The problem of memory is far from something that can be finished in a short time; even two or three days are nowhere near enough. After all, it’s memories spanning over a thousand years. Even if they seem to pass much faster than when they actually happened, you still need to go through them slowly.

As for cultivation, Brian Carter gets excited just thinking about it.

While walking, his breathing rate unconsciously becomes strange. It’s a kind of breathing with varying lengths and intensities—at first, it sounds chaotic, but if you listen carefully, you can make out a captivating rhythm in the pattern of his breaths.

It’s like the different syllables of do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, forming a beautiful melody.

With this peculiar breathing rhythm, the scorching sunlight pouring down from above no longer feels hot and harsh on Brian Carter; instead, his body feels cool and comfortable, as if waves of refreshing currents are flowing back and forth inside him, nourishing his skin and making him feel incredibly refreshed.

“I originally thought all these cultivation techniques were useless, just tricks to fool people. I never expected there would actually be one I could practice! I almost missed it.”

Walking steadily, he no longer feels the stifling heat of summer outdoors, and Brian Carter can’t help but feel emotional.

In three days, he really did try out quite a few techniques from Slaughter’s memories.

With over 3,700 years of memories, there are simply too many techniques stored in Slaughter’s mind. In the hospital room, Brian Carter would first read through the memories, pick a technique, and then try to practice it.

Many of these techniques require special postures or other strange conditions. Some can’t even be started easily; you have to meet some odd requirements first.

During the day, he would close the door and draw the curtains, not worried about being discovered.

For any technique he could try, Brian Carter would search for them one by one and experiment with each.

If someone came to see him, he’d pause for a while, then continue reading memories and experimenting after they left.

But it must be said that in the first two or three days, Brian Carter tried dozens of techniques, day and night, and didn’t get even the slightest result.

Not even a little bit.

When he picked the first technique and started experimenting, Brian Carter was full of excitement. After more than ten minutes with no effect, he started to feel a bit doubtful. Then, after another ten or twenty minutes with still no effect, he became suspicious. And when there was still no effect, he started to get frustrated.

He switched to the next one, and it was the same.

The third, the fourth...

He barely slept for two or three days, but after trying dozens of techniques, none of them worked.

Brian Carter was not just confused—he even felt a huge sense of disappointment, starting to think that all the techniques in Slaughter’s memories were just lies and completely useless.

He was still thinking this way right up until he was about to be discharged from the hospital.

How could he not feel disappointed!

He had been hoping that if he could cultivate, maybe one day he could be like Slaughter, able to fly through the sky, destroy planets with a wave of his hand, or even embark on the path to immortality.

The thrill this brings to an ordinary person is absolutely overwhelming. Who would have thought that after so many attempts, there would be no effect at all? It’s just a letdown.

But Brian Carter never expected that, when he was called to leave the hospital room to complete the discharge procedures, he stubbornly tried out a new technique he had just found before leaving—and suddenly, it worked!!

It was this very technique: deliberately maintaining his breathing rhythm in a peculiar melody, turning his breath into a beautiful piece of music.

Because this technique only required maintaining a certain breathing rhythm and didn’t need any special posture, Brian Carter only started practicing it after leaving the hospital room. At the time, he was just unwilling to give up.

He truly didn’t expect that as soon as he started breathing this way, with the sunlight streaming down, his body—which had been sweating from the sun’s heat—suddenly felt as if it was bathed in a refreshing current, as if his whole body was soaking in a spiritual spring: cool, clear, just like running outside in nearly forty-degree heat until you’re drenched in sweat and almost faint, then suddenly stepping into an air-conditioned room and feeling that blast of cold air that makes your skin tingle with delight.

After so many attempts and so many disappointments, each failure was a blow. If he hadn’t stubbornly insisted on continuing, he might never have discovered this cultivable technique.

Chapter 007: The Strange Technique

Continuing to walk steadily, under sunlight that would normally be unbearably harsh, Brian Carter would usually be drenched in sweat after just a few steps on the street—just like anyone else out there.

But now, as he walked, Brian Carter didn’t even feel the urge to sweat. Moving forward slowly, he constantly felt waves of refreshing currents inside him, yet he still found it hard to believe: why did so many techniques fail, with not a single one working, and yet this one could bring such a change?

Suppressing his excitement, Brian Carter maintained the peculiar breathing rhythm while feeling the cool current above his head.

It wasn’t until a moment later that he suddenly paused, a strange look flashing in his eyes.