Ye Mingyi stood panting on the plain, his inner energy completely exhausted. Before him lay the corpse of the sneak attacker, riddled with holes, blood flowing all over the ground.
After a chase and fight, he had finally killed the sneak attacker.
Relying on the protective Daoist barrier of the talisman and the breakthrough of the Grand Eternity Heavenly Astral Sword Scripture, he forcibly ground the opponent to death.
As for what level of cultivation the opponent was, Ye Mingyi didn't know.
He only knew that this fight was particularly difficult. If it weren't for the blessing of the talisman and the flat boat, he definitely wouldn't have been able to kill the opponent.
"Was it just him? Did anyone else attack you?" Chen Changsheng's ethereal figure landed beside his disciple, and he asked softly.
Ye Mingyi turned his head to look, the killing intent in his eyes had not yet dissipated: "It was just him, I have already dealt with him."
He paused, and then spoke again: "Master, can you tell me what your cultivation level really is?"
Everything that happened today brought him great shock, and at the same time, it was full of security.
The feeling of being protected was really too good!
Chen Changsheng smiled slightly and nodded: "This master's cultivation... is Foundation Establishment Early Stage!"
"… …"
The corner of Ye Mingyi's mouth twitched slightly.
Foundation Establishment my ass, who has ever heard of a Foundation Establishment cultivator killing a Nascent Soul?
But the person who killed the elders of the three major forces was a cultivator whose cultivation seemed to be only at the Foundation Establishment stage.
The result of the competition in the Secret Realm also surprised everyone. The most valuable Taiji Plate Fruit was taken by Ye Mingyi alone.
The master and disciple became the biggest winners in the Secret Realm competition, and everyone else was reduced to supporting roles, a case of losing both the lady and the army.
… …
Back to Lotus Horn City.
In the group file, Chen Changsheng carefully selected an ancient cultivation technique suitable for sword cultivators for Ye Mingyi.
Ye Mingyi was overjoyed and went back to his room with the cultivation technique and the Taiji Plate Fruit to seclude himself and prepare to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.
Chen Changsheng then began to check the storage rings of the three Nascent Soul old monsters.
The resource reserves of the Nascent Soul old monsters were quite abundant, with many rare natural treasures dazzling the eyes, but the most noteworthy were the inheritance Dao techniques of the three major forces.
The Soul Severing Valley's Dao technique specialized in severing people's souls, which was not very helpful to Chen Changsheng, so he gave this Dao technique to Yu Niang.
Ghost cultivators specialized in killing cultivators' souls, and the compatibility was extremely high.
The Flowery Splendor Pavilion's Dao technique was a bit unique, requiring the condensation of a fairy phantom of unparalleled beauty to assist in one's own battle.
Although this Dao technique could be cultivated by both male and female cultivators, the Dao technique as a whole was more feminine, and it would be a bit awkward for men to practice it.
Chen Changsheng gave this Dao technique to Miaomiao.
He wanted Miaomiao to dance for him with a beautiful fairy after condensing the fairy phantom.
Finally, there was the Thousand Faces Sect's Dao technique—《Hundred Faces Thousand Appearances》!
This Dao technique was quite interesting.
Under the gaze of the Heavenly Eye Divine Power, the Thousand Faces Sect Elder's Dao technique was full of flaws, and he was the weakest of the three.
But judging from the attitudes of the three Nascent Soul old monsters, the Thousand Faces Sect Elder seemed to be the strongest among them.
So it wasn't that the Thousand Faces Sect's Dao technique was weak, but that it happened to be countered by Chen Changsheng's Heavenly Eye Divine Power, and it failed to display the essence of the Thousand Faces Sect's Dao technique.
"Observe others, imitate others, one person with a hundred faces, a thousand appearances of Dao techniques."
Chen Changsheng lay on the chair, holding the sleeping Yu Niang in one hand and clutching the Dao technique jade slip in the other.
He closed his eyes and rested his mind, and his divine sense repeatedly read the Dao technique in the jade slip.
The most well-behaved and sensible was Miaomiao, who sat beside him and made tea, and from time to time actively fed him a piece of freshly cut spiritual fruit.
"The Thousand Faces Sect Elder's 《Hundred Faces Thousand Appearances》is completely wrongly practiced, and even the entire Thousand Faces Sect is wrongly practiced."
"Changing one's appearance is only for disguise, imitating Dao techniques is the essence. There is no need to change into the other party's appearance in battle, just imitate the other party's Dao technique."
Chen Changsheng was also understanding and deducing while reading the Dao technique.
He suspected that the Thousand Faces Sect's Dao technique might be mistakenly believed to require completely transforming into the other party in order to perform the exact same Dao technique as the other party.
The more similar the imitation, the closer the strength of the Dao technique would be.
But in Chen Changsheng's view, this kind of cultivation method that takes care of both ends would only lead to 《Hundred Faces Thousand Appearances》being full of flaws, especially in front of cultivators with Dao techniques like the Heavenly Eye Divine Power, it would be no different from courting death.
"Is it that the Dao technique inheritance has deviated, or did the creator himself not notice this problem?"
Although Chen Changsheng believed that there were problems with 《Hundred Faces Thousand Appearances》, he didn't think that this Dao technique was useless. On the contrary, he believed that this was an extremely terrifying inheritance with potential.
As long as the cultivation direction was correct, it could even be comparable to an ancient inheritance!
"Imitating others is for imitating Dao techniques, using the fake to confuse the real, making the fake become real."
"Once it becomes real, it is equivalent to mastering the other party's entire body of Dao techniques."
"I wonder if it is possible to skip the step of imitating others and directly imitate the other party's Dao technique?"
Chen Changsheng opened his eyes, and at the same time that the Dao rhythm around him flowed, he used the Heavenly Eye Divine Power to look at himself, trying to imitate Miaomiao and Yu Niang's Dao techniques, and observing the changes in the Dao imprints on his body.
While practicing the Dao technique, he was also analyzing the Dao technique and improving the Dao technique.
He had been studying the fusion of Dao technique fields for nearly two hundred years, and he was not wasting his time. His deep understanding of the Dao technique level was reflected at this moment.
Combining his own insights and understanding of Dao techniques, he gradually improved the operation and incantation of 《Hundred Faces Thousand Appearances》.
Chen Changsheng's aura suddenly became chaotic and unstable.
Sometimes it was as still as water, sometimes it was turbulent, sometimes it was manic and violent, and sometimes it was gentle and flowing.
Yu Niang felt his change and hurriedly got up to check: "Young Master, what's wrong with you?"
"Don't worry, I'm practicing Dao techniques."
Chen Changsheng's voice and tone also changed, each word as if it came from the mouth of a different person.
"This Dao technique is not dangerous, you should retreat first."
《Hundred Faces Thousand Appearances》was still being honed, and it was inevitable that changes would occur in himself.
This was not the effect he wanted. What he wanted was to only imitate the Dao technique, not imitate the other party.
Miaomiao and Yu Niang cautiously retreated, leaving Chen Changsheng alone sitting in the courtyard, his aura changing in thousands of ways, as if he had become the myriad forms of all living beings.
He sat quietly for more than a month, and thunderclouds surged in the sky.
Ye Mingyi's cultivation broke through, he passed the Foundation Establishment Thunder Tribulation, and successfully condensed a perfect Dao foundation.
But Chen Changsheng was still immersed in the cultivation of Dao techniques, but compared to the previous changes, his aura had already calmed down at this moment.
Only the Dao rhythm flowing around his body was still changing.
Yu Niang and Miaomiao could both clearly feel that the Dao rhythm and Dao technique imprints rippling around Chen Changsheng were becoming more and more similar to their Dao techniques…
