A Sect from a Spirit Vein

Chapter 298 - 258: Divine Skill Wondrous Method

However, with the common knowledge that Pearl Spirit currently possessed, she couldn’t figure out how to break apart the Profound Skill, shuffle it around, and then ask about the terminology. She could only watch Wu Yan recite the ’Supreme Primordial Spirit Sea-Suppressing Profound Skill’ all the way to the Nascent Soul Scroll before having a sudden realization and coming up with a clever plan.

"No reciting further." Pearl Spirit felt her mind was ablaze, and she truly admired her own wit, "You haven’t cultivated to this point yet; why recite so much? Wait until you reach this stage, then seek guidance."

She then fiercely warned Lu Qian, "You absolutely cannot disclose the content of the ’Profound Skill’ to outsiders, or I’ll kill you."

After obtaining Lu Qian’s promise, Pearl Spirit nodded with satisfaction.

Poor Pearl Spirit, still unaware that something called a Dao Heart Oath exists in this world...

Upon finishing the inquiry, Wu Yan took out several secret manuals: "Sect Leader, this is the gratitude gift for this time, please accept it with a smile."

Lu Qian smiled and nodded: "Very considerate."

Pearl Spirit began to find Lu Qian’s smile unsettling. Why was this? She didn’t quite understand either. Wu Yan said, one should repay when receiving help, which made a lot of sense. Besides, these trash books were originally hers, and she couldn’t care less. So she simply turned around to gaze at the snow-covered mountains, adorned in silver, out of sight and out of mind.

Lu Qian took the two jade scrolls and a silk book and began to carefully examine them.

During this period of guiding Wu Yan’s cultivation, his own gains have been immensely satisfying, and he couldn’t help but marvel at Wu Yan’s strong fortune. With this elderly... sister accompanying him, his future cultivation path would surely be smooth sailing.

Firstly, he understood through the ’Supreme Primordial Spirit Sea-Suppressing Profound Skill’ that what Pearl Spirit mentioned, Wu Yan’s talent being the same as Jichuan Profound Monarch’s, referred to her spirit root attribute.

This ’Profound Skill’ was cultivated and modified optimally by the Profound Monarch, and it clearly described that Wu Yan’s transparent, clear, and invisible exotic spiritual root, called the "Void Spiritual Root," is essentially a variant of the Water Spiritual Root. This ’Profound Skill’ is also a water attribute divine skill, thus Profound Monarch chose it as his lifebound technique.

It is said "spirit root attribute" instead of the "spiritual root" itself because once a cultivator attains the Golden Core, the spiritual root disappears.

Cultivating the spiritual root is for Qi Cultivation, the spiritual root blooms and transforms into a spirit bud during Foundation Establishment, and the spirit bud forms into a spirit fruit, enduring the celestial tribulation, ripened, and then becomes a flawless Golden Core.

Once the Golden Core is formed, the spiritual root, as the "root and vein," also disappears. What the Golden Core inherits is the spiritual root’s attribute. This attribute will continuously be passed down and inherited by the Nascent Soul and Primordial Spirit subsequently.

Besides carrying all the attributes of the Water Spiritual Root, the Void Spiritual Root also possesses two distinct features.

Firstly, its spatial attribute. People with Void Spiritual Roots can keenly perceive spatial fluctuations and barriers, consequently enabling them to explore spatial mysteries earlier than typical cultivators. Cultivating space-related secret techniques also becomes twice as effective with half the effort. Jichuan Primordial Monarch managed to refine the Spiritual Treasure Primordial Yin Pearl, similar to a Void Refining Grotto Heaven, with his Primordial Spirit cultivation due to his Void Spiritual Root attribute.

Secondly, the invisibility attribute. This differs from Hee Yangchen’s Invisible Dao Pattern; the Void Spiritual Root’s invisibility is the invisibility of spiritual power. The spiritual power exhibits minimal fluctuations during its manipulation, seemingly nonexistent and blending with the surroundings. Unless a cultivator possesses a cultivation one significant realm higher than them, it’s virtually impossible to detect the spiritual power’s trajectory. Thus, during the wrestling match that day, Wu Yan cast spells from the sidelines undetected by anyone other than Lu Qian.

Upon understanding the characteristics of the Void Spiritual Root, Lu Qian naturally had to cultivate and guide Wu Yan according to these profound wonders. Fortunately, since the ’Profound Skill’ was used by the Profound Monarch as his inheritance technique, it recorded many secret techniques and techniques suitable for Void Spiritual Roots. Wu Yan only needed to study them linearly without any issues.

In the past, Jichuan Profound Monarch relied on the marvels of his Void Spiritual Root and mastered various divine skills and secret techniques to dominate a province, being invincible for a time.

As for Lu Qian, possessing Gold-Water Dual Spiritual Roots, this water attribute cultivation technique naturally could be cultivated smoothly. The ’Profound Skill’ can be cultivated up to Void Refining Perfection, even if the secret techniques exclusive to Void Spiritual Roots recorded in it cannot be cultivated, it remains a Void Refining level divine skill and ranks top-tier among Void Refining levels.

According to Lu Qian’s recent order to organize the ’Yushan Seventh Grade Profound Mystery Scripture,’ the ’Profound Skill’ could be classified among the third-grade cultivation techniques, and even only because some of its Void Spiritual Root secret techniques cannot be used, otherwise it could fully be placed under the first-grade category.

Now Wu Yan has recited the ’Profound Skill’ up to the Nascent Soul Scroll, extraordinarily mystical; his own ’Hidden Cloud Scripture’ pales in comparison naturally by a wide margin. Lu Qian decidedly decided to switch cultivational technique. Yet, switching cultivation techniques is not a task that can be accomplished overnight and requires careful handling. The situation is turbulent; a great battle looms, leaving no room for this undertaking.

It will have to wait until the dust settles to discuss further.

Besides this ’Profound Skill,’ in the past few days Wu Yan had also retrieved many mystical scriptures from Jichuan Profound Monarch’s collection. To avoid over-stimulating Pearl Spirit, she took care in choosing them and even used the excuse of "thanksgiving for guidance."

However, given her newly begun cultivation insights, she couldn’t precisely locate the scriptures Lu Qian needed.

Initially, knowing her own Sect Leader was an Array Cultivator, she brought several array secret manuals, naturally rare treasures. ’Eighteen Spirit Generals Soul Capturing Array,’ ’Twelve Heavenly Sumeru Grand Array,’ ’Nine Luminaries Star God Array,’ among others, dazzled Lu Qian, but such arrays require tremendous effort for in-depth research and have no benefit to the current situation.

When subtly hinting to Wu Yan about the county’s lurking crises and impending battles, the little girl found ’Sinful Corpse Plague Burst Secret Technique,’ ’Soul-Seizing and Soul-Transforming Technique,’ ’Profound Yin Ghost Control Skill,’ among others, unexpectedly discovering demonic secret manuals in the Profound Monarch’s collection, surprisingly to Lu Qian.

The so-called demon dao techniques mainly feature two characteristics: one is manipulating cultivators’ corpses, bones, spirits, and blood, widely detested and abhorred, while the other advances rapidly, forming battle power quickly if enough "materials" are available. However, these techniques have significant flaws, either causing cultivators to easily fall into madness, invaded by inner demons or leading to schizophrenia, turning them insane.

Thus, demon cultivators have always been vilified on this land. In this regard, previously encountered Skull Child seems suspiciously a demon cultivator.

Lu Qian currently just has no intention to switch to demon dao cultivation; in this overall environment, demon skills would be rejected by both people and ghosts upon emergence, halting growth and development. Hence, these techniques can only be collected casually for reference, to better handle encounters with demon cultivators in the future.

This time Wu Yan brought three volumes of scriptures, reinvigorating Lu Qian’s spirit upon reading.

The first volume is ’Essentials of Refining the Soaring Snake Daoist Soldier.’

Daoist Soldiers are a branch of puppetry techniques but possess greater might, exhibiting animal-like spiritual wisdom, with higher energy consumption generally unable to be powered using Spirit Stones, hence typically positioned around Spirit Veins to guard the mountain gate and Daoist grounds, hence called Daoist Soldiers.