101: Become a junior Celestial Master, Nano Spirit Pearl

You began to immerse yourself in studying several Daoist Magic of Heavenly Secret from the Azure Cloud Sect. Every morning, you would ascend to the Peak of Azure Cloud Peak to observe the churning sea of clouds and comprehend the changes in the Heaven and Earth Qi.

You discovered that the Heavenly Secret arts and the Dao of Formation had much in common, so you integrated the knowledge of Formation you had learned into them, unexpectedly increasing your deduction efficiency.

At thirty-nine, you became an Elementary Heavenly Secret Master.

After becoming an Elementary Heavenly Secret Master, your eyes seemed to be endowed with the power to perceive Heavenly Secrets. The Karma threads entwined around Cultivators in the Qi Refining Realm and even the early to Middle Stages of the Dao Foundation Realm were as clearly visible as spider webs.

By adjusting the "nodes" on the Karma threads, you could subtly influence their choices as if plucking the strings of a zither.

You sighed, thinking that the profession of Heavenly Secret Master was truly too insidious. Under the influence of a Heavenly Secret Master, a Cultivator would have no idea that a sudden flash of inspiration they had might very well be a choice influenced by someone else.

In the days that followed, besides Cultivating, you would also go to consult Ancestor Qingyun from time to time.

Ancestor Qingyun was truly worthy of being a Golden Core True Lord who had lived for at least over a hundred thousand years. Although he did not specialize in techniques like Artifact Refining and Alchemy, the accumulation of such a long time had still allowed him to bring many arts of Cultivation to the Peak of the Purple Mansion Realm.

Ancestor Qingyun was shocked by your Comprehension Ability and talent. He had not expected that not only had you reached the Dao Foundation Realm before the age of fifty, but you had also studied so many arts of Cultivation.

What shocked him even more was that you had reached the Second Layer of Dao Foundation so quickly. Not only that, but you also possessed the talent to become a Heavenly Secret Master and had even become an Elementary Heavenly Secret Master.

These things would be shocking even if taken separately; he had not expected them to all be gathered in one person now.

Ancestor Qingyun believed that you definitely had the potential for a Golden Core, and if you developed at this rate, you might even have hope for the Nascent Soul. Therefore, he decided to teach you everything he knew without reservation.

At forty, the jade platform in your Sea of Consciousness rose by another layer, and you reached the Third Layer of Dao Foundation Realm.

Although Ancestor Qingyun, as a Golden Core True Lord, was only an Elementary Heavenly Secret Master, his understanding of Heavenly Secret Masters was incomparable to yours, thanks to the enhancement of his high Golden Core status.

Under the guidance of Ancestor Qingyun, your profession as a Heavenly Secret Master progressed rapidly. Now, you could clearly see the Luck of those whose Realm was lower than yours.

However, prying into Luck was a very dangerous matter. Prying into someone with super-strong Luck would result in a backlash of Luck, causing severe damage to your Origin Qi.

Prying into the Luck of someone with a higher Realm than yourself would result in a backlash of Qi, and it was possible for the person being investigated to notice it.

But that applied to others. With the enhancement of various powers, even though your Realm was only at the Third Layer of Dao Foundation, only the Luck of those with the potential to become Nascent Soul, or Cultivators in the middle to Late Stages of the Purple Mansion Realm, could cause a backlash against you.

In the Profound Heaven Realm, the manifestation of Luck is divided into seven colors: black, yellow, cyan, purple, orange, red, and gold, progressing layer by layer.

Among them, black is the most special; it is not purely Luck, but rather a harbinger of impending misfortune.

Even for those with great Luck, when encountering calamities, black will appear in their Luck; the deeper the color, the more severe the calamity.

Furthermore, black calamity-Luck is hidden extremely deep; even if the person possessing it is a Heavenly Secret Master, they themselves find it very difficult to detect.

Yellow Luck is mostly seen in mortal people, but if there is a hint of cyan in the yellow, it indicates that this person is a Xiantian Martial Artist who has converted to the Qi Refining Realm.

Those who possess Spiritual Roots start with at least cyan Luck. You used your Qi-observing technique to survey the Azure Cloud Sect and discovered that most Disciples had deep cyan Luck circling above their heads, which indicated that they all had the hope of forging a Dao Foundation.

Besides that, there were some with purple mixed into the cyan, indicating that these people had a probability of reaching the Purple Mansion Realm.

The Luck possessed by the Elders of the Purple Mansion Realm in the Azure Cloud Sect was entirely purple, but the color was very faint, indicating that these people had no hope of achieving a Golden Core.

However, the theory of Luck is the most mysterious and unpredictable. Luck is not eternal and unchanging; every choice you make will lead to changes in Luck, either increasing or decreasing.

Besides that, if one obtains a Heaven-mandated Spiritual Root that reaches the Heavenly Grade, then their Luck will be at least red, possessing the possibility of achieving Soul Transformation.

At forty-one, your level in talismans, Alchemy, and Formation reached the high stage of the sixth grade, and your Artifact Refining also reached a level capable of crafting High Grade Spiritual Artifacts.

However, with the Dharma Power of the Third Layer of Dao Foundation, it was a bit difficult to craft items corresponding to the Late Stage of the Dao Foundation Realm.

At forty-two, based on some Daoist Magic of the pupil technique type in Azure Cloud, you created a powerful pupil technique, which you named Heavenly Eye technique.

This pupil technique could now perform functions like microscopic vision, far-sight, and X-ray vision, and it could also see through falsehoods.

In the future, you would use this pupil technique as the foundation to integrate more Daoist Magic, hoping that one day it would truly be worthy of the name Heavenly Eye.

At forty-three, you practiced the art of Puppets and became a Puppet master.

Afterwards, relying on the Puppet technique, the Heavenly Eye technique, and the micro-etching technology in advanced Artifact Refining, you crafted a special High Grade Spiritual Artifact based on some of your wild ideas.

This Spiritual Artifact was named the nano spirit pearl, and its shape was a sphere the size of a palm. This sphere was composed of 10 to the power of 25 micro nano Puppets.

Each nano Puppet was ten nanometers in size. These nano Puppets were crafted from metallic Spiritual Materials that you had refined many times; they were extremely hard, and due to their small size, they could not be destroyed even by a Low Grade Magic Treasure unless they were deliberately attacked.

These nano Puppets could freely combine and change according to your will, either turning into armor, condensing into weapons, or even forming micro-Formations.

Most importantly, each nano Puppet had a connection and could transmit images to each other. Although there was a distance limit, according to your estimation, one nano spirit pearl could fully unfold to cover and investigate an area of three million li.

Furthermore, each nano Puppet was inscribed with runes you had parsed from the heaven-bestowed Daoist Magic. These runes made it impossible even for someone in the Purple Mansion Realm to discover the nano Puppets.

Crafting this Spiritual Artifact took you a total of three months. The crafting process was extremely smooth, and all the problems you encountered were easily solved.

After the nano spirit pearl was refined, you had already mastered the refining method. As long as your Divine Sense continued to strengthen, you could refine a large number of nano Puppets to enhance the nano spirit pearl.

Even when your technology advanced further, you could make the nano Puppets even smaller.

At forty-five, you stepped into the Fourth Layer of Dao Foundation.

The crystal-clear jade platform in your Sea of Consciousness added another layer. The fourth layer of the jade platform stood tall and firm in the vast Sea of Consciousness, emitting a warm, jade-like radiance.

The moment you stepped into the Fourth Layer of Dao Foundation, you felt an unprecedented clarity. Your Divine Thought could expand to cover a radius of one thousand li, and your body and Dharma Power also had significant enhancements.

You focused your inner vision and discovered that the hazy figure above the jade platform was no longer flickering, but revealed a clear outline.

The solidification of the phantom greatly enhanced your Heart Power, and you could also summon the phantom to enhance yourself, after which using Daoist Magic compatible with the Dao Foundation would have even greater power.