Invincible Beyond Heavens: Cultivating With A Broken EXP System

Only at the beginning of the fourth day did Li Yun slowly open his eyes.

The moment they opened, a sharp brilliance flashed within them before fading into calm depth. His gaze seemed clearer than before, colder than before, and far more penetrating. It was as though everything he looked at could be seen through to its essence.

A smile gradually appeared across his face.

“This is amazing,” Li Yun muttered, unable to hide the excitement in his voice.

He slowly clenched his hand and felt the changes within himself with absolute clarity.

“My Sword Intent has already reached 60% Source Mastery, while my Flame Intent, Lightning Intent, and Wind Intent have all advanced to 50% Source Mastery.”

As he spoke, even he could feel how terrifying those gains truly were. Intent comprehension was never easy.

For ordinary geniuses, raising mastery by even a small amount could require months or years of bitter cultivation, repeated battles, and rare moments of insight. Yet in only a few days, he had crossed barriers that many would remain trapped beneath for years.

Then Li Yun’s smile deepened.

“But the greatest improvement belongs to my Killing Intent.”

A faint crimson chill briefly flickered in his eyes before disappearing.

“It directly rose to 30% Source Mastery.”

He could clearly sense why that path had advanced the fastest.

Li Yun had only recently comprehended Killing Intent through the Iron Blood Banner. The scenes within that treasure, the endless battlefields, rivers of blood, mountains of corpses, and merciless truths of slaughter were still vivid within his memory. Those experiences had not faded. They remained fresh in his mind, etched deeply into his consciousness.

Because of that, when he entered enlightenment, his understanding naturally gravitated toward the path that had most recently shaken his soul.

The memories within the banner became nourishment.

The remnants of slaughter became guidance.

The truths he had witnessed there became stepping stones.

As a result, Killing Intent benefited the most from his breakthrough state and surged far beyond what it normally should have.

Li Yun slowly rose from the bed, feeling the strength of his transformed mind and sharpened intents flow through him like hidden tides.

Just as he was about to leave Yin Cloud Mountain, Li Yun suddenly came to a halt.

His mind slowly swept the mountain of treasures he had taken from the Blood Zombie Demon General, and a thoughtful look appeared on his face as a new idea formed in his mind.

“I gained far too many resources this time,” he said quietly, his voice low and steady.

“Although many of them were meant for demonic martial artists and hold little value to me, there are still enough pure cultivation treasures here to greatly increase my strength.”

His gaze lingered on the items spread before him in his storage ring. Jade bottles filled with rare pills rested beside radiant spirit fruits, while elemental stones and precious herbs released waves of spiritual energy into the air.

“With these resources, breaking through another level or two should not be difficult at all.”

Li Yun had no intention of wasting such a valuable opportunity.

The longer he walked the path of martial cultivation, the more clearly he understood a simple truth.

In this world, strength decided nearly everything.

Without another moment of hesitation, he turned back and sat down cross-legged upon the Five Elemental Bed.

He calmly sorted every treasure into separate groups, placing the useful items before him while casting the demonic resources aside.

There were spirit fruits rich with life essence, lightning stones filled with wild destructive power, fire marrow crystals burning with intense qi, wind jade leaves carrying pure and agile spiritual force, high-grade spirit stones, and several old medicinal pills that still contained dense and refined energy.

Li Yun drew in a slow breath as his eyes sharpened with focus.

“Let’s begin.”

He closed his eyes and activated all three cultivation arts at the same time.

Overlord Thunder Scripture moved first with tyrannical force.

Great Sun Flame Scripture followed with blazing heat.

Wind God Raging Art surged like an endless storm.

All three of these cultivation arts roared at the 13th layer.

The instant the arts began circulating, lightning qi, flame qi, and wind qi rushed through his meridians like three mighty rivers crashing through mountain valleys. With his newly advanced sixth-tier comprehension, Li Yun’s understanding of each cultivation art had already reached an astonishing level.

What once seemed profound and difficult now appeared simple and orderly before him.

What once required immense effort now moved as naturally as breathing.

The bottlenecks that had obstructed him in the past were no longer walls in his eyes. They had become visible flaws waiting to be broken apart.

Li Yun’s mind entered a state of absolute calm.

Another day passed just like that as Li Yun remained sealed in cultivation.

The start of the next day something happened.

Wind began to rage around him like roaring dragons, flames surged high into the cave, lightnings coiled all around his figure. It was like his body had became the center of chaos for all these three elements.

It was only at that moment that all his three of his cultivation art had entered the complete 15th layer.

His 6th tier comprehension was too much for mid grade profound rank cultivation arts and so his mastery over these three cultivation arts increased at such fast pace that it directly reached the 15th layer from the 13th layer.

Li Yun slowly opened his eyes for a moment.

A faint smile appeared on his lips as satisfaction flickered through his gaze.

Only now did he begin the next stage.

Realm advancement.

With all three cultivation arts perfected to their current limits, their absorption speed and refinement efficiency rose to a new level. The three elemental energies flowed into his dantian in perfect harmony, while his powerful foundation controlled every movement with ease.

Li Yun swallowed several resources all at once.

The instant they entered his body, dense energy erupted like a flood.

His qi sea churned violently.

The waters within it expanded, compressed, and transformed again and again as vast pressure gathered.

Then another explosion shook the room.

His cultivation rose from the fourth level of the Qi Sea Realm to the fifth level.

The aura around him surged sharply, becoming heavier and more oppressive than before.

But Li Yun did not stop there.

He immediately refined more treasures without wasting a single breath.

With strengthened cultivation arts and sixth-tier comprehension, every resource was used with near-perfect efficiency.

His qi sea expanded further.

Its currents became denser, purer, and far stronger than before.

Several more hours passed before another tremor spread through the chamber.

A powerful boom rang out as his cultivation advanced once more.

He broke from the fifth level of the Qi Sea Realm and entered the sixth level.

A fierce aura burst from Li Yun’s body, causing cracks to spread around the walls of the chamber.

Lightning danced wildly through the chamber.

Flames burned with dazzling brilliance.

Winds roared like furious dragons.

Li Yun slowly exhaled and opened his eyes.

His gaze had become deeper and sharper than before, carrying the confidence of someone whose strength had risen once again.

His qi was vastly denser, and his presence alone was enough to suppress ordinary Qi Sea Realm martial artists into silence.

From the moment he entered Yin Cloud Mountain until now, his gains had been immense.

He had slain the Blood Zombie Demon General and taken all of its treasures.

He had obtained the Five Elemental Supreme Divine Art and advanced multiple intents.

He had raised three cultivation arts to the complete fifteenth layer.

Most importantly, he had risen from the fourth level of the Qi Sea Realm to the sixth.

Li Yun slowly stood to his feet as the surrounding energies gradually calmed.

A confident smile spread across his face, and his eyes shone with sharp anticipation.

“Now that everything is complete, it is finally time for me to leave Yin Cloud Mountain.”