But the principles behind the Absorption Star Grand Method in Yu Ma’s version of The Smiling, Proud Wanderer are different from the others, so why would the content be the same?
Or does a difference in setting not affect the content within?
He opened his eyes and shook his head. Honestly, it had just been curiosity. In the end, it didn’t really matter what principle this Absorption Star Grand Method was based on.
After all, gravity itself was a part of nature. If he wanted to speed up the rate at which he absorbed spiritual energy, he could just infuse the energy directly into his body on his own.
There might be some differences, but overall it would be roughly the same.
But there was no point. He was already getting stronger quickly enough. Cultivating some secret manual might even slow down his rate of improvement.
It’s like when Kamen Rider Gaim, the silly orange, became a god — did he still need a transformation device? The device would only limit his power.
Personally, compared to strengthening himself, what he actually wanted more was to create a universal cultivation method that could boost the cultivation speed for everyone.
Because of the Nature Authority, whenever humans or mutated creatures grew stronger, he would also grow stronger by a certain proportion. It was as if his rate of becoming stronger was directly linked to every living creature on Earth.
That being the case, there was no need for him to hide anything or keep secrets.
But, as expected, it just didn’t work.
Better to wait until the chat group unlocks a new function, one that can optimize these manuals into versions cultivable in each world, and then talk about it.
Dongfang Bubai: “@Child of Nature, was Ren Woxing’s Absorption Star Grand Method useful?”
Inside the chat group, Dongfang Bai asked with some curiosity.
After all, their worlds were different. She was very curious whether the inner energy cultivation methods from her own world would even work in Bai Xuan’s world.
And that energy called spiritual energy — it was as if it was the purest origin of heaven and earth itself. Similar to inner energy, yet seemingly a higher-level version of it. Just a single Spirit Energy Pearl had pushed her cultivation level up by more than one full realm, directly sending her into the late stage of the Innate Realm.
At this level, aside from her master, was there anyone left who could defeat her?
Even Feng Qingyang of the Huashan Sect wouldn’t have that ability. Before her breakthrough, she had already been on par with him; after the breakthrough, he was even less qualified.
Linghu Chong… if the chat group had never existed, would she have fallen in love with him?
Dongfang Bai’s expression was somewhat complicated, yet she could still understand why her future self had developed feelings for him.
But now, that possibility was gone. She was hardly a woman so easily blinded by love, and after watching the memory copy and learning about her decidedly unlovely future, how could she possibly fall into that trap again?
Besides, was Linghu Chong even worth her affection?
That man probably could never forget his little junior sister in his heart.
Child of Nature: “It was useless. And interestingly enough, its content was identical to what came up when I searched it in the browser.”
Child of Nature: “Probably just swapped the setting.”
Ordinary Group Owner: “Whoa, that’s such a rip-off?!”
Ordinary Group Owner: “Doesn’t that mean in the future, no matter what secret manual gets sent over, we won’t be able to train in it?”
There were a few martial arts manuals she really had wanted to try practicing once her constitution improved a bit later.
Especially the Taiji Fist passed down from Zhang Sanfeng. With a different world, who knows, it might have been possible to derive some supreme great path from it.
But as it looked now, that seemed out of the question.
Child of Nature: “Isn’t there still the chat group? When it unlocks new abilities later, maybe it’ll be possible.”
Ordinary Group Owner: “The chat group?”
Ordinary Group Owner: “If you hadn’t mentioned it, I’d have completely taken it as just a chat tool. So besides check-ins and the lottery, it actually has new functions.”
Ordinary Group Owner: “This trashy chat group.”
Ding! Unknown error detected. Chat group owner has been muted for thirty minutes.
Turning Daigo into Soup: “…”
Turning Daigo into Soup: “This is the second time, right?”
The Worst Evil Spirit: “The group owner must be the first person ever muted by the chat group, right?”
Child of Nature: “Not just that. She’s probably the first group owner to get muted by her own chat group.”
The Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “Group owner is such a wimp.”
Glory of the Northern God: “So, you’re saying you’re really brave?”
The Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “You kidding? I’m super brave, alright.”
Glory of the Northern God: “Please begin your performance.jpg”
The Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “…”
The Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “The original line wasn’t even that, shouldn’t it have been ‘Let me take a look’?”
The Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “You damn Shiba Inu, playing dirty with me!”
Glory of the Northern God: “Shiba Inu evil grin.jpg”
Glory of the Northern God: “Shiba Inu disdainful stare.jpg”
Glory of the Northern God: “I am Thor, the God of Thunder! The glory of the Northern God!”
The Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “You damn Shiba Inu, just wait until I finish my anti-Thor armor! I’ll make sure you kneel and call me daddy!”
The Worst Evil Spirit: “You want to be Hong Qigong?”
Dongfang Bubai: “He should be thankful Thor’s father is human; otherwise, he’d be aiming to be a dog.”
Uchiha Dance King: “Just wondering whose dog he wants to be.”
Be My Son: “Kula la la la, mine, of course, you brat!”
Child of Nature: “???”
Child of Nature: “The few days I was away from the chat group, just what did Su Yunqing teach you people?!”
Why was he seeing memes that only belonged to the modern era? Even “Jie Ge” had appeared.
Just what has this woman done to his chat group?!
Glory of the Northern God: “Shiba Inu pondering.jpg”
Glory of the Northern God: “A lot, a lot.”
The Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “But there’s a ton we still don’t get.”
The Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “Sometimes when I make her mad, she suggests I go mountain climbing with her.”
The Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “What does that mean?”
Child of Nature: “She invited you mountain climbing?”
Bai Xuan’s eyelid twitched slightly. If he wasn’t mistaken, she was basically ready to attend a funeral feast.
But inviting Iron Man to go mountain climbing — where did she even get the nerve?!
Turning Daigo into Soup: “Sometimes she’ll also say things like ‘Grandpa’s youth is back.’ What does that mean?”
The Worst Evil Spirit: “It seems to mean something like grandpa’s youth has returned. My old man posted a video of him fighting Kaido a while back, and every time the Tremor-Tremor Fruit’s effects appeared on screen, the group owner would send that.”
The Worst Evil Spirit: “Is her youth my old man?”
The Worst Evil Spirit: “@Child of Nature, you and the group owner are from the same world, the same country. In your world, what does youth look like?”
Seeing Tokisaki Kurumi’s words, Bai Xuan could not help but fall silent.
Memories surfaced in his mind.
Child of Nature: “Youth…”
Child of Nature: “It’s probably a blond brat shouting that he wants to become Hokage, a man wearing a straw hat yelling that he will become the Pirate King, the Sparklence turning to powder in the air, the pink hat drifting in the wind, the tennis ball hitting the ground…”
Child of Nature: “That was a time carefree and almost entirely without worries.”
In his memories, their youth had been very long — incredibly, immeasurably long — supported by countless anime that carried them across year after year. Yet it also felt so short; before they’d had time to look back, they’d unknowingly become adults.
And those anime that had belonged to them had also, unknowingly, come to their end.
