Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 14 Qi Cultivation
Chapter 14

In the mysterious study, Rosen removed all the furniture from one wall.

The hunter's extraordinary essence, infused with spirituality, then circulated throughout his body, merging with his life force. Finally, the life force transformed into mental energy, combined with the spirituality, gushed out from every pore of his body, wrapping around him as if it were his own arm.

His inner energy instantly flowed to his fist, and Rosen swung his fist to smash into an iron pot hanging on the wall.

With a loud crash, the iron pot was smashed flat against the wall.

However, the wall plaster was intact, and the plastic hooks on the wall were also intact. Only the iron pot was smashed flat by a punch. Through various studies of the mysterious study, Rosen had long ago discovered that everything associated with the mysterious study was indestructible.

Whether it's the floor or the chandelier, whether it's the hooks or the bathroom faucet, everything is indestructible.

On the contrary, furniture like computer desks, because they are simply placed there, do not acquire the characteristic of being indestructible.

Rosen used the iron pot as a punching bag and began to punch it repeatedly. After dozens of punches, the iron pot was hammered into an irregular iron disc embedded in the hook, while his hands remained unharmed under the protection of his Nen.

Thirty minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and Rosen's five points of spirituality were reduced to only two.

Because punching only consumes mental energy, and spirituality only serves to enhance manipulation, the consumption is not very intense. It took about ten minutes of exercise to consume a little spirituality.

As the spiritual limit continues to increase, the spiritual energy may not be exhausted, but the mental energy may be exhausted in the battle first.

Rosen felt his Nen energy dwindling, so he took a shower and drew a steak on himself.

Drawing a steak would consume a bit of his spirituality, and the drawing paper was spiritual paper containing spirituality, so the steak drawn contained two points of spirituality, and after eating it, it quickly restored two points of spirituality to Rosen.

Basically, eating the food depicted in the drawing guarantees a full return of the spiritual energy consumed.

As for the feeling of fullness and nutritional value of food, those are additional benefits brought by the food depicted in the artist's sequence.

Once the stomach was full, the vital energy that had been consumed was quickly restored under the power of the extraordinary source substance.

After about half an hour, the depleted mental energy had been fully restored.

Rosen continued practicing his punches, but this time he did not infuse his spiritual energy into his aura.

Although spirituality is more enduring than mental energy, maintaining a perpetual state of spiritual energy is easy. However, in this case, the manipulation of mental energy relies entirely on spirituality. Unless spirituality grows, the precision of manipulating spiritual energy cannot be further improved.

However, if one can easily control ordinary mental energy, then injecting spiritual energy will inevitably result in even greater control.

However, Rosen soon discovered that it was very difficult to manipulate psychic energy freely without spirituality.

I'm used to cheating, and suddenly not being able to cheat makes me feel so useless.

Seeing that he hadn't made much progress after practicing for half an hour, Rosen didn't hesitate to use cheat codes to speed up his training.

He subtly broke down the spirituality, infusing strands of it into his mental energy. Instantly, he completely enveloped and covered his body with his mental energy, which he could control as if it were his own arm. Then, as the strands of spirituality dissipated, the mental energy, which he had been perfectly in control of, instantly went out of control and collapsed.

Rosen did his best to stabilize the collapsing spiritual energy, and then continued to infuse it with a trace of spirituality.

This cycle continued, with his mental energy constantly shifting between perfect and clumsy control. With each practice, he gained proficiency, and as his spirituality dissipated, the remaining sense of perfect control over his mental energy diminished. His experience in controlling his mental energy accelerated several times compared to normal cultivation.

A week passed in the blink of an eye, and Rosen had mastered all four basic applications of Nen.

By using the "Entanglement" technique, one can lock the vital energy within the body to strengthen the physique, while simultaneously achieving a high level of mental concentration in this state.

By sealing off the pores and blocking the flow of energy to conceal life force, one can lie on the ground pretending to be dead, making it difficult to detect without special methods.

By [training], one can instantly unleash more Nen, enhancing both offense and defense while simultaneously reducing sustained combat power. Finally, by [releasing], one can instantly integrate their mental will into Nen, allowing them to project their killing intent, malice, and goodwill directly onto the enemy's mind and body through Nen techniques. Ordinary people facing such malevolent Nen are easily terrified and knocked unconscious.

After mastering the basic skills, Rosen began to study three advanced techniques.

By further strengthening the binding, the mental energy is changed from being locked inside the body to being locked on the surface of the body. Moreover, the mental energy must be compressed and condensed as much as possible. The thinner the mental energy, the more solid and powerful it is.

The energy can be compressed and dispersed, just like the three states of water: ice, water, and water vapor.

Normal Nen is water. When it condenses into ice, it becomes more powerful and defensive. When it disperses into mist, its offensive and defensive capabilities become much weaker, but the mist form also has the advantage of being less noticeable.

What Rosen needs to master is the ability to freely switch between the three states of Nen, approaching the enemy in the mist state and instantly switching to the solid state for offense and defense.

These two techniques are [Zhou] and [Yin], but neither of them can compare to [Ning].

Concentration allows one to focus their mental energy on a specific part of the body; the most basic application of this is focusing on the eyes.

The energy itself is invisible; after all, how could an ordinary person possibly see life force?
However, at first, Rosen felt that this advanced technique was useless, because the extraordinary sequence of awakening spirituality allows the spirituality itself to perceive almost all supernatural phenomena, and it is not necessary to condense to see the originally invisible spiritual energy.

However, when Rosen focused his spiritual energy into his eyes, he found that his vision was amazingly enhanced.

He could see further and more clearly with this, and he could see the veins of leaves a kilometer away. He even tried to look at the ashes that covered the world like a mist outside Redstone City, and he felt that the ashes reduced the obstruction to his vision a little.

Rosen successfully mastered the advanced techniques, and he began to study the final combination techniques.

Originally, Nen flowed out from the pores of his body and was naturally dispersed throughout his body. Now, he concentrated all his Nen in his fist. While the defense of other parts of his body was weakened, the Nen in his fist was naturally highly condensed and compressed, ultimately causing his damage and defense to increase dramatically.

He uses his spiritual energy to form a hollow sphere at a distance from his body, and then continuously spreads the spiritual energy to make the hollow sphere expand outward. This is equivalent to directly scanning and perceiving the external environment with spiritual energy, which will inevitably greatly enhance his own perception ability.

However, this technique is quite useless in this world, because it's easy to get beaten to death by someone who comes looking for you.

To put it simply, these techniques are still about the subtle control of energy, allowing energy to flow freely throughout the body as if it were an extension of one's own limbs.

Of course, it sounds simple: the purpose of continuous training is to make the body develop instinctive memories similar to muscle memory while the mind learns the techniques, so as to perfectly control the psychic energy and unleash the ultimate combat power during battle.

Rosen spent a full month in seclusion to fully master all the techniques.

The reason he was able to master these skills so quickly was because he injected a trace of spirituality and then immediately withdrew the residual bodily memory, which accelerated the formation of his own bodily memory several times over.

Of course, he only mastered the basic skills, and the practice of these skills will inevitably continue throughout his life.

Because the limits of his Nen (energy) far exceed the limits of his body, his punching speed is limited to his physical limit of twenty or thirty punches per second, which is not much higher than the limits of ordinary people, and is less than twice as fast.

This is because improved physical fitness results in a stronger punch and greater inertia when retracting the fist.

However, the limits of Nen are at your own discretion. If Nen surrounds your fist, it is not difficult to throw dozens or even hundreds of punches per second without considering the arm's strength. What Rosen needs to practice for a long time is to use Nen to protect his arm and keep himself unharmed while throwing punches quickly.

In this way, his attack speed will naturally become faster and faster, his damage will become stronger and stronger, and his control over his psychic energy will become more and more refined.

Although he has only been cultivating for a month, he is already able to unleash strong combat abilities when combined with his spirituality.

However, Rosen was still not confident that he could defeat the criminal hunter Bennett in one fell swoop, because he could not predict how strong Bennett's Sequence 8 power would be when he was fighting for his life.

Therefore, he still needs to rely on Nen to develop his own Nen ability in order to maximize his chances of winning.

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