Deduction - Primordial Chaos Divine Art

Raising the Three Rivers Heart Method was simple enough. He had already cultivated it to the third layer, and although he had obtained all the subsequent methods from the sect, he had never practiced them. Raising a One-Star High-Grade internal art from the third layer to the fourth consumed only five Potential Points. Spending them all at once to strengthen it to the eighth layer, the peak of mastery, consumed merely thirty-nine Potential Points—compared to the Potential Points he currently possessed, it was nothing but a drop in the bucket.

However, although the Potential Points were only a drop in the bucket, forcibly strengthening the art still required time. Each layer needed a brief recovery period.

Even with his current, extremely profound internal cultivation, strengthening his internal art again no longer required the one or two days of recovery it had needed at the beginning, but it still took two or three hours.

According to the strengthening rules of the attribute panel, the higher one's cultivation, the shorter the recovery interval required to strengthen an internal art. If one's cultivation was high enough, strengthening some lower-level internal arts might require no interval at all, allowing them to be raised from the entry level to the peak of mastery in one breath.

After half a day, he had raised the Three Rivers Heart Method to the peak of mastery, and more than thirty years of internal energy had once again accumulated in his Dantian.

Two different types of internal energy now existed within his body. Because their power differed so greatly, the Three Rivers internal energy was forcefully suppressed by the Primordial Chaos internal energy, but it did not affect his Dantian or meridians.

He opened the attribute panel again, his gaze sweeping back and forth over the three internal arts. In the end, he made up his mind: he would use the Yang Sha Scripture and Yin Sha Scripture as the foundation, fuse their strengths, eliminate their flaws, and then merge in the Three Rivers Heart Method to deduce a new divine art.

"Deduce!"

With a thought, the three internal arts on the attribute panel twisted violently and vanished, transforming into a tiny vortex. Potential Points turned into invisible power and poured into the vortex bit by bit.

"What a pity I haven't cultivated many internal arts!"

Lin Xiao rarely sighed. If he had seven or eight internal arts to use as references and combine all their strengths, he was absolutely confident he could forcibly deduce a peerless Two-Star Peerless Grade divine art instead of merely not knowing whether he would deduce a Two-Star High-Grade one or...

All right, although the Yang Sha Scripture itself was a Two-Star High-Grade internal art, the gap between Two-Star Peerless Grade and High-Grade was only one level on paper, yet the actual difference was enormous. These three internal arts alone might not be enough to deduce one.

Fortunately, this kind of deduction was not a one-time process. He could continue deducing it in the future. He would first solve the current problem and cultivate this art, then find a way to learn several more internal arts and use the one he had deduced now as the foundation for further deduction. He believed he could eventually deduce a peerless Two-Star Peerless Grade divine art.

Potential Points poured into it without end. The vortex fusing the three internal arts gradually took shape. At the same time, Lin Xiao felt the internal energy in his Dantian begin to change as well. A vortex formed inside his Dantian, and whether it was Primordial Chaos internal energy or the internal energy cultivated from the Three Rivers Heart Method, all of it flowed into the vortex and fused into one. As bits of Potential Points merged into it, an invisible force seeped inside, causing some wondrous change in the internal energy within his Dantian.

The change happened extremely quickly. In the blink of an eye, the two types of internal energy had fused into one and rapidly transformed. At the same time, the attribute panel flickered. The vortex vanished, and the three internal arts disappeared, replaced by an unnamed internal art.

Unknown Internal Art (Two-Star High-Grade): Ten layers in total. Formed by fusing multiple internal arts. Its internal energy is vast and harmonized, and it can activate numerous martial arts in the world.

"As expected, it wasn't enough!"

This was within his expectations, so Lin Xiao was not too disappointed. After thinking it over, he casually named the newly deduced internal art Primordial Chaos Divine Art.

The moment he finished naming it, Unknown Internal Art on the attribute panel swiftly became Primordial Chaos Divine Art. At the same time, all the detailed information regarding this divine art surged into his mind.

The Primordial Chaos Divine Art had been formed by fusing the Yang Sha Scripture, Yin Sha Scripture, and Three Rivers Heart Method. It had only ten layers in total, but its power far exceeded that of the Yang Sha Scripture, which was also a Two-Star High-Grade art. Aside from its vastness, the greatest advantage of its fused internal energy was that it could activate the vast majority of martial arts in the world.

For example, the fierce internal energy of the Yang Sha Scripture could unleash tremendous power when used to activate fierce palm arts such as Vajra Palm and Dragon Claw Hand. But if it were used to activate a nimble sword art like Soft Finger Sword, its power would naturally be greatly reduced. Now that the three internal arts had fused, these restrictions were gone. He could fully activate the vast majority of martial arts without any loss of power.

The Primordial Chaos Divine Art had only ten layers, but its power far surpassed the eleventh layer of the Yang Sha Scripture. The number of layers did not mean much and had no necessary relationship with an art's power.

Because Lin Xiao had cultivated all three internal arts to the peak of mastery before fusing them, the fused Primordial Chaos Divine Art also reached the tenth layer, the peak of mastery, in a single step. His cultivation had completely merged the power of all three arts: 220 years of Primordial Chaos internal energy plus thirty years of Three Rivers Heart Method internal energy, bringing his total cultivation to as much as 250 years. By the standard divisions used in the martial world, one sixty-year cycle equaled a Jiazi, making this equivalent to four Jiazi.

Unfortunately, internal energy was not worth much in this low-martial world. If he were in a martial-arts world like the one of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber or Return of the Condor Heroes, where the world's level was higher and internal energy transformed into more powerful true essence, two Jiazi of true essence would already count as a master's cultivation. Someone like him, possessing as much as four Jiazi of true essence, might still lose to Zhang Sanfeng, who was on the verge of entering the Dao through martial arts, but he certainly would not be much weaker than the protagonist, Zhang Wuji.

Depending on the differences in energy and rules between worlds, the gap between innate true essence and internal energy was enormous. If a master like Zhang Sanfeng were converted into this world's internal energy, he would probably possess more than a thousand years of internal energy—simply ferocious beyond belief.

Deducing the Primordial Chaos Divine Art had consumed a total of 125 Potential Points, just as he had expected. Fortunately, he had not performed the deduction back at Black Cloud Village. Otherwise, with his Potential Points insufficient, those seventy or eighty Potential Points would definitely have gone down the drain.

Now that the internal art had been deduced, it was time to deduce his other martial arts.

There was no need to mention Lightness Skill. He currently knew only the Flying Heaven Steps, leaving nothing extra to fuse and deduce. Counting the martial arts he could cultivate, only saber arts and fist-and-palm arts remained.

The saber arts consisted of the three he had cultivated previously: the One-Star Mid-Grade Three Rivers Saber, Dark Cloud Saber, and Riptide Saber Technique, as well as a One-Star Peerless Grade saber art called Swift Saber, which he had found in the Martial Arts Pavilion of the sect when he left.

That was right. Its name was simply Swift Saber, a saber art with an extremely rapid saber speed.

In addition, when Lin Xiao had left the sect, the sect leader had given him two Great Merits. Each Great Merit could be exchanged for three Minor Merits, giving him six Minor Merits in total. He had exchanged them all for martial arts. Aside from Swift Saber, the rest consisted of two palm arts, two fist arts, and one claw art, all of them One-Star High-Grade arts.

Oh, he also had to include the Eagle Claw Technique he had seized earlier.

He had never cultivated these seven arts before, and he had not even reached the entry level, so he could not use them for deduction directly. He first needed to cultivate and raise these six arts before doing anything else.

Lin Xiao thought it over carefully and decided to seclude himself for a while in the wilderness beyond the pass. He would not use Potential Points, but would rely on his own ability to cultivate these several martial arts.

Raising them with the attribute panel was indeed fast, and it caused no aftereffects. But relying on it blindly would create dependence on the attribute panel. As time passed, it might make him subconsciously rely on that thing, which would be very bad.