Chapter 203: A Thousand Paths Forward For Wild Holy Cultivators
Opening his eyes, Yuan Zhu leaped up from the hotel bed, then with a thought, a not-too-thick set of information appeared in his hand.
Though not much, the price was not low. It cost a full 40 points, and it was the [Space of Gods]-organized [Holy Church Basic Textbook].
Its contents did not involve specific inheritances or cultivation secrets. Yet it pointed out a path forward for the vast ‘Holy Light enthusiasts (cultivators)’ in the [Space of Gods].
[Holy Church, Buddhism, Kunlun, Yellow Heaven (crossed out)] as time-honored pollution roots could be said to have numerous users. So many that they couldn’t be managed, with numerous branches and factions, a mix of mud and sand, fish and dragons.
One could reference the wild Mao Shan in the Hong Kong film ‘Zombie Universe’, all illegal users, pirated users.
The Path of Holy Light was the same. Broadly divided into two categories: [Legitimate Inheritance Type] and [Illegal Wild Type].
Unfortunately, Yuan Zhu belonged to the ‘half-step legitimate’ type; in contrast, Holy Light users in the [Space of Gods], this ‘Anti-Law Demon God club’, and the exchange zones were mostly wild types, with incomplete inheritances being one aspect; another was that they were not recognized by the [Holy Church] platform.
When Yuan Zhu entered the dao, he joined the right sect. He used the standard ritual of the [Tai Huang Dao], completed the [Holy Mark] brand, registered with the Security Bureau, belonging to a half-potential disciple.
If he continued buying official [Tai Huang Dao] products from the Old Temple Priest, [Holy Seals] personally blessed with ‘blessings’ by the Tai Huang Dao Master, then the next day he would be granted ordination, becoming a legitimate Holy Church monk.
Unfortunately, he chose to buy a [Sanctuary] from the [Space of Gods], so that incense relationship gradually faded, ultimately just a half-legitimate user.
More fatally, both his [Holy Mark] and [Holy Seal], before branding the soul, underwent a [Great Desolation Immortal Scripture] ‘dataized erosion fusion’ process.
Causing the originally hidden back door methods to be completely destroyed. Even ‘Holy Light, Holy Mark, Holy Seal’ became [dataized special supply versions], this action thoroughly cut off legitimate possibilities, substantively turning him into an [illegal wild user].
Not only illegal + wild, he even blasphemously converted [Holy Light, Holy Mark, Holy Seal] into [dataized server], severing all higher existence connections, until establishing contact with the [Holy Light Source (net dao)].
A textbook heresy act, defying the heavenly gang, courting death!
Right now, this [Paradise Edition. Guidance Textbook] in his hand had skyrocketed in value, with super high cost-performance. Bypassing the legitimate dao lineage, from the [Space of Gods. illegal Holy Light evil cultivator] perspective, proposing paths forward, giving him sudden enlightenment, exclaiming how interesting.
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In the Holy Seal system, the [Inheritance Type] has already been tested by someone for you, summarizing a complete process. Relying on background forces in the [Holy Church] as backing, just combining a few not particularly powerful [Holy Seals], easily bursting out extraordinary strength ‘combination set’ effects; forming various ‘professional systems’ with different emphases.
Such inheritances, large and small in varying numbers, are held in the hands of different factions in the [Holy Church]. Their ultimate origins are either the Eight Angel Kings or various overlord-level archangels.
Therefore, legitimate inheritances have built-in anti-theft measures. Even if the inheritance leaks, without higher existence approval, it’s still hard to get started, or exchange the potential of the [inheritance].
But that said, if forcibly breaking through the higher ‘technical seal’, successfully activating the inheritance. Then how would one know they wouldn’t become an even more conspicuous ‘big fish’, jumping out of the water, attracting the angler’s (higher angel) attention, starting more intense focus on you, cultivating you, ultimately fishing you out for a feast.
For the various negative flip-over cases described in the textbook, Yuan Zhu thought this was too normal, too reasonable. Modern cultivation novels all follow this pattern.
He quickly flipped past the ‘guidance textbook’ section criticizing [legitimate inheritance], turning to study the [wild inheritance] cultivation guide.
After just a few glances, he realized that with his current ‘Holy Light attainment’ (condensing [Soul Crystal]), he was no longer a newbie fresh out of the novice stage.
On the contrary, he fully had the strength to, by his own talent, perform illegal [Holy Mark] granting rituals on strangers and experimental subjects he didn’t know, guiding others into the dao, sharing Holy Light fortune.
“Eh? The [illegal source] is actually me?!”
He then realized why the [Space of Gods] sold large quantities of the [Guidance Textbook] for wild cultivators to learn.
Mainly, as long as one Yuan Zhu appears, more wild users can be mass-copied nearby. Then when wild users ignorantly brand a garbage [Holy Seal], and let go of their bottom line (Fall Seal) to frantically burn others for rapid strengthening, it can mass-produce more new illegal players.
Such a massive user market naturally needs the [textbook] to guide.
This kind of virus spreads and diffuses, but is not feasible in the main world. The Holy Light [net dao] covers the whole world, all sizes of cultivators and angels are servers that can detect large numbers of ‘illegal users’, then point-to-point precisely deliver justice strikes.
But the [Space of Gods] is vastly different!
We are conquering [Bubble Worlds], countless illegal users invading bubble small worlds, frantically replicating, isn’t that equivalent to establishing one’s own foundation dao lineage, rapidly rising as a new [Holy Light branch]?
Just like [Protestantism] fleeing to North America to avoid taxes, scalping and grabbing territory. Due to lack of headquarters control, instantly splitting into countless denominations, various new factions constantly emerging, rapidly growing strong.
Sharing Yuan Zhu’s view, also watching the textbook, Snake Snake immediately flattered: “Congratulations Boss becoming the [private server] source, Holy Dao is promising!”
Yuan Zhu quickly flipped past the beautiful fantasies in the textbook regarding [Space of Gods + wild users].
Because he knew very well these pie-in-the-sky contents were all fake!
Without boasting nicely, how to stimulate the vast ‘wild Holy Light players’ in the space to actively compete internally, burst with initiative, go all out for their respective ‘space squads (Anti-Law Demon Gods)’, create value?
You think the [Holy Seals] sold by the [Space of Gods] have no hidden dangers behind them?
He was certain that behind the [Holy Light Exchange Area], there must be a group of large and small angels unwilling to submit to the [Eight Holy Kings] secretly scheming. Inciting wild users to pioneer and expand territory for them in the [Nightmare Bubble Layer].
You think you’re diligently founding a ‘private church’ as cult leader? Yes, that’s right. But the church you founded points to other [angels], and you’re just a replaceable ‘folk little pope’.
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In the [Space of Gods], wild schools lack [legitimate inheritance], even the available [Holy Seals] are incomplete.
Although high-quality Holy Seals are plentiful, occasionally discovering a few ‘little top-grade’ ones, and prices relatively fair. But piecing together from east and west doesn’t form a system, that’s a huge flaw.
To cope with this situation, wild Holy cultivators summarized several simple, crude, yet efficient coping methods.
One of them is the [Repeated Seal Casting] he was currently pondering. Additionally, there’s another legitimate inheritance-used [Stacking Seal Technology], but unrelated to him.
But more is gradually defecting from the [Holy Church] camp. With [Fall Seal] ideology as core, merging with other [Pollution Systems]’ ‘apostate technology’.
Pure [Fall Seal Method] still belongs to the [Holy Church] camp, just abandoning the bottom line, with burning other lives as core, highlighting that [Holy Light] is [Evil Energy].
Equivalent to Earth’s hometown, ‘snail noodles (Lucifer)’ defecting from heaven to hell, still pure angel, loyal to old man Yahweh. If I don’t enter hell who will, a Hell Burial King-like existence, open undercover.
While the [Space of Gods]-pushed [Apostate System] is different, this isn’t legitimate [Fall Seal], but directly taking [Holy Seals] to submit to other [Pollution Roots], thoroughly recognizing the enemy as father.
Hmm… Yuan Zhu pondered a bit and realized, isn’t this ‘reverse refining Yellow Heaven, reverse refining Buddhist Dharma, reverse refining incineration fire’? Other [Angel Kings] can convert to Holy Light, so reverse operation naturally carries [Holy Light] to join other [Pollution Systems].
Thinking a bit more, what is the [Space of Gods]? The lair of [Anti-Law Demon Gods]!
This is clearly telling you that a group of Anti-Law Evil Gods have their eyes on the deeply rooted Holy Light. They first need to use the isolation and shielding of the Nightmare Bubble Layer to reverse-refine Holy Light to grow stronger and nourish their own Path of Anti-Law.
Even those little angels hidden in the Space of Gods have all made plans to go solo with entrepreneurship, spreading Holy Light within the Space to prepare for going independent.
“The water is too deep.”
Yuan Zhu, who had already seen through everything, completely ignored all sorts of excellent Apostasy Technology and instead studied Overlapping Seals and Repeated Seal Casting, content that was unassuming and nearly overlooked.
Little Spicy Stick suddenly reminded: “Actually, Apostasy Technology is pretty interesting too. Boss, aren’t you going to go Anti-Law next? Learning some techniques that combine Holy Seals with Pollution can also spread ‘private server digitized Holy Light’ and strengthen our family’s Anti-Law.”
“Uh?” Yuan Zhu was stunned, then praised: “You’re right, you really know how to manage the household.”
Afterward, in the Apostasy Technology section of the textbook, he inserted a bookmark to study it carefully later and absorb the advanced concepts.
“This textbook really hits the spot! Though it has no substantial content, it guided me on how to operate Holy Light and proposed a bunch of high-quality case models.”
Those seemingly failed negative cases, if viewed from a different perspective—treating the failed protagonists as one’s own sheep and prey—aren’t they just mature and inspirational little Holy Light Cultivation stories? This 40 points was well spent!
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Soon, he flipped the textbook to the Overlapping Seals page. This technology could be called the greatest opportunity and blessing for the vast number of low-level wild cultivators.
Those non-system wild cultivators usually lack guidance and resources. Or they themselves are not clean, being evil cultivators of the reverse-refining Holy Seal (apostasy school), and simply dare not contact the orthodox Holy Church.
Therefore, in the early entry stage, unable to access higher Holy Seals, they can only make do with ordinary ones. This leads to extremely low seal engraving numbers. In the textbook, Holy Seals including 4 engravings are called “basic Holy Seals.”
When a cultivator breaks through 4 seals, no matter how poor the Holy Seal quality, as a practitioner of Holy Light, the top origin, they can accomplish the great feat of opening the Gate, with no possibility of failure.
Once the Gate is opened, they qualify to look back and recast the Holy Seal, which is the Overlapping Seals technology.
After opening the Gate with 4 seals, they can go back and recast the 1st seal. After breaking through 5 seals, they can recast the 2nd seal…
The specific method: the recast Holy Seal must not exceed 4 engravings. The Holy Seal used for overlapping must similarly not exceed 4 engravings.
The essence of recasting is to use the overlapping seal as nutrient fuel, re-overlapping and integrating it into the old seal, allowing its essence to achieve a breakthrough.
Note that it’s not that overlapping 4 engravings with 4 engravings will make the Holy Seal break through to 8 engravings. That’s nonsense. Every increase of 1 engraving in a Holy Seal represents breaking through the essence limit once, with difficulty increasing exponentially.
Therefore, Overlapping Seals depends on the cultivator’s own Holy Light attributes, compatibility with the old seal, their own state at the time, and grasp of the opportunity… ultimately having a chance to give birth to a unique and powerful new Holy Seal.
Overlapping Seals is a orthodox path for those with insufficient foundation: a guaranteed improvement, and a low-power “super evolution.” It’s the gospel for vast wild cultivators.
But Overlapping Seals is destined to have nothing to do with Yuan Zhu. His Sanctuary starts with 7 engravings, reputed as upper-upper grade, priced at 7000 points. Apart from not being any orthodox faction’s core Holy Seal, it’s already a top-tier start.
Bootlicker Snake decisively jumped out to provide emotional value for his own boss: “As expected of my noble and genius big boss! You actually elevated a 7-engraving Holy Seal to extreme-grade 8-engraving level, defying the heavens!”
Overlapping Seals focuses on a guaranteed strengthening, with a small chance of genetic mutation super evolution. It’s a friend to the bottom class, gospel for wild cultivators. But it’s not Yuan Zhu’s opportunity.
No other reason—too noble! Can’t accept this kind of poor people’s gospel.
Afterward, he flipped the textbook to the Repeated Seal Casting chapter. This kind of method wasn’t first thought of by Little Spicy Stick (Immortal Scripture). On the contrary, a long, long time ago, many predecessors had researched the possibility of Repeated Seal Casting and summarized systematic and complete methods.
The biggest shortcoming of wild cultivators is insufficient resources and lack of inheritance. This leads to Holy Seals or engraving numbers being low (poor quality), or incomplete.
Thus, some poor bastards tried repeated seal casting. Anyway, as long as the Holy Seal quantity is sufficient, the Gate will inevitably open. It’s just that due to insufficient potential, they don’t qualify to impact the Half-God realm after 6 seals.
And for the same Holy Seal, if it luckily exceeds 4 engravings, though it loses the guaranteed benefit of Overlapping Seals, it can increase by 1 through repeated seal casting, with each mutually amplifying the other’s base attributes by 10%.
Assume Yuan Zhu’s Sanctuary space strength is 10.
Then after repeated seal casting, he will obtain 2 Sanctuaries with space strength of 11. The 10% amplification seems small, but it’s a subtle qualitative change that breaks one’s own strength limit.
Just like human bone strength: if it can increase by 10%, the weight-bearing limit is far from just adding 1/10 more weight. The power and speed of punches, the reverse impact force endured, are far more than 10% improvement. Even body size will break human limits.
Simply repeating seal casting twice still doesn’t show much strength. But with triple seal casting, each Sanctuary’s strength is 10×(1+10%+20%)=13.
With quadruple seal casting, each Sanctuary’s space strength soars to 16. Four Holy Seals accumulate an extra 24, equivalent to 2.4 Sanctuaries.
The Repeated Seal Casting technical route is not only used by wild poor ghosts lacking inheritance, but even cultivators under orthodox inheritance systems use it too.
For example, Holy Seals like Thunder Punishment or Holy Flame that Yuan Zhu favors will arrange repeated seal casting.
The purpose is not only to increase the storage limit of ‘thunder, flames,’ but also to guide qualitative mutation in their quality. Letting multiple Thunder Punishments link into a Great Thunder Pool, focusing on inhuman-level transformation. Beneficial for the human-to-god change after 6 seals.
Therefore, Repeated Seal Casting is a orthodox and feasible path.
Effective for both wild cultivators and orthodox ones, but it also tests the Holy Seal’s own quality. If the Holy Seal is excellent enough, the improvement and amplification brought will exceed the possibilities of various combination sets between different Holy Seals.
Conversely, repeated seal casting a mediocre Holy Seal brings far less improvement than ‘professional inheritance.’ After all, for a Holy Cultivator, the theoretical maximum Holy Seal quantity is only 9.
Break through further, and you’re damn well an Angel attaining Buddhahood and becoming an ancestor.
With Repeated Seal Casting, the more quantity, the greater the advantage. Orthodox systems’ Repeated Seal Casting won’t pursue extreme strengthening, usually stopping at ‘triple’ to prepare for other ‘combination effects.’
While folk wild contestants once had someone six-times recast a 5-engraving Holy Seal. A mere ordinary good smoothly broke the 6-seal shackles, exchanging for Half-God level potential.
Therefore, the ‘repeated route’ is also the gospel for the bottom class and wild cultivators. This path is even more suitable for Yuan Zhu.
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After reading the guidance content, Yuan Zhu began to examine the Sanctuary Holy Seal.
First, all its base attributes can be slightly amplified (Power, speed, defense, physique), but only slightly, very mediocre.
Second, complex functions: can heal and save people, amplify teammates, purify Pollution, turtle-shell defense, seal and refine… it’s a multi-functional mediocre Holy Seal like a Swiss army knife.
Finally, its core advantage is Space Attribute, imprisoning and locking space, with extremely outstanding strength, hard to break. Can be planar barrier or three-dimensional enclosure.
Due to his own strength being too weak (1 Soul Crystal), he can’t fully utilize it. Even without repeated seal casting, as Holy Light storage increases, the Sanctuary’s excavatable potential remains huge. As a 7-engraving Holy Seal, its upper limit is imprisoning a region of Space, prohibiting all teleportation and activation of Space Equipment…
If [Repeated Seal Casting], that would be the all-purpose Reinforcement version. Multiple repeated Reinforcements of Basic Functions, that would no longer be ‘Basic’, but rather an extremely comprehensive and powerful [Dao Foundation]. And [Space Attribute] would also become even more prominent.
Hmm……Overall Evaluation, this thing is indeed very suitable for [Repeated Seal Casting].
If Repeated Seal Casting, then it cannot stop at 2 Seals, but must go to 3 Seals, or even 4 Seals……6 Seals, to excavate the potential; otherwise, one would have to join a faction and seek top-tier Inheritance to make it worthwhile.
Especially, his [Sanctuary] starts at 7 Inscriptions, which is already an extremely rare top-grade item.
If through repeated casting, then it can further excavate the potential. Even if all are Garbage Ash, they could group up to climb to 8 Inscriptions, 9 Inscriptions……or even Breakthrough?
