Chapter 160 - 134: Transforming Illusory Memory into Tangible Memory

Chu Bamboo sighed for a good while before casually asking, "So, Nuwa No. 17, do you know how to develop Divine Techniques?"

"Beginning search! Retrieval successful... Divine Technique development plans exist in the database."

Chu Bamboo, who had held no hope at all: "...Huh?!"

"Spit it out!" Chu Bamboo’s spirits lifted in an instant.

"Divine Techniques: A special ability awakened within the Extraordinary System of Cultivators, varying from person to person. Their development method can be based on their names..."

"...That’s old news." Chu Bamboo’s expression was blank. ’Isn’t this just what the Two-headed Scale People said?’

"Divine Techniques possess extremely high malleability! For the same Divine Technique, different people’s development may be similar in the early stages, but the later it gets, the greater the divergence! This is especially true when stepping into the Fourth Realm, where one must carve out their own path! Even if from the same origin, the manifestations of Divine Techniques for different Fourth Realm Cultivators are completely distinct."

"Due to different development paths, the same Divine Technique might lean more toward defense, while another version leans toward offense! Of course, one can also use a predecessor’s experience to replicate their development methods one hundred percent, using a shortcut to simulate their forceful breakthrough into the Fourth Realm."

"However, using a predecessor’s experience also means being constrained by their lingering weaknesses! If you encounter an enemy who is familiar with that predecessor, the consequences will be extremely severe."

"At the same time, your upper limit will be locked! The predecessor’s endpoint becomes the endpoint of your Divine Technique’s development. Moreover, because it isn’t a one-hundred-percent perfect fit, it’s almost impossible to reach the same level of development as the predecessor! You will stagnate at a certain realm... Any Cultivator with a shred of ambition will choose to walk the path of self-development!"

Chu Bamboo’s eyes lit up. ’Okay, this information is starting to get useful.’ He continued, "Do you know about Noun-type Divine Techniques? If you do, explain how to develop them."

"Noun-type Divine Techniques: Develop them using a powerful imagination!"

...?

’That’s it?!’

"...What I mean is, compared to Adjective-type Divine Techniques, what’s the difference in developing a Noun-type Divine Technique?" Chu Bamboo forced himself to calm down and gave the command using more detailed vocabulary. ’Nuwa’s current state is a common problem with AIs.’

’The AI is capable, but there’s a learning curve to using it—in the Real World, a new profession has even appeared called ’AI Trainer’! Their job is to specifically extract and combine keywords that are easy for an AI to understand and work with.’

Nuwa No. 17: "Compared to Adjective-type Divine Techniques, the development of Noun-type Divine Techniques requires an even more powerful imagination."

?

’Damn!’ Chu Bamboo’s expression froze. ’Are you messing with me with this pointless drivel? What’s the difference between that and your last sentence? And here I was, having such high hopes for Nuwa No. 17...’

’Hold it in, hold it in. This is just how AIs are! Calm down...’

Chu Bamboo closed his eyes, taking a moment to compose himself.

’But, imagination! Imagination... Hmm, if I really think about it, maybe this isn’t completely useless information!’

Chu Bamboo thought for a long while. He took a notebook and a pen from his pocket. ’What kind of imaginative derivatives can ’memory’ have? I have to think. Besides normal memory... can it also be directly imprinted? Huh?!’

A strange look appeared on Chu Bamboo’s face. He was suddenly overcome by a peculiar feeling... After a brief silence, he took out the ink cartridge from his pen and forcefully snapped it open.

Wisps of Divine Thought covered the palm of his hand, extracting fine streams of ink from the broken cartridge, making them float in mid-air.

He gave a light press!

The next moment, the ink SWOOSHED down onto the paper’s surface, transforming into one exquisite, calligraphic character after another...

In just a single breath, the entire page was filled.

"...My god!" Chu Bamboo was dumbfounded. ’This thing is faster than a printing press? Wait, that’s it!’

What he truly desired wasn’t just enhanced memory, but the ability to realize the memories in his mind as quickly as possible...

So, transforming the illusory memories in his mind into tangible memories recorded on paper—this is also a transformation centered on ’memory’!

So it’s logical that the Divine Memory can do this!

"This is heaven-defying."

Chu Bamboo’s heart surged with emotion. Unable to suppress his excitement, he paced back and forth on the spot.

’The Memory Divine Technique is so fucking awesome! I’ll never call you useless again.’

’How much effort does this save me? Winning!!!’

"This... I should be able to bring this back to the Real World, right?!" Chu Bamboo suddenly thought of an extremely serious problem and started to get nervous. ’If I can’t... then it’s not really that useful, is it?!’

’But if I can...’

"From now on, the speed at which I can transfer knowledge will only be limited by the speed at which I can read!" Chu Bamboo flipped to a new page, extracted more ink, and slapped it down. At this point, his imprinting speed was nearly equal to the speed at which he could turn the pages.

In less than a minute, the notebook was completely filled—

It was the complete program for Spirit Star.

"Perfect. Absolutely perfect."

Chu Bamboo gazed at the notebook as if it were a work of art. He started to fantasize. ’With this, even hundreds of thousands of pages of nuclear fusion development data... it might not be entirely impossible to bring them back to reality?’

Of course, fantasizing was one thing, but Chu Bamboo didn’t immediately try to pull out nuclear fusion data and start memorizing it. The reason was simple. For one, memorizing it would take a very long time; he felt like he’d puke from the effort. He would rather read a novel tens of millions of words long than look at nuclear fusion data... For another, it was pointless.

Given his status and position in the Real World, just digesting the Alisu Battery and wireless charging technology would probably take several months, or even half a year.

’What’s the use of writing it down now?’

’Go straight to the government and say I can build a nuclear fusion reactor? Isn’t that just asking for death? If I did that in reality, there’d be no turning back! If I ended up in the dead-end file of a ruined timeline—’ The thought made Chu Bamboo shiver.

Even if he were to do it, he would at least have to wait until the battery and wireless charging technologies were done, until C Mechanical Company became an industry giant. Only then would he have enough of a foundation to start transferring technical data on a large scale and use the company as a vehicle for its digestion!

Besides, it wasn’t like he was short on papers and technical patents—there were tons of them in the *Star Sea Detailed Explanation*! The problem was that he didn’t dare take them out.

"However!" Chu Bamboo murmured. He thought for a moment, then slipped into Ning Linglong’s room and quickly found a brand-new, blank notebook.

Rubbing his palms together, Chu Bamboo reached out and pressed down lightly, then flipped the page and pressed again... In just a few minutes, hundreds of pages in the notebook were all filled. They were densely packed with Chinese characters!

"Seven hundred fifty thousand words, that fast!" Chu Bamboo’s expression was complicated as he gently flipped through the pages. This was a novel he had read for entertainment using Nuwa—as for why it was only a little over seven hundred thousand words, that was naturally because the book had a rushed, unfinished ending.

’I was just thinking before that I’d rather read a novel tens of millions of words long... But now, if I wanted to, I could bring all the novels I’ve read back to reality... This is really something else!’

Chu Bamboo shook his head. After a moment of thought, he took out some matches from his pocket, burned the notebook filled with Chinese words to ash, ground the ashes thoroughly, and finally took them to the women’s restroom near the entrance, pouring them into a toilet and flushing them away completely—after all, the Chinese language was apparently quite a sensitive topic in this era!

After taking care of everything, he walked out of the Police Chief Bureau in a cheerful mood. ’I’ve successfully entered the First Realm of Cultivation. And there’s no need to reset my Divine Technique... So do I still need to go to the nuclear facility? Doesn’t seem like it...’

’Wait a minute!’ Chu Bamboo’s expression suddenly froze. He realized a very serious problem. Flexing his wrist, he thought, ’No, how come I don’t feel any revolutionary increase in my physical fitness this time?’

So the question was...

Chu Bamboo sank into deep thought. All that Fushui he drank... where did it go?!