Cultivation Needs Science Too: Turning the Environment into My Personal Cheat Support!

Bibi Dong's expression became exceedingly strange.

Had Spirit Hall never researched Soul Tools? How could that be possible?!

Unlike those thankless theories about Soul Masters, Soul Tools contained terrifying potential profits!

Spirit Hall had invested untold manpower and resources over thousands of years without unraveling their mysteries, yet this guy had figured it out just by "killing time"?

"How did you do it?" Bibi Dong could not help asking.

"When doing research, inspiration comes first, and patience comes second."

Nan Feng pointed to his head. "The way my brain works is far more sophisticated than you athletic types who only know how to fight and kill. And with my freakish patience, even if I casually failed hundreds or thousands of times, I could start over from scratch without batting an eye."

At that, Nan Feng sighed. "Still, this thing really was difficult. Even a peerless genius like me spent several decades studying it before I fully understood it!"

The corner of Bibi Dong's eye twitched.

But this time, in an unprecedented move, she did not refute him.

Since meeting Nan Feng, this was the first time she had truly been unable to argue back—and felt a deep sense of admiration from the bottom of her heart.

This guy... was fucking smart!

Bibi Dong stared at the three oddly shaped little pendulums on the ground, her willow brows slightly furrowed. "What exactly are these things for?"

"First, let me give you a little basic science."

Nan Feng did not rush to explain. With a flick of his wrist, he took out two more homemade pendulums and casually placed them on the stone table.

He kept one still, then reached out and set the other one swinging.

Ding—

As the first pendulum began swinging rhythmically, something magical happened.

The second pendulum, which had been motionless, seemed to be pulled by some invisible force and slowly began to sway as well.

Before long, the two pendulums' amplitudes and frequencies became astonishingly identical!

Bibi Dong froze. "What is this?"

"This is called Synchronous Resonance."

Nan Feng clapped his hands and looked up at her. "You've spent time in the wilderness, right? Have you ever observed fireflies in summer? Or flocks of migrating birds in the sky, or schools of sardines in the sea?"

Bibi Dong's frown deepened. "What does that have to do with cultivation?"

"It has a lot to do with it."

Nan Feng spoke eloquently. "When fireflies gather, they spontaneously flash in sync. Thousands upon thousands of birds can fly together without ever colliding. These are all naturally occurring phenomena of synchronization and coordination."

"And behind them all is the same driving force: achieving overall coordination in the most effortless way possible within a given area."

"The so-called Mimicry Training Grounds in your Soul Master world are essentially the same thing."

"When you stay among plants and animals with similar attributes, the energy frequencies of different individuals influence one another, lowering your own expenditure and making things easier. That is why your cultivation efficiency rises in a Mimicry Training Ground."

"It's just that you know it happens without knowing why."

Bibi Dong listened in complete shock.

Although some of the terms left her half-confused, she fully understood the central idea!

"Now that we've figured out the essence of this phenomenon, we can consider the next step."

A smile tugged at Nan Feng's lips. "Can we actively increase this efficiency?"

As he spoke, Nan Feng pointed to the ground. "Sit cross-legged."

Bibi Dong took a deep breath, suppressed the turmoil in her heart, and did as instructed.

Nan Feng placed the three special Pendulum Soul Guidance Devices directly in front of her and on either side of her.

Then, a wisp of Soul Power flowed from his fingertips as he casually set them in motion.

They were precise Soul Tools, after all. After just a dozen or so swings, the three pendulums synchronized perfectly.

Once they did, a subtle, profound ripple of Soul Power formed in the air and enveloped Bibi Dong.

"Close your eyes, enter meditation, and feel carefully," Nan Feng's voice sounded beside her ear.

Bibi Dong closed her eyes, rapidly focusing her spiritual power.

Very quickly, she noticed something was wrong!

The fluctuations of her own Soul Power had actually intertwined with the energy frequencies of the surrounding environment, creating an extraordinarily wondrous entanglement!

If ordinary cultivation were compared to swinging on a swing, then in the past, she had needed to kick her legs herself to make it move.

But now, she merely sat on the swing while the energy of the surrounding environment became a pair of invisible hands, pushing her from behind!

Whoosh—!

Bibi Dong suddenly opened her eyes, her face filled with horror.

Though she had only meditated for a brief moment, she was absolutely certain—her cultivation efficiency had increased by nearly half!

"This is too ridiculous! A fifty percent increase?!"

Bibi Dong stared fixedly at Nan Feng, her voice trembling. "How exactly did you do this?"

"It's the resonance principle from before."

Nan Feng shrugged. "Simply put, my Soul Tools forcibly synchronized your energy frequency, then influenced things in reverse and changed the frequency of the surrounding environment. It put you all on the same channel and achieved deep energy resonance."

"It's basically like I forcibly turned this whole environment into cheat support that pushes you to cultivate."

Seeing Bibi Dong's horrified expression, Nan Feng waved his hand.

"But don't celebrate too soon. You're feeling it so clearly now for two reasons: first, this place is already your personal Mimicry Training Ground; second, this is your first exposure to this kind of deep resonance."

"Once enough time passes, the surrounding energy will be rapidly drained and the spiritual energy density will drop. Naturally, the efficiency will decline with it."

"But overall, compared to your primitive environments that can raise efficiency by only ten percent at most, this formation of mine provides a combined increase of at least twenty percent."

"Of course, that also depends on the environment."

Nan Feng rubbed his chin. "If we were at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well where I used to stay, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was so dense it was practically impossible to disperse. Using this setup there, the increase would not be ten or twenty percent—it would directly double!"

Bibi Dong was completely stunned. Her red lips parted, but she could not speak for a long while.

Double?!

For high-level Soul Masters, even a five percent increase in efficiency was enough to make people fight desperately for it. What kind of concept was doubling it?!

"Not only that."

Nan Feng paused. "If you pair it with the exclusive cultivation method I developed over several decades, the efficiency can double again!"

"In the best-case scenario, with all the buffs stacked, you could even reach ten times your normal cultivation speed!"

"T-Ten times?!"

Bibi Dong sucked in a sharp breath. Her mind buzzed as though her entire worldview were being ground into the dirt.

"But that tenfold state cannot last too long."

Nan Feng spread his hands. "Otherwise, your meridians and body would collapse directly from an overload of spiritual energy. At most, you could cultivate for one shichen a day."

The small courtyard fell into deathly silence.

Bibi Dong fell silent.

She looked at the old monster before her, who wore the appearance of a mere six-year-old child, her emotions churning like stormy seas.

She possessed Twin Martial Souls and was acknowledged by Spirit Hall as the greatest genius in a thousand years!

From childhood to adulthood, she had heard countless praises and seen countless peers blessed with extraordinary talent.

But at this moment, before this guy who had forcibly turned Soul Master cultivation into a "technical breakthrough," she suddenly felt that the talent she had always been so proud of...

Perhaps it was not really worth being so proud of after all.