Cultivation: Start From Simplifying Martial Arts Techniques

In less than fifteen minutes, the formation in front of the iron gate automatically cracked open a gap, revealing a second layer of formation in front of the solid iron gate.

This was a double-layered formation, the very support that Dai Fangxuan had relied on earlier to turn the tide. Unfortunately, Chen Fei had never trusted Dai Fangxuan from the beginning, despite his seemingly obedient behavior along the way. Chen Fei had never let his guard down.

The Blood Touch began to dissolve the second layer of the formation, which wasn’t particularly strong. In just a moment, it granted partial control to the Blood Touch.

Chen Fei placed both hands on the iron gate and gently pushed it open.

The secret treasury wasn’t very large. It contained several shelves where various spiritual materials, elixirs, and hundreds of elemental stones were neatly categorized.

Chen Fei scanned the contents and found that the value of everything wasn’t as significant as he had imagined. It was even less valuable than the resources left by the Yashan Sect. However, upon further consideration, this was just a branch of the Rain Pavilion, so they would naturally keep only a portion of their resources here as rewards for various tasks.

Unlike the Yashan Sect, which practically carried their entire wealth with them and couldn’t be compared in this regard.

Chen Fei was never one to complain about an unexpected windfall. Without further scrutiny, he stuffed all the items he could into his spatial grid.

For those items that couldn’t fit, such as larger spiritual plants, Chen Fei simply swallowed them on the spot. Although they wouldn’t have as many medicinal properties as when refined into elixirs, it was still more convenient than carrying them around.

Because elemental stones took up space, Chen Fei even transferred a portion of them onto his elemental stone panel.

Elemental stones charged into the elemental stone panel couldn’t be retrieved once stored. However, simplified cultivation techniques always required the use of elemental stones. Charging them into the panel meant they were temporarily not needed, so it couldn’t be considered a waste.

After a brief organization, Chen Fei made sure everything was in order, carefully checking to ensure nothing was overlooked.

There was no so-called second floor in this secret treasury. What Dai Fangxuan mentioned earlier was merely a diversion to shift Chen Fei’s attention. Even Dai Fangxuan himself had very limited access to the treasury.

Dai Fangxuan came to this secret treasury with a single purpose: to delay Chen Fei and save himself. Unfortunately, he didn’t accomplish either of those two things.

Chen Fei stepped out of the secret treasury, glancing at Dai Fangxuan’s lifeless body. With a gentle wave of his hand, Dai Fangxuan turned into ashes. Chen Fei’s figure flashed, heading towards the corridor.

The guards around the corridor glanced at Chen Fei, who was empty-handed, and didn’t obstruct him, thinking that Dai Fangxuan had instructed Chen Fei to come up first.

Chen Fei glanced at the small formation disc above the corridor. Its function was simple: to monitor if anything from the secret treasury appeared in the corridor. The secret treasury’s formations had an interesting feature – items stored in the treasury for some time would naturally acquire a certain aura.

The formation disc on the corridor could detect this aura. While this aura would dissipate quickly in the outside world, it provided enough time for the formation disc to detect any issues.

In terms of security, the Rain Pavilion had indeed implemented a clever design. It wasn’t that the formations were exceptionally powerful, but rather their flexible approach to security.

If Chen Fei didn’t have the spatial grid, his options at this moment would be limited to breaking out, which would likely cause a significant commotion. Given the Rain Pavilion’s style, a large-scale loss of life might trigger some security mechanisms.

Each layer of security was intertwined, but in the eyes of true powerhouses, its effectiveness might not be as great.

With Chen Fei’s current state of core soul energy, he could easily detect many hidden traps. In this world, absolute strength ultimately spoke for itself.

Chen Fei withdrew his gaze, calmly walking out of the corridor.

Inside the mansion, the cultivator in the courtyard nearby had still not noticed anything unusual. Holding Dai Fangxuan’s token in his hand, Chen Fei left the mansion without encountering any issues.

Chen Fei sensed the location of the District Master of the Black City District from a distance; his aura was dark and deep, just like the Black City District itself. In this place, the District Master’s strength would likely be significantly boosted.

However, these matters were no longer of concern to Chen Fei.

Chen Fei’s figure flickered as he left the city gates of the Black City District, then transformed into a shadow, rushing towards the direction of the Primordial Sword Sect with all his might.

This trip to the Black City District had yielded quite a bit more than Chen Fei had originally expected. The resources obtained from selling the spirit swords, when exchanged, would be enough for Chen Fei to cultivate for some time.

Dai Fangxuan’s appearance had further enriched Chen Fei’s assets.

Among these gains, the elemental stone and elixirs were certainly valuable, but what caught Chen Fei’s attention even more were the jade scrolls in Miao Qisheng’s study.

Miao Qisheng was one of the rare cultivators in the Aperture tempering realm who possessed core soul energy exceeding the number of his acupoints. Chen Fei himself had a surplus of core soul energy relative to his acupoints, but with the multitude of cultivation techniques he practiced, he had several methods to enhance his core soul energy. Techniques like the Spirit Suppression of the Suppressing Dragon Elephant technique was top-tier in that regard.

Therefore, Chen Fei understood very well how difficult it was to let the core soul energy surpass the number of acupoints.

He had encountered some individuals with core soul energy slightly exceeding their acupoints, but none had a significant surplus. In contrast, Miao Qisheng’s core soul energy had already reached the pinnacle of the mid Aperture tempering realm.

Considering that Miao Qisheng’s number of acupoints was likely not much different from Chen Fei’s, the surplus of core soul energy he possessed was close to twenty.

This naturally piqued Chen Fei’s curiosity, and he wondered how Miao Qisheng had achieved this.

After spending several hours, Chen Fei rushed back to his sect from the Black City District, encountering no incidents along the way. Anyone who noticed Chen Fei’s speed from a distance probably had sinister intentions, so they wisely avoided him.

Inside the courtyard’s secret chamber, Baka remained quiet, nestled in a pot, in good condition. His strength was steadily recovering, and the elemental energy in the soil was abundant.

Chen Fei didn’t disturb Baka and instead took out all the jade scrolls from the spatial grid.

There were quite a few jade scrolls, some from Miao Qisheng’s study and many from the Rain Pavilion’s secret vault.

The jade scrolls from Miao Qisheng still had core soul energy entwined with them, but Chen Fei didn’t rush to decipher them. Instead, he began examining the jade scrolls from the Rain Pavilion’s secret vault one by one.

It took him nearly four hours to finish reading all the secret vault jade scrolls. He casually set them aside, a thoughtful expression on his face.

Among these jade scrolls, there weren’t many that would be helpful to Chen Fei, or rather, there were very few.

Much like the Rain Pavilion’s unique Heart-Treading Technique, which disrupts the flow of others’ vitality with the sound of footsteps, when practiced to a high level, even a single sound might shatter someone’s heart and lungs, causing their demise.

It sounded impressive and highly practical. However, it was mainly designed for targeting body-refining realm cultivators. Using it to disrupt those in the Aperture tempering realm was not only a far-fetched idea but also yielded minimal results.

In essence, the Heart-Treading Technique was merely sound stimulation, and Aperture tempering realm cultivators could effortlessly set up a barrier using their elemental energy to block out such sounds. Furthermore, their control over their own bodies in the Aperture tempering realm was beyond casual manipulation.

Then there was the Core Soul Mark, used for tracking and hunting others once imprinted.

Those in the body-refining realm might not be sensitive enough to detect that they’ve been marked by a Core Soul Mark, but those in the Aperture tempering realm would certainly notice a foreign mental imprint on their own psyche.

There were several other techniques, most of which were designed for body-refining realm practitioners.

The only exception was a technique that involved burning one’s blood essence, the Blood Ignition Technique.

It was used as a last resort or for escaping dire situations. However, excessive use could leave one severely weakened afterward, though to a lesser degree than rupturing one’s cultivation acupoints. When faced with a life-or-death situation, one wouldn’t have the luxury of worrying about the aftermath.

Chen Fei found this technique intriguing. Apart from potentially increasing his own foundation, the crucial aspect was whether Suppressing Dragon Elephant technique’s enhancement of his physique would bring about any unique changes to the Blood Ignition Technique.

Chen Fei decided to give this Blood Ignition Technique a try soon, hoping for some pleasant surprises.

He shifted his gaze towards Miao Qisheng’s jade scrolls, a faint glimmer of hope in his eyes. He hoped that among these jade scrolls, he would find the reason behind Miao Qisheng’s formidable core soul energy.

Perhaps, this discovery would free Chen Fei from the constraints of his own core soul energy, and with those constraints removed, the resources he had acquired this time would be more than enough to propel him to new heights!