Heavenly Dragon World Ending Sound

Setting aside the materials on alchemy and artifact forging, Yang Ning turned his attention to Cultivation Technique Translation.

Alchemy and artifact forging were merely for earning cultivation resources. Translating the Great Dragon Physiognomy concerned his own Dao Path—this was the true top priority!

Though dragons and humans had different bodily structures, dragons were the ancestors of all things. Every living being in the world had the potential to cultivate into a dragon. This was the foundation that allowed dragon cultivation techniques to be converted into human ones.

Moreover, dragons had dragon veins, while humans had spines. Dragons had four limbs and five claws; humans likewise had four limbs and five fingers. Dragons had nine apertures; humans likewise had nine apertures. Dragons were inherently lustful, and so were humans.

In short, there were differences between humans and dragons, but they were not as vast as one might imagine. Many dragon cultivation techniques could even be used directly by humans without alteration.

Immortal Venerable Taiheng did not have two hundred thousand people under him back then, yet hadn't he translated a Supreme Dao Arts all by himself?

Sometimes, the difficulty of translation also depended on how compatible that Daoist art was with humans.

Besides, translation was a technical craft. It emphasized fidelity, fluency, and equivalence.

Fidelity meant preserving the original flavor without straying from its meaning. For instance, if it was clearly an earth-element cultivation technique, one could not turn it into a water-element one.

Fluency meant not being rigid about the form of expression. Dragons had tails, while humans did not, so one could not force the issue. A tail could be changed into a whip.

Equivalence meant balance. The translated cultivation technique had to be comparable in strength to the original. Being a little weaker was acceptable, but it could not be too far off. One could not have someone shatter a mountain with a claw strike while you could only kick up a tiny sand mound. If theirs was an Earth-grade Daoist Arts, it could not become a human-grade one after translation.

Some people were especially formidable, able to translate Earth-grade Daoist Arts into Heaven-grade ones. Such people were not merely big shots in the industry—they might be genuine big shots themselves.

When Yang Ning had read the Vast Universe Records, he had originally thought translating cultivation techniques was a highly difficult task. After all, Tianyi Sect had spent so many years and mobilized so many people!

Only after learning about the industry did he realize that it had once been difficult, but was no longer so.

This was thanks to Tianyi Sect's work. Back then, Tianyi Sect had mobilized countless people to participate in Cultivation Technique Translation. Although the final results had been kept secret, many of the technologies developed during the process had not been concealed.

For example, Dragon Language Dictionary, Human-Dragon Meridians Comparison Chart, <Ancient and Modern Spirit Materials Name Comparison Chart>, Human-Dragon Skeleton Comparison Chart, Replacement Plans for Human Missing Body Parts...

With these things, the difficulty of translating cultivation techniques had dropped drastically. One could pick any street at random and find a Cultivation Technique Translation Hall.

Of course, this openness was not absolute. At the very least, Yang Ning could not find these materials in the library, nor were they sold on the streets.

Without the Cloud-Mist Information Matrix, learning these materials from scratch would mean waiting until after graduation to join one of these translation halls. Then he would spend three to five years studying each book, and after thirty or forty years, he could finish the complete set of textbooks.

"Are these translation halls backed by Taiheng Sect? They can both collect cultivation techniques and determine whose hands those techniques are in. If a technique is unsuitable for dissemination, they can even control it at the source." Yang Ning wondered whether, if he had not possessed the Spirit Realm or developed the Cloud-Mist Information Matrix, he would have had no choice but to seek out these translation halls to translate cultivation techniques.

If he brought the Great Dragon Physiognomy—no, even if he brought just one Peerless Dao Arts from within it to their door, and Taiheng Sect discovered it...

It was unwilling to teach even a spear technique at the level of Phoenix Cry; how could it possibly allow a Peerless Dao Arts to remain in my hands?

"No wonder Tuo Buchuan said that once this inheritance came into my hands, I would be destined to become Taiheng's enemy." Yang Ning clicked his tongue. Sure enough, the ones who understood a person best were their enemies!

"Isn't the Great Dragon Physiognomy a Supreme Dao Arts? Why does it already have a progress bar?" Yang Ning asked, pointing at the progress bar on the screen.

"Supreme Dao Arts also have foundational content. Because the observation time has been short and the collected information insufficient, translation work has only just begun!" Deep Blue said.

Although there were textbooks, the Cloud-Mist Information Matrix had no ability to scan text through books. It could only wait for apprentices to flip through books while studying, then take the opportunity to glance at them.

However, because there were many translation halls and different halls translated different books, quite a lot had been gathered already.

"I'm not saying you're slow. I think you're fast!" Yang Ning said. "I thought we would have to wait until I reached the Qi Refining Stage before work could begin!"

"Theory has always traveled farther than practice!" Deep Blue replied.

The Great Dragon Physiognomy consisted of seven Peerless Dao Arts in total. The other six were still at progress levels like 0.02%, but [Heavenly Dragon World Ending Sound] had already reached 5%.

"Heavenly Dragon World Ending Sound contains methods of using dharma power to destroy worlds, as well as techniques for using sound alone," Deep Blue explained. "Modern science has also studied sound extremely deeply. Combined together, they directly produced 5% progress. I discovered that ultrasonic waves could replace the Qi and Blood Field precisely through translating Heavenly Dragon World Ending Sound."

Yang Ning opened Heavenly Dragon World Ending Sound and found that quite a few sound techniques had already been developed beneath it.

Sound modulation: By adjusting sound waveforms, harmonics, frequency, and loudness, any kind of sound can be produced.

Ultrasound: By using the Qi and Blood Field to temper the vocal cords, the vocal cords can be strengthened to emit ultrasound. Alternatively, an electric field can stimulate crystals, causing them to vibrate and emit ultrasound.

Infrasound: By using the Qi and Blood Field to temper the vocal cords, infrasound can be emitted.

Sound blade: Using shockwaves generated by overlapping sound waves to cut objects.

Voice transmission: Using the Qi and Blood Field to constrain sound waves for private voice transmission over short distances.

"This ability!" Yang Ning thought for a moment, then asked, "Can sound be produced through mist droplets?"

"It can. How loud do you need it to be?" Deep Blue asked.

"Loud enough to resound through the entire city?" Yang Ning asked.

"Three hundred thousand mist droplets can be made to resonate, creating a thunderous roar!"

"What about speaking like an ordinary person, but letting many people nearby hear it?" Yang Ning asked.

"Two thousand mist droplets need to resonate!" Deep Blue replied.

"And if I only want one person to hear it?" Yang Ning asked again.

"Three mist droplets, vibrating directly against the eardrum!"

The eardrum was the organ inside the auricle and ear canal that sensed sound vibrations. Further in were the auditory ossicles.

"This ability is perfect for a scheming bastard!" Yang Ning stroked his chin. Mist droplets could enable long-distance calls, while the Deep Blue Eye could transmit images over long distances. With such methods, could he not communicate, exchange information, and even control others remotely?

Of course, it would only be control through words. But as a transmigrator, fooling someone with words would be as easy as turning his hand over.

"Pull up the Bei Family's information!"

"Information retrieved!"

"Bei Family, founded four years ago by the siblings Bei Qiu Ming and Bei Qiu Shuang. Its primary business covers metal smelting, artifact forging, and special metal research and development. Its current products include Snow Bright Crystal Iron, Black Furnace Black Iron, Crimson Flame Steel, and more. Annual sales are around four hundred thousand taels, with profits of thirty thousand taels."

[Bei Qiu Ming, graduated from Ascension Academy eleven years ago. Born as a book attendant, he remained in Seacloud City because he failed to advance to the Qi Refining Stage. He later joined the Heng Family as an Artifact Forging Master, leaving the Heng Family four years ago.

Bei Qiu Shuang, Bei Qiu Ming's younger sister. An ordinary person, sixteen years old this year, with delicate and lovely features. She was suspected to have been brought in by Bei Qiu Ming to tend the shop. She currently had nothing unusual about her.

Because of his invention of Crimson Flame Steel, the Bei Family had suffered targeting by the Lineages of the Eight Great Mine Merchants. However, because its master was an Inner Disciple of Taiheng Sect, no one dared employ extreme measures. They could only exploit market tactics in an attempt to make Bei Qiu Ming voluntarily hand over the Crimson Flame Steel formula.

Bei Qiu Ming refused to yield by even a single step. Even in times of financial hardship, he never raised prices to offset the risks. All goods remained at their original prices. The confrontation had lasted four months, and the Bei Family's estimated losses were around two hundred and forty thousand taels.

Bei Qiu Ming had a resilient character and treated others sincerely. His cultivation talent was average, but his talent for metallurgy was astonishing. He possessed remarkable sharpness in materials development. He was equally gentle toward his sister, providing her with food and lodging on the same level as his own. Once, an important figure proposed that if Bei Qiu Shuang married him, he would resolve the Bei Family's predicament, but Bei Qiu Ming refused.]

"Equally gentle toward his sister!" Yang Ning asked, "Are they really siblings?"

"They are indeed siblings!" Deep Blue brought up their photographs. Their brows, eyes, and noses looked as though they had been carved from the same mold; only their lips differed, one pair thick and the other slightly thick. There was no need for a DNA test. One glance was enough to tell whether they were blood-related.

"Is this sibling relationship pure?" Yang Ning asked again.

"Pure!" Deep Blue said flatly. "They do not sleep in the same room, and they deliberately maintain distance in their interactions. They are affectionate, but not intimate!"

"That's quite extraordinary!" Yang Ning nodded. Just looking at Taiheng Sect's arrangements for maidservants made it clear that this world heavily favored men over women.

Don't be fooled by all those television dramas with brothers doting on younger sisters, or older sisters raising younger brothers like grandsons. Those were only television dramas.

The poor in television dramas lived in villas too!

In reality, it was normal for elder brothers to treat younger sisters as maidservants, striking them at the lift of a hand and cursing them at the opening of a mouth. Yang Ning had seen plenty of it in Yuejing.

There were people in this world who treated their younger sisters as Bei Qiu Ming did, but they were definitely rare. From this point alone, it was clear that this elder brother was indeed a sincere gentleman.

No wonder he had been suppressed to such a degree yet still stubbornly refused to raise prices or compromise.

The Bei Family had been established for four years and had probably earned only one hundred and twenty thousand taels. Now it had lost two hundred and forty thousand taels—that meant he had thrown in every coin he had earned from working before!

"This person can be used openly! Do you have any ideas for someone in the shadows?" Yang Ning asked.

"How about the Jiang Yun people?" Deep Blue asked.

"The Jiang Yun people?" Yang Ning thought about it. Within Taiheng, that term referred to only one group: slaves!

And slaves meant their numbers were certainly not small.

Moreover, the Jiang Yun people had once possessed a glorious nation. Thus, they were exceedingly proud at heart and never lacked the desire to resist.

Unlike certain races that could develop a sense of honor even from being slaves.

Yes, I'm talking about CP0.

The Jiang Yun people could certainly be used. They were wise, clever, loyal, and hardworking.

Back then, it was precisely because they were too diligent and too united that after the Jiang Yun Nation was founded, its rise to power exceeded everyone's expectations. That drew the hostility of countless forces, and in the end it was dismembered.

Money, cultivation techniques, and freedom were all things they yearned for, and Yang Ning happened to possess all of them.

As long as they could cooperate, helping Jiang Yun restore its nation would not be impossible!

Moreover, they hated everyone who had made them slaves, which naturally included Taiheng. If he could win them over, they would be unlikely to betray him.

But there was also a problem with taking in the Jiang Yun people: Taiheng did not have many Jiang Yun people who could move freely outside.

Should I plan their escape, or have Bei Qiu Ming purchase them?