Chapter 176: Deep Meditation
What exactly is a cultivation technique? Du Qianjue's mind buzzed with thoughts. Cultivation through one's own body, cultivation through battle aura, the Daoist method of the Golden Core, soul cultivation techniques... Initially, when reading novels, Du Qianjue thought those worlds were just the fantasies of brilliant authors. But after he truly crossed over to the world of Douluo Dalu, he realized that the worlds in those novels actually existed.
If the worlds in the novels exist, could the cultivation techniques described in them also be viable? If they are viable, could he possibly leverage the theories from those techniques? Du Qianjue didn't know, but he could certainly try.
First, he needed to identify which worlds shared similarities with the cultivation system of Douluo Dalu. The techniques that cultivate "qi" within the body, such as those using battle aura and those involving the Golden Core, all rely on "qi" as the source of power.
Battle aura, spiritual qi, immortal qi... Essentially, these energies are the same as "soul power"—they are all natural energies that drift through the world and are absorbed by cultivators for their practice. However, because Douluo Dalu has the unique elements of "martial souls" and "soul rings," one can become stronger without relying on specific cultivation techniques.
Could this mean that if he could create a cultivation technique completely different from the martial soul method, it might be possible to become stronger without absorbing soul rings? Perhaps it's feasible, though every advancement might involve tribulations similar to those faced by spirit beasts during thunder tribulations.
Spirit beasts cultivate their own bodies without using martial souls or soul rings. Their cultivation speed is incomparably slower than humans—like a turbocharged leap versus the slow crawl of a toad. Yet, spirit beasts have incredibly long lifespans. In other worlds, cultivating for a hundred thousand years, even a pig could wreak havoc, but a spirit beast with the same amount of cultivation can only match a Titled Douluo—strange and seemingly illogical.
Thus, creating a cultivation technique will definitely not conform to conventional wisdom... Compressing soul power into a more condensed and advanced form of energy doesn't work either. The final form of compressed soul power is the soul core, and no amount of further compression can transform it into the divine spirit qi unique to the divine realm, nor can it transform into divine power through the compression of soul power.
Breaking through to the God Origin Realm to reach the level of divine consciousness is also no simple task. It's nearly impossible to achieve just through cultivation. Du Qianjue might need to absorb the power of the Tyrant Overlord to advance. Just having the Skydream Iceworm isn't enough.
The path of cultivating divine consciousness could also be temporarily abandoned. Developing methods for cultivating spiritual power is even more challenging than those for cultivating soul power. Without reaching the level of divine consciousness, even if he were to create such techniques, he wouldn't be able to rapidly become powerful, and the benefits would be much less than those from developing a soul power technique.
What other paths are there to take? Unaware, Du Qianjue had fallen into deep meditation, his consciousness roaming in a sea of thoughts. Books from his previous life flashed through his mind, and various earth-shattering cultivation methods were analyzed repeatedly.
As the sun rose and set and the rain fell, a month quietly passed. "Hasn't he woken up yet?" Biji appeared behind Xue linglong, a look of concern on her delicate face.
Xue linglong gently shook her head. Even though Du Qianjue had been sitting in meditation for a month, his body remained spotlessly clean, an invisible aura swirling around him, forming a mysterious aura.
Although Du Qianjue appeared calm on the surface, the two soul cores within his body were operating in a peculiar manner. Resonating, linking... The changes happening to him were so profound that not even Xue linglong or Di Tian could understand. They only knew he had entered a strange state.
"How long will this state last? The fluctuations emanating from his two soul cores are truly disconcerting," Biji said softly, her hand gently brushing over her luxurious feathered dress.
"Don't worry too much; it should be a good sign," Xue linglong's ice-blue eyes shone slightly, sensing the orderly yet mysterious fluctuations around Du Qianjue. Although the operation of the soul cores seemed unstable, there was no sign of losing control, indicating that everything was still under Du Qianjue's control.
"It's just a preliminary idea, and he's already testing it on himself. That's too reckless," Xue linglong couldn't help but shake her head helplessly.
"Maybe he can't control it himself; he's entered deep meditation. We can only hope that he can grasp this opportunity," Biji said with a bitter smile.
The two uniquely magnificent beings quietly watched over Du Qianjue from not too far away, gazing at his seated silhouette. At this moment, Du Qianjue was completely unaware of his own body. His spirit seemed to soar through the cosmos.
Bright points of light appeared before his eyes, some as tiny as dust, others as vast as suns. As his perspective zoomed out, these points of light stretched into brilliant trails at incredible speeds.
Eventually, countless points connected, forming an intricate network. "What is that...?" Du Qianjue's consciousness awoke from the haze, astonished by the network formed by the myriad points of light, resembling the supercluster structures he had read about in his previous life.
As his vision cleared, the supercluster-like network continued to expand, eventually forming a complete human body—his own body. Du Qianjue was all too familiar with his own body's conditions. The soul power core in his chest, the attribute soul core in his abdomen, and the countless streams of light driven by the two cores flowed along the glowing pathways.
Milky white soul power, colorful attribute forces. Driven by the two soul cores, the forces flowed through Du Qianjue's meridians in the paths dictated by the Xuantian technique, the vortexes representing the two soul cores especially prominent in the network diagram.
"Why am I seeing this scene?" After waking up, Du Qianjue's consciousness did not return to his body but could clearly see the network diagram representing his own meridians continuously operating.
Gradually, Du Qianjue seemed to be enchanted, casting aside his scattered thoughts and staring at the ever-operating network diagram.
Outside, time did not slow down because of Du Qianjue's deep meditation.
Two months, three months... Xue linglong remained by Du Qianjue's side, either cultivating or sitting elegantly, her gaze constantly fixed on him, unchanging for a long time.
Even when Biji offered to watch over him for a while so she could go out, Xue linglong did not agree.
Xue linglong's vigil lasted for a full half-year.
(End of Chapter)