Wu Pifu was somewhat taken aback.
Because he practiced national martial arts, not some kind of spell; this was beyond the realm of national martial arts, wasn’t it!?
At that moment, Wu Pifu felt that he had developed a second perception, based on the perception emitted by this cluster of spiritual light.
In the current vicinity of the 6123 area, there was a dense pink mass, a viscous blood-red mass, a pitch-black gas, and some chaotic things; this spiritual light had faintly sensed all of them.
Suddenly, Wu Pifu came to his senses and immediately shouted, “Mainframe, what is this!?”
“Determining… Determination complete, Unresting Spiritual Light.”
“Wu Pifu has cultivated the Tiger Demon Technique to reach the theoretical limit, ultimately transforming Unresting Spiritual Awareness into Unresting Spiritual Light.”
Wu Pifu stared blankly and said, “What?”
Unfortunately, the mainframe did not provide any further information.
Wu Pifu immediately said, “Mainframe, display my personalized information interface!”
“Wu Pifu, human, pureblood.”
“Level 2 maintenance personnel, low-level employee.”
“Physical body tier three initial (potential +1) (muscle strength 2.1, genetic strength 1.4, neural reaction speed 2.0, hematopoietic immune function 2.8, self-healing ability 2.8), soul tier two (death return), inspiration tier two (strange perception 2.4 + 0.4 = 2.8, barrier-breaking perception 1.5 + 0.3 = 1.8).”
“National martial arts: Transformation of Strength (72.8%) → Transformation of Strength (77.1%), Tiger Demon Technique: Pinnacle (97.61%) → Ultimate Manifestation (0.01%) (inherent manifestation attribute acquired: Unresting Spiritual Light).”
“Human Immortal Martial Path: Skin Refinement Great Accomplishment (93.7%), Flesh Refinement (4.42%), Green Python Shedding Technique: Transcendental (62.8%).”
“Virtual personality, can absorb self-fragments to solidify into reality, consciousness sea negative reflux rate seven percent, total negative amount in consciousness sea ???.”
Wu Pifu quickly scanned through his personalized information panel and found that in the inspiration tier two expansion section, both strange perception and barrier-breaking perception had increased significantly.
The progress of Transformation of Strength had improved as expected, but the real qualitative change was in the transformation of the Tiger Demon Technique to Ultimate Manifestation.
Although he had long anticipated that when the Tiger Demon Technique reached the theoretical level of Ultimate Manifestation, there would definitely be some kind of qualitative change, he was still startled when it actually occurred.
Wu Pifu immediately said, “Mainframe, determine the inherent manifestation attribute of the Tiger Demon Technique, Unresting Spiritual Light.”
“Inherent manifestation attribute, Unresting Spiritual Light.”
“Once an extraordinary technique is cultivated to the theoretical limit, it will exhibit an inherent manifestation attribute, determined by the compatibility with the cultivator, affecting the strength and state of the manifestation attribute.”
“Unresting Spiritual Light, evolved from Unresting Spiritual Awareness, transforms from virtual to real, possessing the ability to pierce through illusions, resist corrosion, distortion, and various external damages, with a powerful purification function against low-level pollution sources.”
After confirming all the information about Unresting Spiritual Light, Wu Pifu nodded in satisfaction.
There was no doubt that after cultivating the Tiger Demon Technique to Ultimate Manifestation, Unresting Spiritual Awareness evolved into Unresting Spiritual Light.
This transformation from virtual consciousness to actual existence had a flavor of borrowing the false to cultivate the true.
The most crucial point was that its efficacy undoubtedly resonated with Wu Pifu, significantly increasing his capacity to bear the negative reflux of the mind.
Moreover, it was not just about the negative reflux of the mind.
Wu Pifu retracted Unresting Spiritual Light into his consciousness sea, then performed a set of boxing techniques in the field.
The process was incredibly smooth; although his national martial arts realm hadn’t improved much, he clearly felt that with the Tiger Demon Technique entering Ultimate Manifestation, his combat strength had increased by more than threefold.
“And then… the Iron Refining Record!”
After achieving the Ultimate Manifestation of the Tiger Demon Technique, Wu Pifu’s next preparation was to cultivate the original Iron Refining Record.
This was a technique from an unknown era, and its content was entirely different from the Iron Refining Record practiced by Yamada.
The three of them immediately discovered the problem after designating this technique; however, since it had already been designated, it could no longer be changed.
In the end, Xu Shilan felt that perhaps it was because they had designated the original Iron Refining Record, while Yamada’s version might have been revised countless times, or even tailored by the mainframe according to his personal characteristics.
The original Iron Refining Record consisted of seven pages, each made of fine iron, containing text, diagrams of meridians, illustrations of technique operation, and a general explanation.
The mainframe could accurately translate the text on the original Iron Refining Record, even if it contained some metaphors or specific jargon; everything was translated into information that Wu Pifu could understand, which was not a barrier.
The real obstacle to Wu Pifu cultivating this Iron Refining Record was…
Spiritual Qi!
The introductory section of the original Iron Refining Record explained how to absorb the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth through movements, breathing, and hand seals.
The general outline explicitly stated that the Iron Refining Record was a body-refining technique, first using the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth to forge a foundation, then absorbing the five metals of heaven and earth, ultimately merging the five metals into Taibai True Gold, achieving the highest method of the Iron Refining Record.
This was not a martial art or an evil technique, nor was it a method like Yamada’s that absorbed metals to replace the flesh; this was a body-refining technique akin to cultivating immortality!
The seven pages of the original Iron Refining Record had the first page as the introductory section, which detailed the process of absorbing the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth to forge an internal iron furnace.
Pages two to six described the processes of absorbing the five metals of heaven and earth according to varying strengths.
The seventh page, the final page of the original Iron Refining Record, explained how to merge the five metals of heaven and earth into one, achieving the highest Taibai True Gold.
According to the book’s description, once the first page was mastered, the strength of the skin, flesh, and bones would significantly increase.
By the third metal, one would gain the divine ability of copper skin, and by the fifth metal, the divine ability of iron bones.
At this point, one could claim to be impervious to blades and spears.
When the five metals merged into one, achieving Taibai True Gold, one could even claim to be able to regenerate from severed limbs and be invulnerable to death!
The five types of heaven and earth metals were not a problem; the general outline in the book described them.
Naturally, the best were those rare and precious metals, like Shoushan Bronze.
If those were unavailable, ordinary gold, silver, copper, and iron would suffice; the only downside would be that the power limit after cultivation would be far lower than that of rare and precious metals.
Regarding this, Wu Pifu’s logical reasoning was the same as Yamada’s; could those so-called rare and precious metals compare to the various alloys currently on Gaia?
Not to mention the ultra-high-strength alloys that made up Gaia’s shell; even the internal decks and various instrument alloys were beyond what those ancient people could imagine.
So as long as he could enter the first page, he could quickly gather the five metals, thus possessing the toughness of copper skin and iron bones, which would directly multiply his strength by an unknown number of times.
“……I can’t feel any spiritual Qi at all!?”
Wu Pifu calmed down and carefully practiced the original Iron Refining Record, following the movements, breathing rhythms, and hand seals from the first page.
He executed each action perfectly.
With his level of control in national martial arts, he could even maintain a single-legged stance with both hands forming seals in a rather awkward position for an hour without moving a muscle.
However, after three consecutive days, not only did no skills appear on his personalized information panel, but he didn’t even sense any so-called spiritual Qi.
This was not some mysterious thing; it simply didn’t exist!
But Wu Pifu was still unwilling to give up, and due to the lesson from the Peace Hotel, he didn’t dare to easily step into the Northern Song Mud Buddha Yaksha Dream World.
So he persisted for another four days, practicing the Iron Refining Record for a full seven days, yet still, there was no sign of progress, and he finally felt utterly disheartened.
However, this technique had been personally determined by the mainframe to be extraordinary; it could only be said that without spiritual Qi, he could not enter the first page.
He carefully stored this technique in the medical base and memorized the content of the first page completely, preparing to practice it every time he entered a dream world, in case any of those dream worlds contained the so-called spiritual Qi.
After completing all of this, about fifteen days had passed since Wu Pifu awakened, and the mainframe indicated that there were still fifty days until the next weekend.
It had been one hundred sixty-seven days since he returned from the Mud Buddha Yaksha Dream World!
Wu Pifu couldn’t even imagine what the situation in the Mud Buddha Yaksha Dream World was like now!
Perhaps as soon as he penetrated back in, he would be immediately besieged by countless horrors, or there might be a powerful being like the Mother of All Life laying traps, attempting to drag the entire world down to a low baseline reality, or he could even imagine other more terrifying scenarios.
But he had to go because it remained an enormous hidden danger!
After experiencing the Peace Hotel Dream World, this experience had a tremendous impact on Wu Pifu.
First, he had to be cautious, extremely cautious.
He had defeated the Half-Paper Man back then, and at that time, Huang Lian had been shattered into pieces.
It was evident that the Mother of All Life hadn’t possessed the same level of corrosive power at that time.
If he had carefully found all, or at least most, of the Huang Lian fragments back then, this tragedy could have been avoided.
Then there was the issue of dealing with enemies.
Wu Pifu sat silently in the sleep chamber, deeply reflecting, firmly imprinting the lessons from this tragedy in his heart.
First, the battlefield must be cleaned up, and after every battle, it must be thoroughly cleaned, digging three feet into the ground!
Second, evil must be eradicated completely; once there is enmity, the opponent and their subordinates and forces must be utterly destroyed.
If the adversary is a high-level existence like the Mother of All Life, then either decisively leave that dream world and sever all causal connections, or if that is not possible, one must cut off all their minions and tentacles within the dream world!
Third… he hadn’t thought of a third yet.
Wu Pifu bit his finger and wrote the two lessons he had thought of in blood on the metal wall of the sleep chamber, then he thought for a moment and wrote down the names of Yamada and Xu Shilan beside those two pieces of text, along with a short message.
“Fallen comrades, may I forever remember you.”
“Now, I shall go to battle.”
Wu Pifu reached out and touched the two names, then lay down in the only intact sleep chamber.
When Qiuzhu flew to his chest, he spoke, “Mainframe.”
“Return to the Mud Buddha Yaksha Dream World.”
(End of Chapter)