stjorthotic Chapter 306 Optimizing the Meditation Technique, Heading to Chaos City
Chapter 306 Optimizing the Meditation Technique, Heading to Chaos City
Chapter 306 Optimizing the Meditation Technique, Heading to Chaos City (4.2K)
"Just as I predicted, the system functions are now complete, and this is the final upgrade."
Chen Yuan looked at the new function that had appeared on the panel. "Primordial Key? What kind of ability is this? Judging from the name, it should be related to a key."
Thinking of this, Chen Yuan gently tapped the [Primordial Key] function, and a large amount of information immediately flooded into his mind.
After a moment, he finally digested this information and understood the meaning of the Primordial Key.
The information seemed complicated, but it can be summarized in one sentence: the Primal Key is the core of the system.
By controlling the Primordial Key, Chen Yuan can gradually increase his privileges within the system, eventually gaining complete control over it.
At that time, he won't be as rigid in using these system functions as before. For example, if the optimization bar isn't big enough, he can consume his source energy to directly open a temporary optimization bar!
For example, the optimized task simulation function that Chen Yuan has been criticizing. Although this function is powerful, it can only run one task at a time in the simulation space, which is too inefficient.
After he gradually takes control of the system, he can also consume primal energy to open an additional temporary taskbar, allowing the simulation space to run more tasks simultaneously, greatly increasing optimization efficiency.
These abilities can be easily achieved once Chen Yuan has initially unlocked the Primal Key function.
Furthermore, the deeper his control over the Primordial Key, the higher his authority in the system, and the less primordial energy he needs to activate those extra functions, until the consumption is eventually reduced to zero.
In other words, once Chen Yuan fully controls the system, he can modify its functions at will without consuming any extra energy.
For example, you can easily run dozens of optimization tasks in the simulation space at the same time, or increase the number of optimization options to one hundred, or maximize the task acceleration!
"Of course, that is, on the premise that I can fully master the Primordial Key."
Chen Yuan thought to himself, "And the way to control the Primordial Key is to cultivate a special secret technique called the Primordial Life Technique."
"By cultivating this secret technique, I can gradually elevate my life level to that of a primordial life form. But what is a primordial life form? Is this still a secret technique from the Devouring Star world?"
Chen Yuan was somewhat puzzled. In the world of Swallowing the Stars, he only knew about the existence of Primordial Life, but what kind of existence was the Primordial Life mentioned in the Primordial Key?
After thinking for a long time without reaching a conclusion, Chen Yuan shook his head helplessly: "Forget it, why bother with so much? Let's just focus on cultivation."
The information that had just flooded his mind contained the cultivation method of the first chapter of the "Primordial Life Law," which was called the Primordial Eye.
In other words, Chen Yuan only needs to cultivate the Primordial Eye according to the secret method to initially unlock his permissions in the system, and the higher the level of the Primordial Eye, the higher his permissions in the system will be.
"According to the secret method, the Primordial Eye has ten levels, the most difficult of which is the first level. Almost no one can successfully cultivate it because it requires the integration of Primordial Essence into the body."
"Although I've never heard of what the so-called Primordial Essence is, that doesn't stop me from completing the first level of cultivation."
Chen Yuan smiled slightly.
When he unlocked the Primordial Key, a pure white Primordial Essence appeared in his Optimization Space, which the system had specially reserved for him to use as an introductory tool.
Once you successfully enter the first level of "Eye of the Primordial Beginning", you can gradually improve until you reach the tenth level.
With this in mind, Chen Yuan began to refine the primordial essence according to the method in the secret technique.
With the blessing of the Primordial Essence, the cultivation of this secret technique went very smoothly. Chen Yuan only needed three days to successfully enter the first level of the Primordial Eye.
"Eye of Primordial Beginning, open!"
As Chen Yuan used his secret technique, his pupils turned pure white, emitting a faint glow, and the things he saw with his eyes changed accordingly.
"Is this the effect of the Primordial Eye—to perceive the origin of all things?"
Chen Yuan blinked. With the effect of activating the Primordial Eye, the things he saw were no longer the original forms, but rather forms that were closer to the origin.
To be more precise, these scenes were similar to what he had seen in the simulation space, where everything was broken down into its most basic form.
Of course, with the level of secret techniques that Chen Yuan has mastered so far, his understanding of the origin is still relatively superficial, and he cannot achieve the same level as in the simulated space.
However, as his understanding of the essence of all things in the world deepens, he will gain more and more insight into the fundamental information.
For example, when Chen Yuan looked at his divine kingdom, he could initially only discern a portion of its structural form, but as his understanding increased...
The amount of information he sees is also increasing.
"So this is how the divine kingdom is structured; it utilizes many innate secret patterns."
Chen Yuan called the secret patterns contained in the eight innate beast gods that he learned from the Beast God Realm "Innate Secret Patterns" because these secret patterns can basically explain everything about the Ten Great Laws.
For example, in the part of the divine kingdom structure he observed, he discovered many traces of innate secret patterns. In the future, as Chen Yuan's life level continues to evolve, the combination of these secret patterns will become more and more complex, until it evolves into a real universe.
"From the inner world to the divine realm, and then to the universe, this is the evolutionary path of the world."
Chen Yuan let out a long sigh of relief, then closed the Eye of Primordial Chaos.
The secret technique is good, but it's not the most important thing for him right now.
If cultivating the Primordial Eye could enhance his system privileges, he could have waited until he finished dealing with other matters before slowly cultivating.
"The most crucial thing now is to test whether the Divine Kingdom can be included in the optimization space."
With a thought, Chen Yuan attempted to incorporate the divine kingdom into the optimization space. The next second, this enormous divine kingdom, spanning trillions of kilometers, disappeared into the spatial torrent.
"It really worked!"
Chen Yuan's eyes lit up with joy. The optimized space actually recognized the divine kingdom as an item, and the entire thing could be placed inside!
"In this way, I will have no weaknesses again."
Chen Yuan revealed a satisfied expression: "Carrying the divine kingdom with me not only allows me to continue using the teleportation function of the optimized space, but also enables me to realize other ideas one by one, greatly increasing my upper limit of strength."
For the immortals residing in the divine realm, this was both the strongest and the weakest moment of their lives.
With the amplification provided by the divine kingdom, the strength of immortals will increase directly, far exceeding any conventional means, making it extremely difficult to kill immortals residing within the divine kingdom.
However, no one dared to reveal the location of their divine kingdom, because the divine kingdom was to the immortals what the primordial core was to the realm lord—extremely important.
If the primordial core is destroyed, the realm lord will surely die, and the divine kingdom will be destroyed. Ordinary weak immortals will not be able to withstand the backlash and will perish, while the strength of powerful immortals will be weakened to an extremely low level, with no possibility of further improvement!
Now that Chen Yuan has incorporated his divine kingdom into the optimization space, he has completely eliminated this weakness, because no one in the original universe can find the location of his divine kingdom, so naturally no one can destroy it.
However, he can always enjoy the boost to his strength from the divine kingdom, which is equivalent to stabilizing his strength at the level of a cosmic overlord.
With this, coupled with a set of top-tier treasures, one would have a chance to kill even a top-tier overlord.
"In other words, from now on, I have completely stepped into the pinnacle of the universe's strongest beings. Even if I don't hide in the Primordial Palace, ordinary universe lords can't do anything to me."
Chen Yuan said quietly, "And this is just my starting point."
He knew very well that he had only just broken through to immortality, and there was still a lot of room for improvement in both his equipment and arcane arts.
Once Chen Yuan has optimized all his skills to the limit, he is very much looking forward to seeing what level his strength can reach.
He might become the first being since the beginning of the universe to confront the ruler of the universe with an immortal body.
"Of course, the premise is that I have to optimize the equipment and arcane arts to the limit."
Chen Yuan thought to himself, "As for equipment, since I haven't learned the techniques of the Robber Armor and the Primal Soul from Master Zuoshanke yet, I'm not in a hurry to upgrade it."
"The most important thing right now is to optimize the sitting meditation method."
As Chen Yuan broke through to immortality, his soul strength also rose to the peak of the King level, and the difficulty of the Star Tower test indeed increased accordingly.
Just as Teacher Zuoshanke said, the will impact directly increased from the peak strength of the first level of the Lord of the Universe to the third level, and as time goes by, this power is getting stronger and stronger.
Although Chen Yuan's willpower also increased significantly due to the improvement of his soul, it only improved from the initial stage of the third rank to the mid-stage of the third rank. Compared with the changes in the Star Tower, it was almost a drop in the ocean.
At this rate, his will can only last for about two hundred years at most, because after two hundred years the Star Tower's will impact will rise to the fifth level, and such an impact can directly shatter his will.
That's why Chen Yuan urgently needed the Sitting in Oblivion Method to improve his mental state, because the strength of his will is linked to his mental state, which is essentially his mental power.
As long as there are cultivation techniques available, his willpower can keep pace with the Star Tower and continue to improve, thus successfully completing the test of recognizing a master.
Thinking of this, Chen Yuan immediately instructed: "System, optimize the Fetal Breathing Method, and add a cultivation method for the Sitting Meditation Realm, prioritizing the enhancement of mental will and abandoning universality, making it based on my own standards."
[This realm has been detected to be unique. Abandoning universality will not reduce energy consumption, but will only increase the compatibility with secret techniques. Should we continue optimization?]
"Unable to reduce energy consumption? Just like when we optimized the Nine Tribulations Manual."
Chen Yuan nodded indifferently: "Keep going, keep going. I don't need this little bit of optimization energy."
[Establish and optimize the task; optimization goal: fetal breathing method; optimization direction: add the "sitting in oblivion" state cultivation method, mainly to enhance mental will and achieve perfect compatibility with the host.]
[This task requires 9900 billion units of primal energy. Should it be optimized?]
"No way, the energy consumption is that high?!"
Chen Yuan's eyes widened. "I've already been crowned King and am invincible. Logically speaking, my life level should have reached the seventh rank. That should be enough to optimize an eleventh-rank mission, right?"
"Why is the price so high even for optimizing a level 10 quest? Shouldn't it be charged according to the natural level?"
After he retrieved the task parameters on the panel, he realized that he had been too naive.
Indeed, as he broke through to immortality, his life level did rise from the fifth to the seventh rank, and the previous tenth-rank optimization was naturally unlocked for him.
In reality, just like when one advances from the first level of a Realm Lord to the peak of a Realm Lord, although the increase is hundreds of times, it is only an accumulation of energy, and there is no essential transformation in the level of life.
And now it's the same. As Chen Yuan breaks through to immortality, although his divine power level directly reaches the peak of the King-Sealing stage, his life essence is still immortal, which is only equivalent to advancing one stage.
Therefore, even though Chen Yuan has advanced to the seventh rank, this seventh rank is no different from the sixth rank, because the system only recognizes changes in his life level.
As for seventh-tier items and arcane arts? That's because the optimized quest doesn't consider those at all; it only considers the quest's difficulty.
Because the difference between ordinary immortals and kings is already a hundredfold, the system set the king level as the seventh tier.
This is why, although Chen Yuan has reached the seventh rank, he is still considered to be at the sixth rank of life level in the system's evaluation. Therefore, the optimization limit only reached the tenth rank, instead of the expected eleventh rank.
Therefore, when he optimizes a level 10 task, he needs to follow the standard of "optimization beyond the level", which means he charges according to the task results.
The optimization cost for Tier 9 is between 100 million and 1 billion, while Tier 10 is a hundred times higher than Tier 9, so the optimization cost starts at 100 billion and is capped at 1 trillion.
In other words, the level of the Sitting Meditation Method has reached the ninth level of the tenth rank in the system's evaluation, so the optimization consumption is also close to the limit.
"Wait a minute, that doesn't seem to be the whole story."
Chen Yuan suddenly noticed something unusual in these parameters; it displayed:
[Since this task exceeds the difficulty of "Tenth Tier, Level Three", this task will be conducted using an optimized approach for higher tiers. Since the task still falls within the tenth tier, the basic fee will be waived.]
"Exceeding Tier 10, Level 3? Does that mean as long as the quality of the optimized task does not exceed Tier 9, Level 3, the optimization fee will be the normal rate?"
"And even for a cross-level optimization, since the task doesn't exceed ten levels, the cost of 100 billion to activate the cross-level optimization task is waived?"
Chen Yuan quickly understood the meaning of this message and breathed a slight sigh of relief: "It's alright. At least it optimized a general supreme treasure, and the cost wasn't too outrageous. Otherwise, I would have lost a fortune doing this job for Giant Axe."
Under normal optimization principles, upgrading from a top-tier legendary item to a supreme legendary item would actually be charged at the price of a top-tier legendary item.
That is, 10 billion units of primordial energy will suffice.
Without the "Tenth Tier, Level Three" restriction, Chen Yuan would have needed at least 200 billion energy to optimize a tenth-tier item.
That's a difference of two hundred times!
"Not bad. With my current energy reserves, I can easily optimize ordinary Tier 10 items."
"Even if we were to fully optimize the Meditation Method, we could afford it if it were just this one task."
Thinking of this, Chen Yuan glanced at the energy reserves below the panel.
[Primal Energy: 2.7 trillion units, with a primordial spirit absorption efficiency of 1000 million units/day]
After he broke through to the Forgetfulness Realm, his efficiency in absorbing the source increased fivefold, although the increase was not significant.
The main reason is that due to the Primal Treasure, the upper limit of the channels that can be opened is so high.
Even so, over the years, Chen Yuan has accumulated a considerable amount of primordial energy.
"Full of energy, take as much as you need."
"Optimization confirmed!"
After placing the task in the simulation space to begin the rehearsal, Chen Yuan glanced at the time and then casually closed the panel.
"It's time to go to Chaos City."
After the optimization space was installed in the divine kingdom, Chen Yuan saw no need to stay any longer. With a thought, he sensed the aura he had placed in the Chaos City.
The next second, Chen Yuan appeared in Chaos City.