Chapter 11: Ethereal Quality Transformation
Mengshan City, North District, in a courtyard enveloped by an array.
A young man in his early twenties, dressed in a gray robe, stands in the backyard, motionless, as his hands wave around.
Gray Spirit Light constantly bursts and shoots out from his dancing fingertips.
Whooosh, whooosh, whooosh...
The speed of the Spirit Light is incredibly fast, like teleportation. Almost as soon as it emerges from the fingertips, new tender leaves on the jujube tree three meters away are directly shattered and annihilated in the Spirit Light.
The young man is none other than Han Yi.
At this moment, what he is practicing is the only Magic Skill, Spirit Void Finger.
Spirit Void Finger is a simple Magic Skill, using a special method to compress spiritual power at the fingertips and then shoot it out, causing a certain amount of damage.
Because the principle is simple, the lethality is very limited, and disciples at the Middle Stage of Qi Cultivating and above generally don't practice it.
It is only the newcomers who have just joined the Xuandan Sect that would think this Magic Skill is cool and want to learn it.
At a certain moment.
Han Yi, who is focused on practicing the Spirit Void Finger, suddenly realizes that his Spirit Void Finger has become smoother and the controllable range of compressed spiritual power is larger when he executes it.
More importantly, the compression method has suddenly changed, and there is a noticeable difference compared to when he started practicing Spirit Void Finger.
In short.
The Spirit Void Finger has been upgraded.
This spiritual power compression method is both familiar and unfamiliar.
It is unfamiliar because it is already different in the method from when he started practicing the Spirit Void Finger. It feels familiar because there is no obstruction and it's as smooth as breathing when he uses it now.
Whooosh!
Boom...
The branch of the jujube tree is directly shattered by this Spirit Light, and some of the broken fragments are embedded deeply into the courtyard wall behind the tree because of the incredible speed, while the remaining fragments leave small bowl-sized pits on the wall.
Han Yi is shocked and stops himself from trying again.
Then, with a delighted expression, he looks at the Panel.
Just as expected, he has broken through.
[Spirit Void Finger (Peeking through the Doorway 1/100)]
"Unlike Alchemy Skill, the progress of the Spirit Void Finger is faster, and after it advances, the power it displays is even greater."
"Moreover, after the advancement, even the method of spiritual power compression has changed, which means that this Magic Skill has undergone a complete transformation, and the Spirit Void Finger I'm using now should be version 2.0."
"This technique has great potential."
Han Yi is internally reassured.
The last time he practiced Spirit Void Finger, he spent only two days to push his initial proficiency from 29/100 to 70/100.
This time, he devoted his whole body and soul to it, and it took him only one day to directly push through to [Peeking through the Doorway].
His cultivation speed is much faster than when practicing Alchemy Skill.
The breakthrough of Spirit Void Finger has given him some more confidence in his own safety.
But.
It's not enough.
Next.
Han Yi continues to hone his Spirit Void Finger.
He keeps waving his hand, casting Spirit Void Finger repeatedly.
Previously, Han Yi experimented and found that the progress bar's advancement was related to the number of times he practiced Spirit Void Finger, and had nothing to do with the amount of compressed spiritual power during each practice.
So he controls each compression of spiritual power to the minimum unit, allowing him to use his spiritual power as many times as possible.
And he doesn't dare to target the jujube tree anymore.
According to the power of his upgraded Spirit Void Finger, it wouldn't matter if the jujube tree was destroyed.
However, the courtyard wall behind the tree is connected to the Restriction Array of the entire courtyard. If his Spirit Void Finger were to accidentally wear out the Formation, he would have nowhere to cry.
After all, the protection level of this courtyard is limited and cannot withstand prolonged wear and tear.
He can only aim at the backyard ground, using the original stone bench to surround the stimulated area, acting as a barrier.
9/100
14/100
19/100
...
As he moves on, his progress each day is either equal to or lesser than the previous day's pace.
However, Han Yi is very satisfied.
This constantly rising sense of accomplishment made him feel that he was making effective progress.
More than a month later.
At some moment.
Boom!
A finger flicked out, with only one-fiftieth of the full body mana contained at the fingertip.
But this time, the way of compression was different. Han Yi had a new realization in the dark and followed this realization to construct this finger flick.
The mana was compressed and operated in a different way, and it erupted from between his fingers.
Even at the moment of flicking, Han Yi could feel a slight tingling in his finger and a barely detectable tremble in his whole body due to the counter shock.
The next moment.
He didn't have time to pay attention to the condition of his finger, but opened his mouth wide, his eyes bulging, staring straight ahead in shock. After the violent tremor in his pupils, he was overcome with ecstasy.
In front of him, the spirit light that had been twisted into fine silk slanted to the ground.
In the blink of an eye.
Boom!
The spirit light hit the ground, causing the ground to tremble lightly and sending shattered stones flying, exploding the gathered stone bench and stone pieces into broken fragments.
The flying stones collided with the walls of the courtyard, making a dense series of collision sounds.
The noise was much louder than Han Yi had expected.
With a wave of his sleeve, he pushed down all the dust that had been stirred up.
Upon closer inspection.
At the place where the Spirit Void Finger had landed just now, there was now a pit about one meter wide.
Without a doubt, if that finger had landed on a person's body, it would have caused them to burst apart in an instant.
After breaking through, the power of the Spirit Void Finger had increased dramatically.
And also.
Keep in mind that the mana he had used to construct the Spirit Void Finger just now was only one-fiftieth of his total mana.
If he were to go all out in a battle, using half of his total mana to construct the Spirit Void Finger.
How exaggerated would the power within that single finger be?
Just thinking about it made him shudder.
[Spirit Void Finger (Enter the Hall 1/100)]
The proficiency panel was also showing the promotion of the Spirit Void Finger.
After the ecstasy, Han Yi wanted to continue practicing but discovered two problems.
After breaking through to [Enter the Hall], the progress of practicing the Spirit Void Finger had become very slow. It had taken two whole days to advance from 1/100 to 2/100.
Also, the courtyard where he was living could no longer provide the environment needed to practice the more powerful Spirit Void Finger.
In short, the progress of practice was difficult, and it was easy to blow up the courtyard.
Furthermore, the spirit stones had been completely consumed.
By this time, it had been more than four months since he had last left home.
He even missed the quarterly assembly at the Pill Shop.
After deep contemplation, Han Yi decided to go out.
Without spirit stones, practicing the Spirit Void Finger and recovering mana would be extremely time-consuming.
Moreover, he was unlikely to advance the Spirit Void Finger to the next stage of [Enter the Hall] in a short period of time.
Before going out, Han Yi sorted out the Exorcise evil spirits pills he needed to give Guan Sheng and the Nurturing Qi pills he planned to sell to the Pill Shop, and hid the extras in his storage bag.
This time.
He planned to first go to the market in Mengshan City and then trade pills at the Pill Shop.
Going to the market was not only to sell pills but also to try to buy a more powerful magic skill.
Having only the Spirit Void Finger felt too monotonous.
He should learn a few more skills, and keep one or even more as his trump cards.
That way, he would feel more secure.
After more than four months, Han Yi used the Array Disk again to activate the courtyard's Array Restriction, and instead of heading straight to the Pill Shop, he took the path to a cultivation market in Mengshan City.
He had been hiding at home for four months.
This had made Jiang De, who had been keeping watch outside the courtyard every now and then during the first two months, grow even darker in anger.