BXBX NOVEL Chapter 82 - 72: The Four Divine Skills_l
Chapter 82 - 72: The Four Divine Skills_l
[Lu Ling Jue+1431]!
[Proficiency in Lu Ling Jue; 1328/1600]!
The reason why Xu Mu didn’t continue to accumulate Luck Value to rush the Lu Ling Jue to the Proficiency level all at once was first out of fear of missing the Flying Boat, and second because it was unnecessary.
A normal cultivator, once they train the Lu Ling Jue to the Proficient level, would already possess the ability to refine spirits.
With Xu Mu’s current level of Lu Ling Jue approaching Proficiency, there would basically be no accidents.
Unless his fundamentals were too weak!
Clearly, Xu Mu’s fundamentals were not weak at all. Few within the same realm could compare with him. Compared to the typical Qi Cultivation ninth level, he was only stronger, not weaker.
The most critical aspect of refining spirits is the spirit!
Xu Mu’s spirit, reinforced by the double-enhancement of the Fire-Controlling Skill and Thunderbolt Sword Skill, was far stronger than those in the early stages of Foundation Establishment.
Under these circumstances, if he still fails to refine the spirit, then there’s no point in having this martial method.
Xu Mu took out the crystal sealing the spirit of the crimson crow and poured spiritual power into it, fiercely smacking it with force.
Crack!
The crystal instantly filled with cracks and shattered with a pop.
Caw Caw!
The originally tiny crimson crow, upon the removal of the seal, swelled up suddenly, standing taller than a person, like a giant roc bird.
As it spread its wings, endless fire spiritual power converged, causing the temperature in the entire room to soar suddenly.
In its eyes, there was only fire!
Caw!
The crimson crow let out a piercing shriek, accompanied by surging flames, soaring towards the sky, but was blocked by the formation. Then, filled with hatred, it dove towards Xu Mu.
Anyone who had their bodies destroyed and their souls sealed in a crystal would have difficulty not harbouring any hatred.
In the eyes of the Crimson Crow, all humans deserved to die!
Facing this surging wave of fire, other cultivators in the late stage of Qi Cultivation would likely be flustered, let alone refine spirits.
But Xu Mu remains oblivious!
His body radiated a glazed glow, and a fire lotus emerged from his forehead, easily warding off the fire’s attack.
Before the Crimson Crow could react.
He performed a spell with his hands, chanting incantations. Countless runes appeared between his fingers, enveloping the Crimson Crow and quickly seeping into it.
The Crimson Crow struggled desperately, letting out mournful cries from its beak.
But it was to no avail!
As the runes infiltrated, the Crimson Crow gradually ceased struggling. Its eyes began to gaze blankly.
Xu Mu changes his spell swiftly and starts to operate his martial method. He opens his mouth wide and swallows the spirit of the Crimson Crow in one gulp.
He closes his eyes, his consciousness sinking into the sea of his heart!
Within a vast space as mysterious as a starry sky, the Crimson Crow abruptly appeared. Its originally vacant eyes suddenly regained consciousness.
Caw!
It let out a cry, its whole body erupting in fierce flames, as if it wanted to ignite the entire space.
Little one! Settle down!
A cluster of illusory white fog appears beside the Crimson Crow, taking on the likeness of Xu Mu.
Xu Mu raised his hand, placing it on the head of the Crimson Crow.
Caw!
A meeting of bitter enemies, the Crimson Crow let off a piercing cry as it rushed at Xu Mu once more.
This time Xu Mu offered no resistance, but the crow found only an empty space.
Xu Mu’s body was like an illusion, fading once again into a white mist.
Before the crow could launch another attack, Xu Mu’s mist-like form quickly enveloped it, completely swallowing and covering it.
Caw~!
With a long cry, the crimson crow ceased its struggle. Its eyes now shone with an intelligent light.
What a strange feeling! It’s like I have another body!
The Crimson Crow spoke in a human voice, which sounded very peculiar.
Transforming, the Crimson Crow slowly twisted, morphing into the figure of Xu Mu.
But this time it was not white, but entirely made up of fire and was a vivid red, including its eyes and brows.
After carefully examining the Crimson Crow’s spirit, Xu Mu then retracted his own spiritual power again, leaving the crow to revert to its original form. However, in its eyes, it did not maintain its original fierceness but had become much simpler, as though it had just been born into this world, full of curiosity about everything. It held a sense of innocence.
The Crimson Crow’s original consciousness had been erased. Now, the crow was equivalent to a clone of Xu Mu, with only a touch of Xu Mu’s spiritual imprint left deep within its soul.
It’s essentially a newborn, a beast soul that can perfectly integrate Yu Mu’s spirit.
The original Xu Mu had no way to easily leave the sea of consciousness. But now, with the Crimson Crow’s beast soul, he can not only easily leave, but even leave his body to exist in the outside world for long periods, just like Luo Lie at the end.
The only downside is that while separating from the body, the body itself becomes a soulless shell, which can be easily destroyed by anyone.
Therefore, unless it is a special situation or it is absolutely necessary, it is best not to leave the body or even the space of consciousness, unnecessarily.
After figuring out the use of the Crimson Crow, Xu Mu’s consciousness returned to his body, while the Crimson Crow simultaneously disappeared from the space of consciousness.
Regaining control of his body, Xu Mu continued to operate his martial method. The Crimson Crow turned into a cluster of red energy, merged with the spiritual power, and began to help him drive the circulation of spiritual power.
After an unknown length of time, the speed of the spiritual power circulation suddenly accelerated. The spiritual energy between heaven and earth was attracted by an invisible force and began to pour into his body crazily.
Boom!
Xu Mu’s whole body trembled with spiritual power, its route of circulation birthed a larger network.
Both the quantity and the quality of the spiritual power had increased significantly.
He suppressed his excitement and continued to fully focus on the operation of the spiritual power until the restless spiritual power had completely settled down.
He opened his eyes.
Cultivation at the eighth level! A truly unexpected delight!” Xu Mu smiled.
Not only that, the Lu Ling Jue had also risen along with the tide, breaking through to the Proficient level and saving nearly two hundred points of Luck Value.
Awesome!
[A compatible martial method has been found, do you wish to merge it?]
Surprises come one after another!
The skill icons of Spirit Flame Jue and Lu Ling Jue began flickering at the same time!
Merge!”
If he didn’t merge, he would have had to slowly abandon the Spirit Flame Jue. Now, not only has he avoided the trouble, but he has also gained a lot of experience points.
The memories of the two martial methods began to collide and merge in his mind, transforming into a completely new entity.
It took him a while before he finally completed the fusion process.
Now, the Lu Ling Jue couldn’t be entirely called Lu Ling Jue anymore. After merging with the Spirit Flame Jue, its characteristic became more biased towards fire.
It had more advantages for those with a fire attribute physique. After merging with the soul of a fire attribute monster beast, the power of the martial method had also increased.
[Please name the new martial method?]
Xu Mu originally wanted to call it the Crow Ling Jue, but it didn’t sound very nice to him, even naming it Chiya Jue didn’t sound that good either.
After thinking about it for a moment, he felt naming it the “Crimson Spirit Jue to be quite good.
[Proficiency of Crimson Spirit Jue; 591/3200]!
After merging the martial method, the system’s prompt didn’t stop.
[Divine skills available for fusion found, do you wish to merge?]
Divine skills? When did I cultivate divine skills?
Xu Mu looked at the bottom of the system interface. A divine skill column had appeared out of nowhere.
And there was more than one divine skill.
[Divine Skills: Fire-controlling Skill proficiency; 100/1600, Crow’s Cry; 100/1600, Flame Wings proficiency; 100/1600, Soul Devouring proficiency; 100/1600]
Obviously, these weren’t divine skills cultivated by Xu Mu himself, but the ones that came with the Crimson Crow after the soul fusion.
As the two were now considered as one entity, these skills were categorized under him by the system.
Not bad! Not bad at all!
Xu Mu was ecstatic.
For others cultivating the Lu Ling Jue, although these divine skills were indeed powerful, they were only just that – powerful.
As their beast soul wasn’t their real body, enhancing them was an extremely difficult task. Their only option was to constantly use them and allow them to naturally level up.
But for Xu Mu, who had the ability to add points, this was like a treasure trove.
Legend has it that all skills evolved from divine skills, which were born from bloodlines, and bloodlines were naturally formed.
Compared to skills, not only were divine skills more flexible and convenient to execute, but they also used up less energy.
They were absolutely essential in day-to-day life, travels, and even when robbing houses.
He didn’t expect to get four of them at once!
Are the Luo family people really my enemies? They seem more like treasure bearers to me!”
Xu Mu couldn’t contain his joy.
At that time, he also saw which divine skills were available for fusion.
The tier three Fire-controlling Skill and divine skill Fire-controlling Skill!
Merge!”
This fusion was very different from the last time.
Aside from Xu Mu gaining a wealth of information in his mind, the Crimson Crow had also undergone some subtle changes. Above the existing two eyes, unexpectedly, a new pair of eyes sprang up.
It had become a four-eyed Crimson Crow!
The simultaneous opening of the four eyes generated a kind of mysterious and powerful sensation.
[Please name the new divine skill?]
Fire-controlling!
[Divine Skill Fire-controlling Perfection; 5171/6400]!
It’s just reached the perfection stage; this downgrade is a bit too much!
However!
As soon as Xu Mu had the thought, the Crimson Crow flew out from his body. With a gentle flap of its wings, a fireball instantly formed in front of it.
Scarlet, jet-black, deep blue, and dark cyan!
The colors shifted rapidly, completing the transformation within a few breaths.
The speed of forming the fireball has significantly improved compared to before, its applicability in real battles has also increased, and it consumes less spiritual power. The original fireball used up more than half of my spiritual power, and I had to use pills to supplement it, but now, a fireball of equivalent power only consumes a quarter of my total spiritual power!”
This fusion significantly increased his attack power.
However, the disadvantage of condensing fireballs was still quite obvious.
A few breaths might not seem long to a normal person, but for someone at the Foundation Establishment stage, it would be enough for them to cover dozens of miles.
The fireball condensing skill was mostly suitable for sneak attacks, and it was practically useless in head-on battles.
The second and third stages, however, had some practical uses in real battles and could possibly work wonders at crucial moments.
For Xu Mu though, the main advantage of the Fire-controlling skill was its usefulness in alchemy.
Now that he had the Crimson Crow, he had more room to manoeuvre, and future alchemy would be easier.
As for the remaining three divine skills.
Crow’s Cry, was a sonic wave divine skill which involved the Crimson Crow shrieking to attack enemies, directly affecting their spirits.
Flame Wings was a flying divine skill, through merging oneself with the Crimson Crow, it formed a pair of flame wings, giving the cultivator the ability to fly like a bird.
Soul Devouring was a divine skill that all who cultivated the Lu Ling Jue were capable of. It could be used to devour souls to boost the level of the beast soul, and it could also read fragments of memories within souls.
All three divine skills were very practical, especially Flame Wings, which was an escape skill that Xu Mu had been seeking.
Regrettably, he had no Luck Value left in his hands at the moment.
I should hold onto any Luck Value I get. If I encounter danger, I’ll upgrade Flame Wings to escape. If there’s no danger, I’ll save it to upgrade my Foundation Establishment Pill!”
Speaking of which, I should start planning for my Foundation Establishment!”
For Xu Mu, who was never short of resources, his cultivation speed was always fast. Now that he had the assistance of the Crimson Crow too, his progress would be even faster and he would likely achieve Qi Cultivation Perfection in no time.
So, planning for his Foundation Establishment early was a must.
Looks like I need to go meet Chi Feiyan, to see if I can get the Pill Recipe for the Foundation Establishment Pill before I leave!”
Changing to a new environment would mean starting everything from scratch. If he waited till later to find the Pill Recipe fitting for the Foundation Establishment stage, it would be much more troublesome.
He was still in the same small pub.
Hearing Xu Mu’s purpose, Chi Feiyan couldn’t help but laugh.
Don’t you know that the Pill Recipe for the Foundation Establishment Pill is strictly forbidden by Tianhe Sect? You’re not intending to get me into trouble, are you?”