I will be stronger after the remake

Zhou Canglan took out a book and handed it to Tang Ping, saying, "This is a collection of various basic spiritual techniques gathered by the New Realm Alliance. You can learn them yourself. I suggest you start with healing techniques. With the 'novice monk' talent, it will be easy for him to pick them up."

Tang Ping asked curiously, "The organization is too generous. They just gave it to me like that? I thought I would have to complete tasks and exchange points for rewards."

Zhou Canglan explained, "Similar to the first-level spirit level, basic spirit techniques are not important information worth keeping secret. It can be said that all decent organizations in the world possess a complete set of nearly identical basic spirit techniques. At most, there are differences in naming or classification. The truly ignorant ones are the Lone Wolf Spirit Users."

"why is that?"

"Because it's impossible to keep it secret. For example, if I want to learn the basic spiritual arts developed by the Psionic Administration Bureau, I just need to capture a few first-level psionic users, mentally manipulate them, and make them write them down from memory. In comparison, there are very few people who can master advanced spiritual arts, and each of them is an expert. They are not so easy to capture, so it is possible to keep it secret."

After saying that, Zhou Canglan extended his palm and said, "Now that you have become a psionicist, I formally invite you to join my team."

Tang Ping extended her hand to shake his: "It's my honor!"

The two exchanged a smile, their unspoken understanding unspoken.

Zhou Canglan said, "Let me introduce the members of the team to you. This is He Fengsheng, a bird demon spirit. He is good at stealth and foreseeing danger, and his strength is no less than mine."

He Fengsheng had a long, narrow face and pale skin, as if he had never seen the sun. Beneath his high, straight nose, his lips were thin and bluish-gray, and the corners of his mouth were always slightly downturned, as if he disdained everything in the world. His eyes were deep-set, and his pupils were as black as night, with a cold glint in them, just like the sharpness of an eagle searching for its prey. If he inadvertently glanced at someone, it could send chills down their spine, as if their soul had been seen through by his sinister gaze.

He simply stood there, as if surrounded by a layer of cold and eerie mist, exuding an aura that kept strangers at bay. When introduced, he merely nodded to Tang Ping, appearing quite arrogant.

Tang Ping sensed through her martial arts intuition that the opponent was not simple and had the same ability to threaten her life as Zhou Canglan, but the threat was much less, and at least she did not have that feeling of being "unkillable".

Zhou Cang continued, "Her name is Liu Lingling, she is my girlfriend, she has the spirit of a snake demon, and the one next to her is Lin Xi, whose spirit is that of a nun. The two of them are responsible for the daily management of the team. And this brother is a cultivator, his spirit is that of an engineer, and he is responsible for intelligence gathering."

The three of them were quite friendly and took the initiative to greet each other.

Liu Lingling asked curiously, "Why did you choose the monastic program? Does your family believe in Buddhism?"

Tang Ping truthfully said, "My hometown is Buddhist, but my family is not religious. Of course, we will still go in and pay our respects when we come across a temple. As for whether we worship Confucius, Buddha, or the Three Pure Ones, it doesn't matter. Choosing to become a monk is purely a result of divination."

"If the divination shows that the Christian spirituality is most suitable for you?"

"Even if it's a Hindu spirit, I have no problem with it."

At this moment, Zhou Canglan chuckled and, seeing the questioning looks from those around him, explained, "I suddenly understand why China's psychics are the strongest in the world. It's probably because the Chinese are inherently pragmatic and have freedom of religious belief."

Chapter 159 Spiritual Power Martial Arts

“According to the organization’s investigation, a person’s most compatible spiritual type has nothing to do with what religion he or his family believes in. A Hindu believer may very well be most suited to the spiritual type of Islam, which is their mortal enemy. In this situation, what do you think the person would choose?” Zhou Canglan asked.

Tang Ping thought for a moment and said, "The Middle East and India both have cases of honor killings. For the sake of their lives, they would probably choose the spirit of their own religion."

"Wrong, they don't have a choice at all, because their official psychic organization doesn't have a compatibility calculation process; everyone chooses their psychic type according to their own preferences."

Zhou Canglan scoffed, his disdain evident in his voice: "All countries with a strong religious atmosphere face this problem. India's situation is particularly serious because the Prime Minister is trying to use religion to unite the country and advocates Hindu nationalism. So, in the case I just gave, continuing to insist on prioritizing religion will lead to many difficulties."

"First of all, there is the resistance from the person involved. If a person grows up in a Hindu atmosphere, with parents, elders, relatives, friends, and neighbors all being devout Hindus, and may have even had conflicts with Muslims in the past, it is difficult for them not to feel resistant when asked to choose the Islamic Linguistics."

“Psionicists place great importance on spiritual cultivation. If they even despise their own spiritual personality, stagnation in cultivation is the least of their worries. They may even suffer a backlash, lose control of their spiritual personality, and turn into monsters.”

"Secondly, even if the person in question is a pragmatist who has overcome his own psychological hurdle and has no objection to it, how will the people around him see him?"

“To embody a spiritual personality, one must act and behave in accordance with the nature of that personality. However, ordinary people tend to forget their memories related to psychic powers. In the eyes of parents, elders, relatives, and friends, such a person is a complete apostate, and honor killing is not out of the question.”

"Finally, if you were the ruler of Hinduism, would you allow your own followers to become psionicists of other religions?"

“The number of psionicists is already small, and to send one’s own people to an enemy force to strengthen the enemy’s power is not to say that there are no such people, but only a great leader who transcends religious consciousness and looks at the overall situation from a higher level can make such a decision.”

"For the reasons mentioned above, religious countries have abolished the divination of affinity. While this avoids conflicts, it also prevents psychics from choosing the most suitable spiritual attribute for themselves, thus delaying the development of many potential geniuses."

"As a populous country with a long history of myths and legends, India has all the conditions to cultivate psychics. Yet, they only managed to produce two fourth-level psychics. This is the price they paid to consolidate their religious beliefs."

"In comparison, apart from a very few exceptions, most Chinese people have no resistance to changing their religion. As long as changing their religion can bring tangible benefits, such as a 30-point increase in exam scores or a 3000-yuan increase in salary, they will believe whatever they want."

"Of course, the essence is that Chinese people don't believe in anything, or rather, the foundation of their faith is not based on religion. For Chinese people, religion is just a label that can be changed. Therefore, it is rare for psychics in China to lose control of their spirituality. They don't care, so their minds are not shaken."

"Now that I've become a psionicist, is it necessary to care about the opinions of ordinary people?"

The one who raised the question was Feng Xiu, who wore black glasses and had messy hair, as if he had been swept up in a storm of thoughts.

Tang Ping glanced at the man. Perhaps to portray Ling Ge, the man was wearing a dark gray work shirt with the cuffs neatly rolled up to his forearms, revealing the muscular lines of his strong forearms and the slightly protruding veins. He paired it with dark blue straight-leg jeans and a simple black leather belt around his waist. The metal buckle gleamed coldly under the light, and a small but practical multi-functional tool bag hung on it, with various tools neatly arranged.

Zhou Canglan said, "You have a typical Chinese mindset. If you are bullied and in trouble, you should work hard to become stronger. Once you become stronger, you won't care about other people's opinions. Whoever bullies you, you will beat them up. But foreigners think differently. Some countries care a lot about the concept of circles. Even the strong have to compromise with the circle. That's why there are plots where superheroes are criticized and ostracized by city residents, and heroes from other worlds are slandered and defamed by villagers. You think this kind of plot is brainless, but they think it's very reasonable."

He Fengsheng suddenly said, "Before becoming a psionicist, even the most talented person is just an ordinary person. Some people get caught in the rain and refuse to let others hold an umbrella for them, otherwise what does it matter if they suffer losses themselves?"

Lin Xi chimed in, "Brother He is right! There are a lot of disgusting guys like this in the world. He himself chose a spirit with bad compatibility for his religious beliefs, which makes his cultivation slow. He won't allow newcomers to abandon their religious beliefs and insists that they suffer like him. He might even hypnotize himself into thinking that this is what piety is all about."

Tang Ping noticed that Lin Xi's eyes were fixed on He Fengsheng while she was speaking, and that she had an undisguised admiration for him.

Previously, He Fengsheng's spying on Liu Lingling could fool others, but it couldn't fool a martial arts master like him. And Liu Lingling and Zhou Canglan were a real couple. Such a complicated love triangle made him uneasy: Could this team be destroyed because of a romantic relationship?

The only thing to be thankful for is that these people are all sexually normal.

Compared to the complex gender-crossing relationships that have emerged on the internet in later generations, a mere four-way love affair is already a fairly healthy male-female relationship.

In the internet age, people's moral threshold is constantly rising.

Thinking of this, Tang Ping glanced at Lin Xi. In order to portray Ling Ge, he was wearing a choir robe, but it had been modified. The originally plain white robe was painted with various fantastical patterns in colorful spray paint. Abstract lines intertwined, and stars and mysterious symbols were scattered around, giving off an indescribable sense of chuunibyou (adolescent delusions of grandeur).

Furthermore, her makeup was indescribable. Thick black eyeliner extended slightly along the outer corner of her eyes, outlining a charming curve. Her false eyelashes were long and thick, each one distinct. Her face was painted exceptionally white, while her lips were painted a mauve color. In short, it was a smoky eye look.

I really don't know what she was thinking. Her makeup and clothing style are completely incompatible with the Lingge profession. How can she still have a good performance like this?

Zhou Canglan's voice pulled Tang Ping back to reality: "The method of novice monks has long been summarized. The simplest way is to go to a temple to be ordained as a real monk. However, this change of identity is only superficial and the performance efficiency is average. The core of a novice monk lies in doing good deeds and accumulating merit. This can be seen from his two spiritual abilities. If he can save a dying person, he can improve by a lot."

He paused, then added, "Pushing people into danger and then rescuing them is a self-inflicted problem that won't work. Don't even try it. Besides, if you do something heinous, it could trigger a backlash from your spirit. In short, the method of portraying a novice monk can be summarized by a quote from Emperor Zhaolie: 'Do not refrain from doing good because it is small, nor do evil because it is small.'"

Tang Ping sincerely replied, "I've got it. Thank you for letting me know."

He might be able to obtain the same information from the Psionic Administration, but setting aside his stance, President Zhou's attitude towards his subordinates is truly impeccable.

Zhou Canglan waved his hand, indicating that it was nothing to worry about, and tossed a broken illusion stone to Tang Ping, saying, "After we go out, everyone exchange contact information. If you have any questions about spiritual arts, you can ask me or Lin Xi. Although Lin Xi is only a first-stage cultivator, she is very skilled in blessing-type spiritual arts. If you want to experience real combat in the Illusionary Realm, remember to find someone to accompany you."

After saying that, he used a teleportation spell to send everyone back to the real world, and then said crisply, "Alright, that's enough for today. Everyone go home and find your mothers. Dismissed!"

……

The following morning, Tang Ping adapted to her enhanced body and used the Illusion-Breaking Stone to enter the Realm of Illusion.

He flipped through "The Complete Collection of Basic Spiritual Arts" for a while, but the beginning was a bit difficult to understand. The various terms were hard to grasp, so he simply closed the book and put it aside.

"I'll deal with spiritual arts cultivation later. My greatest reliance is still martial arts. If I could combine it with spiritual power..."

Recalling her years of martial arts training, Tang Ping decided to go through it all from beginning to end, circulating her spiritual energy in the process to see at what step a chemical reaction would occur.

"First, it was the peak of Ming Jin (明劲)."

He stood with his feet slightly apart, shoulder-width apart, knees slightly bent, fists clenched at his waist with palms facing up, instantly entering a state of readiness.

Immediately, he pushed off the ground with his right foot and shot towards a stone pillar in front of the field like a cannonball. His left fist struck out like lightning, accompanied by a crisp "whoosh" sound, as his fist slammed heavily into the stone pillar, a sound that is priceless.

With a loud thud, the stone pillar was smashed, and the upper half flew off.

Tang Ping glanced at his fist, reflecting on the sensations he had just experienced: "With the enhancement of spiritual power, both speed and strength have indeed improved, but the increase is small and the effect is minimal. It seems that spiritual power is not suitable for enhancing lethality."

Then, he placed his palm on the remaining broken pillar, exerted force with his palm, and withdrew it immediately upon contact.

Bang!

Unlike the previous interruptions, this time the stone pillar shattered, sending dust flying and tearing its cross-section.

"Oh, the power of the hidden force has increased several times, and the effect of spiritual energy is remarkable. It seems we should focus on this aspect."

Although in the classification of martial arts levels, dark strength is higher than light strength, this does not mean that a dark strength martial artist is stronger than a light strength martial artist. It is more like having an extra trump card. If one's own strength is not good enough, one may be defeated by the opponent before having a chance to use the trump card.

Especially for martial artists who have just mastered internal strength, each time they use it, they must concentrate their minds highly and exert all their strength, which causes considerable wear and tear on their bodies. If the attack misses, the opponent may take the opportunity to defeat them.

There's not much to do with the next stage of neutralizing force. Unlike the neutralizing force techniques used in Tai Chi to deflect force, neutralizing force, as a state of being, refers to being able to generate force from any part of the body, and also refers to cultivating internal force to the point of extreme softness and smoothness.

The saying goes, "Not a feather can be added, not a fly can land." If a feather or a fly lands on your body, whether on your back or forehead, you can use your strength to shake it away. With more skill, you can even kill flies and mosquitoes with a single shake.

However, the force he released was not strong. Even with the support of spiritual power, the force generated through his back was less than one-tenth of the force Tang Ping exerted when he threw a punch with all his might.

The realm of Chinese martial arts differs from the realm divisions in other fantasy or cultivation worlds. It represents the improvement of skills rather than the sublimation of one's own qualities.

In theory, even a Ming Jin martial artist can kill a Hua Jin master. As long as one's physical strength is strong enough, one can completely overcome any skill level with sheer force.

Of course, a master of internal energy has reached a level of meticulous control over force, such that he can use an iron spear to poke a fly that has landed on glass, popping the fly without damaging the glass. In actual combat, by controlling every change in force, he can deal with opponents whose physical strength is several times that of him.

"Finally, there is Dan Jin."

Ming Jin, An Jin, and Hua Jin all have a real-world basis, and there are books that explain the principles of martial arts. Regardless of whether past martial arts masters could actually do it, at least they wrote down the theories clearly.

However, Dan Jin is purely a novelist's fantasy, and Tang Ping figured it out on her own. It's unknown whether it's the same as the original setting.

He immediately relaxed his whole body, adopting the posture of "embracing the dantian and sitting on the hips," concentrating his body's center of gravity on a single point, three inches below his lower abdomen, at the dantian.

In an instant, all his blood, energy, and spirit condensed together, as if forming a round golden pill.

The next moment, the qi and blood, which had been suddenly contracted at a single point in the dantian, abruptly transformed into a circle, surging outwards and returning to all parts of the body. This mobilized the entire body, causing all the muscles to work, concentrating the power in one place, and bursting forth from Tang Ping's palm along with spiritual energy!

boom!

A violent force roared out, like an invisible road roller, crushing all obstacles in its path, including the stone pillars that were less than a meter long, which exploded on the spot and turned into dust.

After striking out with this palm, Tang Ping felt a sense of weakness as if her body had been drained, and her blood and qi were churning violently. Fortunately, her body was strong enough that she did not feel dizzy.

After he recovered, he examined his inner self and was shocked to find that his spiritual energy had been completely depleted by the palm strike.

"It's even more exaggerated than internal force. Normally, when I strike with my Dantian, the palm force can only reach three meters at most. It will dissipate after three meters, and the power is no different from a full-force palm strike. But the palm strike just now, in terms of power, has exceeded the scope of common sense. It's like a King of Fighters character using a super move, but the mana consumption is also quite serious."

After a brief assessment, Tang Ping concluded that with the enhancement of spiritual power, the power of the hidden force was increased tenfold, and the power of the elixir force was increased dozens of times, and it was directly proportional to the consumption of spiritual power. If the former was a secret technique, the latter was an ultimate move.

Moreover, his intuition told him that he was using the crudest spiritual energy manipulation technique. With some adjustments, he could improve the efficiency of his spiritual energy usage, and once he reached a certain level, it could be called a martial arts move.

"Based on this, creating a One-Finger Divine Skill or an Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms shouldn't be a problem."

Tang Ping then thought that, according to the setting of "The Legend of the Dragon and the Snake", after Dan Jin, there are two more realms: Gang Jin and Jian Shen Bu Hua. If he could cultivate them, he might be able to exert a stronger effect on his spiritual power.

"However, I have no idea how to cultivate Gang Jin at the moment. For now, I'll focus my energy on using spiritual power in combination with An Jin and Dan Jin."

Chapter 160 The Significance of Shouting Out Move Names

For the next month, Tang Ping lived a fulfilling life of cultivation, as if he had returned to the time when he first discovered his special athletic talent as a child. He was immersed in a positive cycle of continuous exploration and improvement, and he put all his undercover missions behind him.

Generally speaking, he would first try spiritual techniques, and only when his spiritual power was reduced to a quarter would he start to think about combining spiritual power with martial arts.

In terms of results alone, Tang Ping discovered that his greatest strengths lay in water and wood-based spiritual arts, which were mainly focused on healing and support. These two types were a perfect match for the "novice monk's" spiritual energy "Budding of Goodness." Not only could he learn them very quickly, but he could also achieve the same healing effect by consuming only half the spiritual power of others.

Conversely, this also means that his abilities are severely unbalanced, lacking combat skills, and in terms of spiritual arts alone, he can only serve as a logistics officer.

Regarding the extra spiritual power "Three-Eyed True Radiance" that shouldn't exist, Tang Ping has figured out how it works to identify lies, investigate character information, and spy on spiritual intelligence. It must be admitted that these three functions are very practical, equivalent to anticipating the enemy's moves and having a three-tenths chance of winning before the battle even begins.

However, there was no progress in dealing with the "True Yang Fire," which he had been longing for and which might be his only means of attack. The reason was simple—insufficient spiritual energy.

Even if Tang Ping adjusted her state to its best and used up all her spiritual power, she still couldn't unleash it, and not even a single flame could be produced.

He could only console himself that this proved the power of the "True Yang Fire" in a way, and that he could use it as a trump card to turn the tide when he advanced to the second stage.

As for spiritual martial arts, Tang Ping was prepared to spend months or even years. After all, creating a martial art from scratch is extremely difficult, let alone combining spiritual power with martial arts. No one had ever tried this before; it was a path that no one had ever pioneered.

But to his surprise, when he tried to do it, all sorts of ingenious ideas came to him, and he didn't feel that dull feeling of not knowing where to start at all.

Moreover, whenever he tries out the techniques he has devised, he can usually find the correct method within three tries. This has nothing to do with martial arts talent; it is purely luck. The real application of martial arts talent lies in adjusting the details of the techniques to make them more suitable for him.

Once or twice would be fine, but it happened every time. Tang Ping couldn't help but feel that "when the time is right, heaven and earth are on his side," as if "heaven" was also looking forward to someone creating spiritual martial arts, so it bestowed good fortune upon him, the pioneer, making everything go smoothly for him.

The saying "When Cangjie created writing, millet rained from the sky, and ghosts cried at night" is roughly like this.

In just one month, he actually managed to create two decent-looking spiritual martial arts techniques.

He strongly suspected that the earliest group of people who created spiritual arts also enjoyed similar treatment; otherwise, how could they have built a decent spiritual arts system from scratch in less than twenty years?

Considering that the initial group of psionicists would definitely prioritize exploring the Illusionary Realm and figuring out how to use psionic energy, they would only have time to create psionic techniques once they reached a certain scale. Therefore, the time for truly developing psionic techniques would probably only be ten years.

Such high efficiency is enough to shame those characters in fantasy and martial arts novels who spend decades creating a single martial art.

Furthermore, Tang Ping discovered an inexplicable pattern in the Realm of Illusion.

"Breaking Boundaries with the Brahma Wheel!"

Tang Pingpian pointed to the sky, his spiritual energy transforming into a gale that swirled around his fingertips, forming a spiraling, interwoven force that hummed as it spun at high speed. With a flick of his wrist, the spiraling force left his hand and shot out in the form of a golden swastika, striking the air with a metallic clang and a blinding golden light that obscured his vision.

The finger strike hit the stone wall in front, leaving a hole nearly half a meter deep.

Immediately, he used the Brahma Wheel Breaking Finger again, but this time he did not make a sound. It shot towards the stone wall and left another finger hole.

Then, he used the same move for the third time, maintaining the same spiritual energy consumption, but he shouted in a low voice: "Armor-Piercing Seven-Spinning Finger!"

Thus, three finger-shaped holes appeared side by side on the stone wall.

Tang Ping took out a specially prepared long ruler and inserted it into the three finger holes to measure them. The conclusion he reached left him speechless for a moment—the first finger hole was nearly five centimeters deeper than the other two.