I choose the second option.
Before the system could even speak, Li Xingkong had already made his choice.
He didn't mean anything by it; he was just immediately drawn to the name "Eight-Nine Mysterious Art " when it was first mentioned.
In the entire the Myth of Divine Land, no more than five people can master this skill, and each of them is an ultimate war god.
Although the cultivation method mentioned by the system may not be the same as the cultivation method in the Myth, the fact that it is named after this is enough to indicate its status.
Besides, although Three Heads and Six Arms sounds very powerful, the result is indeed somewhat inhuman. Moreover, the supernatural powers cultivated by the Fallen Demon Baleful Qi might not be of this type; they could be other types as well.
The other characters mentioned by the system also have prototypes. Li Xingkong knew some of them. The one with wings on his back was Lei Leizhenzi, the one with vertical eyes on his head was Erlang Zhenjun, and the one with eyes in his hands was Yang Ren. He made quite a name for himself in the Investiture of the Gods with his Five-Fire Divine Flame Fan.
But Li Xingkong was quite satisfied with his life; he didn't want to become this strange and unusual person.
Moreover, this is already considered an SSR from a gacha pull, and there are many other changes that would make you lose sanity just by looking at them. Even Li Xingkong would be stunned if he heard about it. It's even more exciting than receiving a blessing from an ancient god.
"To collect the Great Sun Gold-Tempering Baleful Qi, you must first go to the vicinity of the sun. Of course, when the sun is active, the solar wind that erupts can also be collected, but this is unpredictable, and it's unknown when you'll encounter it."
"The sun..."
Li Xingkong looked up at the sun hanging in the sky and pondered for a moment.
The distance between Earth Star and the Sun is much greater than the distance between Earth and the Moon. Even if Li Xingkong to get close to the Sun now, it would still take him quite a while.
However, for the sake of spiritual practice, it's worth spending any amount of time.
To be honest, ever since I went to the moon a few times, I've actually been to space much less and less.
Logically speaking, the higher one's cultivation level, the more one should feel that Earth Star is a tiny place, and staying there would feel somewhat restrictive.
But for Li Xingkong, who was used to staying at home, this feeling didn't make him particularly uncomfortable. On the contrary, he was more comfortable staying on Earth Star.
Since he's going to travel so far this time, he might as well take a good look around the Solar System. Although the galaxy is vast, judging from his current cultivation progress, the entire Solar System is already showing signs of becoming his backyard.
"There's no time like the present. Since we can't avoid this journey of gathering evil spirits, let's set off now."
Eager to Core Formation core, Li Xingkong was somewhat impatient.
"What's the rush? You haven't even started practicing your Heaven-Circling Baleful Qi Gathering Technique yet..."
The system only mentioned it briefly, but Li Xingkong had already broken through the atmosphere and arrived in near-Earth space.
"Even though we're so far from the sun, it's not too late to cultivate ourselves along the way."
Li Xingkong activated the Hexagram, calculating a path to the vicinity of the sun, and then flew towards the sun along the route described in the Hexagram.
Having entrusted the matter of flight to the Hexagram, Li Xingkong focused his main consciousness on cultivating his martial arts technique.
Just a moment ago on the ground, I was thinking about taking a good look at the scenery of the Solar System, but now that I've just taken off, I've already forgotten all about it.
Seeing scenery is nothing compared to spiritual practice.
The distance between Earth Star and the Sun is about 400 times the distance between Earth Star and the Moon. At Li Xingkong's current speed, it would take him about a day to get to the Moon, and more than a year to get to the vicinity of the Sun.
The vastness of the universe presents this problem: the journey takes too long.
In traditional descriptions of cultivation civilizations, the continent of the entire civilization is also vast, but at least it is a continent, and no matter where you fly, there are human relationships. In reality, however, the journey is nothing but a vacuum.
There was no one around, nothing at all.
Fortunately, Li Xingkong had cultivation techniques to study, so he had something to do most of the time while cultivating. Otherwise, the long journey of just one year would have been enough to make him suffer.
Actually, this speed is not slow at all. You should know that Earth Star has launched satellites to explore the Sun at close range before, and it took nearly 7 years just to reach the vicinity of the Sun.
Just as Li Xingkong was immersed in the cultivation of his technique and no longer concerned himself with the outside world, his Hexagram, following its predetermined path, swept past Venus and Mercury and arrived at its designated orbit at an extremely fast speed.
Although Li Xingkong's current cultivation level allows him to move freely in space, he is only at the Foundation Establishment and cannot land on the sun, nor can he even get close to it. He can only stop at a slightly more suitable location.
Li Xingkong's cultivation also stopped, not for any other reason than the heat.
He was now too close to the sun, and the sunlight, carrying a great deal of energy, relentlessly showered upon him, bringing extremely high temperatures.
Although he wasn't injured, the temperature still made him somewhat uncomfortable.
When Li Xingkong came to his senses, a huge sun filled his entire field of vision. Looking at it, all he could see was endless flames surging on the surface of the sun, outlining layers of feather-like patterns.
The ancients called the sun a three-legged crow, and there was some truth to that. These feather-like patterns are plumes, a type of solar wind.
Therefore, the legendary power of the Golden Crow feather is far beyond imagination.
It was fortunate that Li Xingkong had made preparations beforehand and used his Magic Power to protect his eyes while viewing the sun at such close range; otherwise, he would have inevitably suffered a severe eye injury from that single glance.
At this distance, he could easily gather the evil energy. A large amount of solar wind swept straight past him, and in the short time it took him to regain his senses, several waves of wind had already blown past.
Although Li Xingkong had been studying the Heaven-Encircling Baleful Qi Refining Technique for a year, his progress in cultivation was not as fast as he had imagined.
The practice of this spell requires the presence of Baleful Qi as a foundation. Before the presence of Baleful Qi, any so-called learning is merely theoretical and cannot be put into practice.
Without hands-on practice, one can't even begin to grasp the basics.
In the past year or so of training, the only skill I've truly mastered is the art of gathering evil spirits.
Using his Magic Power and Divine Sense, he constructed a large net to collect Baleful Qi, then spread it out in the surrounding vacuum, using this net to gather the passing Baleful Qi.
Within the body, a special organ was cultivated specifically for storing Baleful Qi Baleful Qi, similar to the stomach but much smaller.
After all, this thing is invisible, colorless, and has no physical form. It only requires a small space to store a considerable amount of Baleful Qi.