100: Chapter 98: Spirit-Control Technique (Request for Subscription and Monthly Tickets) 100: Chapter 98: Spirit-Control Technique (Request for Subscription and Monthly Tickets) Fairy Peak guest rooms.

Ye Zhen toyed with the notched ring that he had dug out from a rock in the Sect Forbidden Land, his face full of anticipation.

What kind of treasure could it be?

A special kind of artifact?

Or could it be the legendary storage ring with immense space?

Regardless, a treasure found within the Sect Forbidden Land should be extraordinary.

Full of anticipation, Ye Zhen carefully mobilized a thread of True Yuan and slowly sent it into the ancient cyan notched ring.

Whatever it was, once the True Yuan was input, all would become clear.

The moment the True Yuan entered, an enormous space instantly appeared in Ye Zhen’s mind.

A storage ring?

The next instant, Ye Zhen was shocked by the treasures stored within the space.

Firstly, what caught his eye were stacks and stacks of gold bills.

With a denomination of one hundred taels per bill, Ye Zhen roughly counted them.

There were at least a few thousand, and estimating it to be about four thousand, that would be nearly four hundred thousand taels of gold.

Immense wealth, this was definitely going to make Ye Zhen rich overnight.

Beside the gold bills was a nearly meter-tall large box, neatly stacked inside were palm-sized pale blue Spirit Crystals, emitting a faint spiritual energy.

“Spirit Crystals!”

If not for Ye Zhen’s strong self-control, he would have almost exclaimed in surprise upon seeing the Spirit Crystals.

He might not have eaten pork before, but he had seen pigs run.

Spirit Crystals, these extremely precious items, were something Ye Zhen had heard his fellow disciples mention repeatedly.

They were essential treasures for enhancing cultivation after reaching the Spirit Summoning Realm, each one immensely valuable.

As a child, Ye Zhen heard a tale about a cowherd who found three shining stones on a mountain and sold them for tens of thousands of taels of silver—an exorbitant price.

Those shining stones were Spirit Crystals.

In every County City, many shops purchase Spirit Crystals, and the buying price is a thousand taels of gold each.

But, you can sell a Low Grade Spirit Crystal for a thousand taels of gold, yet you might not necessarily be able to buy one with that same amount.

That’s the market rate.

This large boxful of Low Grade Spirit Crystals, Ye Zhen estimated there were at least two hundred pieces—again, hundreds of thousands of taels of gold.

However, the value of these Spirit Crystals couldn’t compare to that of gold.

Besides that, there were eleven bottles of pills that made Ye Zhen’s heart race.

Most abundant were the clothes for changing.

Beyond those, what most attracted Ye Zhen’s attention were the two quietly lying books in the corner.

The dark brown pages, clearly, were special archival paper used for preserving secret manuals for a long time.

“Secret manuals?

And two of them!”

Overjoyed, Ye Zhen thought to take out these two secret manuals first to take a look.

Just as Ye Zhen activated the True Yuan to envelop the two secret manuals, the entire storage space began to crack and collapse like tofu poked by a finger.

Boom!

The space before Ye Zhen opened up like a crack, and mountainous items surged out of it, almost burying Ye Zhen.

Cough cough cough cough!

Clouds of dust rose around him as Ye Zhen coughed violently.

Watching item after item tumble out of the collapsed storage space and turn to ash the moment they touched the air, Ye Zhen’s heart sank continuously.

Those two secret manuals couldn’t have turned to ash, could they?

Ye Zhen quickly figured out the reason.

Perhaps after a fierce battle, this storage ring was struck and notched, and the faint spiritual energy that the Fierce Beasts in the Sect Forbidden Land sensed was leaking from that notch.

The notch had not completely destroyed the storage ring, maintaining a delicate balance until Ye Zhen’s True Essence Power, acting as the last straw, broke it.

As the dust gradually settled, Ye Zhen frantically began searching.

Luckily, the two secret manuals hadn’t turned to dust as many gold bills had, perhaps due to the special material used for the manuals.

Regrettably for Ye Zhen, out of the few thousand gold bills, only a small portion in the middle survived, about fifty or sixty thousand taels of gold.

Also, the few bottles of pills turned to ash when their caps were opened, likely due to being stored for too long.

The large box of Low Grade Spirit Crystals, however, remained intact.

“Wind Cloud Sword Art?”

The name of the first secret manual made Ye Zhen ecstatic, and he quickly flipped through it.

Fifteen minutes later, Ye Zhen felt somewhat frustrated.

The Wind Cloud Sword Art detailed seven special methods of True Essence Circulation; the routes of True Essence circulation within the body were extremely complex and seemed very sophisticated.

Ye Zhen’s frustration stemmed from a note on the last page of the Wind Cloud Sword Art—it was a specialized mental method for activating the Middle-grade Earth Level Wind Cloud Sword Technique, and only with the Wind Cloud Sword Technique could its true power be unleashed.

Oh, the Middle-grade Earth Level Wind Cloud Sword Technique!

After so much effort to enter the top ten of the Heavenly List, Ye Zhen had only just gained access to the fourth floor of the Scripture Pavilion to obtain Human-Level top grade Cultivation Technique Manuals.

Whether the Qiyun Sect had the Middle-grade Earth Level Wind Cloud Sword Technique was unknown, but if they did, it likely would be the Sect’s treasured artifact.

For the time being, Ye Zhen didn’t even dare to think about it.

Pocketing the Wind Cloud Sword Art, Ye Zhen’s gaze shifted to the second secret manual.

“Spirit-Control Technique?”

The Spirit-Control Technique was a supportive secret manual, mainly aimed at training martial artists to control their Spiritual Power.

The same bundle of Spiritual Power could be divided by some into over a dozen thin threads of Spiritual Power, by others into scores, and by some into hundreds.

With the same bundle of Spiritual Power, some could only project it to attack enemies outside their body, while others could twist and turn it at will, changing its shape as desired.

Cultivating the Spirit-Control Technique could harness Spiritual Power to its ultimate extent, unleashing astonishing power.

Note: This Spirit-Control Technique is only effective for those below the Soul Sea Realm, including those who have just entered the Martial Way in the True Essence Realm!

The note on the last page of the manual suddenly turned Ye Zhen’s disappointment into surprise.

Ye Zhen had originally thought that the Spirit-Control Technique could only be practiced after cultivating spiritual power, but unexpectedly, it could also be practiced by someone like him who was in the True Essence Realm.

However, Ye Zhen’s attention was caught by a line of small characters added later, the handwriting of which seemed strangely familiar.

Spirit-Control Knack: Project spiritual power or True Yuan outside the body, stretch it to its limit, form a flat surface, and depending on the cultivation, press down objects weighing tens, hundreds, or thousands of pounds,

then stimulate the spiritual power using the third mental method of the Spirit-Control Technique to rapidly enhance Spirit-Control ability in a short time.

“This handwriting, why does it seem familiar?”

The somewhat flamboyant script gave Ye Zhen a strong sense of déjà vu.

“That’s right, Tu Fangye!”

Upon retrieving a notebook that Tu Fangye had left within the Thunder Leopard Crashing Fist from the storage bracelet, Ye Zhen immediately confirmed the owner of the handwriting.

The Sect Forbidden Land just happened to be the place where Tu Fangye had fallen, giving Ye Zhen ample reason to believe that this storage ring was indeed an item belonging to Tu Fangye, a True Inheritor of the Qiyun Sect who had perished.

But how could a True Disciple like Tu Fangye have fallen so close to the Sect?

After his fall, why was his place of demise marked as a Sect Forbidden Land?

Why was that?

Ye Zhen was filled with questions.

The Wind Cloud Sword Technique couldn’t be cultivated without the Wind Cloud Sword Art, and Ye Zhen was not in a rush to practice the Spirit-Control Technique but instead started to cultivate the Hundred Stacked True Qi, which he had just chosen today.

For the moment, cultivating the Human-Level top-grade Winter Plum Swordsmanship and Hundred Stacked True Qi was the way to quickly enhance Ye Zhen’s combat power, especially the Hundred Stacked True Qi.

If cultivated successfully, it could even save his life in front of beings from the Spirit Summoning Realm.

The cultivation method and principles of Hundred Stacked True Qi were very simple, roughly similar to the principle of chopsticks.

A single chopstick can be broken by a child of eight or nine.

A bundle of ten chopsticks requires much more effort to break.

If a hundred chopsticks are bundled together, even a strong man among ordinary people can’t break it.

The Hundred Stacked True Qi is the same; a single layer of Protective Gang Qi is very easily torn, but what about two layers, three, five, or even ten?

Hundred Stacked True Qi involves stacking Protective Gang Qi layers to enhance defense.

The manual states that if one can stack up to ten layers of Protective Gang Qi, its power can increase tens or even hundreds of times.

The cultivation technique is simple, but only when one actually begins cultivation can the difficulty of cultivating Hundred Stacked True Qi be appreciated.

To cultivate Hundred Stacked True Qi, one must first forge one’s original Protective Gang Qi to extreme thickness like iron forging.

If the thickness is compressed to half, two layers can be stacked; compressing it to one-third allows three layers to be stacked.

However, when Ye Zhen actually began compressing the True Yuan, he could appreciate the care of the old steward in the Scripture Pavilion.

Forging of True Yuan is extremely ethereal.

Forging iron, strike by strike, can be seen and requires physical strength and sweating.

But the forging of True Yuan, even with the cultivation method from Hundred Stacked True Qi, progresses extremely slowly.

After two hours, Ye Zhen’s Protective Gang Qi thickness had barely changed.

At that moment, Ye Zhen suddenly understood why so many Inner Sect Disciples gave up cultivating Hundred Stacked True Qi; the effort put into the cultivation produced very little reward.

An hour later, somewhat disheartened, Ye Zhen suddenly thought, “Why not try the Spirit-Control Technique?”

The method described in the Spirit-Control Technique was rather complicated, but according to what Tu Fangye had left behind, his method was the simplest and most effective.

Within a few breaths, Ye Zhen’s fingertips sprayed out a nearly seven-feet-long flat True Essence Sword Finger, picking up a chair weighing over ten pounds steadily.

“A bit light?”

With a flick of his toe, Ye Zhen added on a fifty-pound stone stump.

As soon as the fifty-pound stone stump was added, Ye Zhen immediately felt an unprecedented pressure.

The pressure from the stone stump on the True Essence made Ye Zhen tense up all over, from the inside out.

As he stirred the True Yuan within his body with the mental method, all of Ye Zhen’s focus was on the seven-feet-long True Essence Sword Finger outside his body.

Barely maintaining it for a hundred breaths, waves of unprecedented fatigue surged toward Ye Zhen.

After 130 breaths, when Ye Zhen began feeling dizzy, he stopped that round of cultivation.

After resting cross-legged for two hours, Ye Zhen released the True Yuan again, picking up the stone stump to cultivate.

Initially, Ye Zhen was surprised to find the length of the True Yuan Sword Finger he emitted from his body had increased by an inch—from six feet nine inches to seven feet.

Such noticeable progress filled Ye Zhen with immense joy.

This time, Ye Zhen lasted for 135 breaths.

After resting for another two hours, Ye Zhen resumed cultivation.

After 140 breaths, Ye Zhen trembled all over, his sweat pouring out like syrup.

However, the length of Ye Zhen’s True Yuan Sword Finger had successfully increased to seven feet two inches!

Such a noticeable effect of the cultivation made Ye Zhen unable to suppress his excitement and he continued to train relentlessly.

During the fifth session, when Ye Zhen lasted for over 130 breaths, an indescribable weariness suddenly overwhelmed him, and he collapsed into unconsciousness in an instant.

….

When Ye Zhen woke up again, his head was splitting with pain.

The vigorous morning sunlight shone into the guest room, casting light on Caiyi who was busy with something.

In the sunlight, she looked like a fairy.

“I…what happened to me…”

“You’re awake?”

“Wait a moment, I’m almost done preparing this medicinal broth.” Caiyi, looking like a fairy under the morning sunlight, was busy with something.

A few breaths later, Caiyi brought over a bowl of dark green medicinal broth and handed it to Ye Zhen, “Drink this, and you’ll almost be healed.”

“By the way, Ye Zhen, where did you find a method to cultivate divine sense?

Don’t you know, if it weren’t for the fact that you were at Fairy Peak and I happened to be there, you would have become an idiot by now!”

“What?

Cultivate divine sense?

Turn into an idiot?”

Hearing this, Ye Zhen was shocked!

(To be continued.

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