Chapter 156: Chapter 156: Seven Elements Refining Technique, the Most Suitable Qi Cultivation Method for an Abyssal

’The Taiyin Refining Technique is the formula, and the Red Keel is the thought process for solving the problem.’

’Add in the luck from the protagonist’s halo, the assistance of my AI, and finally, my own effort—and the new Cultivation Technique is complete.’

’If all goes well, it should allow my dual attributes to grow to 7 points.’

As for the fifty-percent bonus to Physique and Spirit from Feast, those are extra attributes, not base attributes.

In other words, while his strength has indeed increased, it doesn’t count toward his base attributes.

If you were to calculate it, it’s not a simple matter of 7 + 3.5, which would give Qi Suian 10.5 in attributes.

If it were really that cheap, the Doomsday Game wouldn’t be so stingy with its attribute point rewards.

Don’t be fooled by the mere 0.1 attribute points the Doomsday Game gives out each time. These points have no bottlenecks and ignore your current attribute levels.

As long as you apply them, you are guaranteed to gain 0.1 in an attribute. This means the reward is on a rule-based level.

In terms of quality, it would be S-rank at the very least.

It might not feel that significant when your attributes are low, but if you use it to break through a bottleneck—say, you’re stuck at 9.9—that 0.1 point can trigger a qualitative change.

At first, Qi Suian didn’t understand this either. It was only after experiencing the hardship of raising his attributes on his own that he realized how extraordinary the Doomsday Game’s rewards truly were.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t get this reward at all.

How could the Doomsday Game possibly issue rewards to a violator like him?

The only reward was the pass to a new world. That thing was probably written into the core operating logic of the Doomsday Game, with a higher priority than the "violator" status.

That was why Qi Suian was able to receive it and follow the Doomsday Game to other Doomsday Worlds.

Otherwise... he would be free.

Right. The Doomsday Game couldn’t erase him, and if it didn’t take him away from a Doomsday World, it would surely have to set him free.

However, it seemed the Doomsday Game’s core logic couldn’t arbitrarily revoke a survivor’s status. Otherwise, when faced with a cancer like Qi Suian, if it couldn’t kill him, couldn’t it at least fire him?

Of course, it was also possible that because Qi Suian had become a violator, the "termination" procedure, just like the "erasure" procedure, couldn’t function properly. That’s why it was stuck.

As for which it was, Qi Suian didn’t much care.

"I’ll temporarily call it the Seven Elements Refining Technique for now," Qi Suian said, naming it on the spot.

Qi Suian wasn’t too concerned with names; it had already gone through three stages.

From the initial Oblique Wind and Drizzle Skill, to the Dragon and Tiger Primordial Force which incorporated "jin" energy, and finally, to the Seven Elements Refining Technique, created by adding the Taiyin Refining Technique and the Blood Sacrifice Demonic Sutra.

Initially, it was just a state, but now it had truly taken on the rudimentary form of a Cultivation Technique.

If a new Extraordinary system were to be incorporated in the future, Qi Suian would definitely revise the name again.

"There are seven layers in total, all of which rely on piling up resources." Qi Suian glanced at his Seven Elements Refining Technique. It was named as such because it had seven layers.

The overall cultivation was relatively simple. It was just a matter of ingesting massive amounts of nutrients, and for that, he had a continuous supply of Feast energy.

Then, he just needed to use his Feast ability to link with his Seven Elements Refining Technique to digest, absorb, and grow.

As for esoteric things like artistic conception, epiphanies, and so on... there were none.

In the Profound World where Qi Suian came from, humans simply didn’t possess such functions.

In his view, being able to comprehend some law or grasp some artistic conception just by watching a sword dance or looking at a natural landscape—now *that* was problematic.

In any case, in the Profound World, no one could do such a thing.

It was as strange as a fish learning to fly after watching a bird in the sky for a moment.

Of course, this only applied to Qi Suian, a human from the Profound World. If humans from other worlds had this ability, it was a function they had either evolved or were created with.

Qi Suian understood his own shortcomings. As a human from the Profound World, his foundation and potential were both very low, and he didn’t have any ability for sudden enlightenment.

Therefore, he had always been playing to his strengths while trying his best to compensate for his weaknesses.

If a weakness was truly impossible to overcome, then he would deal with it later.

Nothing in the world is perfect, after all.

Didn’t his illnesses grow stronger as his power increased?

However, for him, the illnesses were no longer a negative side effect or a form of torture. Instead, they had become a positive reinforcement and a way to confirm his own state of being.

’Absorb energy through respiratory frequency and use the energy organ to strengthen the entire body.’

The energy organ, which was the core in Cold Energy Monsters, was naturally the seat of the supernatural body in humans.

Therefore, Qi Suian’s energy organ was his Pineal Gland.

’It’s a good thing Feast and the Seven Elements Refining Technique aren’t the original versions from the Cold Winter World. Otherwise, they would be limited to cold energy.’

Qi Suian could absorb not only cold energy and Feast energy, but if he were ruthless enough, he could even use his own flesh, blood, bones, and Spirit.

The soul, however, was still beyond his reach; his power wasn’t great enough for him to interact with it.

But if he could, he would devour that too.

He could devour not only himself but others as well. It was just that most of the time, others were merely used as fuel.

’Feast is greedy, which is good news. It means as long as I provide enough resources, the Seven Elements Refining Technique can be in a constant state of cultivation.’

’Combined with the +10 growth effect from the Source of Profound Darkness: Viral Frenzy, as long as the Feast energy doesn’t run out, my growth efficiency is tenfold.’

’So now, in the entire Cold Winter World, I have only three goals.’

Qi Suian sat down, letting out a rare sigh of relief.

He had always been chased and harried, with no opportunity to catch his breath.

’Kill all the survivors in the Cold Winter World and use the high-quality Cold Energy Monsters as fuel.’

’And then, research and learn the Low-level Poison Element Attachment Magic on the side.’

The first two goals were manageable, though they depended on luck. Coincidentally, his luck wasn’t bad.

The Low-level Poison Element Attachment Magic, on the other hand, was all knowledge of fantastical Magic from an Otherworld.

He had even upgraded his initial F-rank Virus Resistance to the S-rank Person of Profound Darkness, yet with this thing, he couldn’t say there was no progress... just that he hadn’t even scratched the surface.

The main reason was that it was completely different from his style.

He currently focused on biology, medicine, biochemistry, and the like, as well as ancient martial arts and Qi Cultivation. The latter two might be a bit watered-down, but they were complete systems.

Unlike this Low-level Poison Element Attachment Magic, which was just a single piece of a larger puzzle.

But Qi Suian could infer from this small glimpse that the world where this Binding Technique originated must have a high energy level.

In fact, even if it was just partial knowledge from a discipline, Qi Suian could have figured it out if he had the corresponding materials.

Unfortunately, without any materials, he couldn’t even conduct experiments. He could only rely on mental deduction, which was nothing more than armchair theorizing.

Qi Suian wanted to see if he could find a use for the Enchantment Array through this method of armchair theorizing.

[The difficulty of the first objective is too high. You would need to destroy an entire planet or lower the temperature to a point where even Extraordinary Life cannot survive.]

[Therefore, it is recommended that you trace the Cold Energy Source and detonate it.]

[According to the data-formed report, turning the entire cold energy environment into an explosion source would be sufficient to destroy the planet you are on.]

The AI reminded him.

"No rush on that. First, I’ll kill the protagonist of the Cold Winter World. With their protagonist’s halo, I’ll basically have a semi-home-field advantage."

"It won’t be too late to look for it then."

"It’s best to do it after the Doomsday Game’s limited-time event for the new world pass comes out," Qi Suian said.

Otherwise, if he blew it up prematurely, wouldn’t Qi Suian be left drifting through space?

[If you do not intervene, the Doomsday Game’s current limited-time event for the new world pass will not activate in the short term.]

The AI was indicating that Qi Suian himself was the cause of every limited-time event for the new world pass.

In the Profound World, it was because he went to space to pluck a satellite that the Blood Moon was stimulated into reviving, leading to the Earth-Moon impact.

Not to mention the Polar Day World. If he hadn’t messed with the Sun in a Bottle and outrageously used those weak Sun Puppets as fuel, it wouldn’t have forced the Sun in a Bottle into a premature cycle reset.

That time, if the Tai Sui God hadn’t fled so quickly, escaping before the Sun in a Bottle’s temperature had risen, even Qi Suian would likely have perished in there.

So, if Qi Suian could just keep his hands to himself, even in a doomsday, it was unlikely a planet would face destruction so quickly.

But Qi Suian’s goal was to kill this entire batch of survivors, and blowing up the planet was the only way.

As for the temperature continuing to drop? That would be useless.

Whether it was humans who practiced Qi Cultivation Methods or the Cold Energy Monsters, they weren’t like the inhabitants of the Polar Day World who could be defeated by high temperatures.

The lower the temperature, the higher the quality and activity of the cold energy. At that point, it wouldn’t be a weakness but would instead make them evolve to become even stronger.

So, after all the AI had said, there was only one solution: detonate the Cold Energy Source and blow up the planet.

"Don’t be so blunt about it. Be more tactful," Qi Suian said. Of course, he knew he was the main culprit.

But his actions were perfectly in line with his identity as a violator—weakening the Doomsday Game while carving out more space for his own survival.

Although the second and third batches of survivors were far stronger individually and in terms of Extraordinary power than the first, this had also accelerated Qi Suian’s growth.

He had always been seeking life in the midst of death, maximizing every possible benefit.

The danger was indeed great, but he had a protagonist’s halo. What was the point of being timid?

If he didn’t know any better, he could have just laid low and developed slowly.

Since he knew everything so clearly and even had Death Recasting as a safety net, he would naturally stop at nothing.

So, the fact that the survivors arrived with an Extraordinary system was an advantage for them, yes, but it was also an advantage for Qi Suian.

Without the ancient martial arts system, Qi Suian would not have been able to get his dual attributes to 5 points in the Polar Day World.

Let alone forge the Dragon and Tiger Primordial Force.

Fortune and misfortune were two sides of the same coin; it all depended on whether Qi Suian himself could seize the opportunity.

"I’ll have the protagonist’s halo coordinate with you to capture the remaining eleven Venerable-level Cold Energy Monsters to use as fuel," Qi Suian said.