Overgeared

The spiritual root resembled a mana core, and it was an acquired organ that one must have in order to handle spiritual energy.

There were many different types of spiritual roots, unlike mana cores. The single spiritual root, which specialized in one specific attribute, was the most valuable. The double spiritual root, which could sustain two attributes, was the second most valuable, and so on.

The five elements spiritual root, which could sustain five attributes, was the least valuable. As the number of attributes of the spiritual root increased, the compatibility with each attribute decreased. If a person with a spiritual root specializing in wind could use 100% of their power when using a wind technique, then a person with a five elements spiritual root could only use 50% of their power when using the same technique.

Grid alleviated this huge weakness by mastering the Profound Martial Technique. Instead of completely neutralizing the attributes of the five spiritual roots, Profound Martial Technique amplified the power and quantity of the spiritual energy itself.

It was possible to increase the power of elemental techniques from the original 50% to 65%. Naturally, the inherently elementless techniques could be used with 100% power.

However, elementless techniques were rare. Even though he learned the Profound Martial Technique, he was inferior to those with single and double spiritual roots.

Nevertheless, Grid wasn’t disappointed. He had been unlucky for a day or two, but Grid was used to that. He actually laughed out loud when he heard that the people with the five elements spiritual root were seen as mediocre by the cultivation world.

This type of situation was all too familiar to him. Rather, he would’ve felt awkward if he was suddenly treated like a genius.

‘In the end, this turned out to be a good thing.’

That day, Grid destroyed the nineteenth Full Moon Fortress and learned a new technique: Ten Thousand Wheels One Thousand Wings Technique.

The name was an exaggeration, and the person who came up with its name wanted to let it be known that whoever learnt it would become incredibly powerful. The cultivator who invented this technique must have had a similar personality to Lauel, meaning they must have had a very strong sense of self and liked to exaggerate things.

In any case, the inventor was likely not an ordinary person. The Ten Thousand Wheels One Thousand Wings Technique was as outstanding as its name. It doubled the power of the technique that one had. It had great synergy with Profound Martial Technique, which increased the quality and quality of spiritual energy just by breathing.

Now, Grid’s spiritual energy increased by 240 every time it cycled through his body. The power of spiritual energy also increased every time the spiritual energy increased by units of 10,000. If he did a rough evaluation, for every 50,000 increase in the total amount of spiritual energy, the power of his techniques would increase by 1%.

In about a year, he would be able to fully implement the power of all elemental techniques at 100%. This meant that, in time, he would have an overwhelming advantage over people with single spiritual roots, who could implement only one attribute specialized techniques at full power.

Of course, Grid wasn’t too excited. The other cultivators wouldn’t just laze around during this time.

‘A cultivator lives for at least a few hundred years. The cultivators who lived for thousands or tens of thousands of years must’ve learned more powerful techniques than the Profound Martial Technique or Ten Thousand Wheels One Thousand Wings Technique.’

They wouldn’t implement the power of a technique at 100%, but at 1,000% or 10,000%.

Grid had fought many powerful opponents so far and had never let his guard down. He didn’t get carried away and faced reality.

...Grid was a big problem for the cultivators.

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“You lost the book containing the teachings of Ten Thousand Wheels One Thousand Wings Technique? How did you manage to lose the greatest treasure left behind by our ancestor, who ascended to the immortal world a long time ago?”

“That... As the great elder knows, isn’t the material of the Ten Thousand Wheels One Thousand Wings Technique book itself special? It’s made from the skin of an upper world divine beast, so it possesses a colossal aura. The chief didn’t have enough spiritual stones to construct the Full Moon Fortress, so he used the technique book as the material for the formation and built it this way...”

“...What type of bastard invaded the Full Moon Fortress, destroyed it, and even stole the technique book?”

were sweating. His skin was dark because of the demonic art he’d mastered and his

breathlessly. Even though the great elder glared at them,

of guarding

we were preparing to go into closed door training. As you also came to this conclusion in the first few days, the level of this world is

that happened, are you saying that I’m the one responsible for you failing to protect the chief, the Full Moon Fortress, and the Ten Thousand

didn’t mean it like that. I had no intention to blame

of the great ascension realm, while the great elder was at the peak of the great ascension realm. He hadn’t mastered the Ten Thousand Wheels One Thousand Wings Technique, so

glaring at the elders,

“Only one in ten billion people can learn it, and it’s no longer as valuable as it used to be, but it’s still a symbol of our sect. You know that tens of thousands of cultivators compete to join our sect every year just because they want

Wheels One Thousand Wings Technique, the sect will

I ascend to the immortal world,” the great elder said. “You must bear in mind that my anger might be

“Yes, sir!”

elders hurried out of the hall. What they were pinning their hopes on was that the Ten Thousand Wheels One Thousand Wings Technique required a great deal of talent. Only a

had a high

that talented, it would take tens of thousands of years to increase the skill level of the Ten Thousand

Moon Fortress and stole the technique book would learn it overnight and be

didn’t apply to Grid, who was a

Martial Technique’ has reached

‘Ten Thousand Wheels One Thousand Wings Technique’ has

leveling up

Technique took effect every time the spiritual energy in the body completed one full cycle. Of course, the proficiency increased every time

when paired with

face. He was proud of himself for mastering both the Profound Martial Technique and Ten Thousand Wheels

him, Noe grumbled. “It’s all

reading hundreds of books in the past ten days and

know. It’s all thanks to

when he felt a slight vibration coming from his inventory. An ordinary person would’ve never noticed, but Grid’s brilliant senses

Grid cocked his head.

Wheels

that Grid pulled out was glowing a faint red. It trembled, as if it was

so it isn’t that strange for old

his inventory. He judged that someone was trying to track his location based on this technique book and sent out the God Hands to investigate the surrounding area. His invisible artificial

words, it was impossible to

“What...?”

contacted him. He

was that the Full Moon Fortresses in the East Continent were being slowly but steadily dealt with. However, a crazy cultivator was slaughtering

“What are the

players were being massacred. That wasn’t normal. The cultivator was able to absorb the ultimate skills cast by hundreds of rankers

Grid could do

monster like that is on a rampage and the old dragons are doing nothing? Looks like the situation in the

was reminded of what was currently

Guild, Valhalla, and other allies were actively operating from the Tomb of the Gods. There were also