Xiang Yu held a glowing crystal ball in his hand.
He still hadn’t succeeded with the enlightenment upgrade method, but he had managed to create something else interesting in the process.
"I’ll name this the ’Inheritance Crystal Pro Plus 6000,’" he said, looking at it with interest.
He couldn’t believe he had stumbled upon something like this.
This was something similar to a skill book from games in his previous life.
With this, he could engrave techniques and scriptures into the crystal and have others learn them.
The difference was that unlike normal inheritance crystals, which merely transferred knowledge to someone and they still had to practice from scratch, the IC Pro Plus 6000 bypassed all that and directly injected mastery into the person.
This meant if he put the mastery of a perfect level knife technique inside, whoever received it would gain the same level of mastery.
The only problem was that some technique mastery required the body too, not just enlightenment.
Take the knife, for example, even with enlightenment, a person would still need to etch the moves into their muscle memory.
Although this could be easily fixed by practicing a little more and having the body pick up like he did when practicing through the simulation, he thought to himself that he would need to maybe make a supplementary pill for techniques like these.
Something that would rework the body to quickly gain all those physical insights.
For him, muscle memory was nothing. His War God Body had engraved all sorts of fighting muscle memory into him. He just had to analyze it and create a pill with a rebirth effect and some specifications to rework the body like that.
With this, he could make unlimited powerhouses. He began laughing evilly. "Even the kids would be born with intent! Muhahaha!"
He suddenly realized what he was doing and paused. He then scratched his head. "Dammit, this research is driving me insane," he thought.
He began looking over what he had tested and what he hadn’t.
As he did this, he realized something - maybe the side discovery wasn’t so useless after all.
The way the IC Pro Plus 6000 transferred mastery could also be considered a form of enlightenment. When someone practices techniques, their enlightenment grows. Although the growth was tiny, so small that it was barely visible unless you had a system that showed exp, it was still something.
In theory, if someone took lots of ICs, they would eventually breakthrough in enlightenment as they were gaining little exp every time they took one.
But this wasn’t very effective. Practicing all sorts of techniques wasn’t good and could lead to complications for people who didn’t have something like the Transcendent Dao Body and a system.
He needed to come up with a better way than this.
After some thought, he came up with something he thought could work.
He remembered the things he would always see whenever his enlightenment broke through.
They were vague concepts, but they were some sort of mastery that his enlightenment absorbed passively. If he could recreate these scenes inside someone, maybe their enlightenment would be able to pick up on the vague concepts and trigger a breakthrough.
He thought to himself that whenever his enlightenment broke through, he would always feel as though he was seeing the world in an entirely new way. And he might as well be - there were just so many things that he could see now with immortal level enlightenment that he couldn’t see before with heavenly level.
He needed to focus on these things.
Those vague concepts he saw were some form of mastery that trained the enlightenment to see through different lenses.
If he could compile all these vague concepts for every level of enlightenment breakthrough, then use the phoenix and black tortoise essence together with his IC Pro to contain the concepts, he should be able to transfer them to someone and level up their enlightenment.
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Xiang Yu took a little phoenix and black tortoise essence and began studying it.
After some time, he was able to extract the building blocks that he needed. He had also used his fission ability to isolate these aspects to study them more closely, which gave him an even deeper understanding.
Now he could recreate something similar with his creation domain.
When studying the two mythical bloodlines, he had also studied the human bloodline.
Though it couldn’t really be considered human anymore since his wife was now a Human Emperor.
Well, this was even better because the Human Emperor bloodline was even more focused on enlightenment than the original human bloodline, even more so than the other two mythical bloodlines tbh.
But they each had their own abilities, so there was no need to compare.
One such ability he had discovered was that he could leave knowledge inside the bloodline essence for descendants of his bloodline and have it unlock at certain conditions. This was really interesting and was one of the building blocks he had used to make the IC Pro Plus 6000.
If he took advantage of this, he could create those concepts he remembered when breaking through enlightenment realms and inject them into crystals.
For enlightenment, it wouldn’t really be a pill or herb since it was all dependent on the concepts. He would just compress all those concepts into crystals and have people touch them to absorb all the concepts.
For this, he decided not to give out crystals but rather make a huge central crystal in a protected location. Disciples with great contributions could request to see the enlightenment crystal.
There, they would receive the "blessing of the gods" and open up a new path for their cultivation.
Of course, there wasn’t any blessing or gods involved - it was all about selling the image. Though he doubted he needed to worry about image considering how insane upgrading natural talent was.
"Well, there’s no harm in leaving it there, right?" he thought.
"I just hope it doesn’t become some sort of cult in a few million years that prays to the Grand Elder."
He then laughed it off. "Ha, no way people would be that crazy."
He decided to move on to the second part of the enlightenment problem.
That’s right, this was just part one. There was still another issue he needed to solve for the enlightenment thing to work, and it might be even harder to solve than the enlightenment problem itself...
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A/N: The vague concepts: if you remember correctly, when he was breaking through enlightenment, he would always find himself floating somewhere and seeing all sorts of things. These are what he’s talking about. He still see them to this day but I don’t include them anymore and go straight towards state of enlightenment.