544: Chapter 544 Breakthrough to the Sixth Rank!

Twenty days later.

Around a villa, a large amount of elements gathered into a colorful vortex.

Transcendent in the academy sensed the intense elemental fluctuations and stepped out one after another to check out the scene.

Looking at the elemental vortex around the villa, many people had solemn expressions on their faces.

With such a massive amount of elements gathering, one could imagine how terrifying Nie Ning's magic power reserves were; they had likely reached the threshold of the seventh rank.

And as for the amplification of strength by magic power, it went without saying: the stronger the technique cast, the higher the amplification.

Because there was a limit to the magic power a technique could withstand, normal mages could not reach that limit, whereas high magic power could directly unleash the maximum power of a technique.

Everyone could not help but exchange glances, seeing the strange look in each other's eyes.

They had originally thought Nie Ning was just a freeloader who liked to bully others by flaunting his connections, but now it seemed they had underestimated him.

Some had gloomy expressions, not expecting this guy Nie Ning to improve so quickly.

Thinking about the rumors that Nie Ning could obtain the Power of the World, there must be a huge secret on him!

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As the elements above the villa suddenly converged, Nie Ning, who was in the cultivation room, slowly opened his eyes.

'Hoo～'

"Finally, I've reached the sixth rank."

After his strength improved, Nie Ning's psychological pressure eased a little.

However, this was clearly not enough; it was not enough to let him truly relax. He had to completely resolve that hidden danger!

"This world exploration is imperative. I hope that method is truly useful."

Nie Ning did not continue to dwell on this problem; after all, dwelling on it was useless.

[Rank: Sixth-rank Rune Knight (Initial Stage), Sixth-ring Mage (Initial Stage)]

[Talents: Supernatural Adaptability, Death-Speech Curse Binding]

[bloodline: ??? (Inactivated)]

[Derived Traits: Star Abyss Beast Body, Elemental Star Source, Power of the Tribe, Super-Limit Fusion, Super-grade Mental Power Amplification, Advanced Shapeshifting, Super-grade Chaos Affinity, Advanced Life Force Affinity, Corruption]

[Derived Skills: ..., Super-grade Chaos Manipulation (Conversion), Advanced Life Force Manipulation, Forbidden Domain of Living Beings, Elemental Blood Spirit Avatar, Shadow Tremor Air Technique, Profound Thunder Flash, Mystic Yang Thunder Aura, Absolute Zero Dragon Breath]

[Artistic Conception Insight: Wind (9%), Thunder (8%), Earth (8%), Light (8%), Darkness (8%), Fire (8%), Water (8%), Metal (8%), Wood (8%), Soul (8%), Ice (8%), Life (11%)]

[Cultivation Techniques: ..., Five Elements Origin Breath Method, Yin Wind Bone-Eroding Book, Stairway to Godhood, Golden Scale Dragon Transformation Art]

[Imprint Techniques: Concentrated Star Brilliance Array Diagram, Thousand Mountain Rune Technique]

[Skills: ..., Ice Blue Wing Technique (Great Success), Rainstorm Condensation Technique (Great Success), Blood Cloud Escape (Great Success), Taixu Annihilation Blade (Introductory), Soul Transfer Technique (Proficient), Soul Masking Technique (Great Success), Reverse Soul Turning Evil (Introductory)]

Nie Ning looked at his panel and couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

After cultivating for such a long time, his Artistic Conception had only improved by 14 points.

And this was only because they were all Artistic Conceptions under 10; the comprehension intensity was several times easier than Life Artistic Conception. If it had been Life Artistic Conception, improving by two points would probably have been quite good.

Because time was too tight, his imprinted techniques this time were very rough.

Even though he had asked Amivika to help build the prototype of the techniques in advance, many aspects had not been polished at all.

It was like a mechanical device; it originally needed ten screws, but he started running it after installing only five.

His current imprinted techniques were in this state; he had only supplemented some techniques related to stars.

After all, what he was going to do next was related to stars, so he needed to enhance his connection with the Power of the World.

Other than that, there were not many techniques used to enhance power, or rather, he hadn't had time to add them.

The only good thing was that his imprinted techniques were different from others.

He had already laid the foundation before, so he just needed to fill in some techniques to enhance power next. What needed attention was the rationality and compatibility of the added techniques.

So although the current techniques had flaws, they could be remedied later.

The Thousand Mountain Rune Technique didn't have much to say; it was an advanced version of the Mountain Moving Rune Technique.

Although it was standard and had nothing special, its strength lay in being relatively average in all aspects, without specific weaknesses.

When combined with the Super-Limit Fusion mode, there would be no obvious weak points.

The Soul Transfer Technique and Soul Masking Technique were relatively simple for Nie Ning, mainly because his powerful Spiritual Power and soul had an advantage in learning Soul-type techniques.

And although these two techniques were of a high level, their uses were very singular, so Nie Ning was quite relaxed when learning these two techniques.

Reverse Soul Turning Evil came from a strange shell he obtained from someone else when he did a good deed and expelled the Green-skinned Demons.

Compared to the first two techniques, Reverse Soul Turning Evil was a very complex and rare Soul-type technique.

Reverse Soul Turning Evil was divided into a sub-technique and a main technique.

The sub-technique could absorb evil energy to cultivate, temper one's own soul and Spiritual Power, and could also make attacks carry an evil energy effect.

If viewed from Nie Ning's perspective, it was probably only slightly inferior to the heritage techniques of top-tier sects.

Because any technique capable of tempering the soul and Spiritual Power was basically not bad, and the strength of the soul and Spiritual Power was linked to the probability of breaking through.

The main technique was mainly used to control the learners of the sub-technique.

Through special techniques, the learners of the sub-technique could also be refined into puppets to cast the extremely domineering Yin Evil Corpse Extinguishing Array.

Overall, this was undoubtedly an evil technique.

Because Nie Ning had always been resistant to soul-controlling techniques, fearing that there might be hidden backdoors left by predecessors, he had not learned it since Amivika deciphered it.

However, Reverse Soul Turning Evil was not an ordinary technique; it was a self-contained set of techniques.

It involved soul strengthening, soul control, corpse refining, arrays, and the technique Nie Ning needed most: a technique to transform one's own soul into a special kind of soul.

Evil Soul!

With the tempering of evil energy, he could refine his own soul into a soul carrying evil energy.

To explain it in conventional language, it was actually similar to a special physique.

It was just that Evil Soul acted purely on the soul and would not change his own bloodline like the Ice Desolation Devouring Extreme Body.

Originally, Nie Ning did not intend to cultivate Reverse Soul Turning Evil, but the next step was his contest with the gods, and it would be difficult to get rid of the gods' control relying only on the methods he had mastered at this stage.

To be safe, he had to cultivate the Reverse Soul Turning Evil technique to increase his winning chances.

However, his wariness of this method had always been there.

The subsequent Evil Soul required combining special methods to refine his own soul; it didn't rely too much on the Reverse Soul Turning Evil technique, only needing to be able to control the situation.

Therefore, he did not delve deeply into the Reverse Soul Turning Evil technique.

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