The First Master of the First Volume of the Martial World Chapter 10: Speculation about the Ring

  After nearly a month of rest, Ye Wen's injury has healed and will not leave any sequelae. During this period, he supervised the work of craftsmen while recuperating his body and occasionally offered his own opinions.

  It was like a fireplace and heating in several houses, all of which came from his design.

  It was all because at this time in winter, heating relied more on braziers. Ye Wen had already confirmed the news when chatting with the craftsmen.

  The place where Shu Shan is located, although it's not particularly cold in winter, it will still snow. Moreover, the two of them have chosen a location on the mountain waist, which feels cool and pleasant in summer, but in winter, relying only on the brazier, I'm afraid it won't be very good.

  So Ye Wennin would rather spend some more silver coins to prepare these basic winter equipment - if they wait until winter arrives, the two people's silver coins will not be as abundant as they are now, and then they will have to worry about running out of money again.

  So he might as well take advantage of having more money to get everything done, anyway, in Ye Wen's opinion, as long as he still lives here, these things will have to be done sooner or later. After all, he doesn't want to freeze and suffer from the cold until winter comes. The heating effect of that kind of fire basin thing is not very good, even if it can be seen on TV.

  Sitting on the kang that she had personally designed, which was almost connected to the entire house, Ye Wen concentrated her mind and quietly controlled the internal force in her body, slowly moving it towards her fingertips.

  In these days, he has learned from his own fragmented memories that the master and apprentice sister have not practiced any profound internal skills, but only some superficial breathing methods. And even these things were found by the fifth generation of masters, who is also the master's ancestor, on a certain Jiangyang Da Dao during a trip down the mountain.

  At that time, although he didn't lose his life and killed the opponent, he brought a sum of money to Shushan Sect and a set of introductory breathing techniques, but this master also suffered serious internal injuries and soon passed away.

  This set of techniques is only used to create a basic circulation in the body, and its main function is to cultivate internal energy and strengthen the body. It's not meant for combat at all. Ye Wen has been practicing since he was young, and now that he's 20 years old, he still only has a faint sense of internal energy, with very weak inner strength. If it weren't for his soul having gone through trials after transmigrating, and merging with some remaining spirit of the 'Ye Palm Gate', his mental power would be much stronger than ordinary people, but he's probably unable to control this weak inner energy.

  Although it was a coincidence, Ye Wen felt extremely happy. After all, in his world, internal energy was something legendary, and many people had only heard of it but never seen it. Who would have thought that he could get the results of someone else's nearly twenty years of hard work just by crossing over? What did he have to be dissatisfied with?

  As for this inner strength, it seems to have weakened a bit, so weak that even using it to fight the enemy is not enough. He doesn't care about these things. In his view, as long as he can use this ring to summon an internal martial arts manual, all problems will be solved at that time.

  "I just don't know if this thing can summon the inner power secret manual!"

  He glanced at his right hand fingers, Ye Wen continued to focus on manipulating the inner force in his body. Because the inner force was weak, he had to concentrate fully to ensure its operation, let alone the fact that many of the meridian routes he was taking now were ones he had never used before, and the meridians were stiff and blocked, making it difficult to run.

  "Maybe after practicing for a long time, I can still come up with some magical skills..."

  A sudden thought that seemed somewhat unreliable popped up in his mind, Ye Wen smiled wryly and didn't take it seriously, instead continuing to manipulate his inner energy to move forward.

  This weak internal force was still manageable when it reached the shoulder, but it became increasingly difficult as it approached the palm. This is all related to Ye Wen's weak internal skills, and he has never learned any techniques for applying internal energy to his palms to fight against enemies, so the meridians on his arms have not been opened up. These things are basic in many large sects, which shows just how weak the Shu Shan Sect is.

  Many martial arts emphasize how to use internal force, so when the internal force reaches this point, although the speed starts to slow down, it's still not a big problem. However, once it reaches the palm of the hand, things get even more troublesome.

  Ye Wen's ring was on his right hand index finger, which means he had to send the inner energy to the index finger in order to send it into the ring. During this process, there were several blocked meridians that Ye Wen needed to open himself, and it would not be easy without another bout of turmoil and exhaustion.

  When he finally managed to channel his inner energy to his fingertips, Ye Wen was already drenched in sweat, the little bit of internal force he had left was completely depleted.

  If it wasn't for the last moment, the ring seemed to have a strong sense of response and appeared with a very strong attraction, helping Ye Wen fill the hole successfully. And after he really felt the inner force entering the ring, he was afraid that he would think he had failed.

  Then a voice appeared in his mind, confirming that he had indeed succeeded.

  "Absorbing energy, starting to detect energy intensity...... Detection complete......"

  A string of sounds was almost finished in an instant, if Ye Wen hadn't carefully distinguished and listened, he would have thought it was just a tinnitus. "No wonder I didn't notice this sound the first time I summoned!"

  In addition, this voice is hard and has no emotions at all. Ye Wen listened to it and felt that it was a bit like the electronic synthesizer of his own era. Maybe this ring is just like those electronic products, purely a tool, without any so-called emotions.

  Talking is just a hint, so wanting to get close to this thing seems to have completely disappeared.

  "I thought it was some legendary spiritual treasure, but now it seems like it's just an inanimate object!"

  Holding a book that suddenly appeared in his hand, Ye Wen looked at the ring on his hand again, and those few words just now made him understand this thing a little more.

  Apart from thinking that this thing should be an inanimate object without intelligence, then you don't need to worry about researching it or worrying that it's some kind of magical artifact that will take over your body if you're not careful. It should be a tool that can be used with peace of mind.

  "But if it's an inanimate object, then what standard is it using to decide which secret recipe to give me?" This was the question that bothered Ye Wen the most.

  If this ring is completely randomly delivered, then Ye Wen will have to rely on luck for a while.

  So in a few years, if he can't even come up with an earth-shattering martial art, then it's likely that his time will be wasted on this thing. After all, luck is an elusive and intangible thing, impossible to grasp. If Ye Wen really has bad luck and can't summon any decent secret recipes (although things worse than the martial arts he's currently practicing are extremely rare), then his ultimate achievement will probably fall short of his expectations, and many goals will be difficult or even impossible to achieve.

  It can be said that if this ring were to rely solely on luck, it would be an item with unpredictable risks for Ye Wen. It might make him suddenly rich: summoning a peerless martial arts manual and setting foot on the path of a top-notch master; or it might completely restrict his development: not seeing the shadow of a top-grade divine art or even a first-rate martial arts manual in decades, with his cultivation stuck at a second- or third-rate level. And putting too much energy into this ring would also make him lose the motivation to go out and find manuals or improve himself.

  "If it's like this, then we can't put all our hopes on it. Its role is just as a basic tool."

  Ye Wen had been worried about this all month, after all, the ring was his only reliable thing. But today's summons made him aware of an unexpected surprise. Part of it solved some of his worries during this period.

  "Energy intensity... If it's necessary to check the energy intensity, then that means there is a fixed standard! And if a standard needs to be set, then that proves this thing isn't something that can just be casually tossed out and considered done!"

  Ye Wen rubbed his finger ring and finally came to this conclusion.

  "Perhaps the secret recipe given by this ring is based on the inner strength value input by the user when summoning, and the stronger the input inner strength, the better the given secret recipe?"

  This is the result that Ye Wen most hoped to see, this ring is completely a controllable secret recipe summoning device, and it has a perfect hierarchical structure.

  "In that case, I can choose a suitable martial art based on my current strength!" With the opportunity to summon once a month, it's entirely possible to continuously summon during the period when one's strength reaches a certain level, then select the most suitable secret manual from among many to continue improving their strength, and after hitting a bottleneck, summon again, repeating the cycle without end.

  "What a good baby!"

  He couldn't help but kiss the ring, and Ye Wen was delighted by his discovery. However, these were just his guesses, and he couldn't draw a final conclusion yet, so he needed to make one more confirmation.

  The way to confirm is naturally to summon again, because in his opinion, this summoning is not actually the result of his own full inner power. Before the summoning, a lot of his inner power was consumed by opening up the meridians and acupoints, most of his inner power was consumed on the 'way' to the ring, and finally, what was absorbed by the ring was almost nothing.

  If his own meridians and acupoints had been unblocked long ago, he should have obtained a better secret recipe than this one - Ye Wen had already seen what was written on the cover of this book, the four characters "Basic Inner Work" made him feel a little depressed, feeling that his cultivation was only worth a basic inner work.

  However, he was not dissatisfied with this secret book, because if he wanted to confirm his own ideas and complete the summoning better a month later, this book that laid the foundation for internal strength and opened up the meridians to cultivate basic internal power was the most suitable technique.

  I planned to take a short nap in the afternoon, but unexpectedly when I opened my eyes it was already so late...