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Chapter 288: Chapter 285: Accumulation
One Qingguang.
Two Qingguangs.
Five Qingguangs.
Ten Qingguangs.
...
Determined, Gu Jinlai didn’t hesitate to consume the Qingguang, keeping his brain in a super boost state at all times.
In this state, the utilization rate of his brain was equivalent to one hundred percent.
Although it wasn’t as exaggerated as some films on Blue Star, like mastering the power of God’s Forbidden Zone, or peering into the secrets of time, understanding the origins of the cosmos, in this state, he truly felt a remarkable sublimation of his being.
It was a kind...
Using "humans" as coordinates, and "thought" as the driving force, he freely roamed in a world filled with omniscience, where everything one sees and knows could be achieved.
In this world, what shackled him was not power, nor external factors.
But his concept of "thought" as a "human."
His worldviews, his accumulated knowledge, shackled his attainment of power. 𝔫𝔬𝖛𝖕𝔲𝖇.𝖈𝖔𝖒
Just as humans can understand the concept of destroying a planet with a punch, fantasize about the destruction of planets, even stars.
But he couldn’t imagine how vast a space of billions of light-years, trillions of light-years would be, what it should contain or how it should be shaped.
Nor could he comprehend the wonder of completely amalgamating time, space, energy, and spirit into one scale.
There was no need to manipulate time, space.
There was no need to surpass the speed of the world’s growth by crossing time.
There wasn’t a need to change the past and thereby alter the future.
That kind of magic transcended the concept of time, working directly through cause to choose the consequence.
To them, cause and effect were merely a clear line laid out before their eyes.
Even...
They themselves were the cause.
Their thoughts, their intentions gave birth to causes, becoming the source of all causes, and due to changes in thoughts and intentions, they derived countless consequences, only needing to select the most satisfactory one to harvest.
All of this was far superior to space, time, energy, spirit.
"This won’t do, the power is there, but it’s too slow, next," he said.
"This cultivation speed is there, but the cost of cultivation is too high, it’s not worth promoting," he noted.
"Is this a one-shot scheme? Cultivate the spirit for ten years, explode in one day, then enter a sage state lasting ten years?" he pondered.
With the help of Qingguang, countless Heavenly Master Techniques and Body Refining Methods were constantly being combined, divided in his mind.
The process was too quick even for the analogies of lightning-fast occurrences.
After all, the speed of light couldn’t match the speed of thought.
He did not know how much time had passed when suddenly, Gu Jinlai stopped.
This abrupt cessation caused such a stagnation of thought that it took him a long time to come back to his senses.
It was like a highly myopic person who suddenly takes off his glasses after wearing them, struggling to adjust at first.
After a while, Gu Jinlai took a deep breath and gradually came out of this trance.
He glanced at his spiritual world...
The Qingguang was exhausted.
But, having exhausted the Qingguang, he had not created a cultivation technique that satisfied him.
"These techniques are too weak..."
Gu Jinlai organized slightly and picked out the barely presentable four techniques from the ones he had created.
But these four techniques were only slightly better than the rest, barely presentable, far from satisfying him.
"Creating my own techniques is indeed not easy; on one hand, my foundational knowledge is too poor, on the other hand, my Qingguang is too scarce," Gu Jinlai lamented, picking one technique: "My original plan was to use the Grand Sun Nine Refinement Visualization Method as the foundation to create a technique that would elevate a practitioner from Heavenly Master Apprentice to Great Heavenly Master in six months, and to Heavenly Monarch in a year, but the result... the best among these, takes three months just to cultivate a Heavenly Master, and it requires three years to accumulate the spiritual sense strength of a Great Heavenly Master, which is too slow. Moreover, the breakthrough to Heavenly Monarch has to be achieved by the cultivator himself, and the problem of nurturing the spiritual sense after refining Qi into a pill has not been solved."
In other words, one still had to reach the Hugging Pill Realm to convert to a Heavenly Master.
Although it only took three months to complete the conversion, three years to accumulate a spiritual sense volume equivalent to that of a Great Heavenly Master,
It was a significant discrepancy from his expectations.
For a moment, he then took out another technique: "This technique modifies the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method... to be precise, a variation derived after reaching Mahayana in the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method, called Great Sun True Demon Body. After modification, when the cultivator reaches the physique of an Intermediate War General and brings the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method to Small Achievement, they can cultivate a type similar to the Undying Demon Body, Great Sun True Demon Body in advance. The difference is, this kind of Undying Demon Body enhances recovery.
Yes, recovery.
Allowing the cultivator to possess a recovery ability similar to that of a demon.
But the cost is not small.
First, the difficulty of cultivation increases again.
Second, eating.
It requires eating a significant amount of meat to supplement the self-healing consumption of wounds.
"I only wanted to lower the difficulty of the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method, but the difficulty increased instead. Although it greatly enhances recovery when the method reaches Small Achievement and does not affect the Great Sun True Demon Body after Mahayana, the real question is how many can successfully practice it," Gu Jinlai remarked as he took out the two remaining techniques.
Among these two techniques, one could be said to be a secret technique.
One of them is the kind that Gu Jinlai had encountered before, which, through the "Spirit Nourishment" method, accumulates spiritual sense, thereby allowing a Heavenly Master to burst forth with the enduring power of a Great Heavenly Master’s spiritual sense.
The longer it’s nurtured, the stronger the eruption, and the longer the duration.
This was a secret technique developed by Gu Jinlai based on the Cheng Ying Mecha, and it also integrated a spiritual explosion. If one could delve deep, its potential would be exceedingly astonishing.
As for the last cultivation technique, it was used for transforming other techniques.
This technique, embodying the concept of embracing all things, allowed any Heavenly Master to flawlessly switch to the Grand Sun Nine Refinement Visualization Method.
Of course, the strength of their Spiritual Sense, that is, their cultivation, would not change, but their understanding of the Grand Sun Nine Refinement Visualization Method would naturally slow their cultivation progress hereafter.
However, after the Grand Sun Core was reshaped and optimized by Gu Jinlai, the efficiency of the Grand Sun Nine Refinement Visualization Method had significantly increased. The modification was therefore beneficial and harmless for many Heavenly Masters.
"New Grand Sun Nine Refinements Visualization Method, New Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method, Spirit Nourishment Technique, and Transformation Technique."
Gu Jinlai’s gaze swept over each of the cultivation techniques.
He had to admit a problem: with his current accumulation of knowledge, he was far from able to create a qualitative transformation cultivation technique.
"Be it Dragon Sparrow Manor or Yellow Sky Sect, the cultivation methods for Demon Martial Artists they collected are often limited to the level of upper-level Demons, and they can’t even match the Demon King Level. The methods of the Heavenly Masters... only a few directly point to the Heavenly Monarch, as for those like the Grand Sun Nine Refinement Visualization Method that point directly to the second and third steps, they are few and far between."
Gu Jinlai thought of the legacy of the Aries Star Palace.
If he truly wanted to create a method that could rapidly cultivate Heavenly Masters in a short period of time, he must obtain the inheritance of the Aries Star Palace.
Even if not practiced, it should be used as a reference.
Furthermore, if the path of the Demon God Warriors were to be further perfected...
It must begin with the Demon God Sect among the Ten Demonic Sects.
In today’s world, excluding Divine Weapon Forces, there are four and a half Devas.
The four are Yiyuanzi from Taiyi Sect, Tuoba Liuyun from Tianhai Sword Sect, Gaia from Earth Mother Divine Sect, and Huang Sang, the ruler of Island State.
The half refers to Ying Wuqing, the Sect Hierarch of the Demon God Sect.
This is a being with a physique at the Demon King Level.
Although he lacks the ability to fly, making him extremely passive against Devas, and even some peak Primordial Spirit Monarchs can only defend without the ability to retaliate, if it comes to close-quarter combat in an extremely confined space...
Two or three Devas combined would be directly defeated by him.
This is the only achiever in the Qiantian Realm who has mastered the way of the Demon God.
"Before getting the heritage of the Aries Star Palace and having a good talk with Ying Wuqing, I shouldn’t waste Qingguang on creating new techniques myself," said Gu Jinlai, picking up the four tomes of techniques.
Besides...
Though it took three years to become a Great Heavenly Master, which was somewhat slow, it was enough for the current Lingxiao City.
Especially since one could become a Heavenly Master in three months...
Lingxiao City currently had four to five hundred Heavenly Master apprentices.
If all of them were to convert to practicing this new Grand Sun Nine Refinements Visualization Method, in three months, the number of Heavenly Masters in Lingxiao City would surge by four to five hundred.
It’s worth noting that a hundred years ago, before the Demons descended, the number of Heavenly Masters within Qiantian Territory was only just over a thousand.
Adding four to five hundred new Heavenly Masters to the existing ones, the number in Lingxiao City would nearly reach half of the number at its peak a century ago.
...
Central State Imperial City.
At the top of Emperor Tower.
Jiang Tianji was shimmering with the colors of Liu Li, resembling a five-colored deity.
But moments later, the colors of Liu Li dissipated from him, and a large number of tiny crystal fragments fell from his body’s surface.
These fragments were formerly a top-tier material known as Destiny Crystals.
Their value was even greater than that of Void Stones.
Judging from the number of these tiny fragments, no less than ten sets of Destiny Crystals had been consumed.
Looking at these fragments, Jiang Tianji’s expression changed.
It was a while before he changed into a new outfit nonchalantly and left the cultivation room.
Outside the cultivation room, his attendant, Zhou Ji, was the first to greet him: "Your Majesty..."
"Clean this up."
Jiang Tianji waved his hand, his gaze falling on an elderly man waiting outside.
This elder was sitting cross-legged on the ground, exuding a venerable aura, and even when faced with the arrival of Jiang, the Emperor Qian, he did not stand up.
He even cast a somewhat reproachful glance at the Emperor, his tone carrying a hint of blame: "You are too hasty."
"Teacher."
There was not a trace of disrespect in Jiang Tianji’s demeanor, only profound respect as he gave a salute.
In the entire Daqian, there was only one person he would address as teacher and behave this way...
The Emperor’s Master!
Also the Imperial Advisor Tai Yuan, the Qiantian Sea Stabilizing Needle, the supreme sage who, after the previous Imperial Advisor Tai A died fighting Emperor Tianji, took charge of the Divine Weapon Bright and single-handedly pushed Jiang Tianji to the throne of Emperor Qian!
"To forge an immortal divine body, you must first comprehend the undying will. Only with the undying will can you wield the power of Heaven and Earth to incorporate the power of external objects into oneself. Although you’ve reached the peak of Devas, it’s all because you’ve advanced by drawing on the Power of Luck. You are still missing some finesse to fully comprehend the undying will," he explained.
"Just a bit more finesse."
Through the glass of Emperor Tower, Jiang Tianji looked into the distance: "But time... won’t allow me to wait any longer."
