The Breathing Technique That Was His Discarded Option but My Supreme Treasure (Seeking Recommendations and Continued Reading)

Dan Lei looked at Shinobu Kocho's Light Cone and more or less guessed how it had come into being. That girl had probably hoped that one day he might return, and in the end, she had waited for him her entire life.

However, Dan Lei did not regret his choice at all. He knew perfectly well that when a Longevity Species and a short-lived species came together, neither side would be happy.

When Shinobu Kocho realized that Dan Lei would never age while she continued to grow older day by day, she would gradually develop an inferiority complex even if she never became suspicious.

And if Dan Lei watched his lover grow old and eventually die while he was completely powerless to do anything, his spirit would inevitably suffer Erosion. He would then continue living for several centuries while carrying that regret.

Therefore, upon seeing this Light Cone, Dan Lei only felt somewhat guilty. Before he left, he should have explained everything clearly to Shinobu Kocho. It had truly been wrong to delay her entire life like that.

However, even if Dan Lei were given the chance to travel back to Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba now, he would not make a special trip back. He would simply treat this Light Cone as a memento.

After studying the two Light Cones, Dan Lei returned to the outside world. With a thought, the Light Cones and Conceptual Artifacts in the Holy Grail's sea-of-flowers space appeared before him.

The use of the Light Cone could be set aside for now. In reality, this thing had no Path restrictions, because its source of power was Remembrance. There was no such thing as only a particular Path being able to use a particular memory.

As for the Conceptual Artifacts, they were essentially like objects sealed inside cards. Dan Lei could casually turn the cards into physical objects.

Moreover, after testing them, he found that ordinary secondary modifications did not stop the objects from turning back into Conceptual Artifacts after being taken out.

However, he still needed to continue testing the extent of the modifications. After all, Dan Lei had not yet tested whether an object could still turn back into a Conceptual Artifact after being completely dismantled and used to create something new.

But that matter was not urgent. Conceptual Artifacts could be studied slowly. First, he had to see whether the Breathing Technique he had learned from Demon Slayer would work on Luofu.

After all, Luofu was essentially a starship, and it had no Ley Line.

Furthermore, since it had not operated in a stellar system for a long time, there was barely any Stellar Energy around it. Even if Dan Lei wanted to try changing classes and studying Celestial Magecraft, he could not do so.

Luofu's Great Source was the Imaginary Energy of the Path of the Hunt, which the Aeon of the Hunt opened without limit. Thus, when the Holy Grail had charged on Luofu before, it had relied on Dan Lei's own Od and the elemental power that naturally existed in the surrounding space.

This had directly caused Dan Lei to spend nearly two hundred years charging the Holy Grail just once.

If the Holy Grail still charged at that rate, Dan Lei would not be able to fill enough energy for a second traversal even by the time the Stellar Core Spirit arrived. The only solution was to leave Luofu and live on another planet with a Great Source.

However, the Xianzhou's management of the Longevity Species was extremely strict. The most numerous groups, the Xianzhou natives and Foxians, were both strictly controlled, let alone the Vidyadhara, who were rare to begin with.

It would not be easy for Dan Lei to leave Luofu through official channels. The only exception would be if he were expelled because of special circumstances, like Dan Heng.

But in reality, being expelled was completely impractical. Dan Heng had been implicated by his previous life, and the Dragon Masters had also awakened his memories in violation of the rules.

If it were Dan Lei instead, a minor offense would result in imprisonment, while a major offense would mean having his scales stripped directly. In any case, expulsion would definitely not be an option.

Thus, Dan Lei could only hope that the Breathing Technique would still work on Luofu. That way, he would at least have a chance to make another traversal before the Stellar Core Spirit came to Luofu.

After all, Phantylia's invasion of Luofu was both a danger and an opportunity. Unless Dan Lei planned to spend the rest of his life idling around on Luofu, he would definitely have to try to participate.

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

Dan Lei was being so careful because he had suffered too many losses before. As for how violent the unclaimed power of the Path of the Hunt was when absorbed directly, no one understood it better than him.

That knowledge had been gained through countless serious injuries over nearly two hundred years.

However, after he inhaled, Dan Lei did not feel much at first. He soon sensed a stinging pain, but it remained within a tolerable range.

This was actually normal. The people of Luofu needed to breathe as well, so the surrounding Imaginary Energy of the Hunt could not be so violent that a single breath would injure them.

Normally, when a Luofu native inhaled air filled with Imaginary Energy, that Imaginary Energy was inert and would be completely exhaled with the breath.

The main reason Dan Lei had constantly been injured before was that after his Magic Circuits absorbed the unclaimed Imaginary Energy of the Hunt, they would activate it within his body and transform it into mana.

At the same time, the Magic Circuits in Dan Lei's current body were far too excellent. As a result, even when he absorbed only the smallest amount, the activated Imaginary Energy would overload his Magic Circuits.

However, no matter how tough the internal organs were, they were still sturdier than Magic Circuits, which were similar to nerves.

Therefore, when the Breathing Technique took effect and attempted to transform the inhaled Imaginary Energy into True Qi, it did injure Dan Lei, but nowhere near to an unbearable degree.

Moreover, Dan Lei had only taken a shallow breath, so the Imaginary Energy contained within it was limited. Unlike directly absorbing energy from outside and pressing himself against an infinite, massive energy source, this caused almost no sustained damage.

In addition, he had trained the strength of his organs, tendons, and meridians for thirteen years in the world of Demon Slayer. They were not so easily damaged. Thus, Dan Lei endured the initial impact of the Imaginary Energy.

Then, the Imaginary Energy began continuously transforming into True Qi before being converted into pure mana through his Magic Circuits.

In short, after circulating the Breathing Technique's internal cycle once, Dan Lei's eyes lit up.

The mana problem that had hindered his Magecraft on Luofu had finally found a breakthrough today.

The Breathing Technique might be useless to the other people of Luofu. The Imaginary Energy it absorbed from the air could also be obtained by ordinary people on Luofu through machinery, and they used that Imaginary Energy to power other things rather than themselves.

As for Pathstriders, they could already obtain Imaginary Energy from their Paths. Powerful Pathstriders would consider the small amount of energy gained from the Breathing Technique useless, while weaker Pathstriders would find learning it far less efficient than using technology to obtain Imaginary Energy. Thus, it was useless to both groups.

But to Dan Lei, this was a divine technique. The existence of this Breathing Technique meant that the technology for transforming Imaginary Energy into mana within the body had achieved a breakthrough. On Luofu, his Magecraft was finally no longer in a semi-sealed state, and the Holy Grail could also have a stable mana source.

Actually, if Herta had been beside Dan Lei at this moment, she would definitely have complained,

"Some trivial Imaginary Energy conversion technology actually managed to trouble you for two hundred years. What a useless fool."

But Dan Lei was extremely excited. After instantly healing the slight damage to his organs with the power of the Abundance Destiny, he immediately began experimenting to verify the exact process by which the Breathing Technique converted Imaginary Energy. Then, based on that process, he optimized the energy-conversion plan and pathways.