Swallowing the Stars: Starting with Optimizing the Five Hearts Towards the Sky

Chapter 3 Exploring Cultivation and Discharge

Deep sleep!

Chen Yuan murmured to himself, "That's right. According to the original description, when Luo Feng was cultivating the Five Hearts Towards Heaven, in addition to needing a specific posture, the most important thing was that his mind had to be calm and still, like a calm lake."

"Deep sleep can easily achieve this, so it makes sense to rely on deep sleep to improve the efficiency of absorbing cosmic energy."

The optimized "Sleep Meditation - Crystal Meditation" method requires visualizing a crystal full of impurities. Then, through breathing exercises, imagine that with each breath, the impurities in the crystal gradually decrease and become transparent, making your mind as clear as the crystal. Once your mind is calm, you will naturally enter a state of "deep sleep".

In theory, if one can achieve the deep sleep required by the Hibernation Technique, then cultivation efficiency can indeed be improved.

But... Chen Yuan took a deep breath, trying to calm the turmoil in his heart.

"What do you mean by 'hibernation technique'? This is clearly the Crystal Meditation Technique from 'Star River Emperor'!" Chen Yuan was still shocked. If even techniques from other novels could be optimized, then the optimization system's effect was simply heaven-defying!

After all, techniques that improve efficiency can be optimized, but what about techniques that improve aptitude?

For example, the heaven-defying Dragonless Heart Sutra...

Taking a deep breath, Chen Yuan couldn't wait to begin the experiment.

Half an hour later...

"As expected, it didn't work." Looking at the "Unable to optimize" message displayed on the panel, Chen Yuan slowly exhaled, shook his head, and felt a little regretful.

After half an hour of testing, Chen Yuan had tried every cultivation method he could think of to improve his aptitude, from the incredibly effective Dragonless Heart Method to various cultivation methods from fantasy novels. Without exception, the panel showed that none of them could be optimized.

"Let's try one last time, let's drop from the fantasy standard to the martial arts novel and see..." Although he had given up hope, Chen Yuan was still prepared to give it one more try.

"System, optimize the Five Hearts Facing the Sky, optimize direction, improve aptitude, using the 'Yi Jin Jing' as a template."

"Establish an optimization task. The goal of this optimization is: Five Hearts Facing the Sky. The optimization direction is: Improve qualifications using the Yi Jin Jing as a template."

"Incorrect carrier, insufficient data, optimization failed."

"Hmm?" Chen Yuan sat up from the bed, his eyes fixed on the words on the panel.

"This time it's not that it can't be optimized, but that the carrier is wrong and the data is insufficient?!" Chen Yuan pondered. "The carrier is wrong because the Five Hearts Towards Heaven Method does not have the function of improving aptitude. We need to find a secret method that can improve aptitude or change one's root bone as a carrier."

"And the lack of data means I know too little about this? Is the basis for this system optimization based on my memory...?" Chen Yuan pondered. In other words, as long as the above two points are resolved, he can optimize the Yi Jin Jing?

First, there is a lack of optimized carriers; second, there is a lack of relevant information in my memory.

Do such carriers exist? Chen Yuan knew from his memory that yes, and quite a few at that.

But it's mostly hype, with more boasting than substance.

Each one requires decades of training, and the improvement in aptitude is minimal, making it extremely low cost-effectiveness.

But Chen Yuan only needs the original cultivation method as a medium; as for the missing information…

"Both the Yi Jin Jing and the Xi Sui Jing are martial arts techniques described by novel authors based on real-life materials. So, as long as we find real-life information about these techniques, it can probably serve as supplementary information for optimization," Chen Yuan thought to himself.

As for whether those materials exist in this world, yes, they do.

Chen Yuan has confirmed through the original body's memories that the history of Earth in this world, before the emergence of the R virus, was basically the same as that of his previous life.

With a computer, it's easy to search for historical materials from decades ago.

"Phew... no rush." ​​Thinking of this, Chen Yuan was no longer in a hurry. "Since there's a way to succeed, we can look for it after I'm discharged from the hospital. Besides, where do I have any killing spots right now?"

"The most urgent task is to cultivate this optimized 'Hibernation Technique,' to quickly enter a state of deep sleep, repair the body, and absorb cosmic energy for cultivation!"

Do it when you think of it.

Chen Yuan had already received all the contents of the Hibernation Technique from the panel. If fully expanded, it would be about six or seven thousand words long, teaching him step by step how to meditate, how to breathe, and various tips for sleep.

This content cannot be fully expressed in just a few lines of text in the novel. The description in the novel is at most a summary, but after reading the entire content, Chen Yuan actually felt that he could successfully cultivate it.

As it turned out, Chen Yuan's feeling was right. Just half an hour later, he had closed his eyes and fallen into a deep, baby-like sleep.

Much later.

Chen Yuan suddenly opened his eyes: "I was asleep?"

My gaze fell on the digital clock hanging on the wall, and I was immediately startled: "I actually slept for an hour!"

"Did I succeed, or was I just asleep?" Chen Yuan wondered as he opened the control panel.

In fact, he had a vague feeling that he had succeeded in his cultivation, because he was now full of energy and strength, and even his internal organs did not feel much pain.

Sure enough, a new item has appeared in the Arcane Arts section of the panel.

Hibernation Technique - Crystal Visualization: A cultivation-type secret technique, rated B, current progress: Beginner (1.1%)

"It really worked! And it's B-level, a two-level improvement!" Chen Yuan's spirits lifted, then he looked at his current attributes: "Strength is 2021.32 kilograms?"

"I remember my strength level was 2010.72 before." Chen Yuan's eyes flashed. "One hour of sleep and you gained over 10 kilograms?"

"That's quite an improvement!" Chen Yuan was both surprised and delighted.

Back then, after Chen Yuan entered the Five Hearts Towards Heaven sect, he only gained 600 kilograms in two months of cultivation, which was only about 10 kilograms per day on average!

Now, just one hour of sleep is equivalent to a whole day of training in the past?

The original owner had cultivated guiding techniques to achieve this efficiency!

"That's right, the guiding technique!" Chen Yuan's spirits lifted. "I absorbed cosmic energy for an hour while I was asleep, and my body isn't even saturated yet?"

You should know that when the original body was cultivating, if he did not cultivate the guiding technique and only used the Five Hearts Facing the Sky to absorb the energy of the universe, he could only absorb it for half an hour at a time. After cultivating the Spirit Wind Sword Technique and the guiding technique, he could absorb it for an hour!

Right now, Chen Yuan hasn't even started practicing the guiding techniques yet; he's only been absorbing cosmic energy for an hour through deep sleep alone.

"Moreover, I feel like my body isn't at its limit yet; this isn't even my limit." Chen Yuan thought, taking a deep breath. "If I combine this with guiding techniques in the future, how fast can I cultivate?"

"Also, my speed in cultivating the Hibernation Technique is too fast! On my first attempt, I naturally entered a deep sleep in just half an hour!"

"Am I some kind of innate sleep saint?"

"Or is it that the cultivation method, which abandoned universality and was optimized based on my body, is 100% compatible with me?" Chen Yuan thought it was very likely, otherwise there was no way to explain it.

"I don't want to think about it anymore, that's a good thing!" Chen Yuan's eyes flashed. "The most important thing right now is to test the upper limit of my daily cultivation."

Without hesitation, Chen Yuan began meditating and entered a deep sleep half an hour later.

Two more hours passed, and Chen Yuan opened his eyes again: "My body is saturated. This time it's been two hours!"

Looking at the panel, I saw that my strength had increased by 20 kilograms.

"The growth rate has not decreased."

"In other words, excluding meditation time, I can train for three hours a day by relying on deep sleep and gain 30 kilograms of strength."

"Without guidance techniques, the cultivation speed is three times faster than before!" Thinking of this, Chen Yuan's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

"And..." Thinking of this, Chen Yuan glanced at the Hibernation Technique, which showed a proficiency level of 3.9%.

"If the Hibernation Technique breaks through to the next stage, will my deep sleep also break through to the second stage?" Chen Yuan pondered. He currently needs to meditate for half an hour to enter a deep sleep state. If it is the second stage, then he can enter deep sleep anytime, anywhere.

In the third stage, one can even fall asleep while exercising, experiencing a state of drowsiness without actually sleeping.

That was amazing! He could absorb cosmic energy while practicing guiding techniques, greatly extending his cultivation time. It was even possible for him to gain 100 kilograms of strength per day!

Thinking of this, Chen Yuan's eyes flashed, full of enthusiasm: "In that case, let's continue meditating, just consider it as practicing to improve our skills."

"Even if it can no longer absorb cosmic energy, it's still good for repairing the body."

With this in mind, Chen Yuan continued to meditate.

After all, the doctor told him to rest and not move his body, and to do nothing but meditate every day except for eating.

Time flies, and a week has passed in no time.

That morning, after waking up from a deep sleep, Chen Yuan did not continue meditating, but instead looked at the control panel.

Name: Chen Yuan

Age: 19

Strength: 2264.58 (kg)

Realm: Intermediate Warrior

Secret Technique:

Hibernation Technique - Crystal Meditation: A cultivation-type secret technique, rated B, current progress: Beginner (34.85%)

Spirit Wind Sword Technique: Combat-type secret technique, rating C, current progress: Overall beginner level 35.65% (Swordsmanship 37.72%, Movement Technique 31.58%, Guiding Technique 37.65%)

Power Level: 0.97

Current Optimizable Item: Arcane

Kill Points: 1

Chen Yuan smiled slightly. In the past week, in addition to the increase in strength, more importantly, his injuries had been completely healed thanks to the treatment of deep sleep.

So today, he's being discharged from the hospital!