"These secret arts each have their own strengths, covering thunder arts, escape techniques, body refinement, and many other aspects. Mastering any one of them would almost ensure invincibility against enemies of the same cultivation level. However, biting off more than one can chew, this old man advises you not to attempt to cultivate them all."
Perhaps because his life and death rested on Song Wen's single thought, Gu Que spoke with exceptional sincerity, his words carrying a tone of earnest, well-meaning advice as he continued to persuade him.
"The Nine Great Heavenly Thunder Secret Arts are relatively manageable. One need only construct the Thunder-Commanding Divine Control Ritual Altar and enhance one's affinity for thunder arts to gradually master them. The Myriad Poisons Primordial Body is not difficult either, though its cultivation process is somewhat painful and requires consuming various poisons to temper the body."
"As for the other secret arts, each comes with harsh restrictions and may even conceal grave dangers."
"For example, Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions can be called the foremost escape secret art in the Profound Realm. Once activated, it produces a thousand layers of blood shadows, making it impossible to distinguish truth from falsehood, while its escape speed is astonishingly swift. Unfortunately, cultivating this secret art requires condensing blood crystals from one's own essence blood. Not only is it time-consuming and laborious, it also depletes one's essence blood. Moreover, each blood crystal can only be used once before dissipating completely. To use it again, one must condense new blood crystals. In addition, activating this secret art consumes an enormous amount of spiritual power and essence blood."
"And the Netherworld Corpse Refining Art produces corpse puppets with supreme combat prowess, but it requires all manner of rare corpse-path spiritual materials. As for the Baleful-Commanding Heavenly Net Art, one