Chapter 322
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Chapter 322: Researching Cultivation Methods
“First, let me see how you usually absorb spirit energy. Don’t resist my divine consciousness.”
Yi Chen knew that the swamp crocodile might find it hard to fully understand his words at first, so he decided to begin directly.
“Okay!”
The swamp crocodile hurriedly responded and immediately entered a cultivation state.
Yi Chen’s divine consciousness enveloped the swamp crocodile and surged into its body.
The swamp crocodile did not resist and allowed the consciousness to enter.
Yi Chen could clearly sense that the crystals inside the swamp crocodile, used to store energy, began to tremble slightly.
The surrounding spirit energy gathered towards it, attracted by the trembling of the crystals, flowing into them.
It mixed together with the energy.
Bit by bit, it was assimilated.
The speed seemed fast, but in reality, it was very slow.
Thanks to the desperate accumulation of various high-quality spirit materials, the swamp crocodile’s current cultivation level had already reached over ninety.
This level wasn’t much lower than Yi Chen’s.
However, the speed at which it absorbed and converted spirit energy was far behind that of practitioners in the Heart Tribulation Stage who operated the Chaos Technique.
Yi Chen’s divine consciousness spread over the different levels of fierce beasts waiting outside the palace, transmitting a message to them:
“Cultivate in place, and do not resist my divine consciousness invasion.”
Outside the palace, hundreds of fierce beasts showed expressions of astonishment.
But they quickly reacted.
Although they had never seen Yi Chen, they could guess that someone with such abilities could only be Yi Chen, the Country Lord of the Great Flame Kingdom.
They immediately began to cultivate in place as instructed by Yi Chen.
With their non-resistance and rejection, Yi Chen’s divine consciousness soon entered their bodies.
Cultivation methods varied among them.
Some had crystals constantly rotating within them, while others had energy leaking out from the crystals, attracting external spirit energy into their bodies.
Yi Chen understood.
The main reason fierce beasts cultivated so slowly was that they lacked effective cultivation methods and relied solely on their own explorations.
The methods they could devise were, to put it mildly, quite primitive.
The second issue was that the energy of fierce beasts varied greatly, unlike humanity, which accumulated spirit power with the same essential energy properties, only differing from person to person in spirit power aura.
The third issue was that the energy purity of fierce beasts was insufficient, and their strength entirely depended on innate abilities, which prevented them from withstanding Tribulations.
The first thing to address was to help fierce beasts develop a cultivation method that ensured all of them could use it.
This way, it would not only speed up their cultivation but also make their energy attributes completely identical.
Yi Chen felt that this would be quite a challenge.
The biggest problem was that he wasn’t a fierce beast.
Moreover, even if he were a fierce beast, it wouldn’t help.
Although fierce beasts also had meridians and acupoints, the types were different, and so were the meridians and acupoints themselves.
He couldn’t create the Chaos Technique like before, by continuously testing the effects of spirit power on different meridians and acupoints to slowly develop the technique.
Even if he did manage to create one, it would only be suitable for a specific type of fierce beast.
‘The only common point among all fierce beasts is the fierce beast crystals! I can only start from the fierce beast crystals.’
‘In other words, I can only develop a method that allows fierce beasts to quickly absorb spirit energy through the fierce beast crystals.’
Yi Chen closed his eyes and pondered.
After a moment, he had an idea.
He would let the fierce beasts use the fierce beast crystals as magnets, combining their energy and understanding of spirit energy to create a magnetic force to absorb spirit energy quickly.
Then, by adjusting all the converted energy to the same type, he could form a unique cultivation method for fierce beasts.
Different energy strengths and varying understandings of spirit energy would lead to completely different cultivation methods for each level.
This way, he could fully control the upper limits of the Demon Race.
Just like the Chaos Technique, he wouldn’t teach a higher-level cultivation method; once they reached the corresponding level, they wouldn’t be able to cultivate or advance further.
With this clarity, Yi Chen felt completely at ease.
Though the cultivation method created this way would never match the effects achieved by channeling spirit power into the meridians and acupoints, leading to different impacts, it would still be hundreds of times faster than the current cultivation speed of fierce beasts.
“Swamp crocodile, do you want to become a king of a new race?”
Yi Chen suddenly spoke.
The swamp crocodile looked at Yi Chen in surprise.
A king of a new race?
Wasn’t that a bit too much to say?
He certainly didn’t think he could create a race.
With his current strength realm and understanding of the principles of heaven and earth, he vaguely recognized that reaching full-level was an insurmountable barrier.
Only by breaking through this barrier could he be free from the constraints of the principles of heaven and earth on this planet, making it possible to create a race.
Combined with what Yi Chen said earlier…
The swamp crocodile’s body shook.
“I want to!”
He didn’t hesitate at all and finally fully understood what Yi Chen meant.
This Country Lord seemed to have a way for him to break through that insurmountable barrier.
In fact, it looked like he was able to help all full-level fierce beasts break through the barrier.
“Very well, let the crystals leave your body and perform the Blood Pledge of Dominance! From now on, you will be under my personal command.”
Yi Chen spoke.
He planned to train the swamp crocodile to become a demon king, so he naturally needed to take control of the swamp crocodile’s life and death himself.
The swamp crocodile was overjoyed.
With Bai Ruo Xin currently controlling it using the Beast Taming Technique, changing the controller to Yi Chen was undoubtedly more beneficial for it.
This change meant that its level of importance had greatly increased.
Without any hesitation, it immediately spat out a crystal about fifty to sixty centimeters in diameter.
Yi Chen then used his divine consciousness to send a message to Bai Ruo Xin, asking her to come over and retrieve the blood she had left in the swamp crocodile’s crystal.
After that, he activated the Beast Taming Technique and personally dripped a drop of blood infused with immortal power and divine consciousness into the swamp crocodile’s fierce beast crystal.
“Keep the crystal outside,” Yi Chen instructed and then used his divine consciousness to communicate with the fierce beasts outside the palace that were above level thirty, telling them to also let their crystals leave their bodies.
As for those below level thirty, Yi Chen didn’t instruct them to do so, because if the crystals stayed out of their bodies for too long, the lack of energy would cause their bodies to gradually shrink and collapse.
This cultivation method was only suitable for fierce beasts above level thirty.
The swamp crocodile and all the fierce beasts followed his instructions.
Yi Chen’s divine consciousness enveloped the fierce beast crystals, allowing him to study and observe the effects of these crystals on spirit energy.
After a moment, he continued to send messages and made adjustments: “Abandon your previous cultivation methods and try to control the energy within the crystals to release a small amount.”
The swamp crocodile and the fierce beasts complied.
Under the observation of divine consciousness, the energy that leaked out quickly began to spread, and its characteristics gradually disappeared as it merged with the spirit energy.
“Try to slowly draw back the leaked energy!” Yi Chen made another adjustment.
As the swamp crocodile and the fierce beasts followed his command, the released energy began to return to the crystal, also carrying a small amount of spirit energy.
It was indeed possible!
Yi Chen’s eyes lit up.
Although the spirit energy they retrieved was much slower than their original cultivation absorption speed, it at least proved that his idea was correct.
He continued to make adjustments, instructing the swamp crocodile and the fierce beasts to try releasing energy while also drawing some back.
It was as if the crystal was the center, forming a vortex that continuously released energy and drew energy back in.
The effect improved significantly.
However, they were still far from Yi Chen’s target, and the spirit energy drawn into the crystals was still gradually being assimilated by the energy inside rather than transforming into a new type of energy.
But as long as the direction was correct, that was enough.
The rest could be improved through constant research and exploration, gradually integrating their understanding of spirit energy to develop a cultivation method suitable for all fierce beasts.
