parentshiftbook Chapter 332 Comprehending the Secret Techniques of Crystals
Chapter 332 Comprehending the Secret Techniques of Crystals
Chapter 332 Comprehending the Secret Techniques of Crystals
Xue Caini was taken aback when she heard Chen Lie's words.
"Are you kidding me, junior? Even an eighth-level Divine Sense Grandmaster on Blue Star couldn't do it, how could you possibly do it?"
"I was just asking."
Replenishing the crystal with spiritual energy was by no means a difficult task for Chen Lie, given his spiritual energy manipulation skills.
If the crystal material is up to standard, Chen Lie can increase the number of times the crystal pillar can be used to hundreds of thousands of times.
"So, junior, you're also a mind master?" Xue Caini asked.
Chen Lie nodded and hummed in agreement.
Chi Naixue was somewhat astonished. Chen Lie was also a Divine Sense Master, and his martial arts talent was so good that he had almost no weaknesses.
"If we can add twelve crystal pillars inscribed with martial arts secrets to Blue Star University, it will be an immeasurable contribution, and Blue Star University will certainly reward us handsomely."
However, this is something even a master of divine sense cannot do, so let's not even think about it.
Xue Caini smiled slightly: "Since you are a Divine Sense Master, if your Sea of Consciousness value is over 40, or if the Divine Sense you create is a life-type Earth-level Divine Sense, you can go to the Spiritual Power Department to get certified as a dual-system student who cultivates both martial arts and spiritual power. In this way, you can enjoy double the resources."
Chen Lie nodded and said no more.
"Alright, junior students, let's go into the plaza to study the crystal pillars."
Xue Caini smiled slightly and walked at the front, leading Chen Lie, Chi Naixue, and Li Xiujing into the square.
As soon as he entered the square, Chen Lie saw twelve crystal pillars, each seven or eight meters in diameter and nearly a hundred meters high.
The twelve crystal pillars were all dark yellow and lined up in a row. Many students were walking around the crystal pillars below them.
"This—what a huge crystal pillar!" Lee Soo-jung exclaimed as soon as she walked in.
It's over 100 meters high, taller than a skyscraper.
"This is the extraterrestrial crystal pillar, made of specially crafted extraterrestrial crystals, which can hold a massive amount of spiritual energy."
As any spiritualist should know, the abundance of spiritual energy contained within a crystal can be determined by its color, ranging from strong to weak: golden yellow, bright yellow, dark yellow, light yellow, and transparent—five colors in total.
These twelve crystal pillars, inscribed with secret martial arts techniques from beyond the stars, were originally golden in color when they were transported from outer space, symbolizing the abundant spiritual energy within them.
Over the past two years, as the students in the gifted class have continued to use it, the spiritual energy within the crystal pillar has been continuously depleted, changing from golden yellow to bright yellow, and now to dark yellow.
"Once all twelve crystal pillars return to their transparent color, it means the spiritual energy within the crystal pillars has been completely used up, and it will no longer be possible to comprehend the twelve forms of the 'Starry Sky Blood Coagulation Technique' to increase one's strength," Xue Caini said.
"The difference between dark yellow and transparent is only a pale yellow, which means these twelve crystal pillars can only last until the next batch of genius students," Chi Naixue said.
"That's right. As expected, the twelve crystal pillars can be used more than five thousand more times. Even if Blue Star University tightens the restrictions on using crystal pillars to comprehend martial arts secrets, it will not be able to support the genius class students of the 7366th year of the Galactic Calendar."
The reason why our Qi and Blood Martial Arts have improved significantly in the past two years, resulting in the emergence of some geniuses at the Great Perfection of Qi and Blood, is largely due to these twelve crystal pillars.
Once the spiritual energy within the twelve crystal pillars is exhausted, the martial arts of Blue Star will likely regress significantly.
For this reason, many high-ranking members of the Blue Star Divine Sense Master Association have been troubled, searching through extraterrestrial mental energy manuals, trying to replenish the energy of the twelve crystal pillars whose mental energy is about to be exhausted, but they have not been able to find a way.
Chen Lie walked forward without making a sound, came to a crystal pillar, reached out and touched it. At the same time, he sent out a wisp of his divine sense to explore the inside of the crystal pillar.
The moment Chen Lie probed with his divine sense, he saw a massive mental energy restriction that seemed like an insurmountable chasm.
Behind this massive mental energy restriction, there are countless other mental energy shackles, like a dense iron net, restricting any external mental energy.
"No wonder even the divine sense masters of Blue Star couldn't replenish the spiritual energy of these crystal pillars. It turns out that a ninth-level spiritual power master from outside the star left a hidden trick on these crystal pillars, allowing Blue Star to use them 20,000 times to comprehend martial arts secrets."
Chen Lie murmured, and his spiritual power probed into it once more.
In an instant, he made another discovery.
"There's actually a hidden trick behind this mental energy restriction!"
He shook his head and discovered that deep within the crystal pillar, there was actually a cluster of destructive spiritual energy that had formed a self-destruct mechanism. If an external force or brute force broke through this spiritual energy restriction, the latent self-destruct mechanism would be triggered immediately, and the crystal pillar would be instantly destroyed by this cluster of destructive spiritual energy.
"In this way, even if we were to ask an alien master of mental power to break through this mental power restriction, we would only hear an explosion."
It seems that extraterrestrials maintain a fairly strict blockade on martial arts knowledge regarding planets like Earth, which are at a low level of martial arts civilization.
After pondering for a moment, Chen Lie thought to himself, "Blue Star is definitely helpless against the hidden tricks left behind by the ninth-level spiritual power grandmaster from beyond the stars. Even if a divine sense master suddenly breaks through to the ninth-level divine sense grandmaster on Blue Star, it will be of no use."
However, this level of difficulty was no challenge for Chen Lie.
His mental power techniques are extraordinary. In his previous life, he listened to tens of thousands of mental power lectures from famous mental power masters at the Martial Arts Academy of Tai'a Star Province in the Central Galaxy Empire, which made his understanding of mental power rival that of the geniuses of the Central Galaxy Empire.
The restriction imposed by a ninth-level spiritual power grandmaster from the Canglan Star Region would certainly not be a problem for him.
If there's an opportunity in the future, we can discuss with the higher-ups of the Blue Star Divine Sense Master Association to see what kind of reward we could give for replenishing the spiritual power of these twelve crystal pillars.
"Hey, what's wrong with you, student?"
When did you arrive at the crystal pillar? Didn't you see my name when I registered?
The sign next to the plaza says, "Does prior registration required to use the Crystal Pillar for enlightenment? Why did they just go and use the Crystal Pillar without even asking?"
At that moment, a guard in his forties suddenly came out.
"I did not use the spiritual power within the crystal pillar to comprehend it," Chen Lie said.
"Comprehending the martial arts secrets within the crystal pillars takes only a little over ten minutes at most. Who knows if you've already comprehended them?" the guard said.
At this moment, Xue Caini quickly walked up and said, "Excuse me, this is a freshman in our first genius class. He just arrived today and doesn't quite understand the rules yet. But since he just arrived, he definitely hasn't touched the crystal pillar."
The guard nodded: "Come and register your name. Remember to explain the rules to the new students before they come here to study the martial arts secrets of the crystal pillars."
"I'm so sorry, I'll remember that."
After Xue Caini finished speaking, she had Chen Lie, Chi Naixue, and Li Xiujing register their names at the guard post and had each of them pay 100 points.
After completing these procedures, Xue Caini led the group to the first crystal pillar.
"This is the crystal pillar for comprehending the first form of the Starry Sky Blood Coagulation Technique. Each person has three chances to participate in each pillar. You just spent 100 credits. If you want to participate again next time, you will need 1,000 credits."
However, the crystal pillar containing the first move of the martial arts secret technique is very easy to comprehend. Generally, anyone who has detected the talent of fifteen crystals can participate successfully on their first try.
However, you must remember that if you fail to participate in the previous crystal pillar and try to comprehend the next one, the difficulty of comprehension will increase exponentially.
Even if you comprehend it sequentially, the difficulty of each move will double after the ninth crystal pillar.
The first three crystal pillars are the simplest; with your talent, you should be able to comprehend them successfully in just one attempt.
Because the number of times you can comprehend the Crystal Pillar is limited, Blue Star University encourages you to conserve your comprehending opportunities. Please be attentive when you comprehend and try not to use your second chance.
You've all used psionic crystal cards before, right? The crystal pillar works the same way as the psionic crystal card, but it's far more powerful. Now you can go and study it; I'll be waiting for you here.
Xue Caini smiled and nodded to the three of them.
Chi Naixue looked at Chen Lie first and said softly, "Chen Lie, you go first."
Chen Lie walked directly to the crystal pillar. The crystal pillar was seven or eight meters in diameter and could accommodate a dozen or twenty people at the same time. As long as one calmed their mind and focused their spirit, they could touch it with their hands to comprehend its meaning.
The crystal pillar containing the first move of the "Starry Sky Blood Coagulation Technique" was empty, but from the sixth crystal pillar onwards, more people appeared.
"Is this Chi Naixue? I'm Li Xiujing from the second-best class, from Nanjiang Province. Do you know this Chen Lie?" At this moment, Li Xiujing, one of the three, asked Chi Naixue.
Chi Naixue nodded slightly: "We are all from the 15th key class, and we all came to Lanxing University from Hunan and Guangxi provinces."
"Oh? You're from the same hometown? Hunan and Guangdong provinces seem to be the 12th ranked province in the Blue Star Martial Arts Index. Chen Lie's comprehension aptitude test is at the maximum level. As far as I know, such talent is extremely rare among all the students in the genius class. I always thought that Chen Lie was from the fourth Lingnan province or the fifth Dongzhe province."
The competition in your Hunan-Guangdong province this year is a bit outrageous, isn't it? Even those with the highest level of qualifications can't directly enter the genius class at Blue Star University; they have to be promoted from the key class.
"Next year, your Hunan-Guangdong province will definitely be ranked among the top ten martial arts provinces on Earth."
Chi Naixue explained, "You misunderstood. Chen Lie is a transfer student from another province. He just used the Hunan-Guangdong Province channel to get into Lanxing University. He is not from the same hometown as me."
Li Xiujing suddenly realized: "Ah, no wonder. It seems that Chen Lie must be from Lingnan Province or Dongzhe Province."
Chi Naixue didn't say much; naturally, she wouldn't reveal Chen Lie's background.
These regional-level geniuses are comparable in value to the martial arts champions of the top ten provinces on Earth, and all the martial arts champions of the top ten provinces on Earth are in the super genius class.
"Chi, I think that Chen Lie is quiet and doesn't seem easy to get along with."
"You two went to Blue Star University together, so you must have a good relationship, right? Could you perhaps connect us through the connections? The three of us could form a team to hunt phantom beasts in the Sumeru Illusionary Realm and other alien beasts on the Northwest Front," Li Xiujing suggested.
Chi Naixue's expression stiffened, and she managed to say, "We'll see!"
Lee Soo-jung was completely baffled by Chi Nai-seok's strange reaction.
Did she say something wrong? Why does it feel like the other person has suddenly turned hostile?
Like Chen Lie, Chi Naixue and Li Xiujing arrived at the first crystal pillar, reached out to touch it, and began to calmly comprehend the first move of the martial arts secret technique.
After Chen Lie began to comprehend it, a figure practicing martial arts was immediately projected into his spiritual world.
Immediately afterwards, the shadowy figure began to practice the operation of the martial arts secret technique from Chen Lie's first-person perspective.
Chen Lie immediately realized that this so-called "Starry Sky Blood Coagulation Technique" was only barely equivalent to a third-rate technique within Tai'a Star Province, and even inferior in some aspects. This kind of technique was not even worthy of being included in the library of the Tai'a Star Province Martial Arts Academy. It was completely different from Chen Lie's "Dragon Nirvana Technique".
This "Starry Sky Blood Coagulation Technique" can only increase a person's strength by a maximum of eight times. If someone who already has eight times the strength tries to cultivate the "Starry Sky Blood Coagulation Technique," even if they complete all twelve forms, they can only increase their strength by a maximum of 0.5 times. It is useless to people with strength above eight times, and it is completely ineffective for someone like Chen Lie who already has 13 times the strength.
Soon, in Chen Lie's spiritual world, he studied the first move of the "Starry Sky Blood Coagulation Technique" ten times from a first-person perspective.
The time allotted for comprehending the crystal pillar passed quickly, and Chen Lie, with his martial arts insights as a ninth-level grandmaster, had only grasped a superficial understanding.
"This broken technique is actually quite difficult."
The top martial arts secrets of the Central Galaxy Empire have all been improved again and again by martial arts predecessors. What was improved was not the power of the techniques, but the difficulty of cultivating them, such as the "Dragon Nirvana Technique".
The reason why this top-level martial arts technique cannot be popularized and can only be practiced by a small group of people is that the Central Galaxy Empire has trillions of humans and countless geniuses. If every genius could cultivate this extremely resource-intensive martial arts technique, then even if the Central Galaxy Empire had a vast amount of martial arts resources, they would be consumed at an alarming rate.
Resources are plentiful, but the population is even greater; even a powerful empire like the Central Galactic Empire cannot support the needs of a trillion people.
Therefore, only the most outstanding martial arts geniuses are qualified to cultivate top-level techniques, so that resources can be used to their fullest potential and a balance can be maintained.
At this moment, Chi Naixue and Li Xiujing also stopped cultivating, both with expressions of great surprise on their faces.
"It really is a martial arts secret technique from beyond the stars; it is truly wondrous."
Lee Soo-jung asked, "Chi, have you successfully grasped the essence?"
Chi Naixue nodded gently.
Immediately afterwards, the two of them looked at Chen Lie.
Chen Lie has maxed-out aptitude; even they successfully comprehended it, so there's no way Chen Lie could fail.
"Chen Lie, how's your comprehension going? Did you succeed?"
With the mindset of avoiding trouble, Chen Lie nodded and said, "It's a success."