Ten days later.
After bidding farewell to Lan Chen and purchasing some more demon souls for cultivation, Song Wen left Taitan City and returned to Cloud Creek Valley.
He planned to enter seclusion again, chiefly to strengthen his magical treasure and cultivate secret arts.
Back in the Kunxu Secret Realm, Song Wen had obtained Nether-Tide Voidwater in a trade with Feng Zhongli, along with several blood-path spiritual materials from Venerable Yun Chan. All of them could be refined and fused into the Blood Sea Imperial Seal to increase its power.
He had also obtained the venom sac of the savage beast Mountain Prison in the secret realm, which he could use to cultivate the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body.
Yet compared with another opportunity, neither of these stirred Song Wen quite as much.
In the secret realm, when Ji Yue had been fighting desperately for survival, Ji Yue had unleashed a Thunder Art called "Annihilation Yang Thunder," which actually carried a trace of Heavenly Tribulation aura. Even Gu Que had been greatly astonished at the time.
And as luck would have it, Ji Yue's storage ring contained the cultivation method for this art.
Inside the pavilion at the bottom of the valley, Song Wen sat cross-legged, holding a Jade Slip against his brow as he carefully studied the technique within.
After a long while, he opened his eyes, a complicated look flashing through them.
"No wonder Ji Yue only used this art when life hung by a thread. Not only is Annihilation Yang Thunder extraordinarily difficult to cultivate, unleashing it is fraught with unpredictable danger-it wounds the wielder before it wounds the enemy."
He had thoroughly read the information in the Jade Slip. Though he was still far from fully comprehending it, he could already appreciate how uncanny and overbearing this