Longevity Begins With The Birth Of A Daughter At An Old Age

Chapter 374: Rank Ten Spell

In the past, Xu Mu had given Fengque a jade slip, claiming it was for communication purposes, but in reality, it was to determine her location.

Fengque is Fengluan's older sister, and naturally, Xu Mu couldn't just sit back and let something happen to her.

The opening of the Xuan Yang Secret Realm is a once-in-a-century event in the Cangming Sea, and as the leader of the three major forces, the Starry Gate will definitely send people in to search for treasures. As a cannon fodder cultivator, Fengque is highly likely to be brought along.

Xu Mu planned to take this opportunity to rescue her and fulfill Fengluan's long-standing wish.

The reason why he didn't take action outside was because the Starry Gate had placed too many means on Fengque. If he were to take her away, it would be easily traced.

Now, in a closed secret realm, with various forces fighting and the situation in chaos, many concerns are eliminated. The other party probably also spent a lot of effort tracking him down for the sake of a fake pill cultivator.

"Condense!"

Xu Mu formed a hand seal, and the wind spiritual power in the void gathered, condensing into a lifelike, fully-scaled, green-colored dragon. If it were a cultivator with shallow cultivation, they would probably mistake it for a true spirit dragon.

This is actually Xu Mu's Wind Dragon Summoning Technique, a low-level elemental creature with wind spiritual power condensed into it, possessing low-level sentience.

Xu Mu has already cultivated this spell to the Transcendent level, and the wind dragon he condensed is enough to contend with an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator in the early stage for a while.

During these years spent in the Earthfire Vein, Xu Mu didn't just focus on improving his Myriad Tribulations True Body.

The improvement of the Myriad Tribulations True Body doesn't consume much of his energy. As long as he stays in the Earthfire Vein, his physical strength will continue to increase. So he has plenty of time to improve other skills.

The most important of these is spells, because only in this aspect can he quickly enhance his strength and counter his opponents.

The only regret is that, given his current situation, he can't really collect any profound spells. He only has some common and ordinary spells, such as various elemental summoning techniques, which use a large amount of mana to create a spiritual puppet.

If it weren't for Xu Mu raising it to the Transcendent level, it would hardly be useful in battles of the same level.

In addition, there is the Divine Power Technique: greatly enhancing the cultivation of qi.

The Soul Annihilation Technique: condensing a divine thought weapon to directly attack the opponent's soul.

The Corpse Subjugation Technique: bringing a corpse back to life, possessing some of its abilities from when it was alive.

The Spiritual Power Escape: condensing various spiritual powers into a shield to block attacks (used when Xu Mu resisted Yun Mengyao).

The Spiritual Prison Technique: transforming spiritual power into a cage to trap enemies.

The God Lock Technique: leaving a spiritual imprint on the target, which can reach a distance of millions of miles.

The Wooden Puppet Technique: summoning a combat puppet with initial sentience based on ancient wood that has been around for a hundred years (the stronger the spiritual nature of the tree used, the higher the strength and sentience of the summoned tree person).

The Ice Demon Technique: summoning an ice demon puppet with initial sentience based on profound ice (the stronger the spiritual nature of the profound ice used, the higher the strength and sentience of the summoned ice demon).

These spells may seem powerful, but in reality, not many Nascent Soul cultivators actually practice them. Even if they do, it is only a superficial understanding and they won't delve deep into them unless there is a special need.

Practitioners who have cultivated Law Treasures rarely use them in battle. They are usually used to bully lower-level cultivators. The most common scenario for their use is in group attacks during battles. After all, Law Treasures, despite their power and convenience, always have a cost and using them for extended periods of time is equivalent to burning them. This is especially true when attacking certain formations, which results in even greater consumption. At such times, using spells is more cost-effective.

Cases like Xu Mu, who has elevated a Rank Ten basic spell to the Transcendent level, are basically non-existent in the Nascent Soul stage.

In addition, it is also rare to find cases like Xu Mu, who has cultivated numerous basic spells.

This involves a difficult problem related to the cultivation attribute. The higher the cultivation level, the purer the spiritual attribute in the body. Naturally, one has an advantage when cultivating spells and Divine Abilities of the same attribute. However, when cultivating spells and Divine Abilities of other attributes, one will face difficulties.

Therefore, even if one cultivates basic spells, they will only cultivate spells of the same attribute and will not bother with cultivating spells of other attributes.

In this regard, Xu Mu has a huge advantage due to the characteristics of his ancestral infant. Although he does not have advanced spell cultivation, he can fully unleash spell power far beyond his level by taking advantage of the mutual restraint of attributes.

The ancestral infant is known as the legendary Nascent Soul, so it is naturally not that simple. Over the years, Xu Mu has discovered that he can not only exceptionally cast spells of the Five Elements, but also spells of different attributes such as ice, thunder, and wind.

In addition, spells with special attributes can also be cultivated and cast, such as corpse energy and blood energy. This is why Xu Mu is able to perform spells like controlling corpses and summoning souls.

Perhaps it is precisely because he has mastered these special spells that he can perform summoning spells that are more spiritually advanced than ordinary cultivators. After all, corpse cultivation and soul cultivation are experts in this field. However, the other party will not perform elemental summoning spells and is not interested in researching such spells because they have better means of combat, such as refining corpses and ghost spirits.

It is also because of this reason that Xu Mu has discovered many unique aspects of combining basic spells.

In the battle just now with Yun Mengyao, if he wanted to, he could have killed her using these basic spells alone.

However, doing so would consume too much spiritual power and time, making it prone to accidents. That's why he chose to give up.

These abnormalities in spells have made Xu Mu increasingly aware of the immense potential of the ancestral infant.

Roar!

After successfully condensing the Wind Dragon, it opened its mouth wide and swallowed Xu Mu directly, then followed Xu Mu's instructions and rushed towards the location of the Phoenix.

The reason he did not use his true body to fly at high speed was not to intentionally slow down, but because there are too many dangers in the Xuan Yang Secret Realm. Even with his strength, he dare not act recklessly, as he could easily lose his life due to carelessness.

Now that he has the Wind Dragon protecting him, at least on the outskirts of the Xuan Yang Secret Realm, he won't encounter any major dangers.

While others rely on cannon fodder to explore the path, Xu Mu relies on spell life to explore, which undoubtedly makes it much easier. The only downside is that it consumes a lot of spiritual power. With Xu Mu's huge spiritual power reserve, he still needs to save as much as possible. In addition, Xu Mu has also taken his self-refined Supreme Grade Qi-Enhancing Pill to restore his spiritual power and avoid any mishaps at critical moments.

The reason other forces use cannon fodder and do not cast spells is because casting spells would lower their state and make it difficult to respond to unexpected situations.

Compared to the safety of the Nascent Soul stage, it is worth sacrificing a hundred false pill cultivators.

After all, as long as there are resources, false pill cultivators can be obtained in any quantity. But Nascent Soul stage cultivators are extremely rare and no matter how many resources are spent, it is difficult to cultivate them.

Perhaps the Nascent Soul stage can be obtained by spending resources, but even the Starry Sky Sect probably cannot afford the cost.

Relatively speaking, using false pill cultivators is more cost-effective, especially in the exploration of secret realms, where there are rarely situations where one ends up at a loss.

While Xu Mu was on the road, silently recovering his spiritual power, a golden bird emitting golden light flew towards his Wind Dragon spell while chirping. At the same time, half of the Wind Dragon's body was silently cut open.

(End of this chapter)