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Chapter 43: Spirit Plant · General Order

Chapter 43: Chapter 43: Spirit Plant · General Order

Boom~

Another loud explosion and a sense of tremor came through again.

Gu Shanhai had already grown accustomed to it, as such noises had been intermittently heard these days.

By now, he had long left Fengtai Village, but he didn’t go far; the commotion was due to a group of cultivators from the court who came here to fight over the Mountain God Authority in the Black Tiger Corpse.

Gu Shanhai also learned something—the cultivation techniques practiced by the court’s cultivators were all similar to "Knowing Destiny," or rather, all the techniques were of this type, not focusing on combat.

Hence, the noises were from modern weaponry—yes, modern heat weapons. Anyway, the fighting was thunderously loud and the blood was almost flowing into rivers.

After seizing the Authority, one could become a god, not necessarily gaining immortality but at least being able to live freely for a thousand years—who wouldn’t like that?

Thankfully, Gu Shanhai had run away right after he buried Xiang Fang that day; otherwise, he would surely have been embroiled in trouble.

His slight figure couldn’t withstand the onslaught; a small handgun fight might be manageable, but given the noise, it couldn’t just be handguns, and no one would believe it to be so.

In a battle of this magnitude, Gu Shanhai guessed that if he could come out unscathed, it would be due to incredibly good luck.

A system progressing side by side with various modern armaments and cultivation wouldn’t really be considered by anyone as mere weaponry without the essence of the cultivation system mixed in.

In the Cultivation World, those items would be called magic weapons.

"At last, I’ve updated my entire system, and it’s taken nearly a month," said Gu Shanhai, who hadn’t ventured out since the last time he emerged and encountered a murder.

He wasn’t afraid of karma, but that didn’t mean he should recklessly go out looking for trouble. Staying peaceful was naturally the better option.

During this period, he successfully combined "Knowing Destiny" and the Yunling Technique to form a new cultivation technique, still called the Yunling Technique, but the limit went from Qi Refining First Level to Qi Refining Second Level.

As for how many levels of Qi Refinement he could achieve, that depended on how he would improve the system. His current technique was already a mix of three different systems: the original Yunling Technique, an enhanced version of calisthenics called the Child Skill, plus the combat-ineffective "Knowing Destiny"—the combination of three fundamentally different cultivation methods.

It might not be said to be very powerful, but it was definitely the most suitable for Gu Shanhai, after all, he tailor-made it for himself.

Furthermore, his Magic Domain also made significant progress—aside from the increased range and strength from the growth of the Yunling Grass and Purifying Grass, there was also an enhancement in properties. Initially, he had obtained bullets blessed with five elemental attributes from the generous emperor.

Apart from the fire attribute, there were also frost, Holy Light, corrosion, and deadly poison; all had been integrated into his Magic Domain.

As a result, his shield gained an additional four layers for each property, and so did his aura, unfortunately. Since all were of a damaging nature, currently, the five kinds of auras were also damaging and negative, such as frost slowing and freeze injuries, even Holy Light was the same.

To create positive augmenting effects, like providing allies with additional attributes or effects, Gu Shanhai needed corresponding data to incorporate into the aura effects. Even if he were to research it himself, it would take too long and be inefficient.

Nowadays, being alone and given that his aura was relatively small and not very helpful to teammates, naturally, he didn’t feel a strong need to modify it.

At present, his Magic Domain remained with a radius of sixty centimeters centered around him, with no expansion because it wasn’t necessary. In contrast, the distance for the permanent mana aura had increased to one and a half meters, fifty centimeters more than before.

The smaller the Magic Domain, the denser the inner Spiritual Energy. Even though the Yunling Grass and Purifying Grass had already improved, the concentration of Spiritual Energy had surged again, but this didn’t mean it was sufficient.

As he continually optimized his cultivation technique to enhance refining efficiency, strengthened his Magic Domain’s amplification, reinforced the permanent mana aura, etc., the corresponding consumption of Spiritual Energy naturally increased. It couldn’t be that the necessary Spiritual Energy simply appeared out of nowhere.

That’s why he didn’t expand the range of the Magic Domain, only enlarging the demands of the permanent mana aura as necessary.

Of course, more importantly, he had another significant consumer, which was the young girl Ai, who he had cultivated into a Spirit Plant.

This young girl Ai was distinct from the Yunling Grass and Purifying Grass, which had a low consumption while still producing Spiritual Energy; she was a genuine Spirit Plant, and definitely not an ordinary one. Gu Shanhai originally thought the Black Tiger picked her randomly, but now it seemed possible that she had some connection with the mountain ghost.

If motivated by mana, it could summon a mountain ghost apparition whose strength and duration depended on the young girl Ai’s own cultivation level as a Spirit Plant and her mana.

As things were, she could summon independently once a day, for a duration of one hour, and in terms of power, she was much stronger than Gu Shanhai, with many abilities related to plants and vegetation.

However, it wasn’t that only one summon was possible. If Gu Shanhai infused mana, he could summon again—currently the limit was three times, mainly because the young girl Ai had only recently become a Spirit Plant and could not endure multiple summons, which might harm her.

Also, the duration could be extended: by injecting mana into the young girl Ai, she could then increase the existence time of the mountain ghost apparition. There was naturally a limit here as well, currently five times, meaning five hours, though the number of summons and the duration could not overlap.

Because this wasn’t a summoning skill from "The First Age" but a plant, it couldn’t withstand multiple instances; to continue strengthening, it would have to wait until next time for cultivation.

As for the mountain ghost apparition, to be honest, it really was just an apparition, roughly a silhouette of a person riding a tiger. One couldn’t even make out the face, let alone distinguish whether it was male or female.

It was probably just a reflection of the mountain ghost that remained in the mountain’s vegetation in those years. What it would develop into next fully depended on Gu Shanhai’s subsequent decisions and cultivation; it didn’t necessarily have to be a mountain ghost—he planned to cultivate it into a protector deity like a Vajra Guardian.

That’s why he had already changed the original name of the young girl Ai to General Order.

The mountain ghost was of little use; the Yellow Turban Warriors, Thunder Department Heavenly Soldiers, and Vajra Guardians, each were stronger than the mountain ghost, able to fight, endure, and intimidate.

"I still haven’t made use of the tiger’s might; it seems a bit high-end," Gu Shanhai reviewed.

All that remained was the passive skill that the Black Tiger had given him, similar to an intimidation effect—certainly strong, not something he could research now but could later be transformed into a Fear Aura.

As for the Golden Bell Shield Iron Cloth Shirt and Child Skill...they were already greatly accomplished; it would take some more time to reach perfection, but he was close to mastering them.