Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score

Whoosh~~~~~~~~~~

As the seven-colored memory fragment split open, a beam of black-and-red light flew out from within. Faint metallic clangs rang out from the light, deep and heavy, as though a master smith in an ancient forge were hammering swords and weapons on an anvil!

Merely hearing those hammer blows made Yang Yu feel his Fate Soul tremble, his spiritual form shuddering under the blows of an invisible force!

Startled, Yang Yu drew back the spiritual energy with which he was observing the black-and-red light.

Swish!

After a crisp sound, the black-and-red light blazed brilliantly. An ancient scroll, streaked with black and red and steeped in the weight of ages, slowly unfurled in the sky!

"This cultivation method is the Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score!"

As that grand, majestic voice rang out, an introduction to the Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score poured straight into Yang Yu's mind!

This Fate Soul cultivation method was a top-tier, supreme-grade cultivation method!

Its effectiveness far surpassed even many other supreme-grade Fate Soul cultivation methods!

Along the endless path of cultivation through the universe, there might be better methods. But at least for now... after Yang Yu had examined the 18,950 Fate Soul cultivation methods in the Insect Codex's legacy information, the Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score stood above them all!

The Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score was originally an ordinary musical score! It came from a weak, arts-oriented civilization under the Insectoid Civilization's rule, where it enjoyed a measure of fame. It was still being performed there 108,900 years after its creation, until a passing mighty expert of the Insectoid Civilization finally discovered it. Perhaps by coincidence, the expert gained an insight after hearing the piece, and his cultivation, which had long stagnated, actually advanced by a tremendous leap! Yang Yu reviewed the origins of the Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score, the Fate Soul cultivation method he had just learned about.

That mighty Insect Race expert was named Ka'er'es! He had been one of the very strongest figures among the Insectoid Civilization's upper ranks in that era, and a supreme expert whose greatest specialty was Fate Soul cultivation!

After advancing his cultivation and breaking through to a new realm, Ka'er'es had wanted to commemorate the occasion. Following several thousand years of painstaking research, he finally adapted and refined the musical score into a beginner-level method specifically intended for the Insectoid Civilization's younger generations to cultivate their Fate Souls!

At that thought, Yang Yu shook his head and sighed. "It may be a beginner-level Fate Soul cultivation method, but just how lofty were Ka'er'es's realm and cultivation? Even he spent thousands of years painstakingly studying and adapting it, so the Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score is exceptionally powerful!"

"And likewise... it's extraordinarily difficult to cultivate!"

"Ordinary people can't practice it at all!"

The Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score consisted of five volumes of music!

Each volume represented one stage of cultivation.

Those five stages corresponded precisely to the five major realms of acquired and innate cultivation within the Planetary Realm of cosmic cultivation!

Once someone broke through the Planetary Realm and entered the Stellar Realm, where they could freely survive and roam within a star system... they could naturally practice a better Fate Soul cultivation method.

Most physical cultivation methods worked the same way.

Within each overarching realm, one chose a method to cultivate. After crossing the threshold of power into a new realm, one would then practice a more profound form of power!

With the Insect Codex's legacy of power, Yang Yu did not even need to practice low-grade introductory methods for his physical cultivation while laying his foundation in the Planetary Realm... direct infusions of the most primal, pure cosmic force could sustain him all the way to the early Stellar Realm!

That would give his physical strength a firmer foundation and make his future cultivation path smoother.

Not just anyone could enjoy such a benefit.

Primal cosmic force was extraordinarily violent. Directly infusing it into a human body to strengthen it required the use of exceptionally profound and mysterious power!

Thus, only members of the exceedingly rare supercivilizations comparable to the Insectoid Civilization could enjoy such a cultivation benefit.

Five volumes of music, each possessing the extraordinary power to hammer and temper the Fate Soul! Yang Yu thought. Listening to them one volume at a time, from lowest to highest, will readily forge and refine my Fate Soul, gradually raising its power to profound heights! But it will also test my endurance and my Fate Soul's resilience.

Tempering the Fate Soul is especially painful!

Those whose Fate Souls aren't strong enough, or whose endurance is insufficient, could cough up blood and suffer serious injuries from hearing even a single note. Their minds would feel as though they had been ravaged by a force-hundred hurricane. If they can't withstand it, they naturally won't be able to practice the Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score.

"It really is difficult and dangerous." Yang Yu shook his head with a sigh.

The Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score's advantages outweighed its disadvantages.

Although practicing it was painful and difficult, its greatest advantage was that it required no additional natural treasures, while its effectiveness was outstanding! Apart from the pain of cultivation, it was far, far superior in every other respect to ordinary special-grade and supreme-grade Fate Soul cultivation methods.

It required no rare natural treasures to aid cultivation, yet offered the best results in strengthening the Fate Soul.

It saved both money and effort.

Without question, it suited Yang Yu best.

On Earth, where Yang Yu currently lived, modern civilization's rampant destruction of the environment had already made all kinds of natural treasures extremely scarce.

Yang Yu felt nervous. I wonder whether I can actually practice this Fate Soul cultivation method.

Everyone is born with different levels of Fate Soul strength and different total amounts of Fate Soul power. The opening section of the Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score's first volume has a built-in mechanism for testing a cultivator's aptitude for Fate Soul cultivation.

Let's give it a try. I hope my Fate Soul is strong enough to meet the requirements.

Whether I rise to greatness or remain insignificant will all come down to this!

The universe was incomprehensibly vast.

Even within the Insectoid Civilization, powerful enough to slaughter gods and annihilate demons, its citizens were divided into ranks. And there was only one measure by which their status was determined.

Power!

Both their cultivation potential and their present strength were taken into consideration!

If Yang Yu could practice the Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score, then even if he were thrown into the Insectoid Civilization, he would belong among the most outstanding of its younger generation!

The Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score was the most effective method for cultivating and tempering a Fate Soul's foundation. Once Yang Yu practiced it, his future path of Fate Soul cultivation would become smoother as well.

Even the number of ferocious insects he could control in his army would expand enormously, far exceeding that of the vast majority of the Insectoid Civilization's experts in its day!

If he could not practice it...

Then Yang Yu would have no choice but to select an upper-middle-grade Fate Soul cultivation method that consumed fewer natural treasures.

After all, aside from the Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score, the other special-grade and supreme-grade Fate Soul cultivation methods were all extremely demanding in terms of resources. With only Earth's current resources available, Yang Yu truly had no confidence that he could gather everything required.

And once a Fate Soul cultivation method was chosen, switching to another was difficult...

All things considered, whether he could practice the Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score was now directly tied to the future development of Yang Yu's power!

There was naturally a considerable difference between laying a foundation with an upper-middle-grade Fate Soul cultivation method and using a supreme-grade one.

And the Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score was more effective than even ordinary supreme-grade Fate Soul cultivation methods!

"Ding!"

"Dong, dong, dong!"

In the dark void, notes rang out, some crisp and clear, others deep and heavy, with long intervals between them. As Yang Yu shaped his spiritual energy into a finger and touched the Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score, the test of his Fate Soul officially began!

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