Chapter 185: Spiritual Severing

“High load?”

Regardless of anything else, Jiang Yan immediately took a liking to these three words and focused on reading the skill description of “Annihilating Cloud Slash.”

It must be said that the Myriad Realms Market does an excellent job in product presentation.

In the lower right corner of the skill introduction, there was a video playback button. As soon as Jiang Yan clicked it, a detailed visual guide to the Martial Skill began to play.

One minute later, Jiang Yan had already decided to purchase this spiritual attack Martial Skill.

In summary, “Annihilating Cloud Slash” involves evenly splitting Spiritual Power into numerous fine strands.

Using the Spirit Platform as a launcher, it projects Spiritual Power outward to inflict damage.

Although it appears impressive, splitting Spiritual Power leads to an overall decrease in spiritual intensity—trading quality for quantity. This form of spiritual attack only weakens a Martial Artist’s original spiritual strength.

At the same time, precisely controlling so many spiritual branches places a significant burden on the Spirit Platform. Only spiritual Martial Artists who specialize in Spiritual Power and possess exceptionally strong Spirit Platform Talents would choose such a Martial Skill.

Yet, despite its many drawbacks, Jiang Yan resolutely chose “Annihilating Cloud Slash.”

For no other reason than his deepest consideration: Jiang Yan’s current Trait, second only to “Heaven Rewards Diligence”—

“Instant Kill Law.”

The description of the Instant Kill Law is that it triggers a chance to instantly kill upon dealing damage.

However, in actual combat, Jiang Yan discovered a hidden mechanism.

Continuous damage is only counted as a single attack in the judgment.

For example, with fire: if Jiang Yan ignites an opponent with flames, the continuous damage caused by the fire is only counted as one attack in the “Instant Kill Law” judgment.

Unless he can control the rise and fall of the flames, extinguishing and reigniting them, such continuous damage will only ever trigger one 10.1% instant kill chance.

Similarly, the same applies to Spiritual Power.

A broad Spiritual Power attack against an enemy can be likened to a flood submerging or a great fire eroding—both cause continuous damage and can only trigger one attack judgment.

This is why Jiang Yan prefers using Saber Qi to strike opponents.

Because the damage is delivered in intermittent yet dense bursts, each swing of the saber can be counted as an attack judgment, with each attack having a 10.1% chance to trigger the Instant Kill Law.

Originally, Jiang Yan thought he couldn’t achieve this effect with Spiritual Power—until he saw “Annihilating Cloud Slash.”

“Spiritual Power can actually be split!”

This idea occurred to Jiang Yan the moment he saw this Martial Skill.

“Then can my Instant Kill Law also be applied to Spiritual Power?”

If successful, Jiang Yan would possess a brand-new and powerful method of attack.

Moreover, one that is impossible to guard against!

He glanced at the price: six Cloud Core Coins.

A Seventh Rank spiritual Martial Skill.

“Acceptable.”

Jiang Yan pursed his lips. He had always maintained one attitude toward money—

As long as it can be converted into Combat Power, it’s a profit.

Earn in the Myriad Realms, spend in the Myriad Realms—not a single coin can be taken home.

Jiang Yan felt helpless; most of his recent signing fee had already been spent.

“Dear user, do you confirm spending 6 Cloud Core Coins to purchase the Martial Skill ‘Annihilating Cloud Slash’?”

“Confirm.”

“Ding! Payment successful. The Memory Core will be delivered to the location you provided within one hour. Pleasure doing business.”

The Memory Core is equivalent to an official certification.

It conducts strict identity verification and transmits the Martial Skill content to the verified recipient.

Only Martial Artists who have passed identity verification can use the corresponding Martial Skills; otherwise, upon detection, they will be executed without mercy.

In the universe, intellectual property rights are extremely strict, and almost no one dares to encroach on the interests of colossal entities like the Myriad Realms Company.

Even a Tenth Rank Martial God would not dare to act recklessly in the face of such a massive commercial conglomerate, let alone anyone else.

Knock, knock…

“Your delivery has arrived.”

Though it was said to be within an hour, in less than ten minutes, a flying object descended from the sky, accurately delivering the memory core to Jiang Yan.

It came through the main entrance.

Well, the police officers didn’t dare to stop it.

After all, no one would dare to counterfeit this for other purposes.

The gray triangular emblem of Myriad Realms is renowned far and wide.

Taking the delivery, Jiang Yan unwrapped the metal packaging.

A dazzling blue crystal came into view.

The memory core was flawless and radiant, even in broad daylight.

Jiang Yan pressed the button on top of the crystal, and it floated into the air as a mechanical voice sounded.

“Identity verification in progress. Please blink.”

Jiang Yan: ʕ⊝⍛⊝ʔʕ •ᴥ•ʔ…

“Verification successful. Memory transmission commencing.”

The memory core glowed brightly, gently channeling Spiritual Power into Jiang Yan.

The information was remarkably gentle, without any stimulation, and was quickly absorbed by Jiang Yan.

Relevant memories surfaced in Jiang Yan’s mind.

Crack—

The memory core shattered softly, turning into fine, colorless, odorless, and harmless dust.

The memory core only transmitted the cultivation method for the Martial Skill, so even after receiving the memory, Jiang Yan still had to start cultivating from scratch.

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and focused his mind to mobilize his Spiritual Power.

Following the method in his memory, he manipulated his Spirit Platform like a surgeon wielding a scalpel, meticulously slicing the vast sea of Spiritual Power bit by bit.

This wasn’t about dividing all the Spiritual Power stored in the Spirit Platform but practicing the speed of the cuts.

Due to the nature of Spiritual Power, if left together for too long, it gradually fuses, making it impractical to store pre-cut Spiritual Power.

Jiang Yan’s cutting speed was slow, and his control was unskilled. If he were this inefficient in combat, his corpse would likely have long gone cold.

But…

[System Log Updated]

…

An hour later, Jiang Yan wiped his sweat, having achieved a cutting speed of once every two seconds.

A vast improvement compared to the beginning.

Moreover, Jiang Yan realized another benefit.

That is—

Cutting Spiritual Power requires manipulating the Spirit Platform, which places a load on it. Wouldn’t such diligence naturally trigger Heaven Rewards Diligence?

Thus, the process of cutting was also a process of tempering the resilience of his Spirit Platform.

And as the “transmitter,” the Spirit Platform would make Jiang Yan’s Spiritual Power attacks even more precise.

Killing two birds with one stone.

“Perhaps I can cut day and night—this is a form of cultivation!”

Jiang Yan’s eyes gleamed as he thought of this seemingly extreme training method.

If he treated cultivation as a daily routine, wouldn’t he continue to grow stronger? He wondered.

Sweat dripped uncontrollably from his forehead, and Jiang Yan stood up, feeling slightly dizzy.

Enduring this intense discomfort, the occasional prompts from [Heaven Rewards Diligence] and his increasingly faster cutting speed brought solace to his exhaustion.

“Everything is worth it.”

Jiang Yan spread his hand, and the freshly cut, slender strand of Spiritual Power lay across his palm like a Saber.

“The blade” was formless and intangible, yet it truly existed, floating unsteadily in his hand—clearly, there were still some flaws in its operation.

But flaws could be avoided; humans could endlessly approach perfection.

Whoosh!

The Spirit Platform erupted, and the mental slice shot out abruptly.