The Breathing Technique That Is Their Chicken Rib, My Treasure (Seeking Recommendations, Seeking Follow-up Reads)

Shinobu Kocho's Light Cone, Dan Lei guessed its formation reason. This girl probably hoped he would return one day, and ended up waiting her whole life.

However, Dan Lei did not regret his choice at this moment, because he knew very well that a union between a Longevity Species and a short-lived species would bring happiness to neither.

When Shinobu Kocho discovered that Dan Lei would never age while she grew old and withered, even without suspicion, she would inevitably feel inferior.

And Dan Lei, watching his beloved grow old and die day by day, completely powerless, would surely have his spirit worn down, living on for several hundred more years with regret.

Therefore, seeing this Light Cone, Dan Lei only felt a pang of guilt. He should have made things clear with Shinobu Kocho before he left; delaying her for a lifetime was truly not good.

However, even if Dan Lei were given the chance to travel back to Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba now, he would not go back specifically. This Light Cone would serve as a memento.

After studying both Light Cones, Dan Lei returned to the outside world. With a thought, the Light Cone and Conceptual Relic from the Holy Grail Flower Sea space appeared before him.

Setting aside the use of Light Cones for now, in reality, these items have no Path restrictions because their power source is memory. There is no such thing as a memory that can only be used for a specific Path.

As for Conceptual Relics, they are essentially like items sealed within cards. Dan Lei could turn the cards into physical objects at will.

Furthermore, after testing, these items, once materialized, would not be prevented from returning to their Conceptual Relic form by ordinary secondary modifications.

However, the extent of modification still needed further testing. After all, Dan Lei had not tested whether an object, if completely disassembled and used to create a new item from its materials, could still revert to its Conceptual Relic form.

But this matter was not urgent. Conceptual Relics could be studied slowly. He first needed to see if the Breathing Technique he learned in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba was useful on the Luofu.

One must know that, because the Luofu is essentially a starship, it does not have Ley Lines.

It doesn't even have much stellar energy around it due to its long-term absence from star systems. Dan Lei couldn't even attempt to re-specialize and study stellar Magic.

The Luofu's Great Source is the Imaginary Energy of the Aeon of the Hunt's infinitely open Path of the Hunt. Therefore, previously, the Holy Grail could only be charged on the Luofu by Dan Lei's own small source and the elemental power already present in the surrounding space.

This directly led to Dan Lei taking nearly two hundred years to fully charge the Holy Grail once.

If the Holy Grail continued to charge at this efficiency, Dan Lei would not be able to fill it a second time for the energy needed for another traversal even if the Stellaron Hunter arrived. The only solution was to leave the Luofu and live on another planet with a Great Source.

However, the management of Longevity Species on the Xianzhou is very strict. The most numerous, the Xianzhou people and the Foxfolk, are strictly controlled, let alone the Cloud-Piercer, who are already rare species.

It was not easy for Dan Lei to leave the Luofu through official channels, unless he was expelled for special circumstances like Dan Heng.

But in reality, expulsion was completely unfeasible. Dan Heng was implicated by his past life, and his memories were even illegally awakened by the Dragon Master.

If it were Dan Lei, a minor offense would result in imprisonment, and a major offense would lead to direct scale shedding. In any case, there would definitely be no option for expulsion.

Therefore, Dan Lei could only hope that the Breathing Technique would still be effective on the Luofu. This way, he would at least have a chance to traverse again before the Stellaron Hunter arrived on the Luofu.

After all, the invasion of the Luofu by Phantylia was both a danger and an opportunity. Unless Dan Lei planned to live out his days idly on the Luofu, he would definitely have to try and participate.

Thus, Dan Lei began to activate the Breathing Technique and took a shallow breath on the Luofu.

Here, Dan Lei was so cautious precisely because he had suffered too much before. He understood how violent it was to directly absorb the Luofu's unclaimed Path of the Hunt power; if he claimed second place in understanding it, no one would dare claim first.

This was the experience he had gained from countless serious injuries over the past two hundred years.

However, after inhaling this breath, Dan Lei didn't feel much at first. Soon, he felt a stinging sensation, but it was within the range of tolerance.

This was actually normal. Luofu residents also needed to breathe. The surrounding Path of the Hunt Imaginary Energy could not be so violent that a single breath would cause harm.

Normally, when a Luofu resident inhaled a breath of air filled with Imaginary Energy, the Imaginary Energy within it would be inert and expelled from the body with the breath.

Dan Lei's previous injuries were mainly because his Magic Circuits absorbed this unclaimed Path of the Hunt Imaginary Energy and activated it into Magic within his body.

At the same time, his current body's Magic Circuits were too excellent. This directly caused his Magic Circuits to overload even with the lowest level of absorption.

However, the internal organs were, after all, sturdier than Magic Circuits, which were akin to nerves.

So, when the Breathing Technique took effect and attempted to convert the inhaled Imaginary Energy into True Qi, although it caused Dan Lei damage, it was far from unbearable.

Moreover, Dan Lei only took a shallow breath, and the Imaginary Energy contained within was limited. Unlike directly absorbing from the outside, which was like drawing from an infinite, vast energy source, there was almost no continuous damage.

Coupled with the fact that his internal organs and meridians had been strengthened for thirteen years in the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba world, they were not so easily damaged. Thus, Dan Lei withstood the initial impact of this wave of Imaginary Energy.

Then, this Imaginary Energy began to be continuously converted into True Qi, and then further converted into pure Magic through the Magic Circuits.

In short, after one full circulation of the Breathing Technique within his body, Dan Lei's eyes lit up.

The problem of Magic power that had plagued his spellcasting on the Luofu finally had a breakthrough today.

The Breathing Technique might be useless to other people on the Luofu. The Imaginary Energy it absorbed from the air could be obtained by ordinary people on the Luofu through equipment, and they used this Imaginary Energy to charge other things, not for themselves.

As for Pathstriders, they could already obtain Imaginary Energy from their Paths. Powerful Pathstriders considered the energy obtained from the Breathing Technique to be trivial. Weak Pathstriders felt that learning this was far less efficient than obtaining Imaginary Energy through technology. Thus, neither group found it useful.

But for Dan Lei, this was a divine skill. The existence of this Breathing Technique meant that a breakthrough had been made in the technology of converting Imaginary Energy into Magic within the body. He was no longer in a semi-sealed state of spellcasting on the Luofu, and the Holy Grail would also have a stable source of Magic.

In fact, if Herta were by Dan Lei's side at this moment, she would surely scoff and say, "A mere Imaginary Energy conversion technique troubled you for two hundred years? What a waste."

But Dan Lei was extremely excited. After instantly healing the slight damage to his internal organs with the power of the Abundant Destiny, he immediately began to experiment to verify the specific process of the Breathing Technique converting Imaginary Energy, and then optimize the energy conversion plan and path based on the process.