Secret Manuals and Learning Devices

One stall was rather interesting. While everyone else sold items, this stall sold both items and services. Not that kind of service, of course, but the use of a machine resembling a VR gaming pod.

This stall sold all kinds of knowledge books and also offered a service that let customers learn them directly. Kerry was very interested. That VR gaming pod was a Learning Device, capable of instantly imparting knowledge like memory transfer.

It was a bundled sales model. The stall owner mainly sold Secret Manuals, while the Learning Device made up for the manuals' complex, difficult, and time-consuming comprehension process.

In just this short time, Kerry had already seen three Dimensional Merchants come here to buy books and finish learning them. Business was booming.

"Boss, how does payment work here?" Kerry saw that the fourth customer had already sat down in the Learning Machine, so he spoke up while the owner was free.

"After purchasing books or Secret Manuals from this shop, you may use the Learning Machine for free to learn the contents of the books or manuals you bought. Place the Secret Manual on this platform, and the Learning Machine will automatically generate the corresponding knowledge and implant it into your memory." The owner was a big-headed alien with dark blue skin, dressed in clothing resembling a spacesuit.

After clarifying the shop's business model, Kerry began browsing the Secret Manuals and introductions sold here.

Five minutes later, Kerry gave up. There were far too many Secret Manuals here to be described as merely hundreds of thousands. Even reading through all the book catalogs would not be easy. It would be faster to ask the owner directly. "Boss, do you have a Secret Manual that can let someone become a god and transcend?"

There happened to be no customers at the stall, and the owner was happy to gain another client, so he began explaining in detail. Becoming a god and transcending were two different concepts. Becoming a god did not necessarily mean transcending, but those who transcended had basically already become gods.

There were no Secret Manuals for transcending, but there were many books and secret tomes for becoming a god, numbering in the tens of thousands. However, many of them required the laws of specific worlds.

There were also some Secret Manuals that did not require support from world laws, but none of them suited Kerry at present.

These manuals that did not require support from world laws shared a common trait: they consumed enormous amounts of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and had many bottlenecks.

Kerry was still in the early stages of development. Learning something that consumed so much money was not realistic right now.

Kerry was rather lazy. His ideal path to godhood was the kind where he could leave it running in the background and jump nine hundred and ninety-nine levels with one slash. If cultivating a Secret Manual meant constantly running into bottlenecks and needing breakthroughs, he probably would never become a god in this lifetime.

Since Secret Manuals that did not require world laws were unsuitable, he should find one that suited his world instead. The classification of world laws was not too complicated. Aside from a few special worlds, such as card-based worlds or those where humans and beasts fused, they were broadly divided into several major categories that covered nearly all Secret Manuals.

Pure magic worlds, sword-and-magic worlds, flesh-and-bloodline worlds, cultivation and immortality worlds, which included martial arts worlds, mechanical civilization worlds, superpower worlds, and so on.

After comparing them briefly, Kerry knew that he was in a sword-and-magic world. Although he had heard that the East Earth Continent had Fangshi and Spellcraft, at least West Europar was a pure sword-and-magic world.

The West Europar Continent had numerous races, most of which lived within the continent's five great empires. The Raynor Kingdom that Kerry had transmigrated into was a vassal state of the Ionia Magic Empire and lay within the sphere of human influence.

Besides the Ionia Empire, which was a human sphere of influence, there was another human empire among the five great empires: the Fagran Empire. This nation was far stronger than Ionia.

The other three great empires were the Elf Empire in the Forest Sea of the continent's southwest, the Dwarf Empire in the northeast, and the Goblin Empire wedged between the Dwarf Empire and the Fagran Empire in the continent's central south. Among them, the Goblin Empire had the smallest territory, while Fagran possessed the largest and most fertile territory of the five great empires.

There was also the Orc Nation, which had once been an empire but had now split apart. The entire north of the continent was their territory. Between Fagran and the Elf Empire lay a force known as the Inland Sea Merchant Alliance. Naturally, these nations all shared borders. The continent's power structure was one of large nations ruling many small countries, with the smaller states surviving in the cracks along the borders of the great powers.

It was worth mentioning that human nations also ruled Orc duchies and Troll Kingdoms, while dwarven powers sometimes ruled human kingdoms. In short, these small kingdoms and duchies contained many races and existed chaotically across the continent.

Back to the point: once the shop owner learned that Kerry wanted a Secret Manual for a sword-and-magic world, he listed over ten thousand manuals capable of leading to godhood. Based on Kerry's desire to level up while idling, he then narrowed them down to over a dozen. Different cultivation methods and Secret Manuals had different focuses.

Kerry took a liking to two cultivation methods suitable for lazy people: the Golden Body Strength Battle Method and the Spiritual Strength Battle Method. These two methods were currently the most suitable for him. One cultivated the body, while the other cultivated the soul.

The Golden Body Strength Battle Method specialized in cultivating the body, nourishing the flesh with battle aura. At its highest level, one could achieve sainthood through the body alone, with physical strength far surpassing ordinary gods and comparable to divine beasts.

The Spiritual Strength Battle Method specialized in cultivating the spirit and soul, nourishing the divine soul through mana or magic power. In the end, it allowed the soul to become divine, with divine soul power far beyond that of ordinary gods. Upon reaching perfect completion, its divine soul power would be unmatched below the Transcendence Level.

These were two powerful cultivation methods capable of glimpsing the realm of transcendence. However, what Kerry valued most was not their potential. Plenty of cultivation methods could reach that level. What he valued were their two traits: first, once enough nourishment had accumulated for advancement, they advanced automatically, with no bottlenecks whatsoever; second, their cultivation methods were designed for lazy people, and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures could further speed them up.

Automatic advancement and no bottlenecks were easy enough to understand. As for the lazy-person cultivation mode, it was necessary to first explain the drawbacks of these methods.

If such excellent cultivation methods did not have obvious flaws, they would probably have become commonplace throughout all dimensions. Their greatest drawback was that they were extremely difficult to begin and had incredibly demanding requirements. Before beginning, one also had to have no other energy or abilities within one's body.

From this, it was clear that the two methods could not be cultivated together. As long as there was energy from another cultivation method in the body, neither could be practiced. Therefore, whichever one he cultivated first would generate energy in his body. Moreover, if Kerry wanted to cultivate them now, he would first have to disperse his Warrior Level 1 battle aura.

Returning to the methods themselves, their requirements were, more specifically, that cultivating the body required a body with enormous potential, roughly among the highest-potential members of one's race.

Cultivating the divine soul likewise required a soul with enormous potential, also roughly among the top tier of the cultivator's race. Combined with the requirement to discard all previous cultivation before learning this method, the prerequisites alone eliminated ninety-nine percent of people.

The remaining one percent fell into only two categories. One was peerless experts whose bodies and souls both met the standard, but by then they were generally already close to becoming gods, so discarding their cultivation and starting over was not worth it.

The other was the children of super-rich families, who spent vast amounts of money before cultivating, spending until they met the requirements before beginning. But how many such families would be willing to make such a huge sacrifice for one family member?

With that much money to spend, they could create several super experts. Even if such people existed, they were the one percent among that one percent.

Returning to the lazy-person cultivation mode, these two cultivation methods were called Battle Methods, but after entering the path, they were truly standing methods. As long as one stood, the methods would run automatically, cultivating without pause at every moment.

"Boss, how many Points are these two?"

Now that cultivation methods have appeared, don't you all want a lazy person's godhood cultivation method too? By the way, please vote and bookmark it.