Heavenly Stars Might

Under the guidance of scientific theory, how many steps are there in creating a cultivation technique?

The answer is four steps.

Step one: Determine the number and positional distribution of human muscles.

Step two: Through extensive practice, match all Divine Forms moves with the muscles they train, commonly known as feeding data.

Step three: Select the optimal training plan for each muscle from the data.

Step four: Integrate all optimal solutions.

Yang Ning had already figured out the first step long before he started cultivating. The remaining three steps took him two days to demonstrate the Twelve Divine Forms.

Steps three and four are purely computational, so Yang Ning utilized the Spiritual Realm's calculating power and obtained the results in less than a second.

After all, the human body has only six hundred and thirty-nine muscles. Even if each muscle had a dedicated move, that would only be six hundred and thirty-nine moves. Yang Ning had yet to see the upper limit of the Spiritual Realm's calculation speed!

In reality, Yang Ning's newly created cultivation technique doesn't have as many as six hundred and thirty-nine moves; it only has three hundred and sixty-five.

This is because many moves train more than one muscle. Linking three to five moves together can train a large muscle group.

Since the number perfectly corresponds to the Number of Heavenly Stars, Yang Ning named it Heavenly Stars Might. Following the principle of progressing from easy to difficult, he divided it into seven layers.

The first four layers of Heavenly Stars Might alone are on par with the Twelve Divine Forms. The remaining three layers, the fifth and sixth, require complex equipment, and the seventh layer requires electric shocks. Of course, this is a cultivation world, so Yang Ning used a localized term: Lightning Power.

As for gravity, it can be applied at any layer. However, Yang Ning currently lacks the resources to create a gravity environment, so he'll have to wait until after disembarking.

He doesn't even plan to practice the sixth and seventh layers on the ship; they are too conspicuous. The first five layers are enough for him to practice for half a month.

Well, he's also a bit superstitious. What if the formation array can truly isolate the Primordial Chaos Qi? So, he chose to cultivate on the deck!

As for whether practicing on the deck with everyone else would expose him, Yang Ning confirmed after two days that it wouldn't at all.

Everyone is too busy with their own training to pay attention to what others are doing.

Moreover, Yang Ning wasn't the only one with ambitious ideas. Yang Ning thought his self-created technique was already exaggerated, but everyone else was creating their own moves in their spare time.

Their creation process was all about looking cool, which was far more exaggerated than Yang Ning's.

Wei Daocheng, on the other hand, stayed in the training room all year round and never came out.

It was pure laissez-faire, relying entirely on self-discipline.

Yang Ning had also worried that Zhao Bu might cause trouble on the deck and delay his cultivation, but he found he was worrying for nothing.

He was the only one in his small group who had started the breathing technique, so he felt quite insecure on the deck. He practiced the Divine Forms like a daily quest and then left, not lingering on the deck.

His form wasn't standard either. Yang Ning seriously doubted if this approach had any training effect.

What's more, he wasn't the only one playing it this way. Three to four out of every ten people who started the breathing technique were like this.

As more people started the breathing technique later on, the number of slackers also increased. Some people Yang Ning only saw on the first day, and then they never showed up again.

This trend even spread to the diligent disciples. Yang Ning noticed that a few disciples who had been diligently practicing for several hours every day without fail in the past few days were shortening their practice time, shorter and shorter, until one day they stopped coming altogether.

It makes sense. They are all twelve or thirteen-year-old children. If there's no supervision, who can endure the hardship of cultivation?

If it weren't for the Spiritual Realm's assistance, and Deep Blue constantly monitoring his body data and seeing his progress moment by moment, Yang Ning wouldn't have been able to persevere.

Of course, it also helped that Yang Ning came from a society with a 996 work culture. He used to work himself to death for a few thousand yuan in salary. What was he doing now? He was cultivating immortality!

So, as long as it doesn't kill him, he'll cultivate to death!

At his age, how could he possibly sleep soundly!

And with this kind of cultivation, he wasn't dying at all; instead, his body was getting stronger!

The first five layers of Heavenly Stars Might build the foundation before strengthening the entire body. The first layer strengthens the stomach and small intestine. After all, energy cannot be created out of thin air, nor can it disappear. The physical body's strength gained through cultivation relies on the nutrition from food.

If you can eat well, your cultivation speed will naturally be fast. If you eat a lot and digest quickly, combined with a rigorous training plan, your growth speed will be incredibly fast.

By the fourteenth day on the ship, on his third day of cultivating Heavenly Stars Might, Yang Ning found that his speed had broken through the hundred-meter mark in ten seconds, reaching 9.86 seconds. His height increased to 1.64 meters.

On the sixteenth day, he could run a hundred meters in just 8.52 seconds. After activating the Seven-Day Breathing Technique to strengthen his physical functions, he reached 7.98 seconds!

This is, after all, a cultivation world. In his previous life, humans would spend immense effort to advance by 0.01 seconds. But in this world, he surpassed it with ease.

It was as if the human body had no limits.

Twelve meters per second, how terrifying.

Coupled with his reaction speed of 0.13 seconds, close to the human limit, and 2.2 vision, along with the agile body trained by the Divine Forms, even if someone stood seven steps away with a gun pointed at him, he could evade and counter-attack before the opponent could pull the trigger.

Clearly, in the eyes of cultivators, within seven steps, fists are faster!

Of course, if the gun were in Yang Ning's hand, that would be another matter. His arm could withstand the recoil of more powerful firearms. The greater the recoil, the faster the bullet flies, and the more difficult it becomes to evade.

On the eighteenth day, Yang Ning gained a new companion, Ning Rong. After moving to the front row and listening for a few days, she also started the breathing technique.

Yang Ning had initially tried to get Xun Hu to cultivate diligently. After all, everyone else was too lazy; if you were a little more driven, you could surpass countless people.

But Xun Hu preferred making friends and networking. He said that being too driven would lead to isolation from others, and his father had also told him that cultivation wasn't about fighting but about social skills.

Yang Ning couldn't argue with his father, so he had to let it go.

However, Ning Rong could endure the hardship and was very obedient. She did whatever she was told and slept when she was told to sleep, which greatly surprised Yang Ning.

He then thought of the empresses from the Ning family, all of whom had strong personalities and kept their husbands in line.

Now that's what you call a genetic advantage. What's the use of being born a prince or having the bloodline of a founding emperor if you're a coward who's afraid of death and too lazy to lift a finger? A strong, competitive personality, and the ability to endure hardship – that's a superior bloodline!

Yang Ning extracted the parts of the Heavenly Stars Might that involved digestive functions, naming it Golden Cooking Jade Feast Art, and prepared to teach it to Ning Rong.

However, after research, he discovered that without a jade slip for transmission or the cellular-level control of the Spiritual Realm, it would be incredibly difficult to even begin practicing this technique. She might not learn it by the time they disembarked, so he could only pare it down further and further, eventually creating the Elephant Eating Art.

The Elephant Eating Art was tens of times weaker than the Golden Cooking Jade Feast Art, but once mastered, it could still increase digestive speed by two to three times, doubling her cultivation speed.

He also coincidentally established a positive feedback mechanism for Ning Rong through physical testing.

Every day, Ning Rong could test her punching power, grip strength, pulling force, speed, and reaction speed with Yang Ning.

Later, Ning Rong chose the sword as her weapon, so tests for drawing speed, striking speed, and swinging speed were added.

With data to support her, seeing her progress every day, Ning Rong's motivation for cultivation, which wasn't weak to begin with, increased even further.

It was just a pity that there were no sparring activities on the ship, otherwise, the young girl would surely have astonished everyone.

Yang Ning wasn't entirely doing good deeds either. His cultivation methods had undergone many modifications, and he needed a local cultivator as a reference to get a clear grasp of his own strength. Having a benchmark would also prevent him from straying too far off course.