Gao Yuan's eyes were slightly closed, and he stood in the center of the martial arts arena with a calm expression.
Around his body, within a radius of several feet, there was a layer of hazy and twisted translucent light and shadow that was like water waves.
Threads of red linear energy crystal filaments are mixed in this layer of translucent light and shadow.
From time to time, it is like a spiritual snake, wandering around spontaneously.
After a while, Gao Yuan didn't see any movement.
I saw this layer of translucent light and shadow lingering around his body suddenly squirming and shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In an instant, the volume of this translucent layer of light and shadow shrank by more than 70%.
And those red energy crystal threads swimming in it also quietly faded and eventually became invisible.
During this process, the appearance of this layer of translucent light and shadow has also undergone great changes.
It gradually transformed from its original round and unusually spherical shape into an energy gauze layer less than a foot thick that clung to his body and undulated with the contours of his body.
Maintaining this strange state, Gao Yuan slowly opened his eyes and looked around his body curiously.
As far as the eye can see, there is only a void where the air is slightly distorted.
The layer covering his body is the 'Tian Jue Gang Jin' transformed from cultivation according to the description of the general outline of 'Tian Jue Four Styles'.
Although in terms of appearance and momentum, it is much weaker than the original 'Hunyuan Gangqi'.
But compared to before, it appeared to be extremely condensed, tightly fitting Gaoyuan's skin surface, like a layer of invisible flames burning fiercely.
Although it doesn't seem to be powerful, as long as you use your spiritual consciousness to sense it, you can feel an astonishing energy fluctuation that is condensed but not emitted!
"Tsk, is this the 'Tian Jue Gang Jin' that has been transformed and can be used in various secret techniques of the 'Tian Jue Four Styles'?"
"It's really amazing!"
According to the techniques described in the general outline of "Tian Jue Four Styles", he manipulated this layer of 'Tian Jue Gang Jin', and after slowly operating it for a while, Gao Yuan showed a look of surprise on his face and gave a heartfelt admiration.
Then he had a thought in his mind, and based on the newly mastered internal control method, he sealed himself somewhat unfamiliarly, cutting off the connection between the 'spiritual energy' in his body and the 'vital energy of heaven and earth' outside.
After a moment, as if some invisible valve had been tightened, the layer of 'Tian Jue Gang Jin' condensed around him quietly disappeared.
Sitting on the stone armchair outside the martial arts arena, Gao Yuan opened the system panel.
As expected, the ‘Tian Jue Gang Jin’, which was successfully used for the first time just now, has its corresponding skill tags clearly displayed in the major skill panels:
"Sure enough, the third-level skills are the same as the techniques. The consumption of 'analysis' upgrade has also increased ten times compared to the Kaiyuan realm!"
After muttering softly to himself, he directly used the system to 'analyze' and skillfully improved the proficiency of 'Tian Jue Gang Jin'.
[The analysis of Tian Jue Gang Jin is successful, and your proficiency in Tian Jue Gang Jin has been raised to the proficiency level!]
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[The analysis of Tian Jue Gang Jin is successful, your proficiency in Tian Jue Gang Jin has been upgraded to the Grandmaster level!]
As the system's gray-white font prompts flashed across the screen in front of my eyes, the proficiency of 'Tian Jue Gang Jin' has been upgraded to the master level.
Close your eyes and digest the new memories in your mind.
Gao Yuan opened his eyes and stretched out his right hand.
Without even seeing how he moved, a hazy, distorted light and shadow quietly appeared around his right hand.
Compared with the previous 'energy gauze', the thickness of this new layer of transparent light and shadow has shrunk by more than half, now only less than four inches.
At the same time, its ability to distort surrounding light has also decreased compared to before.
At first glance, it becomes even more inconspicuous.
But in contrast, the energy density concentrated inside this layer of light and shadow has increased several times compared to before.
At the same time, Gao Yuan felt that his control over this layer of 'Heavenly Gang Jin' had also been greatly improved compared to before.
At this time, he was not only able to condense the 'Heaven's Ultimate Strength' at a local location at will.
It can also control its specific size and shape at will with almost no delay!
"Very good. This way, it will be much easier for me to practice and master the secret techniques in the "Four Heavenly Styles"!"
Gao Yuan said with a look of satisfaction on his face.
Then he patted the storage bag on his waist, took out the jade slip that recorded the contents of "The Four Styles of Heaven's Jue", and began to meditate on it quietly.
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As a secret technique developed specifically for the application of 'Gang Qi'.
In "Tian Jue Four Styles", in addition to describing the general outline of transforming the "Tian Jue Gang Jin", there are also four combat methods created for the application of "Tian Jue Gang Jin".
These four fighting methods are Gust Wind Style, Ning Yuan Style, Collapsing Mountain Style, and Burning Heaven Style.
Among them, the Guangfeng Style is a secret technique of body movement.
According to the description in the jade slip, this secret technique is based on the 'Tian Jue Gang Jin', and after operating according to the corresponding secret techniques and techniques, it completely changes the external appearance of the latter.
As a result, after the caster performs the 'Gust Style', his speed and flexibility are greatly improved.
Especially when tossing and turning in a small area, you can almost move your body at will without any sluggishness.
"At first glance, it seems to be similar to the "Phantom Spirit Body Technique" I practiced before!"
"If the latter is upgraded to the third level, I wonder which one is stronger and which one is weaker than this 'gusty wind' style?"
"And if the two are used at the same time, can they achieve complementary effects based on each other's original powers, so that the final power can be improved again?"
Gao Yuan looked thoughtful and whispered to himself.
Despite thinking about it, he was not in a hurry to imitate and practice this secret technique.
Instead, he continued to look at the back of the jade slip, part of the content about the 'Ning Yuan Style'.
According to the description in the jade slip, the 'Ning Yuan Style' is one of the four secret techniques that specializes in defense.
It also uses the 'Tian Jue Gang Jin' as the basis for casting spells, and transforms it into an extremely powerful protective barrier through the transformation of corresponding secret techniques and techniques.
It is said that it can produce strong resistance to most types of attacks, including divine soul attacks.
"Tsk, it's a skill that improves self-protection ability! I like it best!"
Gao Yuan couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he saw this.
All along, whenever he chooses to practice skills, improving his self-protection ability has always been his first priority.
Especially now that he is facing a disadvantage among his peers, he pays more attention to his own safety.
The emergence of this 'Condensing Abyss Style' secret method at this time was naturally what he wanted, like a timely rain!
While his mind was spinning, he continued to look at the second half of the jade slip.
‘Collapse Mountain Style’ and ‘Burning Sky Style’ are both purely offensive skills.
Needless to say, the ‘Collapse Mountain Style’ is a secret technique that uses the ‘Heavenly Gang Jin’ to launch an attack. It is a simple contact explosive move.
Its only characteristic is that it can produce powerful concussive effects when launching an attack.
Not only can it pass through the target's defense, it can also cause powerful concussive damage to its body.
When you practice to a high level, you can even use powerful shocks to damage the target's 'natal pearl' and shake the opponent's soul!
The 'Burning Sky Style' is relatively special. It is similar to a passive skill and does not even have a specific attack move.
In summary, this is a secret method that uses a special method to highly activate the energy contained in the 'Tian Jue Gang Jin'.
This allows it to react to varying degrees with most types of energy.
Specifically in actual combat, it allows the caster to add negative special effects such as 'corrosion' or 'burning' to his 'Tian Jue Gang Jin' while attacking.
This allows the results of its attacks to be further extended, thereby maximizing the benefits of the battle!
At the same time, the highly activated ‘Tian Jue Gang Jin’ can also be used to enhance the defensive effect of the ‘Ning Yuan Style’ to a certain extent.
"Tsk, at first glance, the four secret techniques included in the "Four Heavenly Techniques" are all powerful skills with explosive effects in actual combat!"
"If it is really as described in the jade slip, then the more than four million intermediate spirit stones I spent on this, not only did I not suffer a loss, but I made a huge mistake!"
After quickly browsing through the jade slips that recorded the "Four Styles of Heavenly Jue", Gao Yuan sighed with excitement on his face.
"I just don't know its specific combat consumption?"
"If I can perform well in terms of battery life, then my lack of combat effectiveness in the early stages of the Hunyuan realm will be greatly supplemented by this!"
"Well, the specific effect of the "Four Heavenly Styles" can only be tested through practice after it is mastered!"
"What's more, other than that, I don't have any better alternatives at this stage, so I have no choice!"
After muttering a few words softly to himself, Gao Yuan stood up and stood in the center of the martial arts arena.
According to the cultivation method recorded in "The Four Styles of Heavenly Jue", I began to practice with concentration.
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One day later.
Southeast of the underground stronghold, in the dense forest several miles away.
Facing the rising sun in the sky, Gao Yuan stood quietly on the top of a giant pine tree that was hundreds of meters high.
The toes of his right foot gently touched a pine needle about an inch in size, seemingly maintaining the stability of his body!
You must know that at this time, he did not activate the Wind Curse at all to help himself levitate.
But the strange thing is that these pine needles, which should be extremely fragile, did not even bend at all under the weight of more than 300 kilograms due to his physical training.
That feeling of lifting a weight with ease, as if it were actually holding up against the air!
The strong wind from high altitude blows wantonly against the high distance from time to time.
But when it was less than half a foot closer to his body, it quietly turned to both sides, unable to have the slightest impact on the stability of his body.
Because around his body, there is a layer of special 'Tian Jue Gang Jin' that has been transformed in a 'violent wind style' and has greatly changed its nature!
This feeling of independence simply relying on oneself is very wonderful.
It was completely different from the feeling of flying in the air with the help of the condensed wind wall when he activated the Wind Curse.
In a trance, he actually had a mysterious experience of blending in between heaven and earth.
Standing quietly for a moment, Gao Yuan put a little force on his feet.
The pine needle he stepped on also bent slightly under the force.
After a moment, Gao Yuan gently opened his arms, like a big bird with open wings, and jumped out in the direction in front of him.
Without any external force, he did not fall straight to the ground, but quickly slid out.
After a moment, something suddenly moved in his heart.
At the same time, the rhythm of the 'spiritual power' in his body also changed slightly.
Affected by this, the arrangement of the 'Tian Jue Gang Jin' wrapped around him also underwent certain changes.
And his body also changed from the posture of gliding with the wind, and started to fly quickly in the air as he pleased.
Judging from the way he turns flexibly, it seems that he has not been affected by inertia at all!
This continued for about two minutes, and Gao Yuan's body, which had completely turned into a blurry phantom, suddenly stopped without any warning.
Then his figure swayed, and like a feather in the wind, he fell lightly to the top of the giant pine beside him.
With one foot, he stood firmly on the pine needles at the top of a giant pine.
"This 'gusty wind' style is truly magical when used!"
Somewhat unfinished, he closed his eyes and recalled the process just now, Gao Yuan couldn't hide the excitement on his face and said softly.
"According to the test results, as long as it is not used to forcefully change the state of movement and just maintain this 'light and agile' body, the consumption of one's own 'spiritual power' by the 'blast style' is actually not high."
"With my current extremely shallow 'spiritual power' reserve, I can easily maintain it for more than half an hour!"
"But if it is used in combat, once it needs to frequently change its movement trajectory, its consumption of 'spiritual power' will increase dozens of times on this basis!"
"Even if the proficiency of the 'Gust Style' has been improved to the master level, once it is used in high-intensity actual combat, it may not last more than two minutes!"
"In other words, during battle, this 'Gust Style' can only be used for sudden attacks or emergency dodges!"
"Until the battery life problem of your own 'spiritual power' is not fully improved, you still have to rely on the combination of 'Wind Curse' and 'Phantom Body Technique' in general combat scenarios!"
Feeling that the 'spiritual energy' in his body was gradually showing signs of exhaustion due to the continuous high-intensity consumption just now, Gao Yuan commented softly in his heart.
Then he no longer delayed, activated the wind spell, and quickly rushed towards the underground stronghold.
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Another day has passed.
Early the next morning, Gao Yuan set out early.
He ran all the way and came directly to an open land located southeast of the underground stronghold, more than a thousand miles away.
Standing in the center of this open space, with a thought in his mind, more than a dozen puppets of different shapes appeared in front of him one after another.
Under the guidance of his thoughts, the latter floated more than ten meters away from him, facing his direction, and lined up neatly in a row.
During this period, Gao Yuan himself was not idle.
He hesitated for a moment, but in the end caution prevailed.
I saw that he directly activated the 'Burning Blood' state, and then used the 'Protective Blood Light' at full power.
After the thick jelly-like ‘blood glow’ completely covered his body.
With a change of thought, he directly activated the 'Condensing Abyss Style', whose proficiency had been upgraded to the master level.
As if it was instinctive, the dense 'Heaven's Ultimate Strength' quietly emerged around him.
Following his thoughts, the latter quietly followed a strange path and began to move rapidly.
At the same time, a magnificent and thick aura was clearly reflected in Gao Yuan's heart through the induction of spiritual consciousness.
He had already expected this, so he immediately held the magic formula and lightly fired it at the 'humanoid integrated combat puppet' opposite.
Following his movements, a slight buzzing sound suddenly came from inside the latter's chest.
His two dark arms were raised flat, and after a slight adjustment, they were pointed at Gao Yuan's abdomen.
After nearly three breaths of preparation time, a blazing fire shot out from between the puppet's hands and hit Gao Yuan instantly.
"boom!"
The ear-splitting explosions, mixed with the sky-high firelight, and the wanton release of violent energy caused violent energy turbulence near his chest and abdomen.
During this period, Gao Yuan's eyes were also cooperating with his spiritual consciousness, paying close attention to the specific changes in the 'Condensing Abyss Style' strength when he withstood this bombardment.
After a moment, his face suddenly relaxed.
"Not bad, after a head-on attack and an energy beam attack that is as powerful as a second-level advanced spell."
"The 'Ning Yuan Style' alienated 'Tian Jue Gang Jin' has not shown any fluctuation. At the same time, the 'spiritual power' in my body has not been significantly consumed due to this."
"From this point of view, the upper limit of defense of the 'Condensing Abyss Style' should far exceed the scope of the second-level conjuration."
After commenting softly, Gao Yuan pointed at another puppet.
The latter started working immediately. He patted the storage bag on his waist and took out a jade-white token-like object, which he pointed at Gao Yuan's body from a distance.
Astonishingly, it was a low-grade ‘Qianyuan Order’ talisman!
Gao Yuan saw this and without hesitation, his spiritual consciousness turned into threads and spread towards the puppet on the opposite side through the specially-made 'spiritual mind mapping array'.
After a moment, the surface of the 'Qianyuan Order' in the latter's hand suddenly became brighter.
At the same time, layers upon layers of invisible binding power, like spider webs, wrapped around Gao Yuan's body in the air.
He didn't panic when he saw this, but subconsciously moved back and forth a few times to both sides.
"After all, it is a low-grade talisman. This level of binding power can no longer pose much of a threat to me now. At best, it can only slightly slow down my movement speed."
"Even if I rely solely on the strength of my physical body, I can easily break free from the lock of a low-grade talisman!"
He muttered something to himself in his heart, but the fluctuations of his consciousness did not stop.
Under his constant urging, the momentum of the 'Qianyuan Order' in the hands of the puppet on the opposite side also grew stronger.
Finally, it turned into a jade-white light and shadow rising into the sky, instantly bombarding Gao Yuan's chest and abdomen.
"Compared to just now, the 'spiritual power' is slightly depleted, but the defense composed of the 'Ning Yuan Style Tian Jue Gang Jin' remains motionless."
"Unfortunately, the current 'divine consciousness mapping talisman array' can only barely reach the level of activating low-grade talismans."
"Otherwise, if we can use the 'Excellent Talisman', we should be able to more intuitively test the upper limit of the instant defense capability of the 'Condensing Abyss Style'."
After softly commenting a few words, he continued to issue new instructions to the humanoid puppet opposite through his spiritual consciousness.
I saw the latter flipping its arm, and a 'Qinglan Ruler' talisman appeared in its hand.
As for Gao Yuan, with a thought in his mind, the 'Guardian Shield' and 'Soul-Suppressing Seal' each entered a state of readiness under his urging.
A moment later, under his indirect urging, the 'Qing Lan Chi' talisman turned into a blue light and shadow rising into the sky, violently bombarding the 'Ning Yuan Style Tian Jue Gang Jin' in front of Gao Yuan.
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"The defense is not broken, but the consumption of 'spiritual power' has more than tripled!"
"It can be seen from this that although the 'Condensing Abyss Style' can resist divine soul attacks to a certain extent, the resistance efficiency is obviously lower than physical attacks!"
After a slight pause for a moment, Gao Yuan commented softly.
Then his mind changed and he continued to issue various attack instructions to several other puppets according to the predetermined plan.
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Morning of the third day.
After the "spiritual power" in his body was restored to fullness, Gao Yuan still set out early.
According to the scheduled plan, I went out to test the power of the "Collapse Mountain Style".
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The same goes for the fourth day.
It's just that the measurement item was changed to 'Burning Sky Style'.
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After four consecutive days of all-round testing, Gao Yuan finally had a clearer understanding of all parameters of the "Tian Jue Four Styles".
Although he was limited by the limited testing conditions, he was still unable to determine for the moment that the offensive and defensive capabilities he finally formed with the help of the master-level "Red Flame True Art" and the master-level "Four Heavenly Styles" were among the Hunyuan Realm monks.
, what level does it belong to.
But one thing he can be sure of is that if he simply uses the 'Collapse Mountain Style' now, he won't be able to reach his perfect Kaiyuan Realm self in seconds.
But there is absolutely no problem in injuring it severely with one blow.
And based on the current strength of the 'spiritual power' in his body, if he goes all out to fight in the 'Collapse Mountain Style', he can last for at least a minute!
So during this period, even if I kill ten of myself who have reached the Kaiyuan Realm, it will be enough!
Not to mention, after turning on the ‘Burning Sky Style’ state and then using the ‘Tian Jue Gang Jin’ attack, there will be exaggerated negative effects attached to it!
As for defense, judging from the attack feedback of the low-grade talisman activated by the puppet's hand, combined with his own experience of using the 'top-grade talisman' many times.
If you simply rely on the 'Ning Yuan Style' for defense, let alone the many, it shouldn't be a big problem to resist the bombardment of five or six rounds of the 'Excellent Qianyuan Order'.
And if combined with the abilities of spells, talismans, puppets, and body refining, even if he had to deal with more than a dozen attacks from the 'top quality talismans' at the same time, he could still escape me unscathed.
What's more, he himself can also use the extreme speed brought by the 'Gust Style' and the 'Phantom Body Technique' to dodge in time.
Coupled with life-saving means such as 'Blood Shadow Escape', he asked himself now, when facing an ordinary opponent in the early stage of Hunyuan Realm, even if he loses, there is still no problem in escaping with his life!
It is precisely because of this that, almost a year after he entered the Hunyuan Realm, he finally decided to leave for the ‘Grey Desert’ to carry out the mission of hunting down the ‘Weird Demon’!
"Of course, before that, we still have to make all kinds of preparations more comprehensively!"
"Just in time, the 'Whip Holder' organization sent another hunting mission last night."
"In addition to the two completed before, after this mission is over, I will be able to unlock the qualification to apply for intelligence consultation to the alliance again!"
"Before departure, I would like to take this opportunity to inquire about the detailed information about the 'Weird Demon'."
"The information I learned through the mission was still too brief and not specific enough!"
As his mind turned, Gao Yuan activated the Wind Curse and quickly flew away in the direction of the underground stronghold.
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Seventeen days passed by in a flash.
During this period of time, Gao Yuan continued to refine elixirs, draw talismans, and create puppets.
Do your best to prepare as fully as possible for entering the 'grey desert' and hunting the 'treacherous demon'.
For this reason, he also dedicated a day to travel across nearly ten thousand miles to the ‘Boulder City’ in the northwest of the Northern Territory.
The task assigned by the 'Whip Holder' organization to hunt down a 'Flying Dragon City Deacon' who has reached the Kaiyuan Realm has been completed.
While harvesting a considerable amount of loot, he also successfully submitted an application for information consultation on the ‘Weird Demon’ to the alliance official.
After deducting a total of 5,000 points of merit, he successfully obtained a relatively detailed information about the 'Weird Demon'.
In addition, last night happened to be the opening time of the alliance's exclusive trading area.
He went in by the way and set up a stall to buy a bunch of 'jade talismans' with different functions.
The so-called ‘jade talisman’ is actually the official name for the third-order talisman.
The reason why it is called this is because the energy contained in the third-order talisman is too complex, and ordinary 'talisman paper' and 'talisman skin' cannot carry it stably.
Therefore, the spirit pattern carrier of the third-level talisman has also been changed from the 'talisman skin' used in the second-level talisman to a 'talisman jade' that is somewhat similar to the 'five spirit jade', the main refining material of the talisman!
Affected by this, the method of drawing spiritual patterns for third-level talismans has also undergone fundamental changes.
The method of using "cinnabar", "spiritual blood" and other substances as brush strokes was changed to a special "spiritual power" carving technique.
Because of this, the power of the 'jade talisman' has been greatly increased, far superior to the second-level talisman.
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Standing in the lounge, Gao Yuan carefully checked his preparations.
I went over all the details in my mind one by one until I was sure that there was nothing missing.
Then he left the underground stronghold without further delay.
After reaching the ground, he turned around and glanced at the sun that had just emerged in the distance, and then quickly flew away towards the boundary of the 'grey desert' in the southwest.