Chapter 309: Blood and Bone

Chapter 309: Blood and Bone

Vaguely, I feel my consciousness floating.

I cant sense anything from my body, but I can tell its rebuilding.

Dust

My body and cultivator soul were turned into dust.

The latter, more surprising than the former. My ability gained from all those decapitations by Ao Jin had a permanent effect on me. I can be aware, even after being in a death state.

With my upgraded cultivation and tied into my healing abilities, the ability must have been multiplied. Giving me a pseudo nascent soul presence.

Not that I can move. But I can just use my soul-bound abilities outside of cultivation. Even with my cultivation and body technically destroyed, my cultivation techniques are still working in the background.

Huh, is it pulling directly from the sub-dimension? In the first place, cultivation is based out of the cultivator soul and body. So, how is working?

Luckily, my scan tells me everything I need to know.

Or maybe not.

All I can really gather is that there are aspects of the cultivation method that go beyond just the normal body and soul interaction. At least, this occurs when the comprehension of the abilities reaches a certain point.

And with how I received the technique, it was a perfect comprehension. Even if I still have to work through it step by step.

well. I assumed a lesser version of this might happen, so its not a total shock. I am surprised about the jade tablet, though.

I didnt expect to not even catch a small bit of the data within it. To think the information on it is so dense that I couldnt even come close to reading it. Blowing me away just from a whiff of the residual concepts leaking out.

If the information I received from my cultivation method is a good reference; a lot of it must be the experiences and conceptual aspects that you would learn over time with the technique/method.

Its likely that a failed one, like the whiff I received, has all the logs and experiences of failures that were tried to make it work. After all, a sect usually isnt willing to just give up on a potential new method. Theyll try several things before giving it up.

So, a failed technique could have over 10 times the data a normal one would have because of this.

As my thoughts continue to run, I realize that its only been 15 minutes since Ive been blown up.

My body is currently a pulsating, growing blob of viscera, muscle, and bones. Luckily for my clothes, before I popped, I stuffed my clothes in my space bracelet. The disposable clothes? Disintegrated.

The looks of horror and disgust on the elders faces are quite interesting to behold. I must seem like some sort of eldritch monster to them.

I should take around just under an hour to regrow completely. The amount of time is undoubtedly better than when I was sliced into meat chunks by Meili, the assassin.

And my death changes, as well.

Instead of blood dust, a small chunk of bone remains.

so, I continue.

Each time getting more information. With the amount increasing exponentially with each new regeneration.

Within the next hour, Im finally at five-minute regenerations, with chunks of flesh and bone violently impacting the walls of the barrier. This is the aspect I was concerned about earlier, as my body is essentially exploding outwards. A small pile of viscera, meat, and bone form a small, sticky film on the surface of the barrier.

Im about halfway through the jade tablet and all the elders just have a grim face at the developments.

Theyve been watching closely to understand how my body works and regenerates. An excellent opportunity to understand the limits of the constitution.

That it can regenerate the cultivator soul is definitely the most shocking thing for them.

On my side, it seems my ability to reference information in my mind is both better and worse. Better in the sense that I have more thoughts and information to access. Worse, in the sense that there are conflicts in the information I have and too much data on hand.

This whole time, as part of my training, Ive been trying to absorb the whole jade slip at once. Adding to my memory, then overwriting it afterwards, every time. All so that I will have space in my brain for other actions.

This is the downside of having a data dump. Just because its information doesnt mean its true. It also takes time to go through it all.

Once I finish, the final step will be to put it all together.

which will have its own risks, as Im essentially generating even more information than the original, as the true file. The process of doing so should increase the speed of my thoughts, as my mind will struggle to keep up with all the changes. Giving me the opportunity to improve further.

If everything goes well, this will reduce or eliminate some downsides of this whole thing. While giving me the ability to better handle more information in the future.

It doesnt take much longer before I reach the point that I can just tank the whole thing. Now down to 30 second regenerations.

I reach out to the jade slip one more time, as a skinless being.

I feel my entire being shudder, with two jade slips worth of information in my brain. I instantly start using my scan to process it. Not letting my body rest, as I continue to heal myself.

Blood pours from my every orifice but I hold on. It seems the countless regenerations have made my body hardy against acquiring excessive data.

My skin continues to rebuild as I go through every piece of information. Sorting, correcting, and finally, merging into a workable form. One that can be manipulated into any form I need.

The final piece is actually the easiest, as everything is there for me to change as needed. My mind now spry enough to handle the dense information.

Just as that piece is put into place, I create my first work from it.

The Omnibus Cultivation System, or OCS for short.