Hidden One
Not the Boss, possibly a Playa
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- Sol;Terra;EU;D;NRW
Adam knows where it is at. [DATA]
Broken Adventure
- Thread starter theaceoffire
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- Crossover
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Deep thoughts about the thickness of Dat Data.
- Location
- Here
You got that...
'Cause you got that...
'Cause you got that...
'Cause you got that...
I like your data 'cause it's got that somethin'
That I needed all my life, so give it to me!
'Cause you got that...
Like your files 'cause they've got that somethin'
That I need in my file, that I need, so
'Cause you got that...
I like all new 'cause we got that somethin'
That I feed into my file so give it to me!
'Cause you got that...
Like you 'cause you 'Research' somethin'
That I need with my files, that I need, so ...
<Dance Break!>
Is it wrong that I'm wanting to see Brother Hou's reaction to this and what to means for Adam being a sneaky grandpa? Also, I loved the miscommunication when he was looking to see if he could share the method. Speaking of... if he can get this working, when with that little cravat of a persons own nature effects the outcome....
As someone said before me, tis likely wars have been fought over things of far less importance... and it will be hilarious to see what the reaction of the elder members of the sect will be. If nothing else, I can see them getting together and going 'okay, so this is what he has come up with, given the current level of support. So, I think we can all agree that while we are not going to let him break the rules and over things up, it may be a good idea to increase the amount of funding we are willing to give him to see what he'll do to help the sect next?'
Because really, one of the things that went through my mind was Third Elder Cho or one of those that supported his medical bills out of spite/contrariness looking at Forestend village and begin to think that they had not just shat on gold, but on a gold mine.
And sorry for rambling, currently on an exercise and sugar high
As someone said before me, tis likely wars have been fought over things of far less importance... and it will be hilarious to see what the reaction of the elder members of the sect will be. If nothing else, I can see them getting together and going 'okay, so this is what he has come up with, given the current level of support. So, I think we can all agree that while we are not going to let him break the rules and over things up, it may be a good idea to increase the amount of funding we are willing to give him to see what he'll do to help the sect next?'
Because really, one of the things that went through my mind was Third Elder Cho or one of those that supported his medical bills out of spite/contrariness looking at Forestend village and begin to think that they had not just shat on gold, but on a gold mine.
And sorry for rambling, currently on an exercise and sugar high
AoshimaMichio
Space Accountant
- Location
- Space Office
Just when I started following this again, Adam goes idiot savant...
You say that like its not his default state
I don't know if I would say he fits the idiot savant category, since he knows what he's doing and has a clear goal in his research, but he's so into tunnel vision mode it's kinda hilarious. It doesn't help that he's constantly reminded of his need to research. The missing arm, missing vocal cords and being in a cultivation sect keeps his attention on techniques and such.
Edit: Though he does tend to stumble onto things. Whether it's situations or answers.
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It's Xianxia, wars have been fought for not giving enough face, not recognizing mt tai, breaking the wrong tea cup or the wrong armrest. And don't forget not recognizing your father.
HA! Finally reached 400k words!
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- Here
400k Words, WOO! This is officially a LONG story! It feels like only a few days ago I got to 300k and left short story range.
It's harder to write long stories than you think when you are NOT trying to pad it out.
Oh there is filler of course, sometimes good and short filler really adds some flavor to the dish, but my goal is to NOT have 80 chapters of nothing happening. <Glares at Naruto's massive time skip>
I'll be honest, I am mostly posting this so I can check informational marks later to see when I hit the various milestones. Maybe I'll do something fun when we hit 1,000,000 words!
It's harder to write long stories than you think when you are NOT trying to pad it out.
Oh there is filler of course, sometimes good and short filler really adds some flavor to the dish, but my goal is to NOT have 80 chapters of nothing happening. <Glares at Naruto's massive time skip>
I'll be honest, I am mostly posting this so I can check informational marks later to see when I hit the various milestones. Maybe I'll do something fun when we hit 1,000,000 words!
- Location
- Somewhere in this forsaken world
I've really enjoyed the story so far and, while Adam's obliviousness was amusing in the begining, now it's just getting very tedious... And I don't know if it is only for me or if someone else has such issue.
Up to this time I've never read any of xianxia novels but what I've got from some slips here and there that there is a revenge theme going strong in them. And a part of me really wants for someone to die due to Adam's obliviousness to outside world when he's in his fugue state just so he learn from such situation and get his everything together, get his "revenge" and go on with his life a little bit wiser. There should always be a limit to some things...
Don't take me wrong, I love the story and the setting you've picked as it is something new and not explored for me, but there should always be a limit to some things... This time he saved everyone with his unconscious ( I can not state that he did it with full knowledge of what was going on ) action, but later? When he's in the "zone" again and just ignores what is going on? It can just be to late to help someone.
Also, any advise on some good xianxia to start with? With adequate MC not bent on revenge or some such thing and who's not a dick to any and all. Thanks in advance for any advices.
Up to this time I've never read any of xianxia novels but what I've got from some slips here and there that there is a revenge theme going strong in them. And a part of me really wants for someone to die due to Adam's obliviousness to outside world when he's in his fugue state just so he learn from such situation and get his everything together, get his "revenge" and go on with his life a little bit wiser. There should always be a limit to some things...
Don't take me wrong, I love the story and the setting you've picked as it is something new and not explored for me, but there should always be a limit to some things... This time he saved everyone with his unconscious ( I can not state that he did it with full knowledge of what was going on ) action, but later? When he's in the "zone" again and just ignores what is going on? It can just be to late to help someone.
Also, any advise on some good xianxia to start with? With adequate MC not bent on revenge or some such thing and who's not a dick to any and all. Thanks in advance for any advices.
Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
- Location
- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
Meanwhile...
AdamMain: Ow! Why're you hitting me? He did it!
Narwhal: *Exasperated Glare* He's You!
AdamMan: Not... really? Ow! Dammit!
Narwhal: *whap* stupid *whap* oblivious *whap* MAN!
- Location
- kentucky
Cultivation Chat Group
"Ahhhhh! My worldview was shattered overnight!"#Cultivation #Urban #HilariousAdventure【Update Wed Fri】One day, Song Shuhang accidentally joined an online chat group filled with Xianxia-obsessed chuunis. They called each other "fellow daoists", had all sorts of strange usernames, and even...
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- Saipan
Holy shit you're trying to find a unicorn. The only ones I can think of (set in a fantasy cultivation setting) are those novels where the MC has a system that focuses on auxiliary jobs, like the Internet cafe in a xianxia world (it's completely translated) or gourmet of another world (still translating). They completely focus on the MCs use of the system to level up, and don't really do the whole 'revenge' thing (I'm pretty sure. There might be a scene or two, but I don't remember). Any fighting is usually because the customers broke a rule of the establishment, or the MC went grave robbing or treasure hunting and is competing with the other grave robbers/treasure hunters (sects and cultivators), or other people are trying to attack the MC because of *insert stupid/greedy reason here*.
Goddamn it i thought it was an update
Why do you torment so!!
- Location
- UK
Nah, both of those are pretty 'xianxia-y'. Far too much 'face-slapping' and revenge cycles. Much less than mainstream xianxia but still there.
I would recommend Cultivation Chat Group, I Might Be A Fake Cultivator and Daily Life of Immortal King. These three are pretty much comedy 'xianxias' but they do have quite a bit of plot especially the first.
I would recommend Cultivation Chat Group, I Might Be A Fake Cultivator and Daily Life of Immortal King. These three are pretty much comedy 'xianxias' but they do have quite a bit of plot especially the first.
Molting the Mortal Coil
by JustinAnkar
Arrogant Young Master Template A Variation 4
by LivingSpoon
There both on Royal Road and are updated regularly.
Someone else mentioned Ascending, Do Not Disturb earlier in the thread, and I can say I like what I've read of it. The MC tends to be idealistic and oblivious, rather than arrogant. More conventional cultivation stories are dismissed as the kind of thing we don't want our students to read because it'll misinform them about how things work.
Subrosian_Smithy
endless
- Location
- Washington
- Pronouns
- She/Her/Hers
Forge of Destiny is pretty much the gold standard for xianxia you can find online, but if you want to go looking for the published books, Will Wight's Cradle series is an excellent xianxia-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off.
I've also heard many good things about 40 Millenniums of Cultivation, but I haven't read it enough to vouch for it personally.
I've also heard many good things about 40 Millenniums of Cultivation, but I haven't read it enough to vouch for it personally.
Could it be that adam has developed a unique physique/constitution and a way to give others the same?
If so all the random pulses could be the world trying to announce it with purple clouds or something but it can't find him,or when adam was just tossing energies around he hit someone doing something risky and messed up everything.
Or accidentally helped someone who was being hunted and now the baddies are like "you dare interfere with the _______ sect of evil douchebaggery!!!! We'll kill every generation of your family"
then they feel silly cuz he has none.
If so all the random pulses could be the world trying to announce it with purple clouds or something but it can't find him,or when adam was just tossing energies around he hit someone doing something risky and messed up everything.
Or accidentally helped someone who was being hunted and now the baddies are like "you dare interfere with the _______ sect of evil douchebaggery!!!! We'll kill every generation of your family"
then they feel silly cuz he has none.
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- Saipan
Nope, the pulses Adam felt were probably the mental sensing that high level cultivators are able to do. You can see Third Elder Cho doing the action the last time he came to the library and Adam just having it slip around him. Also, no idea who is paying those mercenaries, but you can tell when he is attacked because the internal monologue gives the energy absorbed a name, whether it be flame or sword Qi.
On the physique/constitution thing, it seems that Adam is making a body cultivation technique that uses whatever energy the cultivator is using for his regular cultivation technique to temper the body. This allows cultivators a compatible vessel and stable foundation for future cultivation, but seems to take extra time to complete and seems to make the cultivator a specialist of that energy. So a fire cultivator who uses this body refining technique is not able to make use of (or maybe has a hard time using) other elemental Qi. It will also slow down cultivation speed, since it takes the energy of the regular cultivation technique to advance the body cultivation technique, but will allow a person to have battle standards that match or are better than someone who doesn't use the body cultivation technique.
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- Alabama
now just a thought it could very much so be the village still but now the assassin group that had some form of renown is *offended* by the fact that their target survived and that the ones they sent were defeated.
It's a common theme of wuxia when you slap one idiot even in self defense you gotta deal with the whole group and then maybe the allies of that one and so on. eventually you uproot a whole region. then in some cases it escalates more the higher powers that be see the destruction of one group defending itself and start quoting some crap about keeping balance send one of their underlings to *restore peace* and now the process starts again.
- Location
- That place where I live?
Xianxia really is ridiculous, it's the sort of place where refusing to put up with some self-important @$$-hole's whining is a crime punishable by death and dishonor, or crippling and maiming
Arc 2: Shopping Cut Short, reaching Second Order!
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Adam pouted, even as he waited for whomever was supposed to show up to this meeting. The waiting room had no windows, almost no furniture, and definitely no style.
He never even got to walk into the Sect Store! No, there were 'security concerns' and 'safety protocols', yadda yadda.
In the end he shoved his scribble covered slate to Sister Quan with his shopping list and had to hope for the best.
And really, it felt like a rip off. He had heard interesting things about the Sect Store, and while he was going to be restricted to the first floor (Like the Repository Pagoda), there was supposed to be all kinds of neat stuff!
With a sigh, Adam relaxed back into his chair and had 'Research' do something useful, and begin unpacking all kinds of information related to formations.
Like Glyphs, it used not only symbols (Either lettering or physical objects) but conceptual placements to enact reactions in the world. A number of similar objects (Ink/blood Glyphs, swords, flags, even cultivators) would stand in a specific pattern, causing energy to naturally flow into that pattern. This caused the power to begin connecting and enhancing the members of the formation and the effects that are caused by it, a multiplicative effect.
These formations can create illusions (The ropes in his room made the illusion of sound, for example), deliver attacks, set up barriers, seal or confine objects or concepts like time or space... There existed all kinds of patterns and setups that allowed Formations to do all kinds of things!
Downside, it required both critical thinking and artistic abilities, two skill sets that did not normally cross paths. Especially in this culture. And the terrible documentation procedures in this Realm were not helping anything either. Any enhancements or advancements were often hidden from the public too, as expected by now.
Also, like Battle Skills, most formations were inherited from distant ancestors. Though (Thankfully) UNLIKE Battle Skills, it was more than possible to study existing formations and make new ones or modify old examples... hence things like Adam's 'call for assisstance' ropes being possible to design. And the many basic formations used to preserve food, to create storage rings, to protect Sect structures, and so on and so forth.
Adam settled into a meditative form, his Shard glowing metallic gray as it extended the domain vertically to gather energy. He had lots of new interesting energies to study at the moment as well, by the way... the attacks he stopped were similar to each other mostly, but one of the assailants had some sort of poisonous flame attack. Maybe because of his strange fire snake Martial Spirit? It was generating some combination of 'Flame energy' and 'Corruption energy' within the Sword Qi attacks, neat stuff.
Though to be honest, he mostly loved it because that poisonous fire needed a lot of Binding energy to exist at all, and ripping that power source apart released a lot of the good stuff to make more Blue energy! Thankfully, this time Adam thought ahead and had stored most of the generated Binding power into his Shard for later use rather than just shoving it into his system to turn into more muscles and weird markings.
Back on point, as Pulse cultivation progressed and supported his abilities, 'Research' started ripping the stupid language shackled information free from the mess he had read over the last few days. Seriously, how could anyone learn anything when the instructions 'Make a circle' took thirty minutes to convey? THIS formation documentation for example was massive, and boiled down to 'It doesn`t work and I don`t know why!' How useless.
Adam had more respect that these Formation Researchers could even gain a basic understanding of their craft, just from how terrible the learning material provided was.
Like this one, a binding formation that required refining (also known as soul stamping or attuning) over 100 flags so that the pattern could connect together and activate. Not only was it hard to understand the various steps but it ALSO required some stupid expensive materials to make each tiny identical flag needed. It did retroactively make some level of sense, as rare materials apparently handled energy better. Expensive though.
'Research' tore this stuff up.
Half the time the expensive materials and complicated patterns were only needed because of exposed faults in the patterns! Using rare stuff apparently allowed you to brute force the broken formation to function, even if at lower performance ratings. In fact, many of these flourishes and odd patterns were added (As far as 'Research' could tell) because the creators felt it didn't look professional enough.
So yeah, like with his exploration of new cultivation techniques, this literal mountain of material vanished down to something around waist height. Because (Thankfully!) unlike with cultivation techniques, Formation patterns overlapped. A Lot. And followed certain underlying rules.
It was a field of study that had a solid, near scientific structure behind it. Once you stripped off the 'cool' flourishes and started learning the patterns needed beneath it, the only tricky parts were the sections that were used to gather or generate energies, as well as the components that were used to define various targets. Those had to be a bit flexible and artistic due to the nature of the process.
There were a near infinite number and types of energies after all, but by comparison only a few defined ways of connecting formations, transmitting signals, stabilizing input and output, etc.
Which all circled back to his first experiments.
Sighing, Adam glanced at his chalk. With Sister Quan having his slate board, he was pretty much mute again. Still, he had previously written down his requirements.
A number of new Initiates that had NOT reached First Order Warrior Houtian Realm. Preferably, a series of Initiates with Martial Spirits of specific talent levels. He didn't expect to get the 'Sect Seeds', or those with grade 10 or higher Martial Spirits... but if he was lucky, Adam would get some volunteers with Grade 7, 8, and maybe a 9 or two.
Of less concern was his request for Initiates with the lowest Martial Spirit grades that were still members of the Sect. There were many, and most became servants of the Outer Sect or became villagers within the city formed outside the Burning Sword Sect's walls. In his opinion, at least a few of them would have enough hope to volunteer as Adam's research material.
After all, his (to be verified) body cultivation technique didn't require a powerful Martial Spirit to operate. Oh, it helped of course... but as long as you could summon ANY heaven and earth spiritual energy into your system, you would eventually complete Adam's technique to some extent.
He wanted to study that. Because theoretically, after the Cultivator's body was aligned with whatever energy was accessible... Their newly formed Cultivation Cells would not only improve their cultivation progress, but be able to attract more powerful energy than before. USABLE, more powerful energies.
Thus they could temper their body again.
And it should be EASIER the second time, as the Cultivation Cells may not fully form the first time like Adam's had due to low energy quality/density, but every attempt would make their Cells progress ever closer to the ideal form Adam had crafted for himself. Closer and closer to that strange, Stem Cell like near-sentient material.
Again, those poor bastards may have to undergo the Body Cultivation Technique like... a dozen times. Or more. And it would take them decades or even centuries to reach Adam's level, since they couldn't control or filter the energy in the same way... still, some degree of benefits should show up fairly quickly.
Point was, Adam had a plan to make this entire mess less boring for his research subjects as well as not time consuming for everyone else. And thankfully, the designs of Formation needed to impliment this was dead simple! Well... relatively simple. After a bit of refinement and stripping out the garbage.
One exclusion circle, a pipe with a couple of one way energy restriction fields (Normally used within Cultivator prison cells, not sure why this was available for reading), and a... pretty terrible energy sorting formation. Like... very terrible. It was almost embarrassing, but on the other hand there were few examples of energy manipulation formations to begin with.
According to 'Research', the designed 'T' shaped pipe would shove the most common detected energy down one direction, the rest of the mess flowing out the other choice.
It couldn't filter out specific energies, it was unable to determine which path the 'mess' would take OUT of the pipe, but... well. It would at least NOT change which output was which after or during activation. That was good enough, with a bit of logic he could use this.
Adam would have to document the process heavily though. And at some point, get a couple of pipes. Did plastic exist here? Maybe not, beyond a certain point Cultivators learned how to reshape bone pretty easily (Spirit Beasts were handy materials after all) so the need for plastic probably never took off. If worse came to worse, he could use a metal pipe or whatever. Once someone came by this meeting room. This boring, boring room.
Right, the process.
While Adam was there in person, everything would be easy enough. One energy restriciton circle, suck all power out from it, and then carefully add in the 'Research' suggested custom energy mix. He was planning on creating an artificial cultivation zone, one where each available energy type was equally represented as minute wisps instead of one or two dominating powers overwhelming the area.
Then the subject Sect Initiate would cultivate. The trace energies most compatible with his body and technique would vanish first, thus Adam would know what he needed to work with to help the subject, and they could progress! Practically no effort at all!
After that annoyance, one that would be far worse WITHOUT Adam being around and making it simple, then they could get started. And THIS process would hopefully be designed to not need Adam at all, as he didn't want to spend his whole life doing this stuff. He had better stuff to do, after all.
Craft one restriction circle (The Cultivation Circle) with the Sect subject inside, use the designed 'Transfer Pipe' to empty all energy within to the 'Raw Power' formation.
Use the crappy 'Filter Pipe' to split the power into two new restriction circles.
While determining what specific energies are present would still be tricky for most people, any Cultivator could easily tell which circle had more TYPES of energy within. Bam! Now we have a circle of (mostly pure) power to work with! If the Subject feels a connection to the extracted power, add it to his Cultivation Circle, return the rest of the mess to the 'Raw Power' formation, and repeat the steps.
Eventually one would have some mess of a ratio of compatible energy trapped inside with the future Cultivator, which should drastically decrease cultivation difficulty in general and allow them to progress much faster with Adam's 'Gentle Rebirth Body Cultivation Technique'.
It was easy enough to judge progress with his technique, assuming 'Research' doesn't find any additional issues. Their power should visibly spread through their body using Adam's grid replacement technique, much slower than Adam's progress of course since he didn't want to risk tumors and stuff doing it the fast way. Should be an interesting light show, depending on what power works best with them.
Once their body was at least 10% or more converted, they would begin to test his second experiment: Attempting to reach First Order Warrior cultivation using Adam's 'Houtian Realm First Order Essential Cultivation Method'.
To be honest, THIS was why he wanted research subjects. The 'Rebirth' process was (in comparison) easier to test and craft and verify. It didn't require a cultivation network, or rely on Martial Spirit talent level, or rare materials... without all those unknown effects, the work was causing very few issues during development. It was the carrot, the bribe, to get people to test his 'Essential Cultivation Method'.
According to 'Research', it SHOULD be a much faster method to become a cultivator, as well as a VERY stable foundation to grow from. Unlike Adam's Pulse Cultivation Technique, which required seven complicated meridian routes and large quantities of pure energy to progress and develop, the 'Essential Cultivation Method' was theoretically beyond simplistic. Bare bones, no frills, cultivation progress!
Instead of attempting to make future cultivation methods easier or focused on specific energy types, the 'Essential' technique had stripped out ALL the flourishes, the extra meridian nodes, the redundant or extraneous paths. If most cultivation methods were generic and sprawling networks, designed to support everything and anything with as little effort as possible... this one was instead a consolidated, rock solid foundation of support.
Hopefully this would translate into something awesome once said foundations were established, but until then it would make progression in other Cultivation Methods frustrating. The 'wiggly bits' that would normally tie into the popular and wide spread techniques commonly practiced would have nothing to grab into, as the 'Essential' method was focused only on providing a solid spiritual support system.
Basically, it traded away flexibility and some neat tricks for an incredibly stable Cultivation base and a high chance of few if any bottlenecks in the future. Probably.
Adam blinked. Oh... he had been scribbling a needed materials list on the wall.
...Meh, their fault for not replacing his slate.
The Initiates would have various weak foundations previously established most likely, from whatever attempts they had made already to advance to First Order Warrior. Studying that and how his 'Houtian Realm First Order Essential Cultivation Method' interacted with other people was the biggest boost that 'Research' was looking for, data wise. And with Adam in the room, any unexpected issues would be easy enough to address.
That ALONE would be enough to determine the 'Second Order' and 'Third Order' patterns before they form... and to see if any changes to the Cultivation Method were needed during those two stages. Though his progress towards Second Order would probably answer a few of those guess on its own pretty soon, more data is good data.
Adam would still have to wait until he reached Forth Order and give 'Research' time to record and examine the process though. He was unsure how the new spiritual network would be constructed after all for himself, much LESS for his newly designed 'Essential' method.
His thoughts and sprawling wall note making was interrupted as the door opened. Oops.
Oh thank goodness, it was only Brother Zhanfei.
He blinked. "Why did you scribble on the... no one replaced your slate did they."
Seriously, this man was competent! Good job Brother!
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Third Elder Cho had cleared her schedule for the next week.
She glared at the device. "This... no village should have access to something like this."
Her people was knelt to her left. "The bulk of the attackers were Forestend Warriors whom were convinced by an outsider that Brother Adam was bent on vengeance, gathering people to destroy the soon to be built village, and using demonic cultivation techniques to heal his body. The instigator was a young woman, but investigation clearly shows he or she was wearing disguises. A corpse similar but unlikely to be the target was reported to the Sect after a cultivation harvesting trip and the case was closed... suspiciously quickly."
She sighed. What a mess. "Was it Sixth Elder Hawn?"
He hummed. "The Elder was suspiciously innocent. At the time of attack, he was at a meeting scheduled at the last moment with the Second and Seventh Elders."
Cho scoffed. "So he just HAPPENED to be having a conversation with the only two Elders who would normally be close to the area under assault."
Her person nodded. "The meeting was concerning a valid topic that WAS urgent, but it is suspicious, yes. Our network suspects he was the one who also caused issues with the recent herb retrieval mission and the blood ruins investigation."
Her face frowned darkly. "At least further attacks are unlikely. Chongsheng Adam has attracted the attention of most of the Elders at this point, and most of Elder Hawn's people are under surveillance?" He gave a nod. "Right. It was likely another attempt to discredit me, and our luck won the day after the child displayed his mutated Martial Spirit."
Seriously large amounts of luck. Unlike the normal grading system procedures, mutated Martial Spirits were always odd. Valuable variants could look like worthless rabbits or mice or (in this case) glass... then display all kinds of oddness and potentially valuable abilities.
It was so rare that such a talent would go undetected, so unusual for it to be as useful as Mr. Chongsheng's displayed talents... the possibility never entered into Elder Cho's calculations. Or ANYONE'S future plans, for that matter.
Some sort of energy suppression field, one that could restrict Cultivators almost a whole Realm above himself... near instant activation as well.
Valuable indeed.
As the boy was considered under her protection, she was swamped with transfer demands and data requests. All denied of course, and she had the head of the Medical Center, Healer Jin, notified about the strange situation so he could support young Mr. Chongsheng as needed and keep his people out looking for potential trouble.
With a sigh, she examined the device again. In a way, she was incredibly lucky.
This mess of formations and materials created a... a static bubble. A field of random information to distract and block spiritual detection. It was not meant to be used by people below the Xiantian Realm, which was the most lucky part of the story... the strongest fighter, a peak-Tenth Order Houtian Warrior from Forestend, had to stay out the mess entirely just to be able to fuel this criminal object and keep the Sect uninformed for as long as possible during the assault.
With a sigh, she sent her people the object for future study, and focused on the other notes.
When her fellow Elders began nosing around her protected Sect Candidate, it had initially been idle curiosity. However, when they found out that the boy was attacked in the MIDDLE of gathering research to document and share the SAME ability that had displayed such amazing recovery benefits? One that may be responsible for his displayed fire immunity?
Her high level support surged straight through the roof. Any chance Elder Hawn may have had to topple her well earned position was truely shot at this point, really.
More importantly, she was no longer using her own private resources to support such a 'long shot' and 'useless cripple'. Jerks. She was openly permitted to use her divisions resources directly at this point. Especially now that his Martial Spirit's mutation was so publicly renown at this juncture.
No, the Sect as a whole was much more willing to invest in this fresh new member's attempts and requests.
Which was good, because his first list of requirements had been a doozy.
It was only his open willingness to allow witnesses and outsiders to examine the entire process that even let the conversation continue without her slamming down on the kid like a mountain. Experimenting with the future Sect Brothers and Sisters would have NOT gone over well by any measure, and even after a full explanation she STILL demanded full oversight.
On the other hand, rephrasing it a bit might prevent future issues... After all, he was attempting to share what he believed to be a revolutionary new Cultivation Method and a supposedly unheard of Body Cultivation Technique! One that would improve cultivation ease in general and even more benefits in the process... supposedly.
It wouldn't be enough interest to give the child access to an Initiate with a Martial Spirit grade 9 or higher until his theories and techniques were proven, but with some politics and a few favors maybe she could get him permission to work with some of the children that had an 8th grade Martial Spirit but terrible background support. Outside the sect, even a 7th grade Martial Spirit was celebrated... but with the amount of talent here at the Burning Sword Sect, such people were not nearly as valued.
As for Initiate with lower grades than 7th, there would be a swarm of applicants. Most had fears of never reaching Fourth Order Houtian Warrior, forget breaking through to the Xiantian Realm... The possibility of working with someone respected or supported within the Sect would be reason enough to attempt to volunteer.
She couldn't attend herself, unfortunately. She was supposedly too 'important' to see the young boy who was rocking the Sect and already being used as a political piece. Stupid cultural norms, it was hard enough forcing herself to be valued and appreciated as it was without all this unending posturing and constant wastes of time.
Elder Cho waved her people away, turning back to the paperwork that was always building up on her desk. The treasure child was secured, in a defensible position, and would hopefully be undisturbed as the cultivation cave requested was upgraded significantly. The various attempts to steal him away were lost in paperwork hell and she was a few steps ahead of the far more laid back Elders who might want to cause an issue.
Mr. Chongsheng didn't need to know how many resources were being spent to ensure future progress would be hidden from spies and outsiders. And a few extra defenses wouldn't hurt anyone. Anyone important, anyway.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Adam was back in his room, grumbling as he ate a DELICIOUS shepherds pie. Seriously, he had pestered the servants until one admitted that it had been baked by Sister Rong's personal disciple Chefs themselves! He HAD to make sure to return such care at some point. Even as he took more bites, he pulled the raspberry pie closer, Shard ripping the spiritual energy out of the way of his hunger.
He was eating so much because his progress towards Second Order was at 99%, and before progressing he wanted as many calories as possible just in case his system required them. As it was, holding back his Pulse Cultivation Technique was almost hurting, it was so close to progressing to the next stage. Every so often a pulse of blue light would shiver through his skin, almost begging to advance.
Pushing back the plates and sitting down on a large disposable blanket (No idea how the impurities situation would go, this was much more than basic Cell replacement), Adam sat cross legged, his left arm stump cupped by his right hand... and focused.
His skin lit up as the seven cycles began accelerating, blue dots lengthening to white lines as his Blue energy threads gained even more speed. Adam's meridian nodes were stretched, each spiritual route swelled, pressed against his Soul and flesh, solidifying and twisting...
His left eye began to drip liquid tears of glowing blue fire as something inside clenched and strained. The open rivers of cultivation were growing sluggish, the gas of energy flowing rapidly building up a thin and weak shell, ever so slowly enclosing the entire route as the power cycled again... and more... and faster...
With a conceptual shatter, his flowing energy smashed outside of the now enclosed meridian route, carving a strange networks of new channels of open river cultivation above, below, and weaving through the existing Spiritual Network! Within moments, the sharp and familiar pain wore away as the wounds shifted, a new meridian route stabilizing and restructuring as it swirled in impossible shapes, weaving through and wrapping around the glowing blue tubes established by the Pulse Cultivation Technique.
Even as the new seven paths stabilized, the gas of Blue Energy and Battle Qi began 'overflowing' the newborn banks, flooding into his flesh. The clouds of Blue energy were forced to swirl over his skin, then was also pulled inward... his body soaking in power like a dry sponge.
It felt amazing!
Like a painful spasm that had finally passed, or diving into a deep, cool ocean pool on a boiling hot day... the Blue energy flooded his body and Soul, reinforcing the fragile 'river banks' and forcing the new meridian routes to become more standardized, more aligned... more symmetrical. This pattern may be an effect of him creating new meridians and 'balancing' his spiritual network, but with the exception of his left hand the new network being carved into his body was growing more and more structured.
His gaze fell on his pulsing Shard, the former clear 'glass shard' now covered with lines, cracking...
With a loud SNAP, the Shard fragmented, exposing a slightly larger crystal, edges somehow sharper, the visual ghostly image less ethereal and more realistic. The glittering Shard seemed... heavier. A weight in the world.
...Was that supposed to happen? This didn't count as an Evolution of the Spirit, right? That wasn't supposed to happen until Forth Order Warrior.
Yeah.
Yeah, this was probably alright.
The Evolution was documented as being much more dramatic anyway. Animals gaining extra limbs or changing shape, that kind of thing. And technically the Shard just grew a little, right?
Yeah, that was probably normal.
As the Shard floated down and returned to his heart, he felt his energy Domain settle... his range had doubled from a three foot radius to six, a two meter range normally centered on his body where he could direct and control all energy without calling his Shard Martial Spirit out. Useful!
The storage 'space' within the Shard had increased as well. The solid material could now store way more power than previously, around ten times the former amount... more useful than doubling his domain range, in Adam's opinion. Hopefully when he reached the Third Order, the storage would increase by a factor of ten again! He'd have to wait and see.
Speaking of which, his reserves (Blue energy, Binding energy, and previously stored energy from the earlier assault) were all pretty much empty.
He was going to have to Pulse cultivate some more to recover and stabilize. Which was going to be boring. Ah well.
With a sigh, he opened his eyes... and saw black.
...Shit, he was covered with impurities again. Damn it.
He never even got to walk into the Sect Store! No, there were 'security concerns' and 'safety protocols', yadda yadda.
In the end he shoved his scribble covered slate to Sister Quan with his shopping list and had to hope for the best.
And really, it felt like a rip off. He had heard interesting things about the Sect Store, and while he was going to be restricted to the first floor (Like the Repository Pagoda), there was supposed to be all kinds of neat stuff!
With a sigh, Adam relaxed back into his chair and had 'Research' do something useful, and begin unpacking all kinds of information related to formations.
Like Glyphs, it used not only symbols (Either lettering or physical objects) but conceptual placements to enact reactions in the world. A number of similar objects (Ink/blood Glyphs, swords, flags, even cultivators) would stand in a specific pattern, causing energy to naturally flow into that pattern. This caused the power to begin connecting and enhancing the members of the formation and the effects that are caused by it, a multiplicative effect.
These formations can create illusions (The ropes in his room made the illusion of sound, for example), deliver attacks, set up barriers, seal or confine objects or concepts like time or space... There existed all kinds of patterns and setups that allowed Formations to do all kinds of things!
Downside, it required both critical thinking and artistic abilities, two skill sets that did not normally cross paths. Especially in this culture. And the terrible documentation procedures in this Realm were not helping anything either. Any enhancements or advancements were often hidden from the public too, as expected by now.
Also, like Battle Skills, most formations were inherited from distant ancestors. Though (Thankfully) UNLIKE Battle Skills, it was more than possible to study existing formations and make new ones or modify old examples... hence things like Adam's 'call for assisstance' ropes being possible to design. And the many basic formations used to preserve food, to create storage rings, to protect Sect structures, and so on and so forth.
Adam settled into a meditative form, his Shard glowing metallic gray as it extended the domain vertically to gather energy. He had lots of new interesting energies to study at the moment as well, by the way... the attacks he stopped were similar to each other mostly, but one of the assailants had some sort of poisonous flame attack. Maybe because of his strange fire snake Martial Spirit? It was generating some combination of 'Flame energy' and 'Corruption energy' within the Sword Qi attacks, neat stuff.
Though to be honest, he mostly loved it because that poisonous fire needed a lot of Binding energy to exist at all, and ripping that power source apart released a lot of the good stuff to make more Blue energy! Thankfully, this time Adam thought ahead and had stored most of the generated Binding power into his Shard for later use rather than just shoving it into his system to turn into more muscles and weird markings.
Back on point, as Pulse cultivation progressed and supported his abilities, 'Research' started ripping the stupid language shackled information free from the mess he had read over the last few days. Seriously, how could anyone learn anything when the instructions 'Make a circle' took thirty minutes to convey? THIS formation documentation for example was massive, and boiled down to 'It doesn`t work and I don`t know why!' How useless.
Adam had more respect that these Formation Researchers could even gain a basic understanding of their craft, just from how terrible the learning material provided was.
Like this one, a binding formation that required refining (also known as soul stamping or attuning) over 100 flags so that the pattern could connect together and activate. Not only was it hard to understand the various steps but it ALSO required some stupid expensive materials to make each tiny identical flag needed. It did retroactively make some level of sense, as rare materials apparently handled energy better. Expensive though.
'Research' tore this stuff up.
Half the time the expensive materials and complicated patterns were only needed because of exposed faults in the patterns! Using rare stuff apparently allowed you to brute force the broken formation to function, even if at lower performance ratings. In fact, many of these flourishes and odd patterns were added (As far as 'Research' could tell) because the creators felt it didn't look professional enough.
So yeah, like with his exploration of new cultivation techniques, this literal mountain of material vanished down to something around waist height. Because (Thankfully!) unlike with cultivation techniques, Formation patterns overlapped. A Lot. And followed certain underlying rules.
It was a field of study that had a solid, near scientific structure behind it. Once you stripped off the 'cool' flourishes and started learning the patterns needed beneath it, the only tricky parts were the sections that were used to gather or generate energies, as well as the components that were used to define various targets. Those had to be a bit flexible and artistic due to the nature of the process.
There were a near infinite number and types of energies after all, but by comparison only a few defined ways of connecting formations, transmitting signals, stabilizing input and output, etc.
Which all circled back to his first experiments.
Sighing, Adam glanced at his chalk. With Sister Quan having his slate board, he was pretty much mute again. Still, he had previously written down his requirements.
A number of new Initiates that had NOT reached First Order Warrior Houtian Realm. Preferably, a series of Initiates with Martial Spirits of specific talent levels. He didn't expect to get the 'Sect Seeds', or those with grade 10 or higher Martial Spirits... but if he was lucky, Adam would get some volunteers with Grade 7, 8, and maybe a 9 or two.
Of less concern was his request for Initiates with the lowest Martial Spirit grades that were still members of the Sect. There were many, and most became servants of the Outer Sect or became villagers within the city formed outside the Burning Sword Sect's walls. In his opinion, at least a few of them would have enough hope to volunteer as Adam's research material.
After all, his (to be verified) body cultivation technique didn't require a powerful Martial Spirit to operate. Oh, it helped of course... but as long as you could summon ANY heaven and earth spiritual energy into your system, you would eventually complete Adam's technique to some extent.
He wanted to study that. Because theoretically, after the Cultivator's body was aligned with whatever energy was accessible... Their newly formed Cultivation Cells would not only improve their cultivation progress, but be able to attract more powerful energy than before. USABLE, more powerful energies.
Thus they could temper their body again.
And it should be EASIER the second time, as the Cultivation Cells may not fully form the first time like Adam's had due to low energy quality/density, but every attempt would make their Cells progress ever closer to the ideal form Adam had crafted for himself. Closer and closer to that strange, Stem Cell like near-sentient material.
Again, those poor bastards may have to undergo the Body Cultivation Technique like... a dozen times. Or more. And it would take them decades or even centuries to reach Adam's level, since they couldn't control or filter the energy in the same way... still, some degree of benefits should show up fairly quickly.
Point was, Adam had a plan to make this entire mess less boring for his research subjects as well as not time consuming for everyone else. And thankfully, the designs of Formation needed to impliment this was dead simple! Well... relatively simple. After a bit of refinement and stripping out the garbage.
One exclusion circle, a pipe with a couple of one way energy restriction fields (Normally used within Cultivator prison cells, not sure why this was available for reading), and a... pretty terrible energy sorting formation. Like... very terrible. It was almost embarrassing, but on the other hand there were few examples of energy manipulation formations to begin with.
According to 'Research', the designed 'T' shaped pipe would shove the most common detected energy down one direction, the rest of the mess flowing out the other choice.
It couldn't filter out specific energies, it was unable to determine which path the 'mess' would take OUT of the pipe, but... well. It would at least NOT change which output was which after or during activation. That was good enough, with a bit of logic he could use this.
Adam would have to document the process heavily though. And at some point, get a couple of pipes. Did plastic exist here? Maybe not, beyond a certain point Cultivators learned how to reshape bone pretty easily (Spirit Beasts were handy materials after all) so the need for plastic probably never took off. If worse came to worse, he could use a metal pipe or whatever. Once someone came by this meeting room. This boring, boring room.
Right, the process.
While Adam was there in person, everything would be easy enough. One energy restriciton circle, suck all power out from it, and then carefully add in the 'Research' suggested custom energy mix. He was planning on creating an artificial cultivation zone, one where each available energy type was equally represented as minute wisps instead of one or two dominating powers overwhelming the area.
Then the subject Sect Initiate would cultivate. The trace energies most compatible with his body and technique would vanish first, thus Adam would know what he needed to work with to help the subject, and they could progress! Practically no effort at all!
After that annoyance, one that would be far worse WITHOUT Adam being around and making it simple, then they could get started. And THIS process would hopefully be designed to not need Adam at all, as he didn't want to spend his whole life doing this stuff. He had better stuff to do, after all.
Craft one restriction circle (The Cultivation Circle) with the Sect subject inside, use the designed 'Transfer Pipe' to empty all energy within to the 'Raw Power' formation.
Use the crappy 'Filter Pipe' to split the power into two new restriction circles.
While determining what specific energies are present would still be tricky for most people, any Cultivator could easily tell which circle had more TYPES of energy within. Bam! Now we have a circle of (mostly pure) power to work with! If the Subject feels a connection to the extracted power, add it to his Cultivation Circle, return the rest of the mess to the 'Raw Power' formation, and repeat the steps.
Eventually one would have some mess of a ratio of compatible energy trapped inside with the future Cultivator, which should drastically decrease cultivation difficulty in general and allow them to progress much faster with Adam's 'Gentle Rebirth Body Cultivation Technique'.
It was easy enough to judge progress with his technique, assuming 'Research' doesn't find any additional issues. Their power should visibly spread through their body using Adam's grid replacement technique, much slower than Adam's progress of course since he didn't want to risk tumors and stuff doing it the fast way. Should be an interesting light show, depending on what power works best with them.
Once their body was at least 10% or more converted, they would begin to test his second experiment: Attempting to reach First Order Warrior cultivation using Adam's 'Houtian Realm First Order Essential Cultivation Method'.
To be honest, THIS was why he wanted research subjects. The 'Rebirth' process was (in comparison) easier to test and craft and verify. It didn't require a cultivation network, or rely on Martial Spirit talent level, or rare materials... without all those unknown effects, the work was causing very few issues during development. It was the carrot, the bribe, to get people to test his 'Essential Cultivation Method'.
According to 'Research', it SHOULD be a much faster method to become a cultivator, as well as a VERY stable foundation to grow from. Unlike Adam's Pulse Cultivation Technique, which required seven complicated meridian routes and large quantities of pure energy to progress and develop, the 'Essential Cultivation Method' was theoretically beyond simplistic. Bare bones, no frills, cultivation progress!
Instead of attempting to make future cultivation methods easier or focused on specific energy types, the 'Essential' technique had stripped out ALL the flourishes, the extra meridian nodes, the redundant or extraneous paths. If most cultivation methods were generic and sprawling networks, designed to support everything and anything with as little effort as possible... this one was instead a consolidated, rock solid foundation of support.
Hopefully this would translate into something awesome once said foundations were established, but until then it would make progression in other Cultivation Methods frustrating. The 'wiggly bits' that would normally tie into the popular and wide spread techniques commonly practiced would have nothing to grab into, as the 'Essential' method was focused only on providing a solid spiritual support system.
Basically, it traded away flexibility and some neat tricks for an incredibly stable Cultivation base and a high chance of few if any bottlenecks in the future. Probably.
Adam blinked. Oh... he had been scribbling a needed materials list on the wall.
...Meh, their fault for not replacing his slate.
The Initiates would have various weak foundations previously established most likely, from whatever attempts they had made already to advance to First Order Warrior. Studying that and how his 'Houtian Realm First Order Essential Cultivation Method' interacted with other people was the biggest boost that 'Research' was looking for, data wise. And with Adam in the room, any unexpected issues would be easy enough to address.
That ALONE would be enough to determine the 'Second Order' and 'Third Order' patterns before they form... and to see if any changes to the Cultivation Method were needed during those two stages. Though his progress towards Second Order would probably answer a few of those guess on its own pretty soon, more data is good data.
Adam would still have to wait until he reached Forth Order and give 'Research' time to record and examine the process though. He was unsure how the new spiritual network would be constructed after all for himself, much LESS for his newly designed 'Essential' method.
His thoughts and sprawling wall note making was interrupted as the door opened. Oops.
Oh thank goodness, it was only Brother Zhanfei.
He blinked. "Why did you scribble on the... no one replaced your slate did they."
Seriously, this man was competent! Good job Brother!
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Third Elder Cho had cleared her schedule for the next week.
She glared at the device. "This... no village should have access to something like this."
Her people was knelt to her left. "The bulk of the attackers were Forestend Warriors whom were convinced by an outsider that Brother Adam was bent on vengeance, gathering people to destroy the soon to be built village, and using demonic cultivation techniques to heal his body. The instigator was a young woman, but investigation clearly shows he or she was wearing disguises. A corpse similar but unlikely to be the target was reported to the Sect after a cultivation harvesting trip and the case was closed... suspiciously quickly."
She sighed. What a mess. "Was it Sixth Elder Hawn?"
He hummed. "The Elder was suspiciously innocent. At the time of attack, he was at a meeting scheduled at the last moment with the Second and Seventh Elders."
Cho scoffed. "So he just HAPPENED to be having a conversation with the only two Elders who would normally be close to the area under assault."
Her person nodded. "The meeting was concerning a valid topic that WAS urgent, but it is suspicious, yes. Our network suspects he was the one who also caused issues with the recent herb retrieval mission and the blood ruins investigation."
Her face frowned darkly. "At least further attacks are unlikely. Chongsheng Adam has attracted the attention of most of the Elders at this point, and most of Elder Hawn's people are under surveillance?" He gave a nod. "Right. It was likely another attempt to discredit me, and our luck won the day after the child displayed his mutated Martial Spirit."
Seriously large amounts of luck. Unlike the normal grading system procedures, mutated Martial Spirits were always odd. Valuable variants could look like worthless rabbits or mice or (in this case) glass... then display all kinds of oddness and potentially valuable abilities.
It was so rare that such a talent would go undetected, so unusual for it to be as useful as Mr. Chongsheng's displayed talents... the possibility never entered into Elder Cho's calculations. Or ANYONE'S future plans, for that matter.
Some sort of energy suppression field, one that could restrict Cultivators almost a whole Realm above himself... near instant activation as well.
Valuable indeed.
As the boy was considered under her protection, she was swamped with transfer demands and data requests. All denied of course, and she had the head of the Medical Center, Healer Jin, notified about the strange situation so he could support young Mr. Chongsheng as needed and keep his people out looking for potential trouble.
With a sigh, she examined the device again. In a way, she was incredibly lucky.
This mess of formations and materials created a... a static bubble. A field of random information to distract and block spiritual detection. It was not meant to be used by people below the Xiantian Realm, which was the most lucky part of the story... the strongest fighter, a peak-Tenth Order Houtian Warrior from Forestend, had to stay out the mess entirely just to be able to fuel this criminal object and keep the Sect uninformed for as long as possible during the assault.
With a sigh, she sent her people the object for future study, and focused on the other notes.
When her fellow Elders began nosing around her protected Sect Candidate, it had initially been idle curiosity. However, when they found out that the boy was attacked in the MIDDLE of gathering research to document and share the SAME ability that had displayed such amazing recovery benefits? One that may be responsible for his displayed fire immunity?
Her high level support surged straight through the roof. Any chance Elder Hawn may have had to topple her well earned position was truely shot at this point, really.
More importantly, she was no longer using her own private resources to support such a 'long shot' and 'useless cripple'. Jerks. She was openly permitted to use her divisions resources directly at this point. Especially now that his Martial Spirit's mutation was so publicly renown at this juncture.
No, the Sect as a whole was much more willing to invest in this fresh new member's attempts and requests.
Which was good, because his first list of requirements had been a doozy.
It was only his open willingness to allow witnesses and outsiders to examine the entire process that even let the conversation continue without her slamming down on the kid like a mountain. Experimenting with the future Sect Brothers and Sisters would have NOT gone over well by any measure, and even after a full explanation she STILL demanded full oversight.
On the other hand, rephrasing it a bit might prevent future issues... After all, he was attempting to share what he believed to be a revolutionary new Cultivation Method and a supposedly unheard of Body Cultivation Technique! One that would improve cultivation ease in general and even more benefits in the process... supposedly.
It wouldn't be enough interest to give the child access to an Initiate with a Martial Spirit grade 9 or higher until his theories and techniques were proven, but with some politics and a few favors maybe she could get him permission to work with some of the children that had an 8th grade Martial Spirit but terrible background support. Outside the sect, even a 7th grade Martial Spirit was celebrated... but with the amount of talent here at the Burning Sword Sect, such people were not nearly as valued.
As for Initiate with lower grades than 7th, there would be a swarm of applicants. Most had fears of never reaching Fourth Order Houtian Warrior, forget breaking through to the Xiantian Realm... The possibility of working with someone respected or supported within the Sect would be reason enough to attempt to volunteer.
She couldn't attend herself, unfortunately. She was supposedly too 'important' to see the young boy who was rocking the Sect and already being used as a political piece. Stupid cultural norms, it was hard enough forcing herself to be valued and appreciated as it was without all this unending posturing and constant wastes of time.
Elder Cho waved her people away, turning back to the paperwork that was always building up on her desk. The treasure child was secured, in a defensible position, and would hopefully be undisturbed as the cultivation cave requested was upgraded significantly. The various attempts to steal him away were lost in paperwork hell and she was a few steps ahead of the far more laid back Elders who might want to cause an issue.
Mr. Chongsheng didn't need to know how many resources were being spent to ensure future progress would be hidden from spies and outsiders. And a few extra defenses wouldn't hurt anyone. Anyone important, anyway.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Adam was back in his room, grumbling as he ate a DELICIOUS shepherds pie. Seriously, he had pestered the servants until one admitted that it had been baked by Sister Rong's personal disciple Chefs themselves! He HAD to make sure to return such care at some point. Even as he took more bites, he pulled the raspberry pie closer, Shard ripping the spiritual energy out of the way of his hunger.
He was eating so much because his progress towards Second Order was at 99%, and before progressing he wanted as many calories as possible just in case his system required them. As it was, holding back his Pulse Cultivation Technique was almost hurting, it was so close to progressing to the next stage. Every so often a pulse of blue light would shiver through his skin, almost begging to advance.
Pushing back the plates and sitting down on a large disposable blanket (No idea how the impurities situation would go, this was much more than basic Cell replacement), Adam sat cross legged, his left arm stump cupped by his right hand... and focused.
His skin lit up as the seven cycles began accelerating, blue dots lengthening to white lines as his Blue energy threads gained even more speed. Adam's meridian nodes were stretched, each spiritual route swelled, pressed against his Soul and flesh, solidifying and twisting...
His left eye began to drip liquid tears of glowing blue fire as something inside clenched and strained. The open rivers of cultivation were growing sluggish, the gas of energy flowing rapidly building up a thin and weak shell, ever so slowly enclosing the entire route as the power cycled again... and more... and faster...
With a conceptual shatter, his flowing energy smashed outside of the now enclosed meridian route, carving a strange networks of new channels of open river cultivation above, below, and weaving through the existing Spiritual Network! Within moments, the sharp and familiar pain wore away as the wounds shifted, a new meridian route stabilizing and restructuring as it swirled in impossible shapes, weaving through and wrapping around the glowing blue tubes established by the Pulse Cultivation Technique.
Even as the new seven paths stabilized, the gas of Blue Energy and Battle Qi began 'overflowing' the newborn banks, flooding into his flesh. The clouds of Blue energy were forced to swirl over his skin, then was also pulled inward... his body soaking in power like a dry sponge.
It felt amazing!
Like a painful spasm that had finally passed, or diving into a deep, cool ocean pool on a boiling hot day... the Blue energy flooded his body and Soul, reinforcing the fragile 'river banks' and forcing the new meridian routes to become more standardized, more aligned... more symmetrical. This pattern may be an effect of him creating new meridians and 'balancing' his spiritual network, but with the exception of his left hand the new network being carved into his body was growing more and more structured.
His gaze fell on his pulsing Shard, the former clear 'glass shard' now covered with lines, cracking...
With a loud SNAP, the Shard fragmented, exposing a slightly larger crystal, edges somehow sharper, the visual ghostly image less ethereal and more realistic. The glittering Shard seemed... heavier. A weight in the world.
...Was that supposed to happen? This didn't count as an Evolution of the Spirit, right? That wasn't supposed to happen until Forth Order Warrior.
Yeah.
Yeah, this was probably alright.
The Evolution was documented as being much more dramatic anyway. Animals gaining extra limbs or changing shape, that kind of thing. And technically the Shard just grew a little, right?
Yeah, that was probably normal.
As the Shard floated down and returned to his heart, he felt his energy Domain settle... his range had doubled from a three foot radius to six, a two meter range normally centered on his body where he could direct and control all energy without calling his Shard Martial Spirit out. Useful!
The storage 'space' within the Shard had increased as well. The solid material could now store way more power than previously, around ten times the former amount... more useful than doubling his domain range, in Adam's opinion. Hopefully when he reached the Third Order, the storage would increase by a factor of ten again! He'd have to wait and see.
Speaking of which, his reserves (Blue energy, Binding energy, and previously stored energy from the earlier assault) were all pretty much empty.
He was going to have to Pulse cultivate some more to recover and stabilize. Which was going to be boring. Ah well.
With a sigh, he opened his eyes... and saw black.
...Shit, he was covered with impurities again. Damn it.
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Oh hell if his Cultivation method lets spirits evolve faster (or god forbid lets them evolve extra times in Houtian/Xiantian stage) then this world is going to burn as people scramble all over themselves to steal it.
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