Chapter 53: The Simplified Edition of the 312 Secret Techniques of the Controller

The first half of the trial passage was cast from alloy, while the latter half was a bizarre corridor intertwined with dark brown tree roots.

A faint scent, similar to that of the Black God Set, drifted into Luo Feng's nostrils, causing him to furrow his brows slightly.

Thinking that the Black God Set could be obtained upon clearing this Ruin No. 9, Luo Feng could not help but wonder inwardly, "Could there be a production line inside this ruin capable of continuously manufacturing the Black God Set?"

Shaking his head, Luo Feng stepped deeper inside and finally reached a glowing round mirror.

Taking a deep breath, Luo Feng's figure plunged right into it.

In the blink of an eye, the scenery transformed.

Luo Feng's location shifted from a corridor into a huge black hall, with hazy radiance projecting downward from above, making the entire hall look dreamlike and illusory.

These illusory colorful lights simultaneously enveloped Luo Feng, as if conducting some kind of scan.

Luo Feng stood motionless, feeling extremely vigilant in his heart.

Just at that moment, a harsh sound echoed in the black hall. The language spoken did not belong to any on Earth. Seeing this, Luo Feng lowered his head to glance at his tactical watch, where the No. 1 artificial intelligence was translating the speech.

[Warning, warning, warning....]

"A warning?" Luo Feng's expression changed. What was going on?

Right then, the ceiling of the hall split open, and thick crystal ropes the size of fingers extended from it, binding tightly toward Luo Feng.

The speed was so fast that even if Luo Feng instantly erupted with all the mammoth particles within his body, he could not evade these crystal ropes, and could only watch helplessly as they bound him tightly.

"Stop struggling. This is a method to test one's talent." Bai Chen's voice suddenly popped up, halting the continuously struggling Luo Feng.

"Bai, this..." Luo Feng was about to ask when the mechanical intelligent voice began to sound in the hall again. He quickly lowered his head to look at the Chinese translation on his tactical watch.

[Congratulations, your brainwave width has reached 21, surpassing 18. You have obtained the qualification to enter the elite channel. Because this is the first time the elite channel has opened in five thousand years, please wait for fifteen minutes.]

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Within the internal space, Bai Chen was cracking melon seeds while watching a certain anime, teasing the white cat "Energy-More" from time to time. Every now and then, when the mood struck him, he would point his finger at Energy-More while constantly chanting in his mouth,

"Transform for me!"

The cute white cat instantly turned into a cute cat-girl.

"Tsk tsk." Bai Chen smiled complacently.

....

After quite a while, Bai Chen finally lifted the block on Luo Feng's inner monologue.

As soon as the block was lifted, Luo Feng's delayed inner mutterings suddenly flooded into his mind all at once.

"Bai, what on earth is going on?"

"Another three years, another death mission..."

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"Watch me shatter this damned crystal room with one punch! Mammoth particles, activate!" Luo Feng snorted coldly in his heart, activating several mammoth particles to empower himself, and then struck the crystal room's wall with six times his full strength—a single punch carrying a full seven to eight million kilograms of force.

With that single punch, the wall vibrated and cracks spread all over. The crystal ropes hurriedly drilled out to bind Luo Feng tightly once again, desperately preventing him from moving.

[You must use spiritual force to control weapons to break the crystal room! Physical attacks are strictly forbidden!!] (The ruin's intelligence was warning frantically.)

It couldn't afford not to rush! This trial was designed for spiritual readers; how could there be any logic of passing the trial with fists?

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"No way, am I really going to stay here for three years?"

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"No, three years is simply too long!"

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"Forget it, I might as well study the 'Controller's Secret Manual 312 Forms' first; I can't waste time." After attempting and failing to break the crystal ropes binding him, Luo Feng thought of asking Bai Chen, but Bai Chen did not respond to him. Having no other choice, he had to rein in his impatience and begin studying the more than three hundred patterns on the crystal wall.

When Bai Chen digested these mutterings, he could not help but roll his eyes.

Since he was so fond of muttering, should he create a "silent Zen" divine secret art for Luo Feng and make him shut his mouth for a few years just to cultivate this secret art? No, if he couldn't speak with his mouth, wouldn't he mutter even more constantly in his heart?

After muttering a few words to himself, Bai Chen finally cast his gaze outward and saw that Luo Feng was currently sitting cross-legged on the ground, with his brows deeply furrowed as he stared at the translation and analysis of the first crystal pattern on his tactical watch, lost in thought.

With a thought from Bai Chen, he instantly finished analyzing the crystal patterns of the Controller's Secret Manual 312 Forms and then proceeded to reinforce them.

"Hiss, the energy consumption is this high?" After slightly sensing the energy points required for the reinforcement, Bai Chen raised his brows.

However, this was a good thing.

Because this indicated that the "Secret Manual 312 Forms" itself was already very "minimalist." As a foundational inheritance, it was hard to improve further.

Sometimes, the more foundational something was, the harder it was to enhance, because it affected the whole body with a single pull. Once the foundation changed, it would also impact the higher-level secret arts.

"Since the reinforcement difficulty is very high, let's change the approach." With a thought, Bai Chen began setting parameters.

[Setting: Lower the cultivation difficulty of the "Controller's Secret Manual 312 Forms"!]

[Calculating consumption... lowering the difficulty of the "Controller's Secret Manual 312 Forms" by two times requires fifty-three thousand energy points; lowering the difficulty by three times requires six hundred fifty-seven thousand eight hundred energy points; lowering the difficulty by...]

Since it was hard to optimize and elevate the foundational knowledge structure of the secret art, wouldn't it work to optimize the learning difficulty instead?

In the original work, Luo Feng stayed in the No. 9 ancient civilization ruin for one year and three months. Bai Chen certainly did not want Luo Feng to stay here for that long, which would waste both time and energy acquisition. With Luo Feng's continuously growing strength, in over a year, he could easily plunder hundreds of millions of energy from the outside world.

"Let's lower the difficulty by three times then." With a thought from Bai Chen, his reserve energy was instantly depleted by over six hundred thousand points. The next moment, all the knowledge of the optimized version of the "Controller's Secret Manual 312 Forms" flooded into Bai Chen's mind.

Bai Chen glanced through it and nodded with great satisfaction. The secret manual's knowledge had not changed at all, but the learning method had transformed from the original 312 patterns into tens of thousands of patterns.

The quantity had increased dozens of times, but when Bai Chen looked at those patterns, he found that comprehending their contents had become much simpler.

Just like an extremely difficult physics problem, an excellent teacher would break it down into an entire blackboard of basic knowledge points. As long as one learned these knowledge points step by step, this extremely difficult physics problem could be understood and solved.

Outside, Luo Feng was struggling bitterly to ponder and comprehend the first pattern.

After cultivating it, Luo Feng discovered the exquisite and peerless nature of the "Controller's Secret Manual 312 Forms." Even the secret manual of "Spiritual Reader Techniques" provided by "Bai" was far inferior to this secret manual.

Its complexity and profundity surpassed it by a thousand or ten thousand times!

But precisely because of this, the learning difficulty was extremely high. Even for Luo Feng, who had great talent as a spiritual reader, learning it at this moment was quite obscure and difficult to comprehend.

Judging by this learning progress, it would take at least a year or two!

At this thought, Luo Feng's brows furrowed even deeper.

Huh?

Luo Feng's spiritual awareness suddenly shook as pattern after pattern of knowledge flooded into his mind. Without needing to think much, he knew that "Bai" had made a move.