Predicting the Future

"Technique Within the Clouds"

It was a Technique Method from Venerable Lei's collection.

It was an extraordinarily precious Technique Method, but its basic requirements-a human body and the Demon Power of a flying bird-barred many cultivators from its doors.

Only a handful of Dharma Masters were capable of obtaining this Technique Method from the Venerable.

Hongku was obviously one of them.

However much of a lone star fated to bring calamity to those around him he might be, Hongku possessed considerable strength and held a respectable position in the holy land.

This allowed Zhang Xuezhou to encounter a remarkable Technique early in his cultivation.

Of course, good things inevitably came with bad.

Hongku had obtained an exceedingly rare Technique, but he had never cultivated it himself, so he had no way to guide Zhang Xuezhou.

If Zhang Xuezhou wanted to cultivate the Technique Within the Clouds, he would have to learn it himself.

Moreover, the Technique Within the Clouds was no different from the Supreme Purity True Technique: it too was a castrated version, providing only the first part of the cultivation method.

To obtain the rest, Zhang Xuezhou would have to seek out Venerable Lei after making progress in his cultivation.

If Venerable Lei took a liking to him, he might teach him the latter half.

"Even though this Technique is incomplete, it still surpasses most flying Techniques in the world. If you can master even part of it, traveling a thousand li in a day should be no trouble," Hongku said.

"Wouldn't that be the same as having the Demon Power of a thousand-li horse at your disposal whenever you wanted?" Wu Chao could not help asking. "If Wu Jin mastered this Technique, who could catch him?"

"Do not think that mastering this Technique means you can look