This escape technique known as the Profound Phoenix Soaring Heavens Escape Technique was far more profound than Qin Fengming had imagined.
Forget cultivating this secret art—even comprehending a mere fraction of it to the point of attaining basic mastery had taken Qin Fengming two full years.
This technique imitated the secret movement art of the divine bird Phoenix and imposed extraordinarily harsh requirements on a cultivator's physical toughness.
If another Demon Cultivator or someone who cultivated body-refining techniques practiced this escape technique, then by Qin Fengming's estimation, only a handful of people would be able to meet its requirements.
The old man had not asked about Qin Fengming's condition before having him practice this secret art. This was likely because the Mahayana old man had placed excessive faith in the two levels of the Treasure Refining Ghost Art that Qin Fengming had cultivated.
Qin Fengming did not know the origins of the Treasure Refining Ghost Art, but the old man clearly did.
He also knew how terrifying its power would become once it was cultivated to perfection. A mere escape technique imitating the Phoenix would naturally pose no difficulty at all.
The old man, who had not initially thought highly of Qin Fengming, appeared again after Qin Fengming took just over two years to master the basics of the Profound Phoenix Soaring Heavens Escape Technique and praised him lavishly once more.
It was exceedingly rare for a Mahayana cultivator to praise a junior cultivator to his face.
One had to understand that every Mahayana cultivator was a dragon or phoenix among men—an apex existence among cultivators. There were truly very few people whom such figures would take a liking to.
Of course, this did not mean that the Cultivation World lacked astonishingly gifted individuals. Rather, before those people broke through