Chapter 37

"Two a month?" Li Yuan sighed secretly.

Basic Source Force essence pills, 100,000 Blue Star coins/points each; if he eats two, his monthly budget will rise significantly.

"You haven't eaten Source Force essence pills before, have you?" Xu Bo looked at Li Yuan.

"No," Li Yuan shook his head; how could his family afford such cultivation treasures?

Like his uncle and aunt, being able to supply their children with basic blood-qi potions long-term is actually a minority of families.

Source Force essence pills? Those who dare to purchase and use them long-term are probably all billionaires.

"Then I'll tell you about it; Source Force essence pills are essentially a substitute for high-level cultivation methods," Xu Bo said. "Do you know the essential difference between basic cultivation methods and high-level cultivation methods?"

"Cultivation efficiency," Li Yuan said.

"This is the result, not the cause," Xu Bo said. "Basic cultivation methods efficiently absorb the energy produced by the food we eat, thereby pushing the progress of life."

Li Yuan couldn't help but nod.

The most essential difference between modern humans and ancient traditional martial arts lies in cultivation methods.

This is the key to opening life evolution.

"But basic cultivation methods have limits," Xu Bo said. "No matter how strong our digestive function is, we can eat ten kilograms of nutritional meals a day, but can we eat one hundred kilograms of food?"

"Can't eat it," Li Yuan shook his head.

"Right, even if it's high-energy food, there are impurities after eating it, and the body can't stand it if you eat too much," Xu Bo continued. "However, powerful martial artists, let alone continuing to push the body to evolve, even maintaining the body's state requires consuming huge amounts of energy."

"It's like an electric car; the more powerful the power, the more electrical energy it consumes."

"Like your teacher, me."

Boom!

Xu Bo took a step, his whole person flashing like a phantom, the air exploded instantly, and the airflow surged into wind.

Xu Bo had already stopped at the other end of the office.

"This?"

"This is a Level 19 martial artist?" Li Yuan held his breath, a hint of excitement hidden in his heart.

He could be sure that the Teacher Xu just now had an instantaneous explosive speed definitely exceeding 50 meters/second.

One must know, this was an explosive start from a standstill, definitely not Xu Bo's fastest explosive speed.

This is a truly powerful martial artist.

Xu Bo walked back slowly, saying as he walked: "Every day, to maintain a powerful body, if I only rely on eating, I have to eat at least tens of kilograms of high-energy food."

"This is still living in the city; if fighting with Star Realm creatures, the consumption is even greater, and two hundred kilograms of high-energy food wouldn't be enough."

Li Yuan was speechless.

He thought of elephants, giraffes, and other animals, most of whose time every day is used for eating.

If exercising, the consumption would be even greater.

"So, we produced blood-qi potions," Xu Bo said. "Blood-qi potions are essentially extracted from food, easier for the human body to absorb than high-energy food, and have almost no impurities, it's just that the price is expensive."

"Taking it can reduce the demand for food."

Li Yuan nodded slightly.

Using blood-qi potions not only reduces the burden of eating but also increases cultivation efficiency by at least double.

"But further on, after becoming a Level 15 martial artist, and even more powerful martial artists, even blood-qi potions alone are hard to maintain."

"In the last few decades, Source Force essence pills have appeared, allowing us to directly absorb Source Force."

"What is Source Force?"

"Since hundreds of years ago, when the six major Star Bridges mutated, a most magical kind of energy, 'Source Force', appeared in the universe and starry sky," Xu Bo said with emotion. "Once you can absorb Source Force, our body's evolution speed will increase tenfold or a hundredfold."

Li Yuan held his breath and listened.

Source Force is extremely magical.

Like powerful martial artists, in just a few decades, they can fly into the sky and escape into the earth, and even walk out of the center of a nuclear explosion safely... all by absorbing Source Force and pushing the body to evolve.

With a human body, they compare to gods.

"There are three ways to absorb Source Force."

"First, physical fitness must reach at least Level 19, and skills must be sufficiently brilliant, with body, mind, and intent perfectly combined, then one can barely perceive Source Force and achieve initial absorption," Xu Bo said in a low voice. "This is the most primitive absorption method, and the efficiency is very low, but the first generation of martial artists relied on this method to become powerful step by step."

"Later."

"With more and more martial artists, and them becoming stronger and stronger, finally, the first high-level cultivation method was deduced, and the efficiency of absorbing Source Force skyrocketed more than tenfold," Xu Bo said. "Then the second, third... until now, our human civilization has appeared seven major high-level cultivation methods."

"Even, if one can align with the corresponding high-level cultivation method, ordinary people can also achieve initial absorption of Source Force, making the body's physical fitness improvement efficiency skyrocket," Xu Bo looked at Li Yuan with regret.

Li Yuan understood the teacher's meaning.

Awakening martial arts spirituality is not as mysterious as the 'spiritual roots' in novels.

Its essence is the degree of alignment with the seven major high-level cultivation methods.

If the alignment degree exceeds 85%, it is awakening.

Why does human civilization value martial arts spirituality so much? Because if ordinary people practice high-level cultivation methods, they can gradually absorb Source Force in the universe to strengthen the body.

In this way, the efficiency of body evolution will skyrocket, and the hope of becoming a Source Martial Artist will greatly increase.

This is the reason why the physical fitness of students in elite classes is generally powerful.

Secondly, Source Force exists everywhere in the universe and starry sky.

It is not only much more effective than blood-qi potions but also inexhaustible, allowing the entire human civilization to save a lot of resources.

"Absorbing Source Force with high-level cultivation methods is the second method, and also the best method," Xu Bo shook his head. "But you can't do it now... Li Yuan, if you want to absorb Source Force in the universe by yourself, you can only use the most primitive absorption method."

"Then, you must improve your physical fitness to Level 19."

Li Yuan nodded slightly.

Not absorbing Source Force, and improving physical fitness to Level 19? One can imagine how difficult it is.

Must rely on a large amount of external resources.

"Of course, if you truly become an extremely powerful Source Martial Artist in the future, perhaps you can also create a high-level cultivation method suitable for yourself."

"Even create a high-level cultivation method suitable for a large number of ordinary people," Xu Bo sighed with emotion. "Then, you will be a great contributor to benefiting human civilization."

"The world's number one powerhouse, 'Dongfang Ji', once said that everyone is uniquely gifted and should have suitable high-level cultivation methods."

"If our human civilization can give birth to one hundred high-level cultivation methods, then everyone, from their youth, will find suitable high-level cultivation methods, and there will be no such thing as martial arts spirituality."

"By then, the birth speed of martial artists in human civilization will be more than ten times faster than it is now," Xu Bo quoted Dongfang Ji's words. "And this requires generations of martial artists to struggle and work hard."

"One hundred high-level cultivation methods?" Li Yuan sighed secretly.

Human civilization, from the appearance of the life evolution era until now, nearly two hundred years, has only given birth to seven general high-level cultivation methods.

However, compared to the three high-level cultivation methods eighty years ago.

In this era, the birth speed of martial artists in human civilization is already several times faster.

The more martial artists there are, the larger the base, and the more powerful martial artists there are, which also makes the birth speed of high-level cultivation methods faster.

This is a virtuous cycle.

Making human civilization constantly grow stronger.

"The third way to absorb Source Force is Source Force essence pills, which have appeared in the last twenty or thirty years," Xu Bo said. "Essence pills contain a trace of Source Force, which can be absorbed once taken."

"It's just that Source Force is domineering."

"Without the assistance of high-level cultivation methods to resolve it, absorption will be very difficult," Xu Bo said. "So, ordinary people only need one pill a month."

"Your physical talent is actually the top-notch kind, it's just that there is no suitable high-level cultivation method," Xu Bo looked at Li Yuan with regret. "Plus your spiritual power is extremely strong, perhaps you can use two pills a month."

"Thank you, Teacher, for your guidance," Li Yuan nodded and said with a quite frank smile. "There is no high-level cultivation method suitable for me."

"Then in the future, I will strive to create one."

"Haha," Xu Bo laughed upon hearing this. "Ambitious, Teacher is waiting."

"This 'Star Spear Technique' and this 'Dragon Movement Technique' are in the same vein as the 'Rock Cultivation Method', I suggest you exchange for them," Xu Bo continued. "These two major secret manuals both point directly to the fifth stage of skills and are quite famous among martial artists."

"Point directly to the fifth stage of skills?" Li Yuan thought.

His skills are only at the third stage.

"Teacher, can't you teach me Second-Rank secret manuals?" Li Yuan couldn't help but ask.

"Me?" Xu Bo was stunned for a moment, then smiled. "I have indeed practiced many Second-Rank secret manuals, such as spear techniques, saber techniques, and movement techniques."

"But I can't teach you," Xu Bo shook his head. "Didn't you notice that I have never guided you to practice Second-Rank secret manuals in the past?"

"Why?" Li Yuan was stunned.

"I only have the right to learn, not the right to teach," Xu Bo said. "Like the fist techniques, spear techniques, movement techniques, etc., that you are learning now, they all belong to First-Rank secret manuals, suitable for students with first-stage and second-stage skills to learn."

"A large number of First-Rank secret manuals and cultivation methods are completely open and free to all citizens."

"But starting from Second-Rank secret manuals, they all have copyrights," Xu Bo said. "They must be purchased before they can be used."

(End of chapter)