Chapter 39: Chapter 39: Divine Sense Secret Technique, Late Foundation Establishment
"Ah!"
A sudden scream from the black-clad man echoed in the sky.
Only to see his body from the lower half to the abdomen, completely vanished.
His entire aura weakened to the extreme.
Most importantly, the blood talisman in his hand had already been activated.
A large amount of blood suddenly surged into the blood talisman from his body.
The talisman emanated a brilliant blood light.
The black-clad man’s eyes immediately showed an expression of utmost fear.
Because with his severely wounded body at the moment, he was utterly incapable of providing the nutrient required to activate the talisman.
In just a moment, his remaining half-body turned into a dried corpse.
The talisman, which had been half activated, seemed to quiet down slowly, reverting back to a talisman with a blood-red surface due to the lack of blood supply.
Swish!
A hand reached out in the air and grasped the talisman about to fall.
It was Ji Haoyuan.
He flickered his form.
In the blink of an eye, he looted all the storage bags from Han Pengshan and the other two.
Next, a ball of flame fell onto the bodies of the three.
In an instant, they turned to ashes.
Some time later.
Ji Haoyuan returned to the Ji Family Qianyang Mountain.
Immediately he went into his cave dwelling in the back mountain.
It took some time, but Ji Haoyuan managed to erase all the imprints on Han Pengshan and the others’ storage bags.
Once he opened each storage bag, he was immediately met with a surprising sight.
No other reason but the fact that the items in the three people’s storage bags brought him quite an unexpected joy.
Just the spirit stones alone amounted to a total of ten thousand among the three storage bags.
Great.
With this haul, he regained all the spirit stones he had spent before, and there was even more.
Next came the three spiritual artifacts previously used by the three.
A dark golden scythe, six sharp blades emitting a black light, and that Mistaken Acupoint Flute.
Especially the Mistaken Acupoint Flute.
Once the flute sounded, it could seal cultivators’ spiritual senses, numb their seven orifices.
If it weren’t for his superior cultivation technique, whose magical power has a protective effect, blocking the Mistaken Acupoint Flute attacks would indeed require great effort this time.
That was primarily why he killed the man first.
Besides these, Ji Haoyuan noticed the same item in all three people’s storage bags, and in considerable quantity.
It was a mineral named Taiyin Spirit Copper.
The main function of this mineral is to craft array artifacts for Spirit Gathering Arrays.
It can also be used to craft metal attribute magical artifacts.
Quite a valuable mineral actually.
Especially when its quantity reaches a certain scale.
There’s something wrong!
Looking at the Taiyin Spirit Copper in the storage bags, Ji Haoyuan immediately sensed something awry.
If one of the three had a certain quantity of Taiyin Spirit Copper in their storage bag, it could be understandable.
But all three storage bags contained this Taiyin Spirit Copper, and even in considerable quantity.
That’s clearly abnormal.
Could it be, these fellows discovered a mine that exclusively produces Taiyin Spirit Copper?
It’s not impossible.
If this is indeed the case, the Han Family...
Ji Haoyuan’s eyes slightly narrowed.
This resource is no less valuable than the Cloud Iron Ore Vein of his Ji Family, and from a certain perspective, even more valuable.
Seems like I’ll have to instruct someone to pay close attention and investigate thoroughly.
At present, they have deadly enmity with the Han Family.
If possible, he would not mind snatching food from the tiger’s mouth.
Compared to this, the origin of Cultivator Zhu and Cultivator Wei was not particularly clear.
Yet, based on earlier observations, the two exude a distinct bandit-like aura.
Could they be leaders of two Tribulation Cultivator groups?
Will have to let someone gather good intelligence on this later.
Temporarily suppressing these thoughts, Ji Haoyuan began recounting the items in the three people’s storage bags once more.
Hmm? What’s this...?
Suddenly.
Ji Haoyuan’s gaze fell upon an item in Cultivator Wei’s storage bag, the blue-robed man’s.
His thoughts stirred.
Ji Haoyuan’s hand immediately had an additional jade slip.
He placed the jade slip against his forehead.
After he finished reading its contents, his face could not help but reveal a delighted expression.
This was actually a secret technique on cultivating Divine Sense.
Called Illusory God Stab.
Upon cultivating it, not only can it confuse the enemy, making them enter some illusion realm, but it can also form a spike to attack the enemy’s Divine Sense.
In the current Cultivation Realm, this is undoubtedly a quite precious secret technique.
Even in Golden Core sects like the Crimson Sunset Sect, similar Divine Sense secret techniques are not necessarily available.
The only drawback is that this secret technique, Illusory God Stab, is not complete; it’s a fragmented Divine Sense secret technique.
Approximately only one-third of the content.
Plus, it’s relatively scattered and unstructured.
Thinking about it, this is quite reasonable.
How precious is a Divine Sense secret technique?
It’s quite rare for the blue-robed man to possess such a fragmented Divine Sense secret technique.
Luckily, such an incomplete Divine Sense secret technique is not a problem for Ji Haoyuan.
In fact, an incomplete secret technique is better.
Otherwise, given the power of Illusory God Stab, if the blue-robed man had the full content.
Once cultivated, it would have inevitably added some complications to the previous battle.
With this in mind, Ji Haoyuan stored the jade slip away, preparing to deduce it later and attempt to complete the missing content.
Afterward.
He retrieved the blood talisman from Cultivator Zhu’s storage bag, the black-clad man.
Upon sensing it, Ji Haoyuan realized it was a blood talisman used for escape.
It requires half of one’s essence blood for activation.
The price is high, but undeniably, once activated successfully, ordinary late Foundation Establishment cultivators would find it hard to catch up.
Kind of like a last resort for escaping death.
It’s a pity that the black-clad man was indecisive.
When he wanted to use the Blood Burning Escape Talisman, he no longer had the chance.
Thus.
After Ji Haoyuan had finished inventorying the items in those storage bags, he didn’t waste more time and commenced his closed-door cultivation.
Firstly.
He used the Molten Rock Vermilion Fruit to cultivate his yet-to-be-perfected Fire Attribute Magical Power to perfection.
This process took Ji Haoyuan more than half a year.
Afterward.
He continued for another half a year, refining, purifying, and tempering both Fire and Earth Magical Powers.
Until both powers were thoroughly refined, elevated to their utmost, reaching a pinnacle, perfection, Ji Haoyuan finally began his breakthrough against the bottleneck of his cultivation.
Crack—crack—crack—
As expected, this breakthrough did not pose any significant obstacles for Ji Haoyuan.
It took less than a year for him to successfully break through the late Foundation Establishment bottleneck, advancing from mid to late Foundation Establishment.