Cultivation: Start From Simplifying Martial Arts Techniques

Black Rat’s heart couldn’t help but tremble as he felt a vast surge of power flowing through his body, causing him to start heating up.

From the deepest part of his body, it felt as if something was being awakened.

Black Rat was not unfamiliar with this sensation, as it was similar to the feeling during his bloodline awakening.

Chen Fei, sensing Black Rat’s condition, was surprised to discover that Black Rat’s bloodline was indeed boiling and evolving.

He hadn’t expected that the words of the Hill Clan would turn out to be true—that the Sky Chasing Rat could truly undergo bloodline awakening in this way.

However, this method was quite damaging to a cultivator of the Sun Moon Realm and might not even be used by those in the Rule Integration Realm.

The Rule Integration Realm cultivators control rules, and normally, it is not difficult for them to gather enough fragments of these rules.

But this method of awakening the Sky Chasing Rat’s bloodline requires using the rule dust controlled by the cultivator to cleanse the bloodline.

The ultimate goal of the Rule Integration Realm is to control a complete rule. During this process, breaking down the controlled rule dust means having to search for it again in the void.

There are countless rule dust particles in the void. Even if one uses their controlled rule fragments to resonate with similar rule dust, the amount of dust gathered is still staggering.

Finding the exact dust that was broken down from one’s own control and filtering out the chaotic rules not belonging to one’s own rule is an extremely laborious task.

Any slight mistake can lead to a significant deviation, making it nearly impossible to understand where the mistake occurred and how to master the complete rule.

Cultivation in the Rule Integration Realm is a highly meticulous and patient process, leaving no room for error.

Rule Integration Realm cultivators do not have panels for verification, and if they make mistakes, they will regress.

Chen Fei, on the other hand, had fewer concerns. Being at the Sun Moon Realm himself, if his divine ability was broken down, he could directly refine the similar rule dust into his divine ability.

The minor differences in rule dust would not affect the entire divine ability.

At the moment, as Chen Fei cleansed Black Rat’s bloodline, he noticed that the effect of the rule dust on awakening the bloodline was not ideal.

A rough estimate showed that breaking down the entire Divine Ability of Pillar Mountain could raise Black Rat’s bloodline by about ten percent.

This ten percent was not ten percent of the entire Sky Chasing Rat bloodline.

In terms of the entire Sky Chasing Rat bloodline, Black Rat had only awakened about thirty percent. After breaking down a Divine Ability of Pillar Mountain, Black Rat’s bloodline would reach approximately thirty-one percent.

For a cultivator in the Sun Moon Realm, it would take an unknown amount of time to restore the broken divine ability, yielding such a result.

What’s the point?

The Sky Chasing Rats were not like the Yuan Tribe, where every member was a prodigy.

Though the Sky Chasing Rats once had a powerful Open Heaven Realm expert and were a strong race, most of them had mediocre talent, with over ninety percent unable to cultivate beyond the fifth rank.

In proportion, this was only slightly better than the human race.

However, the Sky Chasing Rats’ ability to sense rare treasures greatly enhanced their value.

This is similar to how the Gong Clan has a special talent for crafting.

In special environments, such as the Glass Space, the Sky Chasing Rats’ treasure-finding abilities are magnified.

Otherwise, in the Return to Nothing Realm, many places with rare treasures already have owners, and even if the Sky Chasing Rats detect them, it is of no use.

The Hill Clan should know better methods to awaken the Sky Chasing Rat bloodline. Otherwise, if they had managed to capture Black Rat, they would not have used this method.

However, for Chen Fei, using the divine ability breakdown to awaken the bloodline was an excellent method.

A single complete divine ability could only awaken a small portion of the Sky Chasing Rat’s bloodline. With several such awakenings, wouldn’t the bloodline gradually accumulate?

In less than fifteen minutes, with three percent of the Divine Ability of Pillar Mountain remaining, Chen Fei stopped.

Chen Fei focused on stabilizing the newly awakened bloodline of the Sky Chasing Rat while simultaneously beginning to repair the Divine Ability of Pillar Mountain.

The remaining thirty percent was the threshold Chen Fei had calculated to ensure that the speed of restoring the divine ability would not be affected.

If it fell below this value, restoring the divine ability could take more than a day or even up to two days.

However, by maintaining the thirty percent level, Chen Fei could fully restore Pillar Mountain within four to five hours.

If Chen Fei disregarded the power of the divine ability and aimed only to restore it quickly, using substandard rule dust to fill the gaps, he could even compress the time to under an hour.

After all, the restored Pillar Mountain would be used for breaking down, so Chen Fei naturally chose the fastest method.

An hour later, Chen Fei had fully restored the Divine Ability of Pillar Mountain and resumed cleansing the bloodline of the Sky Chasing Rat.

Black Rat was astonished as he watched his master.

While he had been unsure of Chen Fei’s actions earlier, with the awakening of his bloodline and the fluctuations in Chen Fei’s aura, it became clear that his master was using the method described by the Hill Clan—breaking down the divine ability.

At his current Fourth Rank, Black Rat didn’t understand the essence of divine abilities but knew that once broken down, restoring such a thing was definitely not simple.

Yet now, it seemed that under his master’s hands, this task was becoming increasingly extraordinary.

Chen Fei decided to fully awaken Black Rat’s bloodline first, as this would significantly increase the chances of finding Primordial Crystals.

Given the current efficiency, it would only delay matters by a few days, and Chen Fei could afford that delay.

Five days passed in the blink of an eye.

During these five days, countless battles erupted across the entire Glass Space, with the Sun Moon Realm cultivators starting with restraint but eventually throwing caution to the wind.

Wherever rare materials appeared, inter-racial conflicts were inevitable, and sometimes even within a race, fierce fights broke out over a single piece of spiritual material.

In just a few days, out of nearly twenty thousand Sun Moon Realm mid-tier cultivators who had arrived, over a thousand had perished, with injuries far exceeding that number.

The intensity of the battles did not decrease over time; instead, it could potentially increase.

This was because most of the relatively easy-to-find spiritual materials had already fallen into the hands of the mid-tier Sun-Moon cultivators.

Future gains would face even fiercer competition.

Moreover, many perilous situations could not be tackled alone and would require gathering a significant number of mid-tier Sun-Moon cultivators.

When various races gathered in large numbers, any resulting conflicts could cause casualties to surge dramatically.

In such large-scale conflicts, sometimes strength was not the most important factor. One needed to assess the situation and observe the overall dynamics; otherwise, even the strongest cultivator could fall if surrounded.

While the outside world was in chaos, Chen Fei remained focused on awakening Black Rat’s bloodline.

After nearly five days of near-constant cleansing, Black Rat’s bloodline had awakened to eighty percent.

Although Black Rat’s overall cultivation level hadn’t improved significantly, his appearance had undergone considerable changes.

He was still as black as ever, but there was now a trace of spatial rule aura within his body.

Chen Fei, being sensitive to spatial aspects due to his teleportation abilities, immediately noticed this change in Black Rat.

The additional spatial rule aura caused Black Rat’s speed to increase by several times compared to before.

Of course, Chen Fei was not primarily concerned with the speed increase; his main focus was on Black Rat’s ability to sense rare materials.

According to Black Rat, his sensing range had expanded from the previous fifty miles to two hundred miles.

If the Sky Chasing Rat’s bloodline could continue to awaken, this sensing range might increase further.

However, unfortunately, at this stage of bloodline awakening, continued use of rule dust for cleansing had no further effect.

Chen Fei realized that using this method to directly evolve Black Rat into a Sky Chasing Rat was no longer feasible.

However, with the sensing range increased to this extent, it was already sufficient for Chen Fei to more easily locate the Primordial Crystals.

After spending several hours restoring the Divine Ability of Pillar Mountain to its original state, Chen Fei left the mountain’s interior.

In the Glass Space, the place with the most Primordial Crystals was undoubtedly the Central Mountain Range.

Apart from the Central Mountain Range, Chen Fei speculated that there were eight other perilous areas where the probability of finding Primordial Crystals was close to ninety percent.

Chen Fei flew into the air, checked his surroundings, compared them with the data he had, and in the next moment, he disappeared from the sky.

An hour later, Chen Fei stood at the edge of a cliff, gazing into the distance.

Over a hundred miles away was a vast lake named Spirit Concealing Lake, which, roughly estimated, covered an area of no less than a thousand miles.

“Master, there are Primordial Crystals inside!” Black Rat, perched on Chen Fei’s shoulder, said excitedly.

Chen Fei nodded and scanned the surroundings.

The abundant spiritual energy in the air above Spirit Concealing Lake gathered in a vibrant display. Chen Fei could even see many places flickering with faint light, indicating the presence of rare materials.

Yet, this area was eerily silent, without a hint of sound.

Spirit Concealing Lake had become an anomaly. What this meant was that the entities inside could not be killed.

No matter how thoroughly you killed them or scattered their ashes, they would recover after a moment. This is what defines an anomaly!

However, it wasn’t truly indestructible. A Sixth Stage Rule Integration Realm cultivator, using direct rule attacks, could still destroy the entities within.

The problem was that the rule dust in Sun Moon Realm divine abilities was too sparse, rendering them ineffective against these twisted rule-based creations.

According to the data, once you step into Spirit Concealing Lake, it would immediately generate a Glass Clan entity of the same cultivation level as you, which would then attack you relentlessly.

If you retaliated, Spirit Concealing Lake would quickly enhance the generated Glass Clan entity based on the power of your attack.

The more you resist, the stronger the Glass Clan entity becomes.

Enduring attacks from an opponent of the same rank while being unable to fight back—how challenging is that?

Very challenging!

Was it difficult for Chen Fei?

Not at all.

Being at the mid-tier of the Sun Moon Realm, and with only one opponent trying to break through his defenses, it was no challenge for Chen Fei, who had the perfected Desolate Slaughter Night Star Sword.

Chen Fei’s figure flickered as he stepped into Spirit Concealing Lake.

A deafening noise immediately erupted from the front, and the lake had vanished. What appeared before Chen Fei was a massive city.

“Clang!”

The Concealment Bell emitted a resonant hum as a dagger was blocked by the protective shield. A slender Glass Clan woman with a cold gaze was staring at Chen Fei.