Chapter 385 - 248: [Fallen God Finger], Perception Secret Technique (Part 2)

Chapter 385: Chapter 248: [Fallen God Finger], Perception Secret Technique (Part 2)

While activating it, he couldn’t control the speed of his Inner Qi. The strange pattern could only be drawn at a fixed rate.

Its destructive power had an upper limit. Once it was fully activated, pouring more Inner Qi into it was pointless.

Yu Fei couldn’t comprehend the principle behind it at all.

He tried to draw the pattern, but the moment he picked up a pen, his mind went blank and he couldn’t remember it at all.

Refusing to give up, Yu Fei tried drawing it with his Inner Qi again and completed it with ease.

He picked up the pen again, but still had no impression of the pattern.

’Forget it. It’s not a total loss. At least I’ve successfully cultivated the Void Clearing Mirror. I’ll call this special technique the Fallen God Finger.’

Gazing at the simple, ancient mirror in his sea of consciousness, Yu Fei’s frustration was swept away.

At this moment, the Void Clearing Mirror was newly formed. Illusory ripples occasionally spread across its surface, and Yu Fei understood that it still needed to be nurtured for some time.

This peculiar mirror, a Soul Foundation Skill that served as his divine soul, had no cultivation realms of its own.

Once mastered, it would only take nine days to completely stabilize and become one of Yu Fei’s trump cards.

During this period, he would have to pause his cultivation of the Star Soul Forging Scripture.

Time passed leisurely. Over the next few days, Yu Fei constantly felt listless. He had the sensation that all his stray thoughts and anxieties were being absorbed by the mirror, leaving him perpetually drowsy.

He didn’t even go to the school-opening party Jiang Nianwei invited him to. As for his Cultivation Technique training, he only continued to absorb the violet qi from the east and practice the All Things Return to Origin Scripture; everything else was put on hold.

On the ninth day, a clear chime echoed in Yu Fei’s sea of consciousness. The sound penetrated to the depths of his divine soul, and in an instant, his mind became crystal clear, his thoughts flowing with unparalleled smoothness.

Closing his eyes, he saw that the surface of the Void Clearing Mirror was now shimmering with a fluorescent light. It seemed to have a tangible substance, no longer feeling illusory.

Humans possess the Three Treasures—essence, qi, and spirit. These are constantly bursting forth and in motion, but they are also constantly dissipating.

Earlier, when Yu Fei had acquired a talent from Li Jueyin, he had replicated a silver-grade Qiankun Impermeable Body. This talent was described as preventing the leakage of the "Three Origins."

After fusing with the talent, Yu Fei had benefited immensely.

However, when it came to his spirit, he was blessed with the "Fleeting Life in a Moment" talent. While it prevented leakage, his spiritual energy was rather chaotic and could not be unified or purified.

He was constantly generating numerous stray thoughts, far more than an ordinary person, and could only rely on his own will to continuously grind them down.

But now with the Void Clearing Mirror, he discovered he no longer needed to make a conscious effort; his thoughts became pure naturally.

This technique truly lived up to its reputation as the number one Qingjing Strange Skill of Middle Antiquity Daoism. After a moment of contemplation, Yu Fei understood its effects.

With this skill, a Martial Artist could forever maintain a transcendent, detached mindset, remain perfectly rational, and be immune to any mind-affecting techniques.

It also allowed him to multitask. His normally chaotic thoughts were now unified and coordinated, and Yu Fei felt he could truly do many things at once.

To test this effect, he immediately summoned over a hundred streams of Sword Qi. With a single thought, the streams of Sword Qi shot off along different trajectories. He gradually increased their number until he reached over a thousand, only then beginning to feel the strain. This was completely different from before.

Previously, Yu Fei had relied on his fifteen-fold neural reaction speed to forcefully control the trajectories of the Sword Qi, a process that was actually quite mentally taxing. But now, it was like instinct, requiring no conscious effort at all.

After a moment’s thought, he recalled the streams of Sword Qi, leaving a single blue, water-attribute stream to practice Swordsmanship. The Finger Skill seals on Yu Fei’s hands changed, and more and more streams of Sword Qi joined in.

In an instant, over twenty streams of Sword Qi were each executing different Swordsmanship styles. They attacked one another, then suddenly cooperated, only to turn on each other again.

Executing Swordsmanship was far more difficult than simply controlling the Sword Qi’s trajectory, so he began to feel the strain upon reaching over twenty streams.

An understanding dawned on Yu Fei. ’This must be the true way to use the Void Clearing Mirror.’

Each stream of Sword Qi was controlled by a separate thought, as if more than twenty versions of himself were sparring with one another. In that moment, countless insights into Swordsmanship flooded his mind.

The intersecting principles of the sword arts were shared between them, increasing his cultivation speed by an untold number of times.

In comparison, he used to be a single-core processor with an incredibly high clock speed. Now, he had become a multi-core, or even a hyper-threaded, processor. His core processing power had once again been fundamentally enhanced.

The Soul Foundation Skill was complete. The next step was to cultivate the various perception-based Secret Techniques related to the five viscera and the five senses.

He continuously recalled Ye Shuping’s advice.

The common categories for perception-based Secret Techniques included Pupil Skills, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.

Each type of Secret Technique had numerous potential effects that could be developed, but the divine power of a prodigy Martial Artist’s five viscera was limited. They had to choose a focus.

For example, the effects of a Pupil Skill could include enhanced insight, long-range vision, perceiving the flow of essence qi, Soul Capturing, dark vision, and many more.

Hearing-related skills could grant effects like an expanded auditory range, the ability to hear formless sounds, perceive the frequency of essence qi fluctuations, detect subtle noises, and even sense life-force magnetic fields.

Yu Fei needed to decide on his area of focus among the Five Senses Secret Skills before he could choose the specific Secret Techniques to cultivate.

If the divine power of the five viscera that a prodigy Martial Artist obtained in the second realm of the martial path were to be quantified, it would be as if each of the five sensory abilities required a certain amount of "divinity points" to unlock. Rarer abilities naturally consumed more divinity points, while more common ones cost less.

For example, among Pupil Skills, the Soul Capturing ability required a higher divinity cost than dark vision.

This "divinity" was equivalent to a Martial Artist’s starting capital for unlocking abilities.

In this regard, Yu Fei had a natural advantage.

First, during the second realm, he had used the Primordial Qi Sword Lotus to cultivate a top-tier Cultivation Technique. Subsequently, as his talents had leveled up, the power of his five viscera had been continuously strengthening, and his "divinity" had risen along with it.

Ye Shuping had told him that he could add some common development paths according to his own preferences, but that certain special categories were mandatory.

Soul Capturing for Pupil Skills,

Presence Perception for hearing,

Gaze Detection for touch,

Judging a person’s true emotions through their scent for smell,

And determining if something ingested is harmful for taste.

The abilities Ye Shuping recommended were all among the Five Senses Secret Skills that demanded the highest divinity cost.

These abilities were not only for perception; they also enhanced a Martial Artist’s overall capabilities.

After a moment of thought, Yu Fei opened the link Ye Shuping had sent him. It was a mini-program.

[Perception Secret Skill Decision Simulator] (Internal Ver. V2.456.123.04).

After opening the mini-program, the first step was to select one’s preferred abilities.

The Pupil Skill section alone, when expanded, revealed a dense list of over fifty ability categories.

Yu Fei first found and selected the Soul Capturing option, then considered what other abilities he should add.

Ye Shuping had recommended that Martial Artists not make too many selections for each category—two or three at most—and that the choices should ideally complement their personal combat style.

For Yu Fei, who was not a pure support-type Martial Artist, everything should be aimed at increasing his combat strength.

First, he already had an eye-related talent, the Illusory Cicada Star Pupil, which gave him long-range vision and the ability to see vibrational trails. This talent would be upgraded further in the future, so he could forgo abilities in that area.

His Reversing Destiny Vision, which allowed him to observe talent gems, was originally meant to help him identify invisibility and stealth—not even a Martial Saint could hide from him.

So... after a moment of thought, Yu Fei locked in his choices.

For Vision: Soul Capturing + X-ray Vision + Essence Qi Flow!

For Hearing, Yu Fei chose: Presence Perception + Expanded Auditory Range + Ultrasonic Domain.

For Touch: Gaze Perception + Memory Echo.

For Smell: Emotion Spectrum + Scent Tracking + Enhanced Smell.

For Taste: Danger Intuition + Component Analysis.

After weighing the pros and cons, Yu Fei finalized the evolutionary paths for his five senses.

Once his selections were complete, the mini-program moved to a second screen.

Divinity Point Allocation!

Before he started, Ye Shuping had helped him roughly estimate his own divinity range. In the mini-program, the baseline was a prodigy in the second realm of the martial path who was cultivating a high-grade technique and had no special talents. Their divinity points for each sense were set at roughly 100.

A prodigy cultivating a top-tier technique would have higher divinity points, roughly double at 200.

The value Ye Shuping had set for him in the mini-program was an astonishing 500 points.

This number was only a reference and not entirely accurate. In ancient times, there were certain obsessive Cultivation Techniques that specialized in a single area. Through the theory of the five elements’ mutual generation and restriction, they too could push a single divinity value to a level approaching this range.

However, those were the methods of demonic cultivators, which Ye Shuping viewed with contempt.