Red represents danger this was the case not only in the Great Thousand World, but also in Liu Bai's previous life.
Since this jade slip was emitting a red glow, it naturally signified that the spirit art contained within was far from ordinary.
"Ding! Detected Common-Grade High-level offensive spirit art: Death Seal of Senluo. Would you like to inscribe it?"
"Yes!"
Within the entire Spiritual Arts Hall of the Northern Spiritual Realm, the only technique that truly piqued Liu Bai's interest was this seemingly inconspicuous Death Seal of Senluo…
In the original story, this Death Seal of Senluo helped Mu Chen overcome many powerful foes far above his level.
Player: Liu Bai
Cultivation Level: Pinnacle of the Spiritual Movement Realm
Profession: Spiritual Array Master (Level 1)
Spiritual Pulse: None
Cultivation Method: Blazing Sun Art (4th Layer 0/2000)
Spirit Array Method: Basics of Spiritual Arrys (Greater Mastery, 0/500)
Techniques:
Common-Grade High-level Wind Piercing Finger (Greater Mastery)
Common-Grade High-level Death Seal of Senluo (Not Initiated 0/5)
Spirit-Grade Low-level Blaze Step (Greater Mastery 0/1500)
Spirit-Grade High-level Great Sun Sea-Burning Palm (Minor Mastery 0/1200)
Arrays:
Flame Serpent Spirit-Breaking Array (Greater Mastery)
Experience Points: 170
Beast Soul Points: 11
Common-Grade High-level offensive spirit arts required very little experience to upgrade. Liu Bai could easily advance the Death Seal of Senluo to the Greater Mastery level.
However, unlike other offensive spiritual arts, the true strength of the Death Seal of Senluo lay in its ability to allow the user to condense multiple death seals, unleashing tremendous power.
This spiritual art had a notorious reputation in the Northern Spiritual Academy because of the extreme danger involved in condensing the death seal. A single misstep could result in severe injury, fractured meridians, or even total crippling. Thus, everyone avoided it like the plague, and the academy strictly forbade its practice.
However, if one met the cultivation condition which required cultivating a domineering type of spiritual energy. The technique could still be successfully cultivated.
Coincidentally, Liu Bai's Blazing Sun Art was a rather domineering cultivation method. Although it couldn't compare to Mu Chen's Great Pagoda Art, it was more than sufficient for cultivating the Death Seal of Senluo.
To level up a Common-Grade High-Level offensive technique:
Initiate: 5 EXP
Minor Mastery: 10 EXP
Greater Mastery : 50 EXP
Before even spending the full decimal of his experience points, Liu Bai had already upgraded the Death Seal of Senluo to the Greater Mastery level…
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Experience Points: 105
Beast Soul Points: 11
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At this moment, detailed information on how to condense the Death Seal of Senluo clearly surfaced in Liu Bai's mind. It felt as if he had practiced it countless times. With just a single thought, he could fully form a death seal!
But this wasn't the end.
Suddenly, a system notification echoed in Liu Bai's ears again.
"Ding! Please choose the location to condense the Death Seal of Senluo Left hand or Right hand?"
The system is incredible!
Liu Bai clenched his fist in excitement.
He hadn't expected such a function…
"Right hand!"
Liu Bai would never abandon the old comrade that had accompanied him through countless battles!
In the next instant, Liu Bai felt a warm current surging into his right hand, strengthening the meridians, bones, and even the muscles within it.
Soon, the warmth faded, and Liu Bai felt that his right arm had become dozens of times stronger than the left!
"Damn! This really became a Qilin Arm!"
Immediately after, Liu Bai willed his thoughts and formed a special hand seal with both hands. Threads of black spiritual energy began to gather in his right palm.
The black energy resembled a small snake, slithering and twisting as Liu Bai's hand seals transformed. Gradually, it began to form a black light seal in his palm.
Thanks to the Greater Mastery-level Death Seal of Senluo, the condensation process was exceptionally smooth. Within just a few minutes, he had already completed it…
Buzz!
The black light seal in Liu Bai's palm suddenly trembled, emitting a humming sound. Then, the black glow began to retract and eventually transformed into a black seal slowly imprinting itself onto his palm.
At this point, the Death Seal of Senluo was only halfway completed.
The real danger was about to begin…
Boom!
As the black seal imprinted itself, Liu Bai immediately sensed an extremely violent surge of energy erupting from the seal. It surged through his palm and raced up his arm's meridians like it intended to destroy everything in its path.
Liu Bai frowned. No wonder previous cultivators were almost crippled by this technique. The backlash from the Death Seal of Senluo was far more intense than expected!
Fortunately, thanks to the system's transformation, Liu Bai's entire right arm had become a Qilin Arm. Its meridians had been widened several times and had grown immensely tougher. This level of backlash wasn't too difficult for him to handle.
Already prepared, Liu Bai activated the Blazing Sun spiritual energy within his Spiritual Sea. It surged outward and clashed head-on with the violent wave flooding his right arm's meridians.
As the stabbing pain from the two colliding energies struck him, Liu Bai finally understood why cultivating the Death Seal of Senluo required a domineering spiritual art.
If he had been cultivating a gentle-type energy, it would've been completely overwhelmed by the rampaging surge. And if that force had reversed and flooded back into his Spiritual Sea, it could very well have crippled him entirely.
Especially since he was still just a mere beginner at the Spiritual Movement Realm.
Boom! Boom!
The shockwaves came in wave after wave. Liu Bai kept frowning and drawing on more spiritual energy to resist.
After all, the Blazing Sun Art was only a Spirit-Grade Low-level method, far inferior to Mu Chen's Great Pagoda Art. Therefore, it took longer for him to withstand the violent backlash. If his arm hadn't been modified, it likely would've been destroyed even if he ultimately succeeded.
After ten minutes, the violent energy finally dissipated completely. A black spiritual seal continued to emanate a fierce and savage aura from Liu Bai's palm.
"Tsk tsk, my Death Seal of Senluo feels quite different from the one Mu Chen cultivated…"
Mu Chen's Great Pagoda Art produced a spiritual energy that was more condensed and weighty. Combined with the Death Seal of Senluo, the resulting death seal appeared even more solemn and bone-chilling.
Liu Bai's Blazing Sun Art, on the other hand, was like a blazing sun its energy explosive. Therefore, the death seal he condensed radiated a far more violent aura.
"But the benefits this Death Seal of Senluo has brought me go far beyond that…"
Looking at his right hand, Liu Bai couldn't help but curl his lips into a smile.
His strengthened right arm could now unleash much more devastating attacks. The overwhelming strength and toughness it now possessed essentially turned it into a deadly weapon in itself.
Just like how Bu Jingyun gained a Qilin Arm, Liu Bai's combat power had risen rapidly.
After completing his cultivation of the Death Seal of Senluo, Liu Bai casually tossed the red jade slip back into the stone cabinet, then made his way toward the six Spirit- Grade techniques stored deeper in the Spiritual Art Pavilion.
After all, the Death Seal of Senluo was only a Common-Grade High-level technique, one that he was already qualified to view. It couldn't count as the reward Mentor Xi mentioned. Now, Liu Bai could still choose one technique from the six Spirit-Grade spiritual arts!
When the other students from the Heaven Class saw his destination, their expressions were filled with either envy or jealousy.
Though they were also Heaven Class students, without an instructor's permission, they had no right to view the Spirit-Grade techniques…
As for the ten or so minutes Liu Bai had spent earlier in front of the cabinet, none of the other students had paid attention. They simply assumed he was browsing some Common-Grade techniques.
Some were curious why the newly admitted Heaven Class genius from the Western Institute, Young Lord of the Liu Domain, was interested in low-tier spiritual arts but so what? No one believed that someone could successfully cultivate a spirit art in just ten minutes…
If that were truly the case, then such a person could no longer be called a genius or even a monster they would be an outright freak!
As he approached a certain area, Liu Bai glanced at a faintly glowing light curtain not far away… If he remembered correctly, that was the entrance to the third floor of the Spiritual Arts Pavilion.
Unfortunately, the third floor was sealed. Apart from the Headmaster and the two chief instructors, no one else in the entire Northern Spiritual Academy was permitted to enter.
But having read the original novel, Liu Bai knew that the third floor was where the true foundation of the Northern Spiritual Academy lay,dozens of Spirit-Grade techniques were stored there, many of which were even mid-tier Spirit-Grade arts. They were far superior to the six techniques displayed outside for students to browse.
What a pity. Liu Bai remembered that in the original work, Mu Chen had been granted access to the third floor as a reward for helping the academy obtain a seed qualification through the Spiritual Road.
As for others Liu Bai included it was unlikely they would ever be allowed in.
But that was fine. The most important thing now was to gain admission to one of the Five Great Academies. Only by doing that would he have a real chance at obtaining Spirit-Grade High-level Arts or even Deity Arts!
Ding! Detected Spirit-Grade Low-Level offensive spiritual art: Skyhawk Palm. Would you like to record it?
Ding! Detected Spirit-Grade Low-Level movement spiritual art: Fluttering Snowstep. Would you like to record it?
Ding! Detected Spirit-Grade Low-Level offensive spiritual art: Windfire Slash. Would you like to record it?
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Ding! Detected Spirit-Grade Low-level offensive spiritual art: Starshatter Fist. Would you like to record it?
All six Spirit-grade arts were of the Low-level category. Aside from a single movement-type art, the rest were all offensive arts. Clearly, among the many spiritual arts, offensive arts were the most common and held less value compared to movement or cultivation arts of the same Grade
Liu Bai glanced over the string of system notifications and did not choose to record all of them. After all, spiritual arts were not something that the more you had, the better. Even for someone like him, blessed with a cheat-like ability, the same principle applied.
Spiritual arts required spiritual energy to release. Learning too many would just be pointless and would only waste experience for nothing.
As for merely recording without spending experience, what good would that do? Other than making his status panel look longer with more text, what was the point? Was it just for padding?
After a brief moment of thought, Liu Bai's gaze finally settled on one of the arts: the Spirit-grade Low-Level [Starshatter Fist].
Now that he possessed a Qilin Arm, wouldn't it be a perfect match to pair it with a fierce and explosive fist technique?
Thinking of this, Liu Bai didn't hesitate anymore. He immediately chose to record [Starshatter Fist] and spent 50 experience to reach the Initiated stage.
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Player: Liu Bai
Cultivation Level: Peak of the Spiritual Movement Realm
Profession: Spiritual Array Master (Level 1)
Spiritual Pulse: None
Cultivation Techniques:
Blazing Sun Art (Fourth Layer 0/2000)
Basic Spiritual Array Foundation (Greater Mastery 0/500)
Skills:
Common-grade High-level [Wind-Piercing Finger] (Greater Mastery)
Common-grade High-level [Senluo Death Seal] (Greater Mastery)
Spirit-grade Low-level [Starshatter Fist] (Initial 0/100)
Spirit-grade Low-level [Blaze Step] (Greater Mastery, 0/1500)
Spirit-grade High-level [Great Sun Burning Sea Palm] (Minor Mastery 0/1200)
Array Techniques:
Flame Serpent Spirit-Breaking Array (Greater Mastery)
Experience Points: 55
Beast Soul Points: 11
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Within a second, the Spirit-grade Low-level [Starshatter Fist] had reached the Initial stage. At that moment, Liu Bai could feel his right fist already beginning to stir with restlessness, itching to smash something.
Of course, smashing something here was out of the question. Moreover, Liu Bai suddenly realized that, judging by the spiritual arts he now possessed, his future combat style was likely leaning heavily toward the close-combat berserker route.
Which… didn't match his graceful and elegant appearance at all.
Thankfully, although his Qilin Arm had been greatly strengthened, its outward appearance was still the same as his left arm. It hadn't turned into a hulking, muscle-bound limb. Otherwise, he wouldn't dare to go out and meet people in the future.
"Well, if berserk it is, then so be it. First, I'll find a proper place to test the power of these two newly acquired spiritual arts…"
With this thought, Liu Bai directly left the Spiritual Arts Hall.
However, this action immediately left many of the Heaven Class students inside the pavilion baffled.
What's going on? What exactly did that guy come here for? He left after only a few minutes did he just come to take a look?
Although the Northern Spiritual Academy's Spiritual Arts Hall was open to all students, none of the arts could be taken out. Cultivators had to study and memorize them inside the pavilion. That was precisely why so many students were always inside browsing and cultivating.
Everyone's duration of stay varied some stayed only for a few hours, while others remained for days but someone like Liu Bai, who walked out after just a few minutes, was truly unheard of.
At that speed, he probably didn't even have time to read the contents of the arts. What was the point?
"Hmph, just trying to make a scene." Many veteran students let out cold snorts of disdain.
Most of these people were already over eighteen years old. Having failed to meet the requirements for entering the Five Great Academies due to insufficient cultivation or other reasons, they could only loiter here until their time ran out.
Such individuals were the least likely to care about the academy's rules and were often capable of doing anything.
Especially when faced with younger, more talented students, they were easily consumed by jealousy and resentment, making them the kind of people others generally avoided provoking.
However, many times, avoiding trouble didn't mean trouble wouldn't come looking for you.
Especially when someone drew too much attention…
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