Su Yuchen began his breakthrough into the Meridian Refinement Realm. Senior Brother Li was notified during the daytime, and he decided to give Su Yuchen his own cultivation room for a smooth breakthrough.

Su Yuchen sat down in a luxurious cultivation room. He looked at everything in the cultivation room and then began to focus on meditation. He effortlessly visualised his meridian system and checked his astral energy. His Meridian system was nearly filled with light purple coloured astral energy. The astral energy in his body had obviously decreased from his last cultivation session, as it slowly dissipated and flowed into his organs. Su Yuchen wasn’t worried about the disintegration, it is a natural process.

Ten circulations should be enough to fill the meridian system with astral, Su Yuchen calculated. He immediately started cultivating without wasting anytime and concentrated on his life essence and connected to it in an instant.

As the Life essence became active, the astral energy around was also connected to it. Su Yuchen slowly controlled the Life essence and led it through the astral energy. The meridian system was filled with astral energy that was infused with its aura. Life essence moved in his astral energy, like a fish moving in water, without facing any resistance.

Su Yuchen led it towards his hands and collected the astral energy from there. The Life essence completed the circulation in that meridian and made a second round to collect the astral energy once again. The acupoints in Su Yuchen’s hands absorbed astral energy from the stellar rock he held, this was collected by his life essence. The Life Essence once again completed a circulation in that meridian. This process continued for eight more times. Su Yuchen’s forehead was covered with sweat from the mental drain, the collected astral energy was merging with his aura. At last his entire meridian system was filled with astral energy, which was infused with the aura from his Life Essence.

A cool sensation spread from his lower abdomen, and his meridian system began to tighten. Su Yuchen didn’t feel any pain. The cold from the lower abdomen slowly spread, and when it stopped it was only confined to the path of his meridian system.

Su Yuchen’s whole body relaxed, he had to do nothing from this point. His body had kick started the transformation process of the meridian system. He only needs to keep vigilance and take control to avoid any injuries from happening to his meridian system because of failure in the transformation process. Su Yuchen was confident that there would be no failure, as his astral energy was more dense and condensed than what others could manage. The transformation process could get enough energy from this astral energy.

Su Yuchen doesn’t know how much time as passed, he guessed and felt about seven hours had passed. The meridian system transformation process had ended.

Su Yuchen immediately looked into his meridian system. The dantian and meridians were smooth like iron surface and gave a sturdy feeling to him. He could feel them becoming wider and tougher. The space inside the dantian became ten times wider than before breakthrough. Su Yuchen estimated that his dantian now could fit the entire astral energy he had refined before and still have more space.

Su Yuchen’s acupoints all over his body started to become painful. His acupoints were also going through a small transformation. Within half an hour, the pain subsided.

Immediately Su Yuchen began to feel his acupoints drawing astral energy from his surroundings. He felt a small vortex near in the gaps of his hands, the acupoints that were not in direct contact with the stellar rock was pulling the astral energy from it. This greatly surprised him. He immediately held the stellar rock tighter and completely covered his hand over the stellar rock.

Su Yuchen began to feel his meridians slowly filling up with astral energy. His acupoints pumped astral energy into his meridians at a fast speed, this speed would have filled his previous meridian system in a second. However, now not even the first meridian was filled up.

Su Yuchen began to understand how wider and larger his meridian system had become. The formation in Senior Brother Li’s cultivation room was much better than his own cultivation room, Su Yuchen could feel the acupoints all over his body being able to rapidly draw astral energy and fill his meridians. He just held the stellar rock and made sure his whole meridian system was filled with astral energy.

Su Yuchen looked at his Life essence to see if it had any changes, sure it did. The Life essence was much bigger and looked more condensed than before. It now gave him an impression of a white paint blob floating in space, while previously it looked like a translucent substance. The rate at which it infused the astral energy with his aura in its passive state had also increased. It quickly infused the astral energy in the dantian with his aura. The efficiency could not be compared with the Life Essence before transformation.

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Su Yuchen entered the Meridian Refinement Realm. By completely refining his primary meridians he was now in the first stage of the Meridian Refinement Realm. His life span was also increased with his meridian transformation. He now has a life span between 150 years to 180 years.

After Su Yuchen’s whole meridian system was filled with astral energy, he relaxed his body. He stretched his legs which became numb after staying in the same posture for more than eight hours. Su Yuchen slowly relaxed and stood up.

[Ding! Congratulations to the Cultivator for stepping into the first realm of cultivation, and becoming a Energy Condensation Realm cultivator.]

[Initiating process! Cultivator can now proceed to communicate with the system.]

[You can now share your thoughts with the system.]

Su Yuchen was startled with the sudden notifications in his mind. He quickly looked into the notifications and read them. He was surprised and immediately thought of asking the questions he was concerned with.

‘System, who are you?’ He decided to ask this question first.

[System cannot give the Cultivator a sufficient answer that could satisfy him.]

Su Yuchen frowned with the answer he got.

‘What to do you mean you cannot give me an answer? Can’t you explain about yourself?’

[The existence of System cannot be comprehended by the Cultivator at his current realm. There is no answer that can satisfy the Cultivator.]

[The System only has the power of creation. This function is being used to nurture potential candidates.]

Su Yuchen stood still and thought about the answers given by the system. The system was not giving him a satisfactory answer to describe itself, but it explained its powers. It might not be possible to understand its existence at the moment like it said. He should ask differently.

‘Can you tell me if you are an existence like me?’ Su Yuchen tried to ask a simple question.

[It is a complicated answer. The System is an existence similar to the Cultivator. The System exists in a way different than the Cultivator.]

Su Yuchen couldn’t put together the answer it gave. He thought that the system might be similar to living beings like him, but it existed in a different dimension. That was the answer he was going to stick for now.

‘Why was I brought to this cultivation world? Am I in the same universe like in my previous life?’ Su Yuchen asked his next questions. He always thought about this from the moment he gained consciousness in this world.

[The Cultivator has the potential to become a supreme being in the cultivation world. The Cultivator is in a different universe. He was transported from his previous universe to this cultivation universe to realise the potential within him.]

Su Yuchen was confused. His talent in cultivation was increased with the help of the jade provided by the system. What does it mean by his potential? If he had the internet with him he would look for differences between them.

‘What do you mean by potential? My talent was raised with your help. Is there any differences between talent and potential?’ He asked the system, the substitute to internet.

[Even if the Cultivator had low grade talent he could still walk a long road in his cultivation journey because of his potential by working hard. The Cultivator’s journey is just slowed down because of his talent but he can substitute the talent by consuming resources to improve.]

[Potential is the possible limit a cultivator can reach. There are conditions that should be met to realise the potential of a cultivator.]

[For example, by refining your meridian system 108 times, the Cultivator can complete a condition to achieve the limits of his potential. If the Cultivator fails to meet this condition, his chances to realise his full potential decreases greatly.]

[There will be many conditions that needs to be achieved for a cultivator to fully form his potential.]

[Talent serves as a means to walk on the cultivation path.]

[Talent increases the efficiency of a cultivator and makes him progress quickly and show his ability.]

[Talent makes a cultivator perform better in a certain path.]

[For example, the cultivator with high grade talent in astral energy absorption can complete the 108 refinements faster than with a low grade talent.]

[Talent is particular to certain paths in a cultivator. This restricts a cultivator and can limit his future journey in cultivation when he needs the help of other paths to proceed in his cultivation journey. Talent can also be honed to forcefully break through the limits and develop further.]

[Potential encompasses every path that is necessary for fulfilling it. To achieve the limit of his potential, a cultivator can walk every path he needs. The potential also restricts the cultivator with its predetermined limit. Potential can only be honed further with extraordinary means.]

Su Yuchen was astounded by the answers from the system. He became overwhelmingly happy after realising the meaning of potential.

‘What’s my potential? Can it also be graded?’ He immediately asked.

[No. Potential can only show the possibility. It is not reality. There is no universally agreed grading method for potential.]

Su Yuchen calmed down after seeing the answer. Potential is not as realistic as talent. He must work hard to achieve his potential.