Chapter 29: Chapter 29

The perspective of the Light Orb true form.

Countless densely packed Secret Patterns made Ron feel dazzled. Based on his previous exploration, he had broadly classified these patterns into three categories:

Pollution Secret Patterns, Body Secret Patterns, and Transcendent Secret Patterns.

Among these, the Body Secret Patterns were the most systematic. Many of Ron’s explorations and research had been conducted on the foundation of the Body Secret Patterns. And now, he once again examined the Body Secret Patterns, which existed as the two-sided counterpart to his body.

Pollution Secret Patterns were interwoven among them, which Ron didn’t find surprising. Although only two or three days had passed since he last expelled Pollution Secret Patterns, as long as he existed in this world, contamination was omnipresent.

It was merely a matter of degree.

With only two or three days’ worth of accumulation, the Pollution Secret Patterns naturally wouldn’t be very numerous. And expelling Pollution Secret Patterns was extremely taxing on his energy, so Ron temporarily left them alone.

After all, this amount of contamination wasn’t yet sufficient to produce any observable effect. Even the far greater quantity from before hadn’t shown any visible effect. He planned to let them accumulate more, then find a time to expel them all at once.

Expelling them to other locations on the surface of the Light Orb, isolating them from the Body Secret Patterns, rather than completely erasing them from the orb’s surface.

During his previous process of expelling Pollution Secret Patterns, Ron felt that he should possess the ability to erase them completely. It was just that his current power was insufficient, and he couldn’t even erase a single Pollution Secret Pattern. He could only nudge them slightly.

He estimated that once he became a Formal Knight, there would likely be a qualitative transformation. But whether he would then possess the ability to completely erase Pollution Secret Patterns, he wasn’t entirely certain.

However, he believed that as long as he continued advancing along the Knight’s path, sooner or later he would obtain all the abilities he desired.

…

Pollution Secret Patterns were currently incomprehensible and difficult to investigate, so Ron still focused his primary energy on the Transcendent Secret Patterns.

The Transcendent Secret Patterns were not actually a systematic category of patterns in themselves. They were named as such because they were first discovered during the inheritance of the Breathing Technique, and at other times those patterns couldn’t be observed. That was why Ron had called them Transcendent Secret Patterns.

It was more of an embodiment of his hope for transcendence.

In reality, the Transcendent Secret Patterns should more accurately be called the Third Secret Pattern type apart from Pollution Secret Patterns and Body Secret Patterns, or even the Fourth, or Fifth.

But since they were related to transcendence, collectively calling them 【Transcendent Secret Patterns】 was perfectly acceptable.

And now, Ron once again observed Transcendent Secret Patterns. It should be noted that during ordinary times, there were no Transcendent Secret Patterns within the Body Secret Patterns. The only previous observation had been during the inheritance of the Breathing Technique.

Of course, if he were in the midst of performing Ice Breathing, or had just drunk Ignition Potion, he might also be able to observe them. But like the Breathing Technique inheritance, those instances were difficult to sustain.

That was why he paid such extraordinary attention to these stably existing Transcendent Secret Patterns now.

“If I become a Formal Knight, will all the Body Secret Patterns transform into Transcendent Secret Patterns?” This thought flashed through Ron’s mind.

But he immediately dismissed it. Although the Transcendent Secret Patterns he currently observed were still very few, from the positions where they existed, it was not difficult to see that these patterns were more like appendages to the Body Secret Patterns rather than independent entities.

Or rather, these Transcendent Secret Patterns belonged to the expanded portions of the Body Secret Patterns, but they would not replace the existing Body Secret Patterns.

Body Secret Patterns were like a framework program. Only on the foundation of this program did the transcendent possess meaning. If the framework were discarded, perhaps the very definition of “human” would be discarded along with it.

As for the optimization of the framework program itself, that was a given. There was no reason for a physically robust person and a physically frail person to use the exact same framework program. There must inevitably be differences.

Since the Body Secret Patterns and the physical body were two-sided reflections of each other, changing either one would cause the other to change accordingly.

In other words, if Ron currently possessed a perfect human Secret Pattern template, he could immediately apply it to this current body.

Of course, given that the human body involved countless intricacies, under normal circumstances, Ron had no intention of applying Secret Pattern schemes he didn’t understand.

Aside from the 【Comprehensive Body Refinement Technique】, he had virtually never proactively adjusted the Body Secret Patterns. He had only allowed the Body Secret Patterns to change through changes on the physical body’s side.

And now, after half a day of Sword Stance training, his body seemed to have developed some stable transcendent characteristics. As reflected in the Body Secret Patterns, this manifested as the appearance of stably existing Transcendent Secret Patterns within them.

Ron concentrated his perception on those newly emerged Transcendent Secret Patterns. For a brief instant, he felt as though he were experiencing the operation of the entire cosmos. But combined with the Body Secret Patterns to which they were attached, he still managed to form a relatively rudimentary understanding of these Transcendent Secret Patterns:

Sure enough, they were related to the body parts strengthened by the Sword Stance!

From this perspective, the attribute panel he had been so eagerly anticipating seemed to be on the verge of materializing!

…

After tinkering for quite a while, Ron produced a simple list:

/*

*【Name】: Vessel Ron

*【Transcendent Strengthening】: 4/12

*【Strengthening Level】: ?/?

*【Secret Pattern Programs】: Comprehensive Body Refinement Technique

*【Programs Pending Organization】: Ice Breathing Technique, Twelve Sword Stances, Ice Sword Art, Fire Concealment Method

*/

But the problem was that this list required him to manually compile it in real time. It couldn’t auto-update, much less become a visualized panel that could appear within his field of vision as he had originally envisioned.

“How do I solve this problem?”

Ron pondered for a long time without coming up with a viable solution. A visualized panel, even if it only possessed display functionality, involved far too many things. There were two main difficulties:

First, how to reflect the body’s status in real time. This would require a special Secret Pattern program used to continuously monitor changes in the Body Secret Patterns.

The other was the visualization itself. How to make something that didn’t inherently exist appear within his field of vision. Ron couldn’t yet conceive of a solution.

His current understanding of Secret Patterns was genuinely too limited, so he decided to shelve this problem for the time being. After all, as long as he withdrew his consciousness and returned to his true form, compiling an attribute panel list on the spot wasn’t particularly difficult.

This kind of thing was only hard the first time. After that, it was simply a matter of doing it again.

…

Through the attribute panel list he had compiled, the next steps Ron needed to take became crystal clear.

The imperative task before him was to organize the Secret Pattern programs corresponding to the twelve Sword Stances. Otherwise, he could only receive strengthening through the Sword Stance state during daytime training, which was simply too slow.

He wanted to be like the Comprehensive Body Refinement Technique, strengthening automatically while sitting at home.

If the conditions didn’t exist for it, Ron might not have insisted on this automatic strengthening. But given that the Comprehensive Body Refinement Technique already stood as a living, breathing example right before his eyes, asking him to give up on that was, honestly, more than he could do.

As for the Ice Breathing Technique, Ice Sword Art, and Fire Concealment Method:

These couldn’t directly strengthen the body, so Ron placed the task of organizing their Secret Pattern programs after organizing the Sword Stance Secret Pattern programs.

Of course, if a need arose later, the order could be adjusted at any time.

After all, his so-called attribute panel list was more like a personal memo rather than a fixed system product that he himself couldn’t modify.