AWB Chapter 103 Wind Release Technique
Chapter 103 Wind Release Technique
Chapter 103 Wind Release Technique
After tossing the cultivation technique to Feng Qingjun
The other party also tossed Chen Yi a jade slip.
Chen Yi took three steps back before accepting the jade slip. While checking it with his divine sense, he secretly prepared another Thunderfire Golden Crystal in his bone aperture, ready to be activated or used for escape at any time.
After confirming there are no traps, maintain a safe distance from the other party.
After a brief look at the contents, I confirmed that it was indeed the [Azure Wind Escape] technique.
"Fairy, is there anything else you need?"
No.
I first asked Qin Chengcheng,
then,
Chen Yi stepped back several feet to make way for the exit and smiled:
"Take care, Brother Feng. Until we meet again."
"Hmph! I never want to see you again, Brother Xu. Farewell!"
Feng Qingjun didn't even glance at the jade slip Chen Yi gave him. He used his last bit of magic power to condense the Azure Wind Escape Technique and fled as if escaping.
After two major battles,
His magical power was actually already exhausted.
For a Foundation Establishment cultivator to activate a third-tier talisman, the amount of mana required is also considerable.
He took out these five third-tier talismans. In his current state, he could only forcefully activate two at most.
There is simply no way to activate five cards at the same time.
Of course, when he said he was truly pushed to the brink and ready to fight to the death, he wasn't lying.
Besides these talismans, he also had an extremely precious pill that, once ingested, could replenish his magical power and spiritual sense to a perfect state in a short period of time.
At that time, it was possible to use those talismans simultaneously.
However, that pill was also quite valuable, and if one were to take it and then activate these talismans...
He will likely have to work for the next few decades to pay off his debts.
Now, having sacrificed only three third-tier spirit vines, three near-third-tier treasures, and the [Azure Wind Escape] technique—a technique that no one but those with a rare wind spirit root could possibly master—he successfully escaped and absolved himself of the karmic consequences of attacking the two.
This is already the best-case scenario right now.
After Feng Qingjun left,
Chen Yi also told Qin Chengcheng to quickly clean up the battlefield.
He took out two third-tier spirit vines and the near-third-tier Ice Heart Concentration Fruit and handed them to Qin Chengcheng.
"Fairy, these are yours, we'll split them fifty-fifty."
Qin Chengcheng smiled and nodded as she accepted it, her eyes filled with gentleness and a hint of amusement.
"You, you've driven Feng Qingjun to such a state!"
He was once one of the eight greatest prodigies, but today he's fallen from grace, tricked by us, and his strength is reduced to less than one-tenth.
What if we run into him again someday and he takes revenge?
Chen Yi chuckled lightly:
"Fairy, you don't need to be too afraid of this person. I've tried his wind shield, and it's very fragile."
Moreover, if this person can't defeat us today, he will be even less likely to defeat us if we encounter us again in the future. The advantage of a different kind of celestial spiritual root will diminish significantly after the Core Formation stage.
A person who is extremely fast but not physically strong is not scary.
"Moreover, I also took that into consideration, so I didn't push him to the brink of death."
Even if he tries to get revenge in the future, we'll be using fake identities.
"You have so many clever ideas."
By the way, how effective was the spiritual energy condensation technique you taught him?
"Won't learning this increase the power of Wind Release?"
Qin Chengcheng looked at Chen Yi with a strange look in her eyes.
"Sigh, that method was something I stumbled upon ten years ago when I was just a Xiantian martial artist."
Moreover, what he received today was not the complete version from back then.
But today, I have an even more sophisticated method.
"Fairy, why are you looking at me like that?"
"What more advanced method have you acquired? Why have I never heard of it?"
"I bought you so many resources to improve your strength. You're really capable, so you're keeping it all to yourself, aren't you?"
Qin Chengcheng stared at Chen Yi with a cold gaze, her tone seemingly tinged with petulance.
"Well, I haven't quite figured it out yet. When the time is right, I'll naturally teach you, Fairy."
The main reason Chen Yi couldn't easily teach Qin Chengcheng the Five Elements Combination Method was that the method he had developed could combine the three elements of divine sense—wood, water, and metal—to temporarily enhance the strength of divine sense.
After Qin Chengcheng's divine encounter with Chen Yi during the Phoenix Dance in the Nine Heavens, Chen Yi also planted seeds of wood and water elements in her soul.
Looking back now, it must have already grown up and gained momentum.
If Chen Yi were to pass this method on to Qin Chengcheng now, Qin Chengcheng would most likely comprehend it within half a day and apply it to her own divine sense.
After all, their spiritual consciousness was connected.
At that time, the secret of their acquaintance and connection could no longer be kept.
Therefore, Chen Yi did not choose to teach at this time.
"Hmph! Who cares? You're just a lowly cultivator in the early stages of Foundation Establishment, what powerful techniques could you possibly have?"
Qin Chengcheng was displeased and turned her head to look to the side, revealing a long, fair neck.
"Ahem, fairy, how about I teach you a concealment technique first? Your disguise only changes your face and then your clothes."
The rest, from neck to toe, were hopelessly beautiful; anyone with even a slightly stronger spiritual sense could recognize her at a glance.
Feeling Chen Yi's fiery gaze on her neck, Qin Chengcheng blushed instantly to the roots of her ears.
Her heart was pounding.
For some reason, after spending time with him a few times, she found herself surprisingly not disliking the chef.
"No... I can't fall in love with someone else. I must find my lost memories. Back then, since I chose that person to perform Phoenix Dance in the Nine Heavens, there must have been a reason."
Qin Chengcheng forcibly controlled her emotions, banishing thoughts that shouldn't be on her mind.
Then I took a few deep breaths.
Her voice returned to its cool and clear tone, and she said:
"Go ahead and tell me, I want to see what's so special about your Breath Concealment Technique."
The next moment, Chen Yi leaned closer, transmitting the incantation telepathically while gently tapping Qin Chengcheng's neck, shoulders, waist, legs, and feet with his magic.
He taught her the details of concealing her breath and transforming into illusions, as well as the most basic muscle and bone control methods of bone refining and body cultivation.
A tingling sensation spread through several parts of her body as she was gently touched by magical energy.
Qin Chengcheng's neck, which had just turned pale, turned red again for some reason.
After a while, a faint blush appeared on Qin Chengcheng's fair face. As her spiritual energy circulated within her body, her bones and muscles began to subtly adjust.
Her neck became longer, her waistline narrowed slightly, and the outline of her calves and hands and feet changed slightly, even her knuckles appeared more slender.
Even more astonishingly, her originally outward aura gradually became inward, and she no longer needed to rely on her third-order divine sense to forcibly block others from probing her. It was as if she had shed an invisible shell, and even the fluctuations of her magical power became unfamiliar.
He almost became a completely different person.
At this moment, if she did not use the unique musical magic of the Wonderful Sound Pavilion, even if the elders of the same sect were to come in person, they would find it difficult to see the flaws in her perfectly natural disguise.
She looked down at her transformed hands, and as she gently stroked them with her fingertips, she could clearly feel the unfamiliar spiritual energy flowing beneath her skin.
This profound technique of integrating concealment into one's flesh and blood far surpasses any disguise method she knows.
She suddenly looked up, her gaze fixed on Chen Yi's face like lightning, without even a tremor in her eyelashes:
"Chen Yi, how did you do that? After all these years, your concealment technique has become so powerful?"
Before she could finish speaking, a strange feeling suddenly flashed through her mind.
If even the physical aura could be disguised flawlessly, what if Chen Yi's soul could also possess such a sophisticated method of concealment?
So, in that incident back then...
Her fingertips unconsciously dug into her palm, and her voice suddenly turned cold: "Since you can teach the Concealing Breath Technique so thoroughly, I'd like to ask—did you lie to me about your so-called initial Foundation Establishment level of spiritual cultivation?"
Chen Yi's fingers twitched slightly in his sleeve, but a helpless, bitter smile appeared on his face:
"What are you saying, fairy? How could I possibly lie to you?"
As comrades-in-arms, we are naturally sincere.
Enough said, fairy. Take a look and see what materials you still need to collect for your Tier 3 Crystal Condensation Pill.
I also need to take some time to rest and recuperate.
Let's think about the Azure Wind Escape technique.
Chen Yi quickly ended the topic. He hadn't figured out how to face Qin Chengcheng yet, and telling her the truth might be a bit awkward.
Seeing his deliberate avoidance, Qin Chengcheng didn't press the matter further.
The truth is there. She will uncover some things herself, and when that time comes, some people won't be able to deny it!
After cleaning up the battlefield, the two moved to another location to rest.
Chen Yi first studied the Azure Wind Escape Technique, and to his surprise, it was not just a skill.
It could even be expanded into a cultivation technique.
It primarily explains how to utilize wind-attribute spiritual power to communicate with the wind spirits of heaven and earth, gather it around the body, and merge it with one's own internal spiritual power.
This further evolved into a complete set of cultivation concepts related to Wind Release.
"First, you need to cultivate a wind spirit, then condense a wind shield. This is the shield of a shield."
Then, he would connect the inner and outer spiritual energies, unifying them, and finally merge his body with the shield, transforming into a wind escape technique, his body moving like a flowing breeze, arriving at the thought of a single movement.
"What a brilliant escape technique!"
Chen Yi couldn't help but sigh,
No wonder Feng Qingjun committed such evil deeds, yet no one could stop him.
With his escape technique, unless a Core Formation cultivator personally intervenes, those in the Foundation Establishment stage, and even those in the Pseudo-Core Formation stage, are almost helpless against him.
If the other party hadn't been so ostentatious in this secret realm where geniuses gathered, and hadn't been ambushed by Chen Yi, Qin Chengcheng, and the Qi brothers' groups, who all set traps for them,
He probably won't make a mistake.
The Wind Escape Technique is indeed powerful, an unparalleled escape technique, which Chen Yi greatly admires.
However, to cultivate this Wind Release technique, one needs a unique type of Wind Spiritual Root.
Chen Yi did not.
But he did not give up.
The absence of a wind spirit root does not mean that he is unable to generate wind-attribute spiritual power.
The essence of the wind spirit root is the qualitative change of wood attribute spiritual power under specific conditions (such as innate mutation or acquired opportunity).
Wood represents the flow of life, while wind represents the flow of energy; the two share a natural commonality in "energy flow".
During the mutation process, wood-attribute spiritual energy will undergo a "vaporization" transformation.
The "growth characteristic" originally contained in wood elemental power is transformed into "flow characteristic".
The structure of spiritual energy changed from dense and solid to light and swift.
The sensitivity to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has expanded from vegetation to air currents and breezes.
Although Chen Yi lacked an innate wind spiritual root, he relied on the ability to combine the five elements of water, wood, and metal spiritual senses, the system's ability to analyze and reorganize spiritual matter, and the complete "Azure Wind Escape" technique he obtained from Feng Qingjun.
Perhaps by simulating the vaporization process of wood elemental power, a pseudo-spiritual root effect with wind attribute characteristics can be temporarily generated.
The third-tier cloud-patterned spirit vine that Chen Yi just obtained was formed by the fusion of the three attributes of fire, wood, and earth.
The wood elemental energy transforms into the wind elemental energy, evolving from a robust and vibrant state to a graceful and ethereal one.
Chen Yi pondered slowly,
Then, he took out the spirit vine and touched it with his divine sense. The system quietly exerted its power, gently absorbing a wisp of its spiritual essence.
He then developed an understanding of the fusion and transformation of wood and fire spiritual energy, and began to study it little by little.
"Let's start with the wood spirit." With a thought, Chen Yi carefully guided out a wisp of cyan wood spirit.
The wisp of spiritual energy swirled at his fingertips, exuding a rich aroma of herbs and plants.
Following the methods recorded in "Qingfeng Escape," he began to attempt to bring about a qualitative change in the wood spirit.
He made a hand seal with his left hand and lightly tapped his right index finger, drawing out a wisp of fiery red spiritual energy from the spirit vine.
The two spiritual energies met in mid-air, immediately producing a soft "hissing" sound.
Chen Yi focused intently on controlling the temperature of the fire spirit, causing it to form a faint ring of fire around the wood spirit.
"Half-burning state." Fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead; this kind of delicate operation consumed a great deal of his spiritual energy.
Under the scorching heat of the fire ring, the wood spirit began to change. Its originally solid spiritual power gradually thinned out, like steam rising from the ground, and took on a translucent blue color.
Chen Yi dared not relax in the slightest and continued to guide the vaporized wood spirit to rotate along a specific trajectory, as described in the cultivation method.
As the rotation speed increased, the vitality contained in the spiritual energy gradually transformed into a fluid characteristic, and the cyan light cluster began to exhibit the ethereal qualities of wind.
"Not enough," he frowned slightly, then drew another wisp of spiritual energy from the spirit vine.
The system immediately transformed this spirituality into an enhancement of comprehension, instantly making his understanding of spiritual energy transformation much clearer.
This process was repeated hundreds of times. Whenever he encountered a bottleneck, Chen Yi would forcefully break through it by relying on the spiritual power of the spirit vine.
A purer cyan vortex gradually condensed at his fingertips, creating a subtle whistling sound as it spun.
Finally, as the first light of dawn appeared in the east, Chen Yi suddenly opened his eyes.
He flicked his right index finger, and a wisp of blue wind, about an inch long, shot out, tracing a graceful arc in the air before obediently returning to his fingertip and swirling around.
"It's done!"
A look of delight flashed in Chen Yi's eyes. Although this wisp of wind spirit energy was weak, it already possessed all the characteristics described in "Azure Wind Escape": agile, graceful, and free-flowing.
More importantly, he found a way to temporarily generate wind spiritual power without having a wind spiritual root.
However, even with Chen Yi's current divine sense, which is as strong as a quasi-third-level being, it has almost been exhausted.
At the same time, because he lacked a natural wind spirit root, this wisp of wind spirit power actually required Chen Yi to consume more than five times his wood spirit power to synthesize.
This process also required drawing upon some fire elemental power. Since the fire elemental power within the spirit vine was insufficient, he drew upon some fire attribute energy from the Thunderfire Golden Radiance within his body.
It's barely usable for now.
Once the wind elemental power is generated, forming a wind shield and unifying the internal and external forces is not difficult for Chen Yi; the main issue is the consumption of energy.
To condense the Azure Wind Escape technique, he needs to temporarily transform all his magical power into wind spirits to achieve the desired fusion of an external wind shield and internal and external power.
This consumption is equivalent to compressing his overall mana efficiency to one-fifth.
Chen Yi had calculated that even if his magical power and divine sense were in perfect condition,
Even if one wanted to fully utilize the Azure Wind Escape technique, the highest level one could use was the mid-grade second-tier Azure Wind Escape.
His magical cultivation is currently only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, although he possesses a level of magical power purity comparable to a Heavenly Spiritual Root, capable of converting it all into wind spiritual power and unleashing such powerful spells.
Whether in terms of speed, strength, or endurance, it is far inferior to Feng Qingjun.
"The mana cost is too low."
Chen Yi shook his head.
However, the agility and speed of this Azure Wind Escape technique surpassed his Golden Step and Willow Step.
Chen Yi was reluctant to give up.
"Currently, it can only be used as a last resort for escaping, and only once in a critical moment."
Later, once my magical power has increased, or once I find a way to improve the operation of this spell, I'll switch to a more commonly used escape technique.
After spending half the night researching, Chen Yi came up with a teleportation technique that was good to look at but not to use, and he didn't know whether it was good or bad.
Meanwhile, Feng Qingjun was also studying the method of condensing spiritual energy that Chen Yi had taught him.
"To transform spiritual energy into its most primitive units, alter their arrangement, compress space, and condense it?"
"That's interesting."
Feng Qingjun was initially dismissive; he intended to glance at the item Chen Yi had given him and then throw it away.
But this study found that there's something else inside.
He possessed naturally strong spiritual sense, and after understanding the method, he began to experiment with condensing wind spiritual power.
Sure enough, after arranging the spiritual energy into units in a special way, it was possible to condense the wind spiritual energy of three units together into a new wind spiritual energy unit.
The result was that the cyan aura around him shrank by more than half from a width of about ten feet!
Its surface wind shield became twice as strong, and at the same time, due to the condensation of wind spiritual energy, the escape light shrank.
His agility has not decreased, but has actually increased!
"Holy crap! This is fucking good stuff!"
"If Xu Jiu could come up with this method, is this bald guy some kind of genius?!"
This method of condensation and compression is certainly not something that just anyone can achieve with their divine sense.
This involves the arrangement of similar spiritual energies, something that seems simple, but you just can't figure it out if no one tells you.
"No, what did that bald guy say when he was transferring his power to me?"
He said it seemed like five were combined into one, and then the wording was changed to three.
"Damn, that kid totally stunned me!"
"He didn't give me the complete version."
"Damn it, three can be arranged like this, but how do you arrange five?"
Feng Qingjun scratched his head, racking his brains, but couldn't figure it out at all.
No one in this world has studied spatial geometry and analytical mathematics, nor has anyone systematically improved their comprehension. To rely solely on one's own thinking would require an unparalleled genius.
After thinking for a long time without reaching a conclusion, Feng Qingjun had no choice but to give up.
Then he repeatedly condensed and released new Wind Release techniques, he simply couldn't put them down.
"Damn it, the power of my three-in-one Wind Release technique has doubled!"
I can't even imagine how powerful that five-in-one method really is!
"Bald Xu Jiu, if I ever see you again... I'll capture him, tie him up, and torture him until he reveals the true five-in-one secret technique!"
"Yeah. Just like when I got beaten up today."
Feng Qingjun made a decision in his heart. Even though he felt he might be learning a censored version, he was not discouraged.
Because at least he actually learned something, while the Wind Release technique that bald Xu Jiu wanted to master was simply impossible for him to learn.
From the perspective of exchanging cultivation techniques alone, he actually profited.
With the new Wind Release technique, Feng Qingjun's defense, speed of escape techniques, and agility have all greatly increased.
He felt like he was good again and could go and steal monsters and treasures again.
"As long as I'm careful not to get caught in a trap, who can stop me in this secret realm?!"
Chen Yi and Qin Chengcheng rested for one night.
Decided to continue the journey
Someone has already discovered that
Deep within the Medicine Valley lies the main ingredient of the Crystal Condensation Pill, which Qin Chengcheng desires to obtain if given the opportunity.
Chen Yi also needed to stay here for some time; he hadn't yet visited the underground Thunder Pool.
I wonder if, given his current physical condition, he can withstand the bombardment of that third-tier lightning pool.
If he can withstand just a little bit of that, the rest will be easy.
It can be like peeling silk from a cocoon, slowly draining the energy from the Thunder Pool.
The two traveled together deeper into the valley of medicine.
Not long after they left,
Several figures descended from the sky; it was the Qi siblings and Long Xitian's group.
"Gentlemen, please wait."
Have you ever seen a tall, thin man who uses wind magic to travel at incredible speed, enveloping himself in wind magic?
Qi Wuba's towering figure fell from the sky, and overnight, his injuries had completely healed.
This made Chen Yi take notice. Such a serious injury was healed so quickly. These geniuses really have a lot of ways to save their lives!
Qin Chengcheng was still preoccupied with her own thoughts and unwilling to talk to outsiders, so she gestured for Chen Yi to deal with these people.
"Sorry, I've never seen it before."
Chen Yi answered.
"Oh, then you should be careful if you encounter him. This person is Feng Qingjun, one of the eight great prodigies. He relies on his unparalleled escape skills to specialize in theft and robbery, especially when you are clearing away obstacles to your opportunities. He will take advantage of others to steal their fruits."
"Thank you for the reminder, fellow Daoist."
Chen Yi thanked him softly.
Seeing that Chen Yi and his companion had no intention of continuing their conversation, the group continued flying forward.
They hadn't gone far when Qi Wuba and his sister started chatting:
"That couple was quite interesting. I asked them a question, and it turned out to be a strongman who answered."
The plain-looking female cultivator remained silent.
"I've seen them before; this strongman isn't an ordinary lackey."
"That's what my sister is saying," she replied.
"What is that? Could it be that this strongman is the one with higher cultivation, and they are following this strongman as their master?"
"No, that female cultivator bought several thousand spirit stones worth of resources for the strongman. They seem to be in a relationship between the mistress and her male favorite!"
"Oh~"
"How strong are these two?"
"I've assessed their strength; Long Xitian could probably crush these two with one hand. They're nothing to worry about."
"it is good."
Upon hearing this, Qin Chengcheng stiffened, and a murderous aura instantly appeared in his eyes.
Her divine sense was powerful enough to hear a glimpse of their conversation, and she was quite angry at this moment.
Male concubine my ass! I'm still a virgin!
Beside him, Chen Yi's face twitched slightly; he wanted to laugh but held it back.
Qin Chengcheng immediately turned her gaze over:
"What are you laughing at? You heard it too?"
"Huh? What?" Chen Yi displayed his professionally trained composure, which meant he would never laugh under normal circumstances, and asked with an innocent expression:
"I was thinking about that silly boy Feng Qingjun, and I don't understand what the fairy is talking about."
His current persona is that his spiritual sense is not high; he could only hear part of the conversation from the other party with at least a third-level spiritual sense.
Chen Yi naturally wouldn't admit it.
"Is that really true?"
Qin Chengcheng looked at Chen Yi with suspicion, seemingly believing but not quite.
I always felt this guy was hiding something!
The two headed deeper into the medicine valley, where thick thunderclouds rolled overhead, with lightning occasionally streaking across the sky.
This time, they didn't even need the treasure-hunting rats to lead the way. From afar, they could see that a number of cultivators had already gathered on the outskirts of the valley.
The desolate place was shrouded in a pale blue, frigid mist. The ground was covered with a layer of ice that had never melted for millennia, and the surrounding rock walls had a peculiar, cluster-like shape, their surfaces covered with charred lightning strike patterns.
Most eye-catching are the two spiritual plants in the center of the desolate area, their entire bodies sculpted like ice crystals—the Mysterious Ice Crystal Fruit.
It grows in the center of the Wanzai Cold Pool.
On the three-foot-tall plant, the six-sided, snowflake-shaped leaves are crystal clear, and the two pigeon-egg-sized fruits are covered with fine ice patterns, with liquid gold threads faintly visible flowing inside.
The fruit was surrounded by a tri-colored glow, with ice blue, moon white and pale gold intertwined to form an ice crystal force field about ten feet in diameter.
These 800-year-old spiritual fruits have reached the middle grade of the third rank, and are the main ingredients for refining the Crystal Condensation Pill. Each one is worth 20,000 spirit stones!
"The core area contains an extremely powerful Tier 3 ice and lightning array; approaching it rashly will trigger an ice and lightning attack."
Chen Yi heard Qin Chengcheng's voice transmission notification.
She noticed that the halo around the fruit would increase by one every hundred years, and now there were eight halos, making it the perfect time to pick them.
However, the cultivators surrounding the outer edge of the forbidden area seemed to be observing, and no one dared to step forward easily.
"This place is extremely dangerous; even the eight greatest prodigies dare not venture forward rashly."
(End of this chapter)