There's a saying, "Too much of a good thing is bad." It's right to do things at the right stage of life. Knowledge is certainly always welcome, but you also need to be selective. After all, the world is vast, and at your current level, you can't learn everything.
The system's words made a lot of sense, but when it came to making a choice, Li Xingkong was indeed finding it difficult to decide.
"How did the previous cultivators handle it?"
Before making your own decision, it's better to refer to what other people have done.
" The Soul Tribulation isn't a particularly frustrating ordeal; on the contrary, it's quite lenient, giving you ample time to deal with it. However, when it comes to this particular problem, no amount of time can solve it."
"Generally speaking, there are two approaches to dealing with Soul Tribulation: one is to reduce, and the other is to expand."
"The so-called deletion is to remove the unimportant content from memory, making room for new knowledge and content."
"Compared to the previous cultivators, they have also ranked the importance of memories accordingly."
"First, there are the memories from when you were still an ordinary person. Because most cultivators have been cultivating for hundreds or thousands of years by the time they reach this calamity, the people and events in their memories have already passed away and have not even left a trace. At this time, the memories left behind are of little use. Except for a few key figures, the memories of others are dispensable."
"However, before erasing memories, they usually conduct a thorough inspection to settle past karmic debts before deleting the memory."
"Then comes the long period of seclusion during personal cultivation, most of which is spent repeating the same practices. Except for crucial periods of breakthrough or flashes of inspiration, other cultivation memories can be erased."
"After that, there's some irrelevant knowledge, such as knowledge that has been deliberately pondered for many years in order to cultivate a spell. The ultimate goal of this knowledge is to master this spell, but once the Spell Seed is formed, the scenarios in which this knowledge is used are few and far between. It's better to just delete it and keep only one spell that can be used at any time."
"Even since cultivators often learn spells, most cultivators will specifically reserve 10% of their brain capacity for learning spells. After learning a spell, they will immediately clear that memory, and repeat this process."
"Wow, isn't this just RAM and a hard drive...?"
Li Xingkong. Although the cultivation world hadn't developed computers, everyone seemed to allocate storage space in the same way.
"As for expanding capacity, that's even simpler."
"One method is to directly increase the number of memory cells in the body. This method is simple and direct, but the problem is that if the body is damaged, it may lead to memory loss."
"Another solution, which is the one most advanced cultivators use, is to expand the internal space of the memory organ using spatial techniques. The memories are then stored in this expanded internal space. This method is also a common solution to the Soul Tribulation. As cultivation continues to improve and the space continues to expand, the more memories can be stored, and the Soul Tribulation will naturally be resolved."
"However, this solution also has a problem. With a large number of memories piled up in one space, the speed of memory retrieval will slow down. Therefore, for some commonly used methods and spells, it is still better to store them in the conventional way, while for some memories that are not so urgent, they can be stored there."
"It seems neither of these solutions can completely resolve the Soul Tribulation problem. Whether it's expanding the capacity or erasing memories, as long as you live long enough, you'll still have to face this tribulation."
After hearing the method, Li Xingkong was somewhat dissatisfied. He felt that the method was only useful, but it could not fundamentally solve this calamity.
"See, you're thinking a bit too far ahead again. What did I tell you? Think about things appropriate for your current stage. Don't research things too far in the future. Fundamentally resolving the Soul Tribulation is something for later stages."
The system promptly interrupted Li Xingkong's thoughts.
"As for the methods of expansion, even with the amount of knowledge Golden Core cultivator possesses, it should be more than enough for your needs."
Yes, the problems I can think of, other cultivators must have thought of as well. So there must be more effective, or even more thorough, ways to deal with this calamity. It's just that my current cultivation level is too low, so knowing the solution is of no use to me.
You can't get fat in one bite. If you want to continue your spiritual practice, you should take it one step at a time and solve the problems at hand first.
This is similar to the compulsory education system in Divine Land before. The content learned in elementary school has many errors and omissions when viewed from the perspective of junior high school. Similarly, high school students learn from junior high school, and university students learn from high school.
Especially in science subjects, you'll find that much of what you learn in junior high and high school is actually not entirely accurate once you get to university.
Or rather, these theories are outdated. They were correct in the early stages of the development of the discipline, but after entering university and being exposed to theories closer to modern times, one will find that much of the content has long been overturned.
This phenomenon is particularly evident in physics.
Although it has been proven to have errors and omissions, the new, correct theory is too complex for students at that stage, so this knowledge has been preserved for teaching purposes.
After all, the purpose of compulsory education is to improve learning abilities, not to actually apply that knowledge to make a living or solve practical problems.
Similarly, at this stage, Li Xingkong's solution to the Soul Tribulation is simply to smoothly progress through the Golden Core Stage stage of cultivation, rather than to completely overcome this tribulation.
So as long as the method works, that's fine; taking some detours is not a problem.
Although Li Xingkong had some knowledge of space, in order to learn these spells, he only needed to increase the size of his memory structure. He could wait a while before expanding the space of his memory.
Adding memory was not difficult for Li Xingkong. After all, the human body held no secrets for him anymore, so adding something was not a big deal.
He didn't even need to refer to anything; with just a slight manipulation of his Divine Sense, several memory entities appeared within Li Xingkong's body.
His brain capacity also increased several times over, which was more than enough to complete the cultivation of these Golden Core Stage spells.
Having temporarily resolved his memory issue, Li Xingkong then turned his attention to the first spell, the Ten Thousand Swords Art Technique.
Kinetic energy strikes, as the most conventional attack method, are primitive but also very effective.
From throwing stones to asteroid impacts, there seems to be no limit to kinetic energy attacks. As long as the mass is large enough and the speed is fast enough, nothing can stop such an attack.