17: Chapter 17 The Record of Floating Dawn

"Another word of nonsense and I'll cut you down too." Lu Ming raised his sword and pointed it at the other party.

"Oh? Then I'm afraid our cooperation will be difficult to progress." The other party was clearly emboldened, ignoring Lu Ming's jinghong sword and beginning to clean up the battlefield, taking all the Storage Pouches of the three people into his own pocket.

After tidying up, he slowly spoke: "Consider these as interest; you still owe many debts."

Lu Ming didn't look at him, taking to the air once again: "When the time comes, come to the Sunset Glow Sect's Sword Peak and take it yourself." Having said that, he turned into a streak of rainbow light and disappeared.

The Young Lord smiled faintly, his eyes showing no hint of joy or anger, and then his entire being vanished into the shadows once more.

...

On the other side, Yun Ming lived a simple life of commuting between two points; every day, besides Cultivating, he was performing Alchemy.

During this time, he also heard about Lu Ming's exploits. After all, people throughout the Sect were discussing how he had single-handedly slain four Cultivators at the Qi Refining Great Circle and one at the Foundation Establishment Early Stage.

He was hailed as the undisputed number one in combat power within the Sunset Glow Sect, and so on and so forth.

However, Yun Ming didn't like fighting and killing, so he didn't take these matters to heart.

He was more concerned about what today's randomized trait would be.

"Ding! Today is auspicious for drawing cards; the probability of obtaining High Grade items is increased. A ten-draw set has been issued."

"Great! I've saved up so many draws, and they finally have a use."

Name: [Yun Ming]

Realm: [Qi Refining Level 4]

Trait: [Serious Punch] (Gold)

Profession: Rank 1 Low Grade Alchemist

Cultivation Technique: [Supreme Profound Pure Qi Art] (Purple), [Introduction to Alchemy Scripture] (Blue)

Spell: [Green Wood Art] (White)

Draw Count: [250]

Wealth: 0.12

Items: enlightenment card ×1 (Purple), qi condensing pill ×1 (Blue)

"Let's start with fifty draws to test the waters!"

"Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained the following items:

Low-Grade Spirit Stone ×1 (White)

..."

Then Yun Ming fell into deep thought as he looked at the forty-five Low-Grade Spirit Stones and five Mid-Grade Spirit Stones before him.

"Damn it, System, did you secretly nerf the rates? You damn profiteer."

So, Yun Ming gritted his teeth and decided to go all in!

"There are two hundred draws left, pull them all for me!"

As Yun Ming's voice fell, the two hundred draws instantly transformed into countless streaks of starlight flashing before his eyes. Although most were still white, they were still interspersed with a few scattered blues and purples, as well as a single golden light.

Yun Ming let out a long breath. "Sigh, whatever, at least there's one gold."

But just as Yun Ming reached out his hand, about to touch that golden light, a sudden change occurred.

The golden light seemed to come alive, constantly dodging and refusing to let Yun Ming touch it.

"Eh? What's going on?"

Although the golden light was fast, it was ultimately restricted by the System to a small space. Still, it took Yun Ming quite some effort to catch it.

At the moment Yun Ming caught it, the golden light began to expand in his hand, growing more and more dazzling. Immediately following, seven colored lights—red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple—burst forth from within the gold.

Yun Ming looked at the iridescent glow in his palm, feeling his heart race and his palms sweat.

"Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained:

Fuli Heaven-Concealing Record (Rainbow)"

[The Great Dao is profound and mysterious, and the secrets of heaven flow and spread. To chase traces is to be deluded; to hold the pivot is to be enlightened. This record inherits the ancient era of Fuli and performs the pivot of masking heaven. Hide the spirit in the void, and vanish the form in the mystery. When a Cultivator accords with it, they can shroud the three lights in the Great Void and hide the wheel of fate within the tribulations...]

As wave after wave of profound and mysterious voices echoed in his ears, Yun Ming's eyes widened, and his mouth hung open involuntarily: "This! This is Rainbow Grade?!"

The highest level of Cultivation Techniques Yun Ming could access or had even heard of was Grade 4 Medium Grade, which was the Nascent Soul technique of the Sunset Glow Sect.

But as the Fuli Heaven-Concealing Record transformed into a flow of light and merged into his body, he discovered that this technique was actually Grade 9 Peak Grade!

A half-step Immortal Art! It was no exaggeration to say that this technique had already placed half a foot into the ranks of immortal Spells.

And its effects were exaggerated to the extreme.

First, the simplest and most basic function was the concealment of heavenly secrets.

Now, even as a Qi Refining Stage Cultivator, as long as Yun Ming wished it, even a Mahayana stage Cultivator would be unable to deduce any information about him, let alone see through his cultivation. Or rather, the other party could only see what he wanted them to see.

As for the later functions like confusing heavenly secrets or altering Karma, they were beyond words; he barely dared to even look at what was written.

Then Yun Ming began to try operating the Fuli Heaven-Concealing Record. His cultivation instantly reached the Nascent Soul Stage, then dropped to Foundation Establishment, and then returned to Qi Refining.

Yun Ming marveled that luckily the System could directly impart the knowledge; otherwise, he wouldn't know how long he'd have to Cultivate a Spell of this level.

Just as Yun Ming was still immersed in the joy of drawing a top-tier technique, a crack suddenly appeared in the sky.

The Sunset Glow Sect Master, a Nascent Soul True Lord, stepped out from this crack, carrying an incredibly powerful pressure.

"Which Fellow Daoist is passing through our Sect? Why not come out for a meeting?"

The Sect Master's appearance drew many eyes, but most people didn't understand who the Sect Master was talking to.

Only Yun Ming, even inside his room, was so scared he didn't dare move an inch.

After a long while with no response, the Sunset Glow Sect Master's Divine Sense swept over the mountain peaks again and again. Indeed finding nothing, he finally tore through the Void Realm and left.

Only then did Yun Ming breathe a sigh of relief.

"Phew... scared me to death." Although he was afraid, he was even more excited in his heart.

He thought to himself that the Fuli Heaven-Concealing Record was truly a top-tier technique; at such a close distance and with such a massive gap in cultivation, not a single trace had been detected.

Once he was certain the Sect Master wouldn't return to check, Yun Ming began to count the other items he had obtained from the two hundred draws.

Besides Spirit Stones, there were two other purple lights.

They were: the High Grade Spiritual Artifact taiqing wanderer, and the Medium Grade Spiritual Artifact naxu.

The taiqing wanderer was a flying Spiritual Artifact. Its appearance was that of a shifting, misty-green cloud, with edges glowing with a faint golden light, like the clouds at the horizon when the sun first rises.

Yun Ming's evaluation was that it felt cool and soft to the touch, making it a good material for a body pillow.

naxu was a storage Spiritual Artifact, appearing as an ink-jade ring. The ring was entirely flawless, except under specific light, where one could see it contained countless silver specks as fine as dust.

Most importantly, the space inside was huge, roughly equivalent to the size of four football fields.

Unfortunately, as good as these two Spiritual Artifacts were, they were useless to the current Yun Ming.

With his Qi Refining Stage spiritual energy, he couldn't even make the taiqing wanderer fly. Its only use might be to lay it on the bed so sleeping at night would be a bit more comfortable.

Then there was naxu; all his current wealth was stored in the System space, and nothing else was worth putting inside it.

Thinking of this, Yun Ming suddenly remembered his last fight with Ma San. If he hadn't drawn the Serious Punch at the end, he would have been finished.

"It seems I really do need to buy some things for self-defense."

Coincidentally, those two hundred draws had also provided Yun Ming with a sum of Spirit Stones, so he planned to visit the Sect Market.

There were two places in the Sunset Glow Sect where one could buy things. One was the Sect Market, composed of stalls of various sizes; the goods there were a mix of real and fake. If you got scammed, you basically just had to accept your bad luck, though if you were lucky, you could also find hidden gems.

The other was the Sect's Hundred Treasures Pavilion. The Hundred Treasures Pavilion also had plenty of items, mostly coming from the various main peaks—for example, Medicinal Pills from Alchemy Peak, Talismans and Formations from the Spirit Talisman Peak and Array Peak, and weapons and armor from Sword Peak and Qi Peak.

The advantage of the Hundred Treasures Pavilion was the guarantee; they wouldn't pass off inferior goods as high quality or fakes as genuine. The disadvantage was that it was too expensive.

It was precisely because the Hundred Treasures Pavilion was too expensive that Yun Ming had always gone to the Sect Market, mainly because he also harbored the hope of seeing if he could find a bargain.