Longevity: Starting with an infant's innate growth potential

Chapter 223 Natal Spirit Flame and Dao Academy Instructors

Nighttime, in the meditation room.

Zhou Ling sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, the Golden Core Spirit Flame Technique he had just comprehended appearing in his mind, flames swirling around his body.

"Golden Core Spirit Flame Technique!"

"By transforming spiritual flames into a protective shield, one can condense a spiritual flame shield with a thought, which can guard the mind, resist external demons, fight against lightning tribulations, and refine spiritual power."

"Isn't it perfect to combine the Golden Core Spirit Flame Technique with the Five Elements Heart Fire cultivation?"

Feeling the Golden Core Spirit Flame Technique, Zhou Ling murmured with a joyful expression.

Originally, the five spiritual flames condensed into the Five Elements Heart Fire, which would be of great use in the future condensation of the Heavenly Grade Golden Core.

This Golden Core Spirit Flame Technique also primarily focuses on cleansing spiritual energy and expanding the Qi Sea.

Once cultivation is successful, one can use the spiritual flame to temper one's spiritual power and dantian, continuously improving the quality of one's spiritual power.

When they reach the stage of Core Formation in the future, they will have the opportunity to forge a Heavenly Grade Golden Elixir.

Of course, this requires a spirit flame of considerable quality to achieve.

This technique can be said to be seamlessly connected with his own Five Elements Heart Fire.

"Now, combined with this Golden Core Spirit Flame Technique, and by refining the Five Elements Heart Flame into a natal spirit flame, the speed should be even faster!"

Zhou Ling murmured.

In just half a month, the competition for the Heavenly Guard positions in the Heavenly Crafts Bureau will begin.

Therefore, we still need to strive to successfully refine these Five Elements Heart Fires into our Natal Spirit Flame before the assessment.

Only in this way can one further improve their weapon crafting skills.

Immediately afterward, Zhou Ling sent a telepathic message to his parents, explaining that he would be going into seclusion for a period of time.

I won't go back for the time being.

He needed to send a telepathic message to Wang Qingshang, explaining that he was preparing to go into seclusion.

Wang Qingshang quickly replied to him, telling him to continue cultivating, as no trace of the Blood Soul Cult prodigy had been found in recent days.

Therefore, the Demon Slayer Tribe will not have too many problems.

After recovering slightly, Zhou Ling began to condense the Five Elements Heart Fire.

It is prepared to be refined into a natal spirit flame.

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Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, twelve days have quietly passed.

Inside the meditation room, Zhou Ling sat quietly, cultivating his skills.

Five-colored spiritual flames surrounded him, and the five-colored flames shone brightly.

The aura of the five spiritual flames was noticeably different from before.

Like five leaping sprites.

The beast flames coalesced into the form of the Haoyang Bird, flapping its fiery wings with great activity.

The Azure Lotus Spirit Flame transforms into a blooming azure lotus, possessing an inexhaustible aura, and appears somewhat tranquil.

Earth Spirit Fire lay there like a tortoise, seemingly lazy.

The True Fire of Qianyang is like a golden sword, shining brightly and revealing its full sharpness.

The Xuanbing Crystal Flame, on the other hand, was as calm and solemn as drifting snowflakes.

Each flame seemed to possess its own unique personality at this moment.

"The Five Elements Heart Fire has finally become my natal spirit flame!"

Zhou Ling opened his eyes and looked at the five spiritual flames in front of him.

He could clearly sense that the aura of these five spiritual flames was different from that of the previous ones.

Although they were originally under his control, it was only a relationship of obedience.

Now, however, they are completely integrated, with a sense of spiritual connection.

This is my natal spirit flame!
Moreover, all five spirit flames are already third-grade spirit flames, and their power will be even stronger after fusion.

Furthermore, by nurturing it within one's own Qi Sea, its power and quality can be gradually enhanced.

Furthermore, it seemed that the five spiritual flames had also developed a kind of sentience.

It can provide him with various forms of assistance.

Examples include the combat attributes of Beast Flame, the healing attributes of Azure Lotus Spirit Flame, and the weapon-refining attributes of Qianyang True Fire.

Of course, it's not without its drawbacks; once the spiritual flame is damaged...

He will also be significantly affected.

However, it is extremely rare to possess five natal spirit flames at the same time.

Zhou Ling stretched out his hands, and flames rushed into them one after another.

The five spiritual flames had five completely different tactile sensations.

With a slight thought, the five spiritual flames instantly burst forth with fiery light, like a five-colored rainbow, with five-colored heart flames emerging in the center.

Surrounded by five-colored spiritual light, Zhou Ling also appeared somewhat otherworldly.

"Congeal!"

With a thought, Zhou Ling's beast flames flashed, and a stream of flames, as bright as the sun, rose up.

"Its power has increased somewhat!"

"And the consumption has also been significantly reduced!"

"Leaving aside other flames, the beast flame alone can condense several blazing sun flames for attack at once."

"Even a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator would find it difficult to withstand."

"If all five spiritual flames are activated simultaneously, they might be able to severely injure a Golden Core cultivator!"

Zhou Ling looked at the five spiritual flames, sensed their different powers, and secretly estimated them in his mind.

Immediately, with a thought, the spiritual flames flashed and transformed into streams of light, flowing into his body.

It descends into the Qi Sea along the Five Elements meridians.

Refining it into a natal spirit flame is a completely different experience from when it was originally subdued.

Now, all five spiritual flames are nourishing the Qi Sea.

It made Zhou Ling feel exceptionally comfortable.

The effect would be even better if five spiritual flames were used to temper magical power simultaneously.

He then continued to sit cross-legged in meditation, experiencing the effects of the spiritual energy within his dantian being tempered by the Five Elements Spiritual Flame.

The liquid spiritual energy within the Qi Sea was bubbling up under the tempering of the spiritual flames.

The spiritual energy circulates once within the Qi Sea, condenses into spiritual liquid, and then re-integrates into the Qi Sea.

Time passes slowly.

The Qi Sea gradually returned to calm.

"It takes about half an hour to refine one cycle of spiritual energy."

"The spiritual energy has also become noticeably purer."

According to the description of the Golden Core Spirit Flame Technique, the quality of spiritual power enhancement varies depending on the grade of the spirit flame.

Generally speaking, it can increase by about 30% to 40%.

But Zhou Ling possesses five spiritual flames, so naturally there are more.

Moreover, he was originally a Heavenly Rank Foundation Establishment cultivator, so his spiritual energy quality was quite high.

With such tempering, there is a high probability that one will be able to condense a Heavenly Grade Golden Core in the future.

Zhou Ling thought to himself.

However, he possesses the five elements attribute, with the five elements circulating through his meridians, making his spiritual power far surpass that of other ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators.

However, the process of refining it is also very difficult.

"As long as we can continue to refine it like this, there is still a great chance that we will achieve the Heavenly Grade Golden Core in the future."

Zhou Ling pondered to himself.

There is still a long time before we can condense the Golden Core.

So there's no rush.

However, he has now successfully refined the Five Elements Spirit Flame into his Natal Spirit Flame.

Combined with the original methods, it might be possible to attempt to refine a third-tier magic weapon.

The assessment of the Heavenly Guards of the Heavenly Works Department is about to begin.

Then, Zhou Ling took out the sound transmission jade and examined the recorded sound within.

There were about ten recordings, some from the mother.

Lu Yunxi reminded him of the assessment matters of the Tiangong Division.

He Zijian also told him that he was preparing to go into seclusion to build his foundation.

Another dish came from Dean Zhong.

Ask him about onboarding training.

Zhou Ling then remembered that he had promised Dean Zhong that he would consider it for some time, and now more than a month had passed.

I haven't given him an answer yet.

"Let's go and talk to Dean Zhong!"

Zhou Ling murmured.

The sky outside was bright.

It was morning.

He immediately left the hermitage and went to the main hall of the Taoist temple.

We arrived at Dean Zhong's office on the third floor.

Inside the room, Dean Zhong was drinking tea.

Dean Zhong is now at the Nascent Soul stage.

He looks like a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties, but he is actually over a hundred years old.

Of course, this is in comparison to the lifespan of a Nascent Soul cultivator, which is over eight hundred years.

He was just a teenager. "Greetings, Dean!"

Upon entering the room, Zhou Ling bowed and greeted the guests.

"Zhou Ling is here!"

Dean Zhong nodded, put down his teacup, and said with a smile.

After briefly inquiring about Zhou Ling's cultivation progress, he then asked Zhou Ling if he would accept the position of instructor in the outer academy.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Ling pondered for a moment.

Actually, he originally wanted to refuse the offer.

After all, he's really too busy right now.

He has a lot of time for self-cultivation, as well as work for the Heavenly Crafts Bureau and the Evil Slaying Department, and he also needs to refine magical artifacts to earn spirit stones.

They couldn't even figure out the time to travel to the Ancient Cloud Realm.

If one were to serve as an instructor at a Taoist academy, it would certainly take up a considerable amount of time.

However, Dean Zhong just made a condition that he found hard to refuse.

Once he becomes an instructor, his treatment will be 30% higher than that of other instructors. In addition, he can borrow any inscriptions below the fourth rank in the academy at will.

Seeing the dean's expectant look, Zhou Ling couldn't bring himself to refuse.

After all, inscriptions of the third rank or higher are hard to find.

If you want to exchange it with the Taoist Academy, you'll need a lot of contribution points.

This way, borrowing books at will saves a lot of trouble.

“Zhou Ling, as an instructor, you will only be teaching one or two classes per month, which will not take up too much of your cultivation time.”

Dean Zhong noticed that Zhou Ling was still hesitant, took a sip of tea, and spoke up.

His tone was calm, but his eyes held expectation.

He naturally hoped that someone as talented as Zhou Ling could stay at the Xuan Yuan Dao Academy.

They will become the focus of training at the Taoist academy in the future.

"Dean, okay, I agree to this. However, I don't have much experience, so please don't blame me if I don't teach well!"

Zhou Ling said with a smile.

With this kind of treatment now, plus only two classes a month, which doesn't take up much time, it's acceptable.

Besides, since the dean had already put it that way, he naturally couldn't refuse.

"Alright, given your current situation, the academy will definitely focus on nurturing you in the future."

"At that time, as long as you have enough contribution points, you will be able to exchange them with the Dao Academy for resources to condense a Golden Core."

Dean Zhong said with a smile.

Zhou Ling also knew that this was the dean's way of showing him kindness.

In fact, the Dao Academy is not short of instructors nowadays. On the contrary, every year, Foundation Establishment cultivators who leave the Dao Academy desperately want to become instructors.

"Thank you, Dean!"

Zhou Ling cupped his hands in greeting.

"Alright, that's settled then!"

"I'll arrange everything for you today, so you can start scheduling your classes this month!"

Dean Zhong said with a smile.

It's already December, and the holidays are just around the corner.

Moreover, there were many procedures to go through before one could become an instructor at the Taoist academy.

But Dean Zhong simply skipped all of that.

"Dean, may I now explain the second-tier low-grade inscription technique to my disciples?"

Upon hearing that the dean wanted him to start classes this month, Zhou Ling couldn't help but ask.

He had no experience, so he figured he could only follow the methods that Coach Hu had taught him.

"That doesn't matter, just speak according to your own line of thought."

"These disciples are new students this year, and they are not much different in age from you."

Dean Zhong smiled and said.

Based on his understanding of Zhou Ling, there shouldn't be any problems with the inscription.

Moreover, becoming an instructor at the Taoist academy at this age makes him the youngest instructor the academy has ever had in its many years of operation.

"it is good."

Zhou Ling nodded, relieved to hear the dean's words.

As long as it doesn't mislead young people, it's fine.

"Dean, may I borrow some third-tier inscription materials now?"

With the Heavenly Craftsmanship Department's Heavenly Guard assessment scheduled for the day after tomorrow, Zhou Ling planned to first learn about some common refining techniques and inscriptions for the third-tier inscriptions.

"I'll just talk to Elder Du at the Sutra Repository about it!"

Dean Zhong nodded and said.

However, he immediately added, "Generally, a third-tier inscription requires at least the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage to craft."

"You don't need to rush now; you should proceed steadily and surely."

After all, Zhou Ling is only ten years old now, and he will have plenty of opportunities in the future.

There's no need to rush into anything rash.

We still need to lay a solid foundation.

"Yes, Dean!"

"This disciple is merely seeking information first."

Zhou Ling cupped his hands in greeting.

Dean Zhong nodded.

He then took out a communication jade and said, "Instructor Du, Zhou Ling, an inner court disciple, is now an outer court instructor."

"From now on, he can freely exchange for weapon-refining inscriptions of the fourth rank or below in the Scripture Pavilion."

After putting down the communication jade, he said to Zhou Ling, "Alright, you can go to the Scripture Pavilion to borrow the books now!"

"Thank you, Dean!"

Zhou Ling bowed again in thanks.

He then bid farewell to Dean Zhong, left the room, and headed to the Sutra Repository.

Upon arriving at the Sutra Repository, he presented his jade token identifying him as an inner courtyard disciple.

As expected, I was able to receive a Tier 3 Inscription.

He searched inside the library.

In the end, four books were found.

Complete Guide to Basic Tier 3 Weapon Forging and Inscription

Third-order inscription construction

Vitality, Materials, and Inscriptions

Design and Construction of Third-Tier Treasure Artifacts

After each person made a copy, they left the library.

Of course, before leaving, Instructor Du also instructed him that these imprints should not be revealed to outsiders except for personal cultivation.

Zhou Ling nodded in agreement.

He naturally understood this principle; otherwise, every disciple who borrowed techniques and cultivation methods from the Taoist academy would have made a copy.

If we then try to sell them on the market, wouldn't that create chaos?

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That evening, Zhou Ling returned home.

The parents had already prepared a sumptuous feast of spiritual food.

Now, Chu Xing is temporarily residing at home.

The house is much livelier now.

Zhou Shan, in particular, gained a close friend with whom he could talk about anything.

And you don't have to worry about the spirit stones at home.

Every day after finishing his work at the winery, he would drink with Chu Xing and talk about the old Lingxia Immortal City.

The three of them were overjoyed to hear that Zhou Ling had become an instructor in the outer courtyard of the Dao Academy.

It should be noted that Xuan Yuan Dao Academy is one of the six major Dao Academyes of the Dao Alliance.

Becoming his disciple is already very difficult.

But Zhou Ling was different; after a year and a half in the academy, he not only successfully entered the inner courtyard.

Now he has even become a lecturer in the School of Foreign Languages.

If this were told to others, no one would believe it.

"Ling-ge'er, congratulations!"

Chu Xing picked up the wine bowl and congratulated Zhou Ling.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Ling was not only a Heavenly Rank Foundation Establishment cultivator, but also a Second Rank Heavenly Craftsman Guard of the Heavenly Crafts Bureau.

Now he is an instructor at Xuan Yuan Dao Academy.

In Lingxia Immortal City, even the city lord would treat these two titles with utmost respect.

"Thank you, Uncle Chu!"

Zhou Ling picked up his wine bowl and drank it with Chu Xing.

Zhou Shan and Li Ru were also overjoyed.

My son is becoming more and more successful.

Next, once Wang Xin successfully establishes her foundation, it would be wonderful if they could hold their grandchildren.

(End of this chapter)