368: I feel offended!

At this moment, Lu Ming couldn't help but recall the fleeting glimpse from earlier.

He seemed to have seen a perspective belonging to "himself" from those chaotic pieces of information.

This left him deep in thought.

"So, when others use Karma to spy on me, this is the kind of scene they see..." Lu Ming pondered.

Although the image was chaotic, distorted, and difficult to understand.

The various information contained within all indicated that the grand, Chaos, "indescribable" thing that seemed to reside at the source of everything was Lu Ming himself!

"I have to say, the effect of the golden book in shielding Karma is truly domineering, and it even looks a bit cool!"

The corners of Lu Ming's mouth couldn't help but curl up slightly, and his heart relaxed a bit.

After all, this was the issue he had always been most worried about.

That was, whether he would be like a transparent person with no secrets in front of those Cultivators who were skilled in deducing Heavenly Secrets and Karma.

If that were truly the case, then many of his plans and layouts would become a joke.

But now it seemed that with the golden book, this was not a problem at all!

Any attempt to spy on him through Karma would likely encounter similar or even more terrifying backlash.

"As expected of you! You really give people a sense of security."

Lu Ming sighed with emotion, then he composed his mind and turned his primary attention to the part of the memories he coveted most.

That was the Karma Heavenly Secret Art inherited by the Zhuge Family!

If he could master these eerie and unpredictable secret arts, it would greatly enrich his combat methods.

However, when Lu Ming actually began to try to comprehend these Legacies, his face quickly wrinkled into a bitter expression.

"What's all this? What is even written here?"

He recognized every single word in the inherited classics, formulas, Mind-Cultivation Techniques, and deduction diagrams in the memories, but when they were combined into sentences, paragraphs, or chapters, Lu Ming felt like he was reading a heavenly book!

Especially those basic theories involving Karma and numerology, those abstract concepts describing the entanglement of Luck, and those Big Data Models that required extremely high Comprehension Ability and spatial imagination.

It made him feel dizzy and confused.

What made him feel most frustrated was that in Zhuge Mingyi's memory, when the Family Old Ancestor, Zhuge Xuanji, was teaching this knowledge, he had once said something nonchalantly in the face of some clan disciples' confusion.

"Such basic theories, even for someone with the dullest Aptitude, should have mastered seventy to eighty percent by the time they reach thirty years of age."

Lu Ming: "..."

Suddenly, he felt a bit offended.

But regarding this, Lu Ming also felt helpless; he truly couldn't understand it.

"Sure enough, is this the curse of knowledge!"

Lu Ming felt a deep sense of frustration and self-doubt.

"Could I really be that stupid?"

Although watching the memory in an immersive way allowed him to empathize and experience Zhuge Mingyi's state and process during learning from a first-person perspective.

This was only equivalent to watching an incredibly detailed instructional video; it couldn't directly "pour" the knowledge into his brain for him to understand and master.

Especially since the Dao of Karma was already profound and difficult to understand, involving a lot of abstract thinking and logical deduction, which placed extremely high demands on Comprehension Ability.

Lu Ming's journey of Cultivation relied more on the golden book and plundering resources, but in terms of Comprehension Ability, he truly couldn't be considered exceptionally gifted.

"The Dao is long and difficult!"

Lu Ming sighed, and his original expectations for the Great Dao of Karma were suddenly doused by a bucket of cold water.

He was struggling so much just to comprehend the introductory Legacy, yet he still wanted to use this Dao as a foundation to charge into the Nascent Soul stage; it was simply too unrealistic.

But Lu Ming did not lose heart.

If he couldn't do it himself, then he would just find someone else!

After all, knowledge didn't necessarily have to be learned by oneself... A wicked smile played on the corners of Lu Ming's mouth.

"Come out, my External Brain!!"

Immediately, he communicated with the human emperor banner with his thoughts.

The next moment, a slightly illusory figure of a scholar appeared in the Immortal Cave; it was the Wonderful Brush Scholar!

Before he could even bow to him, Lu Ming had already pointed a finger at the center of his brow!

In an instant, he directly transmitted the core parts of the Karma Heavenly Secret Legacy from Zhuge Mingyi's memory.

Of course, out of consideration for the Wonderful Brush Scholar, Lu Ming filtered out those useless memories.

"Comprehend it well! I have high hopes for you!"

Lu Ming patted the Wonderful Brush Scholar's shoulder, his tone full of expectation.

Then, before the other party could recover from the flood of memories, Lu Ming waved his sleeve and stuffed him back into the human emperor banner.

Someone might ask: If the Wonderful Brush Scholar comprehended it, wouldn't it be the Wonderful Brush Scholar who knew it? What did it have to do with Lu Ming?

To this, Lu Ming had already made his calculations.

As the banner master of the human emperor banner, everything belonging to the Banner Spirit was his, including thoughts, actions, and gains.

So he only needed to wait for the Wonderful Brush Scholar to comprehend it thoroughly, and then take all the insights and experiences he had gained.

After all, this wasn't the Law of Heaven and Earth itself, but just a Legacy.

It was similar to a Cultivation Technique or secret art, which could be fully taught by others after they had learned it.

It was just that the Karma Legacy was more special and required extremely high Comprehension Ability to understand.

So he let the Wonderful Brush Scholar, a fellow with already amazing Comprehension Ability, tackle this tough nut first.

Once he had figured it out, Lu Ming would then go and check the results, which would be the same as him learning it himself, right?

What? You say I'm being lazy?

What a joke, this is clearly called rational resource allocation and optimized time management!

After all, Lu Ming was very busy; how could he have so much time to ponder over these things.

Besides, had he not spent so many years, so many resources, and raised so many people just for today!

After a round of self-consolation, Lu Ming successfully convinced himself.

Thus, he temporarily put aside the matter of the Karma Legacy and continued to browse other parts of Zhuge Mingyi's memory.

Soon, he made a new discovery, his eyebrows involuntarily shot up, and a light "eh" escaped his lips.

"Hmm? A Heavenly Secret Master... actually Cultivates like this?"

He saw in the memory that when Zhuge Xuanji was teaching the fundamental Dao of the Heavenly Secret Master to the core members of the Family, he mentioned that the Cultivation of a Heavenly Secret Master was essentially different from that of ordinary Cultivators.

They do not primarily focus on absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and accumulating magic power.

Instead, it lies in condensing and refining a special kind of power, which is—fortune!

Of course, it can also be called Heavenly Dao Karma, which means doing things beneficial to the world!

This was a huge deviation from the orthodox Nascent Soul Dao that Lu Ming had learned from Li Daoxuan's memory!

Li Daoxuan's memory had indicated that to become a Nascent Soul True Monarch, one needs to condense a "Seed of Law" within the Golden Core and continuously comprehend the corresponding Law of Heaven and Earth to nourish it. Once it matures and breaks out of its cocoon, one can shatter the core and form the soul.

But this process would trigger the world to send down tests, namely the Three Tribulations and Five Calamities!

As the saying goes, the Three Tribulations are the framework that governs all misfortunes, and the Five Calamities are the manifestations, taking the form of the Five Elements.

These are the Human Tribulation, Earthly Tribulation, and Heavenly Tribulation, which are the enemies who block the Dao, delusional thoughts invading the spirit, and nine thunder strikes!

And the Five Calamities can be understood as five specific forms of disaster.

Namely, the Bi Wind Calamity, the Karmic Fire Calamity, the Profound Water Calamity, the Suppressing Earth Calamity, and the Slaughtering Metal Calamity.

Each calamity has a different corresponding vision, and one must cross all the calamities and tribulations to achieve the Nascent Soul.