Senluo Death Seal

Red represented danger, whether in the Great Thousand World or in Liu Bai's previous life.

Since this Jade Slip was glowing red, it naturally meant that the Spiritual Art within was anything but ordinary.

"Ding, Mortal Grade High Rank Attack Spiritual Art Senluo Death Seal discovered. Record it?"

"Yes!"

In the entire Spiritual Art Chamber of the Northern Spirit Realm, the only thing that interested Liu Bai was this seemingly unremarkable Senluo Death Seal...

In the original story, this Senluo Death Seal had helped Mu Chen kill quite a few powerful enemies while fighting above his level.

Player: Liu Bai

Realm: Spirit Movement Realm Peak

Class: Spirit Array Master (Level 1 Spirit Array Master)

Spirit Veins: None

Cultivation Method: Blazing Sun Art (Fourth Layer 0/2000); Basic Spirit Array Manual (Great Accomplishment 0/500)

Skills:

Mortal Grade High Rank Wind Breaking Finger (Great Accomplishment); Mortal Grade High Rank Senluo Death Seal (Not Initiated 0/5); Spirit Grade Low Rank Blazing Step (Great Accomplishment 0/1500); Spirit-grade High-tier Great Sun Sea Burning Palm (Minor Accomplishment 0/1200)

Arrays:

Flame Serpent Spirit Breaking Array (Great Accomplishment)

Experience Points: 170

Beast Soul Points: 11

The experience required to upgrade a Mortal Grade High Rank Attack Spiritual Art was very little. Liu Bai could directly raise the Senluo Death Seal to Great Accomplishment.

Yet unlike other Attack Spiritual Arts, the Senluo Death Seal was powerful because it allowed its practitioner to condense multiple Death Seals, unleashing tremendous might.

Moreover, the reason the Senluo Death Seal had such a notorious reputation in the Northern Spirit Academy was that condensing Death Seals was exceptionally dangerous. One careless mistake could leave the practitioner severely injured, their meridians shattered and reduced to a cripple. That was why everyone avoided it like the plague, and the academy strictly forbade students from cultivating it.

However, as long as one met its cultivation requirements—namely, cultivating a sufficiently domineering type of Spiritual Energy—it could still be successfully cultivated.

The Blazing Sun Art Liu Bai cultivated happened to produce a relatively domineering Spiritual Energy. Though it could not compare to Mu Chen's Great Pagoda Art, it was more than sufficient for cultivating the Senluo Death Seal.

A Mortal Grade High Rank Attack Spiritual Art required only 5 Experience Points for Initiation, 10 for Minor Accomplishment, and 50 for Great Accomplishment.

Without even using up a fraction of his Experience Points, he had already raised the Senluo Death Seal to Great Accomplishment...

Player: Liu Bai

Realm: Spirit Movement Realm Peak

Class: Spirit Array Master (Level 1 Spirit Array Master)

Spirit Veins: None

Cultivation Method: Blazing Sun Art (Fourth Layer 0/2000); Basic Spirit Array Manual (Great Accomplishment 0/500)

Skills:

Mortal Grade High Rank Wind Breaking Finger (Great Accomplishment); Mortal Grade High Rank Senluo Death Seal (Great Accomplishment); Spirit Grade Low Rank Blazing Step (Great Accomplishment 0/1500); Spirit-grade High-tier Great Sun Sea Burning Palm (Minor Accomplishment 0/1200)

Arrays:

Flame Serpent Spirit Breaking Array (Great Accomplishment)

Experience Points: 105

Beast Soul Points: 11

At that moment, all the information on how to condense the Senluo Death Seal surfaced clearly in Liu Bai's mind. It was as though he had practiced it countless times already; with a single thought, he could condense a Death Seal!

However, it seemed that was not the end.

Because another voice abruptly sounded beside Liu Bai's ear.

"Ding, please select the location for condensing the Senluo Death Seal—left hand or right hand?"

The system is awesome!

Liu Bai clenched his fist inwardly and roared.

He had not expected it could work like this...

"Right hand!"

Liu Bai would not abandon the old companion that had accompanied him through countless days and nights!

The next instant, Liu Bai felt a warm current suddenly emerge from nowhere within his right hand. Then, the meridians, bones, and even muscles of his right hand continuously grew stronger.

Before long, the warm current vanished. Liu Bai felt that his right hand had been strengthened dozens of times over compared to his left!

"Damn! This has become a real—Kirin Arm!"

The next moment, Liu Bai focused his mind and immediately formed a peculiar hand seal with both hands. Soon, strands of Black Spiritual Energy began gathering in his right hand, winding around his palm.

The Black Spiritual Energy resembled a small snake. As Liu Bai changed his hand seals, it continuously writhed in his palm, vaguely seeming to gradually form a Black Light Seal.

The Senluo Death Seal at Great Accomplishment allowed Liu Bai to condense the Death Seal with exceptional ease. In just a few short minutes, it was complete...

Buzz!

The Black Light Seal in Liu Bai's palm suddenly trembled, producing a buzzing sound. The black radiance then began to recede before finally transforming into a Black Light Seal that slowly imprinted itself onto his palm.

At this point, the Senluo Death Seal was only half complete.

What came next was the truly dangerous part...

Boom!

Once the Black Light Seal imprinted itself on his palm, Liu Bai quickly sensed an extremely violent fluctuation erupt from it. It surged madly along the meridians in his palm and into his arm.

It looked as though it intended to destroy every meridian in its path.

Liu Bai could not help frowning. No wonder the students who had cultivated it before had nearly been crippled. The side effects of the Senluo Death Seal were unexpectedly severe!

However, Liu Bai's entire right arm had been transformed into a Kirin Arm by the system. Its meridians had been widened several times over and were even tougher, so this impact did not affect him much.

Already prepared, Liu Bai focused his mind, and the Blazing Sun Spiritual Energy within his Sea of Qi came roaring forth. It charged directly into the broad meridians of his right arm and collided head-on with that violent fluctuation.

Feeling the stabbing pain caused by the collision of the two forces inside his arm, Liu Bai finally understood why cultivating the Senluo Death Seal required sufficiently domineering Spiritual Energy.

If it had been a gentler type of Spiritual Energy, it would likely have been overwhelmed by that violent fluctuation. If that force then poured back into the Sea of Qi, it truly could cripple a person completely.

Especially when the practitioner was merely a "beginner" in the Spirit Movement Realm like Liu Bai.

Boom! Boom!

Wave after wave of impact came crashing in, and Liu Bai frowned as he continuously mobilized his Spiritual Energy to deal with them.

His Blazing Sun Art was ultimately only a Spirit Grade Low Rank Spiritual Art, incapable of comparing to Mu Chen's Great Pagoda Art, so the stalemate lasted longer. If his arm had not been transformed, then even if he ultimately suppressed the shockwaves, his right hand would likely have been ruined.

Just like that, ten minutes later, the violent impacts finally dissipated completely. In Liu Bai's palm, a black Spirit Seal continuously emanated a savage aura.

"Interesting. My Senluo Death Seal feels very different from Mu Chen's..."

The Spiritual Energy cultivated through Mu Chen's Great Pagoda Art was more condensed and weighty. Combined with the Senluo Death Seal, the black Death Seal he condensed appeared more murderous and chilling.

Liu Bai's Blazing Sun Art, on the other hand, produced explosive Spiritual Energy like a blazing sun. Therefore, the black Death Seal he condensed was far more violent.

"Still, the benefits this cultivation of the Senluo Death Seal brought me are not limited to this..."

Liu Bai looked at his right hand, and the corners of his mouth curled into a smile.

His more powerful right arm allowed him to unleash stronger attacks with his right hand. The strength and hardness of his right hand, far beyond that of the rest of his body, even turned it into a sharp weapon in itself.

Just like Bu Jingyun after obtaining his Kirin Arm, his combat strength would soar.

After completing his cultivation of the Senluo Death Seal, Liu Bai tossed the red Jade Slip back into the stone cabinet and headed toward the only six Spirit Grade Spiritual Arts in the Spiritual Art Chamber.

The Senluo Death Seal was merely Mortal Grade High Rank, and he had already been qualified to read it. Naturally, it did not count as the reward Mentor Xi had mentioned. Next, Liu Bai could choose any one of the six Spirit Grade Spiritual Arts!

When the others on the Heaven Layer saw Liu Bai's destination, their gazes revealed either envy or jealousy.

Although they too were Heaven Tier students, without a mentor's permission, they were not qualified to browse those Spirit Grade Spiritual Arts...

As for the dozen or so minutes Liu Bai had spent before that stone cabinet, no one paid it any mind. They simply assumed he had been looking through some Mortal Grade Spiritual Arts.

Some were curious why this newly risen genius of the West Academy, the young master of the Liu Domain, would be interested in mere Mortal Grade Spiritual Arts, but so what? No one present believed that someone could master a Spiritual Art in just over ten minutes...

If that were truly the case, he could no longer be called a genius or a monster.

He would be a freak!

When he reached a certain spot, Liu Bai glanced at a glowing Spiritual Energy Light Screen in the distance... If he remembered correctly, that was the entrance to the third floor of the Spiritual Art Chamber.

Unfortunately, the third floor of the Spiritual Art Chamber was sealed off. In the entire Northern Spirit Academy, apart from the headmaster and the two mentors, no one else was qualified to enter.

But Liu Bai, who had read the original story, knew that the third floor was where the Northern Spirit Academy's true foundation lay. It contained dozens of Spirit Grade Spiritual Arts, including quite a few Spirit-grade Mid-tier ones. They were far more powerful than the six placed outside specifically for the students.

What a pity. Liu Bai remembered that in the original story, Mu Chen had been permitted to enter the third floor and choose a Spiritual Art as a reward because of his participation in the Spirit Road, through which he had secured a Seed Quota for the Northern Spirit Academy.

As for everyone else, even Liu Bai likely would not have a chance to enter and take a look.

Still, it did not matter. The most important thing now was entering one of the Five Great Academies, because only then would he have a chance to obtain Spirit-grade High-tier Spiritual Arts or even Divine Arts!

"Ding, Spirit Grade Low Rank Attack Spiritual Art Sky Eagle Palm discovered. Record it?"

"Ding, Spirit Grade Low Rank Movement Spiritual Art Flying Catkins Movement Technique discovered. Record it?"

"Ding, Spirit Grade Low Rank Attack Spiritual Art Wind Fire Kill discovered. Record it?"

"..."

"Ding, Spirit Grade Low Rank Attack Spiritual Art Star Shattering Fist discovered. Record it?"

All six Spirit Grade Spiritual Arts were Spirit Grade Low Rank. Furthermore, aside from one Movement Spiritual Art, all of them were Attack Spiritual Arts. Clearly, among Spiritual Arts, Attack Spiritual Arts were the most common, and their value was somewhat lower than Movement Spiritual Arts and Cultivation Method Spiritual Arts of the same grade.

Liu Bai looked at the string of system notifications but did not choose to record them all. After all, more Spiritual Arts were not necessarily better, even for someone with a cheat like him.

After all, using Spiritual Arts consumed Spiritual Energy. Learning so many would be useless later, while wasting Experience Points for nothing.

As for recording them without spending Experience Points, what use was that aside from adding more text to his status panel? Was he supposed to use it to pad the word count?

After pondering for a moment, Liu Bai's gaze finally settled on a Spirit Grade Low Rank Spiritual Art called Star Shattering Fist.

Now that he had a Kirin Arm, would not a fist technique centered on overwhelming force complement it perfectly?

With that thought, Liu Bai no longer hesitated. He directly chose to record the Star Shattering Fist, then spent another 50 Experience Points to bring it to Initiation...

Player: Liu Bai

Realm: Spirit Movement Realm Peak

Class: Spirit Array Master (Level 1 Spirit Array Master)

Spirit Veins: None

Cultivation Method: Blazing Sun Art (Fourth Layer 0/2000); Basic Spirit Array Manual (Great Accomplishment 0/500)

Skills:

Mortal Grade High Rank Wind Breaking Finger (Great Accomplishment); Mortal Grade High Rank Senluo Death Seal (Great Accomplishment); Spirit Grade Low Rank Star Shattering Fist (Initiation 0/100); Spirit Grade Low Rank Blazing Step (Great Accomplishment 0/1500); Spirit-grade High-tier Great Sun Sea Burning Palm (Minor Accomplishment 0/1200)

Arrays:

Flame Serpent Spirit Breaking Array (Great Accomplishment)

Experience Points: 55

Beast Soul Points: 11

The Spirit Grade Low Rank Star Shattering Fist had reached Initiation in a single second. At that moment, Liu Bai felt his right fist stirring restlessly, seized by the urge to find something to smash.

Naturally, he could not smash anything here. And Liu Bai suddenly realized that with all the Spiritual Arts he had learned so far, his future fighting style would probably lean toward a brutal close-combat approach.

That did not suit his handsome, elegant appearance at all...

Fortunately, though his Kirin Arm had been strengthened considerably, it looked just like his left arm and had not turned into a huge, muscle-bulging monstrosity. Otherwise, he would not even dare show his face in public later.

"Fine, brutal it is. First, I'll find somewhere to properly test just how powerful these two new Spiritual Arts are..."

Thinking this, Liu Bai directly left the Spiritual Art Chamber.

Yet his actions left the many Heaven Layer students utterly baffled.

What was going on? What exactly had this guy come here for? He had only looked around for a few minutes before finishing. Had he come just to take a look?

Although the Northern Spirit Academy's Spiritual Art Chamber was open to all students, Spiritual Arts were not permitted to be taken outside. Thus, anyone who wanted to cultivate them could only read and memorize them within the Spiritual Art Chamber. That was precisely why so many students were reading Spiritual Arts inside.

Everyone spent varying amounts of time here during each visit. Some people could even remain in the Spiritual Art Chamber for several days, but there had never been anyone like Liu Bai, who left after just a few minutes.

Other than seeing a Spiritual Art's name, you probably could not even memorize its contents completely in that time. What was the point?

"Hmph, he's just showing off." Quite a few older students snorted disdainfully.

Most of these people were already over eighteen. Due to insufficient cultivation or other reasons, they had lost their qualifications to enter the Five Great Academies and could only idle around until they left...

Such people were the least likely to take the rules of the Spiritual Academy seriously, so there was nothing they would not dare do.

Especially when faced with young genius students, they were even more prone to feelings such as jealousy. Thus, most people did not wish to provoke them.

But often, avoiding trouble did not mean trouble would avoid you.

Especially when a person stood out too much...