Chapter 481 - 276: Myriad Phenomena Concentration Divine Technique, Ziyang Qi Observation Technique!

The thin, ancient-looking cover was yellowed, with curled corners, and bore five ancient characters.

"’Myriad Phenomena Concentration Divine Technique’?"

Su Mu’s deep eyes flickered, his heart warming slightly. He guessed that what he held might be an ancient text related to spiritual power.

Immediately, Su Mu opened the title page and began to peruse.

"Use all things under heaven as a mirror, observe myriad phenomena to refine the spirit... transform external scenes into internal vision, gather floating light into indestructible perception light..."

Su Mu murmured, his eyes suddenly brightening. The thin booklet made a pleasant rustling sound as he turned the pages, becoming more and more engrossed with each turn.

Su Mu read the thin booklet for a long time, reading extremely slowly, until a hint of dawn appeared on the horizon, and he reluctantly closed the ancient text in his hands, showing surprise, joy, and regret on his face.

"What a mysterious method of spiritual power cultivation... it’s a pity that the one in Tao Han’s hands is only an incomplete text, containing only the cultivation methods for the first two realms."

The ’Myriad Phenomena Concentration Divine Technique’ was indeed a method of spiritual power cultivation, just as Su Mu had surmised. Its grading was unknown, and Su Mu had never encountered a spiritual power method before, making it impossible for him to assess its rank.

According to the initial outline, this method is divided into five levels.

The first level is the ’Initial View Realm’, where one must use spiritual power to initially perceive the ’spirit’ of all things, reflecting simple objects like strange stones and exotic trees in the sea of consciousness.

The more unique scenes one reflects, the higher the spiritual power the cultivator can enhance.

The second level is the ’Intent Condensation Realm’, where the reflected objects can condense into stable ’spiritual imprints’, and be combined to form shapes, like stones and trees forming a forest. Different ’spiritual imprints’ have different effects, mostly capable of nourishing and enhancing spiritual power.

The third level is the ’Myriad Phenomena Realm’, where the sea of consciousness carries more than a hundred objects, merging ’spiritual imprints’ into dynamic scenes, like wind blowing through the forest or tides crashing against the shore. During combat, one can summon these images, initially reflecting the internal observation as external scenery.

The text Tao Han possessed ends here, but from the initial outline, Su Mu glimpsed that there were two more levels: the fourth level, ’Spiritual Light Realm’, and the fifth level, ’True Return Realm’. As for the mysteries of these two realms, Su Mu could not discern at the moment.

"If there’s an opportunity in the future... I could consider completing the ’Myriad Phenomena Concentration Divine Technique’ from the Tao Family."

Su Mu carefully stored the ancient text in the main Sumeru Ring. With a flash of spiritual light in his hand, he took out two more ancient texts, one titled ’Profound Clarity Technique’ and the other ’Purple Sun Aura Observation Technique’.

After a quick perusal, Su Mu discovered that the ’Profound Clarity Technique’ was a Fifth-Grade Daoist Cultivation Technique.

The latter, ’Purple Sun Aura Observation Technique’, was a secret technique. Reaching entry-level allows one to observe the cultivation levels of practitioners, and if mastered deeply, one can use the dawn’s purple aura to refine the eyes, even to the extent of examining the terrain of mountains and rivers or the fortunes of people.

It was currently dawn, and Su Mu looked up at the horizon’s hint of dawn, and in the next breath, a purple light appeared faintly in his eyes.

Buzz!

A ray of spiritual light crossed his sea of consciousness.

Purple Sun Aura Observation Technique (Entry-level 1%)

Comprehension: 176 (Dragon-and-Phoenix Level)

Just making a brief attempt at dawn, Su Mu directly achieved entry-level mastery of the Purple Sun Aura Observation Technique. After quickly absorbing the warm flow of comprehension, Su Mu let out a light breath.

"The cultivation of this technique is indeed not difficult; entry-level mastery can even increase one’s comprehension slightly. This secret technique is approximately of Sixth Grade."

Immediately, Su Mu undid his own Small Faceless Transformation Technique, then activated the Purple Sun Aura Observation Technique to take a look at himself.

After a moment.

A river of Qi blood faintly appeared in his eyes, only its specific length was unclear; he could only vaguely estimate it. Even so, Su Mu was still pleasantly surprised, as he could already ascertain that his cultivation was at the Sixth Grade, third Blood Exchange level.

"Not bad, the Purple Sun Aura Observation Technique can assess cultivation levels, and it’s extremely practical!"

Immediately, Su Mu quietly activated the Small Faceless Transformation Technique again to conceal his aura and cultivation. Instantly, a thin mist spread, quickly obscuring the river of Qi blood, making the true and false indistinguishable.

After multiple attempts, Su Mu nodded secretly, increasingly appreciating the subtlety of the Pharmacist’s ancestral technique, the ’Small Faceless Transformation Technique’, which still had great use in Su Mu’s hands.

"The Profound Clarity Technique should be the Tao Han’s Taoist Family cultivation method; no rush to cultivate it, I’ll just keep it for now."

"Time to head back."

...

Last night, the disturbances from the Tao Family again alarmed the Commandery City, while various factions speculated differently about it.

Today, entering the city was more strictly checked than usual, leaving the ordinary citizens with complaints in their hearts, but fear kept them from expressing anger over the Tao Family matter.

After spending a bit more time entering the city, Su Mu turned into an empty alley, changed his attire, and when he emerged, he was of average build with an utterly common face.

Sporting the appearance of ’Wang Chan’, Su Mu walked into the main street and blended into the crowd. Even those who passed by wouldn’t have too strong an impression of ’Wang Chan’; such was the ordinariness of the face and the unremarkable stature.

Heading north along Donglai Street, he arrived at East City, where a sprawling deep courtyard stood prominently.

The continuous high walls stretched like a red dragon soaring into the sky, disappearing into the distance, with two green stone lions over nine feet tall sitting by the mansion’s entrance. Their manes bristled threateningly, claws and teeth starkly fierce, appearing lifelike under the sunlight.

Outside the mansion, teams of sword-carrying guards in profound robes patrolled, their breaths steady and steps agile.

Above the green stone lions hung a black wood, gilt plaque on the lintel, with two robust characters carved: "Li Mansion".

"Sixth-Grade Martial Artists as home guardians, worthy indeed of being one of the Four Great Families of Donglai... If one didn’t know it was the Li Mansion, they might mistake it for the Prince’s Mansion."

Su Mu gazed from afar at the Li Mansion courtyard, feeling deeply moved. Under the Aura Observation Technique, the Qi blood rivers around three people in each of the two patrolling guard teams in front of the mansion were faintly visible, confirming them as Sixth-Grade Martial Artists.