CHAPTER 41: CHAPTER 39 HOW DOES IT WORK? HOW CAN IT WORK?

Lin Qianxuan’s cultivation speed was completely unlike the description, absurdly fast.

He was well aware that this was likely due to his unique physique.

After all, people are different from one another.

Given how long he had been settled, having something special was normal.

The subsequent cultivation of the first layer was not difficult, just continued cultivation, replenishing spiritual energy until the entire Qi vortex filled the Danzhong acupoint.

Lin Qianxuan sensed the spiritual energy around him; under his mental perception, the content seemed to be less than one-thousandth of the whole environment.

According to what Lin Qianxuan had read in books, normally, just sensing spiritual energy would take several days of visualization for an average person.

And the sensing would be very vague.

There was no way it could be as easily sensed as he did.

As for the subsequent cultivation, even in a spiritual energy-rich environment, someone with excellent talent would take at least ten to fifteen days to initially condense a Qi vortex.

Lin Qianxuan’s current Qi vortex didn’t seem like an initial condensation; according to descriptions in the material, it felt quite well-developed.

Once spiritual energy entered the body and combined with the spirit to form the Qi vortex, it would transform into biological energy, spiritual power, that he could utilize.

The use of spiritual power was simple, following the heart’s desire, it could be manipulated directly.

The stronger the mental control, the easier the manipulation.

It could be attached to the body surface as defensive energy, or unleashed in one go.

Of course, this was the most basic usage method.

Spiritual power carried inherent rule attributes, and using it to perform Spirit Art was the best usage method.

Lin Qianxuan slightly moved his mind, and the spiritual power he had just absorbed into his body condensed at his fingertip, turning into a sesame-sized milky white light dot.

He flicked his finger, and this light dot flew towards the window, dissipating automatically before reaching ten meters.

The quantity was too small, and this kind of usage was too crude.

At the current stage, it was far from comparable to his water manipulation effect.

He continued flipping through the subsequent cultivation content, and within just over an hour, he had memorized all the content.

The second and third layers of the "Spirit Absorption Technique" aligned more with his perception of science.

The second layer involved compressing the Qi vortex into a liquid form, creating higher-quality spiritual power energy, a state called Condensing Essence.

The third layer compressed the liquid spiritual power into a solid, forming a sphere to gain further high-quality spiritual power, a state called Core Formation.

It had a sort of feel like an immortal cultivation novel.

The term "spiritual energy" also felt quite similar to cultivation novels.

Perhaps Xuan Country named it based on that.

Lin Qianxuan could easily understand the first three layers, but he felt a bit confused by the fourth layer.

The fourth layer required choosing a Spirit Art to engrave into one’s Golden Core, then forming a Dao Seed, resulting in an innate Divine Power, making the art instinctual to activate with a thought and extremely powerful.

Instant cast magic engraving?

Lin Qianxuan felt it should be something like that.

Directly engraving the magic on the Golden Core and activating the Golden Core would allow instant casting.

Isn’t that like the entire Golden Core driving one magic?

How could the power not be great?

The descriptions were roughly like this; as for the specifics, Lin Qianxuan hadn’t cultivated to that point and found it hard to understand.

The process of accumulating spiritual power was somewhat dull; Lin Qianxuan attempted multi-threaded cultivation.

Which meant absorbing spiritual energy into his body while handling normal tasks.

He was a bit unaccustomed at first, but soon Lin Qianxuan formed it into an instinct.

While doing things, the external spiritual energy was also being absorbed into his body.

Unfortunately, the spiritual energy concentration was a bit low, and he felt the expansion rate of the Qi vortex was slow; at this rate, who knows when he would fill his Danzhong acupoint?

Lin Qianxuan picked up his phone and opened the Otherworld Bureau APP, searching for related materials.

The discussions in the forum were quite limited, and the teaching content required payment.

Lin Qianxuan thought of the chat groups.

During this period, he had indeed joined several groups.

Besides the previous Longjiang City out-of-staff group, there were groups from several other regions.

Due to his high tier, these groups were more than happy to have him join.

Upon inquiry in the group, Lin Qianxuan discovered that many were cultivating the "Spirit Absorption Technique," almost essential for beginners.

However, none had truly cultivated to the Second Realm, Condensing Essence.

Everyone was at the Qi Vortex Realm.

He understood, as they were all out-of-staff personnel.

Anyone with some level of skill probably got recruited.

The cultivation speed of these people was also slow, but they did have some experiences.

Like in sparsely populated areas, the spiritual energy concentration tends to be higher.

Spiritual energy is a special kind of energy easily absorbed and used by various life forms, so it can be unconsciously absorbed by life, even without understanding extraordinary knowledge.

Especially animals, their absorption efficiency is slightly higher, which dilutes the amount of absorbable spiritual energy.

Plants absorb it relatively less, so in areas with fewer people and animals, the spiritual energy concentration is much higher.

An out-of-staff personnel specifically set up a residence in the wild for cultivation.

Lin Qianxuan thought he might try searching in the wild later to see if any place had higher spiritual energy concentration.

"Ding~!"

The notification sound on his phone rang, and Lin Qianxuan saw his points had arrived.

One hundred and fifty points.

Wang Yuancai apparently gave more than necessary.

Lin Qianxuan noted this favor silently.

Then he opened the [Scripture Pavilion], and without further ado, placed an order for "Three Thousand Basic Spirit Patterns Analysis" and "Construction and Implementation of Spiritual Techniques."

The total combined for the two knowledge fields was only two gigabytes, far less than the "Spirit Absorption Technique," not to mention the absurd Spirit Art of the "Little World Technique."

But considering how foundational they were, there wasn’t much to say.

First, he looked at the analysis of basic spiritual patterns.

Spiritual patterns, also known as spiritual text, are a type of script that can cause spiritual energy to exhibit special reactions. Through them, one can better manipulate this energy. After reading for a while, Lin Qianxuan suddenly understood.

"Isn’t this just like code?"

Yes, these spiritual texts are just like code.

The fire represented in spiritual text, when written with spiritual power, can ignite a flame directly.

In this process, spiritual power automatically transforms into fire.

The same goes for the others.

Spiritual power combined with spiritual patterns can achieve almost limitless conversion.

Seeing this, Lin Qianxuan slightly grasped what the "Little World Technique" was all about.

It is a gigantic system constructed by countless codes.

In practice, it can directly create a small world.

With three thousand basic spiritual texts, Lin Qianxuan quickly memorized them all.

Then he tried to use one of the spiritual texts.

With a slight movement of his mind, the spiritual power within the Qi Vortex at his middle chest mobilized, then transformed into the form of spiritual text in his palm.

At the instant the spiritual text was formed, with a bang, a flame the thickness of a little finger appeared in the palm of Lin Qianxuan.

This flame hovered in the air, because it was formed using Lin Qianxuan’s spiritual power, he vaguely felt he could manipulate it.

With a thought, the flame flew out.

But after flying less than two meters, it dissipated.

Because that bit of spiritual power was evidently not enough for it to burn for long.

"Feels less effective than a lighter..." Lin Qianxuan quipped.

Despite the complaint, Lin Qianxuan still found it somewhat enjoyable.

Soon, he tried out several more spiritual texts in succession, stopping only when he had used up more than half of the spiritual power in his Qi Vortex.

Next, Lin Qianxuan reopened "Construction and Implementation of Spiritual Techniques" and started flipping through it.

The contents inside were not complex; the beginning was about teaching basic programming language, which means teaching the logic of this programming language.

However, it is unlike computer languages.

If computer languages compile erroneously, at worst they won’t run, or they could have bugs.

If this goes wrong, the consequences may not be easy to bear.

Explosions and the like are common occurrences.

If the direction of a spiritual technique attack is wrong, one can even be killed by one’s own spiritual technique during deployment.

So, at the bottom of the page, there was a warning.

[There are risks associated with constructing spiritual techniques, use spiritual techniques with caution!!!]

After reading, Lin Qianxuan had some inspirations in his mind, but seeing this warning, he also restrained himself for the moment.

Fortunately, there were four basic spiritual techniques up there that could be used directly.

They were, respectively, [Protective Art], [Jumping Art], [Impact Art], [Profound Light Art].

These four techniques were referred to as the Basic Four Arts.

Four spiritual techniques that beginners must learn.

[Protective Art], as the name suggests, is about conjuring a protective barrier around the body to offset substantial physical impacts.

[Jumping Art] is about concentrating rebound force under one’s feet to jump higher.

[Impact Art] is when at the place of fists or foot attacks, explosive impact is unleashed to enhance attack force.

The principle of these three is the same, but the difficulty of deployment increases progressively.

[Impact Art] is the hardest—if mastered well, the impact force can be singularly concentrated at the fingertips, and flicking stones to powder is not an issue.

The last, [Profound Light Art], is relatively advanced and more complex.

It can be deployed on the palm, fingertips, or any part of the body.

It conjures a cluster of profound light and then instantly shoots it out.

This is a kind of spiritual technique for long-range attacks, theoretically having an effective attack range of thirty meters.

Lin Qianxuan pondered for a while before preparing to attempt the [Protective Art].

Then, due to lack of spiritual power, the execution was forced to a halt midway.

The spiritual power within him was insufficient even to fully construct the spiritual text, and his Qi vortex nearly dispersed.

Fortunately, even if it dissipated, it was no big deal, at most he would have to condense it again.

The existence of the Qi Vortex is only to preserve spiritual energy within in a peaceful manner.

There’s no special implication.

There wouldn’t be cases where its dispersal leads to internal injuries causing him to spit blood over three feet away.

Since he couldn’t deploy spiritual techniques, Lin Qianxuan decided to abandon it for the time being.

He planned to take another look at the "Little World Technique".

He remembered all three thousand spiritual texts; he should be able to understand a bit of the Little World Technique, right?

Lin Qianxuan initially thought so.

Then he fell silent.

Why is it like this?

What is this thing?

Why does it feel more difficult to understand than before?

Before learning, Lin Qianxuan felt that although he couldn’t understand it, he was in awe for its apparent complexity.

Yet now, after learning a bit, his feeling was one of shock and disbelief!!!

Every spiritual pattern feels very counterintuitive and illogical, yet they are constructed together logically, operating perfectly.

Looking at each one individually, there are no obvious flaws at any phase, but how does it operate?

No, how can it possibly operate!!!

Lin Qianxuan felt a tingling sensation on his scalp, perhaps a sign of impending hair loss...