Fierce Wind Sword Art

Chen Yuan then extracted the contents of the Meditation Method, which spanned over a hundred thousand characters. Never mind practicing it, Chen Yuan would need an hour or two just to read through it once.

After all, unlike other secret manuals he had perused, which only required a cursory glance, this Meditation Method was for his own practice; he had to understand every word and sentence thoroughly.

However, Chen Yuan was in no rush. The secret manual wasn't going anywhere, so he could take his time reading it during his leisure hours.

Just after Chen Yuan extracted the Meditation Method, a slot opened up in his optimization queue. He could now address Yu Qinglan's cultivation issue, and it would be best to finish before his Gale Sword Art reached perfection, so as not to distract himself.

That day, Chen Yuan found Yu Qinglan training in the Gravity Chamber and informed her that the preparations were complete.

"So fast! That's great. I just happened to buy the secret manual I needed." Upon hearing the news, Yu Qinglan's eyes lit up. She immediately stopped her genetic energy training and stepped out of the Gravity Chamber.

The two then returned to Jiangnan Pavilion, where Yu Qinglan led Chen Yuan into the villa where she resided.

West Villa, basement level one.

Arriving in the basement, Yu Qinglan pointed to a set of books and discs piled in the corner and said, "This is the secret manual, the SS-grade sword art Red Lotus. It's the same one I practiced before."

"To get this custom version, I specifically spent 8 billion to buy a new set to avoid any copyright issues."

Chen Yuan nodded, walked over to the manuals, picked up a book, and flipped through it while saying, "It's called Red Lotus? Sounds like a manual related to the fire-attribute artistic conception."

"More or less. The branch of artistic conception this manual focuses on is called 'Violence'," Yu Qinglan explained. "It's a branch of artistic conception with powerful explosive force, specializing in frontal assaults."

"Coincidentally, not only does the fire artistic conception have a 'Violence' branch, but the wind artistic conception has a similar one as well."

"That's why the creator of this manual once said that if you use this Red Lotus to comprehend an artistic conception, there is a 70% chance of comprehending the fire artistic conception and a 30% chance of comprehending the wind artistic conception."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yuan nodded; he had seen this note left by the author on the title page of the manual.

"So you chose this sword art specifically to comprehend the 'Violence branch' under the wind artistic conception?" Chen Yuan remarked casually.

Yu Qinglan nodded. "After all, there aren't many high-level manuals that fit the wind artistic conception, and even fewer that are sword arts. This Red Lotus is one of the few that meets the requirements."

Chen Yuan nodded and continued to flip through the pages.

For manuals he wasn't practicing himself, Chen Yuan read very quickly, and it didn't take long for him to finish the first book.

Closing the book, Chen Yuan looked up and asked, "Do you have any specific requirements for the optimized manual?"

"I can make requests?" Yu Qinglan was clearly taken aback, then asked tentatively, "Can I ask for anything? I want to remove the interference of the fire artistic conception from the manual and turn it into a sword art purely based on the wind artistic conception. Is that possible?"

"It should be fine." Chen Yuan never made absolute promises. He picked up the full set of books and discs and prepared to leave.

"Um... about how long will the optimization take?" Yu Qinglan looked at Chen Yuan's back, hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but ask.

"At least ten days, at most a month," Chen Yuan replied after a moment of thought. "Since I haven't finished reading the entire manual, I can't determine the exact time yet."

"No rush, no rush!" Yu Qinglan waved her hands quickly, afraid of putting pressure on him. "Take your time, I can wait."

"Alright, thanks for understanding." Chen Yuan waved his hand and left the basement, carrying the manuals.

Not long after, he returned to his own villa.

"My luck is pretty good this time; I happened to run into the 'Violence' branch I was lacking." With no one else around, Chen Yuan relaxed. A look of joy appeared on his face as he opened the second manual and continued reading.

An hour later, Chen Yuan had finished all the content of Red Lotus, including the accompanying discs.

"System, create an optimization task. Optimize Red Lotus. Direction: Discard all content related to the fire artistic conception, make it a sword art purely based on the wind artistic conception, retain the 'Violence' branch, increase the power of the sword art, raise the force exertion limit to 5 times, and abandon universality to optimize it based on Yu Qinglan's physical baseline."

"Optimization task created. Target: Red Lotus. Optimization direction: Remove fire artistic conception content, focus on wind artistic conception, increase power and force exertion level, abandon universality, optimize based on 'Yu Qinglan's' physical condition."

"Estimated Kill Points consumption: 48. Establish optimization task?"

Chen Yuan clicked confirm.

"Optimization task established. Estimated optimization time: 18 hours."

"That's quite fast," Chen Yuan thought as he looked at the remaining time for the optimization.

After finishing this, Chen Yuan stopped worrying about it and returned to his daily cultivation routine.

That night, Chen Yuan had fully grasped the contents of the Meditation Method and successfully completed one session of meditation, displaying the cultivation status on his panel.

Meditation Method · Source Star Meditation: Cultivation-type secret method. Rating: Planetary Level Ultimate secret method. Current progress: Entry (0.03%).

It is worth mentioning that in order to accurately evaluate this meditation method, Chen Yuan had specifically adjusted the panel's rating system, adding a "Planetary Level" classification for secret methods.

Initially, he had divided them into Planetary Level Ordinary, Top-tier, and Peak based on their capabilities.

The lowest was the Planetary Level Ordinary secret method; as the name suggests, it was a standard method with a low ceiling, but its advantage was that it was relatively easy to enter, making it suitable for the masses.

One level higher was the Planetary Level Top-tier secret method. Practicing such a method allowed one to dominate within the Planetary Level, second only to experts who possessed domains. The Hundred Fierce Blades practiced by Luo Hai belonged to this level according to Chen Yuan's rating.

Stronger than the Top-tier secret methods were the Planetary Level Peak secret methods. According to Chen Yuan's classification, this level of secret method should be similar to the nine-fold secret method of the Yan Shen Weapon practiced by Luo Feng, which allowed one to claim invincibility within the same level.

At the time, Chen Yuan thought these three ratings would be enough, but he didn't expect that after updating his panel, the rating for the Meditation Method would still be unknown.

Clearly, the grade of this secret method still exceeded the rating system he had set up.

Chen Yuan had no choice but to add another level above Peak: Ultimate.

This grade represented all secret methods that surpassed the Peak level, with no upper limit.

In other words, as long as the grade was stronger than Peak, no matter how much stronger, it would all be classified as Ultimate. To put it bluntly, it was still an unknown level, just given a nicer name.

After Chen Yuan updated the secret method rating standards, his Gale Sword Art was classified as a Planetary Level Ordinary secret method, making it feel like its tier had suddenly dropped quite a bit.

Chen Yuan practiced even more diligently, striving to reach perfection in the Gale Sword Art as soon as possible so he could optimize a more powerful secret technique.

The next day, Red Lotus finished the optimization, and after Chen Yuan extracted and reviewed it, the general effects were much as he had anticipated.

First, this sword art had become a technique purely related to the Wind Artistic Conception; second, the force output had increased from the original 3x to 5x, just as he had hoped.

Finally, the sword art gained a finishing move somewhat similar to Mountain Destroyer from the Hundred Fierce Blades, which, when driven by the "Violent Wind" artistic conception, possessed astonishing power.

Based on these characteristics, Chen Yuan named this manual the "Fierce Wind Sword Art."

However, even though the manual was optimized, Chen Yuan was in no rush to hand it over to Yu Qinglan. Because so little time had passed—only a single day—submitting it now would be far too shocking and would easily attract unnecessary attention.

Thus, Chen Yuan acted as if the manual did not exist, spending his days watching Yu Qinglan train and practicing the Gale Sword Art according to his routine.

Three days later, the system notified Chen Yuan that the data collection for the Wind of Existence artistic conception was complete, and Chen Yuan finally no longer had to watch Yu Qinglan train every day.

Two days after that, Chen Yuan had finished reading all the manuals he had purchased, and he subsequently shifted his entire focus to the Gale Sword Art.

Finally, hard work pays off; on December 31st, exactly one month after Chen Yuan had entered the Training Camp, his Gale Sword Art finally reached the realm of perfection.