Chapter 23: Creating Cultivation Methods

After listening to Long Lao's words, Long Xuan felt faintly excited. Creating cultivation methods was as difficult as ascending to heaven for others, but for him, it was completely achievable. The method of livering Gu formulas was equally applicable to livering cultivation methods.

The Ten Extremes Body appearing on others was a life-threatening thing, but appearing on him became his opportunity. In his hands, the Ten Extremes Body might be able to shine in this world and become his capital to be invincible in the world. He tightened his fists.

The most urgent task now was to create a cultivation method suitable for the Ten Extremes Body to cultivate as soon as possible. With a cultivation method, the cultivation speed could be further improved.

There was no matter more important than this. Long Xuan immediately decided to make creating cultivation methods his next project. He was determined to create a peerless cultivation method, not in vain for his trip to this world.

Although he thought so in his heart, Long Xuan pretended to be very frustrated. After saying goodbye to Long Lao, he left in low spirits.

Returning to his residence, Long Xuan sat on a chair, spread a piece of white paper on the table, held a pen, and started to ponder, his brows tightly locked.

According to his understanding of the cultivation methods in this world, a complete cultivation method had three components: spirit power operation route, cultivation method divine ability, and supporting spirit techniques. These three components were also called the three elements of cultivation methods.

Of course, Long Xuan's "Longevity Sutra" was a health preservation method, not a cultivation method, and did not belong to this system.

If one were to create a cultivation method, garbage cultivation methods only needed to consider the spirit power operation route; the other two parts could be ignored.

But if you wanted to create a powerful cultivation method, the three elements of the cultivation method were indispensable.

The spirit power operation route determined the speed of cultivation and also determined the attribute of spirit power, determining the strength of spirit power.

For the same attribute, there would be differences in strength due to different cultivation methods.

There were also differences between different attributes. Mutated spirit power was always stronger than basic spirit power, and there would be a gap like heaven and earth between different mutated spirit powers.

Poison spirit power, star spirit power, dragon spirit power, earth spirit power... all attributes distinct from the seven systems of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, and thunder belonged to mutated spirit power.

And how to cultivate mutated spirit power was also determined by the first part of the cultivation method.

Divine ability was the specialty of the cultivation method. Some cultivation methods refined spirit power that was purer than other cultivation methods. Some cultivation methods refined a larger spirit sea, possessing spirit power storage far exceeding those of the same rank.

There were also cultivation methods that could refine five spirit seas, invincible among those of the same rank. These specialties were the divine abilities of the cultivation method.

Including the "Longevity Sutra"'s characteristic of increasing lifespan, all counted as divine abilities.

Supporting spirit techniques were the attack methods of a cultivation method. The supporting spirit techniques of a cultivation method were distinct from the general spirit techniques that everyone could learn.

The spirit power refined by each cultivation method was unique. Even if one cultivated a cultivation method with the same attribute spirit power, there would be a gap like heaven and earth.

The diversity of spirit power would naturally affect the adaptability of spirit techniques. The power of the same spirit technique used by people cultivating different cultivation methods was completely different, so there would be a distinction in the compatibility between spirit techniques and different cultivation methods.

And compatibility was extremely difficult to reach 100%, unless it was a supporting spirit technique tailored for the cultivation method by the same author.

Precisely because the compatibility between supporting spirit techniques and the paired cultivation method was often 100%, supporting spirit techniques were definitely stronger than general spirit techniques.

This was the reason why powerful cultivation methods must create supporting spirit techniques. Otherwise, no matter how strong the cultivation method was, it was just a paper tiger that had power but couldn't perfectly unleash it.

Of course, the attack methods of spirit techniques were very different from the abilities of Gu worms.

Spirit techniques were attack abilities unleashed by mobilizing spirit power, while Gu worm abilities were talents. Talents could not be imitated in the form of spirit techniques.

For example, Gu worm's mind reading, Gu worm's spatial teleportation, Gu worm's precognition, Gu worm's time reversal...

No matter how, spirit techniques couldn't imitate these abilities in the form of text. This had already exceeded the scope of spirit power. Simply changing spirit power could never realize these abilities.

It could be understood that spirit techniques were martial arts moves, and Gu worm abilities were fantasy moves, one low-profile, one high-profile.

However, there was a limit to the number of Gu worms a Gu cultivator could possess at the same time. Although spirit techniques were weak, they were something Gu cultivators must learn.

Of course, spirit techniques in this world were quite rare. A small Gu cultivator family having one spirit technique would treat it as a family-protecting treasure and become a non-transferable secret.

In a sense, learning one more spirit technique was equivalent to having one more Gu worm quota, and the strategic value could be imagined.

Long Xuan already had too many wild ideas about how to create spirit techniques, and he already had a draft in his heart about how to design mutated spirit power for the cultivation method.

For example, the bloodline limit mentioned in anime from his past life, could spirit power also form mutated spirit power through multi-attribute fusion?

He didn't know how the mutated spirit power in this world was formed, but he felt that it was completely possible to research mutated spirit power through the method of multi-attribute spirit power fusion.

However, although his imagination was exploding and he had countless magical ideas, he didn't know how to start. Even the first word, he didn't know what to write, having no clue at all.

Having ideas wasn't enough; one also had to know how to realize them. Anyone could daydream, but he was blind as to what to do specifically.

Creating cultivation methods was different from creating Gu formulas. Creating Gu formulas had a large luck factor and could rely on guessing. As long as one exploded their liver, they would liver it out sooner or later.

And cultivation methods absolutely couldn't be created by luck. They required reading ten thousand books and needed to understand many things and learn many things.

Long Xuan, a small scattered cultivator who had never seen cultivation methods, hadn't even figured out those basic things. How could he have the ability to create cultivation methods?

To create cultivation methods, one must borrow from a large number of cultivation methods. Closing the door to build a car would never create a good cultivation method, and even exploding the liver would be useless.

So Long Xuan was stumped. The wind of being protective of secrets was prevalent in this world. Where could he easily obtain cultivation methods?

It wasn't that there were no cultivation methods at street stalls for scattered cultivators, but none of them showed progress.

This represented that these cultivation methods were full of errors and had too many loopholes. The Golden Finger didn't detect that these things were cultivation methods at all. How could he dare to borrow from such junk?

So Long Xuan held back for a long time and didn't squeeze out a single word. This first word was stuck, and he was about to worry himself gray-haired.

Finally, a flash of inspiration hit him. He thought of the illusion technique he had never used, the Original Realm.

The first thing he thought of was whether he could cast an illusion on someone to trick them out of their cultivation method.

But thinking that the characteristic of the Original Realm was to perfectly replicate the scenes in the real world into an illusion, everything in the illusion was exactly the same as in reality, and the person under the spell couldn't detect that they were under an illusion by finding differences from the real world, Long Xuan had different thoughts at this time.

The more he pondered the characteristics of this illusion technique, the more he felt that this illusion technique was not simple. How could the illusion produced by a Pupil Gu with such an expensive cost be simple?

Speaking of which, he had forgotten to conduct deep development on the Original Realm. The Original Realm seemed to be just a perfect illusion that the person under the spell couldn't find loopholes in, but after he moved his imagination, he felt more and more that this illusion technique could also develop many abilities.

For example, illusion techniques were all used on enemies. Could he diverge his thinking, break the rules, and use the illusion technique on himself? Let himself cast an illusion on himself. Long Xuan felt that he had opened the door to a new world.

What if he placed himself in the library of a major power? Since the illusion was 100% real, then were the books in the illusion also real? Could he freeload in the illusion, while the guardians of the real library wouldn't notice anything?

Long Xuan gasped. He felt that he seemed to have bugged the system. Could such an ability to easily steal the non-transferable secrets of major powers really exist?

Did Heavenly Dao know that this ability could be used this way?

Did it neglect it again...

(End of chapter) Chapter 24