Chapter 148: Chapter 97: Creating a Dharma Gate, Birth of a Baby Girl

Not only not, but there never was, and there never will be in the future…

This thing called the Life Atlas is simply not something bought or sold in the market.

Li Yuan felt that it was hopeless, so he meticulously read through the forty books he spent 400 taels of gold on.

What a pit, really a pit.

But maybe not all pits are like that.

For example, the book that Li Yuan was holding at the moment, it was a diary, recording the random thoughts of a certain expert, somewhat like writing down a signature or reflection randomly without involving specific people or matters.

Yet this expert was obviously a Sixth Grade or even higher, because the diary had entries like “Sixth Grade so-and-so is nothing, I killed him with one sword strike.”

If Li Yuan saw this diary outside, he might have thought it was the boasting of a madman, but it was provided by the Red Ant Commerce Association, so the identity of the writer should be somewhat credible.

And in some of the diary’s entries, the diary’s owner wrote a few sections about his understanding and speculations on the Life Atlas.

Li Yuan softly recited: “Sometimes I often wonder, where did the first Life Atlas come from?

It must have been created by people, right?

Then how did the first person create the Life Atlas?

Perhaps back then, our ancestors learned to innovate under layers of crises.

And today, we have become accustomed to the cultivation skills created by our ancestors because they are convenient, handy, and even those with low talent can practice them.

So, we have forgotten how to create.”

“Today, I encountered a bottleneck again, that Ancestral Talisman is already imprinted in my bones, whether my eyes are open or closed, it’s always there, but it’s not what I created. It was created by that creator long ago.

Everyone envies me, but they don’t know the frustration in my heart. If I could do it all over again, I wouldn’t want to learn cultivation skills, I would want to create my own!

If the Ancestral Talisman was written by the ancestors, why can’t I write one? I have to try, I absolutely must try.”

“I’ve searched for unranked cultivation skills and also found a physician to prepare medicinal meals…

The first ancestor who created the Life Atlas surely didn’t have cultivation skills, he must have started practicing from unranked skills, I am really clever.”

“I discovered, the secret lies in compressing blood, forging blood, using cultivation as a guide, aided by external stimuli, thereby triggering a qualitative change…”

“Failed…

I have walked too far on the path paved by others…

Cultivation was completely useless.

Forget it, in any case, improving the realm is all that matters, I won’t create anymore.”

Li Yuan laid down the diary, looking at the distance, silent for a long time.

“Forget it, since I can’t buy it, then… I’ll try to create it.

First, I need an unranked cultivation method.”

Without delay, Li Yuan found Tie Sha, directly expressed his request, and asked for as many as possible.

Tie Sha didn’t understand what the ancestor’s intentions were, but he did as instructed.

Unranked cultivation methods are not precious, yet not commonly seen, mostly some family-inherited Dharmas, though they are inherited, they are hardly cultivated because everyone knows what’s the use of practicing unranked skills? Even so, they are still passed down as family heritage.

Tie Sha sought out disciples, under the guise of “compiling ordinary miscellaneous task training methods,” started collecting these unranked cultivation skills, promising to return them after viewing.

Yu Chaoyin also quickly cooperated because Tie Sha told him “this is something the ancestor wants to do.”

Soon, Li Yuan received a batch of unranked cultivation skills.

Among these skills were many copies, but since they were not as strict as the Shadow Blood Cultivation Skill, copies were permissible, and it was precisely because of the availability of copies that the Blood Saber Sect managed to gather many in a short time.

These unranked cultivation skills included: “Three-Point Fist Skill,” “Centipede Leg Skill,” “Willow Catkin Sword Skill,” “Continuous Chain Rain Spear Skill,” “Snow Mountain Snake Wandering Nine Forms,” “Yin-Cutting Hand,” “Turtle Shell Technique,” “Ear Closing Skill,” “Eye Lightning Technique” “Head-Bashing South Wall Technique,” “Burning Wood Finger Skill,” “Little Lion Roar,” “Sand Throwing Shooting Skill,” and so on…

Thus, Li Yuan began his cultivation.

He was now in the Seventh Grade, albeit practicing these low-level skills, progress was astonishingly fast, taking a few days to reach entry level, some even advancing just by flipping through and practicing a bit, with information appearing on the panel.

However, he did not choose to add points directly but continued to cultivate.

Twelve hours in a day, excluding the time spent resting with the lady, three meals a day, and White Sparrow’s patrolling, all the remaining time was devoted to cultivation.

On average, he could spend almost eight hours a day cultivating.

Every half-hour, he would practice one cultivation skill.

In other words, Li Yuan began simultaneously practicing sixteen cultivation skills.

These skills were meticulously selected to cover every part of his body: limbs, head, chest, back, even voice, and so on…

He immersed himself in obsessed cultivation simply because he knew the world was becoming more chaotic; he had to become stronger and stronger to better protect people he cared about, to live better…

“Since I can’t buy it, then I will create it!”

During relentless practice, sweating tirelessly, the young one perseveringly trained hard.

He didn’t add points, just practiced.

By practicing in reverse, the progress was incredibly fast.

Two months later, these sixteen cultivation skills had all been cultivated to an advanced level and were stuck at insights requiring an epiphany.

Li Yuan scanned the lines of “(39/40)” and glanced at his “1859” remaining points, investing 32 points at once, two points for each skill.

In an instant, the epiphanies of the sixteen unranked skills simultaneously surged into his mind, and the information of the sixteen skills all transformed into “(1/80)”

A mute sensation of tasting honey arose in Li Yuan’s heart, something was realized, yet indescribable.

He continued to cultivate, ensuring daily training for eight hours, never hesitating.

Time flew, another two months went by.

Entering August, entering the hottest periods of summer, the young lad trained shirtless under the scorching sun.

He glanced at the “79/80” display, and the “2296 remaining points” indicator.

“Add Points.”

In an instant, he added another 32 remaining points.

At that moment, the recollections of high master tips from the sixteen unranked skills alternated, repeatedly impacting his memory, deepening his comprehension of the skills each time.

Li Yuan believed, if there were really an ancestor who first created the cultivation skills, what they could achieve would be at most similar to what he managed.

Seeing all the skills progress turning into “1/160”, Li Yuan exclaimed: “Continue!”

The young man trained continuously from spring to summer, and into autumn, without faltering.

Meanwhile, the two ladies’ bellies were growing bigger each day…

Soon, it was October.

Li Yuan glanced at the progress of the skills, most of which were around “80/160”.

Seeing that the lady was about to give birth, he stopped cultivating and instantly pushed the points, using 1280 points to elevate all sixteen skills to Perfection.

Vivid, exaggerated memories emerged.

Infinite comprehensions piled together.

A feeling akin to an explosion emerged from within.

Li Yuan glanced swiftly at the information, noticing an additional line of information in the “cultivation methods” column: ???(1/100).

And within his body, there was an additional drop of Shadow Blood similar to the Willow Return Technique.

“I did it…”

“I did it!!”

Before Li Yuan could celebrate, he heard the voice of the midwife from the not-so-distant delivery room of Lady Yan: “Born, born!!”

Li Yuan hurriedly ran over to accompany his lady.

“It’s a girl!!” the midwife exclaimed.

But when Li Yuan opened the door and walked to the bedside, the room suddenly fell silent.

The midwife stared in shock at the newborn baby girl she was holding.

The baby’s eyes were actually white, apparently blind.

And immediately after birth, the baby started crying loudly, but as she continued crying, she suddenly turned her head towards the doorway, waving her little hands, seemingly reaching out for someone.

However, in that direction, there was clearly no one standing!

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