Crushing Momentum! A Sword Prodigy is Born, No World-Shaking Wisdom or Deep Blue Skill Points Needed

After obtaining the Gourd Sword Art, Wang Zhen immediately recalled his clone. This time, not only did their wills merge, but even their fleshly bodies fused completely, indistinguishable from one another as they returned to a whole, unified state.

Wang Zhen did this, naturally, to cultivate the famed Gourd Sword Art!

This was a top-tier cultivation art from the world of Immortal Gourd, a supreme divine technique capable of being cultivated all the way to the highest Dao Integration realm. Naturally, he had to treat his first attempt with utmost care, beginning this first step of cultivation in his most perfect state. Alchemy was certainly good, and he had already established it as the backbone of his power system, but alchemy leaned toward technique rather than Dao. In other words, alchemy prioritized practicality, yet had major theoretical shortcomings. The clearest example was how he had used a Human Transmutation Circle for sacrifice, summoning and opening alchemy's ultimate divine artifact, the "Gate of Truth," then forcibly plundering knowledge from within. This knowledge was fragmented, chaotic, and unsystematic. Though he had sorted through it, refined it, and incorporated it into his own alchemy, developing quite a few highly practical Transmutation Circles, those circles—including alchemy's ultimate technique, the "Philosopher's Stone Transmutation Circle"—were more like undeveloped children. Even if they could dominate kindergarten and run rampant through elementary and middle school with strong bodies, nimble minds, and rational judgment, they were still like gifted youths from third-rate little towns in the northwest. Forget getting into Tsinghua or Peking University—even making it into a Project 985 or 211 university was far from guaranteed.

That was alchemy.

In ordinary worlds, or worlds that only lightly touched upon the mysterious side, alchemy possessed an almost overwhelming advantage. But in a story world like Ghost Rider, with its