98: The Flame Manipulation Technique has reached its pinnacle.
He continually visualized a giant hammer within his Sea of Consciousness to temper his Mental Energy, until the Realm of the Spirit Condensing Art reached Proficient.
Although Zhang Sheng's Mental Energy still had not increased, with the insights brought by the Proficient Realm, he already understood what was going on!
It was the Mysterious Spider Thought Binding Method!
The effect achieved by this Cultivation Technique itself completely covered the effect of the Proficient Realm of the Spirit Condensing Art.
However, the two ultimately had their own strengths, and the Proficient Realm of the Spirit Condensing Art would inevitably increase Zhang Sheng's Mental Energy again.
Zhang Sheng stopped overthinking and focused on raising the Realm of the Spirit Condensing Art.
After only a few strikes, he reached the Proficient Realm.
"Cultivation Technique: Spirit Condensing Art (Proficient: 1 / 10000)"
This time, as the hammer fell, Zhang Sheng clearly felt that there was finally an effect!
With one strike, the volume of the Mental Energy mist shrank to half of its original size, which was equivalent to becoming twice as dense.
However, the improvement of the Realm slowed down afterwards.
During the process of Cultivating this method, Zhang Sheng's Mental Energy was constantly being consumed.
However, the Realm of the Mysterious Spider Thought Binding Method had long since reached the Perfected State, allowing it to operate automatically and restore the Mental Energy mist within his niwan palace.
It was equivalent to a passive ability in a game; as long as Mental Energy was consumed, it could automatically operate to restore Mental Energy.
The Perfected State of the Primordial Chaos Qi Refining also had a similar effect.
Visualizing one hammer was not enough; the Proficient Realm of the Spirit Condensing Art could visualize up to three hammers!
Three giant hammers worked simultaneously to hammer the Mental Energy mist.
The Realm of the Cultivation Technique improved at an astonishing speed, and within three hours, it reached the Transcendent Realm.
Insights improved again, and the number of giant hammers increased from three to nine!
The Transcendent Realm of the Spirit Condensing Art, like other Cultivation Techniques, could operate automatically without needing to concentrate.
The nine giant hammers thus repeatedly hammered the Mental Energy mist within the Sea of Consciousness, and the speed of the hammering was also faster. The Realm of the Cultivation Technique was also improving automatically.
At this moment, Zhang Sheng's Mental Energy was five times more refined than before he Cultivated.
When it reached the Perfected State, the effect would inevitably be even more astonishing.
Next was Cultivating the Flame Manipulation Art, a Rank 2 fire Spell.
Qi flowed along specific paths within the Meridians, and combined with complex hand seals, a wisp of red flame generated out of thin air in front of Zhang Sheng.
"Spell: Flame Manipulation Art (Beginner: 15 / 100)"
"Not only did I reach the Beginner level in just one go, but I also increased progress by 15 points!"
"Could it be?"
Combined with the situation when Cultivating the Spirit Condensing Art, Zhang Sheng seemed to have discovered something incredible!
Cultivating the Mysterious Spider Thought Binding Method already provided deep insights into Cultivating Mental Energy, so when Cultivating the Spirit Condensing Art, he could increase progress by several points at once.
Now, when Cultivating the Flame Manipulation Art, not only did he reach the Beginner level in one go, but a similar situation also occurred.
Zhang Sheng now understood that everything was due to the Perfected State of the Fireball Technique!
The Fireball Technique gave Zhang Sheng deep insights into fire Spells.
This insight was like a cornerstone, also benefiting the Flame Manipulation Art.
By casting it just once, he could increase progress by several points, greatly improving Cultivation efficiency.
Was this the initial ability of the SSS-Rank "Once Certified, Forever Certified," or an ability after the Rank increased?
Zhang Sheng was more inclined towards the latter.
If it were the former, it should have been reflected when Refining Medicinal Pills previously.
The essence food pill and spirit food pill belonged to the same type of Medicinal Pill, and the insights from the former would inevitably benefit the latter, but when Refining the spirit food pill, this kind of change did not occur.
Rodi's Origin Law, because the Possession failed, was swallowed by Zhang Sheng along with his Soul.
Inadvertently, Zhang Sheng's Talent Rank increased from the original SSS-Rank to "Eternal Unique."
Unfortunately, this opportunity was rare and hard to come by.
The wisp of flame generated by the Flame Manipulation Art was enchanting and agile.
Zhang Sheng clearly felt that this wisp of flame contained astonishing destructive power, which was fundamentally different from the Rank 1 Fireball Technique.
The just-reached Beginner level Flame Manipulation Art could reach the power of the Perfected State Fireball Technique!
Zhang Sheng repeatedly cast this Spell, and time passed bit by bit.
As the Realm improved, the speed of Qi flowing through the Meridians was faster, the speed of forming hand seals was faster, and his understanding of the Flame Manipulation Art Spell was deeper.
Upon reaching the Proficient Realm, he could freely control the size of the flames!
At this time, it was time to cheat to improve his Realm again. Casting the Flame Manipulation Art once to create a small flame took much less time than creating a basketball-sized flame, and the speed of improving the Realm was also faster.
Just two days later, Zhang Sheng stood above the roof, and with a thought, blue flames appeared instantly before his eyes.
The dancing flames were like a ferocious demon!
The surrounding temperature rose sharply, the density of the gas changed rapidly, and even the refracted light became distorted.
With a flick of his finger, no hand seals were needed!
"Spell: Flame Manipulation Art (Perfected State: 1000000 / 1000000)"
If he had not Cultivated the Fireball Technique, theoretically, he would need to cast the Flame Manipulation Art up to 1,011,100 times to reach the Perfected State.
Even if Zhang Sheng Cultivated day and night, it would take at least half a month.
Now, in two days, he had Cultivated this Rank 2 Spell to the Perfected State.
This gave Zhang Sheng a huge surprise and provided a train of thought for Cultivating other Spells and Cultivation Techniques.
Starting from a Rank 1 Spell, Cultivating it to the Perfected State, and then Cultivating the Rank 2 Spell of that series, would yield twice the result with half the effort, which was wonderful.
With the Perfected State Flame Manipulation Art, things would be easier from now on!
Cultivating the Barlin Artifact Refining Technique, besides needing to Refine the star vortex spirit gathering plate, Refining Cultivation Technique Jade Slips was even more important.
Furthermore, Refining Cultivation Technique Jade Slips was much simpler and could quickly improve the Realm of the Artifact Refining technique.
The Barlin Artifact Refining Technique, as a general Artifact Refining method, mainly contained two aspects of techniques: quenching and shaping of Spiritual Artifacts and channeling spirits and imbuing objects.
As a special Spiritual Artifact, the Cultivation Technique Jade Slip only required quenching and shaping to obtain a blank Jade Slip.
Then, by injecting Divine Sense containing Cultivation Technique information into the blank Jade Slip, one could obtain a manually crafted Cultivation Technique Jade Slip.
However, for others to learn the content of the Jade Slip, the person making the Jade Slip must have a very deep understanding of this Cultivation Technique.
The Realm must be at least the Transcendent Realm.
The higher the Realm of the person making the Jade Slip, the higher the possibility that others would learn the Cultivation Technique through the Jade Slip.
Learning a Cultivation Technique through a Jade Slip was a safe measure; once Divine Sense entered the Jade Slip, it would become ownerless Divine Sense.
Someone once directly injected Divine Sense containing Cultivation Technique information into another person's Sea of Consciousness, and the result was that the Soul would instinctively resist the owner-bound Divine Sense. Under the impact of the two, the latter would directly become an idiot.
There was only one Material for Refining blank Jade Slips: Warm Jade.
This Material was very common in the Secret Realm, and Dean Hou had long ago sent people to deliver a batch of high-purity Warm Jade.
In the huge Artifact Refining Room, three to five tons of high-quality Warm Jade were piled up in a corner.
The ground and walls were made of special ceramics capable of withstanding high temperatures.