Chapter 45: Cultivation Technique
Many gazes, whether intentional or accidental, looked toward Mark, making his heart feel like it was about to jump out of his chest, even though he didn’t even have a heart right now.
It wasn’t until people started walking right through his soul that Mark realized nobody could actually see him.
"Phew, that was close. Good thing nobody can see me."
Mark let out a sigh of relief, but he could only relax a little. The good news was that nobody could see or hear him. The bad news was that he was still naked in the middle of a crowded street.
Whenever someone’s gaze accidentally drifted toward him, he would awkwardly use his hands to cover the parts that needed covering. His skin wasn’t that thin, but he had never done anything this embarrassing in his entire life. How was he supposed to endure this?
Suddenly, several golden words appeared before his eyes. The number of words kept increasing until there were tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of them, so many that just looking at them made Mark feel dizzy.
"The cultivation technique most suitable for you. Memorize it."
Nexus’s flat voice echoed in Mark’s mind, making him jerk his head left and right in surprise. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t see Nexus.
"Master?" Mark couldn’t find anyone, so he tried shouting, but he didn’t receive the slightest response, as if what happened just now had been an illusion.
Yet those golden words floating in the air were clearly still here. Nexus was definitely nearby watching him, but refused to answer no matter what.
"Master! I know I was wrong! I’ll seriously listen to your lessons from now on. Please take me back. Even if not home, at least somewhere with fewer people."
Only after arriving on this street did Mark realize that being naked on that deserted road earlier had actually been a huge stroke of luck. He was still naked in the street, but at least he didn’t feel like countless eyes were staring at him.
On the rooftop of a high-rise apartment building about five hundred meters away, Nexus and the system were staring at Mark.
[How do you know that cultivation technique is the most suitable one for Mark? We don’t even know what his spiritual root is yet.]
"Is that important? There are two kinds of cultivation techniques that can bring out one hundred percent of a person’s cultivation efficiency. The first is one that perfectly matches the spiritual root and meridians. The second is one that can adapt to different situations and grow along with its user. The cultivation technique I gave Mark is the second kind, and it works just as well no matter which disciple learns it."
After all, Nexus was the most unique existence in an entire cultivation plane, possessing power far beyond any cultivator and an absurd immortality that surpassed even immortals. The cultivation technique he taught his disciples was naturally the most perfect one that could exist in any world.
[Your stupid master is really lucky, huh? I can’t believe someone like you actually got something this good. But having it is useless anyway. You don’t even have a spiritual root to cultivate. Want to beg me for a spiritual root? As long as you’re sincere enough, this great system naturally won’t be stingy.]
Even though the system’s words sounded awful, it wasn’t wrong this time. Even though Nexus was stronger than any cultivator in his plane, he really didn’t have a spiritual root.
The spiritual root that had been bound to the soul of the strongest cultivator of all time had disappeared along with that soul. Nexus was an independent existence, born at the very peak, so he neither needed a spiritual root nor needed to cultivate.
"No need. Save those spiritual roots for our future disciples."
Nexus’s indifferent response made the system feel like it had just been slapped across the face, leaving it extremely irritated.
[Hmph, foolish mortal. Since you dared to refuse, don’t expect this great system to give you a second chance next time.]
"Pay more attention to Mark. This is the first time I’ve taught someone to cultivate, so I’m not sure he’ll be able to endure it."
After shouting without getting any response, Mark gave up on yelling. After all, shouting while naked in the middle of the street was unbelievably embarrassing.
"Master, if you keep being this cruel, someone’s really going to beat you to death one day."
Mark muttered as he tried to kick a bottle cap lying on the road, but it simply passed through his intangible foot.
In his soul state, Mark could walk around a few steps or float up a little, but no farther than that. More specifically, based on his own testing, he was trapped inside an invisible cube with sides about five meters long.
[Hahaha, your first disciple is cursing you. You should learn more from me. Only by living the way I do can you earn everyone’s respect.]
Those shameless words even made Nexus’s eye twitch. Who would ever respect such a bug-filled and arrogant system?
"I’ve heard enough nonsense like that already."
That brought back a few old memories for Nexus. Plenty of cultivators had wanted to kill him, but he never cared because even the strongest among them couldn’t so much as damage his clothes.
Mark felt too embarrassed to just stand there watching the people passing by, so he shifted his attention to the cultivation technique to distract himself.
"Hmm... It’s a little hard to understand... No, actually, it’s pretty easy..."
Mark had thought this would be something incredibly difficult to understand, but only the first few introductory lines were profound. The rest could be understood by anyone who wasn’t an idiot.
To be more precise, it was a detailed explanation of the cultivation steps that were most effective for Mark. First, absorb natural energy and gradually convert it into spiritual qi. Second, circulate the spiritual qi through the meridians and spiritual root in the most suitable way so the spiritual qi could strengthen the entire body.
Cultivation was simply the continuous evolution of the body and soul. Once a major threshold was crossed, that was a breakthrough into a new realm.
It sounded simple, but the human body contained countless meridians. On top of that, whenever someone advanced to a new realm, their body underwent a complete transformation, causing the number of meridians to increase exponentially. Because of that, a complete cultivation technique had to include separate cultivation methods for every realm.