Cave Refuge

Indeed, some things may appear similar, but their nature is not the same.

By this point, Dong Tianyu's initial excitement about attaining Divine Sense was slowly dissipating, attracting his attention to the faintly glowing Data Layout flickering incessantly in his mind.

Speaking about the System he obtained after his rebirth, although it was always crucial at critical moments, it wasn't like those daily sign-in systems that automatically distributed survival points, so it usually lacked a sense of presence.

Open Data Layout.

Cave Mansion: Peach Blossom Paradise

Owner of Cave Mansion: Dong Tianyu

Cultivation Level: Foundation Building Stage, Second Layer

Cave Mansion Level: Large Cave Mansion

Survival Points: 2163 (5/daily)

Cave Mansion Area: 200*200 (Height 40 meters)

Natural Abilities: Conversion (consume Survival Points, transforming technological items within the cave mansion into mystical items)

Shadow Space: Possesses a Shadow Space the same size as the Cave Mansion where time is frozen and unable to store living things.

Abilities: Absorb (absorb items within the Cave Mansion to enhance its foundation, reducing the cost of building upgradations.) Shadow Copying (can activate Shadow Space after leaving the Cave Mansion, straight-line distance=Cave Mansion length multiplied by width multiplied by height)

Earth Vein Level: Large Earth Vein

Earth Vein Traits: Stability (reduces the effects of earthquakes on the Cave Mansion), Large Resource Area (produces various types of ores every year, with a chance of producing Energy Ores).

Spiritual Spring: Makes the Spirit Energy within the Cave Mansion more active. When the concentration of Spirit Energy within the Cave Mansion reaches a certain density, it condenses to form a Spiritual Energy Crystal.

Hall of Longevity (Preliminary Level): Transfer cultivation method (Qi Drawing Technique); Spirit Gathering Array (Increases the speed of cultivation); Clear Mind (Reduces the risk of cultivation deviation) (Can be upgraded).

Fruit Tree: Swallow Seeds, Produces all kinds of fruits on the tree in terms of 100 catties per fruit, which are currently swallowed: Kirin Watermelon, Kyoho Grapes, Red Fuji Apples, Dandong Strawberries.

The changes on the Data Layout were not significant, however, Dong Tianyu was just a bit confused since he had just reached the Foundation Building Stage and already advanced to the second level of it.

Thankfully, Survival Points in the Cave Mansion can be used like universal currency. After consuming 10 Survival Points, the Hall of Longevity provided a detailed explanation.

When you break through from the Qi Refinement Realm to the Foundation Building Stage, the Divine Sense will temper the Spirit Energy within your body once, causing all the Spirit Power in your body to disappear completely.

After the breakthrough is complete, the tempered Spirit Power will feed back to Dong Tianyu's body. Once cultivation is resumed, the obtained Spirit Power will be assimilated and devoured by the tempered Spirit Power within the body.

Normally, there wouldn't be much Spirit Power within the body immediately after a breakthrough, so there generally wouldn't be any issues.

However, when Dong Tianyu made a breakthrough, he used survival points to set up automatic replenishment of Spirit Power. So, when the Divine Sense was tempering the Spirit Power within the body, because the body's Spirit Power disappeared, the Spirit Power in the Hall of Longevity, with the assistance of Survival Points, was directly poured into Dong Tianyu's body.

Although it took the Divine Sense only a blink of an eye to spread from the Sea of Consciousness to the surface of the body, thanks to the assistance of the Survival Points, the Spirit Power's reaction speed absolutely surpassed the speed of light.

So, there was still a portion of Spirit Power that was poured into Dong Tianyu's body during the tempering period of the Divine Sense. This might be equivalent to the amount of Spirit Power that Dong Tianyu had amassed when he was cultivating in the Qi Refinement Realm 30th layer.

If it wasn't for the quick spread of the Divine Sense, with this Divine Sense tempering and the infusion of massive Spirit Power, Dong Tianyu could have instantly reached the Foundation Building Stage in its entirety.

However, despite having gained some Spirit Power advantage during the breakthrough, the Survival Points were also consumed significantly. After all, nearly 3000 Survival Points before the breakthrough had now turned into just over 2000 after the breakthrough.

Seeing the Survival Points on the Data Layout barely changed from before, Dong Tianyu couldn't help but sigh, "They're really hard to accumulate but so easy to use."

Besides the changes in cultivation level and Survival Points on the Data Layout, an option for an upgrade had also appeared behind the Hall of Longevity.

After using some materials from the Shadow Space to offset the Survival Points needed for an upgrade, Dong Tianyu still had to consume 1337 Survival Points to successfully upgrade the Hall of Longevity.

The upgraded Hall of Longevity, from being simple and succinct, had now transformed, taking on a bit of an immortal cultivation flavor.

The original Hall of Longevity was just a bamboo house with nothing inside, except for a Yin-Yang Fish figure on the floor.

But after this upgrade, the bamboo house didn't vanish, rather an additional floor was added.

Apart from an extra set of stairs leading upstairs, nothing else in the first floor had changed.

As Dong Tianyu followed the stairs up to the second floor, he found rows of bamboo bookshelves, all of which were already stocked with many books.

Originally thinking the System was quite generous, Dong Tianyu randomly picked up a book. When he saw the title of the book, Dong Tianyu couldn't help but call out the name of a certain plant.

Dong Tianyu really didn't expect that the bookshelves in the large library of the Hall of Longevity, such a prestigious building, would stock such simple and unpretentious books.

"Primary School Chinese Coursebook, First Grade (First Semester)"

"Primary School Chinese Coursebook, First Grade (Second Semester)"

......

After thoroughly perusing all the books on one shelf, only then did Dong Tianyu confirm that all the books on the shelf were those he had seen before.

With some suspicion, Dong Tianyu began to survey another shelf full of books.

"Starting from Zero","Zhang Sanfeng's Wandering in Another World","Star Interstellar Undead Wizard"...

Looking at these age-exposing books, yet again confirmed Dong Tianyu's guess.

But just to be sure, Dong Tianyu continued to inspect a few more bookshelves filled with books.

"Useless Little Knowledge","Survival Guide for Transmigrators","Life Hacks"...

By now, Dong Tianyu could confirm that all the books on these shelves were ones that he had read before.

These books, manifested from Dong Tianyu's memories, were also classified according to his habits onto different shelves.

But to ultimately confirm his conjecture, Dong Tianyu approached a bookshelf holding only a single book and picked it up.

In front of him was"Qi Drawing Technique", the cultivation technique Dong Tianyu used during the Qi Refinement Realm.

Looking at the barren bookshelf, Dong Tianyu made up his mind to fill it with books just like the others.

However, at this point, the most important task was to find a cultivation technique for the Foundation Building Stage. Even though he could still engage in idle practice using the Hall of Longevity's first floor, cultivating at the Foundation Building Stage using the Qi Drawing Technique would be highly inefficient considering its low efficiency.

Dong Tianyu looked around and saw that besides the bookshelves, the second floor of the Hall of Longevity also housed an altar. On it was a building model similar to the Hall of Longevity.

Seeing this unique model, Dong Tianyu speculated that it must serve some special purpose, otherwise, it wouldn't have been placed on the second floor filled with bookshelves.