Chapter 358 – Wind Spirit Protection Shield

Su Hao, Harmony, and Fairy Feng Ling were all people who cherished time, and they quickly finalized the details.

First, within three moons, Fairy Feng Ling will hand over the Foundation Establishment realm cultivation method to Su Hao;

Second, within half a year, she will find ‘Alchemy,’ ‘Weapon Forging,’ ‘Formation,’ and other knowledge for Su Hao, but she can only find the most basic introductory texts;

Third, Fairy Feng Ling’s independent residence will be given to Su Hao, but this will be after the ‘Senior Brother Token Competition.’

Both sides agreed on these three points, and then returned to their respective cultivation.

As for the ‘Senior Brother Token Competition Grand Tournament’, it is a traditional grand event of Moon Valley in Cloud Looking, held once every three years. At that time, almost all disciples of Moon Valley in Cloud Looking will return to Immortal Gate to participate.

The purpose of the grand tournament is twofold. First, it is to compete for the ‘Senior Brother Token’ among disciples in the Catalyst Qi Realm, Foundation Establishment Realm, and Golden Core Realm, to determine who is the ‘Grand Senior Brother’ in these three realms;

Second, most disciples of Immortal Gate are usually away or cultivating in seclusion in their cave dwellings, lacking understanding of each other. This grand tournament is actually a personal showcase for every Immortal Gate disciple, allowing fellow disciples to recognize them.

Simply put, it’s a get-to-know-you and make-friends event!

Yuan Ben Su Hao was not very interested in this grand tournament, but Fairy Feng Ling said that the ‘Senior Brother Token’ itself is a very powerful Magical Artifact.

So Su Hao expressed that he might be able to try for this ‘Grand Senior Brother’ title.

Su Hao was very curious about ‘Magical Artifacts’!

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The ‘Wind Phantom Art Technique’ records the three most basic and practical spells: ‘Wind Spirit Protection Shield’, ‘Wandering Wind Light Body Art’, and ‘Wind Bullet’.

The names all relate to ‘wind’, but after Su Hao carefully studied the content, he found that these three spells actually had nothing to do with ‘wind’. They were essentially ‘shield’, ‘footwork’, and ‘energy blast’.

‘I didn’t expect clickbait to be popular in the cultivation world too.’

However, it’s not entirely unrelated to ‘wind’, because according to the spell descriptions, the release of these three spells requires a trace of artistic conception like ‘wind’.

For example, the ‘shield’ emphasizes all-pervading meticulousness, the ‘footwork’ emphasizes lightness and grace, and the ‘energy blast’ emphasizes ferocity and persistence.

This artistic conception of ‘wind’ will gradually change the characteristics of the ‘mind-thought power’ of cultivators practicing the ‘Wind Phantom Art Technique’, thereby influencing their spiritual power to gradually transform into ‘wind-attribute spiritual power’.

Regarding the nature of spiritual power, Su Hao casually added it to his future research plan. Then he attempted to cultivate the ‘Wind Spirit Protection Shield’ according to the method described in the ‘Wind Phantom Art Technique’.

That’s right, the ‘Wind Spirit Protection Shield’ art technique is not ‘cast’, but ‘cultivated’.

At first, Su Hao thought that the so-called ‘art technique’ was like his runes, cast successfully after circulating through a certain structure, and then forming various special effects.

But Su Hao was wrong. The ‘art technique’ of this world was nothing like he imagined; he had never even considered that it could be like this.

The approach to cultivating art techniques in this world is simple: first set up the ‘art technique program’, then engrave it into ‘spiritual power’ through long-term practice, turning it into an instinct of ‘spiritual power’. Then, through specific ‘hand seals’, this instinct of ‘spiritual power’ is connected.

It’s like a dog’s ‘conditioned reflex’ when it sees a bone and drools.

This forms the phenomenon that Su Hao observed: cultivators form hand seals and instantly release spells.

Su Hao could only sigh, the cultivators of this world are truly amazing, even more ‘metaphysical’ than ‘metaphysics’, and they actually succeeded! The first cultivation master who created ‘art techniques’ made Su Hao admire him to the point of prostrating himself.

Su Hao’s face was full of astonishment: ‘Holy crap! I would never have thought of this! This is amazing! When normal people see such powerful energy as spiritual power within their bodies, their first reaction would be to use it to ‘shatter the sky and earth with one punch’, ‘overturn rivers with a flip of their hand’, or ‘shoot like a gun’, right? The master who created art techniques must be extraordinary!’

“Using ‘Thought-power’ as the coding software, ‘Spiritual Power’ as the functional carrier, and ‘hand seals’ as the activation button, perhaps the ‘technology’ of this world is all embodied in the application of Spiritual Power!” The people of this world have developed the application of Spiritual Power to a degree that even Su Hao marvels at!

Su Hao slowly calmed the excitement of opening up a new world, sat cross-legged on the bed, and cultivated ‘Tranquil Meditation’ according to the cultivation description of ‘Wind Spirit Protection Shield’.

The cultivation method is very simple: first, choose three favorite hand seals, sit cross-legged for ‘Tranquil Meditation’, visualize the shape of ‘Wind Spirit Protection Shield’ with ‘Thought-power’, and at the same time integrate ‘Thought-power’ into ‘Spiritual Power’, and cover the whole body with ‘Spiritual Power’.

Next, ‘Thought-power’ frantically transmits the signal ‘Wind Spirit Protection Shield is indestructible’ to ‘Spiritual Power’, while repeatedly performing the three hand seals.

It can be said to be giving ‘Spiritual Power’ suggestions, or it can be said to be using the characteristics of ‘Thought-power’ to transform the characteristics of ‘Spiritual Power’.

This transformation process is very slow, and it is not easy to cultivate an ‘Art Technique’. Day after day of arduous cultivation until the characteristics of the ‘Art Technique’ are imprinted into ‘Spiritual Power’.

This process takes as little as three ‘Moons’ and as long as over a year, and some people never manage to cultivate it.

Su Hao has no knowledge of ‘Art Techniques’ and cannot take shortcuts. He can only patiently cultivate according to the method described in the book.

Perhaps if I understand the principle of ‘Spiritual Power’ characteristic transformation, I can speed up the cultivation of ‘Art Techniques’, and even design more practical ‘Art Techniques’ according to my own ideas!

Su Hao guessed that the transformation of ‘Spiritual Power’ characteristics is related to this special ‘bio-energy structure’ of ‘Spiritual Power’, and it wouldn’t work on his ‘Blood Qi’.

Perhaps this active energy, ‘Spiritual Power’, randomly changes its properties in a special environment. And the so-called cultivation of ‘Art Techniques’ is just ‘Thought-power’ uniformly guiding the direction of ‘Spiritual Power’ transformation as a catalyst…

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Su Hao, sitting cross-legged on the bed, closed his eyes, his brows slightly furrowed, as if thinking about something. His right fingers moved rapidly, cycling between three hand seals. These three hand seals were created by Su Hao himself, namely ‘thumb touching little finger tip’, ‘thumb touching ring finger tip’, ‘thumb touching middle finger tip’…

Simple and easy to remember!

The reason Su Hao designed three hand seals to cast spells is that there are many ‘Art Techniques’ to learn in the future. Using a few hand seals can combine many different sequences, and each different sequence represents an ‘Art Technique’, so it won’t be confusing.

After an unknown amount of time, Su Hao opened his eyes, exhaled a long breath, and couldn’t help but mutter: “Damn it, the difficulty of cultivating ‘Art Techniques’ is too high! My first attempt today, I successfully catalyzed the transformation of ‘Spiritual Power’ smoothly, but the progress is too slow! At this rate, it will take at least one ‘Moon’ to completely master ‘Wind Spirit Protection Shield’, and it is said that this ‘Art Technique’ is one of the easiest ‘Art Techniques’…

Don’t forget there are also ‘Wandering Wind Light Body Art’ and ‘Wind Bullet’, these two ‘Art Techniques’! Calculating this way, Su Hao found that it would take at least three ‘Moons’ to master these three ‘Art Techniques’.

No wonder ‘Cultivators’ always like to stay in ‘Cave Dwellings’ to cultivate. It’s not that they like it, but whether they like it or not, they have to do it for ‘Cultivation’.

Su Hao got up and went out to ‘Seek’ food. The sky had completely darkened at some point.

Scanning with ‘Radar’, he found that Feng Cheng, who usually grilled meat for him, had already fallen asleep. Su Hao couldn’t help but think to himself: “It’s too much trouble to make food myself! I might as well ‘Teleportation’ to Yashan and have Yashan make it for me! I can also continue to test the data of ‘Spiritual Power’ and ‘Rune’ and organize the ‘Rune’ system as soon as possible.”

As soon as he thought of it, Su Hao entered the ‘Pinball Space’ and used the ‘Black Room’ to transmit a message to Yashan: “Yashan, take the ‘Positioning Stone’ and find a deserted place. I will continue to test the ‘Runes’ tonight.”

Yashan immediately replied: “Okay, Boss Wei, I’ll notify you after I find a good spot!”

Su Hao, who was waiting, couldn’t help but start thinking wildly again: “Perhaps in the future I can establish a Storage Space over at Yashan’s place, and have Yashan send food into the Storage Space at mealtimes. Then I can use my storage technology to take out and enjoy the food whenever I want!”

The more he thought about it, the brighter Su Hao’s eyes became: “It seems feasible! Worth a try!”

Then Su Hao directly transmitted his voice: “Yashan, have you had dinner yet…”

(End of Chapter)