Origin Manual
In the end, Xia Fei was still tricked by Slaughtershadow. The passageway collapsed and trapped him in this secret chamber.
Xia Fei's sharp fingers sensed that there were words on the back of the silver metal plate, so he flipped it open to take a look.
"How is it? You must have pissed your pants in fear from this move of mine, right? There's actually another passageway in this secret chamber that leads to the outside world. Let's see if you can find it or not. Haha. "
Xia Fei flicked his wrist and flicked the metal plate.
* Whoosh! *
The silver metal plate flew in a straight line and sank into the four walls, forming a standard incision made by a scalpel.
Xia Fei gritted his teeth. Slaughtershadow was not only cruel but also very mischievous, coming up with such a method to torture him. There was a passageway in this secret chamber, but where was it? He had already checked this place twice and did not find anything out of the ordinary. If there really was a passageway, it must be in an extremely well-hidden place.
Xia Fei picked up the thin manual from the glass cover. No matter what, he had to take things step by step. He decided to see what the last thing Slaughtershadow left behind was.
The booklet was only about thirty pages long. It was so thin that it felt weightless in one's hand. The paper was made of a special plant fiber. It smelled faintly of blood, as if the book had been in a slaughterhouse for many days.
"Origin?" Xia Fei read the words on the cover. The words were ancient and graceful. It was easy to tell that it was handwritten and not printed by a machine.
Generally speaking, due to the special status and inheritance of secret manuals, it was unlikely to be printed on a large scale by machines. If it was mass-produced, there would be no secrets to speak of. Therefore, most secret manuals were secretly copied by reliable people, and this [Origin] was obviously the same.
Xia Fei flipped through the book. He could read very quickly, and his comprehension was far superior to others. It took him less than two minutes to finish reading the thin book.
Xia Fei sighed softly. He realized that this book was not a secret manual, but a way to absorb the Origin Energy of the universe.
Legend has it that the Origin Energy was a special energy that was produced when the universe was formed. After the universe was formed, this energy quickly disappeared. However, a mysterious energy crystal absorbed a large amount of the Origin Energy in the process and stored it until today. This was the Heart of Spirit.
The reason why the Adjudicator Union was so powerful and was able to supply a steady stream of high-ranking warriors to the organization was because they had mastered the trick to allowing the human body to absorb this pure energy. Xia Fei had learned this very clearly back in the Heaven Execution Training Camp, but he had been very conscious of restraining himself from absorbing too much of this energy because he was worried that it would damage his body if he absorbed too much of this energy. After all, the body was the capital of the revolution, and it was not worth it if he damaged his body's functions because of greed.
Opening his seventh brain region was an example of this. Though Xia Fei had completely opened his seventh brain region, he had lost the opportunity to advance. It was evident that there was some sort of balance in the universe. There was always a connection between gaining and losing, and the more one gained, the more one would lose.
This manual taught the crux of how to allow the human body to absorb the Origin Energy of the Universe. Once this technique was mastered, any warrior with a decent foundation would be able to advance by leaps and bounds with the help of the Heart of Spirit.
Of course, there was a price to pay for using this method to increase one's cultivation. First of all, the total amount of energy absorbed had to be strictly controlled. It was like pouring water into a pool; it would overflow. Everyone knew this principle.
Second, the Origin Energy of the Universe was too violent. Directly absorbing it would place an unbearable burden on the human body, so the energy had to be converted into something that the human body could absorb and then injected into the user's body.
This conversion process would undoubtedly result in a considerable loss of energy. If a person wanted to absorb a hundred units of standard energy, they would need to spend at least a thousand units of energy to achieve the goal. This was because a large portion of the energy would be wasted along with body fluids and air during the absorption process.
Considering how expensive the Heart of Spirit was, using this method to rapidly increase one's cultivation was basically burning money. It was fortunate that the Adjudicator Union was rich enough to be able to use this high-end technique on a very small portion of their members.
There were three ways to convert the energy of the Heart of Spirit. The first was called Warp Wave, which had the lowest technical requirements and was the easiest to achieve in the real world. The Adjudicator Union's cultivation room used this method.
However, while the Warp Wave was cheap to make, it did not have a high conversion rate for the Heart of Spirit. If the human body absorbed a large amount of this energy wave, it would easily cause vomiting, coma, or even permanent damage.
Furthermore, it would make the person even more irritable. The omnipresent wave was like a raging fire, fierce but not easy to control.
Xia Fei let out a long sigh. It turned out that the side effects of the Warp Wave were so severe. Fortunately, he had not absorbed a large amount of this energy back in the Heaven Execution Training Camp, but he did not know if Moon Song, Chen Dong, and the others had any side effects from being exposed to the wave for two years. If he had the chance, he would have to warn them.
If the first method was like burning one's body, then the second method was like freezing one's body. Although the Origin Energy was slightly milder after the conversion, it would still bring about strong side effects.
Aside from the physical damage, the biggest problem with the second method was that the user would develop a world-weariness and even suicidal tendencies.
According to the books, people who used the second method to absorb energy would become eccentric, developing a sense of boredom with the people and things around them, becoming gloomy and gloomy. If the energy was continuously absorbed, it would cause great mental damage, nerve damage, and mental illnesses such as hallucinations.
Xia Fei shook his head. The second method was not advisable, either. Although the side effects of the Warp Wave were strong, at least it would not cause mental damage. Most of the time, mental pain was far more unbearable than a bloody wound. It was said that mentally handicapped children were much happier, but who would be willing to become mentally ill or retarded?
Humans were different precisely because they could think and learn. If they lost this ability, how different would they be from the walking dead?
There was also the world-weariness and suicidal tendencies. Xia Fei believed that it was better to live than to die, and suicide was even more unacceptable, so he did not appreciate the second method.
The last method was much more perfect than the first two. It was called the Gentle Conditioning Method.
Using this method could completely avoid the disadvantages of the first two methods, neither harming the body nor making the user world-weariness, but this Gentle Conditioning Method was not perfect.
Contrary to its name, the Gentle Conditioning Method would not only not make the user gentle, but it would also make the user bloodthirsty!
Using this method to increase one's cultivation would subconsciously form a mindset similar to that of a religious fanatic, becoming indifferent to life and death, not even frowning when killing a person every ten steps.
Xia Fei chuckled. "Not bad. This last Gentle Conditioning Method is not bad. I still have a Purple Heart of Spirit in my spatial ring, which contains a lot of Origin Energy. You can try it when you get out of here in the future."
He did not care about the various side effects mentioned in the book. In Xia Fei's mind, all these symptoms were caused by a lack of willpower. If a person's willpower was as strong as steel, they would not be shaken by such a small side effect. Xia Fei had always been very confident in himself and was not afraid of such things on the mental level. As long as there was nothing wrong with the body, he could rely on his willpower to overcome any problem.
As he continued scrolling down, Xia Fei discovered that the requirements for converting Hearts of Spirit into gentle energy waves were extremely stringent. Not only did it require a lot of equipment, but it also required the use of high-purity Purple Hearts of Spirit, and the energy loss was also the worst among the three methods.
Even the smallest Purple Heart of Spirit could easily cost hundreds of millions. Such a huge cost and waste was not something that could be done even if one wanted to burn money.
The Adjudicator Union probably had similar information in their hands, which was why they had the ability to use the Heart of Spirit to quickly increase the rank of their members. It was just that the cost was too high, so they used the relatively cheaper method.
Xia Fei closed the book and put it away. He had already obtained the four items left behind by Slaughtershadow. Now, he needed to think about how to get out of here.
Phantom looked melancholy. It was obvious that he did not have a better idea.
The air became a little turbid. Oxygen consumption was a very serious problem in an enclosed space. Without oxygen, Xia Fei would not be able to do anything even if he had a lot of skills.
The nameless combat suit and the new Bloodthirsty Ice God each had a small air tank. Xia Fei had already used up a portion of the nameless combat suit's oxygen reserves, so he still had about an hour's worth of oxygen left. Including the oxygen left in the secret chamber, Xia Fei estimated that he only had three hours left at most.
Three hours was enough for him to make love to the woman he liked until he was exhausted, to eat chocolate until he was bloated, and to practice a full set of Crafty Thrust, Breath Control, and the Beast Spirit Codex. However, to a lifeform, this amount of time was far too little.
Xia Fei followed his original method and carefully inspected the secret chamber again. He did not let go of every crevice or even a speck of dust. He even did his best to control his heartbeat and blood flow to prevent unnecessary consumption.
Disappointingly, he found nothing this time. The stone walls were sturdy, and there was no sign of a path.
Desperate times called for desperate measures.
Xia Fei sat cross-legged in the secret chamber. His brain was working quickly as he thought about every detail since he entered the passage, from the structure of the secret chamber to Slaughtershadow's personality. He would not let go of any detail.
Xia Fei tried to turn into Slaughtershadow and think about this matter with his mind.
'If I were Slaughtershadow, where would I place the secret passage? How would I hide it?
'Is it enough just to be crazy? Does Slaughtershadow have any other requirements or hopes for the person who will inherit his legacy? '
As time passed, Xia Fei tried his best to think. Calm down. The more critical the moment, the calmer he had to be!
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