Kryptonian fate deduction, invincibility starts from killing monsters

Not long ago.

Shen Lin was blasted out of the mountain by Yan Zehong. Before he could even adjust to the bright sky outside, he was slammed back down again.

The rumbling explosions were continuous, embedding him into the ground.

Yan Zehong hovered directly above, continuously blasting out cyan light from his hands, causing the ground around Shen Lin to sink and form a massive pit.

Fortunately, the Golden Bell Shield, infused with golden light, was exceptionally sturdy, protecting Shen Lin.

Otherwise, against such a powerful opponent, Shen Lin would have long been turned into a pile of mush.

However...

Shen Lin gradually grew accustomed to the rumbling caused by the opponent's attacks, and the dizziness lessened somewhat.

Only then did he notice that, compared to before, the Golden Bell Shield's strength had diminished slightly.

It seemed that the golden light's support was slowing down, and the Golden Bell Shield's phantom was no longer as solid.

If this continued, it probably wouldn't be long before the Golden Bell Shield's defense was broken by Yan Zehong.

At that time, his life would be entirely at the mercy of the other party.

Looks like it can't be avoided after all?

Shen Lin sighed softly.

The reason he had been holding back from using the system's deduction was because he wasn't fully prepared for a breakthrough.

Breaking through from the Meridian Opening Realm to the Aperture Opening Realm required opening a varying number of apertures within the body to store spiritual energy.

And the number of apertures that could be opened depended on two things.

First, the number of meridians a martial artist had opened before the Innate Realm.

Those who only opened three meridians before breaking through to the Innate Realm had no hope of breaking through further and would be stuck in the Innate Realm for life.

The minimum requirement for opening apertures was to have opened six meridians in the Meridian Opening Realm.

This was also a threshold that most martial artists would choose.

However, with six meridians, one could only open the minimum of 36 apertures.

To go higher, all twelve meridians had to be opened.

Besides the number of meridians, there was also the cultivation technique.

The most ordinary Yellow-grade technique would only allow you to open 36 apertures, regardless of how many meridians you had.

Mystic-grade techniques allowed 72 apertures, Earth-grade techniques 108 apertures, and Heaven-grade techniques...

144 apertures!

Currently, Shen Lin had cultivated an Earth-grade technique, the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning True罡, but this technique didn't have a corresponding Aperture Opening Realm section.

He could only break through using the Purple Glow Mystic Force.

In that case, he would only be able to open 72 apertures.

The biggest difference between cultivators in the Aperture Opening Realm lay here.

A martial artist with 108 apertures would have more spiritual energy and stronger spiritual power quality than a martial artist with 72 apertures.

Moreover, it would be extremely difficult for a martial artist with 72 apertures to break through to the next stage after reaching the Aperture Opening Realm.

Shen Lin had been reborn and had the system as a cheat, so he naturally wanted to reach the pinnacle in every step of his martial arts cultivation.

Originally, his plan was to kill enough demons and monsters to exchange for an Earth-grade technique with contribution points.

Then, he would use the lifespan of thousands upon thousands of years of demons and monsters to directly deduce it to a Heaven-grade technique before choosing to break through to the Aperture Opening Realm.

At the very least, he had to break through with an Earth-grade technique.

But now, it seemed that he wouldn't have that opportunity.

After all, if his life was about to end, how could he think about the future?

Crack!

Just as Shen Lin was pondering, the Golden Bell Shield made a crisp sound, and a crack appeared on its surface.

The golden light transmitted from the formation at the bottom of the pond also gradually became thinner.

Seeing this, Yan Zehong's expression became even more excited, and he sped up his movements, adding several more cracks to the golden bell.

But the next moment, he noticed that Shen Lin inside the Golden Bell Shield still had a calm expression.

Clearly facing a life-or-death crisis, why was he still so calm?

A sense of doubt suddenly arose in Yan Zehong's heart.

Then, he saw Shen Lin's lips move, as if muttering something in a low voice.

The next moment, his thoughts stagnated, and everything around him froze.

Shen Lin's eyes blurred, and all his attention was focused on the depths of his mind.

"System, begin deduction, invest all demon and monster lifespan, deduce the Purple Glow Mystic Force!!!"

[In the first year, you begin to deduce the Purple Glow Mystic Force. Having grown accustomed to relying on spirit stones for cultivation, you can now only absorb the spiritual energy in the surrounding air. The cultivation speed is extremely slow, making it difficult for you to adapt.]

[In the six hundred and eighth year, you suddenly open your eyes. The spiritual power within your body roars and flows, and the liquid spiritual energy finally occupies more than half of the meridians in your body.]

[In the eight hundredth year, the spiritual energy in your body slowly increases. During these eight hundred years, you have been running the Purple Glow Mystic Force day and night, becoming extremely familiar with this technique. Your mind is restless, and you have a hint of an idea for improvement.]

[In the one thousand five hundredth year, while constantly absorbing spiritual energy to cultivate, you constantly ponder the direction of improving the Purple Glow Mystic Force. In this process, you realize something. It is not that you are exceptionally talented and thought of the direction of improving the Purple Glow Mystic Force, but that the technique itself seems to have reserved space for improvement. You begin to study it carefully, wanting to comprehend the ideas of the technique's founder.]

In his consciousness, seeing this line of words slowly typed out, Shen Lin felt a sense of realization in his heart.

That's right!

If the Purple Glow Mystic Force was just an ordinary Mystic-grade technique, how could it have attracted the covetousness of so many large families in the Imperial Capital?

The Great Wei Imperial Capital could almost be said to have gathered the top aristocratic families of the entire Great Wei.

Those large families certainly didn't lack techniques. Although Earth-grade techniques were rare, they could certainly obtain them with the years of management of these top predators of the Great Wei.

And whether it was Zijing or Zhong Baiyu, the county magistrate of Qiulin County, both had said that this technique would cause great trouble.

But when Zijing gave him the cultivation method of this technique, she didn't mention its hidden secrets. Why was that?

Was she holding back on him?

Or was she not aware of the secrets within?

Before Shen Lin could figure out the key, the deduction process in the system panel continued.

[In the two thousand four hundredth year, the amount of liquid spiritual energy in your body slowly increases, but you still have no idea about the secrets of the Purple Glow Mystic Force. You only vaguely feel that its mysterious changes may appear before you break through to the Aperture Opening Realm when the liquid spiritual energy in your body is full.]

[In the four thousand and fifty-second year, as the last drop of liquid spiritual energy forms, your body shakes, and you feel the torrent of spiritual energy flowing within your body, and you can't help but reveal a slight smile. After four thousand years of hard cultivation, all the spiritual energy in your body has finally been converted into liquid spiritual energy.]

[The Treasure Liquid Realm is complete, and you can finally start trying to break through to the Aperture Opening Realm. But just as you are about to operate the technique according to the Aperture Opening method of the Purple Glow Mystic Force, a strange change occurs in the Purple Glow True Qi in your body.]

[Strands of purple energy surge, and a sense of clarity arises in your heart.]

[You can choose to open the apertures with the Purple Glow Mystic Force, and then break through to the Aperture Opening Realm.]

[Or, use another cultivation method to stimulate the purple energy, and then upgrade the grade of that cultivation method!]