"Unfortunately, it's not the Emperor's Empowerment Technique, but in principle, the two are the same."

After reviewing the King's Authority Sealing Technique, Xiao Mu became increasingly convinced that it was a stroke of genius.

It was mainly used when one reached a bottleneck in their personal cultivation and could not break through with individual effort. This technique allowed for a unique approach, borrowing the strength of others to make a breakthrough.

Put simply, it meant that when one couldn't break through on their own, they would start gathering followers and, through a special cultivation method, borrow their followers' strength to help overcome their own limitations.

Since this cultivation technique couldn't be practiced alone, Xiao Mu put it aside for now and shifted his focus to the "Three Elements Refining Appearance Technique."

After memorizing the cultivation tricks, Xiao Mu began to attempt it.

"The Three Elements Refining Appearance Technique" basically involves channeling one's True Force into their Divine Spirits' likeness, carving out three elements within it, with the first step being to conjure an image of the three elements within their Divine Spirits' likeness.

Xiao Mu decided to start by conjuring the first element of the Tripartite—the Tianyuan. Releasing his Divine Spirits' likeness, Xiao Mu sat cross-legged, and a divinity that looked exactly like him appeared sitting above his head, emanating an aura of authority.

Focusing his mind, he gathered his intent at the center of the deity's head and began to marshal divine authority to form a vortex comprised of divine authority at that spot.

Failure…

Failure…

Failure…

After several failures, Xiao Mu found the knack. He visualized the Tai Chi Diagram at the divinity's head's center, splitting the divine authority into two halves, like the two semicircles of the Tai Chi Diagram, inverted yet complementary.

It didn't take Xiao Mu too long to form the Tai Chi Diagram. Once it was formed, he tried to set it in motion.

With a flash of divine light, the Tai Chi Diagram unexpectedly began to spin easily, and a tiny vortex the size of a bean came into being.

Xiao Mu felt a surge of joy and tried to channel the Five Elements Power into his Divine Spirits' likeness. After entering the likeness, he directed it to merge into the newly formed Tianyuan vortex.

The Five Elements Power merged smoothly, but since the newly opened Tianyuan vortex was too small, it could only accommodate a limited amount of the Five Elements Power and quickly became saturated, unable to absorb any more.

What a pity!

Xiao Mu felt a twinge of regret. The opening of the Tianyuan vortex wasn't particularly difficult, but the regrettable part was that it could only contain a limited amount of True Force and thus its power was not very strong.

Following the same method, he attempted to open the Earthly Element and Zhongyuan.

Xiao Mu soon realized that due to the formation of the Tianyuan, his Divine Spirits' likeness' spiritual consciousness was influenced and began to naturally congregate towards the Tianyuan, much like how water in a river forms eddies, drawing the flow from distance towards them.

This ultimately increased the difficulty of forging the Earthly Element and Zhongyuan.

No wonder Lord of White Mansion had not chosen to conjure too many points within the Divine Spirits' likeness; the more points conjured, the greater the difficulty, and the more challenging it would be.

Realizing the difficulties in creating the Earthly Element and Zhongyuan, Xiao Mu knew that these were not feats to be achieved overnight. He decided to focus on cultivating the Tianyuan first and then work on the Earthly Element and Zhongyuan once the Tianyuan was more powerful.

Lord of White Mansion's records did not contain this information, but Xiao Mu, having tried it himself, felt this was the wisest approach.

He continued to marshal the Five Elements Power and integrated it into the Tianyuan, but since the Tianyuan was already saturated, it could no longer absorb any more of the Five Elements Power in the short term.

However, the automatically spinning Tianyuan grew with every rotation, which gave Xiao Mu new hope.

At this rate, even without any specific cultivation of the Tianyuan, just its own rotation would cause it to grow larger, allowing it to contain more and more of the Five Elements Power.

He stopped his cultivation.

Knock knock knock!

The sound of knocking suddenly arose, and Xiao Mu opened his eyes, only to notice that it had already grown light outside.

"Brother Mu, how was your rest?"

Xiao Mu opened the door to find Zhu Ping standing at the entrance.

"Not bad, Zhu Brother, you're up early!"

Xiao Mu exchanged pleasantries, when footsteps echoed from the stairs and Li Gujian appeared at the staircase landing.

"Zhu Brother, Brother Mu, someone from the village's Unofficial Organization has come to Zhao Brother's house. They say it's an important matter. Shall we go down and take a look?"

Li Gujian poked his head out.

"I was just about to ask Brother Mu if he wanted to go," Zhu Ping said with a smile.

"Unofficial Organization? What important matter?" Xiao Mu asked, puzzled by Zhu Ping's words.

"It's said to be related to the death of the Variant from yesterday."

Li Gujian answered Xiao Mu's question, adding some detail.

"The death of the Variant from yesterday?"

Xiao Mu realized what Li Gujian was referring to, and considering that the death of the Variant from the day before might have implications for the cultivation of the Divine Spirits' likeness, said, "All right, I'll go down with you to check it out."

The three of them descended the stairs and stepped out the door, only to see three Mutated Beings standing in Zhao Jingyan's courtyard, each of them within the Yin God Realm—not particularly strong, but not weak either.

Next to the trio and Zhao Jingyan, there was a pile of Mutated Material.

Sensing the appearance of Xiao Mu and the others, one of the Mutated Beings, who appeared to be the leader at the Mid Yin God Realm, glanced inadvertently at them.

"Zhu Brother, Xiao Li, Brother Mu, you've come at the right time. Let me introduce you," Zhao Jingyan said, gesturing to the three arrivals after seeing Xiao Mu, Zhu Ping, and Li Gujian approach.

After Xiao Mu and the others walked over, Zhao Jingyan began the introductions, pointing to the three Mutated Beings, "These three are members of the Village Protection Team, an organization spontaneously formed by Twilight Forest Village, primarily tasked with protecting our village. Their leader is one of our village's strongmen, Yu Jiasheng, who possesses the power at the Peak of the Yin God Realm."

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