Devour: Can you also draw entries from clone projection worlds?

You walked up the mountain path and found the wooden house by instinct.

The wooden house is small, with a main room and a bedroom. There is a small vegetable garden behind the house and an old locust tree in front of it.

As you push open the door, a musty smell hits you, indicating that no one has lived here for some time.

You opened the windows to ventilate the house, took the bedding outside to air it out, and then went to the mountain stream to fetch a bucket of water to wipe down the inside and outside of the house.

After working for most of the day, the wooden house was finally habitable.

You sit under the old locust tree and begin to plan your next steps: Now that you've appeared in Wuliang Mountain, there's nothing more to say than to find the Langhuan Blessed Land and learn the Beiming Divine Skill and Lingbo Steps.

However, you're not in a hurry. According to your memory of the plot, Duan Yu fell into Langhuan Paradise several years later in the original novel, giving you enough time to plan.

Moreover, your body is only about fifteen or sixteen years old. Your body hasn't fully developed yet, and you don't have any internal energy. Even if you find the secret cave, you might not be able to learn the Northern Darkness Divine Art immediately.

You need to build a solid physical foundation and practice basic martial arts before you go looking for the secret cave.

You set a plan for yourself: in the first month, you will only lay the foundation, practice your fists and feet, body movements, and internal strength.

You need to start from scratch and learn a new set of techniques.

Since the original owner's memories contained no martial arts techniques, you can only start with the techniques you learned in the world of Swordsman.

Although the two systems are slightly different, the underlying logic of the exercises is the same: both guide internal energy to circulate in the meridians through breathing and intention.

You've practiced internal energy cultivation for thirty years in the world of Swordsman, and you've become thoroughly familiar with the pathways of your meridians, the gathering and dispersing of internal energy, and the techniques for using internal energy.

Even if you change your body, you won't forget these things. You start by practicing the most basic breathing exercises, one hour each morning and evening, without fail. This is even taking into account your body's capacity; otherwise...

On the first day, you will have a trace of internal energy in your dantian. The amount is very small, like a drop of water, but it is real.

You begin to guide this internal energy to circulate in your meridians, one circle, two circles, three circles... With each circle, the internal energy grows stronger, and your body becomes stronger as well.

A month later, the internal energy in your dantian is like a small river. The amount is still not much, but it is pure.

Because... when you prepare to use the Northern Darkness Divine Art as your cultivation method, this internal energy is destined to be just a transition, so what you are actually doing is to temper your body with internal energy.

Therefore... after continuously tempering your body with internal energy for a month, your body is now comparable to that of an average expert in external martial arts.

When you throw a punch, your advantage is clearly more pronounced compared to other minor masters of internal energy.

[Then you consciously began searching for the location of Langhuan Paradise on Wuliang Mountain.]

You know that the secret cave is in the back of Wuliang Mountain, behind a waterfall, but the exact location... you really have to go and explore it yourself.

In the original story, Duan Yu fell down while chasing a wild rabbit. You don't have any wild rabbits to chase, so you have to find them yourself.

You spent several days exploring the entire back of Wuliang Mountain and found several waterfalls, but none of them were the entrance to Langhuan Paradise.

Even so, you're not in a hurry.

You know that the Land of Blessed Land is definitely on this mountain, you just haven't found it yet, and you don't really lack time for now.

You practice your skills while searching, treating finding the secret cave as a daily "extracurricular activity."

Half a year has passed, and you still haven't found the Blessed Land of Langhuan, but your internal cultivation has made considerable progress.

The internal energy in your dantian is almost turning from a small stream into a mighty river. If you hadn't been constantly tempering your body, you probably would have already broken through.

At the same time, you begin practicing swordsmanship. With the "Sword Heart Clarity" skill, your swordsmanship improves at an astonishing speed.

[First year complete, keyword extraction in progress... Congratulations, host, for obtaining the white keyword: Abundant Stamina]

You glanced at it, showed no emotion, accepted it, and then continued practicing your skills and searching for the secret cave.

Life is just as monotonous as in the world of Swordsman, but you've gotten used to it; at least you never feel bored.

Another month has passed, and you have finally found the blessed land of Langhuan.

That day, as usual, you wandered around the back mountain and came to a valley you had never been to before. There was a stream in the valley with clear water flowing out from a crack in the mountain wall.

You walk upstream along the stream until you reach a crack, and you find that there is nothing behind the crack.

You squeeze in sideways and find that it's a small cave with moss growing on the walls and a thick layer of dust on the ground.

At the end of the cave, there is a stone door.

Your heart races. You push open the stone door with all your might, and a musty smell hits you. Behind the door is a long, downward stone staircase that seems to go on forever.

You take out a tinderbox, light a pine branch you had prepared beforehand, and walk down the stone steps.

After walking for about fifteen minutes, the stone steps came to an end.

Before me was a spacious stone chamber, and in the very center of the chamber stood a stone statue of a woman, so lifelike and beautiful that she seemed otherworldly.

At the feet of the stone statue, there was a futon, which was old and covered with dust.

Your heart skipped a beat, because you knew perfectly well that beneath the futon lay the secret manuals of the Northern Darkness Divine Art and the Lingbo Steps.

You walk over and lift the prayer mat.

Sure enough, there was a hidden compartment under the cushion, and inside was a scroll of silk.

You carefully picked up the silk scroll, unfolded it, and saw that it was densely covered with writing, as well as diagrams of the human body's meridians.

"The Northern Darkness Divine Art? The Lingbo Steps?"

You took a deep breath and read through the contents of the silk scroll from beginning to end, making it known to everyone.

The core of the Northern Darkness Divine Art is: "The Great Northern Darkness Water does not arise spontaneously. As the saying goes, 'All rivers flow into the sea, and the sea's water is obtained by containing all rivers.' The vast ocean is formed through accumulation."

To put it bluntly, it means absorbing other people's internal energy for one's own use.

This kind of skill is a heaven-defying existence in the world of martial arts; once mastered, one's internal energy can grow infinitely.

However, the risks are also great. If the internal energy absorbed is of a different nature, it will conflict within the body, which may result in qi deviation or even death from body explosion.

Lingbo Weibu is an extremely exquisite movement technique based on the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching. Each step corresponds to a hexagram, and the movement is as smooth as flowing clouds and water, making it unpredictable.

Once mastered, you can move freely through crowds, and your enemies won't even be able to touch the hem of your clothes.

You read the contents of the silk scroll several times until you were sure you had memorized every word and every picture before putting the scroll back into the hidden compartment.

You won't and don't intend to take anything from the original story. Duan Yu will still learn what he needs to learn, and you won't disrupt the plot.

You only "looked at" it, you didn't "take it".