Venerable Sage of Aura Cultivation
Venerable Sage of Aura Cultivation
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[Title]: Venerable Sage of Aura Cultivation
Effect 1: You can recognize the flaws in any aura cultivation method of the peak rank and below.
Effect 2: You can detect if any alteration had been made to aura cultivation methods of the peak rank and below.
Sub-effect 2.1: If the alteration to the aura cultivation method did not exceed 20%, you can recover the original version based on your mastery of aura cultivation.
Effect 3: You can create new aura cultivation methods of the peak rank and below.
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Shortly after Vaan filtered through all the scrolls in his private study, his knowledge of aura cultivation reached a level that could be said to be second to none on Pangea.
Even his magic theory had not reached such a level despite spending a greater deal of time and cumulation of knowledge on it.
Clearly, magic was a much broader subject than the study of aura.
Ding!
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After recovering a dozen flawed aura cultivation methods, Vaan noticed a pattern.
Eleven of the dozen flawed aura cultivation methods were self-harming and could ultimately lead to cultivation disabilities.
Although the last flawed aura cultivation method was also self-harming, it wasn't anywhere near as severe as the other eleven flawed aura cultivation methods.
However, that was also precisely what made it the most dangerous.
The core of aura cultivation has always revolved around the circulation of aura through the body's existing channels. No matter the method, the circulation path was mainly situated in the upper body, where the Middle Dantian and Lower Dantian were located.
The Upper Dantian in the head was never involved.
This was because the brain was sensitive and had complex channels. A mistake could cause irreparable damage to the psyche, not to mention it was extremely difficult to guide the blood and mana through a specific path with just bodily exercises.
Only witches would have an easier time due to their ability to manipulate mana with their minds.
Nevertheless, the flawed version of the Holy Aura Scripture involved circulating aura to the head, specifically the prefrontal cortex part of the brain.
That's right, the Holy Aura Scripture didn't target the Upper Dantian but the prefrontal cortex.
The prefrontal cortex was the brain region that regulated one's thoughts, actions, and emotions. It was the high-order cognitive process modulator.
If it were damaged, behavioral changes and intelligence reduction were just some of the more minor effects and not the most important problem.
The most crucial problem was what people could do to him once such a vital brain region was damaged.
"Heh," Vaan snickered.
He could already read the Sun God Temple's intention. Its high authorities most likely wanted to brainwash him into becoming their puppet god.
It was the Sun God Temple's strength – to brainwash people into joining their religion.
Nevertheless, these people were underestimating him too much.
Now that he had recovered the original version of the Holy Aura Scripture, its imperfections also disappeared.
Ding!
Vaan briefly practiced the Holy Aura Scripture to produce some holy aura before stopping. He figured the holy aura would be handy for the near future.
'The names of the rebellious lords and nobles have also been memorized, and the holy aura had been cultivated. That's two agendas out of the way,' Vaan mused.
He could finally resume his original plan.
Ding!
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Ding!
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After creating the four volumes of the Heavenly Fire Art, Vaan softly sighed in relaxation.
He only created the Heavenly Fire Art for one purpose – to distribute it to the men in the Black Rose Kingdom and Holy Knight Empire to practice.
Every man would be provided the first volume free of charge.
However, if they want to acquire the latter volumes of the Heavenly Fire Art, it would depend on their contribution and loyalty.
The biggest issue with aura cultivation in both countries was that there was no quality standardized method of aura cultivation. The current aura cultivation methods circulating through the market and made readily available all had flaws and issues.
Ordinary male witch descendants who practiced these methods would develop problems hindering their future progress.
Thus, if he wanted to strengthen the populace in preparation for the unknown future in Chaos, he had to remove the flawed methods from the market and give them a universally acceptable aura cultivation method – one that even ordinary men could practice.
Naturally, without innate mana veins, ordinary men couldn't cultivate aura effectively like male witch descendants.
They would have to work many times harder to build up their body and nourish their veins with mana repeatedly before they had a chance of developing mana veins and producing a shred of aura.
Nevertheless, a fire-attribute aura cultivation method wasn't suitable for everyone.
As such, Vaan intended to develop more flawless aura cultivation methods.