Chapter 199: [holy Light Breathing] And [steel Breathing]
In Zhou Chu’s introduction, every single pollution source bound by the Law can be controlled and actively delved into for cultivation.
It’s just that the efficiency is only 10% of the genuine version (starting point), and it will gradually improve with continuous in-depth grinding, but the maximum will not exceed 40%.
It sounds very low-end, not as good as the genuine version. But the heaven-defying aspect of the Law lies in its ability to indiscriminately adapt (forcibly control) all pollution systems without exception.
Moreover, the Law system can simultaneously control multiple systems according to one’s own preferences. On the mental level, aside from feeling pressure, there are no other side effects. Unlike the neighboring one that pays a painful price (Instigator) leading to Three-Phase Mental Illness, doomed to be entangled by inner demons for life and undergo drastic personality changes.
As for the risks of the Law, binding each additional pollution will result in stronger impacts and erosion. The stronger one’s strength, the more pollution bound, the higher the risk of losing control.
For safety reasons, the Law system usually does not actively cultivate any pollution systems. It just leaves the pollution there, binds it well, and treats it as a tool.
Viewing Law system cultivators as prison wardens, each pollution is a prisoner. The warden only needs to treat them as tools, slaves, or beasts, whip them harshly, drive them to work, and create value. Without giving them opportunities to grow, it will be very safe and continuously generate revenue.
If as a warden, one actively contacts pollution and tries to deeply understand it, learn this power, and get stronger.
Then you had better be exceptionally talented, with explosive self-restraint ability, able to deeply control the continuously growing power without losing yourself.
Otherwise, every year many Law system practitioners who are bewitched by the easily growing power will doubt their persistent ascetic cultivation behavior, eventually gradually abandon their ideals, get twisted by pollution, and completely lose control, only to be taken out by other colleagues or teammates and offered to the Pale Great Law. (Law recycling)
Zhou Chu picked up her beverage and took a big gulp, summarizing: “In general, the Law system is still most cost-effective by continuously challenging and binding more powerful pollution systems. For those already bound powers, if there is spare capacity, one can select a relatively safe one to cultivate, for self-maintenance and improvement.”
Here comes the key point, Yuan Zhu perked up mentally: “You only bound one Knight Armor, so you also mastered the Breathing Method, right?”
Zhou Chu nodded in acknowledgment: “The Knight system stripped out as a single entity is not considered strong. With the Law for constraint, simply cultivating the Breathing Method is not only safe and controllable, but also very helpful for strengthening physical fitness. I use the Breathing Method daily as health preservation qigong + gymnastics, cultivating once each in the morning and evening to improve physical fitness.”
With that said, the young lady clenched her fist, revealing a small arm with soft yet distinct muscle lines, looking very healthy. Unfortunately, her skin was not as fair and delicate as his own or A Miao’s; Running’s water and soil really nourish people.
No chance to discuss the Breathing Method with A Miao, the expert, but there was a pirated user right in front of him, Yuan Zhu was in a great mood, finally able to compare and analyze his own Holy Knight Breathing Method.
So he curiously followed up: “Ah yes yes yes, that’s it! I was just about to ask you, how do you cultivate this Knight Breathing Technique, what are its effects? What’s the difference from the Source Qi Breathing Method we got in Insect City? You’ve cultivated the Breathing Method and seen Qi Refiners, tell me about it.”
After returning from the Bubble World, the first thing Zhou Chu did was take the intelligence materials collected in Insect City to the Security Bureau for reporting, then let experts thoroughly research the Dao Seed (Insect Eggs), Spirit Insect, vegetation, Cultivation Technique, and so on that she brought out.
Therefore, she had authority to speak: “The Breathing Method of Qi Refining Insect Cultivators borrows the part of the Knight Breathing Technique that excavates the body’s potential, but only borrows the form; the core is still to stimulate and excavate the Spiritual Root pollution remaining in their flesh and blood, combine it with Insect Eggs, construct meridians, and simulate Kunlun’s Human Immortal path.”
“The Knight Breathing Technique is also known as Steel Breathing, which through specific frequency metal resonance-style breathing, converts free metal elements in the air into active Steel Origin of steel life, gradually transforming the human cell structure. On the basis of flesh and blood, it slowly infiltrates and overlays a layer of metal/Steel concept.”
“Ultimately, through accumulated daily breathing cultivation, it forges a Steel Body, making the flesh shell possess metallic qualities: steel muscles and iron bones, immense strength, strong defense, high resistance. However, forging the physical body is secondary; more importantly, the Steel Body has the characteristic of resonating with Knight Armor.”
“The core of the Knight system is always on the Armor. Physical body cultivation is only to match and adapt, to keep up with the armor’s strength, and produce resonance with the Armor through breathing frequency to draw out its internal power. At the same time, the Breathing Method also stimulates and reinforces the physical body, continuously condensing and refining active Steel Origin, melting it into the Armor to grant it activity.”
“Like the Knight Armor I bound, it has already completely refined the original Knight through the Breathing Method. It can act alone like a warrior, or cooperate with me, wear the armor, and then use the Breathing Method to drive the power it contains.”
After hearing this, Yuan Zhu felt uneasy. He thought you investigators were so righteous, but you refined someone’s Knight into a spirit?!!!
The young lady was nonchalant about this and continued: “Knight Orders/Legions often roam the Spirit Layer, appearing on battlefields in group formations, accelerating the integration of battlefield blood qi and metal essence into their own life origin through collective slaughter (combat) + group breathing, melting it into Steel Armor. So the Knight system is labeled with Steel, war, slaughter, natural disaster, etc.”
“Setting aside group combat and armor, the pure Breathing Method is also widely spread among folk martial artists. However, once some extraordinary trait (Steel life Origin) is cultivated, one must consider joining a Knight Order for special training. Or find a brand new pollution system to overwrite the Steel Origin in the body.”
Yuan Zhu: “Why overwrite with other pollution? If not joining a Knight Order and not overwriting, what happens?”
Zhou Chu: “As one’s own flesh structure transforms, a cultivator without a Knight Order or armor will quickly lose self-awareness, tempering themselves into a quiet and stable killing weapon, known in the old era as premium soldier material. Waiting to be claimed by passing Knight Orders. They are also often stolen by people and refined into zombies, called Bronze Armor Corpse.”
Yuan Zhu: Damn, this Bronze Armor Corpse is so damn scientific!
Zhou Chu: “The Steel Breathing Method is like an assembly line process for mass-producing soldier products, also a means for Knight system expansion and conscription. In the old era, it was actively spread in the folk to screen premium soldiers. In this era, converting Breathing Method to Path of Strength is very common.”
Yuan Zhu compared the cultivation experience provided by Zhou Chu with his own Holy Knight Breathing Method.
It could only be said that it derives from the Knight system, but is already completely unrelated. The amplification and reinforcement brought by the new version Holy Breathing is consistent with the Knight system, both pure physical body reinforcement and power.
In addition, Holy Breathing seems to really inherit a bit of Steel Origin attributes, though very weak. Because the light attribute and Steel Origin are destined to be different.
Holy Light is just a momentary splendor; after release, it completely dissipates without residue. Therefore, the Holy Knight Breathing Method brings reinforcement effects similar to Steel Breathing, yet leaves no traces.
While the Knight Breathing Technique, through long-term accumulated cultivation, can overlay the metal concept onto flesh and blood, forging a Steel Body, with rewards matching the effort.
