CHAPTER 63: CHAPTER 63: PROFOUND NETHER YIN FIRE PALM

Because the Profound Nether Yin Fire Palm carries a kind of half-yin half-yang Yin Fire Force, once hit by it, the Yin Fire enters the body and burns the opponent’s Primordial Energy, quickly causing the victim to lose all their energy and unable to use any Secret Skills.

Moreover, the Yin Fire Force would cause a person’s yin and yang to become unbalanced. Anyone struck by the Profound Nether Yin Fire Palm would feel alternatively cold and hot, as if suffering from both heat and cold sickness simultaneously. On top of having a high fever, they would also become extremely weak.

The Profound Nether Yin Fire Palm can be said to be an extremely malicious Secret Skill, even more effective than many Unparalleled Secret Skills.

However, it has a fatal flaw: a first-level Profound Nether Yin Fire Palm consumes 21 points of Primordial Energy each time it’s used.

A cultivator at First Awakening, even if trained in top-level Secret Techniques, would have less than 20 points of Primordial Energy even at level 10, unless they use some special Secret Techniques or have consumed some Heavenly and Earthly Treasures that increase the maximum Primordial Energy. Otherwise, before Second Awakening, nobody could utilize the Profound Nether Yin Fire Palm.

If someone truly has the power to meet the usage requirements of the Profound Nether Yin Fire Palm, they would surely have a significant background, possessing a variety of higher quality and more practical Secret Skills. Even if they learned the Profound Nether Yin Fire Palm, it would seldom be used.

After Second Awakening, the Yin Fire Force effect of the Profound Nether Yin Fire Palm pales in comparison to the effects of other Second Awakening Secret Skills, offering more options and making it unnecessary to spend time and effort upgrading such a high-consumption rare Secret Skill.

Therefore, although the production rate of the Profound Nether Yin Fire Palm is not high, the demand is also low, and it is not expensive.

Chen Guan, however, is very interested in this Secret Skill. Before Second Awakening, the Profound Nether Yin Fire Palm is definitely a weapon-grade Secret Skill. While others can’t use it, it’s not a problem for Chen Guan. If he levels up once more, he can use the Profound Nether Yin Fire Palm, and at level 10, he can use it at will, greatly enhancing his strength.

"Young man, you have a good eye. This is a rare quality Profound Nether Yin Fire Palm Secret Skill Core. It can only be produced by Profound Yin Ghost Mothers, who are elusive and hard to come by. In the past month, only I have acquired one. I feel a connection with you, and if you want it, I can sell it to you at a lower price." The shop owner said with a smile.

"How much?" Chen Guan asked casually.

"A rare quality Secret Skill Core would cost you a thousand bucks elsewhere. I can see it’s not easy for a young person like you who just arrived, and since we seem to have a special connection, I’ll offer you a special price of eight hundred bucks. Don’t haggle with me. I’ve never sold it this cheap to anyone else." The owner said seriously.

Chen Guan turned to leave. He didn’t even have eight bucks on him right now, let alone eight hundred, and even if he did, he wouldn’t buy it.

The purchasing power of Divine Land currency is still pretty good—eight hundred bucks is no small amount. For dining, a family of three could comfortably eat out for a month.

"Young man, don’t go—there’s always room for negotiation. How about seven eighty? No? Seven hundred... six hundred... five hundred..." the owner kept reducing the price, but Chen Guan walked away even faster.

He really had no money and wouldn’t be able to use it right now, anyway.

The Profound Yin Cave is pitch black, but fortunately, Chen Guan brought a high-powered headlamp, and even a portable charger, all prepared by Chen Yulian. It’s considered standard equipment for exploring Secret Realms.

Donning the headlamp, he proceeded through the convoluted and interconnected cave passages. At first, he encountered several other cultivators, who were mostly there to hunt Profound Yin Ghosts, some sporting headlamps like Chen Guan while battling the creatures.

It was Chen Guan’s first time seeing a Profound Yin Ghost. It wore tattered shoes and leather armor, with a ghastly pale and menacing face, its eyes emitting black smoke, resembling a crazed spectral soldier.

Without lingering any longer, for fear of being misunderstood, Chen Guan briskly continued deeper into exploration.

The Warring States and the Evil Adorable Rabbit scouted ahead, the Warring States having sharp senses and the ability to see in the dark to detect Profound Yin Ghosts hidden in the shadows promptly.

Not long after, the Warring States suddenly started barking madly at a certain area in the darkness, and Chen Guan immediately sent the Evil Adorable Rabbit forward.

Sure enough, a Profound Yin Ghost emerged from the shadows, its feet seemingly treading on an eerie wind, speeding stealthily toward Rouge like a specter.

Crack!

With a single swipe, Rouge decapitated the Profound Yin Ghost, its head rolling off to the side, the body collapsing before her.

Rouge stabbed the Bloodsucking Saber into the chest of the corpse, extracting all the blood and turning the blade a deep crimson.

Chen Guan didn’t bother picking up the ghost’s boots or leather armor—they weren’t even as good as what he was wearing.

Besides, continuing with a lot of gear would be cumbersome.

After Rouge drained the ghost’s blood, Chen Guan let them keep scouting ahead, and within a little over an hour, they had slain seven or eight Profound Yin Ghosts, none of which dropped anything apart from those tattered boots and leather armor.

"If only Qin Ziyu were here, we might at least get some pets to drop. Profound Yin Ghost pets are worth something," Chen Guan thought to himself.

Having figured out the pattern of the Profound Yin Ghosts, Chen Guan attempted to combat one himself, striking with a Blood Hand Seal that shattered the ghost’s arm and hand using the Three Yin Claw technique.

The ghost’s arm drooped like a boneless soft creature, which surprised Chen Guan slightly.

The Profound Yin Ghost was two levels higher than him, yet using the same Secret Skills, his attack shattered its arm effortlessly. Judging from how the arm looked, the bones inside were probably smashed to bits.

The Blood Hand Seal never had such power before. With the blessing of the Secret Technique of One, the Blood Hand Seal was now much more formidable than when Chen Guan was at level six.

Chen Guan unleashed another Blood Hand Seal onto the ghost’s chest, collapsing its body like a pile of soft mud.

"This is too domineering. The Secret Technique of One greatly enhances the Secret Skill’s power," Chen Guan was pleasantly surprised, realizing his Blood Hand Seal was now on par with Rouge’s attacks.

When encountering another Profound Yin Ghost, Chen Guan would strike repeatedly. If the ghost evaded, fine, but those who faced his attack head-on were left flattened like soft-bodied corpses, his palm power overwhelmingly terrifying.

Chen Guan concluded through testing that with the boost from Secret Technique of One, the power of Blood Hand Seal had effectively doubled.

The only regret was that the Secret Technique of One couldn’t absorb the Primordial Energy released from the dead Secret Spirits during battle like the Undying Stealth Killing Skill could.

However, Chen Guan discovered that by operating the Secret Technique of One in the Profound Yin Cave, he could absorb a much greater amount of Primordial Energy compared to doing so in Reincarnation City.

Moreover, cultivating with the Secret Technique of One near the corpses of defeated Secret Spirits could absorb more energy than usual—in fact, it seemed he could capture some of the Primordial Energy released by the spirits upon death.

Yet, Chen Guan needed to actively cultivate the Secret Technique of One to do so; it wasn’t like the Stealth Killing Skill that could actively absorb energy during combat.

"It seems to accelerate the cultivation of the Secret Technique of One. I need to find a place abundant with Heaven and Earth Elemental Energy," Chen Guan frowned slightly.

Places rich in Primordial Energy are usually frequented by secret spirits, and the denser the energy, the higher the level of the spirits, making them treacherous locales. Practicing in such places would undoubtedly be challenging.

Unless heading to areas already occupied by human cultivators, but that would require spending some money.

"I should earn enough money first," Chen Guan thought as he suddenly noticed numerous gray particles converging into a gray crystal core in his hand.

Evidently, it was the remaining energy from a Profound Yin Ghost killed by Rouge, condensed into a Secret Core.

"It’s the Secret Technique Core of the Profound Yin Skill, useless to me, but I can trade it for the Seven Profound Steps or sell it for money later," Chen Guan thought as he stored the core, suddenly hearing a hair-raising cackling in the cave ahead.

The sharp, hoarse, chilling laughter pierced his ears, causing his brain to feel as if it was being pricked by needles. His head spun from the pain, and he instinctively clutched it with his arms, the inside of his elbows pressing against his ears.