Four Techniques Gained in the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, Returning Fully Loaded!

[Heaven's Eye Art]

[Advanced Level: First-Turn]

[Effect: The soul is connected to the power of heaven and earth, and can see through ghosts and spirits, as well as magical disguises.]

"The Fate Soul resides in the womb, but the mortal body prevents the Fate Soul from opening its eyes to see the world."

"But now, the Heavenly Eye I have opened is essentially a weakened version of divine consciousness and divine thought." Zhao Xing looked inward into his Sea of Consciousness.

The Fate Soul in the Sea of Consciousness is exactly the same as oneself. The body is still relatively illusory, but the eyes have a light golden color and are much more solid than the body parts.

Advanced levels of the Heaven's Eye Art will eventually lead to a supernatural power—[Heavenly Vision and Earthly Hearing].

This supernatural ability is quite extraordinary; it can monitor the enemy's every move from thousands of miles away.

However, supernatural powers will not appear until the era of Spiritual Energy Revival.

The Heaven's Eye Art can now only be cultivated to the highest level.

"Sixth-Rank Heavenly Dipper, Fifth-Rank Pure Yuan, Fourth-Rank Yuan Soul, Third-Rank Yuan Soul."

"As you grow stronger step by step to the Third-Rank Realm, your Fate Soul will also become stronger, no longer restricted by your physical body, and can temporarily leave your body."

"However, to achieve the soul journey through the Grand Void, one needs more support." Zhao Xing recalled the 'Blood Spirit Venerable' he had once met in Gucheng.

Like the 'Blood Spirit Venerable,' not only can his soul travel through the Grand Void, but he can also divide his Fate Soul.

However, its method relies on the blood sacrifice of believers, using the faith, blood, and soul of others as its foundation, and is preserved in various parts of the world.

The Blood Spirit Venerable's method can take you very far, but the individual strength is relatively weak.

Back in the abandoned workshop in Gucheng, even Yin Spirit like Earl of East Lake could fight it for a long time.

However, for the Blood Spirit Venerable, losing a part of his Fate Soul is no big deal, as long as his main body is not harmed. It's like a fingernail that can grow back after being cut off.

If the Fate Soul itself is injured, then it's more troublesome. Most treasures that can heal the soul are of the Seventh Order or higher.

"Fate Soul reaches the Third Grade, one can travel through the Grand Void; that's when one truly becomes strong," Zhao Xing thought to himself.

The term "Grand Void" refers to the vast expanse of space.

It is dangerous for the Fate Soul to leave the body, so why do some people still like to do it?

Of course, there are benefits.

"Once I reach the Third-Rank Yuan Soul Realm, I can send my Fate Soul to travel to the Yin Realm find rare plants and bring them back to grow myself."

"The Original Seed of the Yin Realm are almost all of the Seventh Order or above, such as the Soul Devouring Tree, the White Bone Tree, and the Hundred Ghost Vine... These are all powerful fighting species."

Having a powerful Fate Soul brings many benefits.

Taking the Fate Soul Pill, a rare and precious item, brings even more extraordinary benefits.

If a Seventh Grade martial artist takes this, once his Fate Soul reaches the Sixth Rank, his control over his body will become extremely strong. For example, if he could only use a single sword before, he can now immediately use two swords.

It's equivalent to improving a martial artist's talent!

If it were a sword cultivator like Long Xiao, after taking the Fate Soul Pill, he might be able to control one more flying sword!

The enhancement of combat power is obvious!

For Zhao Xing, with his Fate Soul reaching the early stage of the Sixth Rank, his control over vital energy and magic became stronger.

Two spells immediately broke through.

However, Zhao Xing felt that what he gained the most was not the [Advanced Sleepy Bug] or the [Heaven's Eye Art].

It is the "Straw Man Art".

Zhao Xing has not tried it yet, but he has a feeling that if he were to try the "Four Arts Unity" or "Five Arts Unity" now, it would definitely be easier than before.

The number of straw men that can be controlled at the same time will also increase.

"After taking the Fate Soul Pill, I might be able to master the True Self Straw Puppet and perform all kinds of magic, just like Old Liu."

Zhao Xing will definitely learn from the True Self Straw Puppet.

The True Self Straw Puppet" performs all kinds of spells, which is equivalent to low-cost trial and error. Any dangerous spells or spells with side effects can be tested by the " True Self Straw Puppet ".

In this way, even if there is an irreparable injury, it will not harm the body itself.

The True Self Straw Puppet " is essentially a "human-shaped template." It allows for continuous trial and error to find the most correct direction.

Liu Tianning is awesome, and there's a reason for that!

With so many of his Ten Thousand Laws Palace 'True Self Straw Puppet practicing magic almost constantly, it's hard to imagine Liu Tianning's true combat strength.

When Zhao Xing was trying to break through the Heart Questioning Platform, he was in a subconscious illusion. In the end, he sought help from Liu Tianning to get rid of the strong interference of the illusion.

This was actually Zhao Xing thinking of Liu Tianning and recalling the scenes at the Ten Thousand Laws Palace. Only after proving himself did he escape the illusion.

Otherwise, he would never be able to focus his thoughts or concentrate on thinking, and would continue to Reincarnation in the illusion.

"I know eleven high-level techniques now, but Liu Tianning probably knows over a hundred?" Zhao Xing couldn't help but sigh. "He's already in the Military Realm Inspection Department; that's a very high bar."

When the last investigation team came out, Tantai Ming and Fan Zhaoli were both considered old men, having lived for at least three or four hundred years, while Liu Tianning was younger than them.

After taking the Fate Soul Pill, Zhao Xing became energetic and refreshed. After familiarizing himself with his physical condition, he re-entered the Great Dream Academy.

He remembered that there was still the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion inside the academy that he hadn't checked out.

I was kicked out because the challenge of the Heart Questioning Platform had taken too much energy.

"Buzz~"

Upon entering again, Zhao Xing flew through the clouds and arrived directly in front of a pavilion.

Heavenly Mystery Pavilion is a multi-story tower structure. When Zhao Xing looked up, the pavilion seemed to reach straight into the clouds, and he couldn't see the top at all.

All that can be seen are the first five floors of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion.

"This is a new building. The Cloud Dream Academy during Wu Emperor's reign didn't have the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion," Zhao Xing thought to himself.

Why did Wu Emperor remove the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion? Zhao Xing could guess the reason.

Because within the Military Realm of the Great Zhou, there is a mysterious organization called the "Heavenly Mystery Hall".

Those kept inside were all Fate Officials by the imperial court.

Great Zhou Emperor drastically cut off fortune-telling professions such as diviners and yin-yang masters, but the royal family itself put these skills to practical use, selecting outstanding members of the imperial clan to enter the Heavenly Mystery Hall every year.

The function of the Heavenly Mystery Hall is to predict the future, to foresee the future fate of the Great Zhou, and to predict the course of wars, natural disasters, changes in Grotto-Heaven, and so on.

Its classic artifact is the Creation Disc.

The Heavenly Mystery Pavilion within the Great Dream Academy was probably similar in nature to the Heavenly Mystery Hall of the Great Zhou, which is why it was removed by Wu Emperor.

"The practices differed across dynasties. It seems that the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion of Great Li is not limited to the royal family." Zhao Xing took a deep breath and walked into the pavilion.

As you step into the pavilion, an ancient voice whispers in your ear:

"Multiplication and division are used to elucidate the Source of Creation, and divination and fortune-telling are used to grasp the changes of heaven."

Zhao Xing looked up and followed the sound, discovering a small bird perched on the cabinet, singing.

It was carrying a book in its mouth, swaying its head back and forth.

When Zhao Xing saw the bird's appearance clearly, he was startled.

"The Heavenly Mandate Dark Bird?!"

"Is this Mechanical Beast or real?"

The Heavenly Mandate Dark Bird has a long lifespan, possibly living for tens of thousands of years. Could it be a living bird?

While they were still in a daze, the Heavenly Mandate Dark Bird opened the scroll and turned a page with its claw.

Then the mist over the entire first floor dissipated.

"Student Zhao Xing, I am the guardian of the Dark Bird. You may freely browse the first five floors of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion. Learn as much as you can, but do not force yourself to learn what you cannot."

Zhao Xing was slightly taken aback, then bowed respectfully to the Dark Bird Guardian: "Guardian, do I not need to pass any tests?"

The Dark Bird glanced at Zhao Xing sideways:

"There are countless books on divination, Book of Fate, physiognomy, divination, and celestial arts, with endless meanings. The biggest challenge is the learning threshold."

"I see." Zhao Xing suddenly understood, and immediately stopped asking questions. After bowing to the guardian, he walked past the Dark Bird and continued forward.

The first floor featured rows of large cabinets filled with books.

Each row of bookshelves is forty or fifty meters high, making it feel like stepping into an ancient library.

"A treasure trove, truly a treasure trove," Zhao Xing thought to himself.

I picked up a glittering book at random—the Grand Mystery Scripture.

Upon opening it, Zhao Xing became drowsy within seconds and put it back in its original place.

The book lives up to its name; it's too esoteric and I can't understand it at all.

He picked up the next page of "Tai Xuan Zhen Jie: Wu Sheng Pian" and this time he finally understood a little bit of it.

"Things are born with forms, and forms give rise to numbers. Multiplication and division are used to deduce and explore the Source of Creation... This refers to using numerology to calculate and deduce the principles of heaven and earth."

Zhao Xing looked at it for a while, then put it back. The Grand Mystery Scripture was only a general outline and did not contain specific methods.

Classics are generally theories and ideas.

Magic is the application of techniques.

Zhao Xing glanced at it and knew that this Grand Mystery Scripture was not what he wanted. To learn its profound methods, he needed to understand ten thousand volumes of scriptures. This whole row contained the contents of the Grand Mystery Scripture, and only then would he have a chance to learn its methods.

He doesn't want to learn everything. Old Master Zhao's time is very precious now, so he must allocate it reasonably. Besides, it's easy to get caught up in this kind of metaphysics. He just needs to memorize a little bit and have a basic understanding.

When Zhao Xing came to the second row, he saw another book, "Book of Supreme World Ordering Principles".

This is a book that explores the origins of heaven and earth, natural changes, and social history.

"Observe Heaven, deducing the waxing and waning of the sun and moon, examining the degrees of yin and yang, and observing the forms of hardness and softness, we thus record them with the concept of 'origin,' 'meeting,' 'beginning' with 'movement,' and 'ending' with 'world.' Based on the Way of Heaven and measured by human affairs, we record everything from rise and fall to order and chaos."

He was quite interested because it was a book that "calculates the past," using the past as a guide to govern the present and the future.

For example, it mentions a passage. "In the year of Jia Chen in the 2158 BC, a great flood tore the sky apart, and the world was in great chaos."

One cycle here is one hundred and twenty years.

This means that 258,960 years before the Li Dynasty, there was a massive flood that nearly tore the sky apart, causing great chaos in the world.

It also prophesies, "In the year 3247 Gui Chou, the Extreme Ice Sea the world will break apart, bringing endless calamities."

The numbers are too large to know whether such a prediction is correct, because it cannot be verified.

"The Extreme Ice Sea did thaw in later generations, but the timing doesn't add up."

"The Great Li and Great Zhou were separated by about 50,000 years. Its prediction that the Extreme Ice Sea would thaw in 389,000 years is pure nonsense."

"The Spiritual Energy Revival in another two thousand years or so, and the thawing of the Extreme Ice Sea won't be much longer."

"And the claim that Spiritual Energy Revival three centuries after the first year of the Li Dynasty is pure nonsense." Zhao Xing curled his lip and put the book back on the bookshelf.

Such extrapolation methods have limited accuracy, and when it comes to the era of recovery, they are even more wildly wrong.

However, in the Spiritual Energy Era, it was no different from the legends in the minds of the ancients. If it was wrong, it was wrong, and it didn't matter much.

The Great Li was merely Dynasty of Fate in the Vital Energy Era, and its deductive methods had certain limitations.

Zhao Xing continued browsing and soon found useful books on the second floor.

The Great Evolution Scripture

"The Great Dao is fifty, the Heavenly Derivation-49, and man escapes one of them. Heaven and Earth bestow their fortunes upon man, and man's fortunes are all different."

Zhao Xing smiled when he saw the Great Evolution Scripture.

Finally, a useful one has arrived.

The Great Evolution Scripture is an explanation of fortune and destiny. On this row of bookshelves, Zhao Xing found a book called "The Great Evolution Aura Observation Technique".

"The Aura Observation Technique can reveal the fortune of living beings, not just humans."

"This secret technique is much more practical."

If you can see someone's luck and encounter someone with that kind of luck, then stick close to them and you can reap the benefits.

You can also avoid those unlucky ones.

"It also mentions methods for increasing one's fortune, one of which is to seize the Heavenly Spirit Essence to increase it."

"However, it didn't explain how to steal someone's luck. Well, Great Li is a dignified Dynasty of Fate, so why would it teach such a method? You have to look for this kind of method in the Outer Sects."

The Aura Observation Technique is easy to learn because its basic requirements are the Fate Soul and the Bright Eyes Art.

It was precisely because Zhao Xing met the threshold that he was able to enter.

The Aura Observation Technique is a high-level technique. It has little offensive power, but its auxiliary effects are very strong.

After learning the technique, Zhao Xing continued to wander around the pavilion.

Zhao Xing searched through the pavilion. He had seen many of the books before, but as the guardian of the Dark Bird had said, he couldn't learn most of them.

Even if one could learn it, it would depend on the era. Book of Fate and physiognomy, which were similar to those in the Great Zhou, didn't offer much opportunity for advanced techniques; they weren't suitable for that time.

Zhao Xing took a liking to some books that he wanted to learn, but whose current level of cultivation was insufficient and would make him drowsy just looking at them, such as the Grand Mystery Scripture, Book of Supreme World Governance, Burial Classic, and Six-Line Classic. He planned to study them later when his cultivation level improved.

The above scriptures are too profound. It would be pointless to waste time and effort on them now, because as long as the Great Zhou doesn't collapse, fortune-telling professions will remain stuck in the Shuidao, unable to rise above their circumstances.

However, there are three books that are beneficial to study now, and they can help us avoid the "grand ambition of establishing the Way" of Grand Ancestor. Even if we are not Fate Officials, we can still play a certain role.

Zhao Xing selected three books he could learn from and resolved to study them thoroughly.

First, there is the "Tortoise Coin Divination," which requires the assistance of external objects to be effective.

First, there are sea turtles, creatures of the deep sea, which are not subject to the grand vision of the Grand Ancestor, just as many strange beasts were not included in the system of the Dynasty of Fate.

The spirit turtle can withstand the cost of fortune-telling and still achieve its effects.

Secondly, there are special coins, such as the Purple-Gold Ancient Coin and the Grand Luck Coin. These are ancient coins passed down from the Ancient Divine Court and have magical effects. Zhao Xing knows where to find them.

The second is the "Book of Celestial Observation".

This divination method is also related to the Agricultural Official profession.

Because it can predict changes in the weather and climate, such as which place and how long it will take for a change in weather to occur over a hundred Millennial Climate Shift.

The Book of Divination is divided into two parts: one is the Land Divination Almanac, and the other is the Maritime Divination Almanac.

After the war ends, Zhao Xing will definitely be transferred to the Civil Sima Nong.

Raising horses and farming will definitely come in handy later.

The third is "Five Finger Heavenly Mandate".

This is a fortune-telling method that does not involve any external objects.

This is commonly known as "calculating with one's fingers".

The Five Finger Heavenly Mandate is a top-tier secret technique, a magic that can be practiced in the Great Zhou even without being Fate Officials. It is the destiny-related divination method that Zhao Xing values most.

"All methods of predicting destiny originate from the deduction of the workings of heaven and earth."

"The Five Finger Heavenly Mandate Method can bypass the Grand Ancestor's grand ambition of establishing the Dao because it originates from the Inner Five Elements Heavens."

"I divine the inner world of the five elements within the human body, which is a layer away. Then, I use the results of the Inner Five Elements Heavens to combine with the Changes of Heaven and Earth. This method is called the Five Finger Heavenly Mandate."

Including the Great Evolution Aura Observation Technique, Zhao Xing obtained a total of four very useful spells from the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion that he could practice soon.

He bowed to the guardian of the Dark Bird and left the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion with satisfaction.

Entering the Great Dream Academy was very rewarding.

Zhao Xing was deep underground, pondering and practicing the newly acquired secret techniques.

A short while later, Zhao Xing suddenly opened his eyes and couldn't help but smile.

"When the Fate Soul reaches the early stage of the Sixth Rank, the first chapter of 'The Great Dream Spring and Autumn' engraved on the Grade A also has new insights."

"Aside from the 'Fate Soul Sensing Crisis' and the 'Sleep Bug Art,' I can now cultivate in my dreams."

The first chapter, "Entering the Dream," signifies that if one can achieve "cultivation within a dream," then one has truly entered the path.

As one's understanding deepens and one's level of attainment increases, one will be able to truly achieve "Dream Walking."

They lure people into Entering the Dream, then jump into that dream and kill them.

Just as Zhao Xing was cultivating underground, Chen Shijie entered the Military Hall.

Where is Zhao Xing?

Han Bing was standing guard outside, pointed to the ground and said, "He told me he went down to rest."

Chen Shijie was taken aback. "What's wrong with him? Sleeping underground."

Han Bing shook her head. "I don't know. Maybe geniuses all have some quirks. Some people even like to sleep in coffins."

"..." Chen Shijie was speechless.

I really don't understand you young people.

"Are you sure this is the location?"

"Um."

Chen Shijie walked down to the ground where Zhao Xing had sunk and stomped his foot hard.

The vital energy flowed down from the ground, causing fluctuations in the Earth Vein, which spread outwards, conveying the message: "Zhao Xing, wake up, I need to talk to you."

One more chapter, not too late. Also, I'd like to recommend a friend's book; please check it out!