Chapter 41: Mutated Skills

Chapter 41: Chapter 41: Mutated Skills

The Storage Ring was a birthday gift from his mother, the Princess Consort, for his first birthday. Su Han had worn it for fifteen years now.

In all those years, he had never felt that there was anything special about the ring.

But... now some guy with Mastery of True Sight Magic had exploded with a BOOM after leaving behind the two words: "you" and "ring."

This forced Su Han to reconsider whether there was really a problem with his ring.

’Carrying around a wise old master?’

’A system inside the ring?’

’Or... something else unknown?’

Su Han couldn’t help but frown slightly as he thought about the novels he had read in his past life.

’Forget about some wise old master. For others, it might be a fortuitous encounter, but for him, it was a ticking time bomb.’

’If there really was a wise old master in his ring... he might just have to use his True Celestial Punishment, the Celestial Chosen Technique he could only use once a year.’

With this in mind, Su Han carefully took off the ring and brought it close to his face.

"Elder Yao? Is that you, Elder Yao?"

The ring: "..."

There was no response.

"Hey... Old master, are you in there?"

The ring: "..."

Still no response, making Su Han wonder if there really was an old master living in his ring after all.

After staring at the ring and thinking for a moment, Su Han gritted his teeth, placed the ring on the ground, and undid the jade belt at his waist.

"I don’t care what you are, this Crown Prince is giving you one last chance. If you don’t come out, I’m going to lose it!"

The ring: "..."

It remained perfectly still, without the slightest reaction, as if... it were just an ordinary Storage Ring, as common as could be, with nothing special about it at all.

A gust of wind blew past, and he felt a chill between his legs.

Su Han shivered involuntarily. ’My whole performance was just ridiculously stupid,’ he thought. ’Like a total lunatic.’

’So... is there really no magical creature like an old master, who shouldn’t even exist in this world, inside the ring?’

Pulling his pants back up and fastening his jade belt, Su Han picked up the ring.

He looked up at the Skill Tree before him, his gaze turning grim.

Given the lesson learned from Liu Ming’s fate, Su Han didn’t want to use True Sight Magic on the ring in his hand unless it was absolutely necessary.

But... he couldn’t be at ease without figuring out if there was truly a problem with this ring.

He activated his skill, Rain of Fire. A sea of flames under Su Han’s control engulfed the Skill Tree before him, yet the fire didn’t spread to any of the surrounding trees.

Once the flames had fully ignited the trunk, the Skill Tree appeared to Su Han as: Skill Tree (Lit).

He opened the Skill List. As expected, there was only a single selectable skill inside.

However...

Selectable Skill 1: Eye of Truth!

’Eye of Truth?’

’What the hell is Eye of Truth? Wasn’t it supposed to be True Sight Magic?’

He acquired the skill. A wisp of Dao Rhyme flew out from the tree and entered Su Han’s Sea of Consciousness.

A flood of information about the skill, Eye of Truth, was received by Su Han.

As he absorbed this information, Su Han gradually came to understand the function of the Eye of Truth.

Eye of Truth: Active Skill.

Ignores all defenses, allowing the user to see through the Cultivation Realm of any target no more than three major realms higher than oneself.

Ignores realm differences, allowing the user to identify the detailed information of any item.

A certain chance to see through a target’s weaknesses.

"..."

Su Han was rendered speechless as he read the description of the Eye of Truth.

’Isn’t... isn’t this just the legendary Identification Magic from online games?’

Back in his past life when he played online games, checking a target’s information was a basic action for every character. His current Eye of Truth was remarkably similar to that.

The only difference was the added ability to see through a target’s weaknesses with a certain probability.

’Eye of Truth?’

’Identification Magic?’

’Thinking about it now, wasn’t Liu Ming’s True Sight Magic just a weakened, prototype version of Identification Magic?’

’The skill I obtained just strengthened his weakened prototype, turning it into a true Identification Magic.’

’So...’

Looking at the ring in his hand, Su Han raised his hand and cast Identification Magic on it.

’This is the genuine Identification Magic, without the flaws of the weakened version.’

’Most importantly, the description for Eye of Truth was very clear on one point: Ignores realm differences, allowing the user to identify the detailed information of any item.’

’This point alone guaranteed that Su Han wouldn’t inexplicably explode and die like Liu Ming when he identified this ring.’

Identify... He cast Eye of Truth, and a white light, visible only to Su Han, flashed over the ring.

After the white light faded, a stream of information flowed into Su Han’s mind—

Storage Ring: A birthday gift from Princess Jing to the Crown Prince Su Han on his first birthday.

Having been worn by Crown Prince Su Han for many years, it has been imbued with a sliver of his fortune. An ordinary person who carries it can have their own fortune attribute amplified to a certain extent.

Function: Storage.

Other: None.

’So... this is just an ordinary Storage Ring?’

’Besides being imbued with a bit of my fortune from being worn for so many years, allowing it to bring good luck to others, there’s nothing special about this ring at all?’

After getting this result, although he felt a little disappointed, Su Han also let out a long sigh of relief.

’An ordinary ring is good! Using an ordinary ring is so much less trouble.’

’It seems the ring is just an ordinary ring. In that case, Liu Ming’s death was most likely because he identified one of the secrets on my person.’

’Whether it was the Celestial Punishment, the Heaven and Earth Melting Furnace, or the Skill Tree, it wasn’t so bizarre to think that any one of those three could cause a mere Little Cultivator at the Perfection of the Spirit Platform realm like Liu Ming to suffer a backlash and explode.’

Having resolved one of the doubts in his heart, Su Han extinguished the fire on the Skill Tree from which he had taken the skill and turned to another one.

With another Rain of Fire, the Skill Tree was engulfed in flames.

He opened the Skill List, and once again, there was only one selectable skill:

Selectable Skill 1: Heaven-Deceiving Concealment Technique.

’Heaven-Deceiving Concealment Technique?’

Seeing the skill’s name, Su Han paused for a moment. ’Concealing Breath Technique is one thing, but why add the words "Heaven-Deceiving"?’

Puzzled, Su Han chose to acquire the Heaven-Deceiving Concealment Technique.

The skill transformed into a wisp of Dao Rhyme and entered Su Han’s Sea of Consciousness. The accumulation from over half a month finally caused a quantitative change to trigger a qualitative one.

As his Divine Thought strengthened, Su Han’s own realm... also leaped from the early stage of the Spirit Platform realm into the mid-stage.

He didn’t have time to bother with his realm breakthrough. After completely absorbing the information from the Heaven-Deceiving Concealment Technique, Su Han now had a sufficient understanding of this skill.

He also understood why the words "Heaven-Deceiving" were added before "Concealing Breath Technique."

Heaven-Deceiving Concealment Technique: Once cast, allows perfect control over one’s aura, enabling free switching between any realm up to one’s own. At its highest, it can maintain one’s true realm; at its lowest, it becomes imperceptible to the naked eye. Once cast, even the Celestial Dao can be deceived.

’So... this is an incredible skill that can pull off the ultimate deception, one that can hide my true realm even from the Celestial Dao itself, as long as I wish it?’

Although its only function was to alter his aura, for Su Han—who was currently cultivating the flawed Heaven and Earth Melting Furnace and would face Celestial Punishment upon stepping onto the Immortal Platform and glimpsing the realm of Celestial Beings—it was nothing short of a Divine Technique.