Chapter 342 - Double Origin Core (1/2)

When Lu Tianzi further inspected his inner world, he could not help but let out a look of surprise.

Within his inner world, two small orbs of differing energy sources was orbiting around each other.

These were his two true origin cores, one from the Spiritual Essence cultivation system and one from the Slaughter Essence cultivation system.

Before this, the two cultivation systems might have been present in his inner world at the same time, but they seemed to have existed in separate worlds, never showing any signs of interacting with each other.

However, now that his acc.u.mulations in both cultivation systems had been condensed into origin cores, some sort of resonance seemed to have started to form between them.

With the formation of his Spiritual Essence true origin core, not only did Lu Tianzi feel a new burst of strength coming from his Spiritual Essence cultivation system, even his Slaughter Essence true origin core started giving off a feeling of power unlike before.

His Slaughter Essence true origin core had always been constantly gathering World Origin Energy from the surroundings.

Now, the rate at which it absorbed energy from the surroundings had suddenly increased as well.

It could be said that his breakthrough in the Spiritual Essence cultivation system had amplified the strength of his Slaughter Essence cultivation system in almost every single aspect!

Even though he had already successfully broken through to the First Cycle Origin Core realm, Lu Tianzi did not end his meditation immediately.

With the help of his Slaughter Essence cultivation system, the excess energy that resulted from the breakthrough could still be assimilated back into his Spiritual Essence true origin core, further consolidating his current cultivation and bringing him one step closer to the next boundary.

While he remained in a state of deep meditation, his two true origin cores continued to orbit around each other in his inner world, both of them steadily gathering World Origin Energy from the surroundings.

At a certain point in time, an illusory green vortex shimmered into existence behind him.

This was Lu Tianzi's Origin Totem, only that it no longer looked the same as before.

Another green vortex had formed and was connected to the original one from behind, creating an illusory figure similar to the shape of a horizontal hourglass.

But while the original vortex seemed to be drawing in the very fabrics of reality into an endless void, the second vortex seemed to be acting in complete contrast, sending out energy from within instead.

Lu Tianzi instinctively understood that the contrasting properties of the two illusory vortices was because of his two different cultivation techniques.

The Heaven Devouring Divine Art sought to absorb everything, duplicating the laws of the world within his body and eventually form his own internal world system that could even match the real world.

However, the Undulated Currents Breathing Technique was the complete opposite.

It sought to assimilate oneself with the flow of the world, eventually becoming one with the world laws so as to borrow the speed of the world in every stride and the strength of the world in every strike.

Due to the vast difference between the two cultivation techniques, Lu Tianzi had even been a little worried when he first started cultivating the Heaven Devouring Divine Art.

Fortunately, everything seemed to be coming together nicely.

As for why the two differing cultivation techniques resulted in similarly shaped Origin Totems in the form of vortices, that was because no matter which cultivation system it was, his comprehensions into the world laws did not change.

In fact, a faint sense of sharpness could now be felt from the two illusory green vortices.

This was an attribute that was born from his newly attained comprehensions into the Law of Swords.

Lu Tianzi finally opened his eyes after another few hours.

After consolidating his cultivation, he realised that he had reached a bottleneck in his Spiritual Essence cultivation system.

This bottleneck was not a result of rushing his pace of cultivation.

On the contrary, his foundation was extremely solid, as could be seen from the fact that he was able to form a true origin core.

Instead, this bottleneck had resulted from the inherent limit of his cultivation technique.

The second level of the Undulated Currents Breathing Technique only showed him the way to break through to the Origin Core realm.

As for how he should progress from here, that was still a path that was still shrouded in mist.

Of course, this was a problem that Lu Tianzi had foreseen as well.

It was the reason why he had gathered the best cultivation technique manuals from the Ivory Rock Martial Academy before, and had been going through them in his spare time.

This was his attempt to find clues to developing his own cultivation technique.

Lu Tianzi understood that if he wanted to advance any further, he would have to achieve a breakthrough in terms of his understanding of the Spiritual Essence cultivation system.

Only then would he be able to personally refine the Undulated Currents Breathing Technique, eventually upgrading it into a cultivation technique that could at least reach the Overlord realm.

He had not been focusing on this aspect before, but now he no longer had the luxury of procrastinating.

The longer he dragged this on, the longer his Spiritual Essence cultivation would stagnate.

His Spiritual Essence cultivation had already fallen behind his Slaughter Essence cultivation. If it were to stagnate any longer, it might just become irrelevant in the future, and this was something Lu Tianzi did not wish to happen.

After all, Lu Tianzi's dual cultivation system had always been his advantage over others, and having one of his cultivation systems become irrelevant was as good as losing this unique advantage.

He really needed to start focusing on studying the Spiritual Essence cultivation techniques in his possession from now on.

Lu Tianzi went to open the windows, and was pleased to see that the first light of dawn had just descended.

He made it just in time.

It had now been a week since they arrived, and it was the day that the Sacred Lotus Auction would be held.

Lu Tianzi deactivated the formations around him and retrieved the formation flags before heading to the inn lobby.

As he walked down to the inn lobby, Lu Tianzi felt slightly surreal, as though everything in his surroundings now appeared much clearer to him.