[Ignite Comprehension] Optimizes Cultivation Methods

Just an instant.

Before Zhang Ming could even marvel at the Golden Finger—[Ignite Comprehension]—that he, a transmigrator, had waited eighteen bitter years for, or wonder what effects and abilities it possessed,

as though it were an inborn instinct, Zhang Ming understood everything completely.

"A transmigrator's eighteenth birthday gift, [Miracle][Ignite Comprehension]?"

"Keywords: [Miracle]? [Ignite Comprehension]?"

According to the information bestowed by the Golden Finger,

[Miracle], as the name implied, was a miracle.

It sounded like nonsense. In truth, it was nonsense.

"A miracle is a miracle."

He did not understand.

But that was unimportant. What mattered was what came after Miracle: [Ignite Comprehension].

[Ignite Comprehension]: as the name implied, it burned the energy within one's body and, according to the grade and quantity of that energy, granted the user a hundredfold, thousandfold, or hundred-millionfold boost in comprehension.

What was comprehension?

Simply put, it was one's ability to understand and analyze things.

Activating [Ignite Comprehension], under a hundredfold, thousandfold, or hundred-millionfold boost, was like having a hundred, a thousand, or a hundred million versions of oneself simultaneously thinking about and analyzing the same matter.

Where ordinary people needed three months to learn something, someone with a hundredfold boost in comprehension needed only one day.

Or even less!

Because, strictly speaking, a hundredfold boost in comprehension was not simply one hundred versions of you thinking and learning at the same time.

It was a greater, limitless, impossible-to-quantify increase.

It was like ordinary steel and ordinary steel strengthened a hundredfold. Could the gap in their performance be bridged merely by having one hundred pieces of steel?

Of course not.

The difference between them lay across every aspect—in manufacturing processes, technology, base materials, and unimaginable disparities in every field.

A thousandfold, ten-thousandfold, hundred-millionfold boost, and so on!

That was the power of comprehension.

"What a powerful Golden Finger!"

Zhang Ming could not help bursting into laughter, his heart brimming with joy.

"With [Ignite Comprehension], no matter what I do, I can reach heights that ordinary people cannot attain, perhaps even surpass the sages of old, in an extremely short time."

"Too bad it isn't something simpler."

"Like a sign-in system, Ten Thousandfold Return, the combined cultivation of a sect or clan, or something like that?"

"[Ignite Comprehension] looks good, but I still have to work hard myself. I really want a Golden Finger that lets me lie flat."

After lamenting briefly, Zhang Ming shook his head and cleared the thought from his mind.

Getting benefits and then acting spoiled was not his nature.

Without the slightest hesitation, he possessed an innate understanding and familiarity with this sudden Golden Finger and its functions, as natural as instinct.

And so, with the trust all transmigrators seemed to have in Golden Fingers,

Zhang Ming swiftly flipped the "switch" in his mind.

"[Ignite Comprehension], activate!"

Hummm—

In an instant, heaven and earth changed. It was as though every mystery of the world, past and present, flashed clearly through his mind, while his thoughts surged to a height they had never reached before.

"The base level is a hundredfold for ten minutes?"

After sensing it carefully for a moment,

Zhang Ming immediately took out the source of his long-standing heartache—the Yang City Mighty Bull Martial Arts School's Cultivation Method, [Mighty Bull Strength].

"[Mighty Bull Strength], the Cultivation Method of Yang City's Mighty Bull Martial Arts School."

"It is the Cultivation Method I have practiced for more than ten years, yet after more than ten years of trying to comprehend Vital Energy, I have gained nothing."

"The Cultivation Method's grade is not high. It is merely a Postnatal Cultivation Method, but in a place like Yang City, it already counts as a superior one."

In this world's martial path, according to the information Zhang Ming had gathered,

there were six major ranks for Warriors.

They were: Warrior, Postnatal Martial Artist, Innate Martial Artist, Grandmaster, Great Grandmaster, and Martial Saint.

Each rank was further divided into early, middle, and late stages.

Warriors comprehended Vital Energy and strengthened it, making their bodies several times stronger than those of ordinary people.

Postnatal Martial Artists used Vital Energy to temper their flesh, bones, tendons, skin, membranes, and internal organs. Upon reaching great accomplishment, they could rival a hundred Armored Soldiers.

By returning from the postnatal to the innate, reshaping the physical body, following the natural Heavenly Dao, and connecting with heaven and earth, one became an Innate Martial Artist.

Above the Innate realm were the Grandmasters and Great Grandmasters who truly dominated the martial world and founded sects.

And finally, at the very end,

stood the Martial Saints—the foundation of a thousand-year Empire, beings at the peak of the world who could shatter mountains and sever rivers.

Correspondingly, Demons, Ghosts, and the like also possessed ranks similar to those of Warriors.

But Zhang Ming, in a small place like Yang City, could not uncover the specifics.

In any case, the Postnatal Cultivation Method [Mighty Bull Strength] was considered a superior Cultivation Method in a small place like Yang City.

Upon cultivating it to great accomplishment, one could enter the Postnatal Martial Artist realm, wielding ten thousand jin of force with every punch and tearing tigers and leopards apart alive, ferocious beyond measure.

"I began martial arts training at six. Now I'm eighteen, yet I still cannot comprehend Vital Energy."

"Now let me see whether the problem lies with me or with the Cultivation Method."

His thoughts turned in but an instant.

When those thoughts stilled, Zhang Ming focused with all his heart and soul on [Mighty Bull Strength].

Ten minutes later.

[Attempted to comprehend Mighty Bull Strength. Comprehension of Mighty Bull Strength has increased, reaching the perfected level.]

[Obtained perfected-level martial experience in Mighty Bull Strength.]

(PS: Martial experience is martial experience; it is not one's actual realm.

You could roughly understand it as the brain knowing how.

Hands: Don't look at me. You're talking nonsense!

Though the "hands" do not know how yet, once all the details are understood, giving them some time to practice will make it no problem for the "hands" to learn.)

"Hiss—"

Stars danced before his eyes. A swelling pain engulfed his brain, while nausea and the urge to vomit crashed over him like waves. The entire world seemed to be swaying, and everything in his vision left layer upon layer of afterimages.

The moment he exited [Ignite Comprehension], all manner of negative sensations assailed Zhang Ming.

Instinctively, Zhang Ming braced himself against the table, supporting his weight so that he would not fall.

Violent coughing and ragged gasps filled the entire study, like an utterly exhausted traveler struggling through the desert.

Only after a while, as time passed, did the discomfort in his body and mind slowly subside.

"Damn it, exiting [Ignite Comprehension] feels way too awful."

Huff—huff—huff—

After several heavy breaths, the discomfort in his body and mind gradually faded.

"However..."

Although exiting [Ignite Comprehension] was agonizing, as he sensed the additional memories in his mind, it felt as though he had cultivated [Mighty Bull Strength] for decades in some distant time and space, successfully reaching the pinnacle of the Cultivation Method.

An irrepressible curve lifted Zhang Ming's lips.

"So that's how it is."

"So this was the reason I could never comprehend Vital Energy."

After his first use of [Ignite Comprehension], Zhang Ming's understanding of [Mighty Bull Strength] had reached great perfection, equivalent to the decades of bitter cultivation of ordinary people and infinitely close to that of its creator.

Questions that had once baffled him, with no explanation or cause in sight, all had answers now.

"Good, good, good. This is wonderful."

"I am confident that I can comprehend Vital Energy and become a Warrior within one day, become a Postnatal Martial Artist within two years, and cultivate [Mighty Bull Strength] to perfection."

At this moment,

although Zhang Ming possessed perfected-level experience in [Mighty Bull Strength],

the accumulation of Vital Energy within his body and the tempering of his flesh, bones, and foundation were not processes that experience alone could skip. Experience could only accelerate them.

And two years might seem like a long time.

But it was not.

Two years later, Zhang Ming would only be twenty.

A twenty-year-old Postnatal Martial Artist who had cultivated his Cultivation Method to great perfection and could unleash ten thousand jin of force with a punch.

He would not be weak even among Postnatal Martial Artists.

With such age and cultivation, calling him an outstanding young talent would not be an exaggeration in the least.

However...

"Two years?"

Zhang Ming chuckled, pride appearing on his face.

"Perhaps I will not need two years at all."

"Although, because of the strain on my body and mind, it is best to leave five days between each use of [Ignite Comprehension] to let my body recover slowly."

"But just the first use gave me perfected-level martial experience in [Mighty Bull Strength]."

"The second use in five days, the third in ten days, the third in fifteen days, the fourth in twenty days, twenty-five days, thirty days..."

"One use brought me to great perfection. What will happen on the second? What about the third?"

Zhang Ming did not know, but he had an inexplicable intuition.

He believed it would surely bring tremendous improvement.

"Good. The best in the world within two years—"

"Uh, don't push yourself too hard. Why grind so fiercely?"

"Then first in Xinhe Commandery within two years..."

After lowering his goal from number one in the country to number one in the commandery,

Zhang Ming waited briefly until his body and mind had mostly recovered.

Driven by the hunger in his stomach, he immediately rose and left the study, heading for the kitchen.

"Damn it. Next time I use [Ignite Comprehension], I must prepare food beforehand."

"Right, [Ignite Comprehension] burns energy. Food counts as energy, but do nourishing medicinal soups count? What about the Vital Energy that will be born and nurtured inside my body in the future?"

"And ordinary food converted into energy can only provide a hundredfold comprehension boost. If I burn higher-grade energy, or more energy, how much greater will the boost be?"