Chapter 239: Chapter 235: Taiyu Serpent Cosmos Ring Scripture
Hu Qi paid little mind to these external developnts.
He didn’t dwell on them.
To him, publicizing the existence of Secret Martial Artists and the Black Blood Species was a trivial matter.
The previous system, while providing a sense of security, also left ordinary people utterly powerless against the Black Blood Species. They had no chance to fight back. They weren’t even aware the Black Blood Species existed and thus had no defenses whatsoever.
In that case, it was better to just reveal everything and give ordinary people a fighting chance.
Besides, there was another reason: he needed a vast amount of Modification Points.
Currently, there were only three known sources of Modification Points: the Black Blood Species, Exotic Beasts, and Secret Martial Artists.
Farming the Black Blood Species wasn’t actually difficult. All he had to do was capture so, intervene artificially, and have them continuously convert ordinary people into more of their kind.
Hu Qi could then kill these newly created Black Blood Species to gain a steady stream of Modification Points.
However, converting humans was a significant drain on the Black Blood Species themselves, and the number they could turn in a short period was limited. Moreover, most of the resulting converts were just the most common Blood Slaves.
The Modification Points they provided were minuscule, but every little bit counted.
When added up, it would still amount to a terrifyingly large number.
However, Hu Qi didn’t do it.
At the end of the day, he still considered himself human.
He couldn’t bring himself to farm human beings.
There was nothing wrong with wanting to beco stronger, but he was unwilling to slaughter innocent people who had nothing to do with him just for power.
Since that path was closed to him, he would have to find another way.
He could farm Exotic Beasts and increase the number of Secret Martial Artists.
With greater numbers, so Secret Martial Artists were bound to break the law. When that happened, he could capture and kill them, which would both serve the public good.
And he’d also get Modification Points—killing two birds with one stone.
This was Hu Qi’s bottom line.
As long as no one crossed it, there would be no trouble.
...
Half a year passed in the blink of an eye.
In a sealed, secret chamber in Anshan City, Hu Qi sat cross-legged with his eyes closed.
At this mont, faint points of light flickered within his body. A careful count would reveal several hundred of them.
They were all illuminated Life Acupoints.
The next mont, a surge of white light erupted from the Life Acupoints, linking them together to form a strange Life Map that resembled a colossal whale.
The instant this Life Map appeared, six others materialized alongside it, taking the forms of a crescent moon, a True Dragon, a giant ape, and more.
At the sa ti, a greater influx of Void Power surged into him, continuously nourishing his body.
’The final one, the Cloud K’un Life Acupoint Map, is complete!’
Hu Qi opened his eyes. A faint, silvery-white light flashed in their depths before vanishing—a result of the Void Power within him having reached extre density.
[Host: Hu Qi]
[Status: Normal]
[Age: 23]
[Bloodline: Three-Eyed Primordial Serpent (85%) △]
[Talent: Spirit Devouring, Twisted Light, Primordial Eye]
[Divine Techniques: Water Control, Intention Sword, Celestial Silk, Ten Thousand Thunders, Buddha Realm, Heart Inference]
[Skill: Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Spirit Devouring Map (Celestial Heart Chapter, Ninth Layer) △ Traits: ...]
[Taiqing Immortal Slaying Sword Technique (Energy Storage: 179 days) △]
[Taiyin Life Acupoint Atlas Divine Summoning Technique: Silver Frost, Moonlight, Flowing Light, Night Sea...]
[Zhen Yuan Life Acupoint Atlas Divine Summoning Technique: Divine Power, Fla of Prosperity...]
[Cloud K’un Fate Atlas Divine Summoning Technique: Xi Yun, Jade Leaf, Spiritual Moisture...]
[Celestial Sparrow Fate Atlas Divine Summoning Technique: Red Plain, Burning Spirit, Night Spring...]
[...]
[Modification Points: 1680 (71%)]
A strange glint appeared in Hu Qi’s eyes as he looked at the panel.
The Cloud K’un Life Acupoint Map was one of three complete Life Maps he had obtained from Xuanqing.
This was the sixth complete Life Acupoint Map he had fully illuminated.
In addition, the Earth God Hall and the Golden Buddha Temple provided two complete Life Maps.
The Holy Rain Sect, Sword Pavilion, Thunder Gate, and ngyu Pavilion had each provided a Life Map, for a total of four. However, unlike the previous ones, these were incomplete. They were heavily fragnted, recording at most around twenty Life Acupoints each, and couldn’t be assembled into a full Life Acupoint Map.
Including Hu Qi’s own Taiyin Life Acupoint Map, he now possessed a total of six complete and four fragnted Life Map Cultivation thods.
However, for a Refining God Venerable, constructing a Life Map wasn’t as simple as just having the thod and lighting up the acupoints.
The Life Acupoints themselves were minuscule and lacked fixed locations, making them difficult to find even with the Power of the Heart.
Furthermore, even if one found a Life Acupoint, it wasn’t guaranteed to be the correct one required for the Life Map.
This was why, despite possessing Life Map Cultivation thods, none of the others, like Wang Jing, had succeeded in constructing and illuminating a Life Map.
At most, they had only found one or two acupoints, which provided a negligible boost to their strength.
And yet, Hu Qi had successfully illuminated all the Life Acupoints recorded in the four fragnted and six complete Life Maps he had acquired.
Unfortunately, while his strength had increased considerably, he was still a long way from a true qualitative leap.
During this half-year, he had also integrated all the remaining Inheritance Secret Martial Arts from the Middle-tier Schools and the Seven Upper-tier Schools into his Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Spirit Devouring Map.
This had granted him four new Divine Techniques: Celestial Silk, Ten Thousand Thunders, Buddha Realm, and Heart Inference.
Celestial Silk was the Inheritance Secret Martial Art of the Earth God Hall—the sa Seven-Colored Silk Thread technique used by Thick Spider.
Ten Thousand Thunders was a Divine Technique from Thunder Gate that involved commanding and controlling lightning to launch indiscriminate attacks.
Buddha Realm was a Divine Soul attack that could pull an enemy into a world of his own creation. There, he could use his Martial Arts Will to "convert" and "enlighten" them, turning them into his Fanatics.
Heart Inference, obtained from Xuanqing, could be used for observation and deduction.
Xuanqing himself was the Sect Leader of the Cyan Dragon Palace, one of the Seven Upper-tier Schools.
Hu Qi had obtained the Inheritance Secret Martial Arts from all Seven Upper-tier Schools.
The only exception was the Inheritance Secret Martial Art from ngyu Pavilion, which was not a Divine Secret Martial Art capable of forming a Divine Technique.
According to ng Ke, their Inheritance Secret Martial Art was not the original version; it had been reconstructed later, which caused it to lose so of its original properties.
Hu Qi wasn’t too disappointed by this.
’It’s about ti!’ he muttered.
"Crimson, rge all the Life Map Cultivation thods into the Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Spirit Devouring Map. Use it as a foundation to deduce the most perfect subsequent Cultivation Technique, one that’s most suitable for !"
He hadn’t perford the modification earlier because he discovered that continuously illuminating Life Maps reduced the Modification Point cost of the deduction.
Now that the construction of the Cloud K’un Life Map was complete, it should be possible to deduce the new Cultivation Technique and his future path.
As it turned out, Hu Qi’s idea was correct.
At that mont, the instant he gave the command, the panel vibrated slightly, and the value in the Modification Point column began to plumt.
The densely packed text on the panel was instantly cleared, transforming into a red light that flowed into the entry for the Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Spirit Devouring Map.
For a mont, Hu Qi felt his consciousness being elevated to an infinite height, becoming cold and ethereal.
He was free of all distracting thoughts.
The contents of one Inheritance Secret Martial Art and Life Map Cultivation thod after another appeared before his mind’s eye, only to be dismantled.
They were then endlessly recombined and integrated.
The Inheritance Secret Martial Arts and the Life Map Cultivation thods intertwined and fused.
An unknown amount of ti passed.
The flood of images and information vanished.
In its place, a brand-new Cultivation thod was ford.
He looked at the panel.
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[Unknown Cultivation Technique (Void Realm Chapter: Entry-Level) △ Life Map: Taiyin, Cloud K’un...]
[...]
[Modification Points: 180 (71%)]
The panel was now much more concise than before.
The hundreds of Life Acupoints within his body shone faintly, like stars.
These were the Life Acupoints he had illuminated previously.
After carefully comprehending this new Cultivation thod,
Hu Qi’s expression turned a little strange.
Over the past half-year, he hadn’t just been single-mindedly cultivating and harvesting Modification Points.
He had also researched information on the Miwu Civilization and others.
In addition, he had devoured the Light of the Soul from Thick Spider, Shi Xiao, and Li Xianyu.
His understanding of the Miwu Civilization was not insignificant.
According to the explorations of the Miwu Civilization, there was no precise count for the total number of Life Acupoints in a human body.
The number of discovered Life Acupoints was roughly around one thousand.
After excluding the useless and fragnted ones that couldn’t form a Life Map, the remaining Life Acupoints could only be used to construct a dozen or so complete Life Maps.
Without exception, each of these Life Maps was composed of around forty Life Acupoints.
But for his new Cultivation thod, complete mastery required illuminating all 14,800 Life Acupoints in his body.
These would then be used to construct three hundred and sixty-five Vice Life Acupoint Maps.
Then, those three hundred and sixty-five Vice Life Acupoint Maps would be used to assemble the one true Life Map.
It was like building a pyramid, layer by layer.
This was undoubtedly a massive undertaking that would require an enormous amount of ti or Modification Points. Its difficulty was several hundred tis greater than that of an ordinary Life Map.
However, it was also clear to anyone who wasn’t an idiot that mastering this Life Map Technique would grant unimaginable power.
The difficulty of its cultivation was directly proportional to the boost it would give a Secret Martial Artist’s strength.
’Under the circumstances, calling it the Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Spirit Devouring Map doesn’t seem quite right anymore.’
He looked at the words "Unknown Cultivation Technique" on the panel.
The number of Life Acupoints reminded him of the circulation of the stars from his past life. Combining that with the image of the Three-Eyed Primordial Serpent... an idea sparked in Hu Qi’s mind.
’In that case, I’ll call it the Taiyu Serpent Cosmos Ring Scripture!’
As the thought ford,
the words "Unknown Cultivation Technique" on the panel imdiately changed.
[Taiyu Serpent Cosmos Ring Scripture (Void Realm Chapter: Entry-Level) △ Life Map: Taiyin, Cloud K’un, Celestial Sparrow...]
[...]
[Modification Points: 180 (71%)]
Looking at his remaining Modification Points, Hu Qi’s gaze fell on the line for his Three-Eyed Primordial Serpent Bloodline.
Perhaps because the Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Spirit Devouring Map had leveled up, over the past six months, his Three-Eyed Primordial Serpent Bloodline had increased from 75% to 85% even though he hadn’t actively upgraded it.
’In that case, I’ll perfect it completely today!’
With that thought,
Instantly,
his Modification Points began to decrease again.
At the sa ti, his Three-Eyed Primordial Serpent Bloodline, originally at 85%, began to rise steadily.
86%... 87%... 97%... 99%...
Finally, the value settled at 100%.
In that instant,
Hu Qi could clearly sense the Three-Eyed Primordial Serpent Bloodline within him becoming even more concentrated, until it seed to occupy his entire body.
Hu Qi’s eyes instantly transford into crimson, slitted pupils, and the Primordial Eye on his forehead materialized in a flash.
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