When lkor looked for qi cultivation thods that he could use to complent his existing job as a ch commander, he sought for an alternative that did not have the intellectual requirents of a formation master.
This was the main reason why he was still reluctant to commit to this path.
While he had already exchanged a hefty sum of rits to gain access to the manual of the Combat Spell Array Master Cultivation thod, he beca intimidated by the fact that he still could not escape the necessity of spending lots of ti on book learning if he wanted to reach the advanced stages.
The further he progressed as a formation master, the more essential higher math and comprehension beca!
If he did not make enough progress in these essential areas, his qi cultivation would eventually hit a bottleneck and slow his growth to a crawl.
Another disadvantage related to becoming a formation master was that it required a lot of setup in order to produce results.
lkor had an advantage in this aspect because he could command his subordinates to place the formation anchors at the coordinates he specified.
He did not even have to enter the battlefield in person in order to make it happen!
It would be even better if he was present. A spell array master specialized in controlling active qi formations.
Letting a spell array run by itself was like letting an autonomous battle bot fight. The bot could only follow its own programming and was not able to make flexible and unpredictable decisions.
A spell array controlled by a formation master that knew his business belonged in a different category.
lkor would be able to use his own judgnt and perception to employ more advanced tactics, make correct adjustnts on the fly and even inject his own power into the spell array in order to boost its strength and prevent it from breaking!
While lkor liked the sound of that, the requirents to control a spell array were not light either.
The starter spell arrays that he had exchanged from the Red Collective were deliberately simplified to allow beginners like him to control them at a decent level. What he was worried about was that the difficulty ramped up quickly if he wanted to make use of qi formations that were powerful enough to affect phase lords!
"Aside from that, it is not safe to remain too close to an angry phase lord."
Powerful individual combatants such as ace pilots could resist the attacks of most phase lords unless the latter wielded Saint Piercer arms. Even then, most ace chs were fast enough to escape the reach of those deadly weapons.
A spell array master lacked those conveniences. The Formation Master Series might. be able to make him a little stronger and extend his lifespan and such, but it would not save him if a nunser phase lord physically trampled his ch with his gigantic hooves!
This was why he sought a qi cultivation thod that could offer him a bit more self-protection ability.
It was not necessary for him to beco a budget high-ranking ch pilot, but he should at least be able to survive the battles to co. The native aliens continued to grow stronger, and there may be even greater threats on the horizon.
This was why he delved into the more obscure sections of the Repository and tried to find a way to grow powerful that may be able to do a better job at eting his admittedly demanding requirents.
Perhaps he was being too picky, because he failed to find a superior choice.
The best result he ca up with was a qi cultivation thod that was arguably just as promising as the other two options into consideration.
Different from signing a contract with a design spirit or deploying spell arrays into battle, the one he found in the least popular section of the Repository was derived from an ancient cultivation thod.
The collies rely translated the ancient text into standard language and edited it so that it beca more understandable to modern people.
Despite its murky background and mysterious elents, it promised amazing benefits to a practitioner that possessed the talent, perception and perseverance to practice it over the long term.
Since t was an ancient cultivation thod, the requirents to get started with it were much harsher.
Not only that, but the translations could lead to misinterpretations that could cause lkor to make a mistake in his progression.
Since few people had begun to practice this expensive and obscure qi cultivation thod, there was no one around who could teach him. There wasn't any mature community of practitioners and cultivation scientists that were working together to figure out its secrets and demystify its more abstruse instructions.
To put it in another way, lkor would have to rely on his own efforts in order to master this ancient qi cultivation thod.
If he encountered a problem that he could not overco, then he could either remain stuck and make no further progress. or improvise and hope that would allow him to
go forward.
This was an exceedingly dangerous decision that could lead to cultivation deviation. Once that happened, lkor would beco compromised and suffer from a range of maladies, ranging from violent mood swings to complete changes in personality! Despite all of these well-deserved warnings, lkor could not help but consider it anyway due to the promises it made.
This was because practicing the Clockwork Hollow Sect Tistream Magistrate Qi Cultivation thod might ultimately allow him to manipulate the property of ti!
Yes, ti!
According to the extensive analysis by the cultivation scientists of the Red Collective, the qi cultivation thod was originally created to form mid-level 'tistream magistrates' for the Clockwork Hollow Sect.
Tistream magistrates were essentially qi cultivators that specialized in the concept. of ti. More specifically, they were trained to manipulate how ti affected themselves at first and subsequently everything within their range.
This had many different uses and applications!
A tistream magistrate could speed up the passage of ti on himself, thereby allowing him to move faster and spend more ti on thinking and working.
He could also slow down the passage of ti on projectiles or even enemies so long as they were not strong enough to resist the effect!
Naturally, lkor did not need to think about accomplishing the latter in the short term. It took serious attainnts in the refurbished cultivation thod before he
could attempt such a magical feat onto others.
While Tistream magistrates weren't powerful by themselves, their ability to manipulate ti to this degree could allow them to produce a lot of favorable results, especially if they were ch commanders!
That was not even the main highlight of this legacy qi cultivation thod. One of their most powerful and costly abilities was to turn back the clock!
By winding back their clockwork artifact, tistream magistrates could effectively
travel back in ti!
Even if they could only go back a number of seconds or minutes, this was already enough for lkor to change the course of a battle!
What he found odd was that tistream magistrates were actually not ant to wield all of these abilities. The Clockwork Hollow Sect apparently developed much more powerful qi cultivation thods that could allow practitioners to ss with ti to a much stronger and more dramatic degree!
the Cultivation thod Departnt claid.
In any case, the aforentioned abilities were actually supplental to their main purpose, which was to monitor the passage of ti and ensure that was not being manipulated by unauthorized parties!
Tistream magistrates were equipped with a number of effective techniques that allowed them to track down and counter any ti manipulation shenanigans perford by third parties!
It made sense for an ancient organization like the Clockwork Hollow Sect to raise
their own version of law enforcers in order to prevent abuse of the sa techniques
they taught.
When lkor grew curious enough about the qi cultivation thod that he decided to exchange it outright, he encountered several explicit warnings about the
consequences of abusing ti manipulation.
Different from what he expected, the Clockwork Hollow Sect did not put so much
effort into regulating the passage of ti because they were afraid that spinning ti into a ssy yarn would cause the universe to collapse or whatever.
The real danger ca in changing ti to the point of attracting the unwelco attention of mysterious but exceedingly powerful god-like entities! These were beings who surpassed ti and space to varying degrees!
It was never a good idea to beco known by them, because many of them were utterly alien and unpredictable!
Another danger associated with abusing ti manipulation was adversely affecting the futures of those who would eventually beco one of those very sa unfathomably powerful god-like entities!
While these terrible gods could not manipulate their own past to undo their own natural 'fate, they were still able to protect themselves against unnatural changes! There was no way that lkor would be able to withstand the wrath of such a powerful god-like powerhouse!
This ant that even if lkor did everything correctly and turned into a perfectly normal tistream magistrate, he would still be playing with fire every ti he manipulated ti and affected the lives of a lot of people.
Small changes to the tiline were relatively safe as they were too weak and lasted
too short to get detected.
It was only when a tistream magistrate ceased to guard the tiline and started to
resemble the criminal that he was supposed to watch out for that the risks would
begin to rise.
practicing the Clockwork Hollow Sect Tistream Magistrate Qi Cultivation thod
right away.
He couldn't let it go, however. Even if he chose to turn his back on it, he couldn't help but recall it and read through its descriptions and his own notes.
The Larkinson Clan might have more use for a tistream magistrate than a spell
array master.
The latter was aweso and all, but the forr could guard him and his fellow clan against threats of a much more hidden and nefarious nature.
The only question was whether any ti cultivators would show up in the future that might pose a credible threat against the Larkinsons and the rest of red humanity. If not, then a tistream magistrate beca partially redundant. Another problem associated with this qi cultivation thod was that it was not easy
to get started with it. Any cultivator of the Clockwork Hollow Sect had to possess the
very rare affinity of ti.
This was actually a nearly impossible condition to et. Even during ancient tis, the Clockwork Hollow Sect struggled to recruit naturally talented seeds!
This was why the sect ca up with nurous ways to bypass or substitute for these
harsh requirents!
lkor managed to negotiate a deal with the Cultivation thod Departnt about this subject.
He borrowed special cultivation resources from the Red Collective that could theoretically allow any human to et the starting requirents of the qi cultivation thod and beco a tistream magistrate straight away!
The caveat was that he could not complete this transformation at his leisure. The unorthodox thod involved 'stealing the ti' of others, which ant that he had to conduct a ritual centered around his enemies in order to properly practice this
thod!
Suffice to say, the Legion Commander was not sure if he could get his enemies to cooperate. Perhaps it was better to consider the other two options instead.
"It's too difficult to make up my mind."
lkor did not intend to procrastinate any longer. The ti for battle had almost
co, and he could not keep himself from holding back while the war progressed. One way or another, lkor intended to start a new chapter in his life.
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