Cultivation: Start From Simplifying Martial Arts Techniques

Chapter 1137: Chapter 1093: Ninth Transformation Divine Statue

“Discovered martial arts technique, Myriad Spirits Paying Homage (Incomplete)!”

A prompt appeared on the interface, but Chen Fei did not remove his hand from You Yi’s spiritual crown. Instead, he continued to use God Devouring.

Compared to searching for memory fragments from the spiritual essence, which often resulted in serious incompleteness, using God Devouring while the being was still alive could piece together the memory fragments as completely as possible.

Of course, it merely lessened the severity of the shattered memories; a complete restoration was still impossible.

Since the souls of living beings inherently have their own mental defenses, they fiercely resist external forces.

God Devouring could not silently read memories; it could only extract the needed information amidst such resistance.

On the interface, details about Myriad Spirits Paying Homage were continuously supplemented, but towards the end, Myriad Spirits Paying Homage remained in a damaged state.

Other cultivators at the Rule Integration Realm facing such an incomplete technique definitely could not start cultivating it directly, for who knows what might happen.

Even attempting modifications would be difficult.

It could result either in total inability to cultivate it or possibly an altered version that had diverged significantly from the original.

In the Black Stone Domain, the understanding of the Faith Method isn’t sufficient; thus, any such incomplete Myriad Spirits Paying Homage technique that leaks out is most likely to remain unmodified, causing cultivation to be unfeasible.

Chen Fei naturally didn’t have this problem. He exerted a slight force with his right hand, instantly shattering You Yi’s body.

Having just read You Yi’s soul, Chen Fei had understood You Yi’s—and indeed, the Ancient Hug Tribe’s—stances towards Jiguang City and the surrounding cities.

Invoke the Black Demon, attack Jiguang City, and when Jiguang City is likely to crumble, arrive as a savior and then absorb the entire Jiguang City.

It must be said, this method was very effective.

Within the Black Stone Domain where it was impossible to leave, and with Black Demons hard to slay, this simple and brutal method was unusually effective.

“Merge!”

All the Faith Methods on Chen Fei’s interface, including a Faith Method of the Mountain Sea Realm initially passed down by the Black Divine, as well as several Sun Moon Realm Faith Methods collected within Jiguang City, merged together.

“Discovered martial arts technique, Myriad Spirits Paying Homage!”

The incomplete Myriad Spirits Paying Homage became complete after Chen Fei merged all the known Faith Methods, not to elevate the level of Myriad Spirits Paying Homage.

It could not be elevated, for the Faith Methods Chen Fei knew of were, at most, of the Sun Moon Realm. The original version of Myriad Spirits Paying Homage was a Rule Integration Realm technique, a vast difference from the former.

The sole purpose of Chen Fei’s technique fusion was to allow the cultivators within Jiguang City at the Rule Integration Realm to cultivate it, nothing more.

Now that Myriad Spirits Paying Homage was complete, its power might not match that of the original version, and the reason was simple: Chen Fei had eliminated a significant drawback previously inherent in this Faith Method, similar to the one deliberately spread in The Endless Sea by the Black Divine.

That is, cultivators who practiced Myriad Spirits Paying Homage and had less insight into the technique than others could have their Power of Faith stripped away.

This was a rule deliberately set during the creation of Myriad Spirits Paying Homage; from this, one could see the survival environment within the original Swallowing Origin Space.

It was necessary to forcibly control the descendants of the Swallowing Origin family this way.

Not only was this technique used by the Ancient Hug Tribe thus, but also within the Swallowing Origin Space, all the powers deployed their Faith Methods similarly, to control the beings beneath them.

Stripping the Power of Faith from fellow cultivators practicing the same Faith Method was a key tenet of Myriad Spirits Paying Homage, and Chen Fei’s elimination of it unavoidably decreased the power of the technique.

The Ancient Hug Tribe told Jiguang City they wanted an alliance and asked for half of the faith, offering the Faith Method in return.

In this regard, the Ancient Hug Tribe indeed hadn’t lied, and what they offered was their primary martial arts technique, Myriad Spirits Paying Homage.

This way, when necessary, they could easily take away the other half of the faith from Jiguang City.

It can be said that the Ancient Hug Tribe had considered all scenarios; no matter how Jiguang City responded, they had corresponding methods to handle it.

If Jiguang City dared to resist forcefully, their power was in no way inferior; then, the Ancient Hug Tribe would not confront Jiguang City head-on but rather directly manipulate the Black Demon to attack Jiguang City.

The only thing the Ancient Hug Tribe hadn’t anticipated was that inside Jiguang City, there was Chen Fei, who, while seemingly at the early stage of the Rule Integration Realm, actually possessed the strength of the Peak of the Rule Integration Realm.

Moreover, with You Yi gone, the Rule Integration Realm cultivators of the Ancient Hug Tribe nearby were still completely unaware of who had struck.

Bafflingly, even if a cultivator at the Peak of the Rule Integration Realm had acted, they should have been able to detect sufficient traces.

Chen Fei collected the spiritual essence and looked at the mystical treasure You Yi had used.

Unlike the treasures within the Black Stone Domain, this mystical treasure lacked many abilities and had instead been heavily fortified in durability.

Chen Fei thought about the corrosive nature of the Black Demon; presumably, this durability was specifically to counteract the Black Demon.

Concerning the Black Demon’s Despair City-like corrosive energy and its arbitrary elemental energy, spirit, and soul devouring attack methods, Chen Fei was not overly worried.

Indestructible Vision allowed Chen Fei’s essence, energy, spirit, and soul to transform at will, and more crucially, Celestial Suppression could protect him.

Unless he encountered a large number of Black Demons, it was impossible for them to plunder the essence, energy, spirit, and soul from within Chen Fei’s body.

As for the characteristic of the Black Demon that allowed them to resurrect, Chen Fei felt that the Power of Destruction, ignited by Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, might also have a miraculous effect on the Black Demons.

Of course, now with the more convenient Power of Faith, before the Black Stone Domain returned to normal, he naturally used the Power of Faith to deal with these Black Demons first.

Speaking of the corrosive power of the Black Demon, Chen Fei could not help but recall the projection of the Xuanyuan Sword he had condensed in his mental defense back when he was in the Endless Sea.

Because of the ritual performed by the One-armed Hades, Chen Fei had a sudden epiphany and attempted to condense the Xuanyuan Sword from his previous life.

One-Armed Hades, Chen Fei indeed discovered in the human race’s scriptures that there was such a demonic god existing in the Return to Nothing Realm.

But if one truly traced back the time, it was at least hundreds of thousands of years ago, if not even more distant.

Anyhow, inside the Return to Nothing Realm now, there was no demonic god known as One-Armed Hades; the phantom of One-Armed Hades condensed by that sect in the Endless Sea was just a residual mark in the void.

Chen Fei specifically looked for records of the One-Armed Hades because after arriving in the Return to Nothing Realm, the projection of the Xuanyuan Sword in Chen Fei’s mental defense directly collapsed.

Chen Fei tried to reconvene it, only to find that no matter what, he could not condense it again.

Later, when he was at the mid-level of the Sun Moon Realm, Chen Fei returned to the Endless Sea to look for the continuations of the Suppressing Dragon Elephant martial arts and tried again to condense the phantom of the Xuanyuan Sword.

That moment, the projection of the Xuanyuan Sword almost appeared but ultimately failed to condense.

This made Chen Fei at that time, think a lot.

Why, when he was in the lower realm like the Endless Sea, could he successfully condense the projection of the Xuanyuan Sword?

Yet when it reached the Return to Nothing Realm, the place reputed to be the center of myriad realms, the projection of the Xuanyuan Sword directly collapsed, and even after Chen Fei returned to the Endless Sea, he still couldn’t condense the Xuanyuan Sword’s projection.

What exactly was his previous life’s Blue Star?

The legendary Xuanyuan Sword could condense a projection, but once reaching the Return to Nothing Realm, it disappeared without a trace, as if it had never appeared.

The human race of the Return to Nothing Realm, whether in appearance or divine soul attribute, was no different from Chen Fei.

Initially, in the Endless Sea, Chen Fei thought that Blue Star might be one of the many lower realms, because the realm weakened, so its vital energy completely dispersed.

At that time, Chen Fei always held this view, until the Xuanyuan Sword could not be condensed—Chen Fei suspected that perhaps, the situation was far more complex?

Various thoughts flashed through Chen Fei’s mind, and he took a step forward, leaving the Cangqiong Domain.

Moments later, Chen Fei returned to the courtyard in Jiguang City.

“Simplify!”

“Myriad Spirits Paying Homage simplification process… Simplification successful… Myriad Spirits Paying Homage→ Divine Soul Scroll!”

The orthodox method of cultivating the Myriad Spirits Paying Homage includes condensing a divine statue in the soul, the more detailed the engraving on the statue, the better the effect of absorbing the Power of Faith.

For someone at the Rule Integration Realm, completing this step isn’t much of a challenge.

Therefore, Myriad Spirits Paying Homage is very easy to pick up and can rapidly possess and use the Power of Faith.

However, if one wishes to rapidly improve the Myriad Spirits Paying Homage, it is essential to fill the divine statue with the Power of Faith.

The more the divine statue is filled with the Power of Faith, the greater the power of Myriad Spirits Paying Homage.

Filling the divine statue with the Power of Faith once counts as after just one move, and the divine statue will transform once, compressing the Power of Faith to one-tenth of its original amount.

Then, by reaccumulating the Power of Faith and filling the divine statue again, it will transform once more.

Repeating this process up to nine times is called the Ninth Transformation, and Myriad Spirits Paying Homage will be cultivated to the highest level.

Chen Fei planned to offer the residents of Jiguang City a version of Myriad Spirits Paying Homage without shortcuts, while the version he was cultivating himself had a shortcut.

Without enough Power of Faith, it is absolutely impossible to cultivate the Myriad Spirits Paying Homage to the highest level, regardless of insight or talent; it is purely a matter of whether there is enough Power of Faith.

The residents of Jiguang City innately worship the Emperor. Chen Fei is quite well-known and can draw some Power of Faith, but definitely not much.

In such a case, vying for the Faith Source within the city would be both troublesome and yield little gain.

Since that was the case, it was better to directly seize the Faith of the Ancient Hug Tribe.

With Myriad Spirits Paying Homage, Chen Fei had a simplified method of cultivation, which could bypass the filling of Power of Faith and directly challenge the Skill Level.

Chen Fei checked the Skill Level needed for Myriad Spirits Paying Homage; compared to the Desolate Universe God Slaying Technique, the Skill Level required for Myriad Spirits Paying Homage was significantly less.

Chen Fei sat cross-legged with closed eyes, using his soul power to directly draw the basic totem inside Myriad Spirits Paying Homage, a totem that must cover every corner of the divine statue during its condensation.

The soul quickly drew the totem, and the Skill Level related to Myriad Spirits Paying Homage began to climb.

Chen Fei shattered You Yi’s spiritual essence, epiphanies spread all around, and a massive understanding emerged in Chen Fei’s sea of consciousness.