“Hiss~ This, this couldn’t be, could it be a cultivation technique?!” Uchiha Tenxiu’s eyes widened in disbelief as he looked at the few books in his hand. He saw that the first page he opened was a full-body meridian map.
Uchiha Tenxiu carefully turned one of them to his eyes, as if it were a rare treasure.
One must know that in the entire Ninja World, there was no such thing as a cultivation secret technique. All the cultivation processes that the so-called Ninjas went through were nothing more than the refinement of Chakra and the study of Ninjutsu. Everything was merely limited to the word “technique,” and not the so-called “Dao”! This was also the point that Uchiha Tenxiu, in his previous life, most looked down upon Ninjas for.
No matter how wondrous these Ninjutsu were, they were like the countless leaves on a large tree; although numerous and unique, they could never touch the true growth path of the tree. Even with immense power, capable of moving mountains and filling seas at will, it still had nothing to do with one’s own longevity.
The true key to cultivation was actually the roots and branches of the great tree. And cultivation techniques were like a path guiding the growth of the tree’s roots and branches. Through the cultivation of techniques, it was like watering and fertilizing a tree, allowing it to grow faster and better, transforming a seed into a towering tree.
At this moment, various divine Kung Fu Secrets from the Eastern worldview involuntarily emerged in Uchiha Tenxiu’s mind. These secret techniques covered multiple fields such as martial arts, immortal heroes, and fantasy, but without exception, they all touched upon the ladder of life evolution. These secret techniques seemed to be keys to a higher level of life, capable of helping people transcend the original mortal level of life and enter a new, higher realm of life.
Even if the cultivation technique in his hand might come from an extremely low-level world, and even if the technique itself was the most basic, common type, its preciousness did not lie in its rapid enhancement of one’s own strength, but rather like a valuable key, it was for opening the door to a gold mine containing countless resources.
The ideas and paths it contained were by no means inferior to the so-called Forbidden Techniques of this world; on the contrary, they surpassed them by countless times!
And now, such a treasure was in his hands.
“Then, let me see what kind of charm it holds, what level of cultivation technique it is!” Uchiha Tenxiu’s heart was ablaze with excitement. The pages slowly unfolded in his hand, and the first thing that caught his eye was an image of human meridians and acupoints. This image was drawn with extreme precision; every blood vessel and every acupoint was clearly visible, making one marvel at the artist’s superb skill and extraordinary mastery.
It was hard to imagine that such precision could come from an ancient world.
However, what surprised Uchiha Tenxiu even more were the dense ancient annotations next to the image.
These characters were extremely small, like tiny mosquitoes etched on the blueprint. Uchiha Tenxiu could not recognize all of them, but he could make out some simple characters. The words formed by these recognized characters read smoothly, indicating that he had not misidentified them.
Uchiha Tenxiu guessed that these should be characters left from the Eastern worldview, otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to understand them.
Even though he could only recognize sixty to seventy percent of the characters, Uchiha Tenxiu was not discouraged. He knew that Ninjas themselves possessed extremely high decryption abilities, and they also had meridians and acupoints. Coupled with these few characters and drawings, as long as he spent some time and effort, he would be able to decipher them. Moreover, if all else failed, there was also Shadow Clone, a cultivation cheat that allowed him to continuously experiment with the cultivation technique.
Uchiha Tenxiu took a deep breath, steadied his mind, and then began to carefully observe the characters and drawings.
He studied the recognizable characters word by word, trying to find some clues and patterns from them.
At the same time, he also carefully observed the meridians and acupoints in the image, contemplating their connection with the characters, and continuously flipping through the detailed explanations of various subsequent cultivation techniques.
Time passed minute by minute, and Uchiha Tenxiu was completely immersed in the process of deciphering. He forgot everything around him; only these mysterious characters and drawings were in his eyes.
Several hours passed.
Uchiha Tenxiu gazed at this cultivation technique, a hint of enlightenment flashing in his eyes. He carefully flipped through the pages and found that this secret technique indeed had some profound aspects.
On the surface, this was a rather good secret technique. It was divided into eight levels: Refining Essence, Transforming Qi, Refining Qi, Transforming Spirit, Refining Spirit, Returning to Void, Refining Void, and Uniting with Dao.
It was similar to the levels of the Daoist cultivation system familiar from his previous life. Each level had its unique cultivation process and descriptions of power enhancement.
However, Uchiha Tenxiu quickly realized that this was not entirely the same as the legendary Daoist realms from his previous life.
Although each stage had detailed explanations, based on the descriptions of the post-cultivation realms and power manifestations in the secret technique, it was more like a cultivation system secret technique from an ordinary martial arts world, rather than from a fantasy or immortal cultivation worldview.
That is to say, according to the description in the cultivation technique, even if a person went through countless hardships and raised their cultivation to profound realms like Refining Spirit Returning to Void, or even Refining Void Uniting with Dao, they would only be able to fly a thousand meters high or damage hundreds of meters of the ground.
Their true strength was still far from those extraordinary, immortal-like existences described in Uchiha Tenxiu’s novels from his previous life. These so-called earthly immortals and gods possessed abilities that reached the heavens and pierced the earth, capable of moving mountains and overturning seas, summoning wind and rain with a mere flick of their hands, their power was simply astonishing.
In contrast, according to this cultivation technique, even those who reached the realms of Refining Spirit Returning to Void and Refining Void Uniting with Dao were merely like ants in front of those immortals and gods.
Their power might be unattainable in the eyes of mortals in their original worldview, but in front of true powerhouses, it seemed so insignificant.
One could even say that such a level of cultivation might not even be comparable to a Jonin in the Ninja World; even a Ninjutsu unleashed by a Jonin could easily cause such destructive power.
In this world full of mystery and fantasy, Jonin possessed various unique Ninjutsu and skills, and their strength should not be underestimated. In Uchiha Tenxiu’s original history, where there were no extraordinary abilities, they could completely be considered as Heavenly Master-level figures, like gods descending to earth.
If he were to give them titles.
Their names would undoubtedly be followed by a dozen honorifics.
Looking at the cultivation technique he had obtained, compared to the immortals and gods in those novels, the so-called realms of Refining Spirit Returning to Void and Refining Void Uniting with Dao, which sounded so boastful, were actually like riding a horse to challenge a Dou Di (Battle Emperor), completely a clownish act of overestimating oneself, only inviting ridicule.
This made Uchiha Tenxiu somewhat doubt the actual value of this secret technique.
But then, Uchiha Tenxiu shook his head again.
Compared to the result of him reaching the heavens in one step through this cultivation technique, this technique was more like an endless treasure, containing infinite gold reserves that could be excavated.
Leaving aside other things, just the cultivation process of the Refining Essence chapter alone was like a wonderfully exquisite symphony, involving multiple movements such as nourishing the body, storing essence, absorbing essence, collecting essence, and refining one’s own vitality.
On the spiritual level, there were also a series of preliminary cultivation methods such as meditation, entering samadhi, communicating with qi sensation, and harmonizing one’s own breathing, like a graceful poem that drew endless praise.
Not to mention the subsequent chapter on Transforming Qi.
It contained a series of magical methods for nourishing, condensing, and using the cultivated energy, much like a vibrant and colorful painting.
These were all cultivation methods that did not exist in the Ninja World.