Chapter 29
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Chapter 29: The Frigid Mood of All Humanity
“Dear heavens, can anyone tell me that I’m not seeing things? Yi Chen is indeed engraving the incantations and energy circulation pathways of the Cloud Treading Technique on the stone wall?”
“You’re not seeing things; it’s true!”
“Oh my god! What incredible luck is this today?”
“Has the divine Yi heard my prayers during this time and, feeling my sincere heart, decided on a whim to grant my wish?”
The hundreds of billions of viewers in the live room were ecstatic, dancing with joy.
Major news websites featured this event on their front pages first.
As the news spread, all of humanity fell into a frenzy.
Across the galaxy, on various life planets, cheers echoed from nearly every corner.
The gloomy days seemed to vanish in an instant.
Everyone wore a joyful expression.
Even the stock market, which had been falling for over a month, suddenly turned around and began to soar, except for the car industry stocks, which continued to drop.
Undoubtedly, this was great news for all humanity.
Although humans were more eager to learn the improved version of the Chaos Technique, they were secondarily interested in the Cloud Treading Technique.
Since Yi Chen suddenly revealed the Cloud Treading Technique, there was also a chance that someday he might whimsically unveil the improved version of the Chaos Technique.
The future seemed bright.
After being depressed and anxious for over a month, they finally welcomed the dawn of hope.
The mood of all humanity at this moment was easy to imagine.
However, this situation did not last long.
Soon, someone noticed something was off.
“This… this isn’t right! The energy circulation pathway Yi Chen engraved is different from the results scanned by the scanner!”
“It seems to have been simplified significantly. Originally, the spirit power needed to travel from the Qi Sea to the legs through a total of six meridians and fifteen acupoints.”
“Now it has changed to five meridians and nine acupoints.”
“It should be an improved energy circulation pathway. Yi Chen spent another hour researching and improving it after returning to the tribe, right?”
“The problem is, according to the data published by various skill research institutes, the more acupoints spirit power passes through, the stronger the effect.”
“If it’s improved, it should only get stronger. How could it reduce the number of acupoints for spirit power to enter and lead to worse results?”
“Could it be that in that hour, Yi Chen wasn’t summarizing and improving the Cloud Treading Technique but rather finding ways to weaken it?”
“That would align with Yi Chen’s character… If the Cloud Treading Technique is powerful enough to break the sound barrier, how could he possibly pass on the complete version?”
The viewers in the live room were suddenly alarmed.
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
Upon discovering that the Cloud Treading Technique was merely a weakened version, the excitement in everyone’s hearts felt like a bucket of cold water poured over them in the dead of winter.
Their spirits sank.
As the news spread, the joyful state of all humanity was instantly shattered.
Even pessimistic feelings grew stronger.
The stock market, which had just warmed up, took another downturn, plunging sharply.
The public mood fell back to rock bottom, and it even seemed to trend downward toward a bottomless abyss.
There was no way around it; being struck down in moments of excitement only made feelings worse.
…
In the center of the valley, the people of the Flame Mountain Tribe, on the other hand, were full of joy.
However, with Yi Chen right in front of them, no one dared to cheer or celebrate out loud.
Having had this experience before, they naturally understood that Yi Chen drawing on the stone wall meant he had a new skill to teach the tribe members.
They didn’t know that the Cloud Treading Technique had both a weakened version and a complete version, so they felt no disappointment.
All they felt was overwhelming excitement and eagerness.
“This skill is called the Cloud Treading Technique, and it is a technique that can enhance speed.”
Over the past two months, the tribe members of Flame Mountain had not only been practicing daily but also learning to read and write.
Although they were not yet at the level of playing with words, they recognized more than half of the incantations of the weakened version of the Cloud Treading Technique.
They no longer needed to wait for the tribe members to memorize the incantations like they did when promoting the Chaos Technique before they could start teaching.
“First, spirit follows intention, meaning that spirit power can be directed as if wielding an arm. With a thought, it can reach anywhere according to the energy circulation pathways of the technique. To achieve this, one must have long-term practice…”
Yi Chen wasted no time and immediately began the lesson, explaining the profoundness of the incantations and various precautions when using the technique.
The tribe members listened, enthralled.
Even the children appeared suddenly enlightened.
As for what they understood, only they knew.
In the live room, the viewers were lost and confused.
No one had the mood to listen to Yi Chen teach.
After all, while the weakened version of the Cloud Treading Technique was worth learning, the viewers’ spirits had plunged so low that no one could concentrate.
One by one, they were enveloped by various negative emotions.
…
After over an hour of effort, Yi Chen finished explaining the weakened version of the Cloud Treading Technique.
He then spent more than half an hour answering questions and clarifying doubts.
Those tribe members with higher talents could fully understand the weakened version of the Cloud Treading Technique, and they fluently answered the questions Yi Chen posed.
“Alright, those who have broken through to the first level of Spirit Release, stay behind. Those who haven’t, you can return.”
Yi Chen clapped his hands. “When you go back, practice diligently, and take time to practice the Flying Blade Technique and the Cloud Treading Technique!”
"Yes!"
The tribe members all bowed and left.
In the blink of an eye, only about twenty tribe members remained in front of Yi Chen.
These twenty were all geniuses who had recently broken through to the first level of Spirit Release over the past two months.
Among them, Guli, who had the fastest cultivation speed, had broken through to the first level of Spirit Release a month ago.
The slowest had just reached it two days ago.
Yi Chen had decided to teach them the improved version of the Chaos Technique.
He was not like the viewers in the live room speculating that he would not cultivate higher-level tribe members to avoid threats to his position.
With his vision and ambition, he was only worried about the slow average improvement of the tribe members’ strength, not about them becoming too strong.
The stronger the tribe members of the Flame Mountain Tribe became, the more they could help him expand territory and increase his influence, thus enhancing the talent bonus and allowing him to make greater strides in creating higher-level skills.
The reason he had not taught them before was twofold. First, the improved version of the Chaos Technique was extremely profound and difficult to understand.
With only two or three people reaching the first level of Spirit Release, if none of them grasped the Chaos Technique in one go, it would mean he would have to spend time teaching it all over again.
Having twenty or thirty people together meant that, even if anyone had questions, they could communicate and learn from each other.
The second reason was safety.
For the past two months, he had been busy researching and creating the Cloud Treading Technique, causing his own cultivation level to stagnate.
If he taught the improved version of the Chaos Technique, it would allow top-ranking tribe members like Guli to surpass him in strength.
Even though the tribe members regarded him like a god, his nature made it hard for him to fully trust anyone other than himself.
For his own safety, and with little impact on the average strength of the tribe members, he temporarily held back on teaching the improved version of the Chaos Technique.
Now that he had successfully created the Cloud Treading Technique, he could focus on his cultivation without that worry.
He glanced at Guli and the others.
Yi Chen picked up a stone and walked to the place where he had originally inscribed the Chaos Technique.
Next to it, he carved the three large characters for Chaos Technique again.
Guli and the others looked on with confusion.
The viewers in the live room also wore puzzled expressions.
Clearly, the blow they had received left them unaware that a surprise big enough to drive them crazy was about to arrive!
