Learning and Training

"One, two, three, four... Two, two, three, four..."

On the lawn, the teenage Lu Mingyuan wore training clothes and held several extremely awkward poses, his entire face flushed bright red.

Meanwhile, Lu Yunhe frowned as he continued correcting Lu Mingyuan's posture, while having the Intelligent System record detailed data.

"Big Brother, why do you have to do such uncomfortable movements to become a warrior?"

His younger brother Lu Mingyuan asked with difficulty, his face red. Didn't he only need to exercise until he met the standards for becoming a warrior? Why did it have to be so troublesome?

"Since you still have the spare time to talk and think about other things, it seems the difficulty still isn't high enough!"

Lu Yunhe did not answer his little brother's question. Instead, he added another stroke to the plan, doubling the training difficulty.

Sensing that something was wrong, Lu Mingyuan felt utterly miserable. He thought life had been far more comfortable when Big Brother was away. Basically no one managed him, and everyone he encountered fawned over him.

Lu Mingyuan had even fantasized about living the life of a second-generation heir, but those fantasies had been ruthlessly shattered by his own older brother. Ever since Lu Yunhe returned, his good days had come to an end. Every day was miserable.

Lu Yunhe, meanwhile, ignored his younger brother's thoughts and continued comparing the experimental data. "After infection by the RR Virus, adults show the most obvious enhancement. Children undergo less bodily enhancement, but possess greater potential for growth."

After resolving the troublesome matters caused by his previous departure, Lu Yunhe returned to a peaceful life. Every day, he comprehended laws and domains, read ancient books to cultivate his temperament, and improved his spiritual realm.

Besides that, he was preparing to create two sets of cultivation methods suitable for Earthling children.

Lu Yunhe did not care much about improving the Earthlings' bloodline grade. Cultivation at the lower levels of Swallowed Star was simply too easy because it was connected to the universe's top powers.

Moreover, if changes to bloodline grade could not involve an increase in Gene Level, they would likewise hold little meaning for Earthlings.

As for raising the Gene Level of an entire race, aside from a certain person, no one in the entire Original Universe should be capable of doing so.

And that creator of Earth had deliberately designed things this way in order to better raise the spiritual realm of Earthlings. With Lu Yunhe's knowledge, he naturally could not possibly work against that person.

Therefore, the cultivation methods Lu Yunhe wished to create would naturally not focus on directly improving one's cultivation strength, but on strengthening the body and cultivating one's temperament.

At the same time, Lu Yunhe wanted to incorporate a large amount of ancient culture into them, allowing people to train their bodies while learning the cultural essence within. The two would complement each other.

For Lu Yunhe, the cultivation methods themselves were easy to resolve. The vast amount of foundational cosmic manual information obtained from Ruins No. 9 naturally included quite a few manuals for strengthening the body.

However, the foundations required by those manuals were all too high, so Lu Yunhe needed to break them down and simplify them until they reached a level suitable for Earthling children to practice.

As for incorporating ancient culture, that was neither particularly difficult nor particularly simple.

He mainly needed to give each martial arts move a name, then blend into the meaning behind every move name certain allusions related to educating people, virtue, and other positive spiritual principles.

The meanings of these moves and the spiritual allusions had to be made easy to understand, so people could grasp the principles on a basic level, while also allowing those who delved deeper to understand more profound spiritual meaning. At the same time, those principles could not have overly obvious leanings and needed a certain degree of flexibility. After all, the cosmic environment beyond Earth remained cruel.

Taking all these factors into account, Lu Yunhe planned to design two sets of foundational cultivation methods. One would be for elementary and middle school students, and would be relatively basic. The second would be for high school students, with a higher level of literary depth and some combat techniques included.

In Lu Yunhe's vision, those who could not even get into university in the "future" should honestly become societal warriors instead. (In the future, if someone reached a certain age without meeting the Quasi-Warrior standard, the government would directly provide resources to strengthen them into warriors.)

Once he had the idea, his younger brother Lu Mingyuan naturally became Lu Yunhe's first test subject. Since he was his own little brother, there was no need to be polite.

Before long, Lu Mingyuan's screams once again rang out across the lawn. Their father, Lu Hong, who was inside the house, applauded at the sight. His second son had been far too wild lately, and they had been completely unable to control him. Now, someone could finally discipline him.

In any case, as his biological older brother, Lu Yunhe could not truly harm his own younger brother.

"The physical training is complete. Next comes the mind!"

Lu Yunhe pulled up his younger brother, who was nearly collapsed on the lawn, had him assume the Five Hearts Towards Heaven posture, and began mental meditation.

"Big Brother, I'm already this tired. How am I supposed to meditate?"

Lu Mingyuan could not help complaining. His body was too exhausted for him to calm his mind at all!

"That's exactly why it works!" Lu Yunhe explained a little. "This is only basic meditation, not some legendary divine cultivation Secret Art where meditation gives rise to countless supernatural abilities. For you, the purpose of meditation is to stabilize your mind and maintain a steady mentality anytime and anywhere."

Guided by Lu Yunhe's words, Lu Mingyuan's mind gradually relaxed, and his entire consciousness began to drift, as though he had transformed into a sun illuminating the Great Thousand World.

That was right. As the core of the meditation, Lu Yunhe naturally chose the sun, which he was most familiar with. Its spiritual essence encompassed most perceptions: life and death, tranquility and fury, light and darkness...

Combined with the Giant of Light, the sun became the optimal choice for visualization.

"He's entered the state, but the final results will still require a long accumulation of time."

Looking at his younger brother, whose mind had finally calmed, Lu Yunhe pondered slightly. The first set of radio calisthenics he had created was divided into dynamic and static exercises. The dynamic exercises consisted of eight sets of eight, for a total of sixty-four moves, mainly for training the body. The static exercises mainly consisted of breathing and meditation methods, used to stabilize the mind.

Of course, one could not forget to study while practicing.

After finishing his training, Lu Mingyuan looked despairingly at the rows of ancient classical texts before him. Lu Yunhe had asked Jia Yi to help collect these. Some were rubbings, while some were even original rare copies.

Under Lu Yunhe's orders, Dong Nanbiao, who had nothing else to do, had also led his personal guard into the ruins of several cities to excavate ancient books that had been damaged and abandoned due to the Great Cataclysm.

"Stop dawdling. Start reading! These things are not something ordinary people outside even have the qualifications to access."

As Lu Yunhe spoke, he picked up an ancient text and began reading as well. Whether they understood it or not could wait. First, they had to memorize all of it.

"Yes!"

Afraid that his older brother would continue tormenting him, Lu Mingyuan hurriedly picked up a book and began reading. Compared to the inhuman training, studying was indeed much easier, at least since Lu Yunhe had not yet started making other demands.

For example... exams.