Jeming's gaze pierced through the window, looking towards the distant sky.
At that very moment when his eyes focused, a strange, indescribable feeling surged to his heart.
To the ordinary human eye, it was merely the usual dawn sunlight.
But if it were a wizard, they might see dense particles of energy and rays with brilliant colors.
Yet in Jeming's freshly heightened and exceptionally acute perception, at the core of that increasingly dazzling sunlight, he actually saw a trace of... barely noticeable purple!
That streak of purple was exceedingly faint, like a condensation of some energy deep within the sunlight.
It floated there quietly, carrying an ancient and mysterious aura.
Eastward Purple Qi!
Jeming's heart suddenly trembled!
There are indeed records of "Eastward Purple Qi" in the Great Dao Book Pavilion.
It refers to when, under certain specific astronomical phenomena, at sunrise, a thread of extremely pure innate Qi emanates from the sun's core, immensely benefiting cultivators.
This thing only exists for a fleeting moment when the sun rises and is extremely rare; capturing even a wisp is a tremendous opportunity.
He once thought such a heavily "Cultivation Immortality concept" item only existed in that unknown Cultivation Immortality World.
But unexpectedly, in the Wizard World, in Nolun Academy's laboratory, at the moment of sunrise... he actually "saw" this strand of Eastward Purple Qi!
Too late to ponder the reasons, the instinctual desire for this innate Qi drove him to operate his cultivation technique without realizing it.
The True Essence of the newly broken through Qi Cultivation Second Layer in his body circulated according to a specific Dharma Gate, pulling at the strand of Eastward Purple Qi suspended in the sunlight.
The purple Qi, almost fading into nothingness, seemed to be drawn by some invisible force, penetrating the laboratory's walls and windows, drifting slowly towards Jeming.
It was not hindered by the Isolation Array, nor did it even trigger the Surveillance Array's response, as if it didn't exist at all!
But when the purple Qi entered Jeming's body, he could immediately feel the effect of Eastward Purple Qi.
The purple Qi almost instantly melded into Jeming's True Essence, cycling unceasingly throughout his body with its flow.
It refined the True Essence, making it more concentrated and pure!
It tempered his physique, causing the recently breakthrough Jeming to feel an unprecedented clarity and lightness!
What surprised Jeming most was that this thread of purple Qi also purified his Spiritual Power!
Under the nourishment of the purple Qi, his Sea of Spirit became clearer and brighter, some minute mental impurities peeled away, making his Spiritual Power purer and more active.
Purifying Spiritual Power... In the Wizard World, this is practically an unparalleled divine object capable of enhancing innate aptitude!
A wizard's talent rating largely depends on the "purity" of the soul and the "depth" of the Sea of Spirit; could Eastward Purple Qi really enhance such fundamental aptitude?!
Jeming couldn't help but feel shocked.
The most frightening part is that acquiring this... posed virtually no difficulty at all!
As long as one operates the cultivation technique to absorb it every day at sunrise, it's practically a gift from heaven.
But what's completely inexplicable is why the Wizard World possesses what was originally thought to exist only in the Cultivation Immortality World - the Eastward Purple Qi?
He instinctively thought of the Refined Gold he refined earlier.
When refining it using the Cultivation Immortality Method, a large amount of the gold's mass disappeared into thin air, yet eventually, it condensed into that substance containing the "eternal unchanging concept."
This seems to utterly defy the law of conservation of mass; it's more like refining some intangible and untouchable essence.
With this doubt in mind, Jeming sent an inquiry to the Great Dao Book Pavilion in his mind.
The Great Dao Book Pavilion responded swiftly, and in the blink of an eye, three streams of light appeared before Jeming.
"Dust World Ash Record, Mystic Core Truth: Concept Collection and Initial Exploration of Form Condensation, Artifact Dao Origin: Concept Attachment and Low Spirit Refining Art... What in the world is this?"
Jeming quickly flipped through them; the latter two books were acceptable, being related to artifact refining knowledge.
As for the first book, overall, it appeared to be a biography or rather, a memoir, of a Mahayana Stage cultivator known as Dust Tribulation Child.
"Dust Tribulation Child seemed to be born in the Cultivation Immortality Realm during an era of complete resource exhaustion, the Age of Diminished Dharma, when Spiritual Qi was nearly nonexistent, and traditional Spiritual Material and Immortal Herbs had become legends. Yet in such circumstances, cultivation in the Cultivation Immortality Realm not only did not cease but instead thrived?"
Upon carefully studying it, Jeming finally confirmed that these three books from the Great Dao Book Pavilion indeed resolved his doubts.
"The Cultivation Immortality System is not merely about energy refinement," the knowledge stream from the Book Pavilion unfolded in his mind. "According to this memoir, in the later stages of the Cultivation Immortality System, as resources dwindled and a deeper understanding of the cosmos was achieved, the 'raw materials' used in cultivation and artifact refining shifted from tangible 'Spiritual Material' toward more abstract 'concepts.'
"Refining Refined Gold, in essence, is not about compressing the physical mass of gold; rather, it's about using True Essence and Divine Sense to strip away all 'mundane' and 'changeable' concepts from the gold and concentrating the 'eternal unchanging' concept onto a small portion of the substance, imparting a semblance of immutable characteristics. The 'mass' lost equates to those 'mundane concepts' that were stripped and dispersed."
"The Eastward Purple Qi is similarly so. It is not a specific energy, nor is it a gas. In its essence, at the moment just before sunrise, when yin and yang balance and old gives way to new, it is a grand concept – the manifestation of 'dawn,' 'hope,' and 'renewal' permeating the cosmos. The Eastward Purple Qi that a cultivator absorbs is essentially acquiring this concept for self-refinement."
"To make it easier for cultivators to perceive and absorb, the Cultivation Immortality Techniques have evolved over millennia, gradually modifying and perfecting the method of absorbing this 'concept,' allowing it to be visualized as the special 'perception' (which appears as the 'purple Qi') and to be absorbed via True Essence as a guide."
Closing the three books, Jeming's heart remained restless for a long time.
This explanation was like thunder, entirely overturning Jeming's understanding of both the Cultivation Immortality System and the Wizard World!
Cultivation, right from the Qi Cultivation Stage, already engages in "concept refinement"?
So even in the Wizard World, it is possible to visualize the "Eastward Purple Qi" by capturing concepts?!
Jeming felt his brain working frantically, countless new possibilities exploding in his mind!
If this is indeed the case, theoretically, he would not be restricted by raw materials at all.
Through the method of extracting concepts, not just gold, but even the most common air and soil could yield super-materials far exceeding others' imaginations under continuous refinement!
This way, what he can accomplish in the future will far surpass everyone's imagination!
Jeming took a deep breath, forcing himself to suppress the joy in his heart.
He looked at the fully risen sun outside the window, his eyes exceptionally bright.