blueteamnovel Chapter 340 Condensing Aperture Cultivation
Chapter 340 Condensing Aperture Cultivation
Five days later.
Cloud Summit Palace atop Mist Smoke Mountain.
Liang Yi handed the brand-new Identity Jade to Chen Mu.
On the side with the inscriptions, a few golden characters for 'Scripture Doctorate' had been added.
"For your commentary, the Scripture Transmission Institute has awarded you two thousand Daoist merits."
"Any future purchases will also earn you a fifty percent cut."
Could there really be such a good deal?
I thought I was being strung along before.@@@@
Chen Mu accepted the Jade Token with some hesitation.
"What, you thought the Scripture Transmission Institute would just pocket your commentary?" Liang Yi looked at Chen Mu with a slanted eye.
"The head of the institute is Ying Tiance, the senior brother."
"He is the direct disciple of Sect Master Dong Li; who would dare to play tricks under his watch?"
The Sect Master Dong Li really values the Scripture Transmission Institute, huh?
Chen Mu suddenly realized.
Originally, he just wanted an excuse to return to Jade Spring Mountain.
But now that he thought about it, being a Scripture Doctorate didn't seem too bad.
A single commentary can be sold many times, and the Daoist Jade will keep flowing in—this is even more lucrative than the strenuous Alchemy!
Chen Mu couldn't help but glance at the grey wall.
Should I prepare a few more pieces of insight?
Forget it, forget it, I'm still somewhat reluctant to part with them.
After all, with the Condense Aperture Secret Method, he wasn't in a rush to accumulate Daoist merits.
...
After leaving Cloud Summit Palace,
he began preparations to leave Mist Smoke Mountain.
Within a certain Yin River Space,
Chen Mu whispered an incantation, and the ground beneath him swiftly turned into muck.
Clutching a stone box in his arms, he slowly sank into the earth.
Descending more than two thousand meters, Chen Mu found a giant boulder, carved out a hole, and stuffed the stone box that held the gourd Sword Box inside.
"What a pity to bury such a treasure," Chen Mu lamented deeply.
A Flying Sword at the flick of a wrist, taking heads from a thousand miles away.
What an exhilarating act that would be!
And now, with such a dreamy weapon right before his eyes, he had to bury it himself.
"It's all the Sun Family's fault!"
Chen Mu, enduring the pain in his heart, activated Point Ground into Steel, applying another thick layer around the big rock. Read exclusive chapters at My Virtual Library Empire
He also deliberately planted a layer of Hidden Qi Vines around the stone sphere.
"The Sun Family's Condensing Aperture expert didn't discover it before."
"Now that it's buried deep underground, two to three thousand meters wrapped by Hidden Qi Vines, it's even less likely to be discovered," Chen Mu nodded in satisfaction.
He wasn't actually afraid of Sun Chengye's investigation.
Zhang Lang and Li Huan, along with the nameless orange-peel-faced man, had fed the Five Ghosts Bag.
Sun Wuhuan had even been turned to ash.
"As long as I stay calm and don't show any flaws, I won't be discovered."
Those people could even transform into demons and monsters; the true master from White Tower once turned into an entire black dragon.
This clearly required significant alterations and shaping of the body.
"Humans have limits, so to seek immortality, one must transform in the direction of becoming something other than human, huh..."
Luckily, what I'm cultivating is orthodox Daoism, where the main changes are concentrated in the Jade Seed; otherwise, who knows what kind of demon or monster I might have become.
"Still, the Netherworld Grand Summary is reliable."
"Not like the Five Ghosts Possession, which always comes with black smoke billowing, clearly unorthodox."
"I am an orthodox cultivator, a righteous person; I should be surrounded by white spiritual light, moving elegantly as if a celestial being."
Chen Mu made up his mind.
Once he has mastered the Condensing Aperture Technique, he would exchange for a few orthodox secret techniques to change his style.
Otherwise, people keep saying he's full of evil aura and doesn't look like a good person.
Isn't this slandering me?!
Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle...
A thunderous rumbling sound interrupted Chen Mu's reverie.
"This Condensing Aperture Secret Method is all well and good, except it makes one hungry too quickly."
"But since it involves body transformation, that's inevitable."
"In my previous life, working out to shape the body required extra nutrition; all the more so for such fundamental changes to an individual's life form."
"I must have Shang Huan buy more Exotic Beast Meat."
...
Three days later.
In the dense forests of Jade Spring Mountain.
This was where Chen Mu had previously practiced the Five Ghosts Fleeing Technique.
His ears twitched slightly, picking up all sounds within a ten-mile radius to ensure there was no one around; then, Chen Mu suddenly urged his mana.
"Five Ghosts Possession!"
Weng!
His muscles writhed as if alive, his bones crackling, Chen Mu suddenly transformed into a towering figure over four meters tall, with a body of indigo blue.
At this moment, his hair moved without wind.
His muscles bulged, as if strands of steel wire were twisted together into cables, and his skin was marked with protruding lines.
His eyes narrowed slightly, exuding sharp light, and his forehead glowed brightly with silver luminescence.
Around him, swirling black smoke enveloped him, giving the appearance of shadowy demons or ghosts.
Chen Mu just stood there silently.
Impulses of killing and devouring surged in his mind, yet he remained steady as a rock amidst the sea.
He even managed to observe with interest the origins of these murderous thoughts.
Hiss!
A sound like strong acid eroding material echoed, and as Chen Mu's eyes moved, he saw a wisp of black smoke drift over an unidentified bush's leaf.
Half of the palm-sized green leaf instantaneously turned scorched black, and then crumbled into ash.
The remaining half of the leaf, too, flickered with threads of scarlet light, reminiscent of a burning piece of paper whose edges had been extinguished.
Eight to nine minutes later, Chen Mu released the Five Ghosts Possession and returned to his normal appearance.
"It's indeed different."
He used to manage six or seven minutes with the help of Seven Souls Return to Origin.
Now, relying on himself alone, he could maintain the Five Ghosts Possession for eight to nine minutes.
"The Condensing Aperture is truly extraordinary."
Chen Mu couldn't help but clench his fist.