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Chapter 116 Summary of Gains, Supernatural Powers and Techniques

Lin Zhuo spent some time summarizing his gains from this dungeon run. His income from Disaster Coins alone exceeded seven thousand. Including the various drops and the items he didn't need, his total income came to just over ten thousand Disaster Coins.

Thinking back to when he first entered the dungeon, he only had 1 Disaster Coin in his account. Now, Lin Zhuo is practically a tycoon.

Lin Zhuo found it both bizarre and amusing that someone in a human community could feel joy because of the growth of their personal assets.

Of course, the value of Disaster Coins cannot be measured using any modern world currency. Disaster Coins can be considered equivalent to a player's strength, since there are too many ways to convert them into personal power. In the real world, however, they are essentially worthless commodities that you can't take with you when you die.

In the final stage of the dungeon, after Lin Zhuo fought against the twenty-four top grandmasters of the world, he established a rule that the Demonic Sect's thousand-year-old treasure would be distributed and supervised by the Martial Alliance. As long as the major sects helped the Snow Region develop its martial arts and people's livelihood normally, they would receive a large sum of money every year.

This completed the [Eternal Extinction of Demonic Plague] dungeon on Purgatory difficulty, and the rewards were quite substantial. The gray and white quality items and equipment were unremarkable, so I simply put them up for recycling on the forum. However, the blue quality drop was a brand new Enlightenment Diagram.

【Enlightenment Diagram - Three Feet in the Mortal Realm (Superior Grade - Blue)】

【Ancient land rejuvenated, a dream glimpsed amidst the bustling world. —Inscription on a painting】

Lin Zhuo had already opened and examined the Enlightenment Diagram. The overall style of the scroll immediately reminded him of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival," which depicted the cityscapes and scenery of a remote western region, already a scene of prosperity. It seemed to be the landscape of the snowy plateau many years later, showing both the flourishing and the treacherous aspects of the mortal world. Overall, it represented significant progress; at least he didn't see those ritual implements used in blood sacrifices.

If this is truly the future of the snowy region he created after annihilating the demonic sect, Lin Zhuo is quite happy.

His affinity with this scroll of enlightenment is quite good, almost on par with the "Deep Secret Earth Treasury". Therefore, Lin Zhuo can assert that the true symbols hidden in this scroll are also a kind of primordial energy belonging to the nature of the earth.

Lower-level primordial energy can be combined and refined to obtain higher-level primordial energy. To comprehend the talismanic characters and true talismanic characters of higher-level primordial energy, one often needs to accumulate knowledge of lower-level primordial energy.

Lin Zhuo always felt that the more of these kinds of enlightenment diagrams the better.

Currently, he has two enlightenment diagrams. The other one, "Unobstructed Void Treasury," is not very compatible with his personality, so Lin Zhuo will keep it for now and make a decision after he finishes comprehending "Three Zhang of the Mortal World."

During the final stage of their stay in the "Cangcheng" instance, due to the significant contributions of Lin Zhuo and other players to the martial arts world, the four visitors from outer space were awarded the Golden Medal of Hero by the Martial Arts Alliance.

This can be considered a personal achievement. The difficulty level was extremely high, but the rewards were rather unremarkable, mainly just commemorative collectibles. There was also a blue-quality item called the "Jianghu Pursuit Order," which could summon five illusory martial artists equivalent to Lv3 Qi Masters to fight alongside him. It was useless to him, so he simply put it on the forum to recycle.

When Lin Zhuo returned to the White Egret Sword Sect to visit his old friends as promised, he received a grand welcome. The high-ranking members of the entire sect were impressed by the profound mysteries of talismanic arts he left behind, while the elite members of the middle ranks studied them day and night, and revered Lin Zhuo as their patriarch.

Then, this group of Taoist priests, who had been thinking it over and planning for a long time, bestowed the position of sect leader upon Lin Zhuo. Even though it was just an honorary title, they still held a ceremony in accordance with the ancestral rules.

The bell at the Golden Summit of the Sword Sect rang an unprecedented 365 times, both to express gratitude for the unparalleled achievements of the legendary swordsman Lin and to celebrate his ascension to the position of sect leader.

Lin Zhuo accepted it calmly and successfully unlocked the achievement "Master of a Sect". The reward he received was a large number of weapon blueprints, elixir recipes, Jianghu recipes and martial arts skill books in the style of Bailu Sword Sect.

Lin Zhuo was happy to share many knowledge-based items and information with Chi Jiang, but either the effects were too poor to compare with modern technology, or spiritual materials were required.

Naturally created spiritual materials usually require the presence of special elements of heaven and earth, such as spiritual energy and magic, in the environment. For example, the world of the "Cangcheng" dungeon is a low-magic plane. Although the spiritual energy is so thin that it cannot be sensed or absorbed by martial artists, it does exist.

Lin Zhuo is now a Level 5 Qi Master. After returning to the real world, he also tried to capture spiritual energy. This special energy can often resonate with thoughts and feelings, and is then shaped by willpower and beliefs, producing various supernatural phenomena. After a Qi Master extends their divine meridians outside their body, it's like spreading out a fishing net. The strong personal will attached to the Qi can quickly attract and gather spiritual energy.

However, he didn't capture even a trace of inspiration.

This world is probably a completely magic-free plane. As a result, it is very difficult to grow spiritual plants and raise spiritual beasts, and it is not feasible in the short term.

When Lin Zhuo chatted with Chi Jiang, he revealed his special identity as a player on the Comprehensive Network. He could currently use his Disaster Coin balance to buy resources that could slightly improve the scientific level of the Human Community.

However, Akagami dissuaded him from his idea at the time.

"————If the multiverse integrated game network you mentioned conforms to the development rules of all games, then the best investment in the early stages is to use it on yourself. Don't spend an extra disaster coin on the community. Focus on improving yourself."

"Wait until you get through the slow and difficult development period, and your military strength allows the resources at your disposal to start snowballing, then consider investing a portion of them in the collective."

"Comrade Lin Zhuo, every bit of your personal growth is a great step forward for the entire human race. Now is the time for the collective to cherish and help you. Don't be in a hurry to repay us. You are still young, and civilization is still young. We have plenty of time."

Lin Zhuo could only nod upon hearing this.

However, he did not give up on introducing practical information about astronomy from the comprehensive online forum into the community.

Everything else on the forum may be unimportant, but the Grand Mage's online course on runic literature, a treasure of the multiverse, is truly worth sharing.

The advantage of using artificial intelligence to learn runes is that it has sufficient computing power and can easily grasp mathematical principles, but its fatal flaw is that a computer made of mortal energy cannot withstand the erosion of magical power.

Lin Zhuo is not the first player to try to make artificial intelligence learn runes. There are countless examples of this, and predecessors have summarized many experiences and lessons that he should learn from.

The most terrifying phenomenon in all these cases is the "erosion of the Way and the Law".

Artificial intelligence is prone to getting stuck on minor details. If it tries to memorize runes, drawing rune shapes hundreds of millions of times per second, causing a surge of magical power, it can instantly overwhelm computing and storage units, resulting in severe losses and various unpredictable disasters. Artificial intelligence itself also has a very high probability of malfunctioning or even disappearing completely.

Lin Zhuo naturally didn't want to see anything happen to Chi Jiang, so he wouldn't transmit any online course materials to it. Instead, he planned to find another computer that wasn't connected to the internet, equipped with specialized artificial intelligence, so that even if an accident occurred and it was damaged or scrapped, he wouldn't feel bad.

After Xiang Chijiang made the request for an independent computer and assisted intelligence, he no longer needed to worry about this matter and could simply wait for the results.

The free time we have now can be used to devise a training method.

Lin Zhuo opened the integrated network panel and glanced at his personal information.

Occupation: Qigong Master Lv5 (4750/40900)

Occupational Characteristics (New)

Qi Gathering: This allows one to absorb the primordial energy of heaven and earth into the divine meridians, combining it with mental energy to form true essence. From a level 2 Qigong master opening their Qi Sea and planting the seed of their inner world, to a level 3 Qigong master where the seed sprouts and extends into the divine meridians, and so on...

A master of Qigong can break through the limitations of the physical body and extend their spiritual meridians into the outside world.

Upon reaching level 5, the divine vein matures further, evolving from allowing only mental energy to enter and exit to allowing the primordial energy of heaven and earth to seep in, be captured and bound by the divine vein. Now, when the divine vein attaches itself to external objects, it can extract primordial energy like tree roots absorbing nutrients, plundering power from all things in heaven and earth, a process known as "energy gathering."

Depending on the practitioner's affinity, the primordial energy that can be combined with the breath varies.

Lin Zhuo has now comprehended a true talisman character [Stone], which means he can easily draw vital energy from various rocks and quickly combine his mental energy with it to form true essence.

At this point, the development paths of Qigong practitioners diverged.

The martial artists in the world of "Cangcheng" still follow the idea of ​​internal energy cultivation, squandering their true essence as an enhanced version of mental energy.

The Qigong masters of the past did the same thing, but in the current version, they have developed supernatural techniques and begun to master magical power.

The supernatural power technique uses a true talisman as its core seed, ensuring absolute control over primordial energy.

Then, the talismans are combined to form a restriction, thereby obtaining magical spells and supernatural powers, which can unleash various strange magical effects from true essence.

Ghostly drawing spells are called minor supernatural powers, spiritual writing spells are called intermediate supernatural powers, dragon chapter spells are called major supernatural powers, and imperial calligraphy spells are called immortal supernatural powers.

A single core seed rune, surrounded by multiple supernatural restrictions, forms a supernatural technique.

Ordinary martial arts qigong is almost powerless against supernatural qigong of the same level; the fundamental difference between the two is extremely difficult to overcome.

On the day Lin Zhuo advanced to Lv5, he began creating a supernatural cultivation technique, but it is still not finished.

[Unnamed blank skill]

Skill completion rate: 55%

[Skill Credibility 43%]

This unfinished task requires even more effort; once completed, it will open up a whole new world.