Book 5: Chapter 12:1: Chen Heng’s Passive Practical Experience, Part 1
Luo Li had arrived at Chen Heng’s house the very night he escaped to Arknights’s world. Since he had left instructions, Sirin quickly accepted this girl, who appeared to be of a similar age to herself.
This girl seemed extremely familiar with Chen Heng’s house. She picked a room by herself and tidied it up.
However, she had not said much to Sirin, Jeanne d’Arc, and Fafnir over the past two days, giving Sirin the impression of coldness.
Erm…how do I interact with this Luo Li? Sirin pondered as she fed Fafnir.
In the basement, Chen Heng immediately sent his Will Energy into the crystal.
Then he received a new version of the Chen Clan Sword Technique and that Will Energy cultivation technique his ancestor had mentioned.
The Chen Clan’s immortal cultivation technique was different from the cultivation world’s mainstream cultivation techniques. It turned all of one’s Spiritual Energy into the shape of a sword. While other cultivators birthed a miniature person upon reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, the Chen Clan cultivators would birth a sword.
The new version of the Chen Clan Cultivation Technique was even more extreme. It converted all of the body’s energies into swords.
The spiritual perception of ordinary cultivators possessed little offensive strength. On the other hand, the altered Chen Clan Cultivation Technique cultivated even the spiritual perception into a sword, giving it strong offensive power. However, the perception effects would be weaker than that of ordinary cultivators. There would be a balance of gains and losses, after all.
Simply put, it was a strengthened spiritual perception with all attribute points placed into offense.
However, this did not impact Chen Heng. As an ability user, his Will Energy was ridiculously strong in the first place. Furthermore, he had his attraction ability and electromagnetic control ability for scouting. Turning his Will Energy into a sword would not adversely affect his abilities; his Will Energy would even become denser.
It would not prevent Chen Heng from using his abilities. Furthermore, this would significantly raise the offensive power of his abilities.
Since there were no negative effects, Chen Heng prepared to convert to cultivation.
The conversion process was extremely dry. It involved drawing the Spiritual Energy in the crystal into his body, then using the immortal cultivation version of the Chen Clan Cultivation Technique to convert all his inner strength into the same type of Spiritual Energy.
Furthermore, Chen Xiu had left a message in the Chen Clan Cultivation Technique, explaining the Spiritual Energy in the crystal and why it had such wondrous effects.
When Chen Xiu had just become a transcender, he found a crystal filled with a unique sword-attributed Spiritual Energy outside the world; he did not know which shattered world it came from.
Anyway, using the crystal’s sword-attributed Spiritual Energy to build one’s foundation would strengthen one’s sword techniques and associated cultivation.
Hence, the Chen Clan ancestor altered the sword-attributed Spiritual Energy crystal.
In the process, Chen Xiu chanced upon a soul in the crystal. If someone used this sword-attributed Spiritual Energy crystal to build their foundations, that soul might possess them.
However, who was Chen Xiu? At that time, he was already a transcender, so he did not eliminate this soul. Instead, he altered the soul into a medium that could absorb attributeless Spiritual Energy and transform it into sword-attributed Spiritual Energy.
This soul was also a powerful sword cultivator powerhouse. After all, he was a ruthless person who could escape the destruction of his world using such a method. Naturally, he would be very capable.
Of course, everyone already knew the results.
That was why Chen Heng could not be blamed for not converting to other cultivation techniques. The Chen Clan Sword Technique’s inner strength version was tailor-made for such sword-attributed Spiritual Energy.
Chen Heng’s first conversion was as smooth as silk. With his extremely powerful Will Energy as support, he succeeded in pulling a wisp of Spiritual Energy into his body. Then he used the altered immortal cultivation version of the Chen Clan Cultivation Technique to transform the inner strength that had undergone two ability awakenings into sword-attributed Spiritual Energy.
After he formally converted to the Chen Clan Cultivation Technique and transformed his inner strength into Spiritual Energy, his Spiritual Energy started coalescing into a sword shape.
Simultaneously, Chen Heng’s Will Energy started transforming. In the beginning, it was like someone had hit his head with a bat, an extremely unbearable feeling.
As the crystal built the foundations of his Spiritual Energy sword, it started tempering his Will Energy, forging his Will Energy into a sharp sword.
Chen Heng’s cultivation started progressing. The Energy Refinement Realm’s first layer…second layer…third layer…breaking into the Foundation Building realm…the Foundation Building’s first layer…second layer…this continued until Chen Heng reached the Nascent Soul Realm’s third layer. At that point, his cultivation stopped increasing.
As time passed, his Will Energy slowly took on the shape of a sharp sword. During this process, his Will Energy even strengthened slightly.
One hour later:
Chen Heng woke up from his stupor after the crystal finished forming his Will Energy into a sharp sword. After all, having his Will Energy hammered into shape felt extremely unbearable.
He discovered a purple sword flying around in his dantian. Furthermore, there was also a sharp sword in his mental space. However, this sharp sword looked like an illusion; it was almost transparent.
Before, Chen Heng’s mental space was a sea of golden Will Energy. That sea had disappeared, replaced by a pocket-sized Will Energy sword.
Chen Heng found the feeling of his empty mental space strange.
However, he knew this was a good thing. The mental space would remain this size. Once he filled the mental space, it meant he—an ability user—could not grow his Will Energy any further.
Or this would have been the situation before Chen Heng joined the Dimension Administrators Association. His mental space had enlarged after two ability awakenings.
With the current situation, his mental space could accommodate even a Will Energy increase of a few thousand folds—even tens of thousands. It was not that Chen Heng’s mental space had enlarged but that his Will Energy became denser.
Furthermore, Chen Heng’s cultivation had jumped straight to the Nascent Soul Realm. He previously had expected to reach only the Golden Core Realm.
According to the law of conservation, there would be some losses when transforming inner strength into Spiritual Energy. However, the higher the grade of the cultivation technique used, the lower the loss. The best result since Chen Xiu was directly reaching the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm.
However, Chen Heng’s situation was exceptional. After all, none of his ancestors had waited until age 18 to convert. Furthermore, they had not experienced the ability second awakening’s and ability third awakening’s strengthening and refining effects on inner strength.
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