It must be said that the concept of fortune has occupied a very important place in the history of Divine Land. Long before cultivation, countless people had painstakingly studied it in order to borrow fortune and change their luck.
Without the help of cultivation techniques, people can do very little. All sorts of strange pills, rituals, and spells are rampant, but most of them have no practical effect.
Even after entering the era of cultivation, cultivators never stopped their research on destiny.
This Record of All Living Beings Weeping Blood is the culmination of such a work.
Although its original form was merely an evil technique used to refine the souls of others and enhance one's own luck, the technique in Li Xingkong's hands had clearly changed.
The original method of cunning and forceful acquisition is gone, replaced by others' voluntary provision. What used to require soul refinement can now be accomplished simply by linking them together using the Crimson Blood One Heart Art.
The improvements made by Ji Nanzhi and his companions to this technique can be said to have transformed it from a minor evil art into a glorious righteous path.
Although many problems remain, such as the soul that provides fortune being trapped in one place and unable to act on its own, and the efficiency of this so-called fortune conversion not being as high as imagined.
However, the very fact that this technique can extract the attribute of "luck" and mobilize it as a freely transferable asset demonstrates its considerable conceptual value.
Li Xingkong applied this technique to the Hexagram and began the analysis as usual.
Li Xingkong didn't know much about fortune, and after acquiring the Thousand Mountains Method, he didn't think he needed fortune to help him. To put it bluntly, as long as he repeated it enough times, he could succeed no matter what, which was similar to fortune.
But now, after Li Xingkong came into contact with this black box-like method of manipulating fortune through this technique, he discovered that this fortune seemed to have an effect on him as well.
Putting everything else aside, the stronger one's luck, the greater the success rate of one's attempts, which means that one needs to use the Thousand Mountains Method fewer times, and thus fewer parallel worlds will be created.
Although they may seem similar, the difference is actually huge. Each clone requires Wan Chongshan to kill it, so the fewer times the clones need to be activated, the less the senior needs to intervene.
After all, Li Xingkong's current state is not yet capable of transcending parallel universes; he has not yet met the expectations his predecessors had for him.
The interpretation of the Hexagram, combined with the vast amount of knowledge stored in Li Xingkong's mind, quickly gave Li Xingkong ideas for modifying the cultivation technique.
The biggest problems with the current "Record of All Living Beings Weeping Blood" are twofold. One is that the souls that provide fortune need a safe and stable environment. After they have absorbed the cultivation method, they are no different from those who have lost their sense of self. Without a stable environment, they are easily disturbed.
Another issue is the transformation of fortune. Even if it is done voluntarily, one's fortune cannot be completely transferred. After all, maintaining one's vital signs requires a certain amount of luck.
If one's luck is completely gone, they might either choke to death or suffer a sudden death due to a conflict in their Mana Circuit in the next second.
As long as one wants to maintain the vitality of the soul, the amount of fortune that can be provided is limited.
Therefore, the areas where Li Xingkong needs to improve are these two points.
How can we provide a safe haven for the soul, allowing them to fully engage in the provision of good fortune?
This is indeed a difficult situation. If it were someone else, they might only be able to find a way to create a small, secluded space to shelter them.
Such as the Buddha's Kingdom in the palm of a hand in the Myth, the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, or the hell and heaven in Western the Myth, or even the Wall of the Faithless.
These places are mostly used to collect the fortunes of believers in order to aid their spiritual practice.
But Li Xingkong obviously wouldn't choose that, because there isn't a safe place anywhere in the entire Solar System.
The Three Demons are members of the Holy Church of Truth. They have been in contact with the Axiom Arc quite a few times and have a certain understanding of spatial techniques, as well as the light techniques of the Kingdom of Fixed Light. If they want to hide something using these methods, they basically cannot hide it when they are pushed to the limit.
Therefore, we should adopt a different approach that leans more towards Daoism.
Alchemy.
Or, to put it another way, a large number of souls that provide fortune are condensed together through alchemy to form an alternative " Golden Core ".
However, it doesn't provide Magic Power, but rather luck.
It can be called Fortune Golden Core.
After the combined power of millions of people is used to condense such a Fortune Golden Core, the cultivator's own destiny will likely manifest as a golden rainbow, making them the so-called chosen one of heaven.
Moreover, once the souls are refined into Golden Core, their safety and well-being are no longer a concern, as everyone is now one, requiring no further worry.
This approach... does sound a bit unorthodox.
Using human souls to make elixirs—it's just so strange.
Although they are doing this voluntarily now, what if in the future? What if someone were to cultivate a group of followers like a missionary, and then use them to make elixirs?
That's hard to say, and Li Xingkong couldn't guarantee it either.
There is no inherent good or evil in cultivation techniques; it all depends on the person using them.
However, Li Xingkong wasn't thinking about things that far ahead at the moment. After all, there were still Three Heavenly Demons to deal with, and their strength was still a mystery. Naturally, Li Xingkong wouldn't hold back when designing his techniques; he would make them as powerful as possible.
After modifying the technique, Li Xingkong circulated it through his own body.
He didn't have the luck to acquire from others, but that didn't affect Li Xingkong's testing of the technique's effectiveness.
Others may not have the same luck, but Li Xingkong's own luck is quite high. This thing is also linked to personal strength, and Li Xingkong's own luck is already very high.
After activating the cultivation technique, he quickly discovered that his Divine Sense could detect this elusive thing called luck.
It was like a wisp of smoke, lingering around me like a shadow, but I just couldn't see it before.
With the help of the " Record of All Living Beings Weeping Blood," Li Xingkong achieved control over his own destiny for the first time.
Like an unconventional way of exerting force, after several attempts, Li Xingkong was finally able to slightly influence his own fortune.
If you draw your fortune back into your body and prevent it from manifesting, your personal fortune will worsen; but if you release it completely, your personal fortune will improve.
This fortune is clearly a consumable resource; it takes time to recover and cannot be used whenever one wants.
"If only this luck could be improved..."
Li Xingkong felt its effects and pondered inwardly.