"Celestial Secret Tower has prepared accommodations for you. There is still some time before the Tournament of Geniuses begins, so remember to rest well."
Mr. Cao didn’t ask much, he simply advised the academy contestants to rest well.
After all, the demonic qi is gradually dispersing, so it’s best not to pry into others’ matters.
Upon arriving at Tianji City, Lin Jing broke away from the main group that needed recuperation and headed straight to the Celestial Secret Tower.
Due to the hosting of the Tournament of Geniuses, cultivators visiting the Celestial Secret Tower were endless, with dozens of guards watching over the tower, the security was exceptionally strong. ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ novel-fire.net
"I beg you, please let the master of the Celestial Secret Tower calculate a divination for me. My partner has been missing for three years! I am so worried about her! I want to know where she is." A desolate Foundation Establishment cultivator pleaded from outside.
"Leave immediately." A guard mercilessly drove the person away.
A passing cultivator patted his shoulder and said, "Your wife ran off with someone else, such a trivial matter, why would the Celestial Secret Tower care? Brother, you should go back."
"Your own wife ran off with someone!" The pleading cultivator retorted and engaged in a fight with the passerby, only to be captured by the City Guard together.
Lin Jing shook his head; most visitors to the Celestial Secret Tower were seeking divinations, among them not lacking in Nascent Soul or even Divinity Transformation cultivators.
Arriving outside the Celestial Secret Tower, Lin Jing was stopped by a guard.
"I am Lin Jing from the Beast Taming Sect and am a friend of Bai Yuran, the 27th-generation disciple of the Celestial Secret Tower. She invited me here," Lin Jing said.
"Please wait a moment." The guard cultivator glanced at Lin Jing, seemingly communicating with someone inside the Celestial Secret Tower. After a moment, he said, "You may enter."
"Thank you." Lin Jing clasped his hands together in thanks and entered the Celestial Secret Tower, which looked like a starry sky inside, with all the murals around being starry patterns.
"Saint Heir, long time no see," Lin Jing looked up to see a girl in a white dress seeming to descend from beyond the stars, arriving in front of him.
Bai Yuran smiled and said, "You came looking for me, have you already decided to cooperate with me?"
"I came this time to thank you for that divination," Lin Jing sincerely said, "If it hadn’t been for..."
"Enough with that," Bai Yuran rolled her eyes, "You came this time because you have another request from me, right?"
Lin Jing was taken aback.
"Let me guess, you must want to know what the Star Universe Turtle blessing is, that’s why you came looking for me." Bai Yuran saw through Lin Jing’s intention at a glance, surprising him.
"Isn’t it fitting that you are a disciple of the Celestial Secret Tower!" Lin Jing admired her, saying, "I do want to know, but I also genuinely came to thank you, and I brought a thank-you gift."
"Come with me," Bai Yuran invited, "This is not the place for conversation."
In the Celestial Secret Tower, in a room by the Cloud Pavilion, with white clouds floating outside, Bai Yuran and Lin Jing sat facing each other.
Bai Yuran said, "The blessing from Senior Star Universe Turtle can actually be chosen in several forms."
"Anything related to the path of the cosmos, it can almost certainly achieve."
"It is also very proficient in other types of blessings."
"It was as I thought," Lin Jing said, "Just as I anticipated."
"Arriving at Tianji City, you immediately came to me asking about the final reward of the Tournament of Geniuses; it seems you are determined to get the first place," Bai Yuran said, "If you can achieve the ultimate victory, you might as well ask Senior Star Universe Turtle to cloak you in celestial secrets."
"By doing so, as long as you don’t expose yourself, even a strong person in the Inquiry Phase will have no way to deduce your location. It should be very meaningful for you, right?"
"Indeed," Lin Jing nodded, but the largest problem with his Longevity Body is that his vitality is too conspicuously abundant, and even if he has learned the technique of metamorphosis, he does not know if, after his cultivation improves, the technique will be able to shield his life aura.
By then, finding him wouldn’t require any deduction technique... He would be as conspicuous as the sun in the night.
"Besides that..." She chuckled, looking at Lin Jing, saying, "You’ve been delaying your breakthrough to Foundation Establishment, surely you want to push a few more layers to the peak of the Qi Cultivation stage!"
"The deeper the foundation before Foundation Establishment, the more solid the foundation afterward, which will greatly enhance the advancement of a special physique."
Lin Jing nodded, just like the Foundation Establishment for Pet Beasts is the best chance for bloodline enhancement, human cultivators during Foundation Establishment can also significantly enhance the strength of their special physique; this is an opportunity not present even in advancing to the Golden Core or Nascent Soul stages.
Foundation Establishment can be said to be the most crucial realm in the path of immortality.
Developing a cultivator’s special physique can also be classified into Minor Success, Great Success, and Perfection.
Currently, his Longevity Body, Beast Taming Body, and Ice Jade Body are not even at Minor Success level. The development of physique actually requires resources, such as enhancing the strength of the Ice Spirit Body, which requires a large number of ice-attribute spiritual objects...
Besides these, Foundation Establishment is an opportunity for direct strengthening of the physique. The better the Foundation Establishment effect, the greater the enhancement of the physique. If he can accumulate more depth before Foundation Establishment, he can save a lot of resources and time afterward, allowing him to focus on cultivating techniques and magic for a short period without worrying about physique enhancement.
"I have a way," Bai Yuran said.
"I mentioned earlier that anything related to the path of the cosmos, Senior Star Universe Turtle can almost achieve."
"Among them, it can even help cultivators utilize the power of the future!"
"The power of the future?!"
"For example, after you form a Golden Core in the future, the Golden Core will nurture a Golden Core Divine Technique based on the nature of True Essence. This is an ability you can obtain in the future."
"This Golden Core Divine Technique theoretically can only be obtained after you form the Golden Core in the future, but Senior Star Universe Turtle can allow you to utilize the power of the future, allowing you to master the Golden Core Divine Technique during the Qi Cultivation and Foundation Establishment stages!!"
"Of course, without Golden Core mana, even if you master the Golden Core Divine Technique, you cannot use it. But as long as you solve the issue of mana for using the Golden Core Divine Technique, you can perform divine techniques during the Foundation Establishment stage! This is what is meant by utilizing the power of the future."
"However, there’s one thing you need to understand, this is merely borrowing your Golden Core stage’s divine technique, obtaining it in advance through the cosmic path blessings! When you reach the Golden Core stage, a new divine technique will not be born."
"In other words, when you reach the stage where you were originally supposed to obtain the divine technique, this blessing becomes useless."
"I got it. Your intention is, after I cultivate the Beast Taming Technique, at the Foundation Establishment stage, I can condense a drop of contractual blood. Now, through the cosmic path blessing of the Star Universe Turtle, I can obtain that drop of contractual blood in advance during the Qi Cultivation stage."
"Although after Foundation Establishment, I cannot obtain new contractual blood, the contractual blood obtained in advance allows me to contract a pet beast during the Qi Cultivation stage, using its breakthrough feedback to help me breakthrough the peak again!"