Chapter 279 - 196: Military Exercise

Chapter 279: Chapter 196: Military Exercise

Ye Shuping’s recommendation included another reason: the boundless Sword Qi was bound to the Star Soul Forging Scripture and could accommodate all types of power. Coincidentally, the All Things Return to Origin Scripture followed a path where all streams return to a single source. Perhaps combining the two could strengthen them both.

Mr. Ye’s reasoning was flawless. Yu Fei added the All Things Return to Origin Scripture to his list and continued to look down.

Strictly speaking, Body Techniques included both footwork and movement techniques. Footwork excelled in rapid travel, while movement techniques specialized in close-quarters evasion and repositioning.

Mr. Ye recommended three to Yu Fei, telling him to choose one to cultivate first, and eventually master all three.

In the category of Slaughter Blade Skills, Yu Fei excelled at Swordsmanship. Ye Shuping directly sent him a catalog containing over three hundred Swordsmanship sets in total, leaving him stunned.

On the path of the Sword Dao, Mr. Ye’s advice was that the boundless Sword Qi was his foundation. Now that it was related to his divine soul, all Slaughter Blade Skills should revolve around strengthening it.

These three hundred Swordsmanship sets were all-encompassing. Mastering them all would be enough to augment his boundless Sword Qi and allow him to reign supreme.

’Hmm... looks like I need to find a way to collect Sword Dao talents!’

This was the only method Yu Fei could think of to speed up his cultivation progress.

He skipped the Body Refining Skills.

As for the other categories, the Situation Awareness Secret Skill and Control Secret Skill, Ye Shuping advised him to wait until he had cultivated the middle volume of the Star Soul Forging Scripture before making a choice.

Both types of Secret Techniques relied on Spiritual Power, so it was better to build a solid foundation first.

The same principle applied to Enhancement Secret Techniques; it was not recommended to practice them until his Melt Gold Jade Body Skill had reached a certain level.

Of the Cultivation Techniques listed above, the All Things Return to Origin Scripture was a fundamental technique and free to every student. The others required using privileges to acquire them.

With S-rank resource privileges, a student was entitled to five free Cultivation Techniques and five half-priced Cultivation Technique exchanges per semester.

He was S+, so after a 20% increase, he was entitled to six. He had already used one of these slots to acquire the Star Soul Forging Scripture.

After some calculation, he decided to acquire three Body Techniques, each with a different focus.

For Body Refining Secret Skills, he acquired the Melt Gold Jade Body Skill, the advanced version of his Pure Yang True Body.

He also acquired seven Swordsmanship techniques, four of which were related to the concepts of "lightness" and "heaviness."

Cultivation Techniques at the Inner Qi level were far more expensive; even with a discount, a single one cost around one thousand Merit Points. Moreover, Ye Shuping’s promise had already taken effect.

He now received a 30% discount on any item he purchased.

In the end, after all the miscellaneous calculations, he still had 220,000 Merit Points. Besides the prodigy stipend, he had earned 35,000 from general education and another 70,000 for breaking the record at the Sentong shooting range. After accounting for his recent purchases, this was what remained.

While it was a considerable sum, a sense of dread washed over him whenever he thought about the cost of cultivating the Melt Gold Jade Body Skill.

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Having acquired so many Cultivation Techniques, Yu Fei began a period of intense training. He had to establish a basic level of combat effectiveness before the next evaluation.

After advancing to the Inner Qi realm, his strength entered a transitional period of weakness.

His "Sancai Steps" belonged to the Qi Blood school of martial arts and could no longer be used. His own Qi Blood had already solidified into transcendent circuits. His Qi Sea was only instinctively absorbing the world’s primordial energy, refining a minuscule amount of Inner Qi. He would run out after launching just a few dozen blasts of Sword Qi.

Right now, he had nothing but brute strength.

The need to cultivate was therefore incredibly urgent.

The most crucial task was to cultivate the All Things Return to Origin Scripture, accumulate Inner Qi, and establish at least a basic level of combat power.

He received a rubbing of the Cultivation Technique’s text and a storage device containing Ye Shuping’s personal annotations. Since this was an authentic ancient Daoist technique, Mr. Ye advised him to prioritize the original text from the rubbing, using the annotations only as a supplement. On this path, no one else could help him.

The concentration of primordial energy at Shenhan University was Level 12, and the other seven great universities were much the same. This was the highest concentration level on their homeworld; levels above 12 were only found in the Borderlands. Yu Fei and the other students had already learned this in their general education classes.

Such a high concentration of primordial energy was more than enough to satisfy the cultivation needs of anyone below the Grandmaster realm.

Yu Fei first read the text from the rubbing three times, gaining a basic grasp of its core principles.

The first realm of the All Things Return to Origin Scripture was "Gathering Qi into a Pool," also known as "Gathering of the Abyssal Spring." Its core cultivation principle was:

[All rivers flow as one; the pure and impure remain unseparated; Embrace the Primordial, preserve the One; use softness to overcome the hard.]

During cultivation, there was no need to differentiate between the attributes of the primordial energy. It was all to be swallowed in one gulp and refined into a single, chaotic, and mixed strand of Profound Primordial Qi.

At this stage, the Inner Qi was impure and unpurified, and thus its power was weak.

With each subsequent breakthrough in Inner Qi cultivation, the purity of the Profound Primordial Qi would ascend to a new level. After three such advancements, both its quality and quantity would reach their peak.

Afterward, he consulted the storage device Ye Shuping had made, delving deeper into the cultivation methods. After a full night of study, Yu Fei began his first session.

Countless motes of worldly primordial energy swarmed toward him, pouring into his body through every aperture. They flowed along his meridians directly to his Qi Sea, where, under the influence of the Cultivation Technique, they wove into a cloud of mist. As time passed, the various attributes of the primordial energy began to clash incessantly.

Outside, Yu Fei’s face was deathly pale. The vast and complex assortment of energy attributes were mutually destructive, struggling to coexist.

As the cloud of mist thickened, he began to spin it. Thanks to his powerful divine soul, this step was relatively easy.

Suddenly, a single drop of pale green primordial qi fell. Within the illusory Qi Sea, a point of solidity appeared. It then gathered into a shallow puddle, and his cultivation was now on the right track.

After a long while, a faint, sharp pain began to emanate from his meridians, signaling that the day’s cultivation had come to an end.

With his inner vision, he saw that the small puddle had grown into a large one, though it was still a long way from being considered a pool.

’This is too slow... I’ll have to think of some ways to burn through my money!’

Yu Fei then sent his questions to Ye Shuping before immediately starting to cultivate the next technique: the Melt Gold Jade Body Skill.