northernbook Chapter 501 Cultivating the Dark Heart Technique
Chapter 501 Cultivating the Dark Heart Technique
Chapter 501 Cultivating the Dark Heart Technique
Unlike the Great Evolution Creation Body, the cultivation method of the Silent Dark Heart Technique does not rely on external resources, or rather, the resources that can produce an effect are very few and extremely precious, which Chen Yuan cannot even manufacture.
Therefore, the Silent Darkness Heart Sutra is extremely difficult to cultivate; even the introductory stage can stump a large number of people.
More importantly, even if you successfully get started, your subsequent training will be very slow.
Chen Yuan wasn't worried about the former, since there was a 100% compatibility. As long as he was willing to work hard, he would definitely be able to successfully get started.
As for the latter—even he was powerless to help.
Thanks to the compatibility, Chen Yuan was able to avoid most of the detours, but the remaining parts still took quite a while, at least compared to the Great Evolution Creation Body.
The key point is that, like other secret techniques containing the power of the Great Dao, the Silent Darkness Heart Sutra is not affected by time acceleration; one can only gradually hone their skills.
Even after optimization, it would still take an entire era to reach the first level of perfection.
"Given the complexity of the subsequent stages of the secret technique, the time required to cultivate the second and third levels will likely be even longer."
After a brief assessment, Chen Yuan drew the following conclusions.
Due to the lack of suitable resources to increase the speed of secret technique cultivation, the duration of this era is substantial, and subsequent stages will take even longer.
This is the complete opposite of the Great Evolution Creation Body.
You should know that it took him almost a thousand years to cultivate the first level of this body-refining secret technique. Logically speaking, it should take at least an entire era to cultivate it to the tenth level of perfection.
In reality, Chen Yuan achieved perfection in just over seven thousand years.
This is because, as his physical strength increased, his efficiency in refining materials further accelerated, which led to him training faster and faster as he progressed.
"Unfortunately, there are no resources suitable for the Silent Darkness Heart Technique in the Cosmic Sea, not even in the foundation of the Holy Weapon Sect, since one focuses on matter and the other on destruction."
Chen Yuan shook his head slightly. "The first level already takes a whole epoch. To perfect the second level, it would take at least ten epochs, so the third level would take a hundred epochs to perfect?"
He has only been cultivating for a little over two epochs, and it's hard to imagine that he has spent so much time on a secret technique.
There was no other way; it was Chen Yuan's insistence on incorporating the Dark Heaven branch into the secret technique, otherwise cultivation wouldn't have been so difficult.
However, on the other hand, the efficiency of cultivating a God-King level Destruction Inheritance to the Eternal level in just over a hundred epochs is extremely rare even in the Origin Continent.
Not to mention that after perfecting the secret technique, Chen Yuan was able to take control of the 50% power of the Dark Heaven branch, which alone would make any Eternal True God or even the Chaos Ruler envious.
"Forget it, why think so much? Let's focus on cultivation first."
The Cosmic Sea and the Origin Continent are separated by two ends, and he cannot collect the resources related to cultivating the Great Dao of Destruction in a short period of time. Even Di Yuluo cannot help him with this.
Like him, although Di Yuluo's body was not lacking in related resources, he was also unable to transport the resources from the Origin Continent to the Cosmic Sea.
So Chen Yuan stopped worrying about it. Anyway, it was only a little over a hundred epochs. He was just disappointed that he couldn't use time acceleration to cultivate the secret technique, not that he felt this period of time was very long.
If you include the time he spent cultivating during accelerated periods, he has spent at least tens of millions of epochs, so the so-called hundred or so epochs is just a fraction of that.
In any case, the situation in his hometown has become calm, and no major events are expected to occur in the future. Chen Yuan has enough time to improve himself slowly, so there is no need to rush.
With this in mind, Chen Yuan's mind was completely at ease. While his avatar was collecting information on the Great Dao of Life, his true self also officially began cultivating the Silent Darkness Heart Sutra.
Unlike previous secret techniques, the proficiency level of this technique is not clearly defined, but rather crudely categorized into a percentage.
In other words, when he cultivates the secret technique to 100%, it means that this level of the Silent Darkness Heart Sutra is directly perfected, without needing to go through the three stages of entry, proficiency, and mastery.
Chen Yuan quite liked this method of calculation, as it allowed him to clearly understand at a glance which stage he was currently at in his cultivation.
Of course, reducing 300% to 100% also means that the efficiency of improving proficiency will be much slower.
It took him two hundred years to finally cultivate the first wisp of Dark Power, which can be considered as entering the secret technique.
In terms of proficiency, it means that 1% of the progress has been made.
However, the results were gratifying. After mastering the power of the Dark God, Chen Yuan was pleasantly surprised to find that his attack power had more than doubled!
The extra double power naturally comes from the amplification of the Dark Divine Power, while the extra part is the amplification of the Dark Heaven Power that he comprehended along the way.
In fact, although the Silent Darkness Heart Sutra has been optimized, it is still at the first level of the God King realm, and its utilization of the Great Dao is not yet perfect.
Therefore, Chen Yuan did not utilize the power of the Dark Heaven lineage to its fullest extent with the Dark Divine Power he condensed.
Fortunately, the system incorporated information related to the Great Dao during optimization, allowing Chen Yuan to additionally comprehend the power of the Great Dao of the Dark Heaven lineage while cultivating the secret techniques.
This power of the Great Dao strengthened the Dark Divine Power he condensed when he used the Dark Heart Technique.
"So, after I master the first level of the Silent Darkness Heart Technique, the explosive power I gain will be more than a hundred times greater?"
Chen Yuan blinked. "Based on the current amplification of Dark Heaven's power, the power I exert is about 10% more. I just don't know if these additional amplifications will increase as I master more branches of Dark Heaven."
If he doesn't improve, then when the first level of the Silent Darkness Heart Technique is perfected, Chen Yuan's explosive power will probably increase by 110 times.
If the power of Dark Heaven is enhanced, the amplification of the power of Darkness will continue to increase, and the ultimate power he will unleash in the future will be more than a hundred times greater.
As for how much it can ultimately improve, that depends on subsequent training.
After testing the beginner-level Dark Power, Chen Yuan did not delay and continued to focus on cultivating this secret technique.
The subsequent cultivation efficiency of the Dark Heart Sutra was also surprising. After completing the initial stage, his cultivation efficiency increased by more than ten times in the following period.
In just twenty years, the proficiency level has increased by another 1%.
Unfortunately, his good fortune didn't last long. Soon, Chen Yuan discovered that the difficulty of cultivating the Silent Darkness Heart Technique was increasing linearly.
Each stage is divided into 10% increments. For every 10% increase in proficiency, the training time for the next stage will increase significantly.
However, there was a pleasant surprise: as the mastery of the secret technique exceeded 10%, the amplification of the Dark Heaven Power also increased by 10%.
Based on this ratio, when he completes the first level of the Silent Dark Heart Technique, the combined power of Dark Heaven should be able to unleash 210 times the power!
"Good heavens, the boost from the power of the Great Dao is actually greater than the boost from the secret technique itself."
Chen Yuan clicked his tongue in amazement. If this were the case, wouldn't he be able to unleash double the power after reaching the second and third levels of perfection?
The original power of the Silent Darkness Heart Technique was already very strong. If its power were doubled on top of that, the final explosive power would probably be no less than that of the second level of the God King Realm inheritance.
"Of course, now is not the time to be happy."
Chen Yuan took a deep breath: "I'm still not sure if the amplification of Dark Heaven's power will be reduced later."
Instead of speculating here, we should continue our training and let the facts speak for themselves.
Anyway, he had already gained a lot by obtaining the extra power. Even if the final effect of the Dark Heaven Power was not as strong as he had imagined, Chen Yuan was still satisfied.
Of course, he would be even more pleasantly surprised if this amplification effect could continue to increase.