Chapter 197: Mom Vibes Teaching!
After undergoing rounds of inspections far more professional than those of the Running Security Bureau, Yuan Zhu received a report that he somewhat couldn’t understand.
It was mainly because there were many terms and indicators on it, not ordinary text, but written in the Security Bureau’s code. As an outsider, he couldn’t read it and could only hand it to Zhou Chu for judgment.
Fortunately, the conclusion was normal. From the objective perspective of a third party (Security Bureau), his [Holy Light] had not gone astray; on the contrary, it was very ‘pure’!
Upon getting this answer, Yuan Zhu, who had not held any expectations for himself, was shocked!
Holy shit, the first Holy Light Ultimate Skill [Holy Cough] that this seat comprehended shocked even the Old Temple Priest to the point of calling it heavenly genius, saying this child was born a demonic seed. And you all say I’m very healthy?!
It seems my cultivation baseline is still too high.
After glancing over the report, Zhou Chu’s attitude toward Yuan Zhu became even more relaxed and friendly. While nodding and greeting colleagues nearby, she led him toward the door.
After exiting the detection center’s door, the two strolled slowly to a sunlit green city park, surrounded by only a few tourists and passersby relaxing, very suitable for conversation.
She spoke at this moment: “The quality and purity of your [Holy Light] is acceptable, belonging to the broad ‘Good Faction’. But there is a faint downward trend, which means ‘evil thoughts’ also exist in your heart, affecting the quality of the ‘light’. So in your future cultivation, you need to act cautiously, always pay attention to changes in your state of mind, and hold to your baseline as a person. For this, I will give you a Precept Keeping Secret Method. Combined with your Holy Church’s [Soul Crystal], engrave [Precept] into your soul, guiding your every action at all times, and you will benefit for life!”
Here it comes again!
Upon hearing this, Yuan Zhu was stunned. This thick ‘mom vibe’ was indeed the familiar feeling! Especially now on her turf, this woman was even more unrestrained, actually wanting to intervene and transform my soul? Engrave a tattoo on my soul level? Keep precepts?!
“Got it! Thanks for the reminder, I will use power cautiously. But any ‘secret method’ is totally unnecessary.”
He waved his hands repeatedly, thanking her for her kindness. For the long-term cultivation of [Holy Light], he had his own plans.
Now, Yuan Zhu had deeply realized that this kind of power was absolutely idealistic and always carried the risk of [Fall Seal], so he would not seek quick success and instant benefits. Instead, he vaguely had in his heart a cultivation outline for [Merit Holy Light] centered on ‘doing good and accumulating merit’.
But whether it would succeed still needed personal verification.
If this path worked, his [Holy Light] could maintain color purity even without keeping laws, continuing to be [sacred].
The iron dummy nearby saw Yuan Zhu reject her ‘kindness’ and even faintly show disregard, which made her even more concerned. An inexplicable sense of responsibility and mission erupted and surged within her.
“[Holy Light], though listed alongside [Buddhist Dharma] and [Immortal Method (Kunlun)] as the contemporary righteous path manifest sects, is actually all unpredictable and unfathomable, merely wearing a sacred skin. The more these systems are cultivated, the deeper one falls into the demonic path. So I advise you to consider the Pale Great Law more. The Precept Keeping Secret Method is not exclusive to the Law System, but a universally applicable ‘mind and spirit cultivation secret technique’, friendly to any system, helpful for resisting pollution and enhancing one’s own control. Moreover, it can also increase your affinity with [Holy Light.Great Law Heaven]. If one day you sense something wrong with the [Holy Light] in your body, you can awaken early, immediately convert to [Great Law Heaven], and return from the lost path.”
“No way, you with this routine again?!”
I knew something was off about this Precept Keeping Secret Method. Alright, now you’re not persuading me to convert to Pale Great Law because your Law System has a branch (Great Law Heaven) in the Holy Church, right?!
Seeing Yuan Zhu stubbornly unyielding, unwilling to join under [Great Law Heaven]? Zhou Chu showed an expression of hating iron for not becoming steel:
“I’m all doing this for your own good. Ever since I heard you were coming to Taixi to see me, I specially went to the information secret archive and looked up information related to the Holy Church to find this secret technique for you. Do you know what [Holy Light] was called at its birth?”
Yuan Zhu: “What was it called?”
“[Evil Energy]!”
Zhou Chu recalled the secret information she had looked up: “[Holy Light] first appeared in the western nations of Geng Continent, similar to the evil power recorded in an ancient obscure mythology system. However, because [Holy Light]’s color and appearance were too appealing, and during that period various pollution roots emerged frequently, it instead highlighted [Holy Light]’s characteristics of expelling and purifying pollution. Plus, it brought false ‘warmth’, gradually bewitching people and gaining the name ‘sacred’. But its essence of cruelly plundering and burning souls has never changed.”
In Zhou Chu’s eyes, the contemporary ‘righteous path systems’ were nothing more than the strongest among a pile of insane pollution sources, forcibly whitewashing themselves as the ‘pollution great root source’. Upon careful thought, they were even more insane! Well, those forbidden pollutions weren’t much better either.
Seeing she couldn’t scare Yuan Zhu, Zhou Chu was helpless. She took out a crystal containing Holy Light Energy, stuffed it into Yuan Zhu’s hand, and instructed: “Whether you cultivate it or not, you must read it carefully once. Because this is a gift I’m giving you!”
After receiving it, Yuan Zhu asked doubtfully: “Why does it have Holy Light aura?”
Zhou Chu said confidently: “Because it came from the Holy Church.Great Law Heaven side.”
“I knew you weren’t up to any good, but I’ll still take it. For the sake of being teammates, I’ll give you face and read it.”
Seeing Yuan Zhu accept the gift, Iron Head Sis was very satisfied: “Mm-hmm! The physical exam report shows you’ve just condensed your [Soul Crystal], formally stepping into the [Seed] realm, which is a critical moment for building your foundation. You must stay steady, don’t pursue power and get stronger quickly.”
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In her explanation, ‘below [Seed]’ is the process where ability users accept a certain ‘polluting energy’, erode themselves, and harness the pollution.
After the soul binds and erodes with the [Pollution Source], one slowly summarizes, comprehends, and learns corresponding control methods. Ultimately condensing a supernatural crystal integrated with one’s own will (soul): [Seed]
Before the next major realm [Door], all ability users base on their own [Seed] to further optimize, perfect, grow stronger, and nurture their own [Pollution Root], constructing their personal system.
Specific cultivation methods can be divided into two categories:
The first type: choose a mature [Pollution System]. Backed by great forces and backgrounds, with predecessors paving a relatively safe and stable path for you; just follow it to continuously get stronger and upgrade.
For example, the Holy Church: Yuan Zhu doesn’t need to worry about the cultivation path at all, just keep [Seal Casting]. Once the 3rd seal is fully completed, breaking through to 4 seals allows opening the [Door].
The top-tier the system, the wider and more stable the path. For him, first seal = [Seed], fourth seal = [Door], and beyond there are upgrade paths; mindlessly cultivate and one can continuously breakthrough and get stronger.
Additionally, on top of the most basic traditional [Seal Casting], there are also routes like the Eight Holy Kings to choose from, strengthening even more.
What Zhou Chu was doing now was to lure him to the broad road of Great Law Heaven while his [Soul Crystal] was freshly formed, to become a legitimate informant for the Law System planted in the Holy Church!
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The other cultivation method: no predecessors, no mature [Pollution System]. Pure wild fox zen, even one’s own [Seed] is randomly pieced together from wild pollution sources.
This type of ability user is more numerous; randomly contracting pollution without dying counts as entry. Thereafter, without any plan, contacting more pollution sources, hunting demonic creatures, instinctively getting stronger, and finally successfully condensing a [Seed]—this is even more common.
This type of wild ability user has low potential, no follow-up path. Can only harness their own [Seed] to devour, digest, and absorb weaker ‘polluting energy, polluted aura, pollution root fragments’.
Bearing risks of entering demonic path, losing control, outburst, etc., forcibly refining, fusing, absorbing. Improving the potential and strength of the [Seed], adding more evolution directions.
This path has high risk, high profit, extremely fast ascent speed, but even faster loss of control speed, with myriad bizarre death methods.
In Zhou Chu’s introduction, the most handled issues by their Security Bureau were all of the second type. The first type, no matter how evil, organized planned actions, better at avoiding the [Security Bureau], and wouldn’t disrupt social order.
“On the market, many who luckily condensed [Seed] but have no follow-up path. After contacting the supernatural circle and accumulating enough knowledge, they proactively join a mature major system. Using the mature stable promotion channels to optimize and perfect their own [Seed]. Until reaching some limit, then facing new choices: continue staying in the system, competing for higher status and authority; or jump ship again, go solo…”
Yuan Zhu: “I have a question! Isn’t it said that once contacting a certain [Pollution], the soul is thoroughly bound to the root source, no way back? How can one still join, switch cultivation?”
Zhou Chu mocked: “The [Seed] condensed by such wild ability users isn’t pure; the [Pollution Root] they belong to is also very weak, unable to support a complete ‘supernatural system’, so no follow-up path. Thus they can convert to a stronger [Pollution Source], commonly known as Informant. This isn’t switching cultivation or changing sects, but offering their own underdeveloped ‘big shot’ as food to a bigger [Demon King].”
From entry to now, all Yuan Zhu contacted or heard about were top-tier [Pollution Roots], each able to guest as a single [Heavenly Dao]. So he defaulted that all ‘polluting energy’ was like the neighboring [Magic Potion], one path to the end.
But on Du Ling Star, the ‘pollution sources’ are overly abundant. Besides top-tier [Origins], there are massive various pollution fragments; random combinations make brand new [Pollution Sources].
They both pollute mortals, spreading their own systems; devour other pollution sources to grow stronger; and are similarly devoured and absorbed by stronger pollutions, offering nutrition.
According to Zhou Chu, this route was exactly like his own Shadow System.
The Great Desolation Immortal Scripture that absorbed [Shadow Pollution] was a small-scale [Pollution Source] from another world, gradually adapting and integrating into Du Ling Star’s pollution ecosystem.
Compared to [Holy Light, Buddhist Dharma, Immortal Path, Yellow Heaven], the [Immortal Scripture] was weak like a noob kun.
But with downward compatibility, it forcibly ate part of the ‘garbage shadow evil god’ origin, occupying an ecological niche in the [Shadow Pollution Source]. And relying on the [Boss Template]’s Universe Within The Belly, continuously devouring one kind after another of ‘polluting energy (Buddha Tomato, Disease Pollution, Insect System Pollution)’… enriching and optimizing its own system.
But he didn’t rush to expose himself; instead, inspiration struck: “By your description, it’s somewhat similar to the Insect City’s cultivation system?”
Zhou Chu agreed: “Indeed, the Insect Cultivator’s supernatural system has no high upper limit. Clearly pieced from three [Pollution Sources], while depending on the corrupted [Miasma Pollution + Knight Pollution] environment; human bodies eroded by ‘spiritual roots’; and using ‘insect eggs’ as core to splice another two pollutions.”
“These ‘Insect Cultivators’ once leaving the Underground World for Du Ling or other Bubble Worlds, first lack the ‘miasma’ brought by Immortal World Tree Root Tendrils, making Qi Refining Technique completely useless. Even if they migrate to the floating islands above Taixi, breathing pure [Kunlun Spiritual Energy], they can’t cultivate. Only gathering ‘Corrupting Miasma + Knight Iron Poison’ at the same time can refine True Qi.”
“And if normal humans not from ‘Insect City’, without ‘spiritual root erosion’ laying meridian foundation, even implanting Dao Seed (insect eggs) can’t guide meridians, but lets ‘Insect System Organization’ grow wildly in the body, turning into half-human half-insect monsters. Insect City’s supernatural system is clearly a pieced-together ‘pollution source’, inherently no follow-up path, thus forcibly borrowing ‘Immortal Path, Knight’ two systems to harness [Insect System Pollution]. Upper limit stuck at [Door] stage, then path cut off.”
Yuan Zhu: “If Insect City’s cultivators want to continue, what should they do?”
Zhou Chu confidently said: “The simplest and correct method is to convert to Pale Great Law, switch to [Law], perfectly compatible, with rich promotion paths. Secondly, their Heaven Rank powerhouses also realized path cutoff, so proactively absorbed Nightmare Pollution seeking a way out; thus can join Nightmare Dimension, using higher-ranking [Pollution Root] to transform themselves into ‘Nightmare Life’.”
“Next, perhaps consider rejoining Kunlun System. But their existence, in Kunlun’s eyes, is clearly heretical demonic creatures, no value for incorporation or transformation, instead will be cleaned up. As for Knight System, Insect Cultivators and [Knights] seem similar but have very limited overlap, no conversion qualification. Finally, they can continue digging Insect System Pollution’s potential; that Feathered Immortal seemed to have truly existed once, a severed path, suspected related to your Holy Church’s [Great Moth]?”
Yuan Zhu was very surprised upon hearing: “You know so much!”
Zhou Chu proudly snorted coldly: “Hmph! Isn’t it because you were coming that I specially reviewed Holy Church intelligence, digging out much hidden knowledge. Hoping to guide you onto the correct path.”
