"Relax. My target isn't that young lady of the Gu Clan called Xiao Xun'er. I'm after someone else.
As long as you behave yourselves, I guarantee nothing will go wrong." Qin Yun gave a confident smile, trying to persuade the two people before him.
"..." Fei Tian: Like hell I believe you. You little brat, you're rotten to the core.
"..." Feng Qing'er: If he dares to go, why shouldn't I? At worst, we'll be buried together. I have to stand tall now. Feng Qing'er, you can do this.
Seeing how desperately the two clung to their pride, Qin Yun felt reassured. He then began the most important task of his trip to Wutan City: checking in with the system.
Ding. Host check-in at Wutan City detected. Rewards: Heaven Communicating Talisman Art at the major mastery stage, and one Cultivation Technique Advancement Card, which can instantly advance a cultivation technique by one minor stage without side effects.
Heaven Communicating Talisman Art, and an advancement card! Both are great rewards. The corners of Qin Yun's mouth lifted slightly when he saw them.
Heaven Communicating Talisman Art was one of the Eight Extraordinary Skills, just like Lt. General's Command over Spirits. Unlike the latter's single-purpose utility, however, Heaven Communicating Talisman Art was an all-around, top-tier support skill.
Its basic function allowed him to draw talismans in thin air. He could produce dozens of virtually any known talisman in an instant.
With enough Dou Qi in his body, he could fire them off like a machine gun.
For attacks, there were Five Thunder Talismans, Fireball Talismans...
For buffs, there were Diamond Talismans, Speed Talismans...
For escape, there were Earth-Traveling Talismans, Flowing Light Talismans...
Even its most basic talisman-drawing ability could turn someone into a fighter with all six sides of their stat chart filled out.
Not to mention that major mastery of Heaven Communicating Talisman Art included its second-stage ability-the very reason it ranked among the Eight Extraordinary Skills: Communicating with Heaven!
Simply put, he could pray to heaven for a wish, and that wish would be granted after he paid a certain price.
This ability offered enormous room for maneuver and already touched upon things like the law of cause and effect.
In theory, as long as he could withstand the backlash, almost any wish that wasn't too outrageous should be possible.
Take Zhang Lingyu, for example. A single remark made in the heat of the moment had nearly cost his girlfriend Xia He her life. That alone showed how absurdly powerful this skill was.
He could also use the ability in battle. Of course, he wouldn't wish for outright victory or for someone else to die.
After all, even if such a wish succeeded, he would suffer considerable injuries in the short term.
But approaching it from another angle changed everything. During a fight, for example, he could make his opponent suddenly get a cramp, suffer diarrhea, twist an ankle, or make an error in judgment.
Exchanges between experts were often decided in an instant. A single second's opening was enough for an opponent to die several times over.
As for the other reward, the advancement card, Qin Yun used it on Threefold Reversal without hesitation.
After all, of all the abilities he had acquired, only Threefold Reversal qualified as a cultivation technique that cultivated both inner nature and life. Most of the others were merely skills.
A cultivation technique was like the foundation of a skyscraper. The stronger the foundation, the more it could bear.
His cultivation realm would also rise alongside the breakthrough in his technique.
After he used the advancement card, his Threefold Reversal instantly broke through from the peak of the first stage to the second stage.
Even his original One-Star Dou Wang cultivation rose by four stars after the technique's breakthrough, reaching Five-Star Dou Wang. One simple advancement card had saved him almost several years of cultivation.
Now, Qin Yun's Threefold Reversal could truly display its proper capabilities. Once he activated it,
as long as his head and three elixirs weren't directly shattered, virtually any other injury-even severed arms or legs-could heal rapidly.
Combined with Heaven Communicating Talisman Art's wish-granting ability, he could recover from minor backlash in a single second.
All of this happened within a single breath, and the system concealed it extremely well.
Aside from Qin Ming, who knew that he had undergone an earth-shaking transformation, the other two noticed nothing at all.
Before long, the sun reached its midday position. A carriage belonging to the Misty Cloud Sect slowly rolled along the street and entered the Xiao Clan's gates.
Qin Yun nodded in satisfaction at the sight. All that remained was to wait for the crucial moment to make his entrance.
"Sneak inside with me. Remember, just watch from the sidelines the whole time. Don't make a move." Before they set out, Qin Yun gave his two companions this warning.
After receiving their agreement, Fei Tian used spatial fluctuations to conceal all three of them, and they secretly hid in a dark corner of the Xiao Clan Hall.
What followed played out according to the plot. Nalan Yanran publicly broke off her engagement, throwing the dignity of Xiao Yan's entire clan into the dirt.
It enraged Lucky Bro so much that he shouted his landmark declaration: "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river! Don't you bully a young man just because he's poor!"
"Excellent! Now that's ambition. Who would have thought little Wutan City had such a hot-blooded young man?" Qin Yun couldn't help applauding as he stepped out of space, one stride at a time.
"How dare you! Who the hell do you think you are? Is it your place to speak here?" Before anyone else could say anything, Ge Ye, the sect steward beside Nalan Yanran, was the first to lash out.
He was unlucky, really. The light had been too dim, so he had completely missed the spatial fluctuations accompanying Qin Yun's entrance. He assumed Qin Yun was just an ordinary Xiao Clan disciple, making him the first bird to stick its head out.
"Shut up." Qin Yun had no intention of indulging him. As the saying went, a gentleman used his mouth, not his fists-but he wasn't a gentleman. He preferred to settle things with his hands.
With a single flick of his finger, a vast surge of Dou Qi blasted Ge Ye back more than ten meters. He smashed through three walls before ending up buried beneath the rubble.
At the same time, Qin Yun formed the Dou Qi Wings unique to a Dou Wang and hovered in the air, immediately displaying the hallmark of his rank.
He wasn't alone. Feng Qing'er and Fei Tian also stepped out of space at once, lending full weight to Qin Yun's entrance.
Their dazzling appearance instantly left everyone present gaping in shock. Before their eyes stood two Dou Wangs, along with an expert who could tread on empty air and was presumably a Dou Zong.
More importantly, no one knew why experts like these had been lurking in the insignificant Xiao Clan. Could it really have been a coincidence?
The only person present whose emotions barely stirred was Xiao Xun'er. After all, the strongest among them was merely a Dou Zong-a rank her clan would consider too low even to guard the gates.
Although she wasn't particularly shocked, she still quietly gripped the Teleportation Jade Pendant her father had given her.
In an emergency, she only had to crush the pendant, and her father could arrive within a minute. After all, asking Ling Ying to handle these people alone would be far too much.
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