Chapter 2
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Chapter 2: Creating a Unique Technique
Ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes…
Time flew by.
Initially, due to his handsome looks, Yi Chen’s livestream room had the highest number of viewers.
At its peak, half of the audience, over a hundred thousand people, watched him.
However, as Yi Chen remained cross-legged in the cave, the number of viewers began to drop significantly.
It continued to decline until only five to six thousand viewers remained, stabilizing at that number.
The total audience for the entire 《Into the Abyss》 program also dropped from over two hundred thousand to just over a hundred thousand.
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Inside the cave.
About an hour later,
Yi Chen suddenly opened his eyes.
A look of joy appeared on his face.
After spending about an hour, he finally succeeded in sensing the existence of the Qi Sea.
【Next comes the creation of a cultivation technique!】
Yi Chen thought deeply and, realizing he had no clues, sat cross-legged again to quietly observe the Qi Sea.
To his surprise, he discovered that within the Qi Sea, there seemed to be a faint trace of ‘Qi’.
How to amplify this trace of Qi was undoubtedly the key to creating a cultivation technique.
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In the tenth livestream room,
Over five thousand viewers were left puzzled.
“What’s going on? He suddenly smiled and then went back to sitting there with his eyes closed?”
“Could it be that his fever has made him lose his mind?”
“No, he’s probably considering his future path. I just glanced at his scan data; his brain is active.”
“What is there to think about? In a place like the exile planet, physical fitness is the most important.”
“What he should be doing is taking advantage of his luck, stocking up on food and water, trying to train his body in the cave, rather than sitting there lost in thought.”
“Just because he had one stroke of luck doesn’t mean he’ll have it again. The higher the physical fitness, the greater the chance of survival.”
“I bet a thousand game coins that he can survive for a month. The food and water he has stored will only last for half a month. He can’t just sit there until he runs out and then weakly go out to find food, right?”
“Oh no, everyone hurry to the seventh livestream room. The seventh just caught a wild rabbit and is eating it raw.”
“Are we going to watch a mosaic in the seventh livestream room? While humanity on the exile planet has no privacy rights, this program is a public service for everyone.”
“Any bloody or inappropriate scenes will be blurred by the smart brain or interrupted with an advertisement.”
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Inside the cave.
With the strongest cultivation talent of humanity, after successfully sensing the presence of meridians and acupoints, as well as the special energy in the air,
Yi Chen’s mind gradually opened up.
Combining this with his experience from reading three thousand web novels,
only one path lay before him.
That was to let the ‘Qi’ flow through the meridians, traveling through different acupoints to create various effects.
This would draw external energy into the Qi Sea and meridians, then transform the energy into ‘Qi’.
To achieve this, he needed to deeply understand the characteristics of the energy in the air and the effects of that energy entering the acupoints.
The former constituted the mental methods of the cultivation technique, and the latter formed the pathway of energy circulation.
After careful consideration, Yi Chen decided to focus first on sensing and understanding the characteristics of external energy.
With this determination, he continued to sit cross-legged.
He slightly closed his eyes,
calming his mind to sense the energy in the air and attempting to understand and analyze their distribution, properties, and patterns…
Progress was extremely slow.
The main reason was that, although he had the strongest cultivation talent of humanity, with his comprehension and sensing abilities raised to an extraordinary level, he could barely perceive the energy in the air.
Going further was as difficult as climbing to the sky.
However, creating a cultivation technique was Yi Chen’s only way to survive in this world.
Even if it was dull and tedious, he forced himself to stay calm and persistent.
Time flew by.
One hour, two hours, three hours…
When he got tired, he would take a nap.
When he was hungry, he would eat some wild fruits he had stored.
Other than eating, drinking, and sleeping, he spent almost all his time sensing the characteristics of energy.
The only exercise he got was digging a pit at the end of the cave for a toilet and covering it with soil each time to prevent the cave from smelling too strong due to poor ventilation.
In room number ten, the number of viewers continuously decreased.
No one wanted to watch someone who either sat cross-legged or lay down sleeping.
Although scans showed that Yi Chen’s brain was active and normal, most people still thought he was mentally unstable.
Otherwise, his behavior wouldn’t be so strange.
Days passed quickly, over ten days went by.
Finally, Yi Chen gained a somewhat superficial understanding of the special energy in the air.
The reason it was a surface-level understanding was that the more he learned, the more profound the special energy in the air seemed to be.
Even connected to the laws of nature, the sun, moon, and stars.
Without spending ten or eight years, Yi Chen felt he could barely scratch the surface.
Fortunately, his superficial understanding was enough for him to create a simple cultivation technique.
【Next, he needed to combine his understanding of energy and test the pathway of energy circulation!】
Yi Chen tried to control the small amount of ‘Qi’ in the Qi Sea with his mind.
As he expected, this small amount of Qi moved in the Qi Sea under his mental control.
Then, it entered the meridians.
He then attempted to guide this small amount of Qi into the nearest acupoint.
As soon as it entered the acupoint just a little bit, Yi Chen sensed something was wrong and quickly pulled the Qi back out.
He could feel that if he didn’t withdraw it in time, the Qi entering the acupoint would lead to serious consequences.
Fortunately, with the strongest talent of humanity, he had unusual insight and sharp instincts that allowed him to notice the danger instantly and withdraw the Qi in time.
After that, he controlled the Qi to enter the second acupoint.
Then the third, fourth, and fifth acupoints…
He tried them one by one.
If he sensed danger, he immediately abandoned that attempt.
If there was no danger, he kept it.
Yi Chen quickly realized that when Qi entered an acupoint, it was filled with endless variables.
Because when Qi passed through the first acupoint, it would carry the characteristics of that acupoint.
Entering the second acupoint would cause the Qi to carry two different characteristics.
If the two characteristics were incompatible, it would lead to adverse reactions.
Thus, the more acupoints the Qi entered, the more characteristics it carried, and the greater the possibility of incompatibility.
Even if they were compatible, they might merge into some strange characteristics.
To create a combination that could attract external energy into the meridians and transform or assimilate that energy into one’s own Qi was like walking through a maze.
One wrong step would mean starting over.
Every step could create countless combinations.
Moreover, this was with Yi Chen’s extraordinary talent that allowed him to evade danger and swiftly withdraw the Qi at the moment it entered an acupoint and showed adverse reactions.
To avoid risks, he also had to stay extremely focused.
Sensing energy characteristics left Yi Chen with sore waist, aching back, and cramping legs.
Now, testing each acupoint caused not only those same pains but also a throbbing headache, making him feel like he could explode from frustration.
Even with the strongest cultivation talent of humanity, creating a cultivation technique from scratch was not an easy task.
For his survival, he could only grit his teeth and persevere.
