Chapter 294: Blood Qi
“Blood Qi is essentially Vitality Power. However, due to the physical constitution of mortals, they cannot enhance Blood Qi by absorbing Mana from the external environment. Changing the train of thought, it can only be improved through the internal environment!”
Ace activated the Perception Spell and had the thirteen people consume large amounts of food made from the flesh of Monsters rich in vitality. Sure enough, as the flesh and blood entered their stomachs, their Blood Qi spontaneously flowed along the muscle fibers, absorbing the Vitality Power digested from the flesh.
Over the next week, Ace constantly used the Perception Spell to observe their walking, sitting, and sleeping, recording the flow of their Blood Qi. Ace actually summarized an extremely crude Blood Qi cultivation method: the Blood Food Transport Method.
It involved eating the flesh and blood of low-level Monsters, and then relying on a total of thirty-six different postures to adjust the direction and speed of the Blood Qi flow, achieving the digestion and storage of Vitality Power.
“Concentrate and calm the mind. Constantly adjust the posture. The important thing is not the posture itself, but the muscle changes brought about by the posture, which in turn leads to the flow of Blood Qi.
“Blood Qi scatters throughout the body. Only through continuous posture adjustments can the vitality of the food in the mouth be digested and turned into new Blood Qi. Then, condense the Blood Qi in the chest cavity to deploy it freely!”
Ace discovered through perception that the human body’s Blood Qi could be well stored in the chest, roughly equivalent to the position of the Danzhong acupoint from his previous life.
These mortals training Blood Qi could not perceive external Mana, but they could convert and refine their own Blood Qi by eating Monsters rich in vitality and Mana, constantly strengthening it.
Although this efficiency was slow, it won in sustainability. It explored a blurry path for mortals without magical talent, making the future variable.
Logan’s research was not something that could be accomplished overnight. Ace continued to meditate to improve himself, but found himself slowly reaching a bottleneck. The efficiency of the 2-Ring Dawn and Bright Moon Meditation Method was gradually decreasing.
Mainly, the efficacy of converting absorbed external Mana to improve his Mental Power strength was constantly decreasing. The speed at which the Soul Sanctuary absorbed and converted the Dawn and Bright Moon Mana had barely increased.
“At the current speed, after my Mental Power reaches 90 units, the growth rate will drop off a cliff, and it’s getting slower and slower! Perhaps I need to find a new method, otherwise it will be hard for me to break through to Level 2 Life.”
After a meditation session, Ace muttered his analysis.
He thought for a long time, turning his attention to his Soul Sanctuary, or rather the True-Illusion Dream world covering the Sanctuary.
“The speed of conversion depends entirely on the True-Illusion Dream world. If I can improve my Dream Core, perhaps it will increase the Mana absorption and conversion speed. To improve the Dream Core, I must find more dream creatures to study. And the place with the most dream creatures is on the ‘Outside of the World’!”
Like thunder on a clear day, Ace cast his gaze toward the boundless sky and murmured.
“Ace, you cannot survive on the Outside of the World. And it is very dangerous there. Not only are there dream creatures and quasi-rule creatures, but also terrifying void creatures!”
As Ace spoke, the cowlick on his head seemed worried. With a poof, it turned into a chubby pink doll and spoke.
“That is indeed true, but I must go. I just need to make sufficient preparations beforehand.”
Ace seemed to have figured something out. He cupped the chubby doll from his head in his palms and spoke softly.
Having made up his mind, Ace first converted and absorbed the Spatial Solute bestowed upon him by the Crystalline Creature. He absorbed nearly one-third of that large chunk of Spatial Solute, and Ace’s Soul Sanctuary expanded by nearly double its space.
The overall expansion of the Soul Sanctuary also brought about a huge expansion of the True-Illusion Dream world, allowing it to contain more.
As for the inability to survive on the Outside of the World, Ace had his own ideas.
“If it were me, I certainly couldn’t survive on the Outside of the World. But what if I am no longer me? What if I can transform into a dream creature just like transforming into a shadow?”
Inside the True-Illusion Dream world, hundreds of Shadow Ravens were being assimilated by Ace’s dream. This process had lasted a long time, and today was the time for harvest.
The True-Illusion Dream world followed Ace’s will and recorded the dream assimilation process in detail. Ace reproduced this process through the dream.
He discovered that Dreamification was actually a similar replacement to Shadowification. In key Spell Model positions, Dream Rune groups replaced Shadow Rune groups. The difficulty lay in what Dream Rune sequence to use to replace the Shadow Rune group.
The process of Shadow Ravens becoming Dreamified was the process of Dream Rune groups entering their bodies bit by bit. This natural sequence might be more effective than Ace’s artificial combination.
As a pragmatist, Ace unhesitatingly copied the Rune sequence of the Shadow Ravens and used it on his Rational Clone.
For such dangerous research, a clone was the most suitable test subject.
As the Dream Rune sequence was inscribed into the Rational Clone, the clone slowly became insubstantial, finally turning into bubbles and dissipating with a pop.
“Gone?”
Ace groped around the place where the Rational Clone had just dissipated with some doubt, only catching a bit of air.
Just then, his True Spirit felt a touch. The phantom below the True Spirit seemed to be transmitting some information. The information landed in the True-Illusion Dream world, and Ace immediately understood its meaning.
The clone had turned into a dream creature. It did not exist in reality, only dwelling in dreams or existing in different dimensions by consuming Mental Power.
The largest dream in the entire High Tower was “Phantasmagoria”—the dream mental network of Wizards, the so-called Magic Net.
And the moment the clone became Dreamified, it actually hid inside the dream of the Magic Net.
At this time, Ace discovered a big problem: the clone couldn’t freely change back.
“I forgot to fill in the transformation part of the constructed Rune structure! Luckily it was a clone, otherwise I would have screwed myself over.”
The clone that turned into a dream creature was, in a sense, the same as the dream lives in Ace’s True-Illusion Dream world, only the clone’s mental strength was far stronger than dream lives.
Dream lives living in the True-Illusion Dream world were equivalent to lower-dimensional existences, while Ace’s clone was an existence descending from a high dimension to a low dimension.
The information flow of both sides was not on the same level at all. Even maintaining the state of a dream creature, the clone could still perceive the real world. This was the same as other dream creatures and the Dreamified Shadow Ravens.
The vision of the dream lives in the True-Illusion Dream world could not transcend the True-Illusion Dream world, just like people in a book could not break the dimensional wall to come to reality.
Ace’s path—the ultimate goal—was to make dreams reality, to ascend the dimension of the mental imagery world of dreams into reality.
Turning back to the present. Based on the Dream Crystal left by the Dream Snake he killed in the past and the state of the Shadow Ravens, after several failures and killing the Rational Clone multiple times, Ace finally created complete Dreamification and Reverse Dreamification Spell Models.
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