Cultivation

"This Celestial God Codex is quite interesting. I've completed the third diagram; time to begin training with the fourth."

In the training room, Qin Mu sat cross-legged, effortlessly controlling sixteen short spears as they continuously spun and danced around him.

"It doesn't seem that difficult."

The sixteen short spears did not fly in the same direction. Each followed its own trajectory, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, forming an incredibly complex three-dimensional pattern in the air, like a massive maze.

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

Naturally, he had used ordinary short spears to make up the numbers because he was poor and could not afford so many good weapons. Ordinary short spears were useless in battle, but they were fine for training.

As for the Celestial God Codex, it was a training method for Mental Masters of the "control object" school found in the Mental Master Basics manual.

It contained a full ninety-nine diagrams. Since Qin Mu had only bought the first level, he only had six diagrams. The first two levels contained fifteen diagrams, while the first three levels contained all ninety-nine.

Such a strange distribution existed because the strongest Mental Master on Earth could currently only perform up to the eighteenth diagram.

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

For Qin Mu, it seemed quite easy. Even without the Mother Nest's assistance, he could easily pass the fourth diagram!

"This thing is pretty good. At the very least, it can train my control ability."

Qin Mu stroked his chin. This so-called Celestial God Codex was actually a series of extremely tedious diagrams that required one to control short spears and continuously replicate them. Through long-term practice, one would eventually achieve mastery through familiarity, thereby improving control ability.

After all, it was only basic stuff in the universe. It could not possibly be all that profound.

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

But that was actually quite unlikely, leaving aside whether an intelligent system even possessed such powerful deductive capabilities.

Mental Master Basics included methods for illusions and beast taming. Intelligent systems did not even possess Mental Power, so how could they deduce illusion-type cultivation methods? How could they deduce beast-taming mental communication methods?

The reason for such a misunderstanding was probably that Luo Feng's horizons had not yet broadened at the time, and he did not understand the situation in the universe.

"Once I'm a little stronger, I'll go take a look at Site 9. With my talent, as long as I can activate the elite assessment within the ruins, I'll easily pass and claim the rewards."

Qin Mu could not help thinking of the Meteorite Star inheritance base on Earth that Luo Feng would later visit—the Site 9 on Earth.

There, as long as one's brain region breadth reached a certain level, the elite assessment would be activated. Passing it would earn one a Black God Set, an Auxiliary Light Brain, the Sky Shuttle cultivation method, and a Meteorite Star entry token.

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

Although Basic 312 had an ordinary name, it was actually the foundational cultivation method of the Master of Control branch among the Mental Masters of the Meteorite Star Lineage.

It was far more impressive than the Mental Master Basics, which was quite ordinary even in the universe.

Before cultivating the Mental Master Basics, Qin Mu had already been able to effortlessly control ten short spears at full power. Now, after only a little study, he could control twelve.

Once the Mother Nest advanced to Level 2 and his Mental Master strength reached the War God level, it would be perfectly normal for that number to double again!

These requirements had been difficult for Luo Feng, who had taken more than a year to pass. But for Qin Mu, they were practically free benefits, with almost no difficulty at all.

The ruins seemed to open around the end of September every year. When the time came, he could think of a way.

"Forget it, I won't think about that for now. I should practice Destruction first!"

After training with the Celestial God Codex for an entire morning, Qin Mu ate something simple and began practicing the Destruction spear technique again.

"Let's see what makes this Destruction spear technique so formidable that it's called Earth's number one offensive martial art!"

Taking out a rather ancient-looking martial arts manual, Qin Mu began carefully flipping through it and reading.

"So Hong and Thunder God followed similar paths. Both focused on fast—extremely fast—attack speed! Hong's strongest strike was also an incomparably swift spear thrust.

Hong and Thunder God were very close. They usually cultivated together and verified each other's insights, so it was not strange for their paths to be similar."

Hong greatly enjoyed ancient Chinese culture. Even the architectural style of the Jiangning Base City he had established completely borrowed from ancient China. Turning martial arts into manuals like this was very much his style.

Destruction was not merely a spear technique. It also included a movement technique, a guiding technique, and the spear technique itself.

For others, the guiding technique was fundamental, because only a guiding technique could strengthen one's body. But for Qin Mu, strengthening himself mainly depended on feedback from the Swarm, while the guiding technique was merely supplementary.

Instead, the spear technique and movement technique were more appealing to him.

The reason the Destruction spear technique was powerful was its formidable Force Application method. Like the Nine Heavens Thunder Saber, one did not attack with full force when swinging a spear, but used only ninety percent of one's strength.

After unleashing the first layer of force, it allowed one to unleash another layer of hidden force. With the two layers stacked together, one could reach eighteen-tenths force, or 1.8 times one's attack power!

Destruction was divided into six levels.

At the first level, one could unleash one additional layer of hidden force, producing eighteen-tenths force!

At the second level, one could unleash two additional layers of hidden force, producing twenty-seven-tenths force!

At the third level, one could unleash three additional layers of hidden force, producing thirty-six-tenths force!

And so on, until the sixth level, when one could unleash six layers of hidden force and produce sixty-three-tenths force.

A full 6.3 times the power. Although it was slightly weaker than the sevenfold power of the Nine Heavens Thunder Saber at mastery, Destruction was known as the world's number one offensive technique. It seemed this Destruction spear technique might possess other mysteries.

"The first level of the Destruction spear technique has twenty-one moves. To master it, I can practice these twenty-one moves and familiarize myself with the first level's Force Application method!"

Holding the Po Jun 7 Series spear, Qin Mu walked to the center of the martial arts hall and began demonstrating the spear technique.

"Then, let's begin training."

As the spear danced, Qin Mu immediately linked his consciousness to the Mother Nest, taking control of every muscle and every inch of bone in his body. Any improper movement was immediately detected and corrected.

"This spear move can be broken down into thirty-two actions. Of those, I applied force incorrectly in three movements, and five movements were distorted."

In the martial arts hall, the spear shaft howled as it tore through the air, producing explosive cracks.

"Again!"

Qin Mu did not rest. During his second demonstration, he made only one mistake in applying force and had three distorted movements!

The speed of his progress was simply astonishing.

In just one afternoon, Qin Mu had completely mastered five of the twenty-one moves, and his control over his own body was rapidly improving.

"This feeling is simply wonderful."

Qin Mu was utterly engrossed in cultivation. The feeling of his strength continuously growing made him incomparably excited, and he threw himself into it wholeheartedly.

During training, both his spear technique and movement technique improved at an astonishing pace.

"Again!"

"Haha! Yes, just like that! Practice it once more!"

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