Skill points flooded into the Heaven Defying Soul Splitting Technique all at once.
7. [Heaven Defying Soul Splitting Technique]: 5 (Resettable)
7. [Heaven Defying Soul Splitting Technique]: 10 (Resettable)
After adding ten points in one breath, Ning Ri could not help but freeze...
It was not maxed out?!
At the same time, after sensing it for a while, he found that he still seemed unable to create a new soul split for himself.
This meant he had not learned enough!
No wonder Elder Zhou had said that under normal circumstances, Qi Refining disciples could not learn this simplified version of the [Heaven Defying Soul Splitting Technique].
With other Qi Refining skills, ten skill points would already have maxed them out. Yet this one remained utterly unmoved.
At that thought, he instinctively added more, bringing it straight to twenty points.
Only when his remaining balance had fallen to seven points did he stop with a frown—
Twenty points still were not enough to max it out?!
Ning Ri's heart jolted—
He had always thought that ten skill points were the maximum level for a skill.
Thus, he had been brimming with confidence. Once his cultivation rose later, he would evolve away sleep entirely and achieve "no sleeping, no eating, no days off." Then, excluding the time spent joining a sect, doing missions, and searching for cultivation methods, if he trained for eight shichen a day on average, that would be sixteen points per day. In one hundred days, that would be sixteen hundred points.
So long as he had enough cultivation methods, becoming immortal in a hundred days would not be a dream.
Now, however, it seemed things were not so simple!
Even the Heaven Defying Soul Splitting Technique required so many skill points, to say nothing of higher-tier cultivation methods.
In that case, he would have to research whether there was some way to improve the efficiency of his grinding blade.
Next, Ning Ri formed a hand seal and activated the [Heaven Defying Soul Splitting Technique].
At ten skill points, the Heaven Defying Soul Splitting Technique had shown no response.
But after twenty skill points were poured into it, Ning Ri felt that he had finally achieved the effect Zhou Hai had described—
He could create a small soul split!
But...
As he operated the [Heaven Defying Soul Splitting Technique], Ning Ri's expression changed slightly...
Something was wrong...
Buzz—
As Ning Ri formed his hand seals, he immediately felt his consciousness splitting apart. Yet the process was painless and incredibly fast, taking only one or two breaths.
Immediately afterward.
Ning Ri felt as though his Divine Soul had gained another layer of protection.
This was the [Heaven Defying Soul Splitting Technique]!
However, the Heaven Defying Sect's soul-splitting technique was ultimately intended only to resist strange phenomena and protect oneself. Therefore, it could not leave the body and move freely like true soul-splitting techniques of the Cultivation World.
Yet after successfully splitting his soul, Ning Ri made a bizarre discovery—
His soul split seemed different from those of the Heaven Defying Sect as well!
Because what he had split off did not seem to be a small soul split for hailing rides, nor was it the Divine Soul shell Zhou Hai had described for resisting strange phenomena...
It was an entire new soul split!
It possessed Third Stage Qi Refining cultivation too!
In the cultivation method's description of the Heaven Defying Soul Splitting Technique, the Grandmaster who created it had initially modeled it after the Cultivation World's soul-splitting techniques, creating another self.
That other self possessed the same strength as the main body and the same Divine Soul.
Yet this "brand-new self" had not been created to increase strength, nor for battle, but to become one's second life.
The Cultivation World possessed many things that could grant a person a second life, such as substitute dolls and fate-bound ancestral lamps. But while those methods worked against ordinary powerful enemies of the Cultivation World, they were useless against the Heavenly Dao.
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When the Heavenly Dao killed you, even if you had substitute dolls and the like, you would still die on the spot.
For that very reason, this Grandmaster created this technique to deceive the Heavenly Dao.
When he could not contend against the Heavenly Dao, this Grandmaster would let his second life confuse it and die in place of his true self.
If the Heavenly Dao was successfully fooled, the main body would survive.
So, strictly speaking, the [Heaven Defying Soul Splitting Technique] ought to have been called [Add One More Life], like Contra's up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-BABA.
Yet clearly, the life-adding technique had not succeeded.
Even so, after years of evolution, this technique had become a fine art for resisting strange phenomena and hailing rides for free!
But at this moment...
As Ning Ri examined the other self within his body, his heart shook—
Holy shit!
The thing the Grandmaster had failed to accomplish seemed to have... succeeded with him?!
Immediately afterward.
Ning Ri studied it for a while. By his senses, his soul split possessed exactly the same strength as his main body. Unfortunately—
The strength of the soul split and the main body could not be stacked!
When he threw two punches, it would not become Third Stage Qi Refining plus Third Stage Qi Refining equaling Sixth Stage Qi Refining.
Next.
Ning Ri suddenly had an idea. He reset the [Heaven Defying Soul Splitting Technique], only to discover that the soul split instantly collapsed and returned to his main soul.
Ning Ri could not help revealing a hint of regret—
He had thought that after successfully resetting the points, the soul split would remain. If so, would that not mean he could add lives without limit? But reality proved that he was wrong.
He could only obediently put the twenty skill points back in and create the soul split anew.
And Ning Ri currently had no way to verify whether his soul split could truly deceive the Heavenly Dao.
But this was not something he could consider right now. His foremost concern was hailing a ride.
Buzz—
As his Spiritual Arts entered the summoning jade slip of [Golden Strategy Tally], the jade slip immediately began to tremble faintly. Then, a line of words floated out:
"Honored guest, [Golden Strategy Tally] is cheering with delight at your arrival!"
"Since this is our first meeting, you may use it free of charge. We hope Golden Strategy Tally brings you a pleasant experience!"
At the sight, Ning Ri smiled the smile of someone who had successfully freeloaded...
Golden Strategy Tally's ride-hailing range covered the entire Cultivation World.
It could achieve this not through the craftsmanship of the jade slip or the power of its arts, but through "strange phenomena."
The Golden Strategy Immortal Sect controlled a strange phenomenon known as the [Great Mercy Divine Palace].
Ning Ri still did not know what the [Great Mercy Divine Palace] was used for. He only knew that [Golden Strategy Tally] was one of the Great Mercy Divine Palace's functions.
And precisely because Golden Strategy Tally was strange in essence, the Heaven Defying Soul Splitting Technique could deceive it!
After Ning Ri waited for a moment...
Whoosh—
A streak of light suddenly shot through the sky, racing like the wind and swift as thunder.
Yet when it rushed before Ning Ri, every trace of noise instantly vanished, and not a wisp of power leaked out.
He descended slowly, neither harming Ning Ri nor causing him the slightest discomfort.
That alone showed that the newcomer's control over his power had reached the realm of Subtle Art, so formidable it made one's hair stand on end.
The one who landed before Ning Ri was a man in golden robes, his aura deep and powerful, a long spear in hand.
Golden robes, as the name suggested, were forged from real gold. They gleamed brilliantly, forcing Ning Ri to squint—
At that moment, the newcomer called out brightly, "Hello, I am Luo Ke of the Golden Strategy Immortal Sect. Where would you like to go? And how should I address you..."
Before he could finish, his tone abruptly changed as he exclaimed in surprise:
"Hmm?! Aren't you young friend Ning Ri?!"
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