After meeting Yun Qianyue and Lan Yuexin, Fang Han returned to practice.
The light and shadow of autumn slowly move on the Quiet Room window lattice, and the golden cinnamon outside is brought indoors by the cool breeze, mixed with the thin smoke of Sandalwood Incense, making it light and pleasant.
"The improvement of <Nether Guide> is imperative..."
Fang Han sat cross-legged on the futon, thinking about the next main direction of cultivation.
He remembered that on the way back from Cloud Province, the Dark Abyss master killer was lurking in the pine forest on the roadside. He was not noticed by <Nether Guide> until he was only a few dozen feet away.
The distance was too close, so he lost the chance to avoid it and had to rush to fight.
If <Nether Guide>'s perception ability could have been stronger at that time, he could have discovered the Dark Abyss master killer earlier, and he could have made a choice more calmly.
You can choose to avoid it, or you can choose to sneak attack in reverse. No matter which option you choose, it is better than rushing to fight.
Minor Success Stage<Nether Guide>'s perception ability surpassed that of Major Merit in his early days, but now it can no longer keep up with his needs.
Improvement is inevitable, and it is very necessary to invest time to upgrade it to a higher level.
"<Shadowveil> Now it's just Beginner stage, which is a bit low!"
Fang Han thought of <Shadowveil> Breath Concealment Secret Technique again.
Although Breath Concealment Secret Technique is a secret technique at the master level and has a very strong breath-concentrating effect, after all, it has only been practiced to the Beginner stage level, so the breath-concentrating effect it can exert is limited.
It is still effective under the Grandmaster, but if it is used to avoid the Grandmaster's Spiritual Perception, it will be ineffective.
There is also a great need for improvement.
"The next focus of cultivation will be on <Nether Guide> and <Shadowveil>."
Fang Han makes a decision in his heart.
In the next period of time, reduce the training time in other aspects, focus on the training of the two secret arts <Nether Guide> and <Shadowveil>, and improve these two secret arts as soon as possible.
Since deciding to upgrade <Nether Guide> and <Shadowveil>, Fang Han has put off the training of Sword Technique, Body Movement, and Heng Lian, and devoted most of his time every day to these two secret arts.
The highest level of skills he is currently practicing has reached the Middle-Grade Artistic Conception level. <Nether Guide> As Tracking Secret Technique is only at the top power level, for him now, the difficulty of training is not high.
With his current 256-fold increase in Secret Art Talent, he can comprehend the subsequent levels of this secret technique as smoothly as water flowing through a stream bed.
Those key points, those subtleties that required repeated pondering to comprehend, were as clear as if the dust had been washed away by clear water in his mind, and they were incredibly clear.
"<Nether Guide>Proficiency Realm!"
It only took seven days for Fang Han to successfully push <Nether Guide> from Minor Accomplishment to the Proficiency Realm.
At the moment of the breakthrough, he felt that the cold breath between his nose and meridians suddenly became much more condensed, as if it had changed from a rough sieve to a fine spider web.
That sense of perception spread outwards, and the original limit of ten miles quietly expanded to twelve miles.
The breath captured in perception also becomes clearer and more precise.
Fang Han did not stop there and continued to practice.
"<Nether Guide>Greater Accomplishment!"
Ten days later, <Nether Guide> broke through from the Proficiency Realm to Greater Accomplishment.
This time the leap is more obvious than from Minor Accomplishment to the Proficiency Realm.
The cold breath circulated in his body, eventually turning into an almost instinctive perception that could operate on its own without any deliberate urging.
The range of perception expanded again, from twelve miles to fifteen miles.
More importantly, those breaths became as clear and distinct in his perception as objects in a mirror.
Even if he is a master who is good at Breath Concealment Secret Technique, he is sure to find the opponent from several miles away.
I will never notice the danger again until the distance is only a few dozen feet like before.
"Compared to <Nether Guide>, <Shadowveil> is much more difficult to upgrade!"
<Nether Guide>'s improvement went smoothly, but <Shadowveil>'s cultivation was not that easy.
This Breath Concealment Secret Technique is a master-level secret technique after all. Not only is the path of Internal Qi more complicated than <Nether Guide>, but it also involves Shadow Intent Domain, making it much more difficult to practice than <Nether Guide>.
Even with Fang Han's current 256-fold increase, Secret Art Talent can't practice as fast as <Nether Guide>.
Fortunately, he is not impatient and just practices on time every day.
He ran the Dharma door over and over again and visited the Wu Fa door again and again.
When <Nether Guide> reached Greater Accomplishment, although <Shadowveil> still had not broken through, he could clearly feel that <Shadowveil> was not far from Minor Accomplishment.
It's hard to describe the feeling. It's like you can vaguely see the outline of the other side through a very thin layer of window paper.
Five days passed by silently like water.
Among Quiet Room, Fang Han was sitting cross-legged on the futon, and the aura around his body was as dense as an abyss.
In the past few days, with my understanding, <Shadowveil> is getting closer and closer to a breakthrough.
The dark aura belonging to the master-level Breath Concealment Secret Technique circulated endlessly in his body, and each cycle was more harmonious than the last.
Shadow Intent Domain.
This is the core of <Shadowveil>.
Fang Han can clearly feel that his understanding of this Artistic Conception is deepening at a considerable speed.
With the blessing of 256 times Secret Technique Talent Amplification, those previously obscure points were being understood by him bit by bit.
At some point -
"Buzz..."
A soft cry that only Fang Han himself could feel resounded from deep within his body.
The sound was extremely soft, so soft that it was almost undetectable, but it seemed as if an invisible door had opened.
Fang Han The aura around him completely changed at this moment.
Not restrained, not suppressed, but as if blending into the shadow cast by the candlelight behind him.
He was clearly sitting on the futon, but he seemed to be integrated with the shadow, and his sense of presence was reduced to the extreme.
"<Shadowveil>, Minor Accomplishment."
Fang Han slowly opened his eyes, and deep in his eyes, a trace of dark light flashed away and then disappeared.
He carefully understood the current situation.
Minor Success Stage's <Shadowveil> has a qualitative leap in interest-holding effect compared to Beginner stage.
With his current ability to gather breath, he should be able to quietly approach new masters like Ling Wuyuan without being noticed by the opponent's Spiritual Perception.
"However, the old masters probably can't."
Fang Han shook his head slightly.
Beings like Gu Changqing and Li Hanjiang, who have been in the realm of grandmasters for decades, Spiritual Perception is far from comparable to the new grandmasters.
If you want to hide your whereabouts in front of such a person without being discovered, I am afraid that it is only possible to push <Shadowveil> to the realm of the Proficiency Realm.
Suppressing the thoughts in his mind, Fang Han closed his eyes again and continued to devote himself to cultivation.
Ten days passed by in a flash.
This time, the breakthrough was <Nether Guide>.
"Buzz--"
When the cold sensory breath completed its final cycle between the nasal cavity and meridians, an unprecedented sense of transparency suddenly came to Fang Han's heart.
The range of perception suddenly skyrocketed at this moment.
From fifteen miles, to sixteen miles, to eighteen miles, to twenty miles--
Within twenty miles, all birds and beasts, all plants, and all living breaths can be sensed.
Moreover, the perceived fineness is far from comparable to that of Greater Accomplishment.
Even a master like Dark Abyss Grandmaster Killer, who is good at condensing his aura, can never escape his perception. As long as he appears within twenty miles of him, he can sense and discover it.
"<Nether Guide>, Perfection Realm."
Fang Han slowly opened his eyes, a look of satisfaction flashed across his eyes.
He stood up and pushed open Quiet Room's door.
Autumn has passed and winter has arrived.
In the courtyard, the cold winter wind blew through the bamboo forest. It had just snowed last night, and some snow fell thinly from the bamboo forest.
Twenty miles away, a caravan was driving on the road, and their scent was as clear to him as if they were very close at hand.
It was an extremely wonderful feeling.
Within a radius of twenty miles, everything is invisible, not even a small sparrow can escape his perception.
After a short break, Fang Han returned to Quiet Room.
"<Nether Guide> There is no way forward!"
Fang Han whispered to himself.
<Nether Guide> has reached Perfection Realm, and there is no way forward. If you want to gain stronger perception ability, you can only transfer to the higher level Tracking Secret Technique.
And he has such secret skills, and has been preparing for this day for a long time.
"<Soul-Chasing Art>."
Fang Han took out a volume bound by Dark Cyan animal skin from Storage Ring.
The booklet is about two fingers thick, with three ancient seal characters - Soul-Chasing Art - embroidered with silver thread on the cover.
This is exactly one of the rewards of Martial Arts Tournament, a master-level Tracking Secret Technique.
He opened the title page and saw the handwriting with silver hooks and iron drawings, giving off a cold aura.
The general outline of the opening chapter is only a few words, but each word is very important--
"The soul is the foundation of life. All living things have their soul breath dispersed. The art of chasing the soul is neither smelling nor seeing. It is to feel the soul with the spirit. The heaven and earth are so vast that there is no escape."
Fang Han's eyes paused on this line of text for a long time.
Touch the soul with spirit.
The Artistic Conception contained in this line of words has far exceeded the level of tracking techniques that rely on breath like <Nether Guide>.
This is a secret art involving the soul level.
He continued to scroll down.
The book is not thick, with only about forty pages in total, but it is broad and profound.
The first half explains in detail the basic theory of Soul Intent Domain - what is soul breath and what is soul wave.
The second half is the specific cultivation method, how to use one's own essence Divine Strength as a guide to sense the residual fluctuations of the souls of outside creatures, and then search and track them.
Fang Han flipped through page after page, sometimes frowning in thought, sometimes nodding slightly.
The sky outside the window changes from morning to noon, and from noon to evening.
His fingertips pointed at the obscure explanation of Soul Intent Domain in the album, deducing and confirming it over and over in his mind.
When you encounter something that is difficult to understand, you stop and chew it several times until you understand it thoroughly before continuing to read.
After spending a day, Fang Han finally fully memorized this volume.
He closed the book, closed his eyes, and re-read everything he had just read in his mind.
From the essence of the general outline, to Soul Intent Domain's various explanations, to the specific methods of precise Divine Strength operation and the method of perceiving soul fluctuations.
All the words, diagrams, and annotations were clearly imprinted on his mind at this moment.