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Chapter 44: The Pinnacle of Divine Ability, the Art of Teleportation Array
Chapter 44: The Pinnacle of Divine Ability, the Art of Teleportation Array
Du Ye came and left in a hurry, and Gu An could sense his excitement, as if he truly believed that Gu An was a member of the Ji family.
Gu An was also curious about the inner door. It was a good opportunity to take a look at the inner door while attending the Ji family banquet.
He planned to prepare more spirit stones in the next few days and do some shopping when he visited the inner door.
Time passed, and night fell.
Gu An quietly left Xuangu Valley, heading in the opposite direction of his previous breakthrough location. After traveling for about fifty miles, he finally stopped.
He sat in front of a mountain wall and brought up his attribute panel.
He looked directly at the Eight Directions Step and invested five thousand years of his lifespan into it.
This was a stepping technique that would not only help in combat but also aid in escape, so it needed to be improved.
As his thoughts landed on this decision, a series of prompts appeared:
[You invest five thousand years of your lifespan to evolve and cultivate the Eight Directions Step.]
[You have cultivated the Eight Directions Step for one year, and you have successfully learned it.]
[You have cultivated the Eight Directions Step for ten years, and your understanding of it has reached the pinnacle. Your comprehension of body techniques has improved.]
[You have cultivated the Eight Directions Step for fifty years, gaining insight into it. Your Eight Directions Step has been upgraded to the Eight Directions Profound Step.]
[You have cultivated the Eight Directions Profound Step for a hundred years, and your understanding of it has reached the pinnacle. Your comprehension of body techniques has improved.]
...
[You have cultivated the Eight Directions Profound Step for three hundred years, and your Eight Directions Profound Step has returned to its basics. You have captured a trace of the true meaning of space, and your Eight Directions Profound Step has been upgraded to the Qilin Step.]
...
[You have cultivated the Qilin Step for a thousand years. Your Qilin Step has returned to its basics, and your comprehension of body techniques and space has improved. Your Qilin Step has been upgraded to the Heavenly Dragon Profound True Step.]
...
[You have cultivated the Heavenly Dragon Profound True Step for four thousand years. Your persistent cultivation has finally gained the resonance of heaven and earth. Your Heavenly Dragon Profound True Step has broken through its limits and been upgraded to the Boundless and Untraceable Heavenly Step.]
[You have cultivated the Limitless and Traceless Heavenly Step for five thousand years, and your understanding of space has improved.]
Eight Directions Step, Eight Directions Profound Step, Qilin Step, Heavenly Dragon Profound True Step, and Limitless and Traceless Heavenly Step!
Gu An was secretly thrilled, and at the same time, a flood of memories began pouring into his mind. He quickly activated his Lifespan Barrier and then immersed himself in the inherited knowledge.
Half an hour later, Gu An opened his eyes.
He first checked his Lifespan Barrier and found that only two hundred years of his lifespan had been consumed.
Although cultivating inherited techniques and spells did not increase one's cultivation level, they still required the absorption of spiritual energy. After all, during the process of evolution and cultivation, one was always surrounded by spiritual energy, no matter what they were practicing.
Compared to his previous breakthrough to the Void Crossing Realm, the amount of spiritual energy he absorbed this time was not much.
Gu An looked at his attribute panel again and fell into thought.
He definitely needed to raise his cultivation level, but lately, he had been lying low to avoid trouble, so he couldn't afford to make any rash moves.
Moreover, he wanted to improve his techniques before raising his cultivation level. He planned to visit the inner door to see if there were any Five Elements techniques. If he didn't find a suitable option, he would grit his teeth and continue with the Divine Wood Pure Yang Technique.
After some consideration, Gu An decided to spend some of his lifespan on the Magic Shadow Divine Ability, a secret technique taught to him by Jiang Qiong—the Thousand Autumn Pavilion's secret technique.
Jiang Qiong had said that this secret technique was very suitable for spies, and Gu An wanted to see how suitable it really was.
Time to spend some lifespan! Let's invest two thousand years' worth!
[You invest two thousand years of your lifespan to evolve and cultivate the Magic Shadow Divine Ability.]
[You have cultivated the Magic Shadow Divine Ability for ten years, and you have initially learned it.]
[You have cultivated the Magic Shadow Divine Ability for a hundred years, and your Magic Shadow Divine Ability has reached the state of perfection. The speed at which you cast the Magic Shadow Divine Ability has increased.]
[You have cultivated the Magic Shadow Divine Ability for two hundred years, and your understanding of it has reached the pinnacle. Your comprehension of body techniques has improved.]
...
[You have cultivated the Magic Shadow Divine Ability for five hundred years. Your Magic Shadow Divine Ability has returned to its basics and been upgraded to the Self-possessed Demon Body Technique.]
...
[You have cultivated the Self-possessed Demon Body Technique for a thousand years, and your understanding of it has reached the pinnacle. Your comprehension of body techniques and causality has improved.]
[You have cultivated the Self-possessed Demon Body Technique for one thousand and three hundred years. Your Self-possessed Demon Body Technique has returned to its basics and been upgraded to the Great Yin-Yang Transformation.]
[You have cultivated the Great Yin-Yang Transformation for two thousand years, and your understanding of it has reached the pinnacle. Your comprehension of body techniques and causality has improved.]
Magic Shadow Divine Ability, Self-possessed Demon Body Technique, and Great Yin-Yang Transformation!
It had only been promoted twice, indicating that this secret technique was indeed extraordinary. Jiang Qiong had not deceived him.
Gu An immediately activated his Lifespan Barrier and immersed himself in the inherited knowledge.
Time passed.
He slowly opened his eyes, revealing a look of delight.
This secret technique was indeed very suitable for spies!
The Magic Shadow Divine Ability allowed the practitioner to be covered by demonic energy, forming a magic shadow that even divine sense couldn't penetrate. The Great Yin-Yang Transformation was even more exaggerated, as it couldn't be forcibly dispelled. The practitioner could maintain the magic shadow state until death, and even after death, their true body would not be revealed. The most critical aspect was that this technique could not be deduced, and even artifacts and treasures couldn't reveal the practitioner's true body.
Too overpowered!
With this ability, Gu An would be able to accomplish many things in the future.
Especially when combined with the Limitless and Traceless Heavenly Step, it would be invincible. The Limitless and Traceless Heavenly Step already possessed the profound mystery of teleportation, and each step could take one to a different location, making it both evasive and aggressive. Its mysteries were endless.
Gu An brought up his attribute panel again, his face showing satisfaction.
[Name: Gu An]
[Lifespan: 34/30823]
[Spirit Root: Top-grade Five Elements Spirit Root]
[Cultivation Level: First Layer of Void Crossing Realm]
[Techniques: Fire Control Technique (Not Learned), Divine Wood Pure Yang Technique (Perfection), Yellow Dragon Qi Technique (Pinnacle), Pill Refining Technique (Initial Insight), Myriad Gu Mysterious Technique (Not Learned), Yin-Yang Technique (Not Learned)]
[Ultimate Techniques: Hurricane Shadowless Kick (Proficient), Tai Cang Startling God Sword (Proficient), Limitless and Traceless Heavenly Step (Mastery), Great Yin-Yang Transformation (Peak), Wood Spirit Sword Art (Beginner), Purple Microcosm Array (Beginner)]
[Spells: Soul Capturing Art (Beginner), Sword Flight Art (Proficient), Confusion Eye (Unlearned), Poison Wood Array (Initiated), Wind Riding Art (Proficient), Corpse Controlling Art (Unlearned)]
[Divine Abilities: Primordial Dragon's Might (Minor Achievement)]
Tonight's harvest was not bad!
Gu An shut down his Lifespan Barrier and stood up, taking a step forward. His figure disappeared into thin air, and in an instant, he reappeared dozens of zhang away in the forest. With another step, he vanished once more.
He seemed to be constantly flashing, a true display of the wondrous Limitless and Traceless Heavenly Step. Moreover, he was merely experimenting, and the maximum distance he could cross was far beyond what he had shown.
Soon, he returned to Xuangu Valley.
...
At noon, the sun shone brightly.
Gu An stood in the city, his eyes filled with curiosity as he looked at the towering buildings around him. The street he stood on was bustling with people, and he could even spot the silhouettes of demonic beasts. Above, numerous cultivators flew to and fro. This single city likely housed several hundred thousand people.
Tai Xuan Gate had four inner-door cities, and each one was home to hundreds of thousands of disciples. This was truly astonishing.
Gu An suddenly felt that he had underestimated the strength of Tai Xuan Gate and the vastness of the Tai Cang Empire.
The ten-day period had arrived, and the day before, Gu An had gone to the outer door. He had to help those outer door disciples manage their cave residences first, and by the time he finished, it was already dawn. On this day at noon, he found Du Ye, and the two of them used an array to teleport directly to the inner door city.
According to Du Ye, the outer door city was thousands of li away from the inner door city. In between was an area inhabited by the demonic beasts raised by Tai Xuan Gate, as well as secret realms for disciples to gain experience and medicine valleys that grew high-grade medicinal herbs.
"Teleportation arrays are a wonderful thing. I need to study them further."
Gu An thought to himself. He had just asked Du Ye about it, and he was told that everything could be bought in the inner door, including arrays, as long as one had enough spirit stones or spiritual energy pills.
In the cultivation world, spiritual energy pills were also a form of currency. They could not only restore a cultivator's spiritual power but also be used like spirit stones. The various sects had established a uniform standard for spiritual energy pills, where each pill contained spiritual energy equivalent to a low-grade spirit stone, and their value was the same.
Ever since Li Xuandao invited him to manage the medicine valley, Gu An had been planning to open more medicine valleys.
If every medicine valley had a teleportation array, things would be so much more convenient.
"Gu An, hurry up."
Du Ye urged him from ahead, and Gu An quickly kept up with his pace.
Along the way, Du Ye introduced the buildings they passed, and Gu An listened carefully, planning to explore the area in the next few days.
The Ji family banquet would likely last several days, so he had plenty of time to look around.
Gu An was not just listening; he was also using his lifespan to probe.
To his surprise, he couldn't detect anyone at the Foundation Establishment Realm; the weakest he found were at the Core Formation Realm. However, these Core Formation cultivators were all over two hundred years old.
After walking through several streets, Gu An finally sensed someone at the Foundation Establishment Realm. This person was only forty years old and had already reached the ninth layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm. He was clearly a genius who had entered the inner door with an exceptional spirit root.
Du Ye seemed to be deliberately giving Gu An a broader perspective, walking at a leisurely pace that Gu An was happy to match.
Half a shichen later.
They arrived at a mansion. This mansion was quite expansive, with walls stretching for several li. On the plaque above the main gate were two large characters.
Ji Mansion!
Bold! Are all the Ji family's inner door disciples living here?
Gu An silently complained, feeling that things were not boding well.
If this continued, there would eventually come a day when Tai Xuan Gate would suppress the Ji family, and at that time, he would truly become a spy for the Ji family.
Although he was currently affiliated with Tai Xuan Gate, in his heart, the Ji family was undoubtedly more important.
The Ji family had raised him, helped him grow up, and even led him to join Tai Xuan Gate, the number one sect. He couldn't possibly repay this debt of gratitude with just low-grade medicinal herbs.
Of course, Gu An wouldn't force himself to repay the Ji family, but if they needed his help and it wasn't excessive, he wouldn't refuse.
There were two Foundation Establishment cultivators guarding the main gate of the Ji Mansion. Gu An probed them with his lifespan and found that they were over a hundred years old. They were clearly not geniuses and were probably, like Gu An and Du Ye, servants of the Ji family.
Du Ye immediately stepped forward and presented his token, his posture humble as he bowed and scraped.
"Then you can take over from us. When it gets dark, we'll take you to your accommodations." The Foundation Establishment cultivator named Zhang Yan said thoughtfully.
Du Ye didn't dare refuse and immediately agreed.
And so, as soon as they arrived, Gu An and Du Ye began their guard duty.
Gu An stood in front of a kirin statue and suddenly had an idea.
"Du Ye, you stand guard for me. I'll give you a hundred low-grade spirit stones. I want to go to the inner door to buy some medicinal herb seeds. This is also for the Third Miss's work." Gu An said.
Upon hearing this, Du Ye hesitated. He wanted to object, but he couldn't refuse.
A hundred low-grade spirit stones!
This kid sure is generous!
And so, after Gu An gave a hundred low-grade spirit stones to Du Ye, he left and began wandering around the inner door city by himself.
He hadn't walked far when a voice called out, "Gu An, what are you doing here?"
(End of Chapter)
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