I Understand Now!
While there's nothing wrong with making empty promises, ultimately, the power of Weird Tale is itself a form of making empty promises.
Whoever paints a bigger, more realistic, and more convincing picture will become stronger. Not to mention Feng Xue's cultivation, which, if we're being honest, is far more real than that so-called Fated Death.
So-called fate is nothing more than a false proposition created by something that cannot be falsified and by macro-control, while Feng Xue's cultivation is a true path to transcendence.
Although his so-called cultivation was essentially just High Martial from the Ranshan Sect.
Yes, High Martial.
Ever since Feng Xue obtained the "Peerless Martial Art" manual, she has never stopped copying it. Even if she doesn't practice it herself, she can use her martial arts powers to deconstruct all the thoughts, insights, and experiences contained within it and then integrate them into her own martial arts.
Some of these martial arts techniques seem completely out of place with ordinary martial arts.
This system, which is completely incompatible with orthodox martial arts, can be roughly divided into two categories in Feng Xue's hands.
The first category is "Scientific Martial Arts." Although that's what it's called, it's actually very unscientific, or you could call it fantasy science. It's basically about obtaining martial arts techniques that look high-tech through methods like cybernetic modifications, implanted Power Reactor, and the use of high-energy radiation. For example, techniques like Titanium Extreme Golden Body and Uranium Extreme Nuclear Fusion Fist are pretty self-explanatory from their names. If you really want to categorize them, Magnetic Field Rotation is also considered quite advanced in this category. Yes, Feng Xue actually did draw the Ultimate Boundless Qigong.
The second category can be called "Metaphysical Martial Arts." In short, it's the type where others practice martial arts while I cultivate immortality. The Fourteen Swords of Ten Thousand Transformations I drew early on, as well as the High Martial arts versions of the Northern Darkness Divine Skill and the Carefree Wander, and even the series of mystical martial arts by Zhang Sanfeng in Hong Kong comics, can all be counted in this category. Among them, the immortal Immortal Master of the Ranshan Sect are the most outrageous.
The foundation-building method that Feng Xue in the "Six Completions Way" technique was a simplified version of the Ranshan Sect's Supreme Grade techniques, "Profound Subtle True Technique" and "Ten Thousand Transformations Return to Their Own Path." The accompanying Sword Technique were also simplified from the Subordinate God Sword Technique "Fourteen Swords of Ten Thousand Transformations," resulting in Fourteen Basic Sword Techniques.
As for the so-called Heavenly Secret Stealing Secret Method, apart from staying high up and scaring yourself, it is nothing more than a rather crude, external Horizontal Training Cultivation Method. The only difference between it and the Golden Bell Shield Cover is that one uses fists and weapons to strike from the outside, while the other uses Internal Force to bombard from the inside. Although it is powerful, its strength depends entirely on the total amount of Internal Force. And the increase in the total amount of Internal Force will also lead to the improvement of the Horizontal Training Cultivation Method, so it cannot kill people at all.
Of course, that's true, but this technique can only be considered a martial art with a bit of the air of cultivating immortality; in essence, it's still a martial art.
(However, this family of Ranshan already possesses fantastical techniques like Sword Control Technique, the Five Thunder Curse, and the Yin-Yang Eyes in their seventh-rank cultivation methods. Their Five Ghosts Transport Technique is only at the ninth rank. Isn't that outrageous? But the protagonist only has Peerless Martial Art, so he has to break down and simplify the lower-level techniques himself.)
The problem is this: if no one tells you it's martial arts, and there's a technique that, after you practice it, makes you light and healthy, reverses aging, maintains your youth, and even allows you to Sword Flight, would you consider it martial arts or Immortal Method?
Not to mention that Feng Xue often descends upon cultivators who have broken through to the Qi Refining realm using the Real World Rules, using her Gu Poison Body to exert psychological suggestion on them, making them believe that they have comprehended various Immortal Method from the General Outline.
When everyone believes it can comprehend Immortal Method, then according to the principles of Weird Tale, it becomes Immortal Method.
As for immortality, the Golden Elixir Path, transcending tribulations and ascending to heaven, and all sorts of other wondrous things... didn't the cultivation method say that you have to comprehend it yourself from the General Outline? If you can't comprehend it, then your cultivation level is not high enough. It must be in the book!
The more people believe that the General Outline exist, the more likely they are to actually exist in the General Outline, no matter how outrageous they may appear.
For example, right now, when Feng Xue stares at the original General Outline for a long time, she even enters an illusion, where she sees a Little Old Man looks almost exactly like her when she was undergoing tribulation, standing in front of the table, introducing himself with the four major techniques of the "Dynamic and Static Techniques" while asking her what she wants to learn.
"Should I ask at this point, 'Is it possible to achieve immortality?'"
Hearing Feng Xue's complaint, the Little Old Man with the air of a hermit waved his whisk and sighed softly, "A flower in a mirror, the moon in the water."
"..." Feng Xue looked at the surroundings, her mind First Turn, and said, "Then... not learning?"
"Smack!"
The next moment, Feng Xue stared blankly at the Phantom Object in her hand, gently rubbing her head. Had she just hit herself?
"So, is this an indication that I should read this book in the middle of the night, or is it that the current understanding of 'cultivators' is only enough to imagine the dynamic and static techniques, and the rest of the story hasn't been told yet?"
Looking at the Phantom Object labeled "You're just making empty promises again," Feng Xue once again immersed his consciousness in the General Outline he had written. He intended to listen to the contents of the four schools of "Dynamic and Static Techniques." Regardless of whether they were good or bad, they could at least serve as a reference book for the [Immortal] power, right?
... Dream World...
"Stare--"
Feeling the gazes fixed on him, the detective sprang from the bed. Looking at his colleagues staring at him with sharp eyes, he scratched his head awkwardly and chuckled, saying:
"Sorry, I've made some progress in my cultivation, and I'm a little excited, so I can't sleep."
"You've made some progress again?" Snake Pupil looked at the detective speechlessly, feeling like the world was against her. To make the salaryman in reality focus on cultivating immortality, she made a special trip to the provincial capital to implant a whole set of suggestive chains in herself. And yet, the real-life version of herself still slacks off at the drop of a hat and hasn't even finished Qi Refining yet. But this detective, let alone Qi Refining, has already dared to say he's "made some progress" in such a short time!
You'd better just skip this!
"Yes, I learned a Sword Control Technique from the 'Movement' sect today..."
"Puff!"
This time, not only Snake Pupil, but even Qing Jin spat out his tea. He had originally wanted to show off his understanding of the "Flow" sect's feng shui calculations, but you just came up here and started flying on a sword?!
"Don't get excited. It's not like Sword Flight. At most, it's like a boomerang. You can attach your True Qi to the sword, throw it out, and control it to fly back on its own."
Although the detective used words like "at most" and "that's all," his Versailles-like aura was practically overflowing. Even though everyone was a newbie when it came to cultivation, couldn't they understand this kind of thing with a little thought?
If you can control the sword to fly back, does that mean you can control it to fly out with twice the force? With even more precise control, could you slash left and right? And with even greater force, could you control heavier objects? It's like the Mushroom Egg; once you create Little Boy, isn't Tsar Bomba just a matter of time?
What's most infuriating is that there's no way to share experiences. It's not that it's something that can only be understood intuitively but can't be explained in words, but rather that the memory of dreams simply doesn't remain in reality. So even if the detective tells them the whole triggering process, they'll forget everything when they return to reality!