89: Cultivating the Ice Soul Sword Dance

Chu Yuan traveled at high speed for a moment before hearing a violent tremor coming from the horizon.

Upon sensing that familiar aura within the disturbance, his expression involuntarily changed in surprise.

"Ye Qingyi? Why is she here?"

Chu Yuan's expression shifted slightly, a mix of surprise and uncertainty on his face. Could it be that the concealment of heavenly secrets had failed?

"No way!"

"I need to hide first!"

Chu Yuan muttered, then quickly found a cave and escaped into the primal origin space.

Only after entering the primal origin space did he pat his chest and let out a sigh of relief.

"How did that woman find her way here?"

After slightly relaxing, Chu Yuan muttered, his expression still full of surprise and uncertainty.

He had clearly used the primal divine crystal to conceal his own heavenly secrets; it shouldn't be possible for others to find him by spying on fate!

"Was it a coincidence?"

Chu Yuan's expression was uncertain, and his thoughts became momentarily chaotic.

"Forget it."

He shook his head and muttered, "I should avoid her for now. It's best not to see her until my strength has risen."

Although he had stayed in the Ghost Fiend Nether Abyss for over a year and gotten along harmoniously with Ye Qingyi and the others.

However, the secret technique within the Cultivation Technique still made him feel uneasy.

Before he possessed the strength to contend with Ye Qingyi, he did not plan on meeting her or the others again.

Chu Yuan stopped thinking about it and looked toward the Spirit Skill that Shangguan Xinglan had gifted him not long ago.

"I should Cultivate first. I wonder how powerful this Spirit Skill is?"

He mumbled, then directly copied a duplicate for backup.

Afterward, he was not in a hurry to enhance it, but instead opened the copied Spirit Skill and began reading.

Moments later, a look of delight appeared on his face.

"It's actually a Heaven-Rank Spirit Technique!"

Chu Yuan hadn't expected Shangguan Xinglan to be so generous as to gift him a Heaven-Rank Spirit Technique.

From low to high, Cultivation Techniques and Spirit Skills are divided into Human-Grade, Earth-Grade, Heaven-Grade, Divine-Grade, and Saint-Grade.

The Heaven-Grade Spirit Skill is neither too high nor too low in rank, making it the most suitable for Cultivators in the Spirit Core Realm, Spirit Crystal Realm, and Spirit Soul Realm to Cultivate.

It's not just a matter of difficulty; the spiritual energy consumption when executing it is also just right.

If a Cultivator in the Spirit Crystal Realm were given a Divine-Grade Spirit Skill, a single move would likely drain all of their spiritual energy.

You Lian would mention these common knowledge points to him during their casual conversations while he was in the Ghost Fiend Nether Abyss.

However, they never mentioned anything about gifting Chu Yuan Spirit Skills.

Chu Yuan had even asked You Lian and Dark Moon for them before, but he was always fobbed off.

This was another reason why Chu Yuan was unwilling to stay in the Ghost Fiend Nether Abyss!

Only Cultivating the Cultivation Technique without Cultivating Spirit Skills meant that his combat power could not be fully utilized.

For Chu Yuan, who longed to become stronger and control his own destiny, this was unacceptable.

Without dwelling on it, he immediately enhanced the original copy of this Spirit Skill once.

He then opened it and saw that much of the content had changed, appearing to be more complete.

Seeing this, he didn't hesitate and immediately began comprehending the content of the enhanced Spirit Skill.

Aided by the primal divine crystal, in less than half an hour, Chu Yuan had basically mastered this Spirit Skill.

He slightly closed his eyes, and countless sword shadows quickly flashed through his mind.

Immediately after, he subconsciously stood up.

The sword moved with his heart, and the Ice Soul Sword Dance Spirit Skill was executed by him.

The Ice Soul Sword Dance has four forms, namely Silver Frost Glimpse of Shadow, Frost Bloom Dance, Cold Star Shattering Moon, and Ice Soul Sword Dragon.

Among them, Silver Frost Glimpse of Shadow integrates movement technique and sword form, moving forward a certain distance at an extremely fast speed and rapidly thrusting a sword.

This form focuses on surprise, but the damage is not very high.

At the same time, the consumption is not high. If one lacked a movement technique, using it for travel would suffice.

The second form, Frost Bloom Dance, is an area-of-effect sword move, condensing ice frost Sword Qi to strike multiple targets simultaneously.

Theoretically speaking, as long as the spiritual energy is sufficient, condensing and controlling tens of thousands of ice frost Sword Qi simultaneously would not be a problem.

Moreover, the power of a single strand of Sword Qi is not much weaker than Silver Frost Glimpse of Shadow.

As for the third form, Cold Star Shattering Moon, and the fourth form, Ice Soul Sword Dragon, they belong to single-target attacks.

Strictly speaking, Ice Soul Sword Dragon can even be considered an upgraded version of Frost Bloom Dance.

Using countless strands of ice frost Sword Qi to condense the Ice Soul Sword Dragon, the power is naturally incomparable.

Chu Yuan had never seen other Spirit Skills, so he didn't know what they were typically like.

But if he were to say it, this Ice Soul Sword Dance could entirely be considered a set of Spirit Skills.

Chu Yuan performed it once. Although it looked somewhat stiff, he had indeed mastered it.

He looked at the attribute screen, and sure enough, the Ice Soul Sword Dance Spirit Skill appeared in the Spirit Skill column.

And just as he expected, he had achieved Initial Mastery.

Chu Yuan didn't think too much and directly activated the enhancement, having no intention of painstakingly Cultivating.

Before long.

As the enhancement concluded, the Ice Soul Sword Dance Spirit Skill had reached the Perfection Realm.

And Chu Yuan felt as if he had practiced for decades, executing the Spirit Skill with ease.

At this moment, Chu Yuan felt that even if he only used the first form, he could break the Black Bear Demon Emperor's fist seal.

If he went all out, he should be able to exchange blows with the Black Bear Demon Emperor without falling into a disadvantage.

Of course, this was just wishful thinking; he truly didn't know the specific situation.

Chu Yuan pondered for a moment, and ultimately decided not to enhance it to the ultimate limit.

It was enough for the time being; there was no need to waste source primordial power.

"I won't go out for now. Let me first try to see if I can raise my Formation skill to Sixth Grade."

Chu Yuan mumbled, picked up the silver sumeru ring, took out the books inside, and began reading them.

Over the past year, in addition to his Cultivation, his consciousness would enter here to Cultivate Formation arts.

As early as two months ago, he was already able to set up a Fifth Grade Formation, and his Formation arrangement skill had advanced to Fifth Grade.

Unfortunately, setting up a Formation requires time, and a Fifth Grade Formation likely wouldn't trap the Black Bear Demon Emperor for long, otherwise he wouldn't have been in such a sorry state.

When Chu Yuan thought of this, he suddenly recalled the blood sword the Black Bear Demon Emperor held at the time.

"The concealment of heavenly secrets shouldn't be the issue, so it must be that blood sword."

"In the Cangyuan Continent, such methods are probably common. I don't know what method was used to lock onto me. It seems I need to pay attention to information regarding this later."

Chu Yuan muttered, then calmed his mind and began learning Formation arts.

He had previously discovered a feature of the primal divine crystal's skill enhancement: when enhancing, it integrates and thoroughly comprehends everything he already knows!

It corrects his mistaken understanding of the corresponding skill. For things he doesn't know, it cannot enhance or integrate them for him, nor can it correct them.

For example, when Chu Yuan initially gained Initial Mastery in Culinary Skills, he only knew how to roast meat and cook porridge.

After enhancing his Culinary Skills to Major Achievement, his attainment in roasting meat and cooking porridge was profound.

However, for other dishes, he could only learn them slowly later.

Later, after learning hundreds of dishes and reading many ingredient introductions, when he enhanced it again, all of this knowledge was integrated and thoroughly comprehended for him, allowing him to completely grasp what he had learned.

Brewing wine was the same!

As for Formation arts, he tried enhancing them once when he was at Fourth Grade, but unfortunately... it didn't work!

Well, it wasn't entirely that it didn't work.

Rather, without having studied Fifth Grade Formation arts beforehand, he couldn't advance his Formation arrangement skill to Fifth Grade.

However, the enhancement wasn't without effect. At the very least, the Formation knowledge he had previously learned was enhanced and integrated.

Because of this, even after only learning Formation arts for a month, he was easily able to set up a Fourth Grade Formation and wipe out Night Mantis's subordinates.

This time, he wanted to verify a hypothesis.

After finishing the study of the ancient texts and Formation diagrams left by Duanmu Shenfeng, he would try enhancing his Formation arrangement skill.

To see if, without having arranged a Sixth Grade Formation before, he could directly master Sixth Grade Formation arts through enhancement.

With this idea in mind, Chu Yuan began to wholeheartedly study Formation arts.