Three days later, in the No. 4 multipurpose hall of the Combat Department of Flying Star University … Hum.
"That's the mental cultivation method and the circulation of spiritual energy in the Art of the Swallowing Whale. But the key is still meditation. You can stimulate your stomach with the power of your mind."
Li Yao spoke frankly and frankly.
He was holding an interest class.
Visiting scholars were different from visiting professors. Such interest classes did not carry any credits. They were not even electives. They were just communication in the nature of a lecture.
However, Li Yao's interest class attracted almost seven hundred students from various departments. Many of them were graduates in their fourth year, and some of them were even postgraduate students who had made some achievements.
Naturally, it was because he had competed with the experts of the Combat Department, the Flying Sword Department, and the Battlesuit Department many times over the past half year.
After half a year of polishing in Flying Star University, Li Yao's temperament had undergone drastic changes again.
His face was still plain, but his messy hair was like a black waterfall that was crashing into the stones. It was emitting soul-stirring colors, as if it were alive.
His hair was the source of his hair. It was a sign that the spiritual gas inside his body was abundant to the maximum.
He was wearing a simple moon-white cultivation robe, and his unruly hair was casually tied up with a moon-white hair band. Just by standing there casually, he gave off an otherworldly aura.
Hundreds of Cultivators had gathered in the spacious multipurpose hall, but their combined aura seemed to be unable to compete with his. Everyone's eyes were focused on him involuntarily.
The name of Li Yao's class was very simple. It was named 'Art of the Swallowing Whale'.
His classmates, on the other hand, were quite interested. They lowered their heads and took notes on the light beam now and then.
Li Yao put his hands on his abdomen and rubbed it softly. He said casually, "Since it is named 'Art of the Swallowing Whale', as the name suggests, when the ancient Cultivators invented the technique, they imagined that their stomach was a lair of beasts in which the hungriest creatures lived. The most ferocious beasts, such as lions, tigers, and dragons!
"By transforming their stomach into dragons, they could naturally swallow more food. They could even absorb the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that ordinary people couldn't digest. Just like this."
Li Yao took a deep breath. His lower abdomen bulged slightly and he let go of his hands. His abdomen actually let out a loud roar that sounded like a tiger's roar, a lion's roar, or a dragon's roar. It was as if a large group of wild beasts were rolling in from afar.
Many students were dumbfounded, clicking their tongues in wonder.
Li Yao smiled and said, "There are thousands of Great Daos. There is only one heart, if you will. You can even turn your stomach into a bottomless whirlpool. "
As he spoke, Li Yao's chest and abdomen heaved up and down, emitting a deafening sound that caused waves of commotion.
"Even …"
Li Yao continued, "We are all modern people, so we can use more modern methods to meditate. You can imagine that your stomach is a furnace that is thousands of degrees hot. Whatever food is put into it, it will be refined by you!
Before the deafening sound of the waves subsided, it was replaced by the roar of the crafting furnace operating at maximum capacity.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes. These students would never have dreamt that a person's stomach could make so many inconceivable sounds.
"Alright."
Li Yao retracted his technique and checked the time. He said, "That's all for today's' Art of the Swallowing Whale '. If you are interested, there will be one last class on Friday. I will talk about the mutual promotion and counteraction of certain special foods.
"Last ten minutes. Do you have any questions?"
"The student in the third row on the left?"
A tall and strong student stood up and said loudly, "Master Sand, I am a senior in the Combat Department. The absorption and utilization of nutrition are very important in the Combat Department, too. But I haven't been promoted to your position. It seems that in your opinion, the most important thing for a Cultivator is to eat, right?"
"Yes. That's exactly what I think. Combat, refining, and even the pure training of computational ability all require sufficient energy."
Li Yao nodded and said, "Isn't there a secret art that has been passed on for tens of thousands of years in the world of Cultivators? Man is iron, and rice is steel. You will be starving if you miss a meal."
The class immediately burst into laughter.
The tall and strong student couldn't help but laugh, too. He took a few deep breaths and asked again, blushing, "However, Master Sand, I've read a lot of ancient training classics. They all emphasized the absorption of the essence of the sun and the moon. It is said that when one's Cultivation reaches the peak, one will be able to abstain from food.
"It seems that the more awesome a Cultivator is, the less they will be able to get close to meat. Even the food that ordinary people regard as delicacies is nothing but stinky food for the ancient Cultivators.
"Why are the modern Cultivators walking in the opposite direction?"
Li Yao smiled. "Abstain from food? Abstain from food? The energy that Cultivators consume in training and fighting is hundreds of times more than that of ordinary people. Where can the energy come from if we don't eat a lot?
"Enough energy can be obtained by absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon? That's nonsense!
"How much essence of the sun and the moon, or solar energy, is there? Right now, many families have solar water heaters and solar power rune arrays. You must've experienced it yourself. How long does it take to boil a box of water with solar energy?
"And that's with the large-scale solar panels. No matter how hard a Cultivator trains his skin, it is impossible for his skin to be as hard as a solar panel. Besides, it is absolutely unnecessary.
"Ordinary essence of the sun and the moon is not worth the effort to absorb at all. Only one kind of essence of the sun and the moon is worth absorbing.
"That is, when a sunspot erupts or a certain star hits the sun, triggering unprecedentedly intense flares!
"At that time, all kinds of radiations and electromagnetic waves will roll over like surging tides and pass by the planets and stars that we live in.
"That is the real essence of the sun and the moon!
"However, such essence of the sun and the moon is too rare. It only appears once every ten years. It cannot be used as a regular method of training at all."
The student scratched his head and nodded quickly. Then he asked, "However, the ancient classics of different generations and sects all mention the importance of absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon. Abstaining from food is also a symbol of success in training. What's going on?"
Li Yao pondered for a moment. He said, "Students, I know that a lot of people like to find treasures in ancient classics. They often fantasize that they can discover an unparalleled technique from the ancient Cultivators and become invincible after they practice it.
"I'm not saying that the Cultivation arts left by the ancient Cultivators are not worth studying. However, when studying them, you must pay special attention to the differences between the ancient Cultivators and the modern Cultivators.
"For the ancient Cultivators, the civilization of mankind had just sprouted after all. Most people were still living in darkness and ignorance. It was impossible for the ancient Cultivators to have a clear and comprehensive understanding of the world.
"They had to resort to mystifying methods to maintain their high and mighty image among the ordinary people so that they could manipulate and control them.
"If a Cultivator says that he trains himself by absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, it will sound mysterious and unpredictable. He will look like an immortal!
"If he says that he is successful in his training because he can eat eight cows in one meal, why would the ordinary people be in awe of him, right?"
The students laughed again.
Li Yao pressed his hands and continued, "On the other hand, the ancient Cultivators did not have the awareness of our modern Cultivators. They did not realize the importance of cooperation. They were always scheming against each other. Fighting openly and secretly, they would never show their real Cultivation arts to others easily.
"As the saying goes. True teachings are just like a lot of billionaires in our modern world who publish their autobiographies and talk about success. They make their way from scratch known to the public.
"But. I don't think any of you really believe that what they wrote is the real secret to making a fortune, do you?
"Then, why do you think that the ancient Cultivators must have passed down the real path of Cultivation? Why did they pass it down selflessly? "
"Ding Ling Ling!"
The clear and melodious bell rang.
Li Yao waved his hand. "Alright, students. Class is over."
"Mr. Sand!"
Many students stood up from their seats, trying to gather around Li Yao.
But Li Yao blinked out of the multipurpose hall in advance. One minute later, he appeared on a secluded path.
Almost at the same time, his mini crystal processor buzzed softly.
What appeared on the light beam was a dark gold metal puppet that looked like a golden skull.
Li Yao smiled. "Professor Mo."
The bright gold skull was exactly Mo Xuan.
Mo Xuan and the other four spectral Cultivators from the Tian Yuan Realm had been hiding here and there on Sparkle for almost a year. One day, they suddenly realized that there was no need for them to hide at all!
Although their life form was very weird right now, there were spectral Cultivators in the Flying Star Sector, too. Just like the Tian Yuan Realm, the spectral Cultivators enjoyed almost the same rights as ordinary people.
Their bodies were made of liquid metal. They could crawl into an artificial body and pretend to be the local spectral Cultivators of the Flying Star Sector!
Considering the vastness of the Flying Star Sector, it was perfectly normal that there were several unpopulated space towns at the edge of a certain space zone.
It was not unusual for some unknown Cultivators to be obliterated and turned into spectral Cultivators when they encountered a cosmic storm, too!
Therefore, after three months of preparation, Mo Xuan and the other four spectral Cultivators showed up in public with brand-new identities.
It was almost impossible to investigate a person's real identity in the vast sea of stars. Mo Xuan and the other four spectral Cultivators had the Glorious Sunlight Group as their guarantor. Therefore, nobody doubted their identities.
Professor Mo Xuan was appointed as the manager of the Glorious Sunlight Refining Center as a spectral Cultivator. He had shown up on several half-public occasions.
Under his supervision, the construction of the Glorious Sunlight Refining Center went smoothly. In half a year, two refining workshops, one large and one small, were built, one open and the other hidden, respectively.
On the surface, the Glorious Sunlight Refining Center was located in the Cross Wind Space Zone. It also had a branch in Heavenly Saints City, where the research on the Combat Ability Detector and the chaingun was carried out.
In the near future, Li Yao planned to build the place into one of the best refining centers of the Flying Star Sector.
In the meantime, Li Yao and Mo Xuan had built a secret refining workshop that was smaller in scale but had more advanced facilities based on Sparkle.
This was the real core of their plan. Only the five spectral Cultivators from the Tian Yuan Realm knew it.
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