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

After leaving Shaolin Temple, you headed south to Dali.

Tianlong Temple is located on Cangshan Mountain outside Dali City and was the royal temple of the Dali Duan family.

The temple houses the manual for the Six Meridians Divine Sword, the most advanced sword technique in the world, formless, intangible, and indestructible.

Instead of entering through the front gate, you climbed over the wall into the backyard.

The security at Tianlong Temple was much laxer than at Shaolin Temple. Several old monks were meditating in their meditation rooms, oblivious to what was happening outside.

You found the Sutra Repository, pushed open the door and went in. The Sutra Repository was not big, only one floor, with some Buddhist scriptures and martial arts classics on the bookshelves.

You found the Six Meridians Divine Sword manual on the innermost bookshelf. It was a thin book with four words written on the cover: Six Meridians Divine Sword.

If you open the sword manual and read it word by word, you will find that the core of the Six Meridians Divine Sword is "controlling the sword with qi", which means shooting out internal force from the fingertips to form invisible sword qi.

Each meridian corresponds to a finger—the thumb is the Shaoshang sword, the index finger is the Shangyang sword, the middle finger is the Zhongchong sword, the ring finger is the Guanchong sword, the little finger is the Shaochong sword, and the left little finger is the Shaoze sword.

With all six meridians unleashed, sword energy surges forth, making one invincible.

You read the sword manual from beginning to end. Your photographic memory allowed you to remember every word and every picture. Then you put the manual back where it belonged, turned around, and left the library.

As you walked out of Tianlong Temple, it was almost dawn. Standing on Cangshan Mountain, looking at Dali City in the distance, a surge of heroic spirit welled up in your heart.

With the Seventy-Two Arts of Shaolin Temple, the Six Meridian Divine Sword of Tianlong Temple, the Free and Unfettered Martial Arts of Lingjiu Palace, plus your own Beiming Divine Skill and sword intent, the number of martial arts you have in your mind is so many that even you can't count them all.

But you didn't rush to practice. You knew that you couldn't bite off more than you could chew, and that martial arts skills are not about quantity but quality.

You need time to digest, absorb, and integrate these things, making them your own.

[The sixteenth year has passed. Entry extraction in progress... It was detected that the host visited Lingjiu Palace, Shaolin Temple, and Tianlong Temple within the past year, learning a great deal of martial arts from the Xiaoyao School, Shaolin School, and Dali Duan Family...]

[Congratulations, host, you have obtained the blue attribute: Martial Arts Master (Beginner)]

[Effect: Significantly enhances understanding and comprehension of all martial arts. Increases the speed of learning new martial arts by 100%, the speed of mastering and integrating them by 100%, and greatly enhances the ability to create one's own martial arts.]

[Quality: Blue Elite]

As you look at this term, a smile curls up on your lips: "Martial Arts Master"? This is exactly what you need right now.

With this entry, all those messy martial arts techniques in your head can be systematically digested and absorbed, becoming your own.

[System notification: Current term statistics...]

[White entries: 32]

[Green entries: 6]

[Blue entries: 5 in total (Sword Intent Completion, Danger Perception, Limitless Freedom, Endless Northern Darkness, Martial Arts Master)]

[Purple Entry: 1 (Northern Sea Returns to the Ocean)]

You've decided to go into seclusion. You need to stay quietly by Taihu Lake for a while to sort out, organize, and practice the martial arts techniques in your mind.

The Seventy-Two Arts of Shaolin Temple, the Six Meridian Divine Sword of Tianlong Temple, the Free and Unfettered Martial Arts of Lingjiu Palace...

There's so much stuff to learn that it can feel overwhelming. If you don't digest it in time, you'll forget it over time, and forgetting it means you've learned nothing.

You found a cave on the hillside behind the yard, cleaned it up, laid out dry grass, and moved in.

Mu Wanqing and Wang Yuyan bring you meals every day, once in the morning and once in the evening. You don't let them stay too long, afraid of distracting you.

The days of seclusion are tedious, but you don't feel it because you have "perseverance," and your patience and focus far exceed those of ordinary people.

Every morning he practices the Six Meridians Divine Sword, every afternoon he practices the Seventy-Two Ultimate Skills, and every evening he meditates to cultivate the Northern Darkness Inner Force.

Day after day, month after month, it's so tedious it can drive you crazy, but you enjoy it.

The Six Meridian Divine Sword is the most difficult to master. This martial art requires extremely profound internal strength and a very high level of control over finger strength.

Your Northern Darkness Inner Strength is already quite profound, but your control over finger strength is not yet refined enough.

It took you three months to barely be able to shoot sword energy from your fingertips, but the range was only a few feet, and it was unreliable at times.

"Don't rush," you tell yourself. "Duan Yu practiced for so long and it was still inconsistent. You've only practiced for three months, what's the rush?"

The Seventy-Two Arts were learned much more smoothly. Although these martial arts were exquisite, they were all based on the same principle: the core was the circulation and exertion of internal energy.

You possess the "Martial Arts Master (Beginner)" rank, and your understanding of various martial arts far surpasses that of ordinary people.

You spent a month mastering more than a dozen of the seventy-two unique skills to a minor level.

Not all of them, but the key ones: Yi Jin Jing, Vajra Indestructible Body Divine Skill, Wu Xiang Jie Zhi, Nian Hua Zhi... you've mastered these most practical martial arts quite well.

The cultivation of Beiming internal energy was not neglected. Every night, meditation was your most enjoyable time. You would close your eyes and feel the Beiming internal energy slowly circulating within your body, one circle, two circles, three circles... Each circle made the internal energy purer and more concentrated.

Your internal strength has reached a terrifying level. The combined power of Ding Chunqiu's remaining internal strength, You Tanzhi's Ice Silkworm Poison Skill, and Murong Fu's Star Shift Skill.

In addition to your own fifteen years of cultivation, the power within your body is no less than that of any top expert in this era.

But you're not satisfied; you want more.

You spent the entire winter in the cave.

In early spring, you emerge from the cave, stand on the hillside, and gaze at the distant Taihu Lake.

The ice on the lake has melted, the water is rippling, and several egrets are foraging for food by the water's edge.

Peach blossoms covered the mountains, their pink and white petals falling in the spring breeze like a silent snowfall.

You take a deep breath and feel lighter all over, not in terms of weight, but in terms of your mind.

You've almost finished organizing the martial arts techniques in your mind, and you can use the Six Meridians Divine Sword now. Although its range is still less than ten feet, at least it won't be unreliable anymore.

You have mastered more than a dozen of the Seventy-Two Arts, and the Yi Jin Jing has made your internal energy more refined, while the Vajra Indestructible Body Divine Skill has made your body more resilient.

Beiming's internal energy had become even more profound; you could feel your strength had reached a new level.

Mu Wanqing and Wang Yuyan stood at the foot of the hillside, looking up at you.

Mu Wanqing wore a light blue spring dress, her hair was tied up with a silver hairpin, and she held the precious sword forged by the descendants of Ou Yezi in her hand.

Wang Yuyan was wearing a moon-white dress, her hair was loose over her shoulders, and she was holding a book in her hand.

The two stood together, one spirited and the other gentle, like two flowers blooming side by side.

"Come down for dinner," Mu Wanqing called out.

You smiled, activated your Lingbo Weibu (a martial arts technique), and floated down the hillside like a falling leaf, landing in front of the two of you.

"Let's go home." You put your arms around one of them and walked into the yard.