Struck by Lightning

The Yin Spirit was also commonly called the Night-Wandering Spirit. At this realm, cultivators could already send their spirits out of their bodies and travel a thousand li by night.

But as the name implied, a Night-Wandering Spirit could only roam at night. Sending a Yin Spirit out during the day was as good as a ghost seeking death by basking in the sun.

That was why the master had just told Qingqing to draw the curtains tight and keep the light out.

In spirit form, Lin Yu curiously surveyed his surroundings. This was a perspective he had never experienced before, and everything seemed to come into fine detail.

His Yin Spirit was like a bolt of lightning, darting rapidly through the air and leaving arc after arc in its wake.

He looked down at his own body sitting cross-legged below and felt a sense of incongruity. Examining himself from every angle, with not a single blind spot in all three hundred and sixty degrees, filled him with an inexplicable sense of embarrassment.

Before Lin Yu had his fill of playing around, a sudden force of suction pulled him back into his body.

As his Yin Spirit returned to his body, Lin Yu slowly opened his eyes.

"Thank you for protecting me, Master."

The first thing Lin Yu did upon waking was bow to the master.

If not for the master just now, he did not even know whether he could have made it through. Even if he had, he would have suffered terribly.

It was because the master had protected his spirit with Buddhist chants in time that he had been able to break through to Dharma Master so easily.

"Hehe, Amitabha. Xiao Yu, your talent is astonishing. This is all thanks to what you've accumulated in your daily practice."

The master chuckled. Having witnessed the birth of another immortal cultivation legend with his own eyes, he could count his life as well spent.

"Senior brother! You're slacking off again!"

After saying goodbye to Master Yixiu, Lin Yu returned to the room and saw Jia Le sprawled out on a chair, fast asleep.

Lin Yu woke Jia Le with a loud shout.

"Aiya, junior brother, you scared me to death!"

Jia Le scratched his belly, turned over, and went back to sleep.

Lin Yu could only shake his head. Most of the Maoshan disciples of this generation did not seem to like cultivating very much.

Even so, with the help of this feng shui treasure land, Jia Le's cultivation had still reached the Daoist Realm.

Though Jia Le had learned few of Four Eyes' other skills, he had picked up quite a bit of corpse driving through constant exposure.

"Senior brother, if you still won't cultivate, I'll tell martial uncle when he gets back that you haven't cultivated properly since he left."

Lin Yu threatened Jia Le, who remained unmoved.

In the week since his martial uncle had left, Jia Le had either been slacking off with Lin Yu or running next door to spend his time.

Although he had made no progress at all with Qingqing, he never tired of it.

Now that Lin Yu had broken through, he promptly killed the donkey once it had finished turning the millstone. He had been working hard these past few days-just look, he had even broken through to Dharma Master.

"All right, all right, I'll cultivate right away."

Helpless and dejected, Jia Le dragged himself up to meditate.

Lin Yu clapped his hands in satisfaction, then took a Daoist scripture back to his room to read.

During this time, Lin Yu had devoted himself entirely to books. Through the knowledge he had accumulated from reading, especially after breaking through to a higher realm, he gained a different perspective when he circulated the Maoshan Qi Refining Technique again.

This breakthrough to Dharma Master had also given him a spirit, allowing him to better observe the workings inside his body.

Perhaps this would be an opportunity. Before, he could only rely on feeling, changing whichever part the spiritual Qi flowed to. Now he could control its direction himself.

His brain worked at high speed. He was now like a computer, constantly processing the classics he had read, one after another.

When it came to mastery of cultivation techniques, Lin Yu dared guarantee that no one could surpass him now. He began working on modifying the technique.

A cultivation technique could be practiced by millions upon millions of people, but those suited to it might not make up even a tenth of them.

Lin Yu now intended to complete the technique and find one suited to himself.

Although he might fail, he had failed as many times as there were stars in the sky over the past few months. One more failure would make no difference.

At the very beginning, while he was at Uncle Nine's, he had read a single Daoist scripture and thought he was ready.

He had started modifying the technique according to the knowledge in his head. But once he finished, before he even cultivated it, Lin Yu studied it himself and compared it with the original, only to discover that it was a pile of shit.

Whenever Lin Yu had an idea, he would set about completing and modifying the technique. Though he failed every time, failure was success's mother.

By repeatedly examining himself from the perspective of a technique's creator, Lin Yu gradually broadened his horizons instead of confining himself to the tiny patch of land before his eyes.

Now that he had a spirit, Lin Yu was no longer limited to simulations. He began putting his ideas into practice. In any case, Heaven-Defying Comprehension was there to catch him, and if he made a mistake, he would notice something was wrong.

Lin Yu slowly closed his eyes and simulated the circulation of the technique in his mind, sensing the flow through every meridian in his body.

Lin Yu observed every cell in his body, following the circulation through his meridians as he searched for the most suitable one.

He simulated it over and over, constantly adjusting the details and using his knowledge to search through every different combination.

Soon, he could feel his body growing lighter and more agile, and the circulation of the technique felt entirely different from before.

It felt more natural. Lin Yu could sense that there would definitely be no problem this time.

[Ding~ You have completed the Maoshan Qi Refining Technique, but it is not the Jade Maiden and Joy God Technique. This is a technique you created yourself, with infinite possibilities.]

Lin Yu opened his eyes, a smile appearing on his face without his realizing it. He could feel the joy and excitement in his heart.

He had finally succeeded!

Although it was not the Jade Maiden and Joy God Technique, this was still his own technique.

"Rumble~"

Just as Lin Yu was still immersed in joy, an enormous clap of thunder suddenly rang out in the sky outside.

The thunder seemed to explode right beside Lin Yu's ear.

"Thunder out of a clear blue sky? What rotten weather."

Jia Le, who had been sleeping cross-legged, was also scared to death by the thunder. He grumbled once, then went back to sleep.

"Thunder in a drought? An abnormal sign from the heavens. When something strange happens, there must be a demon behind it."

The master watched the sky with a face full of worry, hoping Four Eyes and his party would be safe.

The situation on Lin Yu's side, however, was already completely different.

The master and the others could not see what was happening in the sky at all.

In his eyes, the clear blue sky had already been covered by dark clouds, with an enormous vortex appearing at its center.

Something terrifying seemed to be taking shape inside it.

Lin Yu felt as though he were being watched by a savage beast from the wilderness, and all the hair on his body stood on end.

"This isn't coming for me, is it?!"

Lin Yu looked at the vortex in the sky. He was certain it was coming for him, and he felt awful all over.

He had not done anything that offended heaven and harmed reason, had he? Why did he have to be struck by lightning?

He had only created a cultivation technique, so why did he have to be struck?

Lin Yu had already begun cursing in his heart.

"Wood won't work. A lightning rod? I don't have one. I'm doomed, I'm doomed."

The more anxious a person was, the more confused they became. Lin Yu rushed frantically around the room, searching for a way to escape.

As for taking it head-on, Lin Yu's position was that he was only at the Dharma Master realm, and still a Dharma Master at that. He could not withstand a bolt of lightning that big.

"How about hiding in another world?"

Suddenly, Lin Yu thought of a good idea. He happened to have enough points, so why not buy a Teleportation Talisman and run?