Chapter 00160: Unable to Form a Dan
# Unable to Form a Dan
Chapter 160
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 160: Unable to Form a Dan
Lan Xiaobu sat beside a bottle of top-grade Spirit Nurturing Pills, with a superior spirit vein under him.
In his eyes, in such an environment for cultivation, not to mention himself, even someone without any talent would probably succeed in forming a Dan under the effects of the Spirit Nurturing Pill.
After swallowing a Spirit Nurturing Pill, the medicinal effects quickly transformed into streams of spiritual liquid under the operation of the Taichuan Technique, nourishing his meridians and then becoming pure true essence stored in his dantian.
The spiritual energy from the superior spirit vein flowed into Lan Xiaobu's body alongside the circulation of his True Qi, moving from the dantian to the Purple Palace…
His true essence became purer and thicker, yet Lan Xiaobu began to feel something was amiss.
This was the eighth Spirit Nurturing Pill he had consumed, and he had been cultivating continuously for three months.
However, after taking these pills, he felt not even the hint of forming a Dan.
Gripping the ninth Spirit Nurturing Pill in his hand, Lan Xiaobu hesitated and did not swallow it.
He examined the pill for the period of a stick of incense before sighing and placing it back in the bottle.
He was sure that there was an issue with his realm, something unrelated to the Spirit Nurturing Pills or his own talent.
If every Golden Dan cultivator required eight Spirit Nurturing Pills to succeed in forming a Dan, then there would be very few cultivators in the Yuan Continent who could reach that realm.
Besides, he hadn’t even been able to succeed after consuming eight pills.
From his understanding, forming a Dan meant the continual rise of cultivation, leading to the breaking open of the Golden Dan, transforming into a more refined and powerful essence.
Now, every time he swallowed a Spirit Nurturing Pill, his Golden Dan became more solidified and his true essence thicker, showing no sign of any trend toward forming a Dan.
Lan Xiaobu glanced at Gu Dao, who was sitting on a mid-grade spirit vein, cultivating with a visible air of mastery, and even had a faint vortex of spiritual energy surrounding him.
This would not do; if this continued, even Gu Dao might surpass him.
How could he form a Dan?
Form a Dan…
Lan Xiaobu’s thoughts fell on his Golden Dan, and in that moment, he suddenly had a crazy idea.
Forming a Dan meant shattering his Golden Dan; what if he forcibly shattered his own Golden Dan and then operated the Taichuan Technique? Could that also lead to forming a Dan?
Before this idea struck him, he wouldn’t have considered it much.
But once the thought occurred, it sprouted with wild abandon, like weeds spreading unchecked.
He had the ability to tear apart his own soul and cultivate the Spirit Refining Technique.
Why couldn’t he tear apart his own Golden Dan to step into the realm of Dan formation? He could let go of the other realms for now, such as going from Dan formation to Spirit Refining, which he couldn't condense his Primordial Spirit for.
But shattering his Golden Dan? That was something he believed he could accomplish.
For other Golden Dan cultivators, if their Golden Dan shattered, it would mean a total loss of cultivation, and their lives could be in danger as well.
However, if a cultivator's soul were torn apart, they would suffer from madness or worse.
But why could he tear apart his soul without harm and even see his divine sense increase? Wasn’t it because of the Spirit Refining Technique? Now that he was shattering his Golden Dan, would the Taichuan Technique allow him to complete this transformation into forming a Dan as well?
Lan Xiaobu was fervent, and while he was harsh on himself, he wasn’t foolish.
He believed he could endure the pain of tearing apart his Golden Dan.
Could it be worse than tearing apart his own soul? The key question was whether the Taichuan Technique could do what the Spirit Refining Technique did and help him accomplish his breakthrough.
Construct the Cosmic Dimension Model!
Lan Xiaobu resolutely activated the Taichuan Technique, while simultaneously training and allowing the Cosmic Dimension Model to illustrate how he could forcibly shatter his Golden Dan to directly form a Dan.
Under the superior spirit vein, the Cosmic Dimension Model spun rapidly.
Lan Xiaobu no longer cared about whether he was at the perfection level of the Golden Dan; he similarly operated the Taichuan Technique with abandon.
The Taichuan Technique was too powerful in absorbing spiritual energy, and the mist of spiritual energy created by the superior spirit vein almost completely enveloped Lan Xiaobu.
His Golden Dan continued to condense, and not only that, his true essence grew denser.
The Golden Dan floated in his dantian, with true essence circulating around it, exuding a strong aura.
At this moment, Lan Xiaobu even suspected he could take on a cultivator at the Spirit Refining realm and might overpower them.
Time passed without him noticing.
Suddenly, the Cosmic Dimension Model came to a halt, and Lan Xiaobu realized that the cultivation method of the Taichuan Technique for refining the spirit had changed somewhat.
Lan Xiaobu clenched his jaw and decided to go for it without hesitation.
Thinking too much had always kept him from taking that step.
Back then, he’d refined his divine sense before he even formed a Dan, simply because he didn’t know fear.
Now that he understood too much, was it really worse than before?
“Golden Dan, shatter for me!”
A powerful surge of true essence pressed down on the Golden Dan.
Even though his Golden Dan was solid and thick, cracks began to appear on its surface.
In that instant, Lan Xiaobu felt his power rapidly diminishing.
This was the precursor to losing his cultivation, he realized.
A wave of terrible pain washed over him, and he could not suppress a mouthful of blood that shot out like an arrow.
He could not let his cultivation destroy itself before the Dan was shattered.
Gritting his teeth through the suffering and all negative feelings, Lan Xiaobu struck his true essence against his Golden Dan once more.
“Crack!” The Golden Dan shattered, and another mouthful of blood spewed forth.
Lan Xiaobu felt his power dissolve quickly, his true essence scattering, as a wave of despair flooded his entire being.
“I’m done for…” he moaned to himself.
But no, he consciously destroyed his Golden Dan, and once he successfully formed a Dan, his true essence would multiply again.
This time, he couldn't even be bothered to take the pills, focusing all his efforts on running the Taichuan Technique.
Success or failure hinged on this moment.
If the Taichuan Technique couldn't even complete a full rotation, then he truly would be done for.
To his relief, the Taichuan Technique operated flawlessly; the refining method of the Spirit Refining Technique, which had always felt like it was missing something when moving through the Golden Dan realm, now seemed unobstructed, as if the Golden Dan had been moved aside.
And now a complete rotation was accomplished with ease.
Lan Xiaobu was overjoyed; regardless of success or failure, there was hope.
The Taichuan Technique operated rapidly, stripping the spiritual energy from the superior spirit vein, which then formed a vortex of spiritual energy around Lan Xiaobu that was several times larger than before.
Before long, Lan Xiaobu fell into a state of self-forgetful cultivation, a faint shadow of a primordial spirit gradually solidifying deep in his sea of consciousness.
Months passed, and when Lan Xiaobu woke again, he immediately clenched his fists in excitement.
He wasn’t sure if he had succeeded in forming a Dan, but he was certain that his current strength was absolutely beyond mere Dan formation, not just by a little.
Within his Purple Palace, there was the faint shadow of a primordial spirit.
Although his primordial spirit still wasn’t fully condensed, it was forming…
Wait a minute, Lan Xiaobu questioned.
Forming a Dan shouldn’t have a primordial spirit; it was merely a realm before the primordial spirit formed.
His current situation resembled the Spirit Refining realm more; the Spirit Refining realm was the process of condensing the primordial spirit, leading to the virtual spirit realm and then fully solidifying the primordial spirit, allowing for short-range separation from the body.
Once one reached the Human Immortal realm, the primordial spirit could separate from the body over long distances for extended periods.
This meant that he hadn’t gone through the Dan formation realm and had directly crossed into the Spirit Refining realm.
Or perhaps he forcibly stepped over the Dan formation realm by shattering his Golden Dan.
The flowing true essence transformed into liquid told Lan Xiaobu that, despite his current strength being significantly enhanced, once he completely transformed his true essence into primordial liquid, it would increase his power even further.
No matter if Yuan Continent was a sacred land for cultivation, logically speaking, cultivators shouldn’t be able to skip past realms.
This wasn’t like education where one could skip grades.
Cultivation was a sequential process, and skipping levels was unheard of.
The only possibility was that the Taichuan Technique was the true cultivation method, and the Dan formation realm was optional, even an additional realm concocted by later generations to make it easier to cross into Spirit Refining.
Because in the true cultivation process, there was no such realm; the Taichuan Technique simply eliminated Dan formation.
If that was the case, Lan Xiaobu’s Golden Dan after must have used not the Spirit Nurturing Pill, but rather the Silent Spirit Pill needed for stepping into the Spirit Refining realm.
No wonder he had consumed eight Spirit Nurturing Pills in vain.
Now he didn’t need the Silent Spirit Pill and still transitioned into the Spirit Refining realm.
Lan Xiaobu extended his divine sense, and though Little Longevity Mountain had various restrictions, they could not stop his divine sense from stretching forth.
How incredible! Lan Xiaobu couldn’t believe it himself.
His divine sense had strengthened by more than tenfold, stretching from two to three hundred miles to two to three thousand miles.
His divine sense then returned to his sea of consciousness.
At this moment, the Cosmic Dimension Model had become completely clear, appearing like a tangible object, its shape transforming into a distinctly clear hexagonal pyramid, and...
Lan Xiaobu quickly discovered the difference in the Cosmic Dimension Model.
A tiny strand of his divine sense settled within it, revealing a vast space inside, much like a universe before creation...
Was this a tangible space?
Lan Xiaobu was thrilled.
The Cosmic Dimension Model was the treasure born of the creation of the world; no, it was even a treasure from before the creation of the world, so how could it lack a space?
With a slight movement of his mind, Lan Xiaobu was astonished to find that he was already inside the Cosmic Dimension Model.
Aside from the two to three thousand miles where his divine sense could reach, everything further away became a sea of chaos.
His divine sense brushed against it, sinking without a sound like mud into the ocean.
Touching the surface below, it felt like something indescribable, not quite earth.
Lan Xiaobu sensed it was a substance that predated the formation of earth.
Clenching his fists, Lan Xiaobu thought, this is truly a treasure!
Even the largest space of storage rings wouldn’t allow living things to enter.
Yet within his Cosmic Dimension Model, he found it possible.
If he could enter, then it meant Gu Dao could come in too.
In a wave of thought, Lan Xiaobu easily brought Lan Xing into the Cosmic Dimension Model.
Compared to the boundless cosmic model, Lan Xing’s level-seven battleship seemed like mere dust.
With a slight shift of consciousness, Lan Xiaobu was once again standing atop that superior spirit vein.
“Hahaha...” Lan Xiaobu laughed heartily.
Just a few months ago, he had worried about finding a place to store this superior spirit vein, and today, he suspected he could store the entirety of Yuan Continent.
Just months ago, he had struggled with forming a Dan.
Now, he seemed to have directly crossed through the realm of Spirit Refining and arrived at the Spirit Refining realm.
(End of Chapter)