One year later, inside the great hall.
Li Ping opened his eyes and turned his awareness toward Deriving Laws Gray Island in his sea of consciousness.
The gray mist that had shrouded the entire island had vanished without a trace. Only a pale green jade slip remained, floating quietly.
Ten years ago, he had placed the crafting plan for the fourth-tier spirit armor, the Illusion-Escaping Robe, into Derivation Island, using its power to derive Spirit-Transforming Armor that could repeatedly take a fatal blow in his place.
After ten years and a vast expenditure of spirit stones to fuel the process, the derivation had finally yielded results.
At this thought, Li Ping willed it to move.
Whoosh!
The pale green jade slip moved out of Derivation Island and landed in his palm.
Rather than immediately examining its contents, he turned his hand over and took another jade slip, this one blood-red, from his Storage Bag. It contained the cultivation method for the Bloodwing Escape Art.
Unwilling to waste even a moment of Derivation Island's time, Li Ping immediately set about using it to derive a stronger, more powerful escape art for himself.
Swish!
At a thought, the blood-red jade slip vanished into thin air and appeared on Derivation Island. A cloud of gray mist rose to envelop it, then quickly divided into three.
There was little worth mentioning about the first cloud. It described the effects and side effects of successfully cultivating the Bloodwing Escape Art.
The second cloud offered a somewhat optimized version of the Bloodwing Escape Art, eliminating most of its side effects.
The optimized escape art was called the "Wind Spirit Escape Art." Rather than using the Metamorphosis Secret Art to grow Blood Wings, it used magic power to form a pair of wind spirit wings composed of