Secrets of Spells, the Vast-Space Storage Ring-Xuanji Ring

That day, he had acted utterly indifferent, but to say he had not been tempted at all would have been an outright lie.

The moment he heard the word "spells," fragments of memory were absorbed into his mind, and information related to spells immediately surfaced within his thoughts.

In the Cultivation World, cultivators could not practice without the two words: cultivation methods and techniques.

The path of cultivation methods was about raising one's cultivation and refining Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi. The path of techniques, meanwhile, was about using True Yuan to mobilize Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and unleash all manner of powerful attacks.

Cultivation methods emphasized practice; techniques emphasized application.

Cultivators used all kinds of cultivation methods to cultivate True Yuan, then employed techniques to wield that True Yuan, evolving it into powerful attacks.

That was the primary purpose of cultivation methods and techniques.

Beyond techniques, the path of techniques also included secret arts and spells.

At their core, they were likewise a kind of technique.

However, secret arts were not only rare, but often came with considerable side effects when used.

Rarest of all were spells.

In fact, during ancient times, spells had been the common means of attack in the Cultivation World.

Compared with techniques and secret arts, spells were often astonishingly powerful. Once unleashed, they would surely shake heaven and earth, possessing the might to move mountains and overturn seas, to destroy heaven and extinguish earth.

Accordingly, casting spells consumed an astonishing amount of a cultivator's True Yuan and Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

Several thousand years ago, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi underwent an upheaval and diminished. Though cultivators' cultivation realms had not changed much, their strength had inevitably been affected.

To conserve True Yuan, gifted cultivators created techniques and secret arts.

The former