Chapter 35
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Chapter 35: The Limit of Talent
Using spirit pills for cultivation truly boosts combat power.
However, Yun Ye did not forget that the most important aspect of Hongshan Spirit Land lies within the term "Spirit Land." As a reserve member of the Black Armored Army, he had five hours each month to train in the Spirit Land, which was the main highlight for the Black Armored Army.
In Yun Ye’s room, the concentration of spirit energy was actually more than twice that of Baishi Town.
Cultivating for one day here equaled three days outside of Baishi Town.
This efficiency was on a completely different level, offering two extra lifetimes of experience; how could this even compare?
The true power of the Spirit Land lies in its core area.
The military camp was situated on the outskirts of the Spirit Land, with only remnants from the core’s overflow.
The core area was the real Spirit Land.
The richness of spirit energy was so thick that it almost felt sticky; a single breath would bring in a large amount of spirit energy.
As Yun Ye held the tokens and passed through the restrictions to reach the core area, he was shocked despite being prepared.
The spirit energy in the core area was more than ten times that of the outer region!
One day of cultivation here was almost equivalent to a month outside.
The five hours of training time allowed the members of the Black Armored Army to gain an entire month of advancement.
No wonder the Black Armored Army was the elite of the elite; this training environment surpassed that of the Spiritual Law team by so much.
To defeat the seniors would be akin to dreaming.
The only way for reserves to potentially join the Black Armored Army was through battle attrition, and that necessitated a premise: no children of noble families parachuting in.
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The more Yun Ye explored, the more he felt powerless; the head start accumulated by noble families was far too great.
It was near unbreakable.
He wanted to make a comeback, but it was completely impossible within one or two generations.
Fortunately, Yun Ye had strong mental resilience and quickly shifted his focus, dedicating all his energy to cultivation.
Earlier, Yun Wen had suggested that Yun Ye try a new Spiritual Law, so Yun Ye visited the Spiritual Law Pavilion and selected a technique-level Fire Element Spiritual Law.
According to official classifications, Spiritual Laws could be divided into five levels: basic, technique, law, scripture, and classic.
Basic Spiritual Laws are merely the roughest applications of spirit energy; anyone can instinctively grasp some part of them and they aren’t significant.
However, starting from technique-level Spiritual Laws, each level carries distinctly different meanings and contains profound truths.
Leaving the profound truths aside for now, the characteristic of technique-level Spiritual Laws is that they have a highly effective and practical combat system.
There’s no need to ponder the principles; you simply use them, and that is what “technique” means.
The technique-level Spiritual Law Yun Ye chose was called "Bathing Fire Feather Coat," an advanced version of the Feather Coat.
The biggest difference from the Feather Coat was that Bathing Fire Feather Coat detailed practical combat techniques and summarized simple but applicable rules for nearly all situations.
Moreover, unlike basic Spiritual Laws, which depended entirely on individual effort, Bathing Fire Feather Coat had clear training objectives.
How to enter the practice, how to reach Minor Achievement after becoming skilled, and how to further advance afterward was all clearly written down.
Perhaps the methods written above weren’t the best solutions, but they were certainly much better than fumbling around aimlessly.
So, Yun Ye followed the instructions in the book.
“Bang.”
Yun Ye jumped into the steaming wooden tub, spreading his arms wide as he comfortably soaked in the bath.
Below the tub, the fire continued to burn, raising the water temperature.
Yun Ye lay inside and began to cultivate, with flames rising from his body, constantly battling against the hot water.
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The Bathing Fire Feather Coat possesses four main features: enhancing physical qualities, defense, attack, and self-healing.
To better understand its spiritual nature, external environmental assistance was essential.
The Water Element was particularly good at self-healing, and Yun Ye needed to ponder the spiritual nature of fire healing within the steam circulation.
He aimed to make the flames gentle like flowing water, transforming into self-healing energy instead of destructive high temperatures.
Of course, fire-based self-healing is limited; it can’t be as immediate as water or wood-based healing.
After all, humans are not phoenixes; without the fire of rebirth, even if one studies spirituality to the fullest, the fire attribute’s self-healing ability will still be low.
The true strength of the Bathing Fire Feather Coat lies not in self-healing, but in sustaining combat.
Under the protection of the Bathing Fire Feather Coat, even if vital areas were severely injured, one could forcibly drive the body using Spiritual Law, keeping oneself alive.
If one had the energy to maintain the Spiritual Law indefinitely, they could last another ten years even with a hole in their heart—remarkably absurd.
But to reach such a state required perfect mastery of the Spiritual Law.
Aside from the creator of the cultivation method, no one in Baishi Town had ever achieved perfect mastery on their own.
Yun Ye chose this Spiritual Law not only because its prerequisite was the Feather Coat, reducing the difficulty, but also because he felt it suited him well.
In his first life, he had relied on awakening his Fire Spiritual Roots to survive, naturally learning how to use fire attributes for self-healing, which was very helpful for practicing this Spiritual Law.
He could also understand why Fire Element Spiritual Law could forcibly sustain life, even for many years without death.
The heart is the power source of the body, and as an important organ, it must not be damaged.
However, in the extraordinary world, it’s merely a matter of energy supply.
Fire elements can transmit energy seemingly out of thin air, and as long as one’s level is high enough, it is possible to substitute the Spiritual Roots for the heart, forcefully prolonging one’s life.
With this understanding, practicing the Bathing Fire Feather Coat became remarkably efficient, leading to rapid progress.
In just a few days, Yun Ye completed the entry-level training.
Unlike the basic Feather Coat, although the Bathing Fire Feather Coat was also entry-level, its coverage already extended to half his body; it would only take familiarity to cover his entire body, which was indeed much stronger than the Feather Coat.
The training methods proposed by the Bathing Fire Feather Coat were all well-tested and very practical.
Now, the speed at which Yun Ye’s spirituality increased was at least three times faster than before.
Adding in environmental factors, spirit pills, and other elements, it was likely more than ten times.
By the end of the month, after consuming Yunling Dan and using up all his training time in the Spirit Land, he gained several months’ worth of cultivation in one go, making his strength several times greater than before.
This should have been something to be happy about.
However, such a growth rate clearly could not be maintained indefinitely; learning anything would inevitably follow a pattern of ease followed by difficulty, and the deeper one went, the harder it became to improve. In his first month, Yun Ye had already encountered the barrier of his own talent!
His Spiritual Roots talent had reached its peak.
Spirituality, in simple terms, is the control and utilization of spirit energy; the stronger the control ability, the greater the power expressed by the Spiritual Law.
However, control ability itself is something that can easily touch its limits, and spirituality is even more so.
Dividing a portion of spirit energy into ten parts, a hundred parts, a thousand parts, or ten thousand parts is the simplest way to test control ability.
Yun Ye could currently separate about three hundred parts, but he was still far from achieving a thousand.
The barrier of talent allowed him to see the path ahead, but the limits of his body and mind made progress almost impossible; no matter how he trained, his growth was slow to the point of seemingly no change.
At this rate, even if he stayed in the Black Armored Army and had various resources to accelerate his cultivation, it might take ten or twenty years for his spirituality to evolve to the third stage.
Yun Ye knew he had to take another path.
Awakening Spirit Sense!
If Spiritual Roots governed spirit energy and understanding governed learning ability, then Spirit Sense managed fine control.
Currently, he hadn’t awakened his Spirit Sense, and naturally, he couldn’t unleash the full extent of his potential.
