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In the instant after multiplying by ten.
Jiang Fu felt as though his mind had broken into another world.
This seemed to be a street corner in a small town.
The empty street was devoid of people.
A damp night breeze brushed against his face, accompanied by a light drizzle.
Rumble—
Suddenly.
A peal of thunder exploded beside his ears.
Jiang Fu gave an instinctive shudder.
He snapped awake.
He was still lying in the bathtub.
A white towel rested on his head.
His spirit power was locked onto the thin booklet outside the bathroom.
"What... just happened?"
Jiang Fu froze for a moment.
Then he suddenly noticed.
His spirit power value, which had remained unchanged all this time.
Had now risen from 926 to 927.
"So that's how it works!"
"This is a mental cultivation method!"
Jiang Fu's eyes brightened slightly.
However.
In the very next instant.
Jiang Fu's eyes widened again.
He saw that his attribute panel on the system screen had undergone some changes.
[Name: Jiang Fu] [Sex: Male] [Age: 18] [Level: 0] [Qi-blood value: 70] [Spirit power: 927] [Lifespan: 200 days] [Ability: Multiply by Ten (cannot be stacked)] [Ability usage limit: Positive infinity] [Cultivation technique: Star Gazing Chart on a Rainy Night] [Category: Mental Cultivation Method] [Grade: High-grade Heavenly Rank] [Cultivation progress: Silken Rain Chapter, progress, 0.1%] [Divine ability comprehended: None yet (obtainable when Silken Rain Chapter progress reaches 60%)] [Ultimate move comprehended: None yet (obtainable when Silken Rain Chapter progress reaches 100%)]
Jiang Fu stared fixedly at that 0.1% progress.
"Does that mean... once I get my progress to ten percent, multiplying it by ten will make it a hundred percent?!"
"And! What's showing now is the progress for the first chapter, the Silken Rain Chapter!"
"Which means... once I've finished the Silken Rain Chapter, I can keep multiplying the next chapter by ten!?"
Right now.
His progress in the first chapter, the Silken Rain Chapter, was only 0.1%.
But!
As long as there was progress, he could multiply it by ten!
Just now, in that brief instant.
He had gained 0.1% progress.
And another thing!
Jiang Fu's gaze locked onto the technique grade field.
High-grade Heavenly Rank!
Could he multiply that grade by ten as well?
The instant this thought arose in Jiang Fu's mind.
In the technique grade field.
A small annotation suddenly appeared.
[Cultivation techniques are founded upon rules and order; books are merely their vessels. Multiplying a technique's grade by ten will cause corresponding changes in rules and order, affecting everyone who cultivates this technique.] [Currently, two people cultivate "Star Gazing Chart on a Rainy Night."] [Shi Jiu: Stellar Chapter, progress, 59.99%] [Jiang Fu: Silken Rain Chapter, progress, 0.1%]
Reading the text prompts on the system screen.
Jiang Fu was momentarily taken aback.
Multiplying a technique's grade by ten would affect everyone who had cultivated it?
Still, only he and Shi Jiu had cultivated this Star Gazing Chart on a Rainy Night...
It seemed this must have been a fortuitous discovery of Shi Jiu's.
And High-grade Heavenly Rank...
Was probably already the highest tier of cultivation technique in this world.
As for the screen before him, it had been left behind after the Multiply by Ten System had been scared off.
Now.
Jiang Fu wanted to multiply a technique's grade by ten, something so outrageous.
That the system screen had produced these prompts.
"So if I multiply the technique's grade by ten, the Star Gazing Chart on a Rainy Night that Shi Jiu cultivates will also be multiplied by ten..."
"Then will the difficulty of cultivating it increase accordingly?"
Jiang Fu was a little worried.
As a general rule.
The higher a technique's grade, the harder it was to cultivate.
Jiang Fu had multiplied his comprehension, understanding ability, and cultivation speed by ten.
Just to barely get started.
[After multiplication by ten, this technique's cultivation difficulty will also rise to match its new grade.] [Those who have already cultivated the technique and mastered its basics will not be affected.] [Subsequent practitioners will cultivate it at the difficulty corresponding to its grade after multiplication by ten.]
Jiang Fu's eyes instantly lit up.
This was an utterly broken exploit!
What was he waiting for?
Multiply it by ten!
As for subsequent practitioners...
Anyone cultivating a high-tier technique ought to bear the difficulty that came with it!
Jiang Fu hesitated no longer.
He declared in a low, firm voice.
"Technique grade, multiply by ten!"
The next instant.
Jiang Fu watched as, on the screen.
In the technique grade field.
The words "High-grade Heavenly Rank" flickered softly.
And changed to two words.
Extreme Dao.
Jiang Fu rubbed his chin. "Extreme Dao?"
"I thought it'd turn into something like holy grade or god tier..."
He had no idea what kind of grade Extreme Dao was.
But it was higher than the previous High-grade Heavenly Rank, at any rate.
Meanwhile.
In the smaller bedroom next door.
Shi Jiu, who had been fast asleep, suddenly opened her eyes.
She stared blankly at the ceiling above her.
Her eyes were filled with bewilderment, confusion, and shock.
At that moment, Shi Jiu felt rather overwhelmed.
It was as though every incomprehensible thing she could possibly encounter in her lifetime.
Had come rushing at her all at once.
A low-level mutated beast python with a crown growing on its head and a strange, deadly poison.
Her anti-toxin ability skyrocketing.
Her sequence suddenly mutating into a divine sequence...
Although it had lasted only a few seconds.
It had let her truly glimpse the existence of a divine sequence.
She believed it would not be long before she could truly step into the realm of the divine sequence.
And now.
Her mental cultivation method...
Had suddenly become outrageously powerful.
"Am I still half asleep?"
"I'm imagining things. I must be."
"Mm... everything will be fine when I wake up."
Shi Jiu tried to shift her body.
Only to discover that she still could not move.
She could not help muttering softly, "...Jiang Fu's arms are still more comfortable."
With that thought.
Shi Jiu closed her eyes again.
She had a healthy mindset.
If something made no sense and she could not understand it, she would not torment herself over it.
But deep down, Shi Jiu had a vague feeling.
...Maybe it has something to do with Jiang Fu.
Elsewhere.
Jiang Fu had finished bathing and gotten dressed.
After applying timed multiply by ten to his comprehension, understanding ability, and cultivation speed.
He lay on the bed and quietly began cultivating Star Gazing Chart on a Rainy Night.
Now.
Jiang Fu could just barely make out the contents of the Silken Rain Painting.
Although it was still somewhat blurry.
He could nevertheless tell.
That the painting depicted that rainy nighttime street corner in the small town.
And the mental cultivation method.
Involved using spirit power to depict the contents of the chart.
If Jiang Fu could use his spirit power to fully render every scene within the Silken Rain Painting.
His cultivation progress would reach a hundred percent.
Now.
As Jiang Fu's spirit power continuously depicted the scenery in the Silken Rain Painting.
As his spirit power continued its rendering.
The spirit power he had previously consumed also began recovering rapidly.
Jiang Fu didn't know when he fell asleep.
In his dream,
he entered the world of the Silken Rain Painting.
At a street corner in the once-empty town,
a figure had appeared.
A girl in a blue-and-white school uniform stood beneath an oil-paper umbrella, smiling sweetly.
Thunder rumbled.
Jiang Fu opened his eyes.
By then,
daylight had filled the room. The night was over.
Jiang Fu lay in bed and stretched hard.
Then, out of habit, he looked at the glowing screen before him.
[Spirit Power: 1000] [Cultivation Progress: Silken Rain Painting, progress: 2.33%]
Jiang Fu narrowed his eyes.
"One night of cultivation, and I'm at 2.33%."
"In less than five days, my Cultivation Progress will hit one hundred percent!"
"What a wonderful day!"
The next instant,
Jiang Fu remembered something.
He hurried out of bed and got dressed.
After washing up,
he went to the room next door.
First, Jiang Fu probed inside with his Spirit Power.
The girl was already awake.
She was lying in bed, playing on her phone.
Sensing Jiang Fu's Spirit Power,
Shi Jiu raised her head slightly. "Come in."
Jiang Fu pushed open the door. "How do you feel?"
Shi Jiu set her phone aside. "I can move, but I don't have any strength."
That was several days sooner than expected.
Jiang Fu pressed his lips together. "Then you haven't fully recovered... Why don't you stay here a while longer?"
Shi Jiu looked him in the eye. "All right."
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