Surviving in a Collapsed World, Is Something Wrong?

Chapter 288 The Disadvantages of the Cosmic Killer Move

The cultivation is still going on. With his comprehension fully awakened, Jiang Ming's cultivation goes smoothly without any bottlenecks. Countless insights arise in his heart, giving him epiphanies.

Jiang Ming muttered to himself: "The Way of Wisdom emphasizes three elements, namely, thought, intention, and emotion. In battle, I can activate the cosmic rules of the Way of Wisdom to generate thoughts to assist me in the battle, or even cause unnecessary thoughts to arise in the opponent's mind to distract him."

"Normally, I can concentrate my true will to help Mei and Bianca improve their realm. Even if I am gone one day, I can still leave my will to help. Will is more like consciousness, which is intangible and untouchable, so I feel relieved."

"Emotion is the first of the three elements. When several strands of 'intentions' are entangled together, they can become 'emotion'. It is the most difficult to eradicate. Compared with thoughts, it can undoubtedly make people collapse in battle."

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"I see. The mysteries of the Dao of Refining are more profound than I thought. In other places, people who practice the Dao of Refining might be called blacksmiths or something like that. But... ah, it's still hard to describe it with words. So, let's do this."

After Jiang Ming finished speaking, he stopped practicing, constructed an ordinary iron spear, and then immediately applied the rules of the refining universe and the rules of the starry universe.

In an instant, the originally very ordinary spear suddenly turned into a star spear. Even though it was originally just an ordinary weapon, it now contained a small amount of power from the rules of the starry universe.

But in this regard, it varies from object to object. Since it is just an ordinary spear, the rules of the starry universe that it can bless are very few. But even so, even if an ordinary person throws it out, it can severely injure or even kill an emperor-level Honkai beast that is at least a hundred meters tall. It can be equipped by the Valkyries.

It can also be combined with appropriate formations. For example, if the Valkyries holding weapons blessed by the rules of the starry universe are allowed to control a star formation, the power of the star formation can be increased. This is a way to increase survival and killing rates.

Jiang Ming naturally cannot just make himself stronger, he must also be on guard. If he is too confident in his own strength, he will end up shooting himself in the foot and hurt others.

"Not only that, even tea, wine, and food can be refined with the help of the Dao Refining Universe Rules, to the extent that even a sip of tea can improve the realm of the corresponding universe rules!"

However, it is still too early for Jiang Ming, not to mention that Zhenyi's methods are much more powerful than this, so at best it can only make things like tea taste better.

"... Let's do something."

Jiang Ming put down his cultivation and started making tea. Of course, before that, he turned off the reward for full enlightenment. After all, it was impossible to waste his precious enlightenment on this aspect.

Soon the tea was brewed. It was made according to the rules of the starry universe. Although there were dots of starlight in the tea, it was very shining. Jiang Ming tasted it carefully and felt that the galaxy in the sky appeared in front of him, with stars and thunder and fragrance everywhere.

It might not be a big deal for other people, but Jiang Ming had different ideas. He was delighted: "This is great! I'll make more teas based on the rules of the starry universe or the rules of the lightning universe. Although the improvement in realm is minimal, it tastes good! And it has no negative effects on the body."

As a senior figure in Tianming, Jiang Ming had naturally drunk a lot of top-quality tea, which was brewed by Rita herself. But even though Jiang Ming was not very good at brewing tea, after drinking the tea he brewed casually, he felt that all the tea he had drunk before paled in comparison.

But at this moment, Jiang Ming was suddenly shocked, and a bold idea came to his mind - what would happen if he used other creatures, or even humans, as materials for refining the Tao and forcibly added the rules of the universe?

But as soon as this idea came out, he wiped it out completely.

"My previous refining materials were all dead objects, but humans are definitely not acceptable. What's the difference between this and Tianming's use of living people to study the stigmata of the Valkyrie? Besides, it won't help me much, it's the same whether I have it or not."

Although he said so, he had actually already thought about how to use it. If he succeeded in refining a creature using the rules of the thunder and lightning universe, he could drive the creature forward, and when encountering an enemy, he could directly activate the means, and the creature would explode, killing the enemy using the rules of the thunder and lightning universe.

Of course, there may be other methods that he has not thought of yet, which need to be explored slowly.

The reason why he thought so fast was that during the thinking process, Jiang Ming was stimulating the rules of the Zhidao universe to generate a large number of thoughts, speeding up his own thinking.

"Then... continue practicing."

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After an unknown amount of time, the cultivation of the Way of Wisdom and the Way of Refining gradually came to an end. The next step was to comprehend as many rules of the universe as possible.

Jiang Ming took out two gems, one was bright red and eye-catching, and the other was emerald green and crystal clear.

It is the Plague Gem of the Herrscher of Fire and the Desire Gem of the Herrscher of Wind.

Jiang Ming originally possessed the Serenity Gem of the Ruler of Death. With the help of the latter's power of withering and creation, he gradually comprehended the rules of the death universe and the life universe.

During the Second Collapse, he also obtained the core of the Ruler of Reason and comprehended the rules for constructing the universe.

At this moment, his comprehension was fully awakened. After a quarter of an hour in the world universe rules, he comprehended the Emperor Flame Universe Rules from the Plague Gem, and comprehended the Storm Universe Rules from the Desire Gem.

"Very good, two more elemental universe rules. Let's continue."

Afterwards, Jiang Ming took out the Key of Corrosion, Ksitigarbha Soul, and comprehended the rules of the erosion universe from the power of the Herrscher contained therein.

But that's not all. After comprehending the rules of the universe from the Herrscher Core and the Key of God, Jiang Ming's understanding and calculation of the rules of the universe gave him new inspirations.

"I mentioned the true meaning of [Ultimate] in Su's world bubble before. The universe rules of this world I am in are based on the body of the [Ultimate] Star God, and are accommodated by countless great universe rules. Only then did this brand new universe rule come into being."

"And it is composed of at least the rules of reincarnation universe, the rules of cause and effect universe, the rules of the five elements universe, the rules of space universe, the rules of time universe, the rules of life universe, and the rules of stars universe. This is just a small number that it told me."

"Since I can comprehend the corresponding cosmic rules from the Herrscher Core, why don't I try to comprehend other cosmic rules that I don't yet possess from the world's cosmic rules? Let's try it now!"

It was unknown how long it had passed, but Jiang Ming successively comprehended the time universe rules, the five elements universe rules, the alchemy universe rules, the channel universe rules and the blood universe rules in the world universe rules.

Let’s not discuss the time universe rules and the five elements universe rules for now.

The cosmic rules of the Alchemy Dao can be used to condense elixirs. With the assistance of other cosmic rules and the cosmic rules of the Refining Dao, there are also means of attack, treatment and auxiliary amplification.

The Channel Universe rules are good at conveying information, storing messages and searching for information, while the Wisdom Universe rules must have the assistance of information to make calculations. The two can be said to complement each other.

He stopped after comprehending the eight cosmic rules. Together with the original 15 cosmic rules, he now had 23 cosmic rules. This number was already very good. After all, he still needed to spend other time on the overall improvement of his cosmic killing moves and cosmic rules.

So the next step is to comprehend and practice the cosmic killing move.

Especially when it comes to the cosmic killer moves in terms of formations, the Valkyries in each place are good at different ones, so he has to arrange at least nine of them before it can be his turn.

"If I want to feel safe enough, the formation I set up must be both offensive and defensive. If possible, in addition to the nine offensive and defensive formations, I also need to set up a large space formation to facilitate movement, so that Bianca and I can provide support at any time..."

Jiang Ming stopped thinking and started to prepare to set up the formation. He first activated the universe rules of the formation. After setting up the range of the formation, he activated the universe rules of the refining way to cover the entire range of the formation.

"The improvement of the realm of the Dao Refining Universe Rules has given me a lot of new insights - the key lies in the word 'refining'. Since Dao Refining can refine attacks, then it can be used for one's own benefit."

"Assuming that the opponent's attack is condensed based on Honkai energy, then with this Refining Dao Universe Rule, not only can the opponent's attack be refined and dissipated to achieve defense, but the opponent's Honkai energy can also be used for my own use in the operation of the formation to reduce the burden on the Valkyries. Unless the opponent's attack method directly breaks my Refining Dao defense, there is almost no solution."

"But we still need active attack methods. Let's try adding the rules of the star universe first."

Jiang Ming urged the rules of the starry universe into the formation, but with the continuous injection of the rules of the starry universe, he felt more and more uneasy. At the same time, the entire formation began to tremble and collapse. This was a sign that the formation's universe killing move was about to fail!

The consequences of failure cannot be avoided because it is a backlash. Jiang Ming immediately put aside his understanding and began to fully activate the rules of the life universe.

boom!

The next moment, the entire formation exploded suddenly, and the attack methods of Lian Dao and Xing Chen directly covered Jiang Ming himself. The originally prepared secret room was blown into ruins, and even he himself was injured instantly. After all, he had no means of defense.

"Ahem, what's going on?"

Jiang Ming was coughing up blood while receiving treatment, and was thinking about the reason for the failure in his mind.

"It seems that my idea is still too simple. The means of refining the Dao can at most dissolve some long-range attacks condensed by Honkai energy, but melee means cannot do it. I have to think of other ways."

"Forget it, let's not think about this for now. Why would the formation collapse for no reason?"

"..."

At this moment, Jiang Ming could not have imagined that in order not to waste time, he opened his mind again and used the wisdom of the universe rules that far exceeded his previous ones to calculate. He soon got the answer and suddenly realized it.

"So that's how it is! In the past, I have only used two kinds of cosmic rules to set up formations. The first is the way of formations, and the second is other cosmic rules."

"Suppose - compare the Dao of the formation to a painting, and the arranged formation to a white circular pattern. The Dao of the Refining Universe rules are gray pigments. After the gray covers the entire white, I add the golden pigment of the Star Universe rules. As a result, the colors are out of balance, the Dao of the Refining is strong, and the Star is weak, which is the so-called repulsion. The entire formation will naturally collapse on its own."

"As for the cosmic killing move like the World-Destroying Heavenly Tribulation Sword Art, it compares the sword technique to a white circle pattern and destruction to black. The entire white circle pattern turns black. If there is no repulsion, there is no problem."

To put it simply, the rules of the universe are in harmony with each other, and whichever rule of the universe is the main body will be the white circle pattern.

There will be no mistakes between the two cosmic rules.

But there is a balance between the three cosmic rules. The caster must ensure that in addition to the main cosmic rules, the other two cosmic rules must check and balance each other.

To give an example, the main universe rules are likened to a white circle, the other two universe rules are like in a pie-shaped chart, each accounting for 50%, and the other three are like in a pie-shaped chart, each accounting for one third.

Of course, this only accounts for the area, not the power. However, the effort and difficulty in setting up the formation have increased a lot. The more cosmic rules there are, the more difficult it is to arrange them. If you are not careful, you will suffer the backlash of the failure of the cosmic killing move.

After thinking so much, Jiang Ming's injuries have been healed, but he still feels a little bitter inside.

"Ah, maybe I really need to come up with some defensive measures. It's not enough to rely on the rules of the life universe alone, not to mention that the current level of the rules of the life universe is not high enough. A year... is really too short."

After calming down, Jiang Ming once again prepared to arrange a killing move formation between the three cosmic rules, but to his shock, he failed again and suffered a strong backlash of explosion, which was even more terrifying than the last time.

This time he didn't even rebuild the secret room. The original remnants were not even ruins. Everything within 30,000 meters around was razed to the ground. Jiang Ming was seriously injured again. Blood continued to flow out of his broken body like a spring. His broken limbs could be seen not far away.

Jiang Ming didn't even have time to curse, he quickly activated the life universe rules to heal himself again, and while his limbs were recovering, he analyzed the cause and soon got the result with the help of his full understanding and the wisdom of the universe rules.

"I see, that's the reason."

Jiang Ming felt helpless.

Since the realms of the cosmic rules are mostly different, there is no way to maintain a state of mutual checks and balances in proportion. If you want to achieve checks and balances, you must make the realms of the cosmic rules exactly the same.

Moreover, such necessary conditions only apply to three or more cosmic killing moves. There will still be no problems between the two cosmic rules. Otherwise, Jiang Ming would have suffered backlash countless times.

"Alas, this will disrupt my training plan. There is really no other way. I have to try to improve all the universe rules to the same level first, and then find a way to comprehend the universe's ultimate move."

"First of all, let's improve the rules of the life universe. I'm really afraid of the backlash..."

Jiang Ming shook his head helplessly. After rebuilding the secret room, he focused all his attention on improving the level of the rules of the universe.

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