Yang Feng's exchanged extraordinary ability was the "Martial Saint" realm of blood transformation in the Yangshen world, which was also the "Possession" realm in the Daoist arts of the Yangshen world.
The blood-transforming Martial Saint had refined martial arts into their bones and blood, their physical bodies were immaculate, reborn, and they had condensed the will of a martial artist.
The eight realms of Daoist arts were: Spirit Stabilization, Night Roaming, Day Roaming, Object Manipulation, Manifestation, Possession, Ghost Immortal, and Yangshen.
Yang Feng was a future practitioner of the "Possession" realm, only one step away from the Ghost Immortal realm.
But that was thirty years in the future.
Now, Yang Feng had returned to thirty years ago. Not only had his Martial Saint strength vanished into nothingness, leaving him with an ordinary body,
but even his soul had regressed to that of an ordinary person.
Indeed, it was uncertain whether he even possessed a soul as understood by cultivators at this moment.
The future Yang Feng, with his Daoist cultivation in the "Possession" realm, could divide his divine sense and soul, splitting off numerous thoughts to possess and control various animals and even people.
At that time, even his thoughts could be divided, enough to control most people. With a perfected soul, his memory would naturally be exceptionally sharp, eliminating the need for a notebook to record his memories of the future.
The strategy guides for the dungeon worlds that appeared in game betas and public releases, the weaknesses of the top experts in various worlds, the chronological order of world openings, the rise to prominence and life stories of high-level players... all of these were incredibly complex things.
If he possessed the future Daoist cultivation, with the memory capacity of the "Possession" realm in the Yangshen world, he could naturally record everything in his mind without missing a single detail, never forgetting.
Even after ten or twenty years, he could recall every detail.
But the current Yang Feng could not.
His body, compared to his future Martial Saint physique, was so fragile.
His memory capacity could not compare to his future perfected soul, which could divide into many thoughts to control many people.
His memory had regressed to that of an ordinary person.
Under these circumstances, Yang Feng, who would have remembered everything about the future with perfect clarity, now found his memories blurring. He could only recall major events and deeply personal, unforgettable experiences.
Many things were becoming hazy. This mortal brain could not bear such a volume of memories. Yang Feng knew that tomorrow, the day after, and even the day after that, he would gradually forget and blur certain information.
This was precisely what he needed to record now.
He was recording it in his notebook to prevent himself from forgetting.
While writing in his notebook, Yang Feng mused, "It's a pity that for the next ten years, I can't cultivate Daoist arts in reality. Otherwise..."
In his previous life, during the ten years leading up to the advent of the extraordinary ability exchange function, when "The Lord of the Gods' Journey" was still just a game.
Some people, because the numerous worlds within "The Lord of the Gods' Journey" were too realistic, even the cultivation process felt incredibly real.
They consequently conflated the game and reality, attempting to cultivate in the real world as well.
The real world lacked spiritual energy. These obsessed individuals found immortal cultivation systems within the various worlds of "The Lord of the Gods' Journey" that did not require spiritual energy but relied on magnetic fields and electricity for cultivation.
The real world lacked magical elements. These obsessed individuals found light magic systems within the various worlds of "The Lord of the Gods' Journey" that did not require magical elements but only needed to absorb planetary energy, or even solar energy, for cultivation.
Regarding the lack of spiritual energy in the real world, these obsessed individuals devised many methods to solve this problem, attempting to bypass the nature of spiritual energy and magical elements, using other things and substitutes for cultivation.
They achieved theoretical perfection.
But no matter how perfect their theories were, they never succeeded.
Even when cultivating so-called Daoist arts, some directly used cultivation methods from the Wuxia world, practicing the concepts of Ming Jin, An Jin, and Bao Dan, but ultimately failed to cultivate the thousand-jin strength of Ming Jin.
Even these Wuxia classics, which only required ordinary food and not spiritual energy, and could be cultivated simply by eating enough, could not produce any discernible Jin.
Real-world Wuxia gyms also spoke of Ming, An, and Hua Jin, with no distinction in superiority, merely different methods of applying force. There was no requirement to first cultivate Ming Jin, then An Jin, then Hua Jin, nor were they as powerful as the Wuxia in the Wuxia world, where a perfected Ming Jin alone could grant a thousand-jin strength, a feat no martial artist could achieve.
A perfected Ming Jin alone surpassed the strength attainable by any martial artist on Earth.
After various tests, even the Wuxia cultivation system was proven unworkable in reality. These obsessed individuals finally collectively concluded that the myriad worlds within this game were indeed mere fabrications, not real, otherwise why would cultivation be impossible?
This also became a crucial piece of evidence online at the time for the argument that "The Lord of the Gods' Journey" was not created by aliens but was simply a game.
Yang Feng now knew that the speculations of these obsessed individuals were true; they had stumbled upon the truth by accident.
As for why they could not cultivate extraordinary abilities in reality, Yang Feng, through later analysis, also understood that the cultivation methods themselves were not important. What was important was that the official of "The Lord of the Gods' Journey" allowed you to have extraordinary abilities, and only then could you possess them.
Without the protection of the game officials, these extraordinary abilities became useless, and the cultivation scriptures lost their efficacy.
This seemed to be a kind of "rule" that enveloped the real world, making it "magic-less."
In his previous life, Yang Feng had even heard rumors that a cursed dragon from a magic world had attempted to enter the real world through player-left spatial coordinates. It had indeed entered, but the moment it did, it instantly died, its divine power vanishing.
It seemed that dragons were unscientific in the real world.
Therefore, when it entered the real world, all its extraordinary abilities, its very dragon form, and even its soul vanished as if it never existed.
The restrictive power of such rules was immense.
Only the official of "The Lord of the Gods' Journey" could ignore these rules.
And within "The Lord of the Gods' Journey," knowledge from many of its myriad worlds could not be interchanged and would even repel each other.
"All time and space are eternally free. The key is to be able to do so in all time and space..."
"In vastly different circumstances, where the rules of all time and space, such as Xianxia worlds, magic worlds, and technological worlds, are different, to be able to maintain one's own power in all time and space... Is this the realm of the game officials?"