After Caroline left, Jiang Wuming immediately began to study the mental cultivation technique, "Nine-Nine Divine Forging."
"Humans are composed of the physical body and the soul. The soul includes willpower and soul force."
This was the opening sentence of "Nine-Nine Divine Forging."
Jiang Wuming pondered for a moment and understood that the so-called soul, in modern terms, was the spirit, and soul force referred to mental power.
With this understanding, Jiang Wuming continued reading.
A few minutes later, Jiang Wuming finished reading the introduction to "Nine-Nine Divine Forging," solidifying his understanding of mental power cultivation.
According to the introduction in "Nine-Nine Divine Forging," cultivators honed their willpower, strengthened their physical bodies, and improved their strength, but they possessed only a small amount of soul force.
Only a very few gifted individuals could cultivate soul force, which was also known as mental power cultivation.
This point was not difficult to understand. Setting aside cultivators, many ordinary people also possessed strong willpower. They could rally from setbacks and failures, or remain calm and composed in the face of major emergencies, but they lacked mental power!
Mental power could manipulate objects, influence, interfere with, or even control the souls of others. This was an extremely special power.
The cultivation content in "Nine-Nine Divine Forging" instructed mental power cultivators to cultivate in accordance with eighty-one diagrams. In the early stages, these were visualization diagrams, while in the middle and later stages, they used mental power as a knife to carve these eighty-one diagrams in the mental world.
Jiang Wuming memorized the eighty-one diagrams one by one, then set aside the beast skin scroll of "Nine-Nine Divine Forging." He opened his phone and browsed the mental attack secret method brought by Caroline.
This secret method had no name, but it also had an introduction, and it was introduced in modern Chinese.
This made Jiang Wuming feel a little surprised. Had he really been deceived by the Hall Master of the Underworld Hall?
Jiang Wuming raised an eyebrow and began to carefully read the content of the secret method.
After Jiang Wuming finished reading the content of this secret method, he confirmed that the Hall Master of the Underworld Hall had not deceived him; this was indeed a secret method he had never encountered before.
According to the introduction of this secret method, mental power cultivators primarily possessed several methods of attack.
First, using mental power to manipulate objects for attacks from a distance, including the legendary 'flying sword technique.'
This technique could be achieved by mental power cultivators below the one-star War God realm.
However, to make the attack possess powerful might, in addition to strong mental power, specific secret methods and mental power weapons were also required.
For example, in the legendary flying sword technique, mental power cultivators used secret methods to manipulate flying swords, resulting in unparalleled power.
Second, interfering with and influencing the willpower of others.
Regarding the first two points, Jiang Wuming had used them many times in previous battles, but without any secret methods, relying solely on his strong mental power to fight head-on and brute-force his way through.
In simple terms, a secret method allowed a cultivator to exert maximum power with minimum effort through methods and techniques.
Third, attacking and even destroying the souls of others, killing without a trace.
This technique required cultivation to the one-star War God realm and above, possessing strong mental power, using secret methods and techniques, and simultaneously, the target's willpower could not be too strong.
In other words, it was impossible for a one-star War God realm mental power cultivator to directly destroy the soul of a five-star War God. The latter's willpower far surpassed the former's!
Generally speaking, a mental power cultivator's realm needed to be at least one realm higher than the target's to be able to destroy the opponent's soul through mental secret methods.
Fourth, beast taming, controlling others, and even soul possession.
When a mental power cultivator's strength reached a certain level, they could 'communicate' with animals and beasts through mental power, and even control them.
The principle of controlling humans was the same as that of beasts, but the difficulty was greater.
After all, humans were the most complex species in terms of thought, and controlling a person was by no means easy.
And according to the introduction in the secret method, mental power cultivators could even leave their bodies, possess the physical bodies of others!
Fifth, manipulating heavenly energy to fight.
When a cultivator reached that legendary realm, they could wield incredible power by manipulating the energy between heaven and earth!
"Although mental power cultivators cannot directly destroy the opponent's soul at the same realm, they can combine soul attacks with remote object manipulation attacks to kill enemies.
Especially if mental power cultivators can obtain mental weapons, the effect of remote attacks will be super-multiplied!
Soul possession and the legendary manipulation of heavenly energy to fight are quite terrifying, probably even more powerful than martial artists of the same realm!"
After understanding the five methods of mental power attack, Jiang Wuming pondered for a moment and couldn't help but ask himself: Could there be anyone in this world who cultivates soul possession secret techniques?
There was no answer, but Jiang Wuming believed that if there were powerful mental power cultivators among the extraterrestrial enemies who performed soul possession on the people of this world to hide themselves, it would be a very terrifying thing!
Shaking his head slightly, Jiang Wuming stopped thinking about these matters.
These things were still a bit distant for him at the current stage.
He refocused his attention on the mental attack secret method.
The nameless mental attack secret method brought by Caroline belonged to the second and third types of attack. It could manifest a sword using mental power, the so-called mental flying sword, to attack the target's soul.
The secret method consisted of three forms.
The first form was the pure attack of the mental flying sword.
The second form was that the mental flying sword could use sword techniques to attack.
The third form was five mental flying swords, manifesting a five-element sword formation for attack.
Jiang Wuming practiced according to the moves of the attack secret method and found that he could currently only practice the first form.
"It seems my mental power is not yet strong enough, and there are many flaws in my application of mental power."
Jiang Wuming mused, then set an alarm on his phone.
After doing so, he used his mental power to enter the mysterious space and began to cultivate "Nine-Nine Divine Forging."
He had always wanted his mental power to reach the tenth or even eleventh stage of the one-star War God realm, and then break through to the two-star War God realm along with his martial arts. However, the genius group competition had forced him to break through first.
Now, having obtained the spiritual cultivation technique "Nine-Nine Divine Forging," he wanted to bridge the gap in mental power cultivation.
Upon entering the mysterious space, Jiang Wuming concentrated and began to visualize the eighty-one diagrams.
One, two, three...
It took Jiang Wuming a full two hours to visualize all eighty-one diagrams, but it corresponded to only 12 minutes in the outside world.
Although Jiang Wuming successfully visualized all eighty-one diagrams on his first attempt, he did not rush to immediately use his mental power as a knife to carve the eighty-one diagrams in the mental world. Instead, he continued to visualize.
Once, twice, thrice...
For three full days, Jiang Wuming repeated this process.
On the fourth day, Jiang Wuming began to use his mental power as a knife to carve the eighty-one diagrams.
On the fifth day, when Jiang Wuming had carved up to the tenth diagram, his mental power was completely exhausted.
Helpless, Jiang Wuming had to stop, then meditate, absorb the white dots in the mysterious space, convert them into mental power, and replenish the consumption.
Huh?
When Jiang Wuming finished meditating, he suddenly discovered that his mental power had become even more condensed, surpassing the limit of a one-star War God realm mental power cultivator!
Tenth stage!
He had cultivated in the mysterious space for five days, and only half a day had passed in the real world, yet his mental power had already broken through to the tenth stage of the one-star War God realm!
"I should now be able to use the second form of the mental attack secret method, using the sword techniques of the mental flying sword, right?"
Jiang Wuming opened his eyes, a white light flashing within them, and a mental flying sword whistled out from his brow!