bookandnovel Chapter 44 Gale Sword Technique
Chapter 44 Gale Sword Technique
Chen Yuan then extracted the cultivation content of the meditation method, which was over 100,000 words long. Chen Yuan would spend one or two hours just reading it through, let alone cultivating it.
Unlike other manuals he could skim through, this meditation method was something he had to cultivate himself, and he had to understand it thoroughly, word by word.
However, Chen Yuan wasn't in a hurry. After all, the secret technique was there and wouldn't disappear. He could just take his time to study it in his spare time.
After Chen Yuan extracted the meditation method, his optimization panel became empty, allowing him to first resolve Yu Qinglan's cultivation technique issue, and ideally before perfecting the Gale Sword Technique, so as not to affect himself.
That day, Chen Yuan found Yu Qinglan, who was training in the gravity chamber, and told her that the preparations were complete.
"So fast! Great, I've also bought the manual I needed." Upon hearing this news, Yu Qinglan's eyes lit up. She immediately stopped practicing her gene energy and stepped out of the gravity chamber.
The two then returned to Jiangnan Pavilion, where Yu Qinglan led Chen Yuan into her room.
West Pavilion, one basement level.
Upon arriving in the basement, Yu Qinglan pointed to a set of books and CDs piled in the corner and said, "This is the secret manual, the SS-level sword technique 'Crimson Lotus,' which is also the manual I practiced before."
"I specially spent 80 billion to buy a new set of this customized manual to avoid copyright issues."
Chen Yuan nodded, walked over to the manual, picked up a book and flipped through it, saying, "It's called Red Lotus? It sounds like a manual related to fire attribute concepts."
"More or less. The branch of intent I've comprehended in this manual is called 'Violent'," Yu Qinglan explained. "It's a branch of intent with powerful explosive force, adept at direct confrontation."
"Coincidentally, not only does the Fire elemental realm have a 'violent' branch, but the Wind elemental realm also has a similar branch."
"Therefore, the creator of this manual once said that if you try to comprehend the artistic conception through this 'Red Lotus', there is a 70% chance that you will comprehend the artistic conception of fire and a 30% chance that you will comprehend the artistic conception of wind."
Upon hearing this, Chen Yuan nodded. He had seen this sentence left by the author on the title page of the manual.
"So you chose this sword technique in order to comprehend the 'violent branch' under the Wind Intent?" Chen Yuan asked casually.
Yu Qinglan nodded: "After all, there aren't many high-level manuals that fit the Wind Intent, and even fewer sword techniques. This Crimson Lotus is one of the few manuals that meets the requirements."
Chen Yuan nodded and continued reading.
Chen Yuan quickly read through the manuals he didn't practice, finishing the first book in no time.
Closing the book, Chen Yuan looked up and asked, "What are your requirements for the optimized manual?"
"I can make requests?" Yu Qinglan was clearly taken aback, then tentatively asked, "Can I make any request? I want to remove the interference of the fire element in the manual and turn it into a sword technique purely based on the wind element. Is that possible?"
"It should be fine." Chen Yuan never spoke definitively. After picking up the complete set of books and CDs, he prepared to leave.
"Um... how long will the optimization take?" Yu Qinglan hesitated for a moment, looking at Chen Yuan's back, but still couldn't help but ask.
"It could take anywhere from ten days to a month," Chen Yuan replied after a moment's thought. "Since I haven't finished reading the entire manual yet, I can't be sure of the exact time."
"No rush, no rush!" Yu Qinglan quickly waved her hand, afraid of putting pressure on him. "Take your time, I can wait."
"Okay, thank you for understanding." Chen Yuan waved and left the basement with the manual.
Not long after, he returned to his attic.
"I'm pretty lucky this time. I just happened to encounter the 'Violent' branch that I was missing." With no one around, Chen Yuan relaxed and a look of joy appeared on his face. He opened the second manual and continued reading.
An hour later, Chen Yuan had finished reading all the contents of "Red Lotus", including the accompanying CD.
"System, create an optimization task to optimize 'Crimson Lotus'. The direction is: discard the content related to the fire element in the manual, making it a pure wind element sword technique. Retain the 'violent' branch, increase the sword technique's power, and raise the upper limit of power to 5 times. Then abandon universality and optimize it based on Yu Qinglan's body."
"The optimization task has been established. The target of this optimization is: Crimson Lotus. The optimization direction is to remove the content related to the Fire Intent and focus on the Wind Intent as the core of the swordsmanship. The power and level of force exertion will be improved, and the universality will be abandoned. The optimization will be carried out based on the physical condition of 'Yu Qinglan'."
"Estimated kill points required for this mission: 48. Create optimization mission?"
Chen Yuan clicked "OK".
"The optimization task has been created, and the optimization period is 18 hours."
"Pretty fast." Chen Yuan thought to himself as he looked at the remaining time for optimization.
After doing all that, Chen Yuan stopped worrying about it and returned to his daily cultivation routine.
That evening, Chen Yuan had fully understood the content of the meditation method and successfully completed a meditation session, displaying the status of the practice on the panel.
Meditation Technique: Origin Star Meditation: Cultivation Secret Technique, Rating: Planetary Ultimate Secret Technique, Current Progress: Beginner (0.03%).
It is worth mentioning that, in order to accurately evaluate this meditation method, Chen Yuan specially adjusted the rating system of the panel and added a new "planetary level" classification for secret techniques.
He initially categorized the arcane abilities into three levels: planetary-level, ordinary, top-level, and peak.
The worst is the planetary-level ordinary secret technique. As the name suggests, it is an ordinary secret technique with a low upper limit. Its advantage is that it is relatively easy to learn and suitable for the general public to cultivate.
A level above that is the top-tier secret technique at the planetary level. Cultivating this technique allows one to roam freely within the planetary realm, second only to those who possess a domain. According to Chen Yuan's rating, Luo Hai's "Hundred Fierce Blades" belongs to this level.
Even stronger than the top-tier secret techniques are the planetary-level peak secret techniques. According to Chen Yuan's classification, this level of secret techniques should be similar to the Divine Weapon Ninth Level Secret Technique that Luo Feng cultivates, which makes one invincible within the same level.
At the time, Chen Yuan thought that these three ratings should be enough, but unexpectedly, after he updated the panel content, the evaluation of the meditation method was still unknown.
Clearly, the quality of this secret technique still surpasses the evaluation system set up by Chen Yuan.
Having no other choice, Chen Yuan could only establish another level above the peak secret techniques: the ultimate level.
This grade represents all secret techniques that surpass the peak level, with no upper limit.
In other words, as long as the grade is stronger than the peak, then no matter how much stronger, it will be classified as the ultimate grade. To put it bluntly, it is still an unknown grade, just given a nicer name.
After Chen Yuan updated the grading standards for secret techniques, his Gale Sword Technique was classified as a planetary-level ordinary secret technique, which suddenly made him feel much lower in level.
Therefore, Chen Yuan practiced even harder, striving to perfect the Gale Sword Technique as soon as possible, and then optimize and create an even more powerful secret technique.
The next day, the optimization of the Red Lotus was completed. Chen Yuan extracted it and examined it. The general effect was roughly what he had expected.
First, the swordsmanship became purely related to the essence of wind. Second, the power exertion also increased from 3 times to 5 times as he had expected.
Finally, this sword technique has an additional killing move, somewhat similar to the Mountain-Shattering move in the Hundred Fierce Blades. It is activated by the "Violent Wind" intent and has astonishing power.
Based on this characteristic, Chen Yuan named this secret manual "Gale Sword Technique".
However, after optimizing the manual, Chen Yuan was in no hurry to hand it over to Yu Qinglan, because only a day had passed. Handing it over now would be too shocking and would attract unnecessary attention.
So Chen Yuan pretended that the secret manual didn't exist, and every day, besides watching Yu Qinglan practice, he practiced the Gale Sword Technique step by step.
Three days later, the system notified Chen Yuan that the data collection on the concept of the wind of existence was complete, and Chen Yuan no longer needed to keep an eye on Yu Qinglan's cultivation every day.
Two days later, Chen Yuan had finished reading all the manuals he had purchased, and then he focused all his cultivation efforts on the Gale Sword Technique.
Finally, hard work pays off. On December 31st, a month after Chen Yuan entered the training camp, his Swift Wind Sword Technique finally reached perfection.