A Dharma Body at the "Initial Taiji" level required 3 gold coins and 30 points of Immortal Foundation to craft. Jiang Yuan made two, and with the one gifted by the system, he could just barely create a Level 2 Dharma Body.
[Dharma Body: Two Forms Transformation] Level Requirement: 105 Realm Requirement: Ascension HP +4110 MP +2620 Price: 1 Gold Two Forms shift with boundless subtlety, Ultimate Yin and Yang awaken dual light. Seven Absolute Sword Qi condenses dark essence, Three Flavors True Fire proves primal force.
To synthesize a Level 2 Dharma Body, Jiang Yuan spent a total of 9 gold coins and 90 points of Immortal Foundation. For him, it was like a drop in the bucket!
For the next while, Jiang Yuan stood still as a statue, while in his mind, he began crafting higher-level Dharma Bodies with full focus.
[Ding! Your Immortal Foundation is insufficient; unable to craft!]
After more than twenty minutes, only when he heard the system prompt did Jiang Yuan finally stop.
"Damn! My head hurts!"
Looking at the completed Level 10 Dharma Body in his backpack, Jiang Yuan rubbed his temples. The mental energy required to synthesize Dharma Bodies was immense, and he couldn't help but groan about how taxing it was.
He carefully calculated the cost. To craft the Level 10 Dharma Body, Jiang Yuan had used up gold coins and consumed Immortal Foundation points.
The gold coin expenditure was still within Jiang Yuan's tolerance, but the consumption of Immortal Foundation was terrifying. The remaining Immortal Foundation was only enough for him to advance one more realm!
"Sigh! Looks like I'll have to find a way to earn more Immortal Foundation again!"
Jiang Yuan let out a soft sigh, equipped the crafted Level 10 Dharma Body into his gear slot, then opened the equipment list to take a look.
[Dharma Body: Ten Directions Universe (Bound)] Level Requirement: 105 Realm Requirement: Ascension HP + MP + Skill Hit +9 Skill Evasion +9 Critical Rate +4% Reduced chance of being critically hit by 4% Damage Reduction 6% Price: 1 Gold Ten Directions cultivation explores form and void, Golden light and auspicious clouds roam the azure sky. Let not true words become dragons and tigers, Heaven's wrath brings wind and thunder in a flash.
"Huh? Why are there two new attributes after the update?"
Seeing the new "Skill Hit" and "Skill Evasion" attributes on the Level 10 Dharma Body, Jiang Yuan fell into thought.
Combining what the acolyte Mingyue had said with his own guesses, Jiang Yuan roughly understood the function of these two attributes.
Skill Hit and Skill Evasion should only take effect in PvP gameplay. They don't target bosses but players!
In other words, Skill Hit increases the probability of landing skills on enemy players, while Skill Evasion, when raised, allows one to dodge skills cast by other players.
After finishing with the Dharma Body, Jiang Yuan, having nothing urgent to do, went to the sect cultivation NPC in the functional area to upgrade his Primordial Spirit level.
Since ascending to the Immortal Realm, Jiang Yuan had obtained a total of Primordial Spirit Orbs from the Heavenly Soldiers, the boss Spirit Monkey King, and the Earthly Yin Star Jiao Long. After handing them all over to the sect cultivation NPC, he gained points of Primordial Spirit cultivation!
[Ding! Congratulations! Primordial Spirit level upgraded to Level 3!] [Ding! Congratulations! Primordial Spirit level upgraded to Level 4!] [Ding! Congratulations! Primordial Spirit level upgraded to Level 5!]
A series of prompts rang out, and Jiang Yuan's Primordial Spirit level increased by three levels, raising his Immortal Power from 2000 points to 3500 points!
Summoning a Sacred Beast required 1200 points of Immortal Power. Now, Jiang Yuan could finally summon both the Sacred Beast Xuanwu and the Sacred Beast Zhuque at the same time. For him, this was a godsend!
After doing all this, Jiang Yuan opened the Immortal Realm map and began searching for the location of "Flowing Cloud City" mentioned in the update announcement.
Flowing Cloud City was located ten thousand li away from Eternal Life Hall. It was a new main city built by the *Ten Thousand Realms* game officials to facilitate player interaction.
Arriving at the Flying Immortal Maiden Liu Xuanxuan, he paid a teleportation fee of 1 gold coin. After a dizzying whirl, Jiang Yuan arrived at this brand-new main city.
Flowing Cloud City wasn't large, covering about two to three hundred square meters. From the east end to the west end, riding a mount took roughly ten minutes to tour.
The city retained its classic ancient style, filled with countless pavilions and towers, complemented by auspicious clouds and immortal mist, evoking a sense of ethereal haziness.
What shocked Jiang Yuan the most was that Flowing Cloud City was actually a "Sky City" floating in the Immortal Realm!
"Layered peaks of emerald green, soaring above the azure skies; flying pavilions of flowing crimson, suspended over the void below." This description was perfectly suited for the Flowing Cloud City before him!
Suppressing the deep awe in his heart, Jiang Yuan rode his Frost Wolf to the Three Officials Great Emperor NPC.
In Jiang Yuan's memory, the Three Officials Great Emperors of the Immortal Realm should be three separate beings: the Heavenly Official Ziwei Great Emperor, the Earthly Official Qingxu Great Emperor, and the Water Official Dongyin Great Emperor.
Among them, the Heavenly Official bestows blessings, the Earthly Official pardons sins, and the Water Official relieves calamities. They were deities governing mortals. For some reason, these three immortals had merged into one, becoming the NPC "Three Officials Great Emperor"!
After a conversation with the Three Officials Great Emperor, Jiang Yuan roughly understood the detailed mechanics of the Nascent Soul.
In short, the Nascent Soul was a mysterious power within a cultivator's body. As this power grew stronger, it granted the cultivator powerful attributes.
However, since Jiang Yuan and the others were players in the game, they couldn't condense a Nascent Soul in their dantian like the immortal NPCs in the Immortal Realm. Thus, the designers of *Ten Thousand Realms* materialized it, turning it into a piece of equipment for players!
Exchanging for a Nascent Soul was simple. Just hand over the system-granted item [Nascent Soul Exchange Voucher] to the Three Officials Great Emperor NPC, and you'd receive an [Unconsecrated Nascent Soul].
But the [Unconsecrated Nascent Soul] couldn't be equipped yet. It needed to be consecrated using the item [Supreme Jade], which cost one Immortal Crystal to purchase—equivalent to 5000 RMB!
The Nascent Soul's grade was divided into six levels: Two Forms Transformation, Three Flowers Gathering at the Top, Five Energies Converging to the Origin, Refining Gang to Transform the Spirit, Insight into the Void, and Supreme True Martial. When two attribute aptitudes were maxed out, the Nascent Soul's quality reached Three Flowers Gathering at the Top; when four attribute aptitudes were maxed, it advanced to Five Energies Converging to the Origin; when six were maxed, it advanced to Refining Gang to Transform the Spirit, and so on. When all eight attribute aptitudes were maxed, it could reach the highest Supreme True Martial level!
Jiang Yuan then asked the Three Officials Great Emperor about how to improve the Nascent Soul's grade. The NPC told him he could use [Returning Origin Spirit Jade] to refine it. One piece of Returning Origin Spirit Jade was worth about 100 RMB.
Jiang Yuan inquired further and found out that if he wanted to max out all eight attribute aptitudes of the Nascent Soul, reaching the Supreme True Martial Creation Realm, it would cost about 200 million RMB!
"Good grief! Cultivating immortality really burns money!"