Swallowing the Stars: Starting with Optimizing the Five Hearts Towards the Sky

Chapter 12 Chen Yuan's Ultimate Secret Manual

"Next, it's time to optimize this sword technique." Although the Spirit Wind Sword Technique had just demonstrated its extraordinary nature, for Chen Yuan, the problem was still that it was too difficult to practice.

Only through the secret techniques optimized by the system can it achieve a 100% match with Chen Yuan. Moreover, the biggest drawback of the Spirit Wind Sword Technique is the lack of power exertion techniques, which is why its power exertion multiplier is only 1.3 so far.

Now that we know the secret of the Spirit Wind Sword Technique is the essence of wind, we should just retain its core elements and optimize them.

So Chen Yuan didn't hesitate. In a flash, he opened the optimization page of the panel.

"System, optimize the Spirit Wind Sword Technique. The optimization direction is: focus on the artistic conception, enhance the power of the secret technique, improve the power exertion technique, and abandon universality, only optimizing for the individual."

"Optimization task established. Optimization target: Spirit Wind Sword Technique. Optimization direction: Retain the characteristics of its artistic conception, enhance the power and execution techniques of the secret technique, abandon universality, and optimize based on the host's situation. Estimated kill points consumption: 16. Establish optimization task?"

"16 kill points... It really is double the increase." Chen Yuan was glad that after giving up universality, optimizing the secret technique only required one percent of the kill points, otherwise his 125 kill points would not have been enough.

That's right, after Chen Yuan killed the three-headed tiger-dog leader, his kill points had reached 125.

Since there were plenty of kill points, Chen Yuan naturally had no need to save them and quickly confirmed the optimization.

"The optimization task has been created, and the optimization period is 15 hours."

"As expected of an A-grade secret technique, even the optimization time is so long." Chen Yuan sighed as he looked at the remaining optimization time.

Then Chen Yuan picked up his sword and walked into the county town.

"Since it's still early, let's farm some kill points first."

The cool moonlight shone on Chen Yuan's figure, stretching his shadow longer and longer.

As time passed, the Jade Rabbit disappeared and the Golden Crow rose in the east. In County Town No. 0247 in the Wilderness Area, Chen Yuan opened his eyes in an abandoned apartment building.

Opening the panel, Chen Yuan glanced at the information that interested him.

"Remaining optimization time: 30 minutes."

Kill points: 583.

Subtracting yesterday's remnants, this means that Chen Yuan gained 474 kill points last night by killing nearby monsters. It also means that at least a hundred monsters died under Chen Yuan's sword.

It wasn't that Chen Yuan couldn't kill more monsters; it was simply that the county town wasn't large enough to attract many monsters to gather there, resulting in them being too scattered.

Another point is that Chen Yuan's main purpose is still cultivation. After each killing session, he would find a stronghold, cultivate the guiding technique, and enter a deep sleep to recover.

At this point, including Chen Yuan's awakening from deep sleep, he had cultivated three times in total.

Looking at the remaining optimization time on the panel, Chen Yuan took out a piece of monster meat he had picked up last night from his backpack, set up a fire, skewered the monster meat, and roasted it over the fire.

Chen Yuan had basically eliminated all the monsters within a few kilometers of this stronghold, so he wasn't worried about any monsters coming to bother him.

And that was exactly what happened. Time slowly passed as Chen Yuan leisurely ate his breakfast, and when he finished, the optimization progress bar finally came to an end.

"The optimization task has been completed. The secret technique 'Spirit Wind Sword Technique' has been optimized to 'Unnamed' (click to expand details)."

Chen Yuan let out a soft "hmm," finding it somewhat strange that the optimized secret technique this time didn't have a name.

After consulting the system, Chen Yuan received the answer.

Actually, it's quite simple: the system couldn't find a name in Chen Yuan's memory that matched this new secret technique.

Whether it was the previous "Hibernation Method - Crystal Visualization" or the later "Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing", the system used Chen Yuan's memories as a blueprint to select names that conformed to the characteristics of the secret methods.

This time, Chen Yuan optimized the Spirit Wind Sword Technique to fully conform to the rules of the Swallowed Star world view, so the system naturally did not find a similar name in Chen Yuan's memory.

"I see. Let me see what this new secret technique does." Chen Yuan curiously clicked on the secret technique details.

Unnamed: Combat-type arcane technique, rated Ultimate. This combat arcane technique, centered on the concept of wind, consists of three parts: swordsmanship, movement techniques, and guiding techniques. Specific effects are as follows:

First, practicing this secret technique can further enhance movement speed, sword speed, and nerve reaction speed.

Second, by mastering the essence of wind in advance, one can improve the efficiency of practicing sword techniques below the essence level.

3. Increase the power level, with the highest power level being 5.

Fourth: To assist in understanding the techniques of harmony between man and nature.

Fifth: After perfecting the secret technique, it increases the efficiency of comprehending the 'domain'.

Six: After the secret technique is perfected, it slightly increases the affinity with wind-type laws.

Chen Yuan examined the abilities of this secret technique one by one, his mouth slowly widening: "So powerful! It can even assist in comprehending domains and enhancing affinity with laws!"

Chen Yuan received the contents of the secret technique, and this time he studied it for a full half hour before leaning against the wall and closing his eyes to digest the information.

After a long while, Chen Yuan opened his eyes and exclaimed, "So that's how it is."

Now he was certain that the Chen family members' bodies were indeed different from ordinary people.

Of course, this does not mean that he is not from Earth, but that the Chen family has some special gene fragments hidden in its bloodline. It is these genes that have created the unique talents of the Chen family.

Chen Yuan didn't know what this gene was, but based on his guess, it might be related to the 'law affinity'.

Simply put, the Chen family is different from ordinary people; they are naturally more inclined to follow the laws of wind.

This also explains why Chen Yuan's grandfather, Chen Xuandao, was able to elevate the power of a C-level secret manual to A-level during the Great Nirvana period—it was because he comprehended the essence of wind and became a top expert who mastered the essence-level techniques.

Similarly, this explains why only members of the Chen family can master the Spirit Wind Sword Technique. No matter how talented others are, they lack this special gene and ultimately cannot comprehend the essence of wind through a C-level sword technique.

Hong may have understood this point, which is why he rated the Spirit Wind Sword Technique as a C-level manual instead of an A-level one. After all, for the vast majority of people, the upper limit of this sword technique is indeed limited.

Therefore, the reason why this secret technique, which is an optimization of the Spirit Wind Sword Technique, can possess those two amazing abilities—enhancing the efficiency of "domain" comprehension and slightly increasing the affinity for wind-type laws—is precisely because the secret technique is perfectly compatible with Chen Yuan's body, and together with the special genes in the Chen family bloodline, it creates this almost heaven-defying effect.

"In that case, the next focus, besides continuing to improve our strength, is to cultivate this secret technique." Chen Yuan looked at the three unnamed characters on the secret technique and thought for a moment, "Let's call the new secret technique Swift Wind Sword Technique."

The origin of the name is simple—compared to the Spirit Wind Sword Technique, the core advantage of this new secret technique is speed, which is also the first effect of the secret technique.

According to the description in the manual, when Chen Yuan cultivates this secret technique to perfection, his sword speed and movement speed will double, and his nerve reaction speed will also increase by two levels.

It's important to know that Chen Yuan's sword speed has already increased by 70% and his movement speed by 50% due to the Spirit Wind Sword Technique. If these speeds were doubled, just how fast would he be? Even Chen Yuan himself finds it hard to imagine.

Not to mention what a level two neural reaction speed means. Chen Yuan, who is equivalent to a high-level warrior, has a neural reaction speed comparable to a mid-level general.

All three improvements are aimed at the 'speed' attribute.

Therefore, the name "Swift Wind Sword Technique" is quite fitting.

As Chen Yuan's thought settled, the name of the secret technique on the panel changed accordingly.

Gale Sword Technique: Combat-type secret technique, rated Ultimate, current progress: Beginner/Proficient (0.01%)

"Huh, what's going on with this progress?" Chen Yuan asked the panel, then suddenly realized, "It turns out that I've already mastered the Wind Intent, which is theoretically at the proficient level, but I haven't practiced this secret technique yet, so I'm still in the beginner stage."

"Since it's a new secret technique, let's start over." With a thought, Chen Yuan erased the word "proficient" after the progress bar of the secret technique.

After finishing these tasks, Chen Yuan packed his backpack, extinguished the fire, and then pushed open the apartment door and went outside.

"It's time to train properly."