Cultivation Technique and Spell Synergy Technique

Watching the "Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art" pop up and wildly steal the show, Jiang Li was so startled he nearly jumped on the spot.

All three options involved wiping out demonic cultivators.

These were all his beloved family and dear friends, like-minded colleagues, and poor souls suffering from the same affliction as him.

Making him turn his blade against those sharing his room—how was that any different from making him betray the sect?

He would not do it even for more money.

System, damn it, do not screw me over.

If he wiped this place out today, he would be on the Ten Thousand Demons Sect's wanted list tomorrow, while the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land would see him as a spy.

He would have nowhere left to stand.

Huh? Wait.

Just as Jiang Li was about to fall apart, he suddenly thought of something.

His gaze settled on the options screen again.

There was nothing to say about Option One. It was what a practitioner of the Dao of Survival would do: hide his achievements and his name.

There was nothing wrong with Option Three either.

The reward of Mana Purification was enormously tempting to him.

It could double the power of the Dragon Slaying Sword spell.

The problem was Option Two.

What did it mean by joining his fellow disciples in eliminating demonic cultivators?

Were there other disciples of the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land in Frostfeather City?

And were they right here?

At that thought,

Jiang Li's heart rose to his throat.

Because he thought of one possibility.

A trap.

No.

It was a setup.

The Heavenly Mystery Holy Land had long known there was a traitor among these people, but they had endured without acting, waiting until the undercover agents made their move before sweeping them all up in one net.

And the timing was now.

Which meant,

he was at risk of being exposed at any moment.

At that thought,

Jiang Li's eyes fixed on Option Three.

To shake off suspicion, he had to move first and kill all the demonic cultivators here before the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land's disciples completely surrounded the place.

Only then could he explain everything.

Damn Yuan Li. Another reason to kill you just got added to the list.

Jiang Li cursed under his breath.

His killing intent toward Old Dog Yuan deepened further.

But now...

He had to resolve the crisis before him first.

Jiang Li swept his gaze over the people in the room.

There were six at Qi Refining Layer 2, one at Qi Refining Layer 3, and a Black Robed Envoy who had arrived from the Ten Thousand Demons Sect.

His cultivation was at the Qi Refining stage.

To kill this entire group in one go, what Jiang Li lacked was not offensive means, but abundant mana.

With the mana of his Qi Refining Layer 4 cultivation, he could only choose between killing the demonic cultivator spies below Qi Refining Layer 4 and killing the Black Robed Envoy.

Afterward, his mana would be exhausted.

The most correct course was to wait for the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land's disciples to surround the place, then join forces with them.

But if he did that, his identity would definitely be impossible to preserve.

Jiang Li's UPC was practically smoking, yet he still could not think of a way to kill every demonic cultivator present by himself.

As if sensing Jiang Li's emotions, the system thoughtfully chimed.

Ding. The cultivation technique "Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art" and the spell "Dragon Slaying Sword" resonate with one another, triggering a Synergy Technique.

Synergy Technique: After jointly killing four enemies, the power of every attack doubles. Righteous Qi can simultaneously transform into mana to replenish the user.

Jiang Li: !!!

Holy shit.

You two even had a combo technique?

He only needed to kill four enemies first, and every attack afterward would double in power.

The Righteous Qi generated by the "Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art" could also continuously transform into mana, keeping him from falling into the predicament of mana exhaustion.

This Synergy Technique was utterly heaven-defying.

It was practically an endless-motion-machine playstyle.

A god-tier technique for group battles.

Now,

Jiang Li had no more reservations.

"I choose Three."

The moment he selected Option Three, the system notification sounded again.

Jiang Li had already prepared himself for Cultivation Technique Hosting.

The cultivation technique "Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art" began acting.

The cultivation technique "Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art" exited hosting because it could not control the Dragon Slaying Sword and could not deal damage.

Ding. The current state is unhosted mode.

Jiang Li froze for a moment.

Unhosted mode?

In other words, he was still controlling this body himself, but he could simultaneously bring out all the hidden functions of both the cultivation technique and the spell?

This was way too awesome.

It meant he could use Righteous Qi to cast Guardian Shield, use Teachings to forcibly brainwash cultivators stronger than himself, and even replicate the system's maneuver of infinitely stacking mana to unleash a world-shaking sword radiance.

In this state, he would even dare to face a Foundation Establishment cultivator head-on.

Without hesitation,

Jiang Li immediately began gathering power.

Mana surged forth.

A tangible silver-white sword aura condensed in his palm.

Faint dragonscale patterns flickered across it.

"What are you doing?"

At that moment,

the Black Robed Envoy in the room noticed Jiang Li's abnormality.

His eyes instantly turned sinister.

Hearing this, everyone else focused their gazes on Jiang Li as well.

Their eyes were filled with confusion.

Jiang Li smiled.

He spoke the most chilling words in the calmest tone.

"Can't you tell? I'm killing you."

As the words fell,

the Dragonscale Sword Aura shot out like an aurora.

In an instant, it pierced through the four closest spies.

It blasted fist-sized holes through their chests.

With several thuds,

four corpses crashed to the ground.

Their eyes remained wide open in death.

Synergy successful. With the three brothers joining forces, enemies were broken in the blink of an eye.

Effect: The power of every attack doubles. Righteous Qi simultaneously transforms into mana.

Faced with Jiang Li's sudden attack, the remaining spies were horrified.

Their faces turned deathly pale.

Yet Jiang Li gave them no chance.

Mana surged.

Another sword shadow condensed at his fingertips.

With a casual swipe,

the sword shadow's power doubled.

It was comparable to the full-force strike of a late Qi Refining stage cultivator.

The sole Qi Refining Layer 3 cultivator fell without the slightest ability to resist.

His head was sent flying.

Now,

the two remaining spies panicked even more.

Their minds went completely blank.

They did not know why Jiang Li had suddenly lost his mind, but they knew that if they remained here, their lives would be forfeit.

They did not dare gamble that they could withstand such a terrifying attack.

"Run!"

The remaining two spies screamed in terror.

Each leaped out through a window.

Mana flooded into their feet, and they ran as swiftly as the wind, covering dozens of meters in the blink of an eye.

Jiang Li remained unhurried.

A solid sword aura condensed at his fingertips once more.

This was the last of his mana.

Once he used this strike, his mana would be exhausted.

"You... are... courting death!"

Just then,

a burst of furious shouting erupted behind him.

A shrill voice, hoarse as though a corpse were speaking, tore through the air.

When Jiang Li turned his head, the Black Robed Envoy had already appeared before him in an instant, a pair of ghostly white claws reaching for his heart.

Jiang Li did not doubt in the slightest that this claw could tear through his flesh and rip out his heart whole.

The Ten Thousand Demons Sect's famed White Bone Heart-Crushing Palm.

With the Black Robed Envoy's Qi Refining stage cultivation, even a Qi Refining Level 9 cultivator would have to cautiously avoid this claw.

But Jiang Li had no such concern.

Because the "Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art" had already spontaneously used Righteous Qi to form a Guardian Shield.

Two golden shields merged into one, forming a single shield that blocked behind him.

Clang.

The shield rang with the sound of clashing metal.

The recoil sent Jiang Li's body flying out of the bamboo building.

At that very moment, the sword aura finished condensing.

Jiang Li swept his gaze outward.

The last two spies were currently sprinting down an empty street.

They fled in blind panic.

When one of them saw that he had run more than a hundred meters, he instinctively looked back.

That one glance

made his soul flee and his courage shatter.

Fear consumed his entire body.

He saw Jiang Li suspended beneath the full moon, using his finger as a sword to slash out a sword radiance more brilliant than moonlight itself.

The sword radiance tore through the air.

It howled with a piercing dragon's roar.

Where the sword light passed, the air warped.

It arrived in an instant.

Only an aurora remained in his eyes.

Sshk—

The two running corpses collapsed onto the street.

Where the corpses fell, a clear sword scar stretched across the ground.