Five Absolute Techniques, Tianyan Tulu

The moment Wang Qi opened the food box, he was stunned.

The meal from the kitchens was four dishes, one soup, and a bowl of white rice. The dishes were simply a mix of meat and vegetables, cooked slightly better than a farmer's but by no means skillfully. The only commendable thing was that the food contained spiritual energy, not because the ingredients were special, but because the cultivators had infused it during cooking.

What truly surprised Wang Qi were the inscriptions on the food box.

"They actually use such a food box to hold this kind of meal. Tsk tsk, it's got heat preservation and freshness all in one. Selling this box alone outside would be enough to buy a full Manchu Han Imperial Feast... oh, wait, there's no Manchu Han feast in this world, maybe a Human-Demon Feast?"

Zhen Chanzi said, "This shows that the Immortal Alliance is very dedicated to cultivating disciples."

Having been hungry all day, Wang Qi quickly finished his dinner. After returning the food box and utensils, he wiped his mouth and walked out of the kitchen.

"It was surprisingly delicious," Wang Qi said, patting his full stomach. "It didn't look like much, but after eating it, I felt comfortable all over, like I'd taken a hot bath."

"The spiritual energy in the food seeps into your body through your digestive system, strengthening your physique," Zhen Chanzi explained. "As for the taste, hehe, using Magical Power to control the changes in ingredients, how could it not be delicious? Are there cultivators who specialize in the culinary arts in this modern immortal path?"

"Are there such troublesome sects in the ancient cultivation path?" Wang Qi asked.

"It's not really a sect, but I do know of a lineage that specializes in using spiritual beasts and herbs in their cooking. Eating their dishes increases cultivation, and it's essentially a variation of alchemy. However, they believe that the tastier the dish, the more effective it is."

Blowing in the evening breeze, Wang Qi was in a great mood. He strolled casually through the immortal academy, treating it as a post-dinner digestion walk, and unknowingly found himself in front of the Hall of Bestowing Techniques.

Wang Qi's eyes lit up. "I wasn't planning on learning mental techniques right now, but why wait? Today's as good a day as any. I'll go in and take a look!"

The Hall of Bestowing Techniques had a large hall right inside the entrance. Several orbs of light floated in mid-air, illuminating the hall brightly. The hall wasn't too large, and directly opposite the entrance was a wall. The floor of the hall was neatly laid out with over a hundred futons. Around the futons were talismans that ensured disciples sitting on them wouldn't be disturbed by noise. The wall was inscribed with the basic mental techniques of various major sects.

Wang Qi found a futon and sat down, examining the mental techniques on the wall.

Starting from the far left was City of Mountains and Rivers's Yan Cheng Xuandi Jing. This technique cultivated profound Magical Power, granting strong combat prowess. After cultivating the first layer, one could draw a trace of earth fire into the body, nurturing it in the dantian to add dynamism to heavy true essence.

Wang Qi nodded. "Hmm, continental drift theory. City of Mountains and Rivers's foundation is indeed geology, geography, and other earth sciences—perhaps it should be called 'Divine Continent Science' here?"

It was a pity he wasn't very interested in earth sciences in his previous life.

"Liuyun Sect's Yunlan Furi Jue. Fluid mechanics and meteorology? Lightness and flight." Wang Qi imagined the appearance of a Liuyun Sect cultivator: white robes fluttering, as light as a swallow, elegant and refined. In combat, they would definitely be skilled at kite-fighting, no, they would be skilled at romance—this style was great!

It was a pity that his understanding of fluid mechanics in his previous life was only at an introductory level. While it might be enough to beat middle schoolers in the immortal academy, once he officially joined a sect, he'd likely be easily left behind by other disciples.

Thinking of this, Wang Qi skipped the techniques of sects like Qianji Pavilion and Sky Spirit Ridge, and went directly to the introductory mental techniques of the various branches of Returning to One Alliance and Myriad Dharma Sect.

"Burning Sky Manor, the name alone suggests it should be thermodynamics," Wang Qi continued reading. "'Swift Flame Body Technique,' a body technique? Are you kidding me? Isn't this a place to learn mental techniques?"

Greatly surprised, Wang Qi read the introductory technique of Burning Sky Manor carefully. After finishing, he slapped his thigh. "It can be done like this!"

The "Swift Flame Body Technique" wasn't for combat, nor could it be used for long-distance travel. This technique simply used "movement" to replace meditation. The core of this technique was to directly transform the power of bodily movement into the heat that the mental technique needed to absorb!

At first glance, this technique, apart from its novel cultivation method, had nothing special about it. In game terms, it just added a few points of burning damage. However, this technique was the foundation for all spells in Burning Sky Manor and could be used to cultivate any of Burning Sky Manor's ultimate techniques, making its future prospects boundless.

"Myriad Dharma Sect's Yi Bi Suanjing is quite interesting. It increases computational power? It doesn't sound very strong. 'The law of numbers originates from circles and squares, circles from squares, squares from rectangles, rectangles from eighty-one by ninety-nine'...'Using rectangles to measure height, inverting rectangles to measure depth, lying rectangles to know distance. Combining rectangles to form circles, merging rectangles to form squares. Squares belong to the earth, circles belong to the sky. The sky is round and the earth is square. Square numbers are classics, using squares to produce circles.'...'The hat represents the sky. The sky is blue-black, the earth is yellow-red. The sky's numbers are like the hat, blue-black on the outside. Vermilion and yellow on the inside, symbolizing the positions of heaven and earth.'"

As Wang Qi recited the Myriad Dharma Sect mental technique, he had a flash of enlightenment.

This section of the technique contained geometric principles, which Wang Qi had learned from childhood in his previous life. He looked at the technique and instinctively began to circulate his energy!

"Wait!" Wang Qi suddenly jolted awake and said, "I haven't finished reading other techniques yet, I can't choose rashly!"

Zhen Chanzi interjected, "You brat! Do you know you almost achieved enlightenment just now!"

Zhen Chanzi's tone was filled with a sense of disappointment, like a blacksmith lamenting a piece of unworked iron. His mind wasn't focused on circulating Magical Power, yet his body had begun to cultivate on its own. This was clearly an outburst of accumulated understanding, which was immensely beneficial for cultivators in understanding techniques. Ancient cultivators called this "enlightenment." Moreover, this state was rare and unpredictable. Yet this brat had consciously withdrawn from it!

Wang Qi ignored Zhen Chanzi, stroked his chin, and thought to himself, "This is based on geometry and supplemented by various algorithms, but I don't feel many conceptual things. The algorithms displayed are still very rudimentary, and it's probably not a very advanced algorithm. Next chapter."

In the center were the techniques of the three major sects within the Returning to One Alliance.

"Yuanli Sect's Tianyuan Zhenjie, Lord of Yuanli's technique. Let me see... Yo, it's indeed a derivative technique of the three laws of mechanics. It doesn't have overly miraculous Spiritual Power, but the attribute growth is very comprehensive! And the body technique is flexible, excelling at borrowing strength to strike."

"Benlei Pavilion's Yuan Ci Da Fa, Leiting Jue. The former is neither outstanding in offense nor defense, but it's good at controlling magical artifacts and sticking to opponents; the latter allows for the cultivation of many extremely powerful offensive spells."

Lightning attribute, one of the common attributes for the destined protagonist, domineering and stylish. If judged solely by its aesthetic, Leiting Jue would be an excellent choice. However, Wang Qi had another concern.

"I wonder if Faraday cages work in this world. Based on existing electromagnetic knowledge, the principle of this thing is likely valid!"

A Faraday cage is a common device on Earth that can isolate the electromagnetic environment inside and outside. Simply put, if you're inside a Faraday cage, even a hundred thousand volts of lightning striking outside won't kill you.

More importantly, it's incredibly simple to build—a conductive shell is all it takes! Even with Wang Qi's shallow knowledge of artifact refining, he could think of several ways to construct a Faraday cage within a magic robe. If Faraday cages were common in this world, it's very possible that he'd spend time charging up a lightning ultimate move, only for it to make the opponent's hair stand on end at most!

Wang Qi shook his head, driving the terrifying thought out of his mind.

"Guanghua Hall... Optics? There are two techniques. Lieyang Boqi and Tianguang Huawu Jue, it seems one explains optics from the wave theory and the other from the particle theory."

Lieyang Boqi, one of Guanghua Hall's introductory mental techniques. Its power is like the great sun, like fierce fire. It cultivates Magical Power that is formless yet has substance, capable of bringing forth the power of the scorching sun with every gesture.

Tianguang Huawu Jue, one of Guanghua Hall's introductory mental techniques. It refines emptiness into substance, capable of refining a ray of light into a tangible form, turning it into a weapon, or even harming enemies invisibly.

After reading them, Wang Qi shook his head. Both wave theory and particle theory are one-sided. Cultivating these two techniques would make it difficult to reach the pinnacle.

After reading the Guanghua Hall techniques, Wang Qi looked around and frowned. "No Misty Palace techniques? And these techniques don't seem very advanced." He thought for a moment and then asked Zhen Chanzi, "Right, old man, what do you think of these techniques?"

Zhen Chanzi replied, "I don't fully understand the artistic conception contained within these techniques, but from my perspective and experience, they are all remarkable techniques."

Wang Qi noticed small doors on either side of the wall inscribed with techniques, and vaguely recalled Su Junyu mentioning this. The techniques in front of the Hall of Bestowing Techniques were easy to learn and wouldn't hinder the cultivation of other divine techniques, while behind the Hall of Bestowing Techniques lay the true ultimate mental techniques.

Wang Qi passed through the small doors and arrived at the back of the Hall of Bestowing Techniques. Both doors led to a much smaller room than the front hall. On either side were several doors leading to different stone chambers, and on the wall directly opposite the small door was an inscribed technique. On the floor of the back hall, there were also many futons.

Wang Qi sat down and looked at the technique on the back hall wall. This time, as soon as he saw the technique, he felt an ancient, vast, and vibrant aura.

This technique had few words, mostly consisting of profound diagrams. And above the diagrams, the four words Tianyan Tulu were clearly written.

Tianyan Tulu, Sky Spirit Ridge's ultimate technique! Tianyan Tulu was extremely easy to get started with, its entry barrier even lower than ordinary techniques. Correspondingly, the combat power increased in the early stages of Tianyan Tulu was negligible, and there were no bonuses.

Despite its significant flaws, Tianyan Tulu was the only cultivation technique with a weight of six in Lu Renjia's weighted algorithm.

Internal cultivation techniques don't generally carry much weight in combat. Even those from the Five Great Sects usually have weights below three, and ancient cultivation techniques often have negative weights.

The reason this technique received such a high evaluation was its ability to evolve.

The Tianyan Tulu cultivation system was extremely open-ended, allowing anyone to interpret and develop it. Each person's interpretation would differ, and this evolution had no upper limit. With immense perseverance and wisdom, one could potentially become invincible without relying on spells or artifacts. The reason it only received a weight of six was that even Tianze Shenjun, the creator of this technique, had only deduced it to this extent so far.

Furthermore, because the technique could be modified at will, Tianyan Tulu could be cultivated alongside any other technique!

"A cultivation technique derived from evolutionary theory naturally possesses the ability to evolve," Wang Qi rejoiced. This technique combined trendiness, aesthetic appeal, and intellectual superiority, fulfilling all possible needs!

If there were no better options, this would be it!