As Qingyun performed the Carefree Ascension Step, his movements grew ever more ethereal, his figures appearing throughout the courtyard they had temporarily rented.
Kushina, Tsunade, and Miroku's eyes lit up at the sight of Qingyun's ethereal movement technique. No girl could resist a technique that made its user look so much like an immortal.
Not only was it lightning-fast and unpredictable, it even allowed him to fly through the air. How could the three women not envy him? Each secretly considered what excuse she could use to get Qingyun to teach her the technique.
Unaware of their plans, Qingyun performed the Carefree Ascension Step again and again, steadily grasping its true essence. Gradually, he slipped into a strange state, unconsciously incorporating the ghostlike movements of the Lingbo Micro-Step, the clones of Nine Spiral Shadows, and the spatial displacement of the Body Flicker Technique into the Carefree Ascension Step.
At once, Qingyun's airborne figure grew even more ethereal. Afterimages appeared around him, arranged according to the five elements and eight trigrams, making it impossible to tell which Qingyun was the real one.
Qingyun freely shifted between those afterimages.
Tsunade and the others below stared in amazement, their eyes brimming with envy. Watching Qingyun roam freely through the air only strengthened their resolve to have him teach them this movement technique.
Only after a long while did Qingyun emerge from that strange state. All his afterimages in the sky vanished at once, and he slowly descended to the ground.
"The Carefree Ascension Step really does deserve its place among the finest lightness techniques in martial arts worlds. Not only is it lightning-fast, it even incorporates some principles of space. This can no longer be considered a mere lightness technique—it's already approaching the divine ability to shrink vast distances into a single step