Rule Deduction
Ascension Realm cultivators coveted practical domain abilities for combat, such as a flying restriction, as opposed to flashy raining flower petals or something for good reason. Since they were aware that there was a limit to how much they could mentally handle, they chased their specialty when trying to select a natural law to learn because they possessed rich knowledge in the field. The more powerful the ability, the more rules they had to sift through. Thus, the three compulsory components to figure out a law were luck, comprehension and selection.
It’s pretty much impossible to learn a second type of rule once you learn one because a law of nature prohibits it. No wonder why everyone only has one domain ability! I guess I’m an exception to the rule? I’m awesome! Hmm… Since the rules apply to me, does that mean there’s another law to restrict me? Guess I’m not learning all of the rules unless I am nature. This sucks.
Mu Yu lied back to take a breather from all the brain racking. He had familiarised himself with a number of rules, such as blowing leaves upwards and the reason consumption of food was necessary for survival, but he had to discover anything useful for combat. Needless to say, the simpler the rule, the easier it was to grasp.
Even Ju Mang’s black beam requires aiming to kill – another rule, which means the rule restricting a domain’s perfection is the counter. I pulled it off to counter Dian Shi’s Mad Darkness Seven Ends, so I can deduce flaws. If deduction is a rule, how do I materialise it? Is it pointless to deduce simple rules? If I changed ‘blowing dust away with one breath’ to ‘blowing anything away in one breath’, then I’ve upgraded it beyond a simple rule!
Using Dead Zone Formation as an example, at the basic level, it only harms Qi Refinement Realm cultivators. The next level can harm Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators’ spiritual energy. The next level is Golden Core Realm and so on. This means Dad must’ve followed a progressive scheme. I must follow a progression scheme to grasp a natural rule! Finally getting somewhere! I need to start small and then expand. I assume everyone else fathomed this.”
Correction: it was not common sense as Mu Yu presumed it to be. Few people followed his approach, as a matter of fact. How one grasped a rule was an individualised process. Ku Mu, for one, did not employ that method; Ku Mu went straight to a complex rule. Howbeit, Ku Mu was one of the few who could make the leap as his knowledge of poisons was profound to say the least. By the same account, it only took him a year unlike certain others.
The only person in history to approach it the same way Mu Yu did was Feng Haochen. Feng Haochen was the promoter of every activity, such as cooking, to be cultivation. Hence, Feng Haochen personally toiled in everything to get a solid grasp on it.
Instead of saying Feng Haochen and Mu Yu’s approach was refining a rule of nature, it was better to think of it as them learning using different techniques, experiencing and experimenting. Feng Haochen enjoyed learning through observation and building on from the basics.
As opposed to refining a rule, Mu Yu explored other rules once he grasped one. Accordingly, he understood how subtle changes turned one rule into another.
“If deduction can be converted into a type of rule, will this work?”
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