The Path of Survivor begins with obtaining titles

Years in cultivation passed speedily, akin to light. In the blink of an eye, nearly ten months had passed since Lin Yi joined the Inner Sect. His cultivation levels, under the influence of the Title Effect, along with pills and the Spirit

Gathering Array, had reached the Great Perfection of the Eighth Layer.

However, the path of cultivation grew increasingly difficult, and the barrier of realms became much larger. Previously, when he broke through the Seventh Layer to reach the Eighth Layer, it took him only a few days, leveraging the cumulative effect of the [Grain Wisdom from One’s Mistakes] used on the same day, he succeeded in breaking through via enlightenment.

And now, from the Eighth Layer, breaking through to the Highest Stage of Qi Refining, the difficulty increased again. He made consecutive attempts to breakthrough for several days. Each failure provided him opportunities for enlightenment, but they were not enough.

The usage of [Grain Wisdom from One’s Mistakes] in one day presented a significant limitation. If he could extend the usage period, then he could acquire more accumulated wisdom, and perhaps even achieve the Enlightenment State when using Little Luck.

At the ninth month, his cultivation level reached the Great Perfection of the Eighth Layer. Since then, every day, he stayed on the brink of breaking through, stockpiling enlightenment opportunities and using them just before dawn.

Although the daily gathered insights couldn’t result in a breakthrough, Lin Yi could sense that, with each successive assault, the barrier began to loosen.

On this day, exactly a month after he had been relentlessly using his enlightenment to surpass the Ninth Layer, Lin Yi had a premonition: he might breakthrough today.

Thus, he activated his Cave Mansion’s defensive array to its fullest extent. Then, from dawn until the next day’s early morning, he gathered a full day’s worth of enlightenment opportunities after his failed attempts at breaking through.

Gazing into the night, Lin Yi took a deep breath, wore [Grain Wisdom from One’s Mistakes] as a title, and initiated the enlightenment opportunities.

As before, a prompt appeared, asking whether he wished to accumulate the effect. He chose to accumulate, whereupon waves of insight about cultivation methods and realm bottlenecks flooded into his mind all at once.

Continuously digesting these insights, a smile gradually surfaced on Lin Yi’s face. He then activated the Creation Method, summoned all the spiritual energy he had refined throughout his body, and launched the final assault on the bottleneck.

Under the bolstering effect of his insights, the bottleneck steadily loosened until his spiritual energy finally broke through the bottleneck and flooded into his body’s new channels, eliciting a wave of Spiritual Power Fluctuation from him.

And thus, he broke through to the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining, becoming a cultivator at the highest stage of Qi Refining. Once he reached the Great Perfection, he could attempt Foundation Establishment and officially enter the ranks of genuine cultivators.

Following the breakthrough, Lin Yi did not cease his cultivation but continued to assimilate these insights. With each new layer and the enlightenment granted by the Titles, he gained a more profound understanding of the Creation Method.

Apparently, the Creation Method widely disseminated in the Cultivation World was not a common cultivation technique as many thought. It concealed some secrets.

The name ‘Creation Method’ implied several meanings. On Earth, it was often used to describe blessings, but its most fundamental meaning was creation and transformation.

However, he had just begun to grasp some understanding and hadn’t yet truly accessed this level of secrets.

Suddenly, a pop-up appeared before his eyes, “[Grain Wisdom from One’s

Mistakes] experience +2, promoted to Second Tier.”

A look of elation spread across Lin Yi’s face as he hadn’t expected to gain 2 experience points from his recent breakthrough to the Ninth Layer, using enlightenment.

This Title was connected with enlightenment opportunities and wisdom, making it more difficult to gain experience compared to other Titles. Sometimes, full successive days of continuous setbacks were needed to possibly gain 1 experience point.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t have taken nearly a year to successfully level up to the Second Tier.

To fully gain experience from this Title, in addition to encountering setbacks, one must use enlightenment. After all, “[Grain Wisdom from One’s Mistakes]” implies gaining wisdom from setbacks. If one only experienced setbacks without gaining wisdom, they would be considered foolish.

Lin Yi opened the Title System to check the effects upon reaching the Second

Tier, “Each setback the host encounters will provide an enlightenment opportunity…”

The preceding details were the same as before, but the text inside the brackets had changed.

“(Undergoing setbacks grants enlightenment opportunities. The difficulty of these setback determines the effectiveness of the enlightenment. The same setback’s enlightenment opportunities could be accumulated and used for an additional 20% effect, but must be used within three days. Enlightenment opportunities can only be used when wearing the Title).”

Upon noticing that the Title upgrade not only increased the cumulative effect by 20%, but also extended the usage period by two days, his face welled up with intense joy.

The effect of enlightenment opportunities accumulating over three days would be substantially more potent.

Subsequently, Lin Yi solidified his newly broken-through cultivation level. Now, he was at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer. Under the concealment effect of

[Little Survivor], his outwardly perceived cultivation level was at the Qi

Refining Middle Stage’s Sixth Layer, hiding an entire realm.

It was now time for him to step out and test his abilities, and by doing so fetch himself the Title he had always conjectured about.

In his understanding, the ultimate goal of the Path of Survivor was to ensure survival, avoid karma beyond control, and traverse deeper into the Immortal

Way, rather than staying in a secluded mountain range to cultivate until death.

Cultivation required resources. Even with the Golden Finger Title, without resources, bare Title effects alone were insufficient for rapidly improving cultivation levels..