Chapter 3229

Confirmed that the increase in spiritual energy was not his illusion, Ye Chen felt overjoyed.

He said to Lin Waner: "It seems this set of hand seals is a cultivation method specifically for refining; when I gather the spiritual energy within my body onto my hands and form the seals, the seals generate extra spiritual energy feedback to me—perhaps this is like a formation, a formation that can produce more spiritual energy from spiritual energy."

Although Lin Waner did not understand cultivation, having lived many years, she was quite clear about many cultivation matters. Upon hearing Ye Chen say this, her first thought was to say to him: "Young Master, mastering this set of hand seals would be equivalent to eliminating the greatest drawback of the Dharma-ending era."

Ye Chen nodded, excitedly saying: "Whoever masters this set of hand seals has found the method to overcome the Dharma-ending era."

The Dharma-ending era is like an industrial society suddenly losing its power supply—people cannot obtain electricity for production, so industrial development naturally stagnates.

If in the Dharma-ending era, one found a method that continuously generates spiritual energy, it would be like finding a solar power generator in an industrial world where others have no power supply—this significance is indeed very great.

Since obtaining the Nine Mysterious Heaven Scripture until now, Ye Chen has only absorbed spiritual energy from two things: one is spirit stones, the other is elixirs.

In the pre-Dharma-ending era, cultivators could directly refine and absorb spiritual energy from heaven and earth, but when the Dharma-ending era arrived and heaven and earth no longer naturally contained spiritual energy, this most fundamental cultivation method completely became a thing of the past.

This brought great difficulty to cultivation, as the vast majority of cultivators could not find a source of spiritual energy.

Spirit stones are products of the era before the Dharma-ending era, when heaven and earth had abundant spiritual energy and sufficient spirit veins; after the long Dharma-ending era arrived, all cultivators exhausted themselves searching and gathering spirit stones, to the point that spirit stones are now extremely rare.

As for elixirs, although not as rare as spirit stones, they are also not resources ordinary cultivators can master. To refine elixirs truly possessing spiritual energy, one needs the corresponding elixir formula, must prepare the medicinal ingredients precisely according to the formula, needs the elixir's secret technique, and needs the elixir furnace.

For the vast majority of cultivators, each of these is as difficult as climbing to heaven.

Even though Ye Chen now possesses all these, he still feels that if he relied solely on elixirs to replenish spiritual energy, it would feel like exhausting a mountain's wealth.

It is like having vast family wealth but no fixed cash flow—much money in hand, but spending a cent reduces it by a cent.

Yet now this set of hand seals instantly solved this most severe problem for him!

Although completing one full set of hand seals increases spiritual energy by only an extremely minute amount, this is like a nodding donkey pump on Nigeria's vast oil fields—once it starts operating, it yields continuous income.

Although one sealing only increases a little, the advantage is that forming hand seals incurs no cost, and whenever one has free time, one can continuously sit and seal—put differently, it merely transforms the cultivators' former breathing exercises into seal formation!

At this moment, Ye Chen was excited to the extreme; he could not wait to return to the vacation villa with Lin Waner, then immediately said to her: "Miss Lin, choose a room and rest early; I will sit in meditation in the living room tonight, see how much spiritual energy increases from sealing all night."

Lin Waner knew this was of great importance, so she said to Ye Chen: "Young Master, focus on your cultivation; I will go to the nearest room. If you need me to do anything, just call me."

Ye Chen nodded, then hurriedly sat cross-legged on the wool carpet in the living room, palms open and facing up, placed between his legs, then began simultaneously forming the hand seals with both hands.

Since the movements were not yet very proficient at first, the entire set of hand seals was completed relatively slowly, but as time passed, Ye Chen became increasingly familiar with this set of techniques, his speed increased considerably, and his efficiency improved greatly.

Unnoticed, more than ten hours passed in Ye Chen's continuous seal formation.

During these more than ten hours, Ye Chen knew only to wholeheartedly perform the hand seals; only upon waking from meditation did he hurriedly check his internal spiritual energy, and to his delight discovered that he had nearly increased his internal spiritual energy volume by about one-tenth!

Such an obvious increase in spiritual energy made Ye Chen's heart especially delighted!

And what delighted Ye Chen even more was that the additionally increased one-tenth of spiritual energy now gathered in his dantian, making his dantian unprecedentedly full.

Ye Chen felt that the benefits this set of hand seals brought him were not only the ability to continuously generate spiritual energy, but also to continuously increase and expand his body's capacity to bear spiritual energy.

Moreover, this fullness of spiritual energy differs greatly from the fullness brought by elixir supplementation.

If relying on elixirs, when internal spiritual energy is supplemented to its limit, the remaining spiritual energy in the elixir will forcibly impact inside the body, and after the impact, it will naturally dissipate; whereas this hand seal's gradual supplementation is more like gradually increasing the dantian's limit, allowing the dantian to hold more spiritual energy, rather than letting excess spiritual energy flow out from within the body.

To some extent, spiritual energy is like mana in a game—it is the key for mages, sorcerers, and similar roles to release skills; many factors affect these characters' combat ability, such as equipment, level, talent, and even Buffs, all important; however, the total amount of mana is also a very important dimension—if A's comprehensive attack power is 100 and mana capacity is 100, while B's comprehensive attack power is also 100 but mana capacity is 150, then when B fights A, B's chance of winning is much greater.

Therefore, increasing one's internal spiritual energy capacity, to some extent, also counts as enhancing one's cultivation.

Moreover, what excites Ye Chen even more is that in one night, spiritual energy increased by about one-tenth; at this rate, in no more than ten days, the internal spiritual energy could double!

Ye Chen has already begun calculating in his mind the uses of excess spiritual energy; if the dantian can bear it, he will continuously operate to produce more spiritual energy to raise the dantian's limit; if the dantian cannot bear it, he will channel all the produced spiritual energy into the ring Lin Waner gave him, and over time, perhaps even activate other functions of the ring!

Having thought this, Ye Chen felt somewhat impatient, wishing these heavens would just disappear, so he could close himself off in this remote, uninhabited vacation villa to cultivate.

At this moment, Lin Waner pushed the door open from outside, saw Ye Chen had opened his eyes, and hurriedly asked: "Young Master, you're awake! When I went out, I saw you in deep meditation and thought you would meditate for three or five days!"

Ye Chen said: "Last night's hand seal effect was indeed remarkable; I plan to rest a bit, then continue meditation to see. Miss Lin, where did you go?"

Lin Waner said: "I went out for a stroll; altogether I was out for just one hour. When I went out, the sky had just brightened; now it is already getting dark."

Ye Chen nodded: "After all, this place is near the Arctic Circle; if it were inside the Arctic Circle, polar night would probably have already begun."

Saying this, Ye Chen added: "Miss Lin, if you have nothing else, I will now enter meditation again."

Lin Waner hurriedly said: "Young Master, please wait a moment—Inspector Li Yalin called a few hours ago, saying the AI model has already made a discovery!"