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Chapter 370: The Book of Gods (Long - Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 370: Chapter 370: The Book of Gods (Long Chapter Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

The content of Chapter Three is sparse, merely a brief introduction of the author’s research achievements over the years.

He discovered that although Martial Arts could indeed strengthen the body and grant power, the entry barrier was high, exceptionally picky about the practitioners’ Aptitude.

Only a small portion of people could gain energy and enhance their physical quality from this breathing technique.

In a large-scale experiment he conducted, less than one percent of the volunteers could absorb energy through breathing.

And among those who could draw energy into their bodies, over eighty percent were not efficient enough at converting the energy to meet the threshold for continuous Martial Arts Training.

Seeing this, He Ao also felt a sense of agreement.

Although Martial Arts did not require risking one’s life to advance like Talent Sequences, it was exceedingly selective about Aptitude.

Those who could engage in Martial Arts Training were one in a thousand, and people with innate exceptional talent like Regit were even rarer, making the likelihood of strong individuals emerging even smaller.

Meanwhile, with Talent Sequences, as long as you weren’t afraid to drink Secret Medicine, success meant an immediate upgrade and a substantial gain in strength.

Compared to the arduous Martial Arts Training, this was indeed much faster.

He Ao continued to flip through the book in his hands.

The author of this book clearly recognized the difficulties of Martial Arts Training but did not consider the problem from the perspective of a practitioner, but rather from the standpoint of a scientist.

He believed that the practice of Martial Arts actually had a certain universality; even those who could not absorb transcendent energy through the method of breath control could still enhance their physical quality by absorbing the energy in the air through a certain training method.

Building on this foundation, through continuous experiments and exploration, and by leveraging his years of knowledge about the impact of Martial Arts on the human body,

he developed a Body Tempering Technique based on the blueprint of the breathing method. This method did not require the guidance of breath to channel energy but instead took a different approach, offering a ’physical’ Training method.

It allowed people to ’breathe’ naturally as they train their body according to specific patterns.

Those who lacked the Talent could not gather the energy flowing into their bodies, as it would naturally dissipate, but this Physical Skills method ingeniously utilized this ’flaw’ to make the body ’breathe’, allowing the energy to disperse throughout the body.

Although this energy could not be consolidated in the body, it could directly improve the body’s quality and elevate a person’s physical fitness, and could even enhance ’Talent’ in return.

Once the physical quality reached a certain level, those who practiced the Body Tempering Technique could also engage in the breathing practices transforming from ordinary to Transcendent.

By now, He Ao experienced a strong sense of déjà vu.

He flipped further down and saw the name the author had given to this method,

’Body Tempering Technique’.

Sure enough, this Physical Skills Training method created by the author was the same one found by Regit in the Dawn City library, the one that changed his fate.

However, the author mentioned in the book that even when practicing the Body Tempering Technique, there were significant differences among people with different Talent; those with lesser Talent might only see a small increase in physical fitness after decades, while those with better Talent could reach their limit in a few years or a decade.

Clearly, Regit was among those with better Talent.

In reality, it seems that, in a sense, the Body Tempering Technique was just Martial Arts Training stripped of breath control, greatly lowering the entry barrier for Martial Arts.

In Chapter Three, the author included some simple movements of the Body Tempering Technique; He Ao made a comparison and, although there were minor differences, it was indeed the same one practiced by Regit.

At the end of the book, the author wrote that he had seen traces of the Body Tempering Technique in some ancient Martial Arts texts, but perhaps because the transcendent energy in the First District before the great catastrophe was not abundant, it did not develop into Martial Arts that everyone could learn. Instead, it became a system focused on cultivating elite forces.

He also speculated that, perhaps after the great catastrophe, the First District had already seen the emergence of Martial Arts similar to the Body Tempering Technique, but contact with the First District had long been cut off by the Storm Sea, so the exact state of things was beyond his knowledge.

He planned to publish this book and then make the Body Tempering Technique and all his years of research data freely available to the public. He also devised many methods that could assist the practice of the Body Tempering Technique using exotic beast flesh and blood, heralding a new era for the entire Federation.

Five hundred years ago, when the Federation’s technology was not yet so advanced, and even reliable inter-city transport had not emerged, humans were still at a disadvantage compared to exotic beasts.

If the Body Tempering Technique could have been disseminated at that time, broadly enhancing the individual might of humans, it truly would have been a transformative feat for civilization.

However, what He Ao now knows is that the Body Tempering Technique was not publicized, nor was it published on a large scale. The copy of the Body Tempering Technique book Regit found in the Dawn City library was just a small photocopied pamphlet.

Something must have happened back then.

Preventing the author from realizing his goal.

He Ao turned back to the first page and found the author’s name.

Professor Norson Stanel.

He opened his wrist computer and tried to search for this name.

There were many called Norson, but He Ao managed to find the author’s profile by searching for keywords like time, location, and Dawn University professor.

This was a person with an entry in the encyclopedia.

Professor Norson Stanel, co-founder of Star Medical, the highest award in Federation biomedical science, and the founder of the Star Award.

Star Medical, now the largest medical conglomerate in the Federation, is one of the top ten super-large conglomerates of the Federation.

He Ao’s gaze lingered on the time of Professor Norson’s death, Federation Calendar 275, died of illness due to overwork at the age of 49.

The same year his book was published.

Clearly, from his autobiography, it appeared that Professor Norson possessed some martial arts talent and might even have been a martial arts Transcendent. He should have had a decent physique, and in his autobiography, he often mentioned improvements in spirit and good physical conditions after practicing martial arts.

Such a biology professor, passing away at the prime age of 49 due to illness, and just at the moment he was ready to disclose all his academic materials for free.

He Ao shook his head to dismiss the associations in his mind and flipped to the end of the book.

In the appendix, Norson included photos of some incomplete ancient tomes he had collected. Several pages of these ancient tomes resembled the little martial arts book He Ao had found, with even the same page numbers. It was likely that Norson had also collected an incomplete copy of the same martial arts book that He Ao had.

However, the incomplete parts of the two people’s books could be different.

He Ao activated his Super Memory and memorized the photographs of these ancient tomes.

He then closed the book, returned it to the shelf, and took two steps forward to the next bookshelf. His gaze swept over the shelves, and he casually picked up two books to read.

This underground library held a weird and wonderful array of books, some on humanities, some on history, and some on bizarre tales. Most were materials not found on the internet.

There was even a book that contained maps of the major regional flight routes from the time of the Original Federation. However, most of the book was damaged, leaving only parts that described the flight routes from Dawn City to a certain port in the Third District.

He Ao memorized this map and continued inward.

He didn’t linger in front of each shelf but took a brief look, waited to see if there were any books of interest. If there were, he would flip through them; if not, he moved on to the next shelf.

Eventually, He Ao arrived in front of bookshelf D.

Unlike the other bookshelves, this one was quite empty, most spaces void of any books; only some books were placed in the middle, slightly lower layer.

He Ao needed to squat down slightly to see the titles of these books clearly.

The first one was "The Origin of the Great Storm".

He Ao paused, then continued looking down; these books seemed to be related to divine beings.

He Ao instinctively reached out to touch these books; their covers were soft, not like regular books with stiff pages, but felt more like genuine leather.

As He Ao touched the books, it was as if he made contact with some ethereal entity, and a faint, twisted madness echoed in his ears.

This stuff is genuine.

The secret knowledge of the Copy World is contaminated, with information involving higher beings carrying the heaviest contamination. Mere dissemination could link one with unspeakable, indescribable great beings.

Of course, this knowledge must be real; anything fabricated doesn’t count.

For example, the book He Ao had just seen on shelf Z, which involved sacrificial rituals to the God of Knowledge observed and deciphered from a human perspective, was filled with guesses and assumptions. Therefore, that book didn’t bring contamination.

But the books before He Ao now, with just a touch, he could feel a slight contamination. This meant that these books contained real, ungraspable, unspeakable secret knowledge related to divine beings.

He Ao extended his hand, gently touching these books.

He did not choose a specific book; instead, he looked through them one by one, as if selecting the first book he wished to examine.

"These books bear the contamination of different great beings. The more you read, the heavier your connection with these great beings becomes, and the higher the risk of being lured into madness,"

a cold voice slowly rose to He Ao’s ear, "I don’t recommend you read these books. If you must, I suggest you only pick one that interests you the most, just one, as that is the limit a C-level can withstand."

He Ao turned his head, looking to his side.

The first thing he saw was a silver-grey mechanical wheelchair and a cold-looking woman seated in it.

She had a melon-seed shaped face, willow-leaf eyebrows, skin as moist as jade, and flesh as white as snow.

A black lace blindfold tied over her eyes, a pure black semi-transparent silk dress covering her figure, with delicate feet tucked into simple woven flower sandals, bright red ribbons tied around her clean ankles, and her pink-toned toes exposed under the soft light.

This woman was undeniably beautiful, ranking just behind Selena in He Ao’s experience and slightly superior to the charmless dancer Qi Ke.

He Ao stared at the woman before him, the attraction he felt emanating from her.

However, unlike the dancer, the attraction from the dancer was the overall allure, while the attraction from the woman in front of him seemed to focus on her fluctuating chest.