Illusion arts were offensive techniques that fused origin power and the soul.
The Illusionary Gate's profound illusion arts leaned even more heavily toward origin power. Take the Nine Heavens Folding Technique: it used the scene of the Ancient Heavenly Court's collapse as an attack. Mere soul befuddlement could never achieve such an effect.
However, the Illusionary Gate's other Fourteenth Order core inheritance, the Karma Stage, instead leaned directly toward soul-based attacks.
Whenever a living being spoke of a cultivator's name, that cultivator's projection would perform a scene within that being's soul altar.
Achieving such an effect was exceedingly difficult, especially against Immortal Realm experts of the same rank. Everyone's souls possessed Immortal Power as a barrier; breaking through that barrier was no different from directly smashing through the opponent's defenses.
"No wonder Elder Wei told me to cultivate the Nine Heavens Folding Technique first, then comprehend the Karma Stage after I achieved success with this inheritance."
Chen Fei recalled what Wei Yangxia had specifically told him earlier in the Hidden Skill Pavilion.
Now that he had seen the characteristics of the two core inheritances, it was clear that the Karma Stage had been created to complement the Nine Heavens Folding Technique.
Or, to put it another way, the Karma Stage could enhance the results achieved by the Nine Heavens Folding Technique. The two complemented each other.
He could attack an opponent with the sight of the Ancient Heavenly Court collapsing, then let the Karma Stage's power slip in through the breach, plunging the opponent completely into an illusion.
Cultivating the Nine Heavens Folding Technique first had another benefit: it could improve movement techniques.
As a core inheritance of the Illusionary Gate, once the Nine Heavens Folding Technique was cultivated to success, one's movement speed would inevitably stand at the peak