218: Myths and Legends

Looking at the Beast Taming Art in his hand, Qin Shilei's eyes lit up.

Could this be a secret manual that can be repeatedly cultivated?

Only over ninety of the top one hundred on the leaderboard were Silver Realm experts, indicating that many people had not advanced to the Silver Realm because they lacked cultivation methods or satisfactory quality cultivation methods.

If this was truly a secret manual that everyone could cultivate, then for the people of Hope City, it would be an extremely valuable item.

At that time, everyone could successfully advance to the Silver Realm with its help.

As for the ability to subdue exotic beasts after successful cultivation, there was nothing particularly valuable about that, because a contract scroll could also easily achieve this goal.

Qin Shilei carefully read the Beast Taming Art once.

“......”

He could understand most of the words, but when combined, they were completely incomprehensible.

“I wonder if An Qian and the others can understand this Beast Taming Art?”

Qin Shilei had no choice but to put away the Beast Taming Art for now, reaching out to pick up the golden cicada to examine it.

However, just as his hand touched the ice cicada, he suddenly felt his vision go black, and he appeared in a gray, hazy space.

Qin Shilei looked around and knew this was his mental space.

Just then, an uncle in his fifties or sixties flew towards him, riding a giant ice cicada.

“Heaven truly blesses me; my soul was preserved in the ice cicada, and just as it was about to dissipate, I encountered someone I could possess.”

The man looked exactly like Xu Leyou, the owner of the ice house, and his eyes glowed as he looked at Qin Shilei.

“Possess?” Qin Shilei had a bad feeling in his heart.

“Precisely. The conditions for possession are extremely strict. Moreover, a person who dies of old age, even if they possess another, will quickly die due to soul depletion. I am a person who died of old age, but because I absorbed the soul power of the ice cicada, I can perform possession.”

Because he could be resurrected again, Xu Leyou, overjoyed, patiently explained to Qin Shilei.

“Did people who could overturn mountains and seas truly exist in ancient times?” Qin Shilei asked again.

“Are there no longer such powerful individuals now?” Xu Leyou countered.

“Before the apocalypse, the maximum strength of humans was only a few hundred catties, and even the simplest ability to walk on walls became a legend,” Qin Shilei replied.

“Has spiritual energy become so thin, or is there no spiritual energy at all on Blue Star?” Xu Leyou asked in surprise.

As soon as he finished speaking, he laughed and said, “Let me find out for myself.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly pounced on Qin Shilei.

Qin Shilei waved his hand, sending out a lightning bolt towards the opponent.

However, that lightning bolt was shattered by an ice arrow casually sent out by the opponent.

Before Qin Shilei could send out another lightning bolt, the opponent had already pounced on his body.

“Your body is mine.”

“Ding! Detecting host being possessed by an unknown entity. Initiating cleanup.”

Immediately, Qin Shilei’s soul body glowed with a colorful light.

“What the hell is this?”

Xu Leyou emerged from Qin Shilei’s soul body with a look of panic.

However, just as his upper body emerged, a huge force suddenly appeared out of thin air, quickly pulling him back in.

“Let go of me quickly…”

Qin Shilei only heard Xu Leyou’s terrified scream, and then everything returned to calm.

“......”

Did Xu Leyou get eliminated by the All Things Entry Refresh System?

A powerful soul force instantly surged into Qin Shilei’s soul body.

Qin Shilei felt incredibly comfortable, as if he had eaten a ginseng fruit, and at the same time, a segment of memory quickly flashed through his mind.

Those memories did not cause him any adverse effects.

Qin Shilei watched Xu Leyou's entire life quickly, as if watching a movie.

It seemed like a long time had passed, yet also like only an instant.

Qin Shilei’s senses returned to reality from his mental sea.

By watching Xu Leyou’s life experiences, he also gained some understanding of certain myths and legends.

In ancient times on Blue Star, there truly existed powerful individuals who could fly and burrow through the ground.

In Xu Leyou’s memory, the strongest could shatter a mountain several hundred meters high with a single blow.

Of course, such masters were only a handful in Xu Leyou’s era.

Later, the spiritual energy on Blue Star gradually declined, and everyone’s strength regressed instead of advancing.

Just as everyone was in a panic, someone suddenly discovered a world with more abundant spiritual energy than Blue Star’s ancient times.

To maintain their strength, many people invaded that world.

Because Xu Leyou possessed this Ice Secret Realm, and the spiritual energy within it was also quite abundant, he did not follow them into that world.

As time went on, most of the powerful individuals went to that world.

Just then, that world suddenly disappeared, as if it had never existed.

As Xu Leyou was celebrating not having followed them into that world, he suddenly found that the spiritual energy on Blue Star was disappearing even faster. He could only linger in the bitter cold of the Ice Secret Realm all day long, barely surviving.

The last time he emerged from the secret realm, he found that the spiritual energy outside was already very thin, and it was very difficult for humans to embark on the path of cultivation.

Many powerful individuals who had remained on Blue Star also died, either of old age or in battle, due to the disappearance of spiritual energy.

After leaving behind a Gu Insect Scripture for his descendants, Xu Leyou sealed himself within the Ice Secret Realm.

“Since ancient humans could cultivate into powerful individuals using various secret manuals, now that spiritual energy has revived, can we once again learn the cultivation methods and secret manuals left behind from ancient times?”

Qin Shilei’s mind became somewhat active.

However, he quickly thought that even Xu Leyou, a person of excellent talent, needed to cultivate for thirty to forty years to reach the equivalent of Silver Realm strength, and for the even stronger Golden Realm, it would take two to three hundred years of cultivation.

Yet, he himself had only taken a little over a month to advance to the Silver Realm.

Calculating this, after Blue Star became systematized, the speed at which survivors advanced was far beyond what ancient people could ever hope for.

But it couldn't be said that the cultivation methods left behind from ancient times were completely useless; at the very least, they could be referenced, and some of the offensive techniques within them could even be learned.

Qin Shilei secretly noted that he should pay attention to collecting some divine martial arts manuals in the future, and then he took out the Beast Taming Art again.

He still couldn't understand it; he had only watched most of Xu Leyou's life experiences, without absorbing his knowledge.

[Do you want to refresh the entry?]

[Refresh.]

Optimization (Green): After optimization, the art is easier to cultivate, and its power is slightly increased.

Easy to Understand (Red): Makes the Beast Taming Art easier for humans to read.

Systematization (Red): After systematization, humans can quickly master the Beast Taming Art.

After thinking for a moment, Qin Shilei took out his phone and first took pictures of the text on the beast hide, then chose the systematization entry.

He had an idea in his mind.

He would make several copies of this Beast Taming Art in the future, and then refresh the copied arts.

If he could still fortunately refresh them with systematization, wouldn't that allow many people to cultivate quickly?

The only difficulty was that the randomness of refreshing was too great.