"Ah, sleeping until I wake up naturally, so comfortable."
Chen Luo lay back on a loose bamboo chair, gazing at the rising sun outside the vast sea sky, stretching his body comfortably.
This was already his seventh day in the Vast Sea Sect. Seven days ago, the Six Dragon Golden Chariot had left directly after dropping him off on a deserted floating mountain.
Before parting, the Vast Sea Sect girl named Linglong had given Chen Luo a palm-sized jade token.
The jade token was entirely green, and when Chen Luo focused his thoughts on its surface, golden characters would appear.
[Current communicable object: Linglong]
Well, this thing was a fantasy version of a mobile phone, but currently, Chen Luo could only contact Linglong with it.
According to Linglong, this communication jade token was developed by the Thousand Mechanisms Sect, one of the Ten Great Sects, and could connect freely within the spiritual network range of various sects.
However, it would lose its communication ability in areas with restrictions.
There was an unoccupied pavilion on the mountain, fully equipped with food and daily necessities.
Then, Chen Luo's leisurely life began. However, Chen Luo also noticed that after he settled down here.
The thousands of mountain peaks floating in the air suddenly became lively, with countless figures riding flying swords and divine ships shuttling between them.
However, they all deliberately avoided his location, as if his place had also become a special area here.
Chen Luo casually picked up the jade token, and with a mental command, a brand-new cultivation secret manual was opened:
*Introduction to the Way of Alchemy: Volume Thirty-Seven*
Yes, Chen Luo hadn't been idle on vacation for these seven days. From the first day he arrived, after briefly familiarizing himself with the jade token's functions, Chen Luo began to cram knowledge about cultivation in this world.
As for the source of the information, it was naturally our wealthy patron Linglong. For the past seven days, apart from a few meetings, Linglong, the rich patron, had been chatting with Chen Luo online.
Linglong had no objections to Chen Luo's request for cultivation materials. After all, Chen Luo claimed to be a rogue cultivator, and with such good aptitude, he had only cultivated to the third stage of the Dao Path.
When Chen Luo expressed his desire for cultivation materials, Linglong directly imagined the experiences of a handsome young man struggling in the cultivation world without any background!
As a result, Linglong naturally granted his every wish, giving him whatever he asked for.
And what Chen Luo was most interested in wasn't spiritual stones, immortal crystals, spiritual herbs, or divine pills. What he wanted was purely cultivation materials! That is, all knowledge about cultivation in this world!
With the sponsorship of the wealthy patron Linglong, in seven days, Chen Luo gained a deeper understanding of this world's cultivation system.
The fundamental basis of cultivation in this world is spiritual energy. The cultivation goals of all cultivators are to continuously gather spiritual energy within their bodies, ultimately achieving an improvement or even a leap in their immortal cultivation realm.
After countless years of accumulation in the entire world, the civilization of spiritual energy had reached an extremely developed state.
For a cultivator, the most fundamental knowledge is the cultivation technique that enhances their own spiritual energy realm.
Any cultivator with aptitude, upon meeting certain conditions, could undergo spiritual energy infusion and then complete the hundred-day foundation building, stepping onto the Dao Path.
Theoretically, a person with spiritual energy aptitude who had not cultivated any techniques, after entering the first stage of the Dao Path, could extend their lifespan by a hundred years.
And as long as they were alive, they could automatically absorb spiritual energy into their bodies, but the speed was astonishingly slow!
If it were solely through natural absorption, then by the end of their lifespan, this gifted individual's accumulated spiritual energy would barely break through to the second stage of the Dao Path.
To address this issue, the ancient sages, after countless years of research, perfected and created the cultivation technique *Ling Wen*, which could reach the ninth stage of the Dao Path.
The technique *Ling Wen* is the most basic and universal cultivation method. Later, people continuously researched and innovated based on *Ling Wen*, creating numerous other cultivation techniques.
Gradually, people cultivating similar techniques began to gather, and the initial sects were born.
The commonality of all cultivation techniques is to increase the speed of cultivation, allowing cultivators to reach higher realms in shorter periods.
And the techniques developed by different sects, due to their unique experiences and generations of cumulative improvements, also had different tendencies.
For example, one of the signature techniques of the Vast Sea Sect, *Azure Sea Tide*, strengthens the control over water-elemental energy.
Another technique, *Vast Sea Limitless*, maximally enhances a cultivator's spiritual energy reserves below the same level.
Theoretically, a cultivator can only cultivate one technique at a time, considering the meridians and the sea of qi within a cultivator's body.
Running multiple techniques simultaneously would only cause spiritual energy to collide wildly within the body, failing to achieve accelerated cultivation or enhanced spiritual energy capabilities.
Furthermore, the more powerful a technique, the stronger its ability to transform spiritual energy. Therefore, many sect cultivators learn techniques that are complementary and can be advanced.
As for cultivation beyond ascending to immortality, the information provided by Linglong was incomplete. Linglong herself had not reached the Immortal Ascension level, so her mother did not allow her to read about cultivation beyond that stage, stating it was harmful.
Chen Luo remained noncommittal about this. However, compared to these cultivation techniques, Chen Luo was more curious about the various methods developed in this world based on spiritual energy.
Just as Chen Luo was surprised by some cultivators who had just entered the second stage being able to use divine ships to attack with cross-level combat, this world, besides cultivation realm techniques, had also developed numerous protective methods.
The resources in the world are limited, and with more cultivators, conflicts and contradictions naturally arise.
Under these conflicts and contradictions, the protective methods of this world truly opened Chen Luo's eyes.
Broadly speaking, the protective methods of cultivators are mainly divided into five categories: Artifacts, Formations, Pills, Talismans, and Arts.
The foundation for their existence and development is the ubiquitous spiritual energy and spiritual patterns in this world.
Chen Luo has seen spiritual energy; it is the constantly dancing white dots in the air, which ordinary people and even Dao Path cultivators seem unable to see as a normal state.
As for spiritual patterns, they are the unique laws of this world. They are spiritual energy operating in characteristic forms under natural or artificial conditions, which can produce spiritual energy patterns with special effects.
Artifacts refer to the path of nurturing and cultivating magical artifacts. The storage bags, flying swords, golden thread cages, and even the divine ships suspended in the sky that Chen Luo saw earlier are all products of the artifact path.
Based on the number and grade of spiritual patterns contained within, the magical artifacts in this world are divided into Artifacts, Treasures, and Spirit Treasures from low to high, with each stage further divided into upper, middle, and lower grades.
Formations are the methods of analyzing and arranging spiritual patterns. For example, the spiritual patterns within magical artifacts are also one of the contents that the formation path needs to analyze.
The formation path involves continuously summarizing, utilizing, and even innovating upon the spiritual patterns that exist in the world after analyzing them.
For instance, the Vast Sea Sect, where Chen Luo is currently located, is enveloped by a grand formation called the "Vast Sea Sky Curtain."