Entering Stillness Method

After reaching a deal with Yu Qinglan, Chen Yuan said he needed two days to prepare. In truth, he was waiting for the Meditation Method optimization to finish.

After all, the current Optimization System could only support one optimization task at a time.

However, Chen Yuan had not been idle these past two days. Since he only lacked one Spirit of Vegetation to break through to the intermediate stage, he simply stopped cultivating Gene Origin Energy in the Gravity Chamber and focused instead on comprehending the Wind of Existence.

Thus, whenever Yu Qinglan used the Wind of Existence to begin cultivating during this period, Chen Yuan would certainly stand nearby and watch.

Calling it watching was not quite right, though, because Chen Yuan was not looking at Yu Qinglan at all. Instead, he browsed electronic manuals purchased from Limit Home on his phone.

After a while, Chen Yuan could not even be bothered to stand. He simply brought over a chair and sat down, reading the manuals while using the Power of Mind to sense Yu Qinglan's cultivation.

This was because Chen Yuan did not need to comprehend it personally. He only needed to collect data and leave it to the system to optimize into a secret technique later.

Yu Qinglan found this Junior Brother Chen exceptionally strange. He had clearly said he wanted to observe her cultivation, yet when he came, he only stared at his phone, not at all like someone trying to comprehend Conception.

After they reached their agreement, Chen Yuan began coming over the next day. Yet his absentminded state throughout the entire process made Yu Qinglan feel uncomfortable all over, and she could not help asking him about it.

Chen Yuan replied that he had a special method of comprehension and did not need to watch with his eyes. He told her to act as though he did not exist.

So Yu Qinglan began her cultivation sessions in this strange atmosphere. By the time she finished cultivating, Chen Yuan had often already vanished without a trace.

That was because Chen Yuan had left ahead of her, returned to Jiangnan Pavilion, and entered the Virtual Space to train his swordsmanship.

As his proficiency in the Gale Sword Art neared its limit, his daily improvement grew smaller and smaller. Fortunately, through continued tempering, his proficiency had not stagnated and was still steadily increasing, albeit slowly.

Thus, Chen Yuan's days passed in a cycle of watching Yu Qinglan cultivate and tempering himself in the Trial Tower. Two days later, he did not go out during the day, instead hiding in Jiangnan Pavilion as he waited for the Meditation Method optimization to gradually finish.

Finally, the optimization progress bar reached 100%.

Optimization task completed. Secret technique "Hibernation Method: Crystal Meditation" has been optimized into "Meditation Method: Source Star Meditation" (click to view details).

"Finally finished." Chen Yuan stared at the panel, his eyes bright. "The system automatically named it Source Star Meditation? Is it because Earth was called Source Star in the previous era?"

The so-called previous era did not refer to a few hundred or thousand years ago, but to the era of Earth billions of years ago, before the Great Destruction.

Chen Yuan remembered that since Earth had been created by Mountain Sitting Guest, it had experienced three eras in total: the first era, "Mountain and Sea Realm"; the second era, "Source Star"; and the third era, "Earth." Every era had undergone a reorganization of civilization after a Great Destruction.

As for why the optimized secret technique was called Source Star Meditation rather than Earth Meditation or Mountain and Sea Meditation, Chen Yuan learned after asking the system that it was because the system considered Source Star Meditation the most suited to Chen Yuan's aesthetic preferences among the three names.

Upon learning this answer, Chen Yuan did not know whether to laugh or cry. That was actually the reason.

Still, the system did understand him. If Chen Yuan had to choose between the three names, he would have chosen "Source Star Meditation" as well. There was no other reason—it simply looked pleasing.

Therefore, Chen Yuan had no intention of changing the name and directly opened the Meditation Method's details.

Meditation Method: Source Star Meditation: Cultivation-type secret technique. Evaluation unknown (beyond Earth's secret technique rating). A meditation method centered on Earth, containing the cultivation path after Entering Stillness. Its specific effects are as follows:

1. Cultivating this secret technique can increase Brain Domain Width. For every 10% increase in secret technique proficiency, Brain Domain Width increases by 1 point.

2. Cultivating this secret technique can increase consciousness strength, to a maximum of no more than two major realms above the body.

Although this secret technique had only two effects, its contents were utterly terrifying.

Chen Yuan was immensely shocked. The more he read, the more alarmed he became.

"This Meditation Method can actually directly increase Brain Domain Width?" Chen Yuan's eyes widened. "Every 10% increase in proficiency raises Brain Domain Width by one point. Wouldn't reaching Completion Level increase Brain Domain Width by 30 points?!"

One had to know that after cultivating so painstakingly for so long and obtaining special opportunities, his Brain Domain Width had only increased by 6 points.

Yet this secret technique now told him that as long as he cultivated it to Completion Level, his Brain Domain Width could increase by another 30 points. That increase alone was greater than his current total Brain Domain Width!

Chen Yuan took a deep breath. The Power of Mind at the Entering Stillness realm instantly calmed his excited emotions. Once he regained his composure, he continued studying it.

A moment later, Chen Yuan slowly exhaled.

"In summary, this Meditation Method has two effects. First, it increases Brain Domain Width, by up to 30 points. Second, it increases consciousness strength and its upper limit."

Chen Yuan stared at the panel and fell into thought. "My current strength is Apprentice Level seventh stage, and my consciousness strength is Planetary Level ninth stage. After cultivating the Entering Stillness Method, my consciousness limit can be two major realms above my own, reaching Star Level seventh stage."

"Once I become Planetary Level, my consciousness strength limit can rise to Universe Level first stage."

"These two effects are each more outrageous than the last." Chen Yuan could not help shaking his head in amazement.

Secret techniques capable of increasing Brain Domain Width and consciousness strength were rare even in the universe, let alone among Earth's manuals. They might even be one of a kind.

At least, Chen Yuan had never found anything with similar effects despite thoroughly reading the original work.

One had to know that the two attributes enhanced by this secret technique were Brain Domain Width and consciousness strength.

The former was the innate talent of every living being and exceedingly difficult to improve, while the latter was an aptitude that became even more important in the later stages.

In the original work, Luo Feng's initial Brain Domain Width was 21. Only after he broke through to Planetary Level and his Life Gene underwent a leap did his Brain Domain Width rise by 1 point, reaching 22.

Chen Yuan's several increases in Brain Domain Width had likewise all occurred through low-probability events.

Aside from the 3 points of Brain Domain Width granted by the Muscle-Tendon Changing and Marrow Cleansing Classic, which the system had specifically optimized to improve aptitude, the Perfect Completion Level Muscle Tendon Changing Classic had granted an additional point, reaching Completion Level in the Meditation Method had granted one point, and his own breakthrough into Entering Stillness had granted one point.

The 4 points granted by cultivation methods aside, those were all the system's doing. As for the remaining 2 points of Brain Domain Width, whether it was reaching Perfect Completion Level in the Muscle Tendon Changing Classic or breaking through the Meditation Method's own realm limit to reach Entering Stillness, neither had been easy.

But now, the system told him that as long as he cultivated this secret technique, his Brain Domain Width could easily break past the 50-point mark.

This meant that Chen Yuan's aptitude would leap from Earth's top tier to the first-rate tier within a universe country.

The increase in consciousness strength was an even more growth-oriented talent. The higher his realm, the more terrifying this advantage would become.

Consciousness two major realms above his own might not seem like much for Chen Yuan right now, but paired with his Entering Stillness realm Hypnosis Technique, it could even affect late-stage Planetary Level experts.

Once Chen Yuan entered Planetary Level, even Star Level experts might fall victim to it.

It could be said that with such powerful consciousness, Chen Yuan was naturally suited for the Illusion Martial Artist Style. Even though his current force output was not high, simply hypnotizing opponents with his consciousness was already enough to make him absolutely invincible among those of the same level.

Moreover, this was an aptitude for the later stages. If Chen Yuan were to become a Universe Supreme Being in the future, a True God Level existence, then consciousness strength two major realms above his own could directly reach the Eternal True God level.

Such consciousness strength would be a crushing dimensional advantage against the True Gods roaming the Universe Ocean.

And such heaven-defying effects had actually come from a secret technique that could be cultivated at Apprentice Level.