Talisman Reincarnation - All My Clones Are Dao Ancestors-Chapter 52: Cultivation and 100% Investment

Fu Xian returned to his pavilion.

Even though talking with his senior brothers and sisters seemed relaxed, he was actually under pressure the whole time.

The passive pressure cultivators of higher stages give off is quite strong.

He had to slowly get used to it to develop a resistance against it, else it will be quite difficult to communicate casually with them.

"This is probably why normal cultivators fear strong cultivators, while third generation young masters laugh and spit on higher cultivators. Growing up surrounded by them, their resistance has reached an extremely strong level, so strong that they barely feel anything.

Alas, whether it’s a good or bad thing, I don’t know."

He shook his head before focusing back on the matter at hand.

It was time to cultivate!

Sitting upright and breathing in and out, he entered a state of non-self. Thoughts dwindled away as his mind cleared.

Slowly, his aura spread around the pavilion and the open space beyond.

It took on the colour of green and seemed to slowly form the shape of a tree.

From beyond the pavilion, sunlight fell. It passed through a formation, becoming even brighter, before landing on Fu Xian.

Below, a huge lake formed.

The Tree wasn’t rooted on earth but in a vast lake, spanning endlessly.

Brown roots spread all over the lake, absorbing its spirituality to grow better.

The figure of the tree was reflected all over the lake, like a mirror reflecting the self.

But here, the tree was reflected countless times.

It was like a whole forest stemming from a single tree.

This was the key to Fu Xian’s Emerald Lake.

It reflected a forest, but the forest was merely countless reflections of the main tree, this tree being his own body.

Raising his head, a branch reached out from the tree, falling towards a reflection further away.

Branch and reflection connected –

At this moment of reality and illusion meeting, suddenly a burst of green light shined.

The reflection transformed into the light, rushing up the branch towards the main body.

It entered the main body right away.

Instantly, Fu Xian felt a refreshing sensation in his body. He looked at his middle dantian and saw that it had grown by 0.1%.

’At the third stage, a reflection is formed every month. It would take me at least 82 years just to fill the dantian at this speed...

Unfortunately, this is likely only the speed at the current stage.

Just as filling the qi of the early-stage of qi refining is quite easy, the qi in the middle-stage is over double as much.

I can only guess that at this stage, the total time it would take just to fill the dantian, without anything else, just daily cultivation, it would cost me 82-820 years.

As for the rest, that’s beyond me.

It seems that the added 1.200 years of lifespan might not be enough to advance, not to mention that most cultivators have even less...’

He sighed before raising his hand once more.

This time, no branch moved.

Instead, his hand crossed reality and touched a fruit growing on the tree –

It was an illusory green fruit, shining with emerald lustre, containing profound vitality.

’This is the unique ability I awakened at the origin light stage’s cultivation art, the second higher stage.

I wonder what will become of you once you are ripe!’

He took his hand back, not plucking the fruit.

Calming his mind once more, he returned to a state of no self and no thought.

...

Time passed until Fu Xian was done with his cultivation session. Each session took around two hours, sometimes more, sometimes less. It depended on various reasons – sometimes he would take longer to enter the state of cultivation, sometimes he would absorb faster for some reason.

Cultivation wasn’t as static as Fu Xian had thought when he crossed over. Rather, it was more vague and mystical than anything else.

And the higher one cultivated, the more it seemed like a joke.

A simple word or sentence might enlighten them, but a weaker cultivator hearing the same might not feel anything.

The further one cultivated, the less simple things like spiritual power mattered.

For him now, cultivation of spiritual power was very easy.

He also had ways to boost the speed. The cultivators that created those arts had the ability to reduce a cultivation session to even just one hour. But in that case, could the cultivator be as engrossed into the state of cultivation as they are now?

Obviously everything is made with further cultivation in mind.

’Let’s see...

For now, I don’t have many things to do.

Or rather, nothing too explosive requiring my direct action.

Just cultivating, drawing talisman, and occasionally watching those little guys and helping them from the side.

Hmmm...

Last time, I used 50% of origin on Teigu – 10% the cultivation art, 20% for each of the techniques, and 20% for the two spiritual inspirations.

I still have 101%, approaching 102%...

Technically I could do 10 clones...’

When the thought arose, a new message was sent to him. It was a reminder by the talisman that he could also invest it all into one clone.

He still didn’t fully understand the mechanism of the talisman reincarnation but he had a feeling that it was more like sending a parasite across the river of reincarnation into various places of the world. Once out, it looked for suitable people to parasitize.

Based on this, the talisman probably used 5% origin to cross reincarnation and the other 5% to find a suitable person who’s about to become a cultivator, and attach itself to them.

In that case, which process would be improved when using more origin?

Would it be ’finding a suitable person’ or does smuggling more origin heighten the cost of ’crossing reincarnation’?

He was curious and perplexed.

His thoughts passed to his talisman, asking it.

Unfortunately, no answer came...

After all, the talisman’s intelligence was merely a part of his consciousness responding to him from a different body. There was no other entity, just him talking to himself.

He thought for a moment and decided to give it a short.

"After all, ten clones... if I’m not lucky, then I will just have ten random rogue cultivators whom I have to feed till they’re full. Wouldn’t that be a waste of time and resources?

Then again should I use all 100% and leave nothing to myself?

That seems a bit reckless. There wouldn’t even be enough to give an additional origin in case of emergency..."

As he said so, he heard the talisman telling him that, even though it wasn’t recommended, he could still use the other 50% of origin his body had.

But with every percent below 50, he would experience a real decline in physical ability.

"Hmm, that’s acceptable. Anyways, it’s just in case of emergency.

And, since I’m already in debt, I might as well take more debt.

If I’m in a bad situation again, I can try to borrow more resources to recover.

In any case, if I do that, it’s likely because it’s worth it.

Although I don’t know how good this one’s going to be, but it should at least be an equally good clone as Teigu, right?

Teigu’s birth costed 10% origin, and another 50% to get him started.

There will probably be even more in the following operations.

Let’s just hope that this one comes with a cultivation art, in that case, I would already save 10% origin..."

Without further ado, he decided to take action.

This time he didn’t need to put his origin into the talisman, since it was already saved there.

In an instant, a smaller talisman fell from the talisman.

This time, the talisman was half the size of the original talisman!

It fell down, an illusory river appearing.

A moment later, both disappeared, leaving Fu Xian not a second to observe...