When the myna bird entered the Ninth-Layer Space of the Heaven-Penetrating Tower, his body immediately grew larger. His clones turned into streaks of black light and plunged into him.
There were so many clones that it took the myna bird a full incense stick's time to reclaim them all. The Cultivation Techniques they carried then surged through his mind.
"Ready!" the myna bird said to Fang Chen.
Fang Chen flew straight over and closed his eyes. The myna bird began pecking at the spot between his brows, and with every peck, Fang Chen felt a vast flood of information pour into his mind.
The myna bird pecked more than a hundred times before he had passed all that information to Fang Chen.
Fortunately, Fang Chen had reached the Great Emperor Realm, and his soul was immensely powerful. Otherwise, he could never have absorbed so much information in so short a time.
Once he had received the Cultivation Techniques, Fang Chen closed his eyes and began sorting through them.
The techniques flashed rapidly through his mind as he sifted through them, discarding those with nothing useful to offer.
Three months later, Fang Chen finished his first round of selection. He had discarded ninety-nine percent of the techniques; the ones left all held some value as references.
Many of those techniques had been created by powerhouses who had reached the Great Emperor Realm. Like Fang Chen, they had tried to devise a technique that would let mortals absorb Spiritual Qi and cultivate. Unfortunately, none had succeeded.
Many Great Emperor powerhouses believed that mortals did have Spiritual Roots, but that the roots within them were so weak they could not be awakened.
It was like picking up any Stone from the ground: even that Stone contained gold. But an ordinary Stone held so