At the same time, his cultivation technique automatically circulated on its own, refining the spiritual energy.
His Qi Refining twelfth layer great perfection cultivation rapidly regressed all the way back to the stage of drawing qi into the body.
After a long sleep, Xiao Shou woke up without knowing how long he had stayed at Snowy Cave Mountain.
Now that his cultivation had once again returned to Qi Refining first layer after a full cycle of cultivation, he immediately became busy again.
First, he upgraded and fused all the high-grade spirit stones.
He actually fused more than three hundred high-grade spirit stones.
In order to increase the spiritual energy density inside the mountain cave, he placed over one hundred high-grade spirit stones into the spirit vein.
With the passage of time, the spiritual energy here would evolve into the level of a medium to upper-tier spirit vein. Then by gathering the spirit vein's energy into the mountain cave, the spiritual energy here might even rival the cave abode of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
The experience of nearly make him going insane while advancing his Absolute Fusion ability to the fourth level had left Xiao Shou much more clear-minded.
It gave him deeper understanding of himself, this world, and his future path.
It also made him develop a thought.
He did not want to hide anymore or keep running anymore, because every time he hid, he would only become weaker.
Moreover, with his Absolute Fusion ability, the Heaven Origin Realm was full of blessed lands and opportunities for him.
As long as he kept cultivating, surpassing one strong cultivator after another and stepping into the peak of cultivation, he only needed a stable cave abode to achieve his goal.
Snowy Cave Mountain, due to its thin spiritual energy and lack of spiritual herbs, medicinal plants, demonic beasts, and spiritual beasts, was a place without ownership and belonging to no faction.
It was perfectly suitable for someone like him who wandered alone.
Therefore, his first step in becoming stronger was to turn the mountain cave of Snowy Cave Mountain into his personal cave abode.
His second step was to focus entirely on cultivation.
His third step, he had not yet thought of.
Thinking about focusing on cultivation, he suddenly realized something.
Now that his Absolute Fusion ability had reached the fourth level, it meant his cultivation technique could also be improved by another stage.
Moreover, there would be no need to switch techniques or face compatibility issues.
After upgrading, it would still be the same as the previous technique, only more refined and more powerful.
Fortunately, he had realized the strength of his fusion ability early on and had always kept blank jade slips prepared for moments like this.
Immediately, he copied the Three Body Problem Profound Art ten times, fused them with his ability and then pressed the completed jade slip against his forehead to examine it.
After reading it, he could only sigh helplessly.
The fused fourth-level technique was still a complete cultivation method from Qi Refining all the way to ascension.
It was named Three Body Problem True Art.
Its content was largely the same as the Three Body Problem Profound Art, but in every aspect it was slightly superior and more refined.
The same cultivation method was used, but in the Three Body Problem True Art, each major realm required condensing spiritual energy four times.
In other words, four cycles were needed to advance one stage, transforming spiritual energy into Profound True spiritual power.
There were still no bottlenecks and no inner demons.
The meridians and dantian were expanded to four times that of ordinary cultivators.
The difference was that after cultivating this technique up to the Foundation Establishment stage, the vitality of the physical body would increase to four times that of ordinary cultivators.
After reaching Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and other realms, this effect would continue.
The vitality within the body would still remain at four times that of cultivators of the same level.
This vitality was not the result of a body refinement technique strengthening the physique, but rather a life force that could be used to regenerate injured areas.
Before the life force was exhausted, injuries would automatically heal.
In other words, fatal injuries that were not caused by soul attacks would be ineffective against Xiao Shou at least four times.
It was equivalent to having four extra lives.
In addition, the storage capacity of spiritual energy, the power of techniques, and the purity of spiritual energy were all improved to varying degrees.
It was a good cultivation technique, but four cycles of refinement… Xiao Shou always felt that his time was not enough.
After all, one cycle per realm was the fastest to cultivate, but each additional cycle doubled the amount of spiritual energy required.
For example, his current first cycle took about four months, and this was only possible due to abundant resources and occasional enlightenment breakthroughs.
Under normal conditions, it would take at least six months.
Following this pattern, the second cycle would require twelve months, the third cycle twenty-four months, and the fourth cycle forty-eight months.
After completing four cycles and reaching the peak of Qi Refining, another breakthrough would require ninety-six months.
In other words, under the most optimistic conditions of continuous cultivation, he would still need more than fifteen years to reach Foundation Establishment.
And this body was currently eighteen years old.
If he encountered any trouble, failing to reach Foundation Establishment before the age of fifty would mean everything would be in vain.
Sigh… caught in a dilemma, Xiao Shou, whose mind was not particularly clever, thought for a moment and decided that since the four-cycle technique and the three-cycle technique had the same cultivation method, the only difference was one extra cycle.
If there were no unforeseen incidents in the future, he would cultivate the four-cycle technique.
If problems arose and time became tight, he would switch to the three-cycle technique instead.
After making this decision, Xiao Shou spent more than ten days chiseling through rock and opening up the interior of the mountain.