Powerful Illusion Art
In just a single day, Li Ye had thoroughly consolidated his Spirit Martial Tier Three cultivation and, in one stroke, raised it to the peak.
If word of such speed got out, it would frighten countless people to death. Though the Spirit Martial Rank was called the foundational starting stage for martial cultivators, and the first three tiers were the foundation of foundations, progress came quickly.
But someone like him, who had broken through only a day ago, then immediately consolidated his realm and reached its peak in one leap—if not unprecedented and never to be repeated, then at least throughout all of Wuzhou City, no one had ever heard of such a thing.
Not even Li Kainian, Wuzhou City's greatest genius back then, that cheap father of his, had been this outrageous.
"Spirit Martial Tier Three should normally possess three to five times the strength of Spirit Martial Tier Two, but right now, I'm at least ten times stronger than before!"
Opening his eyes, Li Ye finally stopped his frenzied cultivation. Haste made waste. If not for the impending Lineage annual gathering, he would not have pushed himself so desperately and crazily, without stepping out of his room for ten days.
"I'm now at the peak of Spirit Martial Tier Three. Just one more step, and I can break through again. But I'd better steady myself first!"
Though rapidly raising his realm could increase his strength, crossing such a great distance in so short a time would have some impact on his foundation. Li Ye therefore rationally stopped himself from continuing.
Boom! Throwing a punch experimentally, he saw the air before him forcibly split apart and explode violently.
"Now, even someone at Spirit Martial Tier Four definitely won't be my opponent!"
The current Li Ye was confident that he could face any martial cultivator at the peak of Spirit Martial Tier Four head-on. Of course, that was on the premise that the opponent did not use a Combat Technique.
As his realm rose, Li Ye discovered that his five senses were changing and improving alongside it. Now, he could clearly see the spiderwebs in the corners of his room and distinctly hear faint sounds outside that he would once have overlooked.
Most notably, he could actually hear Aunt Yun's breathing from the room nearby.
That steady breathing clearly indicated that she was sound asleep. Thinking of the mature and beautiful Aunt Yun lying there completely defenseless at this moment, a trace of heat rose in his heart.
After all, he had transmigrated here as an adult. Compared with the real worthless young master, his thoughts were far more mature, complicated, and wicked.
"Looks like as my realm rises, other aspects are strengthening as well."
The people of the Cloud Soaring Continent constantly improved their constitutions through cultivation, even achieving the effect of prolonging life. Ordinary people generally lived less than a hundred years, but King Tier experts who had entered the Innate Realm could live at least two hundred years—an entire lifetime longer than normal people!
This was one reason countless people cultivated like mad. Aside from the fact that this world was filled with the law of the jungle, fighting heaven and defying fate to change one's destiny was another factor.
It was deep in the night, yet Li Ye had no desire to sleep at all.
On the contrary, every night, he felt full of energy, as if he had inexhaustible strength.
"Looks like I'm becoming more and more of a night owl." He laughed at himself, though he also knew that vampires were the aristocrats of the night, and nighttime was when they were at their strongest.
Just like now, he could clearly feel that compared with daytime, his strength in every aspect had increased by more than double. Especially while bathed in moonlight, that feeling was even more intense.
"On a night like this, even someone at the peak of Spirit Martial Tier Four—I'm confident I can blow them apart with one punch!"
Of course, this vampire ability had its limitations. It had to be nighttime, and moonlight was best. But setting aside his vampire abilities, he was quite interested in the "gift" Li Kainian had left him.
"The Moon Dream Heart Sutra!"
Everything concerning the Moon Dream Heart Sutra unfolded before his eyes in his mind. The entire Moon Dream Heart Sutra was divided into three parts. The first part was for ordinary cultivation and had no name, yet Li Ye vaguely felt that it was definitely more advanced than the Li Family's treasured high-grade Yellow Tier cultivation method, the Xuanhuang Formula.
One had to know that throughout all of Wuzhou City, only the Three Great Families possessed high-grade Yellow Tier cultivation methods!
As for the second and third parts, they filled Li Ye with wild delight!
"I never expected them to be an enhancement-type Combat Technique and an illusion art!"
To be honest, there were plenty of Combat Techniques on the Cloud Soaring Continent, but enhancement-type Combat Techniques were relatively rare. Even when they existed, they were techniques with severe aftereffects. Yet within the Moon Dream Heart Sutra, the second part was an enhancement-type Combat Technique called the Moon Heart Sutra.
The Moon Heart Sutra had three layers in total. The first layer, New Moon, allowed one's strength to increase by more than double at night after successful cultivation, with no side effects whatsoever. The second layer, Crescent Moon, likewise enhanced one's strength at night, but the enhancement reached threefold! At that level, fighting someone at night would become exceedingly terrifying. After all, a sudden threefold increase in strength would leave anyone in despair.
But the most terrifying part was cultivating the Moon Heart Sutra to its final layer, Full Moon! It increased one's strength by a full tenfold!
"Strength increases at night? I wonder whether it can stack with a vampire's physique?"
Vampires already grew stronger at night. If the Moon Heart Sutra were added on top, Li Ye truly did not know what the exact result would be.
Of course, though the Moon Heart Sutra was formidable, it was far less shocking than the Dream Heart Sutra in the third part!
"An illusion art! And only those born with special pupils can cultivate it."
Seeing the Dream Heart Sutra's introduction, Xiao Bailian could barely contain himself.
According to the description, only those who were born with special pupils could cultivate it. Otherwise, normal people would suffer blindness at best and descend into madness and die at worst.
"I wonder if a vampire's Blood-Pupil Eye counts as an innate special pupil?"
As its name suggested, the Dream Heart Sutra was related to dreams. It was divided into three realms: the first was Dream-Making, the second was Dream Entry, and the third was Flowers in the Mirror, Moon on the Water. The effects of successfully cultivating the first layer were not particularly obvious. It was merely a strengthened form of hypnosis, and it was weak against those with strong willpower and steadfast minds.
But once one cultivated to the second realm, it became entirely different. Unless one faced an expert whose realm was far higher, or someone born with an exceptionally resolute mind, they would easily fall into the Illusion Realm created by the illusion art, as if they had entered a real dream. Their life and death would be entirely in another's hands.
As for the final layer, Flowers in the Mirror, Moon on the Water, Li Ye did not believe anyone could cultivate it easily. According to its description, upon reaching that level, a single glance could make countless people sink irretrievably into a dreamlike Illusion Realm of one's own creation, ruling over everything like a god.
Even King Tier experts of the Innate Realm might perhaps be easily killed with just one glance!
"The bragging is pretty damn grand."
To be honest, Li Ye was half-convinced and half-doubtful. After all, King Tier experts were absolutely invincible throughout Wuzhou City. The reason the Three Great Families dominated all of Wuzhou City was precisely because King Tier experts stood guard over them.
No matter what, Li Ye still began cultivating. This was something Li Kainian had left him, and given the many feats that man had once accomplished, what he left behind could not possibly be so simple.
Soon, three days passed just like that.
Over these three days, Li Ye discovered that his previous doubts about the Moon Dream Heart Sutra had been completely unnecessary. Setting everything else aside, that nameless cultivation method alone allowed cultivation at an astonishing speed when used together with it! Though he had focused most of his attention on studying the Moon Heart Sutra and Dream Heart Sutra, even so, after merely three days, he could already feel that he was not far from another breakthrough!
And one had to know that just three days ago, he had only just broken through!
Of course, his greatest gains came from the latter two sections of the Heart Sutra.
Boom! In a forest outside Wuzhou City, an explosive sound rang out. Immediately afterward, a gigantic brown bear over three meters tall crashed through several trees, fell to the ground, twitched twice, and finally went still.
Then, a youth of sixteen or seventeen walked over. His body was covered in grime, but his eyes were incomparably bright, filled with traces of excitement.
Who else could it be but Li Ye? As for the dead bear lying on the ground, a closer look revealed that it was actually a rank-four brown bear!
Unlike Earth, the Cloud Soaring Continent was abundant in heaven and earth spiritual energy. Not only humans, but some wild beasts had become different from those on Earth. Nourished by heaven and earth spiritual energy, some beasts grew stronger and stronger, and eventually some even gained intelligence and became demonic beasts.
The dead bear before him was a demonic beast, though it was only a rank-four demonic beast.
"Demonic beasts from rank one to rank nine correspond to humans from Spirit Martial Tier One to Tier Nine. But at the same tier, demonic beasts still have the upper hand! As I am now, I can easily defeat anyone below Spirit Martial Tier Five!"
This was the result of three days. Though Li Ye had not broken through to Spirit Martial Tier Four in those three days, his true combat strength had definitely reached the level of Spirit Martial Tier Five. Just now, he had directly killed with one punch a rank-four demonic beast equivalent to a human at the peak of Spirit Martial Tier Four. That was something only someone at Spirit Martial Tier Five could accomplish. And they absolutely could not have done it as easily as Li Ye had!
"Unfortunately, the Moon Heart Sutra only works at night. I'll test the power of the Dream Heart Sutra first!"
With that thought, Li Ye darted in one direction. He remembered that there was still a brown bear cub there. He had accidentally encountered that mother-and-child pair of demonic beasts earlier, which was why such a battle had erupted.
Very quickly, Li Ye found the cub. Though it was called a cub, it was the size of an adult human. When it saw Li Ye appear, it bared its fangs and snarled, its face full of ferocity.
"I'll let you, little fellow, become my first test subject."
As he spoke, Li Ye's eyes became like a sea of blood. This was the hypnotic ability inherently possessed by a vampire's Blood Eyes. At the same time, he directly unleashed Dream-Making, the first layer of the Dream Heart Sutra. In an instant, the previously violent little brown bear quieted down. Within its sight, the hateful human had become the large brown bear Li Ye had just killed. It immediately stumbled happily toward him, with not a trace of its former agitation remaining.
"Success!" Seeing this, Li Ye's heart settled. The effect was clearly even better than he had expected! The vampire's Blood Eyes, combined with the Dream Heart Sutra's illusion art, had produced an indescribably marvelous result!