Spirit Gathering, Spirit Storage, Amplification, and Strengthening were the four basic types of spirit diagrams that an artificer had to master. However, an artificer’s understanding of these four basic diagrams actually slightly differed from person to person.
A simple Amplification spirit diagram might have tens of inscription methods, and perhaps all of them could achieve the same amplification effect. However, the difference in effectiveness that each method could achieve was like heaven and earth.
Some Amplification spirit diagrams could only amplify the effective capacity by up to a hundredth. But other spirit diagrams could amplify an artifact’s effective capacity up to two times, several times, or even tens of times!
The same principle applied to the other three spirit diagrams. Depending on their inheritance, apprenticeship, and other differences, each artificer might have their own understanding and recognition of Spirit Gathering, Spirit Storage, and Strengthening spirit diagrams. So no two spirit diagrams would be the same, and their powers differed from one another as well.
Of course, the stronger the artificer, the stronger the spirit diagrams they could inscribe as their comprehension toward nature’s spirit energy and natural law grows. The spirit diagrams will also become more and more flawless, increasingly matching the great way and natural law of the world, achieving amazing and hard to fathom effects.
“Spirit Gathering. This is Spirit Gathering! I need to see the other three spirit diagrams!”
Qin Lie focused his mind and discarded any thoughts of researching the diagram’s mysteries for the moment. Relying purely on the artifact forging knowledge his grandfather had been forcing into his head for many years, he determined the effects of the remaining three spirit diagrams.
“Spirit Gathering! Amplification! Strengthening! So it is these three diagrams! But why are they so complicated even though they’re the most basic of basics? This is practically chicken scratch; I feel faint just looking at it. It’s hard to remember even one of them. I can’t imagine who inscribed this in here…”
He quickly withdrew the wisp of mind energy soon after. Although he had confirmed the type of each of the four diagrams, the doubt in his heart had only further deepened.
In next period of time, he would use the cave’s electrical network to refine his body and practice Heavenly Thunder Eradication whenever there was a thunderstorm.
After he broke through to the seventh level of Refinement, the pace at which he cultivated Heavenly Thunder Eradication had increased rapidly, and he could now conduct lightning into his marrow and internal organs.
As he refined his innards with lightning again and again, he felt his body becoming stronger, starting to grow towards an even higher level. He had a vague sense that he was about to finish laying a solid foundation for Heavenly Thunder Eradication.
When he could cultivate Heavenly Thunder Eradication to the point where his marrow and internal organs could handle lightning strikes without a hitch, he would no longer have to rely on the cave’s electrical network and could cultivate directly from external lightning sources.
During stormless days, he would gather his spirit energy and expand his spirit sea. At the same time, he continued to work through his fingers to achieve a state where he could discharge spirit energy from all major attack points on his body.
When he cultivated until his body was exhausted, he would then gather his mind energy and examine the four spirit diagrams inside the Soul Suppressing Orb.
Although a month passed, he had only managed to remember a third of the “Spirit Gathering” spirit diagram, and he didn’t even dare to inspect the other three.
The Spirit Gathering diagram alone consumed an enormous amount of mind energy, and every time he finished, his mind would become slow and sluggish.
However, he noticed that every time he recovered, his mind energy would improve, albeit by just a small amount. It seemed that examining the spirit diagram with his mind energy could also help cultivate it in return.
It was for this exact discovery that he forced himself and endured the incredibly dull task of diagram reading.
Mind energy was the power needed to break through the Soul Suppressing Orb’s seal, and whether he could uncover the mysteries of his past and rediscover his memories in the future or not fell entirely on the strength of his mind energy.
Therefore, no matter how torturous it was, as long as it was something that could enhance his mind energy, he would grit his teeth and take it all in stride.
Time passed quickly, and soon two months flew by.
Having persevered through a harsh period of training, his mind energy had undergone an obvious improvement, and a solid foundation for Heavenly Thunder Eradication had been laid.
Now he could also discharge spirit energy from his fingers,