This kind of living is not in the literal sense of the word.

It refers to someone who can exist without relying on the Star Power from the Ziwei Chen Family, nor needing the Longevity Soldiers as a foundation, yet can persist indefinitely and even enhance themselves over time.

That's really terrifying!

You have to know, the time flow speed inside the small green bottle is vastly different from the outside world. Once a person enters it to cultivate, even with a boundary difference, there's a minimum twenty-fold time disparity. If this Dharma Image can always exist within the small green bottle, then it represents at least a fifty-fold time acceleration compared to the outside world.

In other words, if the Ziwei Chen Family wants to nurture a True Self Realm Dharma Image Emperor, it would take ten thousand years of accumulation. But this Dharma Image 'living' inside the small green bottle, if cultivated for ten thousand years, might take less than two hundred years in the outside world!

Of course, what is mentioned here is merely the accumulation of time.

If truly applied in this way, it means the resources the Ziwei Chen Family intended to invest over ten thousand years must be gathered within two hundred years, and possibly multiplied several times to meet the demands. After all, the small green bottle itself does not generate Spiritual Qi; the Spiritual Qi needed for cultivation within must be input from the outside. Not to mention the countless Starlight required to form the True Self Realm Dharma Image Emperor within.... that's truly the hard part.

Yet even so, the Dharma Body of Emperor Ziwei within the small green bottle has already given Chen Zhixing a pleasant surprise.

If a big one can't be created, can't a small one suffice?

He doesn't demand it to be like the complete True Self Realm Dharma Image Emperor, able to command the stars of the heavens over the Ziwei Heng Palace; he only hopes it transforms into a recommended version like what Chen Zhixing previously manifested, capable of bringing the combat power of a Longevity True Monarch in a downsized version. It's already enough for him at present.

Chen Zhixing's demands aren't high!

No matter how inferior, being able to spar with True Monarch Yimiao would still be acceptable!

'So, what is the origin of this small green bottle, really?'

Chen Zhixing clearly remembers, the small green bottle was an external help in the narrative for Wang Lin, serving as a time accelerator on Wang Lin's cultivation path, its secondary effect was purifying external Spiritual Qi, but other uses..... were never mentioned in the plot!

Either they didn't exist originally, or Chen Zhixing, in his past life, never invested enough to experience the additional plot about the small green bottle!

'Why didn't I invest a little back then, at least to complete all the plot lines!'

Complaining for a bit in his heart, Chen Zhixing then puts this matter out of his mind.

No matter whether the original plot introduced the small green bottle or not, it's now in his hands, and since he already perceives some mystical qualities in it, he'll slowly explore its potential.

After all, the protagonist Wang Lin has already become his disciple; replicating the bottle's functions entirely is just a matter of time.

Thinking about it, Chen Zhixing waved his sleeve at the Wang Lin observing below, bringing him directly in front, and explained under the latter's probing gaze:

"Even I can't see through it, but there is indeed a phantom Dharma Image of mine within, and it seems it can be gradually nurtured.... let's do this, for the next few days, this small green bottle will stay with me. Your cultivation level is just right, after I allocate some resources from home to infuse into the bottle, nurturing it into a small Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands, it can nurture the Dharma Image within and also support your daily cultivation needs, Lin'er."

"This...." Wang Lin was stunned by Chen Zhixing's idea of nurturing a Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands within the small bottle, thinking this would require an enormous amount of resources!

Indeed, Ziwei Mountain itself is a rare top-tier Spirit Mountain in the world, and the Ziwei Chen Family, as a top-tier Noble Family, similarly has the capability to create a Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands, but aside from the Three Great Sacred Lands, any force wanting to create a Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands costs them dearly!

Thus, even knowing that transforming the small green bottle into a Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands could benefit his cultivation, Wang Lin still gritted his teeth and rejected:

"Master, Lin'er has already cultivated to the threshold of the True Self Realm, this small green bottle no longer has significant use for me. Since it now benefits your research, I'd naturally be willing to offer it to you. As for the notion of turning it into a Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands.... the expenditure is too great, I hope Master will reconsider!"

After saying this, Wang Lin's mind couldn't help but feel empty. The more he interacted with the small green bottle, the more he realized its value. Although he could offer it to Chen Zhixing eight years ago, understanding the compatibility it had with him now made offering it again to Chen Zhixing a truly tough decision.

However, his words only brought Chen Zhixing a face full of questions.

"Too costly? What are you talking about?"

"I...." Wang Lin was a bit bewildered by Chen Zhixing's gaze; isn't creating a Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands costly enough?

"You're hopeless, Little Stone, your senior brother's cultivation has made him dumb!" With those words, Chen Zhixing touched the head of Little Stone beside him, now only half a head shorter, and said with disdain: "That small bottle of his, at most it could be a thousand meters in size, not even bigger than a micro Spirit Stone Mine, yet he thinks it would drain our Chen Family's resources to renovate this broken bottle. Tell me, isn't he dumb from cultivating?"

Shi Hao only chuckled foolishly at these words, avoiding the topic.

It's proper for the master to call the senior brother dumb, but Little Stone knew better than to jump into the conversation; otherwise, when the senior brother retaliated, he wouldn't show mercy!

Shi Hao may laugh foolishly, but Wang Lin indeed felt dumb!

Wang Lin hesitantly asked, a hint of caution in his voice, "Master, you mean that converting the small green bottle's space into a Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands doesn't require much cost?"

"What else?"

Chen Zhixing responded irritably: "Just find a middle-sized Spirit Stone Mine, take a small central portion and put it inside this bottle world, then insert a Spiritual Spring, find a high-tier Spirit Tree with minimal root space demand, and your small bottle is practically brimming full. The rest is just planting flowers and grass, and then carving out an array inside that can attract Starlight... all finished within days.

Such trivial matters, why would you think it could drain our family's resources?

No, how on earth did you come up with such a ridiculous idea?"

Chen Zhixing found Wang Lin's words truly foolish, so foolish that he didn't want to recognize him as a disciple.

But Wang Lin...

"But I read in family records, saying many Longevity Families suffered greatly to create a Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands, even becoming incapacitated...."

"They're referring to a small world! Changing a family's entire domain into a Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands! The smallest ones are the size of a county! The largest can be as big as our Southern Domain!

A family undertaking such a massive project would naturally suffer severely, and because they transfer so much wealth, once discovered externally, the family would naturally decline.

But the family's disciples move into the small world, leaving the Celestial Profound Realm with just a shell that holds place, it declines then just declines, how does your situation relate to that?"

Wang Lin: "....."

Alright, this time he understood.

That's normal too.

After all, he was just an Ascetic from a small sect, how could he understand the intrigues played by these Longevity Families!

"So...." Wang Lin hesitated, his expression growing quite awkward.

"So keep the small green bottle, see if you have any questions about cultivation, and make sure to ask them in the next few days, lest when I next go into seclusion, you end up crashing headlong into barriers on your cultivation path for decades!" Chen Zhixing sighed articulately.

Honestly, whether it comes to talent or personality, Wang Lin falls far short compared to Shi Hao; if not for the small green bottle aiding him, Wang Lin really wasn't qualified to be Chen Zhixing's disciple.

But he's willing to take him.

So even if the disciple is foolish, he's accepted!

He simply refuses to believe that pouring tens of times over hundreds of times the resources in, and still failing to guide Wang Lin into a true 'genius'!

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