Chapter Sixty-One: A Newcomer in the Chat Group! (Revised)

It is much harder than I expected... I thought I could push straight to the fifth or sixth tier in this amount of time. It seems I still underestimated the cultivation difficulty of the Dragon-Elephant般若功 (Dragon-Elephant Prajna Art)," Chen Mo exhaled a breath of stale air. Faint phantom images of dragons and elephants circled around his entire body, and a flash of golden light crossed his eyes.

In reality, the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Art is divided into two parts: the "Dragon-Elephant Art" and the "Prajna Art."

The Dragon-Elephant Art focuses on physical conditioning and internal energy cultivation, while the Prajna Art cultivates spiritual wisdom and realm breakthroughs. The two complement each other, advancing in tandem.

With every tier of the Dragon-Elephant Art cultivated, the practitioner is granted the strength of one dragon and one elephant. The Prajna Art endows them with the corresponding spiritual and martial realms, preventing them from suffering a deviation in their cultivation (qi deviation) and allowing them to truly grasp the profound mysteries of natural internal energy.

The first five tiers of the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Art are the most foundational accumulations. Beyond that, with each subsequent tier ascended, the strength gained from a dragon and an elephant multiplies based on the previous tier.

From the first tier to the fifth, the practitioner gains roughly twenty tons of strength for each tier cultivated. Therefore, when the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Art reaches the sixth tier, it grants fifty tons of strength. Combined with the roughly one hundred tons from the first five tiers, the practitioner possesses a massive strength nearing two hundred tons.

Through this cumulative stacking, when the practitioner reaches the perfection of the thirteenth tier, they will attain a terrifying divine strength exceeding twelve thousand tons. Coupled with this formidable reservoir of Dragon-Elephant internal energy, they could truly shatter gods if gods block their way, and slaughter Buddhas if Buddhas stand in their path.

However, because of this, the cultivation speed of this martial art is exceptionally slow. Even with Chen Mo relying on the martial arts talent brought by his double-A-grade bloodline, alongside the massive quantities of heavenly treasures he had consumed over this period, he had only barely reached the boundary of the fourth tier.

Chen Mo, having cultivated to the fourth tier, possessed the combined strength of four dragons and four elephants. Together with the vital blood energy accumulated through massive flesh-and-blood consumption via his Corpse Brother bloodline during these days, a single swing of Chen Mo's arm at this moment granted him a strength close to a thousand tons.

The total volume of internal energy within his body had multiplied several times over, and its quality had also made remarkable progress under the purification of these heavenly treasures. Chen Mo estimated that the quality of the internal energy inside him now rivaled the advanced internal energy reinforced within the Main God Space, while its volume surpassed that particular energy by dozens of times.

Moreover, the realms cultivated through the unlocking of genetic limits and the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Art had also granted him sufficient energy control. At this moment, Chen Mo could definitely be called an expert even among third-tier combatants.

Yet Chen Mo was still unsatisfied.

"At this rate of progress, if I use up the remaining days and reward points, and dedicate myself entirely to the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Art, and if every further tier requires doubling the required time... I will only ever be able to cultivate up to the ninth tier?"

"This is far lower than I imagined! Exactly how did the Golden Wheel Dharma King in the original work manage to skyrocket all the way from the fifth tier straight to the thirteenth? Are you an Ogre or something? You just let out a roar and your power instantly shoots up?"

It was no wonder that Chen Mo felt dissatisfied and anxious; the Main God was pressing down on them far too closely.

The side quests and reward points obtained by the entire members of the North American Team were already quite substantial on their own. Coupled with the fact that Chen Mo had frantically farmed double-A-grade side quests and reinforced himself with double-A-grade enhancements, the difficulty of the next reincarnation world was guaranteed not to be low.

Encountering third-tier enemies was inevitable, but that was fine. By Chen Mo's estimation, after completing their training, the entire North American Team would likewise reach the third tier as a whole, and all of them would be top-tier experts within the third tier.

Except, if the Main God truly proved heartless and dropped a fourth-tier monster down on them, his ninth-tier Dragon-Elephant Prajna Art would fall entirely short. Because this still belonged to the realm of the third tier; the gap between it and the fourth tier was like the distance between a single human and an ant.

Even if Chen Mo were a bullet ant, he still couldn't defeat a human—unless he summoned reinforcements from the chat group, or relied on the psychokinetic floating cannons of Chu Hao to rush in and trade his life for theirs... But he didn't want it to be this way.

He hated always having to summon help from the chat group whenever danger arose; that left him far too controlled by others. Psychokinetic floating cannons weren't omnipotent either, and even if they could resolve a fourth-tier enemy now, what about the future when he encountered even stronger, more dangerous foes?

Chen Mo detested this feeling of uncertainty, even though the probability of the Main God unleashing a fourth-tier enemy for them to fight was not particularly high.

However, if the next plot world remained unchanged and still turned out to be *Daybreakers*, then according to the original plot of *Infinite Dawn*, even if the main quest didn't require them to fight a fourth tier, in order to farm more side quests, they would be forced to actively pursue side quests... And within that heavily modified version of *Daybreakers*, there existed certain background entities whose strength reached the fourth tier. If they triggered a side quest, the probability of running directly into them was extremely high.

"So, does that mean I still have to find a way from other aspects?"

Chen Mo scratched his head in distress, spread out the pile of secret manuals before him, and let out a sigh.

"The *Great Mystery Classic of the White-Haired*... a martial art I originally placed high hopes on, yet I cannot understand it... It's not that I can't understand it entirely; I can comprehend it, and I can even grasp some of the techniques and internal energy methods within it, but I cannot achieve what Shi Potian did in the original work—gaining decades of internal energy immediately after comprehension, and possessing the peerless strength to crush a multitude of experts."

"To me, this is simply a most ordinary martial art that requires spending time on comprehension and physical training to achieve results. Its upper limit probably doesn't differ much from the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Art."

"The *Ultimate Boundless Qigong*... originating from *Wushen* (God of Martial Arts), a magnificent masterpiece capable of converting internal energy into 'magnetic field force.' Yet this also tests the practitioner's innate talent and requires time to comprehend and grow stronger. Aside from the versatility and upper limit of magnetic field force, this technique seemingly has no difference from any other martial art; it cannot rapidly boost my current strength."

"The *Qianyuan Blood-Burning Art*... originating from *There Was a Sword Immortal in Previous Years*, a demonic art that trades lifespan for power, capable of exchanging longevity for a massive amount of magical and spiritual energy to propel one's own cultivation forward."

"For my Corpse Brother bloodline, the effect of this art is indeed quite good... It's just a pity that the cultivation achieved through the Qianyuan Blood-Burning Art is like a sandcastle on a beach, collapsing at the slightest impact and utterly fragile. Its foundation is even more compromised than so-called air-leaking foundations; it's a shoddy product among shoddy products."

"Although the Main God Space is not entirely devoid of treasures capable of repairing foundations, and even some of the seeds I gave to Han Li's side possess this effect, I cannot guarantee what the actual results will be—perhaps there might be side effects... So, should I really use this method to enhance my cultivation?"

Just as Chen Mo was hesitating and unable to make up his mind, a voice echoed in his mind.

[Xiao Yan has joined the chat group]
[Kamado Tanjirou has joined the chat group]
[Ding————Detected that the chat group has reached its maximum capacity of ten members. The chat group is about to begin updating. Ten-second countdown starting now...]
[Ten, Nine...]

Ah, new people have arrived?

Chen Mo looked at the two new group members and rubbed his chin.

Not bad, at least there is one big shot. As for the other one, although his combat power isn't much to speak of, he at least isn't a bad person—or rather, he's a good kid whose moral standards utterly crush a large portion of the people in the group.

[Kamado Tanjirou: !? What is this? Is this a Blood Demon Art?]
[Kamado Tanjirou: Wh-Why are my words floating out on their own?]
[Xiao Yan: Holy crap, has my golden finger finally gone online?!]
[Lu Mingfei: Welcome to the newcomers!]
[Horaiyama Kaguya: Welcome to the newcomers!]
[Han Li: Welcome to the newcomers!]
[Chen Mo: Welcome to the newcomers... But the chat group is about to update right away. I guess you'll have to wait a moment before I can explain the functions of this chat group to you.]
[Xiao Yan: Chat group?]
[Lu Mingfei: @Xiao Yan, do you top up Q-coins?]
[Xiao Yan: Oh no, even after transmigrating to another world, Penguin is still chasing after me...]
[Three, Two, One... The chat group begins restarting and updating — Ding! Update complete]

...Seriously? Your ten-second countdown, yet the actual update took less than a single second?

Suppressing the urge to complain internally, Chen Mo saw that someone in the group was already comforting Tanjirou and Xiao Yan. He then clicked on the function column of the chat group to check what useful new features had emerged after this update.