96: Chapter 96 Li Kun: I've Followed a Big Treasure

The "sun" in the sky suddenly brightened, and sunlight instantly illuminated the entire land.

You and Venerable Li Kun remained in Qingfeng City.

You looked at the dazzling sun in the sky and asked Venerable Li Kun: "Don't you find it strange that the sun just hangs there?"

The sun of the Tianheng Continent is not a star; specifically, the Tianheng Continent cannot even be considered a planet. It is a continent with a round sky and a square earth, and the entire continent is flat.

You have tried flying toward the sky, but no matter what, you could not reach the upper atmosphere or enter the Universe. You suddenly felt that this continent is not some Cultivation world with countless races and infinite Opportunities, but rather looks a bit like a cage; compared to the vast Universe, it is simply too insignificant.

"Is there anything strange about it?" Venerable Li Kun said. He looked at the sun in the sky. It shines for ten hours a day, then dims after two hours, turning yellow, followed by ten hours of darkness, and then slowly brightens again within two hours.

Where is it strange?

You did not reply. The people of this continent have already taken this as common sense — — — — this continent is the entire world!

You have been studying the Cultivation Techniques of the Tianheng Continent these past few days.

All Cultivation Techniques revolve around the Spiritual Root. Some Mahayana Cultivation Techniques are indeed powerful, rigorous at every step, and logically clear, as if written by the gods themselves, but they still revolve around the major premise of the Spiritual Root.

In the Tianheng Continent, this is common knowledge; without a Spiritual Root, there is no way to Cultivate.

However, you found a loophole, because Earth's martial arts Cultivation does not require a Spiritual Root. Anyone, as long as they want to, can be force-fed Medicinal Pills to reach Innate Cultivation.

Although it is possible for people without Spiritual Roots to gain Cultivation in the Tianheng Continent, the method used is artificial Spiritual Roots, which still does not escape the category of Spiritual Roots.

You picked an introductory book on Qi Refining and began to Cultivate.

Basically, all Cultivators use this Cultivation Technique to guide Qi into their bodies. Some Qi Refining methods in Mahayana Cultivation Techniques are even copied from this one. Even when you saw this Cultivation Technique, you praised it repeatedly; there truly wasn't a single flaw to pick out.

You really don't know what kind of peerless Genius wrote this Qi Refining method.

Before long, you felt something like a sapling just above your stomach, constantly absorbing Spiritual Qi.

You felt the Spiritual Qi being slowly absorbed and refined by this Spiritual Root. This Spiritual Root absorbed it very slowly on its own, so you tried to actively mobilize the surrounding Spiritual Qi to infuse the Spiritual Root.

No problem.

The Spiritual Root was still absorbing, so you increased the infusion speed.

Then it failed!

It was that Formation again!

This Formation was like a lock. As long as your rate of absorbing Spiritual Qi reached that value, it would stop you from absorbing. For the sake of explanation, you recorded this value as one hundred Spiritual Qi per second.

It was truly frustrating; this severely limited your Cultivation speed.

Then you found Venerable Li Kun. He had a top-grade Profound Spiritual Root, so you had him begin to Cultivate.

Although Venerable Li Kun had some questions, he didn't ask much. He sat cross-legged again and began to operate his Void Return level Cultivation Technique.

You spread out your Divine Sense, carefully perceiving every node where Spiritual Qi circulated in his body. His absorption rate was about eighty Spiritual Qi per second, and there were several obvious blockages in the route of his Spiritual Power.

"Can't you go faster?" you asked.

Venerable Li Kun opened his eyes and helplessly spread his hands: "This is already the fastest, Fellow Daoist Lin."

You sighed: "Your method of absorbing Spiritual Power has problems. Here, and here — — the Meridians are forked; the Spiritual Qi did not take the shortest path directly but took a half-circle detour before entering the Dantian."

You reached out and pointed through the air at several Acupoints on his back, using a trace of Spiritual Power to indicate the correct route.

Venerable Li Kun listened, nodded as if he understood, and closed his eyes again to operate the Cultivation Technique. This time, the absorption rate indeed increased, reaching one hundred and ten Spiritual Qi per second, which already exceeded your upper limit of one hundred Spiritual Qi per second.

You were still frowning: "No, it can be even faster. Modify this place according to what I said. The Spiritual Qi does not need to pass through this branch of the Spiritual Root; go directly from the main meridian, and then fork here."

You spoke very quickly, tracing several nodes on his back with your fingers.

Venerable Li Kun suddenly waved his hands, looking at you with a blank expression: "Wait, Fellow Daoist, please stop for a moment. I don't quite understand."

"What don't you understand?"

Venerable Li Kun hesitated for a good while, and a rare trace of embarrassment appeared on his old face: "This... I don't understand any of it..."

You: "..."

Isn't this equivalent to you knowing one plus one equals two, and you knowing two plus one equals three, but then when I ask you what one plus one plus one plus one equals, you say you don't know? Ahhhhh, how can someone be so stupid!!

You explained it to Venerable Li Kun again.

Venerable Li Kun: "... I still don't understand."

You sighed and said it again; only then did Venerable Li Kun nod, as if he understood.

You watched him continue to Cultivate. The speed of his Cultivation reached one hundred and twenty Spiritual Qi per second. You felt that the operation of his Cultivation Technique could only reach about one hundred and thirty at most.

"This won't do." You clicked your tongue, stood up, walked to the other side of the room, opened the Cultivation Technique editor on the Spiritual Network, and began to restructure the operation route of his Cultivation Technique from scratch.

Venerable Li Kun watched your movements and whispered an explanation from the side: "Actually, I have taken many Medicinal Pills to squeeze out my potential, so my Spiritual Qi absorption speed is much slower than a normal Cultivator. Being able to reach one hundred and twenty is already quite good."

When he said this, his tone carried a trace of resignation, as if he had accepted his fate. However, this time, the speed of his Cultivation was not slower than before; on the contrary, it was much faster under your guidance.

"Oh, that." You didn't even lift your head, your fingers continuing to swipe rapidly across the Spiritual Network light screen. "Just now, when I was infusing Spiritual Qi into your body, I saw that your Spiritual Root was indeed stuck with something, so I just casually cleared it away."

Venerable Li Kun: "???" What do you mean you casually cleared it away?

Venerable Li Kun had consulted experts at the Wanbao Pavilion; this defect of his required a Tribulation Transcendence Great Emperor to intervene to eliminate it, and it was said that there was a high probability of failure.

You ignored him and just continued writing your stuff.

In less than half an hour, you handed the new Cultivation Technique to him. "Next, you will Cultivate this."

Venerable Li Kun took the Cultivation Technique and flipped through it. His first reaction was to refuse — — he was Cultivating a Void Return level Cultivation Technique, and Cultivating another one would cause a conflict.

But when he casually flipped through two pages, the movement of his hands stopped.

Although he didn't understand most of the theory, he could see that this was not a new Cultivation Technique; it was an upgraded version redesigned based on his original Cultivation Technique — — all the operation routes he was familiar with were preserved, but they were rearranged at key nodes, like laying a thick and flat layer of stone slabs on the original dirt road.

He raised his head and looked at you.

Venerable Li Kun was completely stunned.

Venerable Li Kun began to Cultivate according to the Cultivation Technique you gave him, and as soon as he started, he felt something was wrong.

The absorption speed of Spiritual Qi was too fast.

However, you frowned. "Why is it so slow? It's only one hundred and fifty Spiritual Qi per second."

Immediately after, you asked Venerable Li Kun several questions, but he couldn't answer any of them. He was only operating according to the simplest logic of your Cultivation Technique, and half of this logic was being operated incorrectly.

Then you explained this part of the logic of your Cultivation Technique to Venerable Li Kun again.

"No, you still don't understand. Isn't something this simple understood after one look?" You were a bit speechless: "What don't you understand?"

"From the ver... very beginning." Venerable Li Kun said hesitantly.

You painstakingly explained what you considered to be one plus one.

Finally, the speed of Venerable Li Kun's Spiritual Qi operation reached two hundred, and then it stopped.

"I feel like something is blocking me from absorbing Spiritual Qi!" Venerable Li Kun said this.

The corners of your mouth curled up; it was as expected.

The reason why your absorption of Spiritual Qi was restricted was indeed related to the Spiritual Root.

You felt that the Spiritual Root was a threshold; as long as it exceeded this threshold, this Formation would restrict the absorption of Spiritual Qi.

And this Formation looked like it was man-made.

It's terrifying to think about, you thought to yourself.