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[Law Technique automatic update complete. This is a minor version update. Law Technique effects have been adjusted as follows.] [Basic Sword Qi: Added a tracking effect. Sword Qi will lock onto its target and track it three times!]
Holy shit...
The new effect added to Sword Qi left Qi Yun staring blankly. Only after a long moment did he recover and break into a grin:
"Damn, my Sword Qi has no stats, just mechanics."
The first update had removed casting windups like forming hand seals and chanting incantations.
Now it had even added a tracking effect.
Probably no one would have guessed that this was the most ordinary, commonplace Basic Sword Qi technique in the cultivation world.
"Good. Although my Basic Sword Qi had its casting windup removed before, it was still the most basic of techniques.
"Its power, speed, and range all had shortcomings.
"Now that it has a tracking effect, there's much more room for error.
"I don't even need to aim.
"Just raise my hand and fire. They can't dodge it even if they try."
Qi Yun was extremely pleased with the update to [Basic Sword Qi], and looked forward all the more to this update to [Clear Breeze Technique].
He picked up the [Know-Myself Vine], and the Law Technique Panel refined it once again.
[Law Technique automatic update complete. This is a minor version update. Law Technique effects have been adjusted as follows.] [Clear Breeze Technique: Added an evasion effect. While in the clear breeze state, evade one attack. The clear breeze state ends after evasion.]
"Golden-body invincibility?"
The update to [Clear Breeze Technique] involuntarily reminded Qi Yun of lifesaving items in games from his previous life.
"If I'd had this effect before, when Tang Shun trapped me in that cave, I could have tanked one of his attacks and then cast the technique to escape.
"I just don't know what the limit is on evading one attack.
"My guess is that it shouldn't exceed the limits of my own abilities.
"Surely it can't even dodge an attack from a mighty True Lord that casually flattens ten thousand li?
"But whatever the case, with this effect, my ability to protect myself has improved quite a bit again."
Qi Yun was very satisfied with the new effects brought by both updates.
Trading twenty Sacred Yuan for improvements like these was simply an incredible bargain.
"Everything's settled. From here on, it's up to me."
His gaze fell on the two technique-transmission jade talismans on the table. Qi Yun first picked up the one containing the "Innate One Qi Heart Method," sat cross-legged, and sank his mind into the jade talisman, beginning to circulate the heart method.
He guided the impure, "three-noes" True Qi within his body along an entirely new, profound route, letting it flow and scour, refining and transforming it bit by bit toward the utterly pure, utterly balanced "Innate One Qi."
In the blink of an eye, three months passed.
Time slipped by, and the vines on the grape trellis had spread into a canopy of green, casting dappled light and shadow.
Before a desk that had been moved into the center of the courtyard, a pale-faced Qi Yun held a talisman brush. He lightly dipped it into the vermilion spirit ink in the inkstone, took a deep breath, and slowly lowered the brush!
The instant the tip touched the talisman paper, Qi Yun's eyes focused. His wrist trembled lightly as vermilion lines wound across the paper, tracing profound, intricate patterns.
Every stroke seemed to draw away a thread of his essence, Qi, and spirit. Beads of sweat gathered on his forehead, slid down his temples, and dripped onto his lapel, soaking it into a small dark patch.
His surroundings seemed to fall abruptly silent, leaving only the faint scratching of the brush across the talisman paper and Qi Yun's own heavy, restrained breathing.
At last, he flicked the brush tip!
Buzzz-
An almost imperceptible yet incomparably distinct glimmer suddenly flashed across the talisman paper.
From somewhere unseen, a wisp of formless Dao resonance of heaven and earth was drawn down, silently merging into the vermilion talisman markings.
The previously unremarkable yellow paper instantly gained an indescribable spiritual resonance, with Dao intent hidden within!
Looking at the talisman paper, unchanged on the surface but now holding Dao intent within, Qi Yun let out a long breath of stale air.
"Boundless Sacred Venerable, it finally worked!"
Wiping the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, Qi Yun plopped down onto a nearby stone stool. Looking at the talisman on the desk, he could not help revealing a smile of relief and helplessness.
Crafting talismans was far, far more difficult than he had imagined.
Over these three months, every day, all the time he had outside of eating, sleeping, and cultivating his True Qi heart method-
Had gone into practicing drawing talismans.
Day and night, after three grueling months, he had finally succeeded in drawing his first talisman today.
After catching his breath a little, Qi Yun summoned the Law Technique Panel with a thought.
[Mastered Law Techniques] [Clear Breeze Technique: Updating automatically (progress 11%)] [Basic Sword Qi: Updating automatically (progress 7%)] [Talisman Art: Updating automatically (progress 1%)]
Seeing that Talisman Art had appeared on the Law Technique Panel, Qi Yun lightly rubbed between his brows, took the Storage Bag from inside his robe, and reached into it.
He pulled out a neatly arranged stack of finished talismans, well over a hundred in total.
He had spent all his savings buying these.
The next second.
The familiar stirring emerged.
A smile curled the corners of Qi Yun's mouth.
I guessed right...
"The Law Technique Panel can refine spiritual objects of heaven and earth, drawing out their Dao intent to advance the update.
"Although the Dao intent in these completed talismans is nowhere near as vast and pure as that of spiritual objects of heaven and earth, like thin mist compared to a surging river...
"They still carry traces of the 'Dao.'
"As long as something contains Dao intent, the panel can refine and absorb it."
With a thought, the stack of talismans in Qi Yun's hand was instantly refined by the Law Technique Panel.
"The Law Technique Panel's refinement targets Dao intent. In other words, besides spiritual objects of heaven and earth, anything with Dao intent can be refined by the Law Technique Panel.
"That leaves quite a lot of room to work with.
"Since talismans can be refined, could Law Artifacts be refined too?"
His eyes shifted slightly as Qi Yun's thoughts grew lively.
Anything refined by the Law Technique Panel would vanish into nothingness. If this really worked, then in future battles, he could seize an opportunity to snatch his opponent's Law Artifact and refine it directly.
Not only would he take the Dao intent inside, he would also destroy their Law Artifact in passing.
Then what would that make me?
A humanoid Law Artifact shredder?
"I can try it when I get the chance." Silently noting this discovery, Qi Yun looked at the lettering on the Law Technique Panel.
[Talisman Art: Updating automatically (93%)]
"Not enough?"
He had not expected that more than a hundred talismans would fail to push the update progress of [Talisman Art] to 100%. Qi Yun pressed his lips together and frowned.
I've already spent all the Sacred Yuan I had. I can't buy any more talismans.
In that case, doesn't that mean I can only...
Turning his head stiffly toward the talisman paper and spirit ink piled inside the room, Qi Yun recalled how drawing that talisman had felt just now. The corner of his mouth twitched, and he suddenly felt that perhaps he could rest for a while.
After all, even without refining spiritual objects, the Law Technique Panel's automatic update progress would still increase on its own.
It would merely take a little longer.
How about I just rest for a little while?
PS: Brothers, if you have any good ideas for Law Technique mechanics, feel free to discuss them in the comments~ Also, once again, please keep reading the latest chapters and invest in the book. Thank you, thank you!