Following the Shennong Imperial Needle Technique was a cultivation method called the Heavenly Derivation Method.
However, this method was neither a spell for attack or defense, nor a mental cultivation technique for achieving immortality. It was merely an auxiliary cultivation method.
"With the Sea of Consciousness as the heavens, divine sense as thought, traversing the cycle of derivation, seeing ten thousand years in a single glance!"
"What does that mean?" Han Lang asked, confused, and continued to read.
The Heavenly Derivation Method, by deriving immortal techniques with divine sense, could be tens of times faster than diligent practice. It also strengthened divine sense, and upon reaching great accomplishment, could increase divine sense strength by more than double...
Han Lang was stunned!
What was this? It was practically a cheat within a cheat!
"So, in the future, I won't need to practice immortal techniques one move at a time. I can just use this Heavenly Derivation Method, simulate the connections of various techniques in my Sea of Consciousness, and achieve results that are tens of times more effective!"
"For example, with the Shennong Imperial Needle Technique, if I want to learn it, I just need to follow the recorded movements and incantations in my mind, imitating them step by step. And practicing it once would be equivalent to practicing it dozens of times?"
"Isn't this too heaven-defying?"
"Even if each level of a technique requires ten thousand repetitions to reach great accomplishment, with the Heavenly Derivation Method, it's conservatively estimated that it could be completed in at most a day!"
"Moreover, as the Heavenly Derivation Method is used more and more, its proficiency will increase, and it can in turn strengthen divine sense. Upon reaching great accomplishment, it can even increase divine sense by more than double!"
"What does that mean?"
"The divine sense range of the Foundation Establishment stage is roughly a few kilometers. As cultivation increases, the divine sense range almost doubles! By the time one reaches the Integration stage, covering the entire Blue Star with divine sense is effortless."
"If the Heavenly Derivation Technique can increase divine sense by more than double, then with a cultivation base of only the Soul Transformation stage, one could cover the globe. At that time, where would those so-called superhumans hide? Wouldn't they be hunted down and killed one by one?"
Thinking of this, Han Lang felt a bit smug.
However, he did not yet know that the function of divine sense was not limited to crowd control.
As divine sense grew stronger, the defensive capabilities of the Sea of Consciousness would also increase. At a certain level, it might even be possible to evolve divine sense into an invisible and intangible attack method!
At that time, he would truly understand what it felt like to kill with a single thought!
"Heh heh... This is great! The Heavenly Derivation Method has only three layers, and its cultivation progress can be influenced by the strength of the techniques. Does this mean that techniques that allow the Heavenly Derivation Method to progress faster are of higher grade? Although it's not clear how long it takes to advance the Heavenly Derivation Method, this cultivation doesn't hinder other practices, and it will eventually be perfected! Heh heh..."
Han Lang was extremely pleased with himself.
He didn't know that the Heavenly Derivation Method was actually a special auxiliary technique used by ancient immortals. It was originally designed for extremely difficult immortal world cultivation techniques.
He was currently only a cultivator at the Qi Refining stage. Even if he practiced stronger techniques, they would be vastly inferior to immortal techniques in the immortal world!
Take the Shennong Imperial Needle Technique for example. Even with a practice frequency of ten thousand times a day, it would take at least three hundred years to cultivate the Heavenly Derivation Method to the second layer.
But the problem was,
The Shennong Imperial Needle Technique was considered a relatively high-tier technique in the cultivation world, and even on the Li Chuan Continent where the Medicine Venerable resided!
Therefore, his expectations for the advancement of the Heavenly Derivation Method might ultimately be just a fantasy before he ascended to the immortal world!
"Shennong Imperial Needle Technique, Heavenly Derivation Method, heh heh... Now, as long as I break through to the Foundation Establishment stage, my cultivation path will have a new cheat! Just thinking about it makes it hard to control my excitement!"
Unexpectedly, the last two items made his heart unable to calm down for a long time.
"Golden Needle Forging and Material Selection? Ancient Shennong Golden Needle Dharma Artifact? Wahaha, these contents have completely paved the way for the cultivation of the Shennong Heavenly Physician!"
Han Lang stared at all of this in a daze.
He really hadn't expected that the fifth part of the Shennong Medical Canon would be such a comprehensive cultivation method.
Even the forging of Dharma artifacts and the ultimate Dharma artifact were already prepared!
Putting aside other things, let's talk about the Ancient Shennong Golden Needles.
Legend has it that in ancient times, the Blue Star was part of the immortal world. At that time, a world-shattering war between immortals and demons occurred.
Many ancient powerful beings perished, and most of the super divine Dharma artifacts they used were also shattered.
Swords like Xuanyuan, axes like Pangu, bows like Sheri, stones like Butian, and zithers like Fuxi, were all destroyed.
And the Shennong Golden Needles were said to be refined from the broken strings of the Fuxi Zither.
A total of eighteen needles!
Each needle possessed unique attributes and effects; each needle had the mighty power to slay gods and demons.
For example, the "Purple Lightning Thunder-Splitting Needle" was imbued with powerful lightning attributes. Wielding this needle to kill was not only capable of paralyzing the opponent but also drawing upon the divine lightning of the nine heavens for assistance. Ordinary cultivators could not withstand the tribulation divine lightning after the Nascent Soul stage, let alone the divine lightning of the nine heavens.
It was a sure way to die upon contact!
In addition, the other seventeen needles were basically similar to the "Purple Lightning Thunder-Splitting Needle," such as the fire-attributed "Nine Samadhi Heavenly Fire Needle," the poison-attributed "Heart-Eating Bone-Corroding Needle," and even the water-attributed "Sea-Calming Needle"!
However, the eighteen Shennong Golden Needles had been lost hundreds of thousands of years ago, so whether these divine needles truly existed was largely unverified.
It was also unknown whether the recorded Sea-Calming Needle was the same Dharma artifact as the Ruyi Golden Cudgel from well-known mythological stories.
However,
Even though he couldn't see the Ancient Shennong Golden Needles, practicing the Shennong Imperial Needle Technique was not affected in the slightest.
Because, at the end of the Shennong Medical Canon - Shennong, it was recorded how to forge one's own golden needles.
Firstly, the Imperial Needle Technique had no requirements for the material of the needles.
If you were not pursuing any special attributes for the golden needles to increase their lethality, then using silver, iron, or even toothpicks would be fine.
But if you had some aspirations, then you would need to use at least gold, or the rare metal Mithril, which was easiest to conduct spiritual energy in the cultivation world, for manufacturing.
Although ordinary manufacturing could not imbue the needles with special attributes, their lethality and ease of operation would be greatly increased.
If you wanted your manufactured golden needles to have other attributes, then you could only use special materials.
For example, for a lightning-attributed golden needle like the "Purple Lightning Thunder-Splitting Needle," which had a paralyzing effect on attack, it was best to use wood struck by lightning. The older the year, the better.
Although it couldn't compare to the "Purple Lightning Thunder-Splitting Needle," it was still much stronger than ordinary golden needles.
Secondly, for other attributes, it depended on the creator's own ideas and abilities.
Some attributes only required inscribing talismans on the golden needles as recorded; others required self-research and modification.
There was no fixed rule in this regard.
"Inscribing talismans on such tiny golden needles, the difficulty is too great. I definitely can't do it overnight. Why don't I ask Han Kang to help find someone to forge dozens or hundreds of golden needles? Even without special additional attributes, the Shennong Imperial Needle Technique is so powerful that killing opponents of higher levels is already a piece of cake. I'll do the rest when I have the chance!"
Having made up his mind, Han Lang immediately sent a message to Han Kang, asking him to customize a hundred or so golden needles, about the thickness of toothpicks and slightly longer.
The reason for needing so many was mainly the concern of potential loss in future battles, so it was better to be prepared.
"Having obtained such a great treasure, if I don't continue to go into seclusion and strive to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage, wouldn't that be too ungrateful for the Shennong Heavenly Physician's intentions?"
With that, Han Lang immediately sat down in meditation again, swallowed a spirit-gathering pill, and with great anticipation, began to impact the Foundation Establishment stage.