Xu Tui's Personal Long-Term Research Project

According to the Mind Sea Concentration Gene Forging Knowledge Method, Upper Volume, Version 4.9, Wisdom Heart System practitioners with the talent for internal vision should have already activated some of the thirty-six Gene Points required for the first layer.

At least three to five, and as many as eight or nine.

They first needed to determine how many they had already activated, then activate the rest one by one in order.

The method for finding the first Gene Point in the first layer of the Mind Sea Concentration Gene Forging Knowledge Method, Version 4.9 was rather bizarre.

Point a sharp object toward the center of your brows without touching it, keeping it between five millimeters and three centimeters away, then enter internal vision.

The most uncomfortable, unpleasant spot at the center of your forehead was the first Gene Point that needed to be activated for the first layer of the Mind Sea Concentration Gene Forging Knowledge Method, Version 4.9.

Note: Gene Points found through internal vision were generally only about the size of a needle tip, and sometimes they overlapped.

If the area found through internal vision was too large, it was recommended that you try the secret method several times or ask an instructor for help locating it.

Xu Tui took a sketching pen in his left hand and held it above the center of his brows, about one centimeter away.

In less than a minute, a prickly, itchy sensation appeared between his brows. It was very uncomfortable.

Xu Tui held that position and tried to enter internal vision.

But the prickly, itchy sensation between his brows was highly distracting.

He wasn't used to it yet.

Xu Tui tried more than a dozen times before he finally entered internal vision.

In True Internal Vision, the unusual prickly, itchy sensation immediately helped Xu Tui pinpoint the spot between his brows.

But the area was a little too large.

The area he found through internal vision was about the size of a match head.

According to the Mind Sea Concentration Gene Forging Knowledge Method, Version 4.9, this was perfectly normal.

The practitioner needed to carefully sense and distinguish the points, gradually narrowing down the area.

Then they had to locate the Gene Point precisely and activate it using the concentration method.

It was a slow, painstaking process.

It might take an hour or two if they were quick, or several days to pinpoint it.

The cultivation manual said that, under normal circumstances, taking a day or two to find and lock onto the first Gene Point was perfectly normal.

With a sharp object hovering near the center of your brows, it was too easy to lose focus.

The slightest mistake could knock you out of internal vision.

Getting back into internal vision also took some effort.

Still, Xu Tui believed he would probably get better at it once he got used to the process.

Only then did Xu Tui realize how difficult it was to practice the Mind Sea Concentration Gene Forging Knowledge Method, Version 4.9.

Even with internal vision to help, finding and locking onto a point took a day or two.

Without internal vision, finding one would be pure luck.

Xu Tui didn't rush to enter Illusory Internal Vision.

He wanted to use this opportunity to see how much difference there was between True Internal Vision and Illusory Internal Vision when searching for and locating Gene Points.

So he spent nearly an hour carefully sensing and searching for the true first Gene Point, continually ruling out other possibilities.

After an hour, Xu Tui had narrowed the area from the size of a match head to three or four needle-tip-sized points. There were probably three or four Gene Points there.

From what Xu Tui could sense, the first Gene Point in the first layer of the Mind Sea Concentration Gene Forging Knowledge Method, Version 4.9 should be among those three or four points.

Xu Tui felt that if he spent another hour or two sensing and searching, he should be able to find it.

However, at that moment, Xu Tui no longer wanted to waste time.

Besides, he also wanted to test an idea he'd just had.

Xu Tui focused his attention again and entered Illusory Internal Vision in an instant.

Then Xu Tui sucked in a sharp breath.

"Damn, there are still this many?"

In Illusory Internal Vision, the area Xu Tui had just narrowed down through True Internal Vision—where he'd expected there to be three or four Gene Points—contained seven gray dots and one bright white dot.

There were more than twice as many as Xu Tui had expected.

In other words, if Xu Tui wanted to sense and locate the first Gene Point through True Internal Vision, it would probably take him much longer.

It might take three to five hours, a whole day, or even longer.

Internal vision also consumed mental power.

At his current level, Xu Tui couldn't stay in internal vision for a dozen hours.

But what shocked Xu Tui even more was that in Illusory Internal Vision, it took him only a few breaths to find and lock onto the first Gene Point he needed to activate.

In Illusory Internal Vision, once he pointed the sharp object at his brow, the Gene Point that produced the prickly, itchy sensation stood out clearly.

It was like a lightbulb.

Xu Tui found it instantly.

It was the only already-activated Gene Point in the area he'd located earlier through True Internal Vision.

Xu Tui had already activated the first Gene Point required for the first layer of the Mind Sea Concentration Gene Forging Knowledge Method, Version 4.9.

Next, he naturally had to follow the cultivation method and find the second Gene Point required for the first layer, lock onto it, and activate it through concentration.

In Illusory Internal Vision, finding and locking onto the corresponding Gene Points was incredibly fast.

And the accuracy was one hundred percent!

On average, Xu Tui could find one Gene Point that needed to be activated every three to five minutes.

Eight.

When Xu Tui found and locked onto the eighth Gene Point required for the first layer, it was the first one that hadn't been activated. It was gray.

The first seven had all been activated.

Xu Tui slowly opened his eyes, his expression full of surprise.

Illusory Internal Vision was incredibly powerful in this regard.

Normally, even with True Internal Vision and the Mind Sea Concentration Gene Forging Knowledge Method, Version 4.9, simply sensing, finding, and locking onto the first eight Gene Points—never mind cultivating—would take quite some time.

At least three to five days, and as many as eight or nine.

But in Illusory Internal Vision, excluding the time spent testing it at the beginning, Xu Tui hadn't even needed half an hour to find and lock onto the eight Gene Points.

That was an enormous time-saver!

And the accuracy was one hundred percent.

Suddenly, a thought came to Xu Tui.

If his Illusory Internal Vision ability came from the Gene Points he had already activated, then which Gene Point—or which ones—had given him that ability?

"If I could figure that out..."

The thought made Xu Tui's heart race.

Normally, it shouldn't be too difficult to find out.

Xu Tui had only activated fifteen Gene Points in his head.

It was after activating those fifteen Gene Points that Xu Tui had gained the ability to use Illusory Internal Vision.

It was safe to say that the thirty-six Gene Points in the first layer of the Mind Sea Concentration Gene Forging Knowledge Method, Version 4.9 given to him by An Xiaoxue probably didn't include any Gene Points that granted Illusory Internal Vision.

The cultivation manual said nothing about it.

Illusory Internal Vision was so important.

If any of those Gene Points granted it, the manual would definitely say so.

That meant he could use the process of elimination.

The seven Gene Points he had just found were very likely unrelated to Illusory Internal Vision.

Even if they were related, they weren't the crucial ones.

That narrowed it down to the other Gene Points in his head that he had already activated.

The answer should be among those eight Gene Points.

However, proving which one or ones were key to unlocking Illusory Internal Vision would be rather difficult.

Xu Tui would need to figure out how to conduct research in this area, then gradually rule out possibilities and reach a conclusion.

Any research project required a slow, painstaking process.

It took a great deal of groundwork to produce results.

Xu Tui's idea was no different.

He had narrowed it down to eight possible candidates, but he couldn't deactivate the Gene Points he'd already activated and then try activating them again.

He would need to conduct experiments, over and over.

But that would take a great deal of time and perhaps even money.

"I'll record the locations of all eight Gene Points that I suspect might be responsible.

"I can make this a personal long-term research project and see if I can get any results..."

Xu Tui got busy again.

This was when the benefits of having a two-person suite became clear.

Whether or not anyone was staying across from him, nobody would disturb Xu Tui in his own private living area, and he didn't have to worry about what other people thought.

If he were in an ordinary double or four-person room, his roommates would probably have complained or even cursed him out for making a racket in the middle of the night.

Fifteen minutes later, Xu Tui got back into bed. After swallowing a bottle of E-grade Energy Supplement Potion, he breathed in through his nose and out through his mouth, entering Illusory Internal Vision in an instant.

He began trying to activate the eighth Gene Point.

The cultivation method recorded in the upper volume of the Mind Sea Concentration Gene Forging Knowledge Method, Version 4.9 that An Xiaoxue had given him was divided into three parts.

They were gene-point sensing, concentration, and knowledge forging.

Gene-point sensing meant finding and locking onto Gene Points.

That was what Xu Tui needed most at the moment.

Concentration meant using a special technique in internal vision to focus one's mental power or attention on the Gene Point that needed activation, speeding up its activation.

Knowledge forging was a method for tempering and strengthening mental power. It needed to be used alongside the school's standard mental-power training method.

However, Xu Tui had already come up with his own method of activating Gene Points.

So during his cultivation, he tried the concentration method and his own crude method of activating Gene Points separately.

He soon noticed a difference.

His own crude method was incredibly precise in Illusory Internal Vision, and it activated Gene Points at a decent speed.

But the concentration method described in the Mind Sea Concentration Gene Forging Knowledge Method, Version 4.9 was better at channeling the energy glow flowing out of his stomach.

Combined with the precise targeting of Xu Tui's Illusory Internal Vision, it should activate Gene Points a little faster than his crude method—and more safely.

The concentration method was much more systematic and complete than Xu Tui's own method.

Xu Tui decisively chose to use the concentration method in Illusory Internal Vision to activate the eighth Gene Point.

But this time, even after the energy from a bottle of E-grade Energy Supplement Potion had been completely absorbed, he still hadn't managed to activate the eighth Gene Point.

Xu Tui's mind was already showing signs of fatigue.

He opened his eyes, swallowed six F-grade Energy Supplement Pills at once, then entered Illusory Internal Vision again and continued guiding his cultivation.

About twenty minutes later, he successfully activated the eighth Gene Point in the first layer of the Mind Sea Concentration Gene Forging Knowledge Method, Version 4.9.

Fighting off his mental exhaustion, Xu Tui spent another ten minutes directing the remaining energy into the Gene Points he had already activated. Only then did he relax and slowly drift off to sleep.

According to the Mind Sea Concentration Gene Forging Knowledge Method, Version 4.9, activated Gene Points also needed to be continually strengthened to bring out their full potential.

He couldn't let that energy go to waste!