Chapter 50: The Natal Chart (Seeking Recommendations! Seeking Collections!)

  Facing such an astonishing scene, Xia Lin observed for a moment before suppressing the excitement and shock in her heart, calming herself down to turn to the next page.

  Whoosh!

  The star map disappeared, and a piece of writing floated out, Xia Lin looked at it seriously.

  Swish! Swish! Swish!

  Scene after scene of images or texts flashed before Xia Lin's eyes, clear and visible, until halfway through the book, Xia Lin finally had an understanding of those few stars.

  What is meant by "thought" is to take the Benming star chart as a guide and improve one's own strength.

  In the depths of every cultivator's Sea of Consciousness, there is a same Natal Star Chart, brewing with mysterious power, composed of several twinkling stars.

  Except for the central star, each of the surrounding stars represents one's own mental power, strength, speed, defense, and reaction, which are respectively known as the Mental Power Star, Strength Star, Defense Star, Speed Star, and Reaction Star. To increase one's power, one can use mental visualization to enhance these five stars, thereby increasing the power of the Natal Chart.

  The Ben Ming star is the largest and represents the foundation of a person, equivalent to their original ability. The five surrounding stars all take the Ben Ming star as their basis.

  "So to speak, the natal star is equivalent to the ability of the physical body."

  "And the five surrounding stars, are the amplification of abilities... For ordinary cultivators, they give up cultivating their original star and focus on enhancing the surrounding five stars to increase their mental soul's ability. But... completely giving up physical cultivation, the original star cannot be enhanced, lifespan also cannot be increased, no matter how strong the mental soul is, it must rely on the physical body to exist, how do they handle this?" A look of doubt flashed in Xia Lin's eyes.

  As he continued to look down, Xia Lin suddenly came to a realization.

  Abandoning physical cultivation, the cultivator's progress is rapid, and they can break free from the shackles of the flesh, becoming even stronger. However, their weaknesses are also extremely obvious, so the cultivators have long since developed a self-contained system of cultivation techniques. As long as they grasp the perfect timing to activate this technique, it can cause the cultivator's strength to undergo a complete transformation.

  That's transformation!

  At the moment when the cultivator breaks through to the Heavenly Master, with the help of the power of heaven and earth, he purifies himself, refines his physical body, and the five star essences lose all their power and return to their origin. The strength of the mind soul is added to the original star essence, causing a qualitative change in the flesh, transforming it from an ordinary mortal body. This is the only chance to change one's physical body.

  It's equivalent to saying that after breaking through the Tian Shi, the stronger the soul is, the stronger the physical body will be!

  And Tiān Shī, which is another starting point.

  After Xia Lin finished watching, she took a cold breath. "No wonder Father holds Nianzhe in such high esteem. If every single one of them has the power to challenge Tian Shi, then basically, each and every one of their strengths is extremely terrifying!"

  "The cultivators, although not theoretically inferior to the nuns, have declined in recent years and are almost extinct. Faced with the nuns' ever-improving cultivation system and constantly evolving nun techniques, the cultivators are undoubtedly at a disadvantage." Xia Lin pondered silently, "Although the Transmission Hall can convert martial skills, allowing him to hold his own against the nuns, there is one thing that the nuns have that the cultivators cannot match."

  "Status!"

  "In today's phenomenon, the identity of a cultivator brings endless benefits, powerful background, sect, and high prestige. And what about practitioners? Because early practitioners came from demonic cultivation, after their decline, they were excluded and gradually disappeared from people's vision."

  "What a headache." Xia Lin shook his head helplessly and continued to look at the booklet in his hand.

  The first part of the cultivation manual is mostly about the basic knowledge of the cultivator, after all, it's an entry-level cultivation manual, and the basics are essential. The latter part about the cultivator's practice content only has a few dozen pages.

  Xia Lin roughly glanced at it and after his overall feeling, the contents of these cultivation methods could be divided into three parts.

  First is to open up one's mind and let this chaotic place become clear and cultivable.

  Second is Ju Xing, first condense the natal star chart, then condense the five major stars and their surrounding orbits. Once everything is complete, the natal star chart is constructed.

  Three is the departure of the soul, in simple terms, it means successfully invoking the power within the birth chart and condensing the thought of the soul to leave the physical body.

  Completing this step can make you a reader!

  It seems very simple, but Xia Lin knew that 99% of people died on the first step.

  Martial artists rely on the dantian as their foundation, requiring the convergence of xuanqi and the dantian to become a strong practitioner with a whirlpool boundary. Cultivators rely on the physical body as their foundation, needing a robust physique or innate bloodline talent to activate the power of the blood vessels, successfully transforming into a cultivator. Mind practitioners rely on the sea of consciousness as their foundation, opening up the sea of consciousness and requiring a strong innate talent for the sea of consciousness, able to successfully create a clear boundary in a chaotic sea of consciousness, gradually increasing their mental powers through the sea of consciousness to become a mind practitioner.

  "When six years old, priority is given to those who undergo the talent test... even if they have weak talents, as long as they qualify to become a Nen user, they are all taken away." Xia Lin recalled what Sun Zhong had said and let out a sigh of regret. If he could become a Nen user, there was no doubt that the time it would take him to reach his goal would be shortened countless times!

  Really, can't become a monk?

  Xia Lin stared at the golden manual in her hand, lost in thought.

  ……

  "Master, these are all the materials for the mountain stronghold's trial by fire."

  An aged old servant slowly walked forward, placing a thick stack of documents on the sandalwood desk, dozens of pages in all, showing just how detailed the contents were.

  Xia Man nodded slightly, picked up this stack of materials and started reading, her face calm, without any change.

  The old servant stood quietly, looking at the leader with a mixture of surprise and uncertainty in his heart. Although he appeared calm on the surface, he knew what was inside those documents. Not just the leader, but even if he himself had seen them, he would have been filled with rage and deep worry.

  Too hateful!

  Xia Ye had someone tail the young master from the start, and later Xia Cheng repeatedly schemed against the young master during the trial. Moreover, even the assigned trial tasks were inconsistent, looking at those task contents, it was clear that they wanted to send the young master to his death! If not for having already learned from intelligence that the young master had safely resolved the small mountain stronghold's matters, a big incident would have likely occurred already.

  That was it; this last move of Natsume's had thoroughly enraged him.

  Believe it!

  It's actually a reader!

  To deal with a counterfeit cultivator, they actually used the Namer!

  This is simply a case of adults bullying children. Unfortunately, the person who was gathering intelligence was caught in the crossfire between that reader and Xia Lin, and his current whereabouts are unknown, with no news of whether he's alive or dead.

  That's all the information we have at hand for now.

  "You're saying... that Nianzhe has made a move against Lin'er?" Xia Man said calmly, seemingly without any anger or fluctuation.

  "Yes."

  The old servant replied respectfully, his heart trembling with fear, for he knew all too well that the more such a leader was like this, the more terrifying they became.

  "Is there still time?" Xia Man asked.

  The old servant thought for a moment and shook his head slightly: "It's too late, at this time we can only see the result."

  "That's to say, even if I go now, it's useless." Xia Man analyzed.

  "Yes." The old servant hesitated for a moment before saying, "According to the report from my subordinate, before he returned, they saw Young Master and that cultivator in a standoff, seemingly not at a disadvantage."

  "Oh?" Xia Man was somewhat surprised. He had originally thought that Lin Er should have escaped back, but unexpectedly, he was able to counterattack against that cultivator.

  "It's no wonder he's my son." Xia Man's eyes flashed with a hint of a smile, "I've been through countless battles of life and death, but the one who always emerges victorious is me. I believe that Lin Er will also be able to do it!"

  "Yes, young master will definitely return safely!" The old servant said seriously.

  Xia Man slowly stood up, looking at the moonlight outside the window, and smiled calmly: "No matter how Xia Ye breaks the rules, in the end, Lin Er relied on himself to reach the finish line. Regardless of victory or defeat, at least he came through as a person! This point, I am very pleased."

  "The child has done what he should have done. Now it's time for me to do what I should do."

  "I won't allow Lin'er to become a spoiled young master, but I also won't allow anyone to plot against Lin'er!"

  A cold glint flashed in Xia Man's eyes. "Perhaps, it has been too long since the last time, and many people have forgotten a lot of things. Originally, I didn't want to take this step."

  At this point, Xia Man glanced at the old servant and said lightly: "Prepare the quiet room, I want to retreat! The mountain stronghold tomorrow will be temporarily handed over to the elder group. Anyway, they won't be idle."

  "Yes."

  The old servant spoke respectfully, and his eyes showed excitement and fervor.

  Pure room... closed door... a farewell for over ten years, Chief, are you finally going to break through?

  What kind of brilliance will the village chief burst out with again?

  I'm really looking forward to it...

  The next morning, Black Wind Fortress's trial day 30.

  At this time, the Black Wind Fortress was more lively than ever before. The several thousand Black Wind Fortress disciples all came out, and perhaps for the Xia Family's disciples, changing a leader wasn't anything, but for these several thousand Black Wind Fortress disciples, the leader was their highest superior.

  It was still the familiar square, at this time several leaders of Hei Feng Zhai and many masters were sitting on the platform, strangely, the leader did not come. At this time, the ones in power were the elderly elders sitting next to the leader's position, apparently, this mountain stronghold trial was not only for the disciples to see but also needed the recognition of all the elders. At this time, everyone was waiting, waiting for their return.

  However, strangely enough, it was almost noon and still no one had returned!

  "What's going on?"

  "I don't know, five teams have gone out, shouldn't at least one of them come back?"

  "Who knows what's going on, let's take another look."

  Just at this moment when everyone was talking and waiting with bated breath, Xia Yang and his sister Xia Yan returned!