Cultivation: Start From Simplifying Martial Arts Techniques

Chapter 716: If You Don’t Go Crazy, You Won’t Survive!

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

The people of Primordial Sword Sect in Thousand Geese City were somewhat puzzled when they saw Min Yanlu and his companions return after leaving.

Min Yanlu’s and their levels were too disparate to perceive, but the aura of Gu Danying seemed somewhat weakened, which the crowd from Primordial Sword Sect could still discern.

However, they didn’t inquire further, merely tidying up the courtyard where Min Yanlu and the others had previously stayed.

Early the next morning, the figure of Master Haiyue appeared in Thousand Geese City, seeing the injured Min Yanlu and the unscathed Chen Fei.

After exchanging pleasantries for a moment, Chen Fei departed.

“Did all the experts of Thousand Geese City’s Mountain Sea Realm intervene to save you two?”

Watching Chen Fei’s disappearing figure, Master Haiyue couldn’t help but feel like he had seen him somewhere before. For the past while, Master Haiyue had been in seclusion in Longhu City, oblivious to the affairs outside.

Min Yanlu had left a brief message when he arrived in Thousand Geese City, which Master Haiyue had seen but didn’t pay much attention to.

However, when the fragment of the Enlightenment Tower trembled yesterday, Master Haiyue hurriedly left seclusion and arrived in Thousand Geese City.

“No, it was just Chen Fei alone,” Min Yanlu shook his head.

“Just him alone?”

Master Haiyue’s eyebrows raised slightly as he looked at Min Yanlu. “Wasn’t the message you left earlier saying that Chen Fei came from the Thousand Feathers Alliance and had just broken through to the Mountain Sea Realm, which is why you came to visit?”

“Yeah, just broke through, probably less than two months ago,” Min Yanlu nodded with some emotion.

Two months, for the long lifespan of the Mountain Sea Realm, truly passed in the blink of an eye. For many who had just broken through to the Mountain Sea Realm, even the time to consolidate their realm was not enough.

When Min Yanlu himself broke through to the Mountain Sea Realm, it took him a year to become familiar with it, which could be considered completing the consolidation.

Master Haiyue furrowed his brows. If he didn’t know Min Yanlu’s character, he would have taken these words as a joke.

Seeing Master Haiyue’s expression, Min Yanlu shook his head slightly and briefly explained Chen Fei’s background.

Having just broken through and already slain two Mountain Sea Realm experts, recently taming a Monster King as the sect’s guardian beast, followed by rescuing someone hundreds of miles away, then defeating another Mountain Sea Realm expert and leaving another on the brink of death.

As Master Haiyue listened, his eyes widened with each segment. By the end, he felt as though he was listening to the story of some prodigy from a sacred land.

And not all prodigies from sacred lands could achieve such exaggerated feats.

Yet, Chen Fei had emerged from the Thousand Feathers Alliance.

In the entire Boundless Sea, the Thousand Feathers Alliance was considered a backwater area. While Mountain Sea Realm experts could emerge from there, the emergence of such an exaggerated one was truly unimaginable.

“Can’t wrap your head around it?”

Min Yanlu saw Master Haiyue’s expression and couldn’t help but chuckle softly. “I myself find it hard to comprehend.”

Master Haiyue’s expression fluctuated for a moment before gradually calming down. In this world, there were always prodigies that made others envious.

“If he had broken through to the Mountain Sea Realm a few years earlier, perhaps the Thousand Feathers Alliance could have held its ground,” Master Haiyue suddenly remarked.

At that time, there were only three Monster Kings. If they had managed to slay one, the subsequent two Monster Kings might not have come to the Thousand Feathers Alliance, and the situation might not have escalated into the avalanche it became.

Min Yanlu didn’t speak, merely nodded slightly. For some reason, in his mind, he suddenly recalled the time in Sea Dominion City. If they had provided Mountain Sea Realm cultivation techniques back then, perhaps Chen Fei would have succeeded in breaking through within the Thousand Feathers Alliance?

But now, things had already been set in stone, and pondering over such matters was futile.

“Oh, by the way, Chen Fei mentioned yesterday that he had actually visited your Haiyue Cave and even participated in a trial there, winning the top spot. Why didn’t you meet him then?”

Min Yanlu suddenly interjected, recounting a conversation from yesterday when Chen Fei learned that Master Haiyue was coming and chatted casually with Min Yanlu.

“The top spot in the Haiyue Cave trial?”

Master Haiyue was slightly taken aback, finally understanding where the familiarity with Chen Fei came from.

Although the Haiyue Cave was shattered, its main body remained in Master Haiyue’s possession. Within the cave, there were statues left behind by each generation’s top trial winners.

Wasn’t the aura and appearance on the latest statue exactly like Chen Fei?

Master Haiyue waved his right hand, and a statue appeared in the courtyard.

With sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, the long sword pointed diagonally, it was the same appearance as the one left in the Haiyue Cave.

“The trials in the Haiyue Cave are just a test for the younger generation. In fact, I haven’t paid attention to them for many years.”

Looking at the statue, a hint of bitterness suddenly appeared on Master Haiyue’s face. Such a good opportunity had been missed.

However, despite the Haiyue Cave trials being held for so many years, not a single Mountain Sea Realm expert emerged, not even many peak Combined Aperture Tempering realm cultivators. Who could have imagined that such a monstrous talent would emerge here?

“In the end, there’s still that bit of fate at play here.” Min Yanlu chuckled, patting Master Haiyue’s shoulder before turning to look into the distance.

If Min Yanlu remembered correctly, the last trial in the Haiyue Cave seemed to have been just over a decade ago.

Over a decade, from peak Combined Aperture Tempering realm to the Mountain Sea Realm, what a terrifying cultivation speed!

The term “monstrous talent” seemed insufficient to describe Chen Fei!

In the Wind Listening Hall of the Primordial Sword Sect, Chen Fei was busy tallying up the gains from this expedition.

Two spiritual treasures, the Abyssal Dagger and the Overturning Sea, though both were damaged, were still at least at the level of spiritual treasures. Selling them off would yield a considerable amount of elemental stones.

Apart from the spiritual treasures, the next task was sorting through the various items stored within them.

The Abyssal Dagger contained a plethora of miscellaneous items, with very few of value.

After being injured by the Monster King Nie Li, Tu Zaichuan likely expended a significant amount of resources to recover, resulting in many valuable items being sold off.

However, these were still collections from the Mountain Sea Realm, so even if the value was minimal, it was still incredibly rich.

Moreover, because Tu Zaichuan was a solitary figure, even his cultivation manuals were all stored away, including his primary cultivation technique, the Bloodline Origin Technique.

Chen Fei frowned as he held the jade slip containing the Bloodline Origin Technique.

This technique involved refining living beings into Blood Spirits. At crucial moments, the practitioner could also transform into an intangible Blood Spirit, greatly increasing penetration and speed.

Chen Fei had seen these abilities demonstrated by Tu Zaichuan. For most Mountain Sea Realm experts, Blood Spirits were quite troublesome, especially when their numbers reached a certain level, becoming nearly unstoppable.

This was a technique where even if your cultivation level stagnated, as long as you continued to refine Blood Spirits, your combat power would continue to increase.

Moreover, the Bloodline Origin Technique stated that if exceptionally talented individuals were refined into Blood Spirits, practitioners of the technique could even obtain a portion of their talents.

In other words, if the timing was right and enough prodigies were slain, it might be possible to elevate the practitioner’s own talent to an astonishing level.

It was undeniably a highly tempting prospect.

Unfortunately, the Bloodline Origin Technique was fundamentally incompatible with Chen Fei’s nature.

To refine Blood Spirits, one had to subject living beings to excruciating torment, as the greater their suffering and resentment, the stronger the Blood Spirit’s power would be.

Chen Fei could mercilessly slay enemies, but he would not deliberately torture others.

Why go to such lengths when a nod of the head was enough to end a life?

Just as Chen Fei was about to put away the jade slip containing the Bloodline Origin Technique, his hand suddenly paused.

Chen Fei himself didn’t need the Bloodline Origin Technique, but what if he used his clone as the primary Blood Spirit?

In the Bloodline Origin Technique, there was a concept of a primary Blood Spirit commanding subordinate Blood Spirits. When Tu Zaichuan ambushed Min Yanlu, he intended to refine Min Yanlu into the primary Blood Spirit.

If the clone could become the primary Blood Spirit, it wouldn’t need other Blood Spirits to sustain it. With various potent essences, perhaps Chen Fei could forcibly nourish the clone to the Mountain Sea Realm level.

Currently, the clone at the peak Combined Aperture Tempering realm had minimal utility for Chen Fei. It didn’t even need to protect the Primordial Sword Sect, as there was a genuine Monster King stationed there.

The clone’s role had shifted to that of a senior elder instructing disciples.

But if the clone could break through to the Mountain Sea Realm, its significance to Chen Fei would change.

While it would be incredibly difficult for others to transform the Bloodline Origin Technique into a cultivation technique for a clone, Chen Fei’s possession of the Interface Panel made it all possible. By merging the two techniques, everything became within reach.

“Merge!”

“Discovered Technique: Bloodline Origin Shadow Technique!”

“Simplify!”

“Simplifying Bloodline Origin Shadow Technique… Simplification successful… Bloodline Origin Shadow Technique -> Three Flowers Shadow Art!”

With the expenditure of thirty-five high-grade elemental stones, Chen Fei successfully simplified the new technique.

As Chen Fei sensed the effect of the Three Flowers Shadow Art, it indeed had the potential to forcibly nourish the clone to the Mountain Sea Realm level. However, it required a considerable amount of essence, necessitating essence from either Mountain Sea Realm or Monster King Realm.

Moreover, if the clone were shattered, it would need to be reconstituted, meaning starting from the Combined Aperture Tempering realm and continuing the nourishment process.

Despite the difficulties and complications, if he could possess a Mountain Sea Realm clone, these obstacles seemed insignificant.

Chen Fei transferred some useless items from Tu Zaichuan’s collection into a spatial bag, intending to bring them back to the sect later.

While useless to Chen Fei in his current Mountain Sea Realm state, the fact that Tu Zaichuan could store them in spiritual treasures meant they still held value, especially for those below the Mountain Sea Realm.

Chen Fei turned his gaze to Fei Boyong’s collection. Compared to Tu Zaichuan, Fei Boyong’s collection was undoubtedly much richer and more valuable.

The Bull Demon Technique! Ethereal Escape!

In the cultivation manuals, Chen Fei discovered two techniques that Fei Boyong had practiced.

Like Tu Zaichuan, Fei Boyong was also a recluse, so all his cultivation manuals were stored in spiritual treasures.

The Bull Demon Technique was a method focused solely on strength—a maxim of “No insanity, no survival!”

Emphasizing strength over finesse, it bore some resemblance to the Suppressing Dragon Elephant Technique, but they were fundamentally different.

While the Suppressing Dragon Elephant Technique didn’t cultivate elemental energy, the Bull Demon Technique primarily did, making it directly compatible with the Heavenly Profound Sword.

The appearance of the Heavenly Profound Sword afterward would probably lose some elegance but gain more imposing power.

“Merging!”

“DiscoveredTechnique: Profound Demon Sword!”

“Simplify!”

“Simplifying Profound Demon Sword… Simplification successful… Profound Demon Sword -> Heavenly Profound Sword!”

Originally, the Heavenly Profound Sword, which was only proficient at the Mastery Stage, dropped to a novice level of proficiency after transforming into the Profound Demon Sword. However, from another perspective, it indicated another level of advancement for this technique, and quite notably so.

Ethereal Escape!

Chen Fei’s gaze fell on another jade slip. This technique, which allowed him to run faster, was his favorite.

An hour later, Chen Fei finished reading through the Ethereal Escape technique.

“Merge!”

“Discovered Technique: Sky Travel!”

“Simplifying Sky Travel… Simplification successful… Sky Travel -► Profound Heavenly Escape!”

Stepping forward in the courtyard, Chen Fei appeared in mid-air, with the insights of the Ethereal Escape technique flooding his mind.

Suddenly, Chen Fei’s expression paused slightly as the innate talent within his main soul was unexpectedly stimulated, emitting a faint glow.