Chapter 241
Zhou Tian Transport Method
Chen Ye walked through a patch of knee-high weeds and saw a broken stone staircase.
The steps underfoot were uneven, many of them broken, with moss and weeds growing in the cracks.
As Chen Ye walked deeper into the ruins, he spread his divine sense to carefully perceive the surrounding movements in case of any unforeseen events.
As he walked along, he discovered that many two-person-high stone statues remained on the island, arranged along both sides of a main road.
Most of the stone statues only show their upper bodies, while their lower bodies are buried deep in the soil.
Only a few remained standing intact on the ground.
These stone statues are carved in a rather rough style, and the weathering and erosion on their surfaces have long since eroded their original appearance, leaving only faint outlines of human figures.
Besides the stone statues, there are many dilapidated buildings around.
The style looks like it belongs to a bygone era.
Chen Ye vaguely sensed that the real world he entered from different places should belong to a whole.
However, the area is vast, and he can only see a part of it, so there are significant differences each time.
The buildings on the island are not large in scale. Judging from the remaining foundations, the settlement could only accommodate less than a hundred people at the time.
Each building has a very simple structure, with only one or two rooms and narrow doors and windows, making it seem more like a temporary structure than a long-term residence.
Chen Ye walked through the cluster of low-rise buildings and finally reached the center of the entire site.
He stopped in his tracks.
Before him lay a circular plaza built from single massive stones, covered with densely packed runes that shared the same origin as the runes he had seen in the coffin of the female corpse.
In the very center of the altar was a flat, smooth, circular open space, about two zhang square.
The ground was polished very smooth, and traces of where people used to sit cross-legged were still faintly visible.
Chen Ye saw scattered remnants of prayer mats and candle holders around the square.
Judging from the layout here, it looks like a place for people to practice meditation.
Chen Ye also noticed a stone tablet standing in the center of the square.
The stone tablet is about the height of a person, and is bluish-gray all over with fine weathering cracks covering its surface.
Chen Ye stepped forward and discovered that the stone tablet was densely covered with many characters.
[At this point, I hope readers will remember our domain name 1110 ...
These characters are neat and simple, and they are several hundred words long.
"The Zhou Tian Transportation Method!"
When Chen Ye saw the four ancient characters carved on the top of the stele, he was startled and instantly realized that it contained a cultivation technique.
He quickly held his breath and read on, word by word.
This exercise manual was surprisingly easy to understand, even more so than those deliberately obscure martial arts classics.
It's as if they're afraid future generations won't understand.
He guessed that this cultivation technique was either very ordinary and didn't require him to be wary of others, or it had another purpose.
Chen Ye now possesses multiple martial arts skills, and with the support of the pawnshop system, he has gained considerable experience and insights into cultivation.
No other hidden tricks or hidden dangers were found in this technique.
He prefers the former.
Chen Ye immediately decided to calm down and study and practice it a little.
After spending half a day studying the entire technique carefully, he quickly grasped its core principles.
Unlike the martial arts of the Great Jing Kingdom that focus on the physical body, this Zhou Tian Circulation Technique is a cultivation method that primarily focuses on refining Qi.
It does not pursue the ultimate physical strength, nor does it emphasize the ever-changing nature of force. Instead, it focuses on guiding and refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, circulating it repeatedly along a fixed route to cleanse the meridians and achieve the effect of transcending the mortal realm and entering immortality.
In addition, to Chen Ye's slight surprise, this cultivation method, which focuses on refining qi, also contained the imagery and description of constructing a sky bridge.
The Bridge Sea Realm of the Great Jing Kingdom emphasizes spiritual contemplation, using one's own spiritual will as a bridge to cross the sea of suffering in the physical body and connect the inner and outer worlds.
However, this Zhou Tian Transport Method emphasizes using spiritual energy as a guide and using energy to refine the bridge, achieving the same goal through different paths.
Chen Ye vaguely felt that the Zhou Tian Circulation Method was the correct cultivation method.
He pondered for a while, then decided to trust his own judgment and tried to circulate his energy through a full cycle according to the method described in the inscription.
When he was cultivating, Chen Ye found that all the pores on his body opened up, and he sensed that spiritual substances from the outside world were constantly gathering on him, giving him a strange, tingling sensation.
It's somewhat similar to the illusion of oxygen intoxication.
At that moment, a text notification popped up on the familiar panel in my field of vision.
[Current Martial Art: Zhou Tian Circulation Technique (Beginner)...]
The data entry has been successful.
Chen Ye did not notice anything unusual, so it seems his judgment was correct.
This technique is most likely from an orthodox source.
Since that was the case, he didn't hesitate much. With a thought, he directly chose to pawn his lifespan.
[Deduct ten years of lifespan, and provide ten years of cultivation.]
The numbers on the panel jumped.
[Circulation Method of the Heavenly Circuit (Beginner)] → [Circulation Method of the Heavenly Circuit (Complete)]
At the same moment the information on the panel flashed, a familiar feeling washed over me again.
A flood of memories rushed into Chen Ye's mind.
Chen Ye felt a blur before his eyes, and in a daze, he seemed to be in another void space-time.
In that time and space, he circulated his true energy day after day, moving it along the circulatory route again and again, tirelessly refining it until the method was completely integrated into his instincts.
When he recovered from that mysterious state, he felt that the true energy in his dantian was several times stronger than before, flowing along his meridians on its own, and a faint warm current of energy was rising along his spine and penetrating his whole body.
Chen Ye used the meditation technique to introspect on himself.
To his surprise, the long bridge spanning the golden sea had extended forward considerably under the pull of the newly generated true energy.
"So fast..."
Chen Ye couldn't help but sigh softly.
He had been cultivating for almost half a year, and the bridge had only extended by a little over ten feet. But just now, after he had perfected the Zhou Tian Transporting Technique, the bridge had moved forward several feet.
The abundance of spiritual energy in the real world, coupled with the blessing of the Zhou Tian Transporting Technique, allowed him to build the golden bridge at a speed of 1,000 miles per day.
One day's work is equivalent to half a year's worth of his efforts; they are simply incomparable.
Chen Ye realized that the cultivation technique in front of him was a rare opportunity for him.
There was nothing around, and no one would disturb him for a while.
He simply sat down cross-legged again, closed his eyes, and completely immersed himself in cultivation.
This time, he no longer merely tentatively refined those few strands of spiritual matter, but instead fully activated the Zhou Tian Transport Technique, drawing all the abundant spiritual matter in this world into his body with each breath, guiding it to his dantian's golden sea.
As time went by, golden light burst forth from Chen Ye's body without restraint, causing his body to glow.
From a distance, the whole person appears holy.
Even behind him, golden waves could be faintly seen, with the sound of the waves constantly echoing out.
After about two days, Chen Ye woke up from his cultivation state, and the strange phenomena around him gradually disappeared.
He frowned, a hint of doubt in his eyes.
He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he noticed that the spiritual energy around him seemed to have thinned out considerably, far less abundant than it had been at the beginning.
Chen Ye suspected that the spiritual matter in this place was limited and could not be refined at will.
Having figured things out sufficiently, Chen Ye decided to stop while he was ahead.
He decisively withdrew the True Dragon Seed Daoist techniques and restored his original five senses.
After a moment of disorientation, the scene before me returned to the familiar quiet room I had seen before.