Night fell over Spirit Prefecture, and stars filled the sky.
Jade Summit Mountain below was dotted with lights too.
In a courtyard, an animated show with pretty high ratings was playing on a wall projector. It was called "Lord Tuanzi's Daily Transformation." It told of a kitten Monster named Tuanzi who turned into a Kitten Girl and lived an ordinary life among a few weak humans and foolish Monsters.
Chen Shu lay in bed, leafing through a book.
With the Vice Sect Master's recommendation and help, he had obtained several spells.
One was the Mountain-Piercing Technique, an ancient secret art of the Spirit Sect and a bona fide single-target offensive spell. As its name suggested, it could pierce mountains. Modern Spirit Sect scholars had improved it, so it had not fallen behind.
Chen Shu planned to use it in place of the Tracer Technique.
The Mountain-Piercing Technique's recommended Cultivation Rank was Seventh Tier. Besides being a higher-tier spell than the Tracer Technique, it had different properties.
The Tracer Technique was an explosive spell, and explosions had their strengths and weaknesses. The Mountain-Piercing Technique, by contrast, was purely penetrative, with no area damage.
For Chen Shu, who had reached Sixth-Tier Peak, the Tracer Technique was already somewhat outdated. It worked well enough ordinarily, but against a genius of his own level, such as Zhang Suannai, it felt feeble and had been reduced to a utility spell.
The Mountain-Piercing Technique could therefore replace it as his standard attack spell.
The Tracer Technique was still highly useful, though.
Chen Shu intended to modify it along the lines of a warship's Spirit Power cannon. He would change the properties of its Spirit Power projectile, reducing its offensive and penetrative power while increasing its instability and sensitivity to Spirit Power. From then on, it would