Star Devourer: Swarm Overlord
Chapter 33

Cultivation

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"This 'Celestial God Codex' is quite interesting. The third diagram is complete, so I'll start practicing the fourth."

In the training room, Qin Mu sat cross-legged, effortlessly controlling sixteen short spears that spun and flew around him.

"It doesn't seem that difficult."

The sixteen short spears didn't fly in a single direction; they each followed their own trajectories, varying in speed, forming an extremely complex three-dimensional pattern in the air, like a giant maze.

Qin Mu had only bought one Type 9 short spear and ten Type 8 short spears. The rest were ordinary ones.

The reason he used ordinary short spears to fill the quota was, of course, because he was poor and couldn't afford so many good weapons. Ordinary short spears weren't good for combat, but they were fine for training.

As for the "Celestial God Codex," it was a training method for "Control-type" Mental Masters from the "Mental Master Basics" secret manual.

There were a full ninety-nine diagrams. Since Qin Mu had only bought the first level, there were six diagrams. The first two levels had fifteen diagrams, but the first three levels had a full ninety-nine diagrams.

This strange distribution was because the strongest Mental Masters on Earth at present could only practice up to the eighteenth diagram.

No one could master the later ones, so they had simply released them all.

For Qin Mu, this seemed quite easy. He could easily pass the fourth diagram without the Hive Mother's assistance!

"This thing is pretty good. At least it can improve control ability."

Qin Mu stroked his chin. This so-called "Celestial God Codex" was actually a series of very tedious diagrams, requiring one to control short spears to constantly simulate the diagrams. Through long-term training, one could achieve proficiency and thereby improve control ability.

After all, these were just basic things in the universe, not particularly profound.

When Luo Feng first obtained it, he believed that the "Celestial God Codex" was deduced by "Hong" through an intelligent system.

But this was actually unlikely. Putting aside whether the intelligent system had such powerful deductive capabilities.

The "Mental Master Basics" included illusion techniques and beast taming methods. How could an intelligent system, which lacked mental power, deduce illusionary cultivation methods? How could it deduce the mind-communication methods of beast taming?

The reason for this misunderstanding was probably that Luo Feng's horizons hadn't been broadened at the time, and he didn't know the situation in the universe.

"When I'm a bit stronger, I'll go check out Site 9. With my talent, as long as I can activate the elite assessment in the ruins, I'll easily pass the assessment and get the rewards."

Qin Mu couldn't help but think of the Meteorite Star's inheritance base on Earth, which Luo Feng had later visited – Site 9 on Earth.

There, as long as the brain domain width reached a certain level, the elite assessment would be activated. If the assessment was passed, one would receive a Black God Set, an Auxiliary Light Brain, the Sky Shuttle cultivation method, and an entry token for Meteorite Star.

During the assessment, one needed to learn the "Basic 312 Forms" within three years and perfectly control sixteen weapons.

Although this "Basic 312 Forms" had an ordinary name, it was actually the foundational cultivation method of the "Master of Control" lineage of the Meteorite Star lineage's Mental Masters.

This was much more powerful than the very ordinary "Mental Master Basics" in the universe.

Before practicing the "Mental Master Basics," Qin Mu could already easily control ten short spears to exert their full power. Now, after only a little study, he could control twelve.

Once the Hive Mother was upgraded to level two and his Mental Master strength reached the War God level, it would be normal for this number to double!

These conditions were very difficult for Luo Feng; he spent more than a year to pass. But for Qin Mu, it was practically free benefits with almost no difficulty.

This ruin seemed to open at the end of September each year. He could think of a way then.

"Forget it, I won't think about these things for now. I'll practice 'World Annihilation' first!"

After practicing the "Celestial God Codex" all morning, Qin Mu ate a simple meal and then resumed his practice of the "World Annihilation" spear technique.

"Let me see what's so amazing about this 'World Annihilation' spear technique that it's called the number one offensive technique on Earth!"

He took out a rather ancient-looking secret manual and began to carefully flip through and read it.

"So, Hong and Thunder God were on similar paths, both relying on speed, extremely fast attack speed! Hong's strongest strike was also a spear thrust at the peak of speed.

Hong and Thunder God had a good relationship, practicing together and verifying their techniques. It's not surprising that their paths were similar."

Hong had a great fondness for ancient Chinese culture. Even the architectural style of the Hongning Base City he established was completely modeled after ancient Chinese architecture. Making cultivation techniques into similar secret manuals was in line with his style.

"World Annihilation" was not just a spear technique; it also included a movement technique, an amplification technique, and the spear technique itself.

For others, the amplification technique was fundamental because only it could strengthen the user. But for Qin Mu, strengthening himself primarily relied on the swarm's feedback; the amplification technique was merely supplementary.

It was the spear technique and the movement technique that attracted him more.

The reason the "World Annihilation" spear technique was powerful was its potent force-generating method. Like the Nine Heavens Thunder Saber, when wielding the spear, it didn't use full force but only nine-tenths of the strength.

When exerting the first layer of force, it could still allow one to unleash an additional hidden force. With the superposition of two layers of force, it could reach eighteen-tenths, which is 1.8 times the attack power!

"World Annihilation" was divided into six layers.

The first layer allowed one to unleash an additional hidden force, meaning eighteen-tenths of the power!

The second layer allowed two additional hidden forces, unleashing twenty-seven-tenths of the power!

The third layer allowed three additional hidden forces, unleashing thirty-six-tenths of the power!

And so on, until the sixth layer, where one could unleash six hidden forces, reaching sixty-three-tenths of the power.

A full 6.3 times the power. Although slightly less than the seven times power of the Nine Heavens Thunder Saber at its peak, "World Annihilation" was hailed as the world's number one offensive method. It seemed this "World Annihilation" spear technique might have other profound mysteries.

"The first layer of the 'World Annihilation' spear technique has 21 moves. To master it, one can practice these 21 moves to familiarize themselves with the force-generating method of the first layer of 'World Annihilation'!"

Holding the Po Jun 7 Series spear, Qin Mu walked to the center of the training hall and began to practice the spear technique.

"Alright, let's start training."

As the spear danced, Qin Mu's consciousness immediately linked with the Hive Mother, controlling every muscle and every inch of bone in his body. Any improper movements would be detected and corrected immediately.

"This spear technique can be broken down into 32 movements. I made mistakes in the power application of 3 of them, and 5 movements were slightly altered."

In the martial arts hall, the spear whistled through the air, its passage marked by explosive cracks.

"Again!"

Qin Mu didn't rest. During his second practice, he only made one mistake in power application and 3 movements were altered!

His rapid progress was truly astonishing.

In just one afternoon, Qin Mu had completely mastered 5 of the 21 moves, and his control over himself was improving at an incredible rate.

"This feeling… it's absolutely wonderful."

Immersed in his training, Qin Mu was completely captivated. The sensation of his strength growing made him incredibly excited, and he poured his entire being into it.

During his training, both his spear techniques and movement techniques were improving at an amazing speed.

"Again!"

"Haha! Yes, just like that! Let's practice it one more time!"

Seeking collections and recommendation tickets for the new book.

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