Cultivating Shifting Phantom

But when he examined the Shifting Phantom scroll again, the strange scenes above it no longer made him feel dizzy.

Not only that, waves of insight into space welled up within him.

Seeing this, Xiao Kun was overjoyed. It seemed that this wisp of Space Origin was far more useful than he had imagined.

Looking at the little figures on the scroll in their dreamlike, ever-changing forms, Xiao Kun checked the system's explanation regarding absorbing the Shifting Phantom inheritance.

After a while, once he understood it clearly, Xiao Kun directly formed the hand seals that could assist him in absorbing the Shifting Phantom inheritance.

He then calmed his mind and focused his spirit. His Soul Power burst forth completely, firmly enveloping the cave. Within this range, not even a grain of sand rolling down could escape Xiao Kun's soul perception.

Finally, he immersed his Soul Power into the scroll. As his Soul Power entered it, the inheritance within the scroll slowly flowed into Xiao Kun's mind.

Xiao Kun only felt his head tremble. As the inheritance surged in, his mind immediately became muddled. Vaguely, he could only see images of extremely mysterious figures flashing about, but in his dazed state, he was unable to remember much.

Half an hour later, the muddled feeling gradually faded, and the inheritance came to an end.

He took a light breath, easing the discomfort from earlier.

Thinking of the Shifting Phantom inheritance that had entered his mind, Xiao Kun slowly closed his eyes again. Once his eyes were shut, Xiao Kun felt himself enter a Silver Space. Within this space, the inherited images from before flashed over and over. This time, Xiao Kun did not feel muddled. After observing them carefully, he firmly committed them to memory.

Who knew how long passed before Xiao Kun seemed to gain some insight. He took a light step, and his figure suddenly appeared at the entrance of the cave. When he turned back, another figure of himself still remained inside the cave.

After carefully sensing it, Xiao Kun discovered that he seemed to have folded the space between those two points. He had only taken a light step, yet he had actually crossed such a great distance.

Moreover, the figure left behind seemed just like a real person and did not disperse for a long time.

Xiao Kun knew that this was the most basic application of Shifting Phantom. At present, he could only move to places within his line of sight.

Once he mastered it, at the Dou Wang stage, he would be able to summon a tangible Dou Qi Clone to fight alongside his main body.

It would possess ten-tenths of the main body's strength. The clone could use every skill the main body possessed, and even if it was injured, it could be repaired using Dou Qi alone.

At the Dou Emperor stage, he could summon two clones; at the Dou Zong stage, four clones; and at the Dou Zun stage, eight clones. It could be called an unbelievably heaven-defying Secret Art.

At that thought, Xiao Kun hurried off to continue cultivating the Secret Art.

Five months later, on the outskirts of the Magic Beast Mountain Range beside Wu Tan City.

Two white figures could be seen constantly clashing and separating in midair.

The energy ripples produced by their battle had toppled many trees in the forest below. Even enormous boulders on some mountain peaks had been shaken loose and rolled down, exposing patches of yellow earth.

The Magic Beasts in the forest howled miserably beneath such might and had fled long ago.

Upon closer inspection, both figures in the air wore a set of White Armor and held a White Longsword. Even the two pairs of wings behind them were the same white color. They were practically identical.

Moreover, the two figures seemed capable of teleportation. One moment, they were fighting atop one mountain peak; in the blink of an eye, they had appeared on another.

These two figures were Xiao Kun and his Dou Qi Clone. The White Armor they wore and the White Longswords they wielded had both been formed by using the Secret Art Flame Shaping to solidify the Heavenly Flame Fallen Heart Flame.

As for how they could seemingly teleport from one mountain peak to another, that was also accomplished through the Secret Art Shifting Phantom, by folding space.

Over these five months of cultivation, Xiao Kun had not only cultivated the Secret Art Shifting Phantom to mastery and condensed a Dou Qi Clone.

Due to his frequent sparring battles with the Dou Qi Clone, he had also accumulated considerable combat experience.

With the help of medicinal pills and Fallen Heart Flame, his cultivation had reached Five-Star Dou King. It could be said that his gains were abundant.

Not long afterward, the battle between Xiao Kun and his clone ended with Xiao Kun's victory. After all, the clone's Dou Qi was limited. Without the main body replenishing its Dou Qi, it could not fight for long.

After the battle ended, Xiao Kun felt the Dou Qi within his body becoming increasingly responsive to his control and felt that the fight had not been in vain.

After tidying up, he returned to the Xiao Family. Sitting in his room, Xiao Kun thought that Jia Nan Academy would come to recruit students in another month, after which Xiao Yan would begin his training journey.

As for Xiao Kun, given his strength, he did not intend to go to Jia Nan Academy. He planned to set out and train directly.

As for the Heavenly Flames, when Han Feng went to seize them, Xiao Kun could simply take everything in one sweep, snatching both Han Feng's Sea Heart Flame and Jia Nan Academy's Fallen Heart Flame.

Speaking of training, he planned to leave a little earlier than Xiao Yan. He intended to explore the Predecessor's Cave Dwelling that Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian would discover together in the Magic Beast Mountain Range before they did.

Then, if he gave the treasures obtained from the cave dwelling to Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Yan, would he not receive critical-hit compensation?

At that thought, he realized there was not much time left. He planned to bid farewell to the people he knew over the next two days before setting out to train.

With nothing to do, Xiao Kun suddenly felt like taking a walk.

As he walked along the Xiao Family's stone-paved roads and looked up, he discovered that the changes were truly considerable. The residential buildings originally beside the Xiao Family had been removed, and their residents had been resettled.

Many buildings had been constructed on the cleared land, expanding the Xiao Family estate. The current Xiao Family was nearly twice as large as before.

Furthermore, due to the policy encouraging childbirth, quite a few more people were pregnant. One could imagine that the Xiao Family's population would surely soar in the future.

As he wandered around without any particular destination, a pretty young woman suddenly approached from ahead. Of course, the most eye-catching feature was her pair of long, sexy legs.

Looking again, he realized it was his cousin Xiao Yu, who had already gone to Jia Nan Academy for further study.

Xiao Yu was also somewhat surprised. Xiao Kun had kept to himself while cultivating, and this was the first time she had seen her genius cousin Xiao Kun in the several months since she returned.

Thinking that Xiao Kun had already been at the peak of the Da Dou Shi stage a year ago, he might even have broken through to Dou Ling by now. She could not help sighing over the gap between people.

Fortunately, after Xiao Family Clan Chief Xiao Zhan broke through to Dou Ling several months ago, he had begun secretly selecting some of the more talented Xiao Family members for training. She had luckily been chosen as well.

In just five short months, with the effects of medicinal pills, she had broken through from Three-Star Dou Zhe to Seven-Star Dou Zhe. Therefore, she was quite grateful to the clan chief's family, and Xiao Kun was no exception.

Seeing Xiao Kun so unexpectedly this time, Xiao Yu immediately revealed a grateful smile and greeted him, "Cousin Xiao Kun!"

"Cousin Xiao Yu!"

Xiao Kun returned the greeting and slowly walked on.

Before long, he actually saw Xiao Yan again. It looked as though Xiao Yan had just returned from Xiao Xun'er's room and was preparing to head back to his own.

Xiao Kun quickly walked over and teased, "Xiao Yan, just came back from Xiao Xun'er's?"

Hearing the greeting, Xiao Yan looked up and saw that it was his Third Brother, Xiao Kun. He could only smile awkwardly and say, "Third Brother, you guessed it again!"