Chapter 620: Heavenly Profound God-Pouring Technique

“Do you wish to spend ten thousand contribution points for one divine ability deduction? The first deduction has a one percent chance of success. Each subsequent deduction will increase the success rate until it reaches one hundred percent.”

Li Fan looked at the prompt that appeared on the Heavenly Profound Mirror, his face expressionless, and selected “Confirm.”

Cultivators within the Myriad Immortals Alliance system gradually unlock certain privileges as their merit levels increase. These are reflected in all aspects of cultivation life, such as reduced contribution points for using teleportation arrays, increased chances for the Heavenly Profound Mirror to reclaim items at their original market price, and so on.

However, some crucial privileges only become available upon reaching specific levels.

For instance, Derivation Level 5 Privilege: One free long-distance teleportation can be requested per year.

Derivation Level 10 Privilege: When searching for information in the Heavenly Profound Mirror, one can preview relevant data and item information that would normally require a cultivation level one major realm higher than their own.

Derivation Level 15 Privilege: Once every ten years, one can randomly connect via the Heavenly Profound Mirror with a cultivator one major realm higher than themselves. However, there are no mandatory responsibilities or obligations between the two parties. Maintaining the relationship depends entirely on individual ability.

And Derivation Level 20 Privilege is the ability to spend contribution points on deducing divine abilities and combat techniques during the "Sitting and Discussing the Dao" sessions.

However, this deduction process was quite a trap. Not only did it consume an exorbitant amount of contribution points, but success wasn't even guaranteed. It was widely ridiculed by many cultivators within the system as a specialized tool for draining contribution points.

As soon as Li Fan selected "Confirm," a small figure identical to his current appearance immediately came to life. Its expression was serious, its gaze fixed on the void ahead. Its left hand struck with a palm, its right hand wielded a sword. A faint light erupted not far from the figure, and space twisted and blurred.

As expected, the Heavenly Profound Mirror displayed a prompt: "This deduction has failed. Do you wish to spend fifteen thousand contribution points to continue?"

"If you continue, there will be a two percent chance of success."

"If you give up, the deduction data will be reset, and you will need to start over next time."

"You can also choose to supplement divine ability data details to increase the success rate."

Li Fan directly chose to continue.

The next moment, the small figure moved again. This time, the depiction of it performing the Cloud-Gathering Sword and Heaven-Overturning Palm seemed somewhat more vivid than before. However, the success rate was still too low; it wasn't long before another failure notification appeared.

For the third deduction, the required contribution points increased to twenty thousand. Yet, the probability of success only rose to three percent. Li Fan's expression remained unchanged as he chose to continue the deduction.

The third time also failed. Then came the fourth, fifth, and so on...

As the small figure's Cloud-Gathering Sword and Heaven-Overturning Palm increasingly embodied the true essence of divine abilities, Li Fan vaguely understood how the Heavenly Profound Mirror's divine ability deduction worked. Simply put, it involved creating a potential divine ability target for the Heavenly Profound Mirror and attaching the effects and power that ability would possess. The Heavenly Profound Mirror would then, based on the outcome, reverse-engineer all the conditions required to learn this divine ability. It would summarize this as experience and transmit it to the cultivator.

This could be likened to ancient times in the cultivation world, where mighty experts could observe other cultivators fighting and, with just a glance, learn and replicate the divine abilities displayed by others. This is what is meant by 'drawing inferences from one instance' and 'all roads leading to the same destination'.

The more deductions performed, the more contribution points were consumed. When the price for each deduction rose to one hundred thousand, the success rate had barely increased to eighteen percent.

"This deduction method is truly not something ordinary people can afford to play with," Li Fan thought. "The Heavenly Profound Mirror's deduction capability itself surely isn't so poor; it's merely a deliberate setting designed to maliciously drain contribution points."

"And now that it's reached this point, so much has already been invested, making the sunk cost too high. Very few would be willing to give up. It's like being stuck in quicksand, unable to extricate oneself," Li Fan realized.

After some thought, he uploaded his own insights into the Cloud-Gathering Sword and Heaven-Overturning Palm divine abilities, supplementing the data. Instantly, the success rate surged from eighteen percent to seventy-eight percent, while the deduction price remained unchanged.

"It seems that deductions supported by theory are far superior to conjuring something out of thin air after all," Li Fan mused inwardly, and proceeded with another deduction.

A moment later, a seven-colored divine light descended from the sky, landing on Li Fan's small figure. The small figure seemed to have grasped something profound, its face displaying an expression as if having 'heard the Dao in the morning, one could die content in the evening'. It let out a long howl, striking with a single palm. In the void ahead, space and time instantly twisted and turned upside down. Several streaks of blue sword light continuously flashed, tearing through space-time.

As for Li Fan himself, a golden light appeared before his eyes, and invigorating music played in his ears.

"Congratulations! You have successfully comprehended the divine ability: Heaven-Shattering Heart Sword."

"Divine Ability Description: Not limited by forms or moves, every punch, palm, saber, or sword strike moves with your will, possessing the power to shatter the heavens."

"Do you wish to spend five hundred thousand contribution points to infuse this divine ability?"

"You may also continue to deduce the Heaven-Shattering Heart Sword, striving for perfection and reaching a higher level. Remember, there is no limit to the Dao."

"The first advanced deduction enjoys a fifty percent discount, requiring only fifty thousand contribution points. Success rate: eight percent."

As the Heavenly Profound Mirror issued a series of prompts, Li Fan's expression shifted; he finally couldn't maintain his composure. He had originally thought his contribution points were more than enough, perhaps inexhaustible for a lifetime. Now, it seemed...

"I still can't outplay you, Heavenly Profound Mirror!"

With a 'what if I try?' mentality, Li Fan proceeded with the advanced deduction. The first discounted attempt: fifty thousand contribution points, eight percent success rate — failed. The second attempt's cost surged to one hundred fifty thousand contribution points; fortunately, the success rate also increased to ten percent. It still failed.

Even though Li Fan's enormous hoard of contribution points had come to him easily, watching them constantly decrease and vanish now made his heart ache a little. In this cultivation technique deduction, contribution points seemed to lose their inherent value, becoming mere fuel to drive the deduction process. If the success rate consistently increased each time, Li Fan estimated he could grit his teeth and eventually deduce the advanced divine ability.

But the Heavenly Profound Mirror's tricks truly exceeded Li Fan's expectations. After the success rate reached fifty percent and it failed yet again, Li Fan discovered that it had stopped increasing! Instead, another progress bar appeared before Li Fan's eyes.

"Specialized Directed Deduction."

"Failing to increase the success rate for advanced divine ability deductions will increase the progress of directed deductions. Once this progress is full, you can specify the direction of enhancement for the deduced divine ability."

"For example, lethality, subtlety, priority, and so on."

The success rate wasn't consistently increasing, but the contribution points required for each deduction were indeed steadily rising. Thus, deducing an advanced version of the Heaven-Shattering Heart Sword would likely require an astronomical number of contribution points.