Chapter 73: Chapter 73
If an ordinary person wanted to advance the level of their Breathing Technique, bringing it closer to its source essence: namely, the Wondrous Ice in the underground cavern beneath Sis Castle, they could only do so through inheritance ceremonies or the continuous use of the Ice Breathing Technique.
However, since the Ice Breathing Technique required the coordination of Ignition Potions to be used safely, utilizing it alone carried the risk of being assimilated by the Wondrous Ice. The same applied to the Ignition Potions; using them alone would lead to one being burned to ashes by the roaring flames.
Using the two in combination placed a heavy test on the quantity of Ignition Potions one possessed.
Currently, the Ignition Potions provided by the Sis Territory to each Apprentice were sufficient for their physical enhancements, but using them to elevate the Breathing Technique was inevitably stretching their supplies thin.
Let alone when reaching the Formal Knight stage, where the consumption of Ignition Potions increased even further, ultimately giving rise to a contradiction: whether the limited Ignition Potions should be used for physical enhancement or to elevate the level of one’s Breathing Technique.
If one chose the latter, it inevitably meant repeatedly utilizing the Ice Breathing Technique before the Life Energy was completely depleted.
Therefore, the choice of most Knights in the territory was actually to prioritize enhancement, and then utilize every session of the Ice Breathing Technique as best as they could. This stretched out the timeline for improving their Breathing Technique, but it greatly reduced the demand for Ignition Potions.
But Ron was different. Advancing the level of his Breathing Technique relied primarily on the perspective of his Light Orb true form, analyzing the Transcendent Secret Patterns that appeared with every use of the Ice Breathing Technique and comparing them with those that emerged when he received the inheritance.
Of course, since the Transcendent Secret Patterns corresponding to the Ice Breathing Technique wouldn’t manifest under normal circumstances, Ron still needed to perform the technique to accumulate relevant data.
It was just that, compared to others who could only blindly grope for experience through their feelings time and time again, he could directly see the specific Transcendent Secret Patterns on the surface of his true form. Even if he stopped the Ice Breathing Technique and these Transcendent Secret Patterns vanished from the surface of the Light Orb, they would still exist in his memory.
Therefore, his current work was more akin to data analysis, leaning toward a more rational and logical process, rather than the repetitive tasks driven by perception and experience, like Sword Stance training.
This was actually quite good. During the day, he conducted Sword Stance training to enhance himself, and in his downtime, he would enter the Knight state to continue strengthening. When night fell, he returned to rationality and logic.
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*【Breathing Technique Synchronization Progress】: 60%
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Looking at the data panel constructed from Pollution Secret Patterns in an empty spatial area on the surface of the Light Orb true form, Ron’s heart filled with drive.
The so-called Breathing Technique synchronization progress was actually the current progress he could achieve toward the inheritance state, and the inheritance state was undoubtedly the moment he came closest to the essence of the Wondrous Ice.
However, this required analyzing the bodily changes corresponding to each set of Transcendent Secret Patterns in that state, eliminating redundancies, and retaining the essence. He had started this work roughly around the time he first received his inheritance.
The Light Orb true form had recorded everything; it was just that he hadn’t been conducting such a purposeful analysis from the very start.
Once the Breathing Technique synchronization progress reached 100%, Ron would be able to head back beneath Sis Castle to receive the inheritance once more, thereby bringing himself even closer to the essence of that Wondrous Ice.
If possible, conducting the Ice Breathing Technique near the Wondrous Ice every time would yield the best results, and it would also waive the consumption of Ignition Potions.
It was just a pity that the Wondrous Ice didn’t belong to him; otherwise, he would very likely have already strengthened his body to the Knight level by now.
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After staring at the panel for a while, Ron couldn’t help but sigh. There was no other medium on the surface of the Light Orb that could be used to display information. He couldn’t control the Transcendent Secret Patterns, nor did he dare to mess with the Body Secret Patterns, leaving him with no choice but to use these Pollution Secret Patterns.
It was just that this panel wasn’t actually necessary for him in his current true form state. All the data was within his consciousness; he didn’t need to deliberately conjure up such a visualization panel.
This panel was mostly prepared for when he inhabited “Ron’s” body. Under the Full-Immersion state, he had no way to see the changes in the Secret Patterns on the surface of the Light Orb true form. The panel was merely a form of representation.
Currently, he had achieved a linked effect, meaning that all changes in his body would be reflected on the panel. Among them, the three metrics he cared about most were 【Life Energy】, 【Physical Enhancement Progress】, and 【Whole-Body Force Progress】.
【Life Energy】 digitized the Life Energy reserves within his body. Every enhancement session would correspond to a decrease in this number, and when this value dropped to a certain level, Ron would need to replenish it.
【Physical Enhancement Progress】 could tangibly reflect the improvement brought by each enhancement session. The stronger the body became, the smaller the boost provided by a single enhancement. Under these circumstances, many people would slack off.
But Ron wouldn’t. Even if a single enhancement only increased his progress by 0.01%, he could record it. One hundred percent was merely ten thousand enhancement sessions.
As for 【Whole-Body Force Progress】, it was related to his progress toward becoming a Formal Knight. His current progress was 70%, but this was not a constant state; it was merely a peak value, and that was still the value when he was not in the Full-Immersion Knight state.
In the Full-Immersion Knight state, it would be 100%.
In other words, he might not necessarily be able to achieve 70% of his Whole-Body Force right now. Even Knights couldn’t necessarily maintain a Whole-Body Force state at all times.
He only needed to maintain the Whole-Body Force when he wanted to exert strength.
The reason Ron paid so much attention to this metric was mostly because every practice session, every training routine, and every enhancement served as a reminder and a feedback loop.
Telling himself whether he had done it correctly just now.
It was equivalent to having a Formal Knight constantly supervising and guiding his training.
It was just a pity that such a handy tool was stuck at the most crucial point: it could synchronize with physical changes, yet it couldn’t be truly visualized.
That was to say, Ron could only use it after his consciousness withdrew from his body. Yet, once his consciousness withdrew, he could directly see all the changes in the Secret Patterns, completely not needing an intermediary like the panel.
This rendered the current panel practically useless.
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“Pollution Secret Patterns!”
Ron understood that if he wanted his body to see the panel, the key likely lay in the Pollution Secret Patterns. Among the three major categories of Secret Patterns he had discovered so far, only the Pollution Secret Patterns could be simultaneously seen by both the vessel body and the Light Orb true form.
When using only the vessel body, the Body Secret Patterns couldn’t actually be observed directly, and the same was true for the Transcendent Secret Patterns. Even for the Light Orb true form, it needed to rely on the connectivity of the Body Secret Patterns to observe the Transcendent Secret Patterns.
Pollution Secret Patterns were the most special, which meant that it was possible for the data panel, likewise constructed from Pollution Secret Patterns, to be seen by the vessel body.
Just like how Ron, during the day in the snowfields and outside the territory, could see those Pollution Secret Patterns.
But how could he make the status panel visible to the vessel body, just like the Pollution Secret Patterns?
Ron pondered for a long time without coming up with a good approach. The only line of thought he could conceive of right now was to conduct experiments based on his body’s pollution rate.
However, through analyzing past data, he discovered that even if the Pollution Secret Patterns mixed within the Body Secret Patterns were expelled, it didn’t affect his ability to directly see the Pollution Secret Patterns with his physical body.
Another line of thought was to consider it from the perspective of his own changes. The times he could directly see the Pollution Secret Patterns were either when his mind was under pressure, or when the Pollution Secret Patterns were far more severe outside the territory.