Zu An's spirits lifted: "Which two?"

Mi Li replied, "First, cultivate your reputation! Only when your reputation is higher and more people know you will more people be willing to follow you, and it will be much easier for you to build your own team in the future."

"Cultivate prestige?" Zu An fell into deep thought. "How do you cultivate prestige?"

“Simply put, it means you can do what others can’t, and the more difficult it is, the higher your reputation will be,” Mi Li said. “For example, the case of the Crown Princess’s reputation has caused a sensation in the entire capital. I’m sure many people in the world are talking about it in secret. If you can solve the case, coupled with the previous Phoenix Nirvana Sutra, I’m sure many people will recognize you by then.”

Zuan was a bit of a headache: "There's still no progress in this case."

“It doesn’t matter if we can’t solve the case,” Mi Li’s expression became somewhat strange: “Actually, there is another way to make everyone in the world know you.”

"What?" Zu'an asked hurriedly.

"You can sleep with women that others can't. For example, if you dare to publicly say that you slept with the Empress, I guarantee that everyone in every street and alley in the world will know you. All the forces that rebel against the Great Zhou Dynasty, and even the foreign tribes in the borderlands, will worship you as an idol." Mi Li's red lips curled up slightly, clearly finding the suggestion very interesting.

Zuan: "..."

He hasn't lived enough yet. If he dares to say that, he could indeed make the whole world know, but he would be immediately blasted into dust by the angry emperor.

"And the second thing?" Zuan asked irritably.

"The second thing is of course to improve your personal strength. After all, this is a world where the strong are respected." Mi Li also put away her smile and became serious. "It's a pity that you are unwilling to use the 'Gluttonous Devouring Heaven Technique,' which is the fastest way to improve. Of course, your concerns are also reasonable."

As she spoke, her delicate brows furrowed slightly, clearly pondering how to help him improve: "Right, I remembered that I sealed Old Man Mi's cultivation within you back then. You couldn't absorb it, which affected your foundation. But now your cultivation is growing rapidly. As long as you can reach the peak of the eighth rank, you should be able to digest his power without affecting yourself."

"Peak of the eighth rank." Zu An thought for a moment. He had already lit up his eighth seventh-rank magic array, which could barely be considered the peak of the seventh rank. There was still a big realm away from the peak of the eighth rank. Although it would be more and more difficult to improve later, at least there was hope.

He hurriedly asked, "By the way, what did you mean by the Gathering Yuan Pill being used to help high-level cultivators break through? I've been cultivating all along, and it seems like everything has just naturally progressed; I haven't needed to break through at all?"

Mi Li explained, "The higher you go in cultivation, the more difficult it becomes. Low-level cultivators don't have the problem of breaking through, but after the seventh rank, each breakthrough is a major hurdle."

"Many people are geniuses in their youth and break through to the fifth or sixth rank early on. Unfortunately, no matter how hard they try later, they can never surpass the peak of the seventh rank and enter the eighth rank."

"Because after the seventh rank, each major level advancement is no longer simply a matter of accumulating vital energy; it also requires your personal enlightenment."

"What do you mean by 'enlighten'?" Zu'an asked, puzzled.

"Enlightenment!" Mi Li's expression was solemn. "Starting from the eighth rank, you can resonate with heaven and earth and draw upon their power. Therefore, you must find the way to coexist with heaven and earth. The path from the seventh to the eighth rank is crucial and relates to your future achievements. The more accurately you find your path and the more it aligns with the origin of the world, the greater your future achievements will be. Otherwise, cultivation will be like rowing against the current, resulting in twice the effort for half the result."

"Haha, I know that." Zu An thought to himself that he dared not speak for others, but he was sure he could find it accurately, whether it was a waterway, a land route, or a food route... cough cough, he could find it even with his eyes closed.

"You really understand?" Mi Li frowned. "This is no joke."

"I understand." In his previous life, Zu An had read so many novels and had seen countless similar concepts. Confucianism calls it setting goals, Buddhism calls it making grand vows... Ultimately, it's about finding the path that best suits you and walking it.

"Then what is your Dao?" Mi Li asked curiously. Now that the other party was close to the peak of the seventh rank, it was indeed time for him to start considering this question.

Zu An subconsciously replied, "My path is to hope that one day, no matter whose path it is in the world, I can enter it whenever I want."

Mi Li: "???"

Although I didn't understand much of what he was saying, I could tell he was making a suggestive joke.

Huh, what does "driving" mean? This guy always has so many random, nonsensical terms in his head.

She shook her head, dispelling some of the chaotic thoughts, and continued, "In order to help themselves attain enlightenment, cultivators in the world use elixirs to condense the primordial energy within their bodies, turning the ethereal primordial energy into liquid or even solid, and using that mysterious process to comprehend the origin of the world. Everyone has different talents and ways of thinking, so what they comprehend often varies greatly."

Zuan's eyes lit up. Could the origin of the world be the formation of the universe?

Alas, people in this world don't follow science. Like blind men touching an elephant, they can't grasp the whole picture, so their understanding of the Dao is naturally diverse. It can't be said that their understanding of the Dao is wrong, but it's just a fragment of the origin. Even if all the Daos of everyone were combined, it would still be far from the origin of the world.

However, although the technology in the previous life was advanced, the understanding of the universe was also far behind.

Mi Li, unaware of his profound understanding, continued, "The Gathering Yuan Pill you just refined is an elixir that helps condense the Yuan Qi within your body."

Zuan was somewhat disappointed: "No wonder I didn't feel any improvement in my cultivation after eating it."

Mi Li hesitated for a moment and said, "Not only now, but even if you reach the peak of the seventh rank, this Gathering Yuan Pill will not be of much use."

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