Ye Xiwen’s heavenly phoenix regeneration was actually a supreme level secret technique. However, the consumption of life essence was something that even the phoenix race couldn’t escape despite being so loved and favored by the heavens, let alone a human expert like him. It was said that at the end of a millennium of its lifespan, a phoenix reached nirvana and took rebirth after completely regaining its exhausted life essence.

  Ye Xiwen did not have the miraculous skill of the phoenix race as reaching nirvana was equivalent to dying as a result of exhausting one’s life essence entirely. Life essence is fundamental to maintaining the life of all living beings and the so-called process of strengthening the foundation is to find ways to increase one’s life essence reserves.

  While leading a pious life of martial arts practice, every breakthrough into the next stage can increase the lifespan by a corresponding increase in the life essence. However Ye Xiwen’s consumption of life essence was just too fast, in fact he estimated that he had already ended up consuming more than 50 years worth of life essence, particularly while regenerating fatal wounds. He had been able to survive all those life threatening situations all thanks to phoenix regeneration technique, so he was reluctant to avoid using this technique even after knowing its shortcomings.

  Ye Xiwen could only continue to make breakthroughs one after another to offset the consumed life essence. So long as the breakthrough speed was fast enough to make sure that the regeneration rate of the life essence would always remain above the consumption rate, he should be able to survive.

  “I will need to buy some appropriate herbs after exiting this world.” Ye Xiwen nodded and said.

  “Yes, these herbs can be used to refine Shou Dan (Longevity Dan), and I have a gift to add to Shou Dan’s formula, so all you need to do is pay attention to collecting those raw materials for the medicinal pills. The refined pills always give more benefits compared to the ingredients, not to mention you can just sell the ones you don’t need. This would form a positive feedback circle and you will never lack life essence as a result of that.” Ye Mo said.

  (NT: Ye Mo is telling him to concoct immortality pills, then use the ones he needs to increase his life essence and sell the ones he doesn’t need. The selling of pills will bring in Ling Dans which would then be helpful in his cultivation and breakthroughs. The breakthroughs will increase his overall reserves of life essence.)

  “En!” Ye Xiwen nodded as on the road of martial art practice, the biggest natural enemy was none other than time itself. As long as there was enough time, even a pig should be able to practice. However, the struggle of life with the heavens could never be a simple matter because there was an absolute requirement of longer practice time to reach the higher levels of cultivation.

  Even if a Shou Dan would add only 50 years of life to one’s lifespan, it was still enough to make everyone go crazy over it. It was well-known fact that the owner of an alchemy refining furnace would never lack financial resources. Of course, Ye Xiwen was aware of this and had been looking for a good opportunity to learn how to use it properly, not to mention he had already obtained a mighty technique called ‘Celestial Emperor Tool Refining Tactics’ from Ye Mo. It was the key to demonstrating the gate to the enlightenment of Dao, thereby making it more valuable than the ancient scriptures. Unfortunately, his Dao was not in agreement with it, otherwise, his cultivation would be far greater than what it current was. However even so, the ‘Celestial Emperor Tool Refining Tactics’ was of great significance to him.