing them up, the price wasn’t too much. Tianyi took inspiration from the famed three sovereigns and five emperors of mankind for the fifth grade. According to his calculation, the fifth grade should have numerous variants. But right now, it only had Sovereign Suiren as inspiration with his Endless Ember Scripture. The most famous of them was the Yellow Emperor, who created the Xuanyuan Scripture and the Spring Autumn Scripture.
It was only after the sixth grade that it got nearly impossible. The resources devoted to a Foundation Establishment Realm disciple to ascend to Core Formation Realm would be ridiculous. From what Tianyi calculate, it would cost immortal rank or near-immortal rank materials.
And the seventh grade was even more ridiculous. Just the price of the dragon pearl would eclipse the sixth grade’s cost by severalfold, not to mention the scarcity of dragons in contemporary times. Not even Tianyi could create another seventh-grade Nine Mandate Core, Five Heaven Soul clone. Well, he could if he asked his mother, but he felt it would be too shameless just so he could create a clone with the same cultivation. Not that he wasn’t reaching into the resources available to him due to his mother currently.
After that, the cultivator wouldn’t need to invest in any more resources. But that was a poor comfort at best. Both the sixth and seventh grade were huge drains of resources that no sane person you would have to do. Spending all the resources on a Qi Gathering Realm pupil on an off chance to create a powerful immortal wasn’t worth it. But Tianyi was a wastrel, and it was time to prove it once and for all. Tianyi planned to create a new clone to cultivate his newly devised cultivation method and form the sixth-grade Eight Symbolic Cores, Four Direction Souls.
As for the name of this cultivation method? Tianyi named it the Nine-Five Scripture after the supreme seventh grade.