I Don't Agree to the Terms
Chapter 389 - 220: The Illusion of the Mind Racing on a Highway_2

Chapter 389: Chapter 220: The Illusion of the Mind Racing on a Highway_2

After exchanging a few more idle words, Xi Huan finally left.

Shen An followed him, looking around with curiosity. It was his first time going far from home, and since the trip back to the sect had taken merely moments, he hadn’t felt much then.

But this time, he had taken the sect’s flying boat with Gu Shanhai, which allowed for a more direct view.

"Master, are we going to stay here for five years?" Shen An asked curiously. To him, five years seemed a very long time.

"Probably, how long you’ll stay depends on your progress in learning. Once you’ve learned enough, I’ll have you follow the Sect Leader Grandmaster." Gu Shanhai couldn’t remember what Yun Yu’s formal relationship to him was, but addressing him as Grandmaster was definitely correct.

Shen An’s face fell: "I don’t want to follow the Sect Leader Grandmaster, he always makes me read books, and after I’ve read them, he asks if I can come up with something new..."

As Shen An spoke, his facial features scrunched up at the unpleasant memories that came flooding back.

"..." Gu Shanhai also had a headache. That was preposterous; even if he wanted to modify a legacy or extrapolate new cultivation techniques, that required a sufficient amount of knowledge.

With Shen An’s limited store of knowledge, how could he possibly innovate? That was too much to ask for.

"He’s joking with you; don’t take it to heart." Gu Shanhai could only offer some words of comfort, then continued, "You haven’t finished today’s exercises, have you? Get them done, or you’re going to suffer for it."

This plunged Shen An into an even deeper gloom. Not only did he have to recall unpleasant memories, but he also had to do his exercises. Life was cruel.

Gu Shanhai took him inside the house and Shen An began his daily exercises.

Shen An’s strength was progressing rapidly. In at most another seven or eight years, he would be ready to start preparing for the breakthrough to the Purple Mansion Stage.

Although he was special, he didn’t seem to be a match for Gu Shanhai and Shen Heng. One was exceeding standards and the other had a Golden Finger; at most, Shen An simply had good talent.

Gu Shanhai sat in the main seat, using the master vein of the spirit vein to sense the spirit veins of Hualong Mountain.

"Can such a vast spirit vein truly be successfully assimilated into my body?"

Facing the spirit vein of Hualong Mountain, Gu Shanhai began to doubt his life.

Spirit veins were not illusory; they were real and tangible.

"Okay, it actually is possible. I shouldn’t challenge the world’s common sense with my own thoughts." Gu Shanhai criticized himself. He’d already planted all sorts of flora in his body—stuffing in a spirit vein was par for the course now.

Gu Shanhai operated numerous revised versions of the "Locking Mountain Spell" technique, followed by the "Upper True Spirit Mountain Method," used for assimilating the spirit vein.

In that instant, he felt the entire spirit vein, like a massive truck on the highway, crash directly into his body.

"Hisss—this is terrifying," Gu Shanhai gasped.

The force nearly scrambled his brains.

Luckily, he was strong and his physical condition far exceeded that of an average person at the Purple Mansion Stage, otherwise, he might have been seriously injured.

Normally, assimilating a spirit vein wasn’t dangerous; it was Gu Shanhai’s modified Locking Mountain Spell that was outrageous, causing the assimilation process to be too fast and damaging.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been possible to reduce fifty years to five.

This meant that the modified technique was only usable by him, not an average person without his physical fitness.

For him, having his brains jolted into a homogenous mixture was much like a small scrape. If it were a proper cultivator at the Purple Mansion Stage, they’d be lying on the ground by now.

However, as he gradually adjusted the "Locking Mountain Spell" and adapted himself, he soon stopped caring about the consistency of his brains. Mainly, he just got used to it.

"I was gone for less than half the time it takes to burn a small piece of incense, and you’ve already finished?" Xi Huan hurried back.

He had just noticed that the Spirit Vein of Hualong Mountain seemed to be fluctuating, so he went to investigate the source. He had considered the possibility that Gu Shanhai was behind this, but it was just too preposterous.

"Oh, you’re referring to that? I installed a couple of engines on the Spirit Vein to speed things up," Gu Shanhai didn’t keep it a secret and then remembered something else, adding, "Didn’t I place quite a few improved versions of ’Locking Mountain Spell’ in the Scripture Pavilion before? You need to notify the Sect Leader immediately. Tell those disciples who are currently accommodating the Spirit Vein not to use the improved version. The original will do. Otherwise, at best, they could be seriously injured, and at worst, they could burst dead."

"So, only you can use this improved version?" Xi Huan teased.

"Others can use it too, but they need to have the right body constitution, such as those with three breakthrough Divine Skills that all enhance the body. It’s like having body types that can not only fight and resist but also recover quickly, similar to Shen An’s ’Yi Wood Constitution’ or ’Jia Wood Body’," explained Gu Shanhai.

"These type of people can withstand it?"

"No, it’s that they recover quickly when severely injured."

"You kid, can’t you make something more reliable?"

Cursing under his breath, Xi Huan left to get in touch with Yun Yu. This matter really couldn’t be delayed. If a disciple were to die because of this, it would be a terrible loss.

"What do I care? Blame me if your own body constitution isn’t up to it," Gu Shanhai grumbled.

While he was grumbling, Gu Shanhai was actually constantly monitoring the data of accommodating the Spirit Vein.

’The Spirit Vein is a whole entity; once the process of accommodation begins, it cannot be interrupted. No wonder Zhu Xiang died back then.’

At this time, the combat power of the Cultivator at the Purple Mansion Stage would drop to its lowest. They not only need to focus on accommodating the Spirit Vein, but also continuously organize the entirety of that Spirit Vein.

The Spirit Vein is not a single entity but like endlessly branching tree limbs, possessing a multitude of subsidiary veins.

The more complete the accommodation of the Spirit Vein, the stronger the power at the Spirit Origin Stage. Next would be the size of the Spirit Vein.

’In fact, what’s being accommodated are not the Spirit Veins themselves, but the principles between heaven and earth. Therefore, completeness takes precedence over size and volume.’

If the size of the Spirit Vein constitutes the upper limit of a Cultivator’s mana at the Spirit Origin Stage, then how completely the Spirit Vein is accommodated is a measure of the quality of the mana.

However, that’s not to say one must choose between the two; most Sect Disciples under normal conditions strive to have both.

Loose Cultivators are different. It’s already good luck if they can obtain a Spirit Vein, let alone have the luxury to choose.

Moreover, Loose Cultivators don’t have corresponding Cultivation Techniques so their Spirit Vein accommodation is often incomplete.

Unlike Gu Shanhai who comes from a major sect with not only the "Locking Mountain Spell" to accelerate accommodation, but also the "Upper True Spirit Mountain Method" for accommodation, the "Ten Thousand Species Void Formation" for protection, the "Spiritual Mechanism Hundred Veins Skill" to safeguard the soul, and so on. As long as nothing goes wrong, whether it’s the main vein or subsidiary veins, the full Spirit Vein can be completely accommodated without missing a bit.

It’s not just Gu Shanhai who enjoys this privilege within the Mahayana Xuanzhen Sect; all the disciples preparing for a breakthrough to the Spirit Origin Stage are treated the same. The only difference is the Spirit Veins; they would have mid to high-quality Spirit Veins depending on the arrangement. As for low-quality Spirit Veins, Sect Disciples don’t use them; they are specifically sold to Loose Cultivators.

On the one hand, it maintains stability, and on the other hand, it also serves to attract Loose Cultivators as peripheral Guest Elders to do miscellaneous work for the sect, running errands and such.

It really could be considered quite exploitative.

’If I succeed this time, I won’t have to worry about my mana issues for a long time.’

’Following this, I can even schedule the Giant God Mecha... What a joke, once I have refined a Spirit Vein worth of mana, this stuff won’t have much use.’

Gu Shanhai had initially thought about getting a Giant God Mecha for himself, but after comparing the estimated data, he realized that the mecha was not even as powerful as his own abilities.

The God Slayer Mecha... even more so. When he could use it, he wouldn’t need to, and when he needed it, he wouldn’t be able to deploy it.

’I might as well ask the sect to give me an artifact similar to the Magnetic Absolute Heavenly Blade.’ Gu Shanhai pondered that there were many ways to fight desperately; personal engagement was the least reliable. So he considered whether he could get something out of the Great Mahayana Truth Sect. After all, the sect was wealthy, and having something to save his life would suffice.

As for the Magnetic Absolute Heavenly Blade... its power severely declined when used across worlds, rendering it obsolete today.

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