Powerful Illusion Arts

In merely one day, Li Ye had completely consolidated his Spirit Martial Rank Third Level cultivation and pushed it to the peak in one stroke.

If word of such speed got out, it would scare countless people to death. Although the Spirit Martial Rank was known as the foundational starting stage of martial cultivation, and its first three levels were the foundation of foundations, progress came quickly.

Yet someone like him, who had just broken through and then consolidated his realm and reached the peak in a single day—if not unprecedented and never to be repeated, then at least no one in all of Wuzhou City had ever heard of anything like it.

Not even Li Kainian, Wuzhou City's greatest genius of that year and his cheap old man, had been so outrageous.

"Under normal circumstances, Spirit Martial Rank Third Level should have three to five times the strength of Second Level. But now, I'm at least more than 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, staying inside his room for ten whole days without taking a single step outside.

"Now that I'm at the peak of Spirit Martial Rank Third Level, I'm only one step away from breaking through again. But I should steady myself first!"

Although rapidly raising his realm could increase his strength, crossing such a vast distance in such a short time would affect his foundation. Li Ye therefore sensibly stopped himself from continuing.

Boom! He threw a testing punch, and the air before him was forcibly split apart before violently exploding.

"Now, even someone at Spirit Martial Rank Fourth Level 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 Rank Fourth Level head-on. Of course, that was on the condition that the other party did not use martial techniques.

As his realm rose, Li Ye discovered that his five senses were changing and improving alongside it. He could now clearly see the cobwebs in the corners of the room and distinctly hear faint sounds outside that he would once have overlooked.

In particular, he could actually hear Aunt Yun's breathing from next door.

That steady breathing clearly indicated that she was deeply asleep. Thinking of the mature and gorgeous Aunt Yun lying there utterly defenseless, a trace of heat rose in his heart.

After all, he had crossed over as an adult. Compared to the true wastrel young master, his thoughts were more mature, complicated, and far more wicked.

"It seems that as my realm rises, my other abilities are strengthening as well."

People of the Cloud Soaring Continent continuously improved their physiques through cultivation, even achieving the effects 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 why countless people cultivated so frantically. Aside from the fact that this world was filled with the law of the jungle, fighting the heavens and defying fate to change one's destiny was another factor.

It was deep in the quiet of night, yet Li Ye felt no drowsiness whatsoever.

On the contrary, whenever night fell, he always felt brimming with energy, as if he possessed strength that could never run dry.

"Looks like I'm becoming more and more of a night owl." He laughed at himself, but he also knew that Vampire were aristocrats of the night. Nighttime was when they were at their strongest.

Just like now, he clearly felt that every aspect of his strength had increased by more than double compared to the daytime. Especially while bathed in moonlight, that sensation was even more intense.

"On a night like this, even someone at the peak of Spirit Martial Rank Fourth Level—I'm confident I could blow them apart with one punch!"

Naturally, this Vampire ability had its limitations. It had to be nighttime, and moonlight was best. But putting aside his Vampire abilities, he was quite interested in the "gift" Li Kainian had left him.

"Moon Dream Heart Sutra!"

Everything concerning the Moon Dream Heart Sutra unfolded before his eyes within his mind. The entire Moon Dream Heart Sutra was divided into three parts. The first was for ordinary cultivation and had no name, but Li Ye faintly sensed that it was definitely far more advanced than the Li Family's treasured high-grade Yellow Rank cultivation method, the Xuanhuang Formula.

One had to know that throughout Wuzhou City, only the three great families possessed high-grade Yellow Rank cultivation methods!

As for the second and third parts, they made Li Ye overjoyed!

"I never expected them to be an amplification-type Combat Technique and an illusion art!"

To be honest, there were quite a few Combat Techniques on the Cloud Soaring Continent, but amplification-type Combat Techniques were relatively rare. Even when they existed, they were generally Combat Techniques with serious aftereffects. Yet the second part of the Moon Dream Heart Sutra was an amplification-type Combat Technique called the Moon Heart Sutra.

The Moon Heart Sutra had three levels in total. The first level, Crescent Moon, could raise one's strength by more than double at night once mastered, with no side effects whatsoever. The second level, Half Moon, likewise amplified one's strength at night, but the amplification reached threefold! At that point, fighting someone at night would be terrifying indeed! After all, a sudden threefold increase in strength was enough to make anyone despair.

But the most terrifying part was reaching the final level of the Moon Heart Sutra: Full Moon! It raised one's strength by a full tenfold!

"Strengthening one's power at night? I wonder whether it can stack with a Vampire's physique?"

A Vampire was already strengthened at night. If that were combined with the Moon Heart Sutra, Li Ye truly had no idea what the exact result would be.

Of course, powerful as the Moon Heart Sutra was, it was nowhere near as shocking as the Dream Heart Sutra in the third part!

"Illusion arts! And only people born with special pupils of the Innate Realm can cultivate it."

Upon seeing the Dream Heart Sutra's introduction, Li Ye could barely contain himself.

According to its description, only those born with special pupils of the Innate Realm could cultivate it. Otherwise, ordinary people would suffer blindness in both eyes at best, or descend into madness and die at worst.

"I wonder whether 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 levels: Dream-Making at the first level, Dream Entry at the second, and Flowers in the Mirror, Moon on the Water at the Third Layer. Successfully cultivating the first level did not produce a particularly obvious effect. It was merely a strengthened form of hypnosis, and it was weak against those with strong willpower and firm minds.

However, once one cultivated to the second level, things became completely different. Unless one faced an expert whose realm was vastly higher, or someone born with an exceptionally resilient mind, they could easily fall into the Illusion Realm created by the illusion art, as though trapped in a real dream where their life and death were entirely in another's hands.

As for the final level, 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 fall irretrievably into a dreamlike Illusion Realm of one's own creation. One could rule all things like a god.

Even King Tier experts of the Innate Realm might be easily killed with just one glance!

"It sure talks a big game."

To be honest, Li Ye was half-convinced and half-doubtful. King Tier experts were absolutely invincible throughout Wuzhou City. The Three Great Families dominated all of Wuzhou City precisely because they had King Tier experts overseeing them.

No matter what, Li Ye still began cultivating it. After all, this was something Li Kainian had left behind. Given all the extraordinary feats that man had once accomplished, what he left behind could not possibly be so simple.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

Over these three days, Li Ye discovered that his earlier doubts about the Moon Dream Heart Sutra had been completely unnecessary. Leaving aside everything else, that nameless cultivation method alone allowed cultivation speed to soar when used in tandem! Although 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 he had only just broken through three days ago!

Naturally, 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 lay still.

Then a youth of sixteen or seventeen walked over. His entire body was covered in grime, but his eyes shone brilliantly, carrying a hint 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 fourth-grade brown bear!

Unlike Earth, the Cloud Soaring Continent was rich in heaven and earth spiritual energy. Not only humans, but even wild beasts differed from those on Earth. Nurtured by heaven and earth spiritual energy, some beasts became stronger and stronger, and some eventually awakened intelligence and became demonic beasts.

The dead bear before him was a demonic beast, though merely a fourth-grade one.

"Demonic beasts from first grade to ninth grade correspond to human Spirit Martial Rank First Level through Ninth Level. But at the same level, demonic beasts are still superior! As I am now, I can easily defeat anyone below Spirit Martial Rank Fifth Level!"

This was the result of three days. Though Li Ye had not broken through to Spirit Martial Rank Fourth Level during those three days, his true combat power had absolutely reached Spirit Martial Rank Fifth Level. Just now, he had punched a fourth-grade demonic beast equivalent to the peak of human Spirit Martial Rank Fourth Level to death. That was something only someone at Spirit Martial Rank Fifth Level could do—and they absolutely could not have done it as easily as Li Ye had!

"Unfortunately, the Moon Heart Sutra only works at night. Let me test the power of the Dream Heart Sutra first!"

With that thought, Li Ye dashed in a certain direction. He remembered that there was still a brown bear cub there. It was because he had accidentally encountered that pair of demonic beast mother and cub earlier that this battle had erupted.

Very quickly, Li Ye found the cub. Though called a cub, it was as large as an adult human. The moment it saw Li Ye, it bared its teeth and snarled, its face full of ferocity.

"Let this little fellow be my first test subject."

As he spoke, Li Ye's eyes became like a sea of blood. This was the innate Blood-Pupil Eye ability of Vampires, which possessed a powerful hypnotic effect. At the same time, he directly unleashed Dream-Making, the first level of the Dream Heart Sutra. In an instant, the originally irritable little brown bear calmed down. In its vision, the detestable human had become the large brown bear Li Ye had just killed. It immediately stumbled excitedly toward him, with not a trace of its former irritability remaining.

"It worked!" Seeing this, Li Ye's heart settled. The effect was clearly even better than he had expected! The Vampire's Blood-Pupil Eye, combined with the Dream Heart Sutra's illusion art, had produced an indescribably marvelous result!