Abyss Sequence-Chapter 400 - 57: Eight Engravings

’Soul’, a thing in a superposition of existence and non-existence.

The soul is a pseudo-proposition; when observed, it cannot be found, yet some indirect evidence confirms that this thing truly exists.

Even elves can’t figure out what the soul actually is.

Say it exists, but it doesn’t truly reside within the body;

Say it doesn’t exist, yet there are various signs indicating the soul’s existence.

The soul is like a mischievous little thing, especially fond of playing hide-and-seek with people, and its hide-and-seek skills are unrivaled, no matter how the ghost-like searcher tries, it can’t be found.

Just like now, they are observing the soul through Yulia’s ’memory event’ and have confirmed that the soul exists and can carry memories.

If you really go looking for it, you won’t find it. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

After listening to Yevgenia’s explanation, Yulia fell silent, then sighed and stopped dwelling on the issue of the soul.

Yulia wanted to sit up, and the nearby nurse quickly pressed the button to raise the upper part of the bed.

Thus, Yulia leaned against the bed and turned to Sasa, saying, "The thing about ancient cultivation methods can’t be hidden anymore, what is that kid Wu Zechuan planning?"

"He’s already held a press conference," Sasa replied.

Then Sasa began to tell Yulia what happened during the time she was unconscious.

Yulia cannot use her personal terminal right now, and even if she wanted to, the people around her would stop her, so her news channel is Sasa and the others.

After hearing what happened after she fainted, Yulia couldn’t help but marvel, "That kid Wu Zechuan is capable, arranging everything in such a short time. He even managed to suppress the potential craze for ancient cultivation methods. With what he said, even if someone wants to become an Engraver, they’ll likely use nanomachines for engraving first and switch to ancient cultivation methods once they’ve grown sufficiently."

It’s not that ancient cultivation methods are bad, but this engraving method doesn’t allow Engravers to grow quickly.

You can tell by the way ancient Engravers diligently practice daily meditation, using ancient cultivation methods to engrave themselves is a very laborious task.

Yulia was able to recover so quickly because she possesses a ’Soul Seed,’ and the engraving has become a part of her body.

When a part of the body is missing, it will find a way to regrow the missing part.

If it were a severed limb, it wouldn’t matter, but for blood vessels, skin, and such things, the body actively regrows them.

That’s why Yulia’s engraving recovery speed is so fast.

— After all, it’s something that has coexisted with her for decades.

An Engraver starting from scratch with ancient cultivation methods might take years just for a single engraving.

In the same amount of time, using modern imprinting methods, one might already reach Sequence 4.

Although using ancient cultivation methods might enhance one’s spirituality, negating the need to hunt Catastrophe-level Demons or the Master of the Abyss to increase engravings, the cultivation speed is really too slow.

Calculations show the most suitable cultivation method is first using modern imprinting methods to advance to the Second Rank, with at least eight engravings, then after the body adapts to the eight engravings, extract the nanomachine engravings and supplement the lost engravings with ancient cultivation methods.

Generally, those who reach the Second Rank level have enough patience and perseverance, unlike their restless youth. At this point, switching to ancient cultivation methods can bypass the limitations of spirituality and focus on self-improvement.

The public disclosure of ancient cultivation methods benefits support sequences like [Healer], [Priest], etc., that are not suited for combat, meaning they no longer need to fight demons and can safely improve themselves.

Although the city is protected by shields, with low Magic Power concentration, unless Saint’s Blood is ingested, it’s nearly impossible to engrave oneself using ancient cultivation methods.

But just because you can’t cultivate inside the city, doesn’t mean you can’t cultivate outside the city, right?

The release of ancient cultivation methods might lead to the emergence of a new industry: guards escorting those who cultivate outside the city, protecting them from mutant creature harm.

Once her head cleared, Yulia quickly thought of many things, as if she could already see an era of cultivation prosperity.

In the foreseeable future, as long as they have Magic Power adaptability, most will try to engrave themselves.

Although it’s hard for ordinary people to concentrate and imagine engraving themselves, unlike ancient times, modern auxiliary tools exist to help people calm down and meditate.

Resources on Blue Star are now abundant enough to support everyone becoming an Engraver.

The increase in the number of Engravers on Blue Star is undoubtedly a good thing, even if it may lead to various malicious incidents, given the increasingly urgent situation, other matters can temporarily be disregarded.

Yan Luo talked to Yulia about the archaeologists’ discoveries in Da Yu’s tomb.

After hearing it, Yulia fell into contemplation.

"Absolute Heavens Barrier..."

Yulia is not a Xia Country person, though she speaks Chinese, she doesn’t know much about Xia Country culture.

What Yan Luo mentioned about ’Absolute Heavens Barrier’ is a term she can slightly understand, not an idiom or an allusion.

However, through Yan Luo’s description, Yulia also learned that eradicating the Abyss wouldn’t make Magic Power disappear.

This means, the last obstacle standing in the way of Yan Luo’s ideal has vanished!

Previously they always thought ’eradicate the Abyss’ meant ’Magic Power fading’, but that’s not the case.

Even if the Abyss is eradicated, Magic Power still exists, and as long as there’s no repeat of ’Absolute Heavens Barrier’, Blue Star can continue utilizing Magic Power and develop along this technical route.

Many engravings come from Demons, but not all engravings are from Demons.

Some engravings were independently created by modern engraving scholars, indicating humans are capable of discovering methods of manufacturing engravings outside of studying Demons.

This means Yan Luo’s idea is feasible!

In that case, the actions of the Abyssal Believers are no longer rational or justifiable; their obstruction of others eradicating the Abyss is utterly wrong.

Thinking of this, Yulia breathed a sigh of relief.

"Great..." Yulia smiled, "From now on, I can eliminate Abyssal Believers without any psychological burden."

Once, some Abyssal Believers hoped for Blue Star to have a prosperous future, which is why they obstructed the Abyss conquest, causing many injuries and deaths.

Their actions were heinous, but not beyond understanding.

But now with the information from the metal plate buried in Da Yu’s tomb revealed, the Abyssal Believers have lost all semblance of righteousness.

Their actions and behaviors will be utterly wrong.

The nurse standing by listened until her head was spinning.

She hadn’t realized how shocking Yan Luo’s narrative was, having simply absorbed too much information at once for her brain to process immediately.

A moment later, the nurse slapped her head, dashed out of the ward to the caretaker’s room, then hurried back while panting.

"This, this is Ms. Bilukova’s back nerve structure map. During treatment, our attending doctor found something and already discussed it with Ms. Sa." The nurse handed the photo in her hand to Yulia.

Sasa then remembered that after Lan Cuifu returned to Lingquan City, the doctor in charge of treating Yulia did indeed mention this matter to her.

Yet, because Yan Luo’s recounting was so profoundly impactful, it pushed the original information occupying the center of her mind into a corner, temporarily making her forget.

Now reminded by the nurse, Sasa recalled it.

"Yes, Dr. Huang did tell me about this matter."

Yulia took the photo, glanced at it, and was instantly astonished.

"My engravings..."

Saying this, Yulia activated the engravings.

Eight layers of overlapping light wheels appeared behind Yulia, astonishing everyone present.

Just a while ago, Yulia only had five engravings, then she was unconscious for such a long time. Why now does she have eight engravings?