Chapter 1275: Chapter 1275: Found a Treasure (Long Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)
He Ao’s gaze once again swept over the stele in front of him, then he lifted his eyes and quickly scanned everything surrounding him, with the spot he stood on as the center.
From the sprawling courtyard to narrow residential dwellings, the city was filled with remnants of various perforated stone or wooden pillars.
Initially, he couldn’t quite figure out what these pillars were for, but now he had so idea.
The holes on the stone pillars were ant for inserting wooden poles or other auxiliary equipnt.
Those were not just stone pillars; they were auxiliary training ‘dummies.’
At that mont, he began to piece together why this city had built such high walls.
These towering walls weren’t ant to defend against weird monsters or exotic beasts but were ant as a guard against ‘people.’
Although this world didn’t possess the potent eerie forces of the real world, it still harbored extraordinary power.
And a weaker eerie transcendent world provided a naturally suitable place for Martial Arts Training.
He Ao lowered his head again, looking at the stele in front of him.
This world, once upon a ti, was a Martial Artist’s world.
From the “Cultivation thod” recorded on the stele, it seed this world might have even seen the ergence of a developed Martial Arts civilization.
He Ao gently raised his hand, stirring up dust from the ground, covering the area he had just excavated.
Countless people once lived here, practiced Martial Arts, pursued the truth of transcendent power, and established thriving cities and even nations. They warred against each other, defending their cities with towering walls.
Then, the gaze of a Divine Being fell upon them.
This world, along with its creator, was plunged into ultimate destruction.
He Ao’s gaze carefully swept over the patterns carved onto the stele on the ground.
He increasingly felt that the beings living in this world weren’t re fictional souls.
While the Trapped Destiny Plate could fabricate fictional souls using life force, based on He Ao’s “Life Saint” expertise, creating a genuine soul was exceedingly rare and required imnse cost and power.
He didn’t understand what thod the Wizards used to obtain the Life Goddess’s power, but judging by the system’s description ntioning no Divine Punishnt from the Life Goddess, they likely used a gentler thod—such as sacrifice or prayer—to acquire her power.
The Wizards who created the Wheel of Stars also used similar thods to gain the Life Goddess’s power.
The Life Goddess was one of the more ‘gentle’ Divine Beings He Ao had encountered. Cooperation with Her was possible to a certain extent.
However, even with the possibility of ‘cooperation,’ obtaining the power to create a complete soul from the Life Goddess would require an extraordinarily heavy price.
But if they hadn’t created full souls and had only fabricated soul illusions, then it would be impossible to form such a prosperous civilization or engage in Martial Arts research.
Using soul illusions to study “fate” would inevitably lead to results lacking credibility.
Thus, He Ao leaned toward the hypothesis that the Wizards chose a more ‘cost-effective’ approach.
They directly brought ‘people’ from the real world into this one.
They didn’t even need to capture anyone. Simply by letting ordinary people outside know there was a ‘Taoyuan’ without many eerie forces or exotic beasts, migrations would occur naturally.
Then these migrants established roots in this world, cultivated themselves, thrived, and developed a unique civilization.
Of course, perhaps soone introduced Martial Arts Training thods here, and upon discovering this was an excellent place for practicing Martial Arts, the Martial Arts prowess spread and thrived.
However, He Ao personally leaned more toward another possibility—that the Wizards deliberately cultivated Transcendents and intentionally disseminated Martial Arts Training techniques to enhance the developnt of Martial Arts in this realm.
As a relatively ‘clean’ cultivation thod, Martial Arts posed none of the dangers associated with Talent Sequences, like hearing the Divine Being’s voice, randomly encountering Divine Being believers, or attracting Divine Punishnt. This made it particularly suitable for this ‘Experintal World.’
It was even possible that nurous Talent Sequence Transcendents entering this world had been deliberately ‘filtered out’ by the Wizards.
Judging by the base-level Cultivation thod that still worked effectively for soone like He Ao, a B-level Martial Artist proficient in Qi Refinent and Spirit Transformation, the Wizards’ assistance and selection likely elevated the Martial Arts depth of this world significantly.
But the question remained: what was the upper limit of this world’s Martial Arts? Was it capable of reaching the angelic level?
As he pondered, He Ao slowly raised his hand again and mimicked the starting movent of the Cultivation thod etched onto the stele fragnt.
This ti, his movents were much slower than before, and he infused his Divine Sense into the Blood-Moistening Jade Pendant on his chest.
In an instant, his soul seed to be drawn out, traversing the rippling lines in the World Bottom Layer and observing his body from a higher-dinsional perspective.
His blood, energy circuits, flesh, and internal organs all unfolded before him in this high-dinsional ‘field of view,’ as if laid flat like a piece of paper.
Countless thoughts surged through He Ao’s mind within that fleeting mont.
The jade pendant, which had been a previous system reward, not only stored energy but also provided a high-dinsional perspective, enhanced insight, and made it easier for He Ao to ‘understand’ the issues within his body.
Though the jade pendant’s fierce pollution continued to impact his consciousness and body, his current physical state had adapted, and the pollution wasn’t as harmful as it was before.
He Ao’s movents slowed to about one-third his usual pace.
Through these deliberate actions, he clearly ‘saw’ the energy flow changes within his body brought about by these movents.
He gradually unraveled the essence behind the Cultivation thod recorded on the stele fragnt.
The first dozen moves on the fragnt didn’t produce obvious effects but were excellent for activating most areas of his internal energy circuits.
These movents functioned as a ‘warm-up exercise,’ bringing life to He Ao’s entire body and significantly increasing the efficiency of subsequent energy activation efforts.
From He Ao’s perspective, the seemingly ineffective initial dozen moves were actually the core of the entire Cultivation thod.
Moreover, these moves were truly breathtaking in their ingenuity.
During his first practice, he hadn’t felt much, but now upon careful observation, he could almost see the astonishing ‘imagination’ embedded in these moves.
Many of the movents He Ao would never have guessed could produce such effects, yet they were recorded in the Cultivation thod and proven effective.
Moreover, just within these dozen simple moves, there were at least seven or eight distinct styles of energy guidance, showing noticeable differences.
In other words, the ‘warm-up’ segnt of this Cultivation thod was likely a blend of seven or eight entirely different cultivation techniques, ingeniously linked together in ways that were both surprising and brilliant.
This Cultivation thod was undoubtedly the creation of a formidable Martial Arts genius who had absorbed knowledge from vast sources, extracting the essence from various techniques to create this masterpiece.
As He Ao carefully ‘studied and analyzed’ this Cultivation thod, he faintly felt as if he were engaging in a ‘conversation’ with the Martial Arts genius who created it.
Many of the creator’s insights were ideas He Ao had never considered before, and nurous connection thods were truly breathtaking.
For example, there were two adjacent moves, one targeting the right forearm and the other the neck. Under normal energy circuit flow, the chest would need to act as a passage, which wasted ti and reduced energy flow efficiency.
But the ‘creator’ cleverly utilized a circuit originally located behind the right shoulder, bypassing the upper arm entirely and connecting directly to the right shoulder, then to the neck, and ultimately reaching the mind.
This operation utilized regions with stable energy absorption properties, making energy flow akin to traveling on a highway—cutting ti by at least 80% and boosting energy utilization efficiency by at least 90%.
Previously, He Ao had never even considered that these circuits could be connected, let alone flow smoothly or achieve such results.
This energy connection thod even inspired He Ao with new improvents to his stagnant Fist Technique.
In fact, such astonishing ‘cleverness’ perated the entirety of this Cultivation thod.
The Cultivation thod conveyed not just the wisdom of one exceptionally gifted Martial Arts genius but also the legacy of an advanced Martial Arts civilization.
While the pendant’s enhanced insight allowed He Ao to patch flaws and spark illumination within his existing knowledge frawork, it couldn’t create sothing out of nothing where his comprehension lacked.
From this Cultivation thod, he could clearly discern that many ingenious concepts were grounded in established structural ideas, evidently borrowed from prior practical applications and incorporated into the technique.
Of course, not all of the ‘cleverness’ within this Cultivation thod was flawless—He Ao distinctly identified issues within so of the later innovations.
For instance, one move transitioned energy flow from the shoulder to the elbow and then the wrist, borrowing an external arm circuit to save 70% of the path compared to standard circuits. However, its energy absorption efficiency was notably low.
This external arm circuit lay between several nearby circuits, which caused interference at many intersection points, reducing efficiency.
He Ao adjusted the move, rerouting energy through an internal arm circuit that looped around the elbow area.
Though this circuit was almost 50% longer than the previous path, it doubled the energy absorption and transmission efficiency.
He Ao’s ability to identify this stemd from a straightforward reason.
His Fist Technique and long-weapon Martial Techniques heavily relied on circuits near the modified pathway.
While He Ao lacked formal Martial Arts education, his battle-honed instincts proved these techniques were effective—they packed power when killing foes.
When he realized that different circuits could connect, he had the idea to test it here, thus refining the approach.
Many of his energy utilization skills were derived from Talent Sequence Transcendents. These contrasting perspectives unexpectedly complented the Martial Arts cultivation thod, providing mutual inspiration.
With the pendant’s high-dinsional ‘field of view’ and enhanced insight, he could continually ‘correct’ his line of thinking, steering the circuits toward optimization.
He Ao’s movents changed as he kept performing the next moves of the technique, absorbing knowledge like a parched sponge while promptly using his own expertise to improve upon the Cultivation thod.
He even filled in several missing moves within the original technique, based on his understanding.
It was unclear how much ti had passed, but eventually, He Ao completed a thorough refinent of the entire Cultivation thod.
The improved version now operated at over twice its original efficiency. After finishing one cycle, his Divine Sense experienced two-fold growth.
However, he also discovered that the Cultivation thod had a limited number of uses within a single day.
This highly efficient energy absorption approach sowhat ‘stimulated’ the body, and excessive use could lead to physical overstrain, drastically reducing cultivation efficiency or even disrupting energy circuits.
He Ao estimated he could practice the thod up to three tis a day for now, and perhaps with ti, he might increase the limit.
Even so, with this refined Cultivation thod, his cultivation efficiency was already several tis greater than before. He could still train through normal routines of breathing and energy circulation even without the thod.
Furthermore, he had begun considering ways to incorporate so of the ingenious concepts within this Cultivation thod into his own Martial Arts Fist Technique.
For soone like He Ao, who had been progressing entirely through solitary training without guidance, effectively a ‘Martial Arts illiterate,’ this knowledge-packed technique was nothing short of a priceless treasure.
Additionally, these quick cultivation thods could potentially benefit martial arts training for ordinary people in the Main World.
He Ao lifted his head and gazed toward the edge of the sky.
The brilliant stars had dimd, and faint light shimred along the horizon. This world’s fiery red sun had begun to form a curve above the mountain ridges.
The dawn of this world was about to arrive.
He Ao chose not to disrupt the stream of the world itself, quietly watching the sunrise.
Originally, he’d thought this was rely a slightly supernatural item related to Divine Beings. Unexpectedly, he’d stumbled upon the remnants of a Martial Arts civilization.
Though the civilization was extinct, their knowledge remained scattered across the realm.
Only now did He Ao truly understand why the tribes described in the system treated the “Lost Life Plate” as a sacred site for exploration.
It undoubtedly yielded valuable discoveries.
He Ao’s gaze turned toward the surrounding mountains and ruins.
The tribe spent generation after generation exploring the depths of the Lost Life Plate’s secret realm. And now, the restored Trapped Destiny Plate might encompass an even larger region.
From what He Ao had seen along his journey, this world might be larger than the planet hosting the ruins.
Though much of the world’s regions remained desolate, He Ao didn’t have the ti for thorough exploration.
He’d also realized along the way that altering sothing at the surface layer of this world wouldn’t suffice to control the Lost Life Plate.
He would have to employ other thods.
He Ao raised his head, gazing at the surrounding void. An orange-gray eyeball embedded within an inverted triangle silhouette slowly erged behind him.
The fog masking the world was peeled away in He Ao’s ‘field of view,’ revealing layer upon layer of densely packed lines.
He Ao focused on these lines as the Eye of Truth rotated, leaving behind its first trace among them.
BOOM——
The ground trembled with a deafening noise, and the world within He Ao’s vision blurred and fractured in an instant.
The next mont, an icy wind swept across his face.
He lifted his head, scanning his surroundings.
The deep, towering crevices of a glacier appeared in his view.
It seems he had been kicked out.
He Ao rubbed his temples, feeling the connection to the Trapped Destiny Plate.
The connection was unstable yet hadn’t disappeared. It was gradually stabilizing at a perceptible pace.
The next entry would likely have to wait for the connection to fully stabilize.
But he was certain that his earlier effort to trace across the World Bottom Layer was a success.
He could distinctly sense the bond between himself and the Trapped Destiny Plate growing stronger.
The direction was correct; now, it was just a matter of painstaking effort.
As he mulled over it, He Ao paused, slightly stunned.
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