"Is there really this Shift Flower Connect Wood miraculous art in the world? If this is possible, wouldn't it mean that every time I kill a Divine Ability Realm expert, I can use the Forgetfulness Water to wash their magic power clean and transfer it onto my body? If it's like this, if I just kill a few more experts and continuously transfer power, wouldn't I be invincible in the world?"
After Fang Han agreed, he hesitated slightly again.
It wasn't that he regretted it, but this "Shift Flower Connect Wood" technique was too far-fetched, too incredible, simply exceeding the common sense of cultivation. Under normal circumstances, if he killed the Black Water King Snake and refined its magic power into a Biluo Great Pill to slowly enhance his strength, he could understand that. But to transfer the magic power all at once was truly too impossible.
Magic power was like physical stamina.
For example, killing a tiger. You eat the tiger's meat, drink tiger bone soup, supplement some nutrition, and gain a bit of strength; this is very normal. But to say that you kill a tiger and transfer the tiger's physical stamina and strength onto your own body is simply too impossible.
"Transferring magic power is a miraculous art of the Yellow Spring Sect? But it is not that easy either. You'll know once you've been through the transfer. I guarantee you won't risk your life to try it a second time. Or perhaps this time the foreign magic power will conflict, and it's hard to say if your body won't explode and die. Furthermore, having cultivated to the end, transferring magic power has no use. Which expert of the ninth or tenth realm of the Divine Ability Realm doesn't possess hundreds of thousands or millions of fiery horses of power? Experts of the Longevity Realm are infinitely more boundless; moving mountains and filling seas are ordinary things for them. What's the use of killing a person or two to transfer magic power? Taking a risk of one's life for a minor profit? Forming enemies? Bearing the name of a bloodthirsty killer? Besides, they don't have Forgetfulness Water. Moreover, the higher the divine ability, the deeper the magic power imprint, making it harder to transfer. If this Black Water King Snake had cultivated to the True Qi Realm, it couldn't have been transferred anymore. Otherwise, the foreign true qi would conflict, and you'd die one hundred percent! This Dao technique is just a little gadget used to lay the foundation, seek speed, and gamble with one's life."
Yan's tone became extremely solemn: "If you have truly decided, then dispel stray thoughts and listen to my incantation for true qi circulation! If you make a slight mistake, you will die one hundred percent! Also, your chances of success this time are fifty-fifty. I only see that without taking risks, you have absolutely no chance of defeating Hua Tiandu. Furthermore, going to Guixu is extremely dangerous; if you don't raise your own strength, I fear you will die there."
Hearing Yan's words, Fang Han's heart was naturally clear as snow. "Cultivation is actually identical to doing business; the thicker the capital, the more you earn. Hua Tiandu's capital is too thick. If he casually cultivates a bit or refines a pill, it equals several years of my bitter cultivation; without taking risks, it is impossible to catch up to him."
"Could it be you see it so clearly… sometimes you are even shrewder than me. I won't say anything more. Let's start!" Yan also highly appreciated Fang Han's assertiveness. Not risking it meant death; risking it gave a sliver of hope, so it was better to stake it all.
Subsequently, streams of dharma instructions for true qi circulation were transmitted into Fang Han's mind…
While listening, Fang Han split some of his attention and spoke to Long Xuan and the demoness nearby: "I am now going to cultivate a minor Dao technique; can you help guard me a little, lest outsiders come to disturb."
"This is no problem. Anyway, my magic power has been restored now; just focus on your cultivation." Long Xuan slightly altered the "Cold Hornless Dragon Sword" in her palm, turning it into a stream of water vapor that covered up this place. The demoness wasn't wordy either and did as Fang Han instructed. She was currently controlled by Fang Han and had to obey; besides, Long Xuan was also monitoring her from the side.
"Mhm." Seeing the divine ability Long Xuan executed, Fang Han nodded secretly. It was a water wave concealment technique; this kind of concealment trick was easily spotted when executed on land, but over the ocean, it was incredibly convenient, flawlessly fusing with the surrounding environment.
"I will begin cultivating now! I cannot be disturbed."
After saying that sentence, Fang Han closed his eyes. The magic power in his body surged vigorously all at once, then was all withdrawn into his mind. An expression of pain emerged on his face, indicating he had seemed to enter the state of cultivation.
"Why are you putting on this posture? You haven't started cultivating yet, right."
Detecting Fang Han's condition, Yan couldn't help asking strangely.
"Hmph! One cannot do without defensive measures against others. Long Xuan knows I have a Dao artifact on me; with such great temptation, it's hard to guarantee someone won't spawn sinister thoughts. Though we are both Yuhua Sect disciples and cannot kill each other, on this deserted island with nobody around, once she kills me and swallows the Dao artifact, claiming I died in Guixu, no one would know. I struck a posture of cultivation and entered the state just to see how this Long Xuan really behaves… And you call yourself the Yellow Spring River Dragon Vein, yet you know nothing about the deceitfulness of the human heart."
Fang Han said coldly. "If Long Xuan earns my trust this time, only then will I rest assured and bravely brave Guixu with her. If she makes any unusual movement this time, I will have to keep an extra eye on her."
"Fang Han, you truly are a character." At a time like this, Yan too had to admire the meticulousness of Fang Han's mind; he could even squeeze oil from a stone, continuing to safeguard against his fellow disciple at this juncture.
Next, Fang Han faked circulating his magic power, his entire body dripping with sweat, looking exactly like he was in a highly intense state of cultivation. In reality, it was all fake. After a full hour passed, Long Xuan sat cross-legged without moving, focusing her attention on remaining vigilant with zero commotion. Fang Han finally dropped his worries and began to cooperate with "Yan" to execute the Shift Flower Connect Wood technique!
Regarding Long Xuan, he felt rather assured. After all, both were Yuhua Sect disciples, and both were true disciples; mutual slaughter was punishable by extreme penalty. Further, Yan wasn't unprepared, and the demoness and Long Xuan also restricted each other. However, knowing a person's heart was separated by their belly; fake cultivating now served better to test if Long Xuan truly harbored malicious intentions or would suddenly strike for the temptation of a Dao artifact.
A Dao artifact was simply a legendary treasure. Even that "Sun-Moon Five-Star Bracelet" wasn't a Dao artifact.
Among the five great true disciples, other than Hua Tiandu, the remaining four probably had very few Dao artifacts.
According to the records in 《All Worlds》, the emergence of a Dao artifact would trigger a rain of blood and storms of conflict; even Longevity Realm experts would appear to contest. Generally, Longevity Realm experts wouldn't contend for treasure artifacts to avoid losing their status, but Dao artifacts were different.
"It seems this Long Xuan has no sinister thoughts. After all, unless she is extremely heinous, inherently cold, and devoid of humanity, having received a great favor from you and moreover being a fellow true disciple, she wouldn't be ungrateful." Yan nodded. "Beginning! Shift Flower Connect Wood, Shifting Stars and Changing Heavens, Transforming Methods and Changing Powers! Transfer!"
Suddenly, Yan's true qi rushed into Fang Han's body, while the other half of the true qi dashed into the body of the "Black Water King Snake" that had turned into an idiot.
Like an axle, it connected the two wheels of Fang Han and the Black Water King Snake together.
Rumble!
After Yan linked him with the Black Water King Snake, Fang Han instantly suffered a violent tremor in his mind! The magic power of that Black Water King Snake transmitted over continuously in an endless stream. The moment that foreign magic power contacted his true qi, it was instantly like gunpowder meeting fire, detonating abruptly!
He absolutely never expected that the Shift Flower Connect Wood technique would be this treacherous!
"Pfft!"
He instantly bled from his seven orifices, his body seemingly about to be torn into a mass of meat pulp by the explosion. His head carried a flavor of blowing apart immediately.
That explosion was not merely a single burst but continuously triggering a chain reaction.
Fang Han knew this was the most crucial moment.
If the foreign magic power was allowed to trigger a chain reaction with his own true qi, it was equivalent to a massive fire burning down a mountain forest; it simply couldn't be stopped.
"Magic power graft, forty-nine rotations, the Great Cycle's heavenly mechanism, wonderful uses of the One Origin, the imperial path of Yama, peaceful suffering and immovability, the secret door of Ksitigarbha, the door of divine abilities opening, the ocean accepts hundreds of rivers, tolerance brings greatness…"
In this instant, Fang Han forgot all the pain in his body. All his spiritual intent turned into a single thought, which was: the ocean accepts hundreds of rivers, tolerance brings greatness. Following the true qi circulation dharma method of Shift Flower Connect Wood, a gateway was formed, continuously accommodating the magic power, forcibly suppressing that chain explosive reaction, and devouring the foreign magic power.
Surge after surge of magic power was truly accommodated into his true qi, getting broken up, molten, and not staging conflict! It turned into his own magic power.
The divine ability of Shift Flower Connect Wood was indeed out of the ordinary, possessing its own unique marvelous uses.
At this time, Fang Han's body was completely stuffed with qi, swelling up like a balloon, floating in the void. This was also noticed by Long Xuan and the demoness. Both Long Xuan and the demoness widened their eyes, unaware of what exactly Fang Han was doing? How did such a change occur.
"What divine ability is this cultivating? I am well-informed, but I've never known such a phenomenon, what divine ability is this? If some problem occurs and he explodes and dies? When the sect investigates, I can hardly wash myself of the affair…" Long Xuan felt very nervous in her heart. If a problem occurred with Fang Han, she would genuinely have to accept an investigation and would be hard-pressed to clear her name.
Furthermore, public opinion would be unbearable. She had received a great favor from Fang Han; if Fang Han went exploring with her and died suddenly, even the slightest rumors would leave a bad taste.
Similarly, if she died, the Yuhua Sect would also investigate Fang Han.
True disciples were not like inner sect disciples and outer sect disciples. If an outer sect disciple died, it was nothing much and could be covered up; an inner sect disciple required detailed investigation; if a true disciple died, all the elders would launch fiery wrath, and the headmaster would be shaken. After all, within the sect, there were only slightly over a hundred true disciples; dying one meant one less.
"Bang bang bang…" Bang bang!
At this moment, a series of explosions resonated out, transmitting from Fang Han's body. With every resounding explosion, Fang Han's mouth sprayed out a dart of blood, seemingly like his inch-by-inch meridians were breaking!
"Not good!"
Long Xuan turned pale with fright.
However, immediately following, Fang Han abruptly opened his eyes. The balloon-like swollen body entirely deflated. His gaze was brighter than ever before. Opening his mouth, he exhaled; the air current billowed, resembling a hurricane, blowing the large rocks on this deserted island rolling haphazardly, flying into the sky.
"What a mighty aura! He has the strength of at least two thousand Xuanhuang Fiery Horses!" Long Xuan was shocked, and the demoness was even more shocked. "Impossible, impossible, how could he suddenly increase so much magic power!"
Fang Han finally succeeded in Shifting Flowers and Connecting Wood!