19 Black Gold Level Technique!
Ding, Congratulations on creating a Silver-Earth to Black Gold-Heaven Level Technique Set.
Details: 9 forms: Shadow Tactics
Illusive Steps: Illusions will be created upon use, 1 at minor mastery, 3 at mastery, 6 at major mastery, and 9 at perfection
Shadowless steps: The user will move faster than a shadow. At minor mastery, the user's speed will drastically increase. At mastery, the user can blend into shadows. At major mastery,f the user can almost instantly shift to any of the created illusions (stage 1). At perfection, the user can use shadows to travel
Airborne Shadow: at Minor mastery, the user can glide short distances in the air, at mastery, the user can easily switch directions while gliding, at major mastery the user can jump in mid-air once. At perfection, the user can jump in mid-air 3 times.
Shadow Sneak: At minor mastery, the user will be able to hide within another's shadow, at mastery, the user will be able to sink into any shadow at will, at major mastery the user will be able to store items in his own shadow, at perfection the user will be able to drag others into shadows.
Benign Flicker: The user will be able to disappear for a second at minor mastery. At mastery, the user will be able to unconditionally dodge a fatal non AoE attack not exceeding a certain strength (30-sec cooldown), at major mastery the cooldown is reduced to 15-sec. At perfection, the maximum strength of the attack in relation to the user's strength his increased.
Subtle Deciete: at minor mastery, the user can freeze and conceal one of their own attacks to be activated on contact with another. At mastery, the number is increased to 3 and 9 at major mastery. At perfection, the strength of the traps will be increased by 15-30%.
Shadow Arts: At minor mastery, the user can send out a strand of shadow to bind the opponent which is increased to 3 at mastery and 9 at major mastery. At perfection, the shadow strands will be able to control the target via their shadow.
Concealment: at minor mastery, the user can mask their presence and control their breath to remain unnoticed, at mastery the user can do so at will, at major mastery the form will always be in use unless stopped by the user. At perfection, the user's presence can be changed to have a slightly different signature.
HellFire Arts: At minor mastery, the user can create a small hellfire that burns the vitality of the opponent, at mastery the flame can be sot out for up to 10 metres. at major mastery, the number of flames is 3 and 9 at perfection.
Would you like to cultivate this technique? [Y/N]
「Not yet.」
There were still 15 days until the scheduled lecture and he wanted to make something after a sudden bout of inspiration, a warship! Chen Hua thought about how nice it would be to fly and also thought of the legendary floating mountains on those powerful sects in the centre of the continent.
For most, creating a warship would be a massive project because of the materials, time, effort, and various vocational masters needed to make one but, He had all that! Infinite free Crystal Iron, Arrays, Inscriptions, etc. he had everything needed to make the ship, he could even make spirit stones with the energy stone creation book!
Suddenly motivated, he took out the book and started experimenting. In the next 5 days, he found out that he wasn't making spirit stones, but spirit crystals. Spirit crystals were formed by interconnecting and layering spiritual energy on top of one another so that a layered crystal was formed... This was far more useful than spirit stones for array making!
By the end of the 5th day, Chen Hua had already formed a fist-sized crystal with all of the layers inscribed with arrays, each interacting with one another to form a computing processor of sorts. Although it could not perform many operations, it would act as the perfect key!
To make one of these crystals the methods to make the arrays were utterly complex because it required all of the layers to interact and it also required inputs to cause certain outputs.
On the 10th day, a large ship had already taken form with plates of crystal iron engraved with weight reduction and strengthening arrays layered on top of one another bolted into a frame inscribed with more arrays.
By the 11th day, the ship could be seen from all the peaks shimmering in the sunlight as layers and layers of arrays were laid upon it following the #1 sect rule: You can never be too safe, cockroaches are sturdy, but we are sturdier! If you can have 1 layer of defence, why not 3? If you have 3 why not 9?
With the additional arrays added onto the iron, if the project failed, then it would be exceptionally hard to dispose of. As the 5 peak masters were watching their diligent young sect master undertake the project of building a massive warship, the teleportation formation activated as 10 people appeared.
Those 10 people were none other than the Sect and Clan masters with their best disciples. As soon as they arrived they were greeted by the other disciples who were loitering about watching Chen Hua go about his business.
「Excuse me, I don't remember seeing you here before, may I ask when you got here?」
「I just arrived in the sect with everyone else, you just got here, so let me share a piece of news with you, the Young Sect master has been working non-stop for the past few days, he is over there working on that artefact. There are a few speculations so as to what it is but I hear rumours that it has something to do with the lecture in 4 days.」
「The lecture? Do people know what the topic for it will be yet?」
「No, the Young Sectmaster does not release the topic ahead of time, when the time comes he will announce it at the lecture hall, but, I am confident that nothing useless will be taught there. I have also heard that there is a black gold level set of techniques in the library that the Young sect master created himself. Although I am an Outer Disciple I an only at the 2nd stage of the Spirit realm and cannot cultivate a Silver-tier earth grade technique yet so I don't know the specifics, but, you are an inner disciple which means that you are at least at the origin realm. The technique is probably perfect for you as it can still be used through the entirety of the Profound realm and even the heaven realm.」
「A Black gold tier technique?! In this part of the continent, even silver level techniques are rare not to mention Gold level techniques, ut black gold techniques? Those who are known to have them can be counted on 1 hand!」
「It is called the Shadow Tactics, you can find it on the 2nd floor of the library.」
「Thank you, what is your name?」
「Li Tiancheng! If you need anything in the future you can find my residence at the base of the 3rd peak, residence number 21」
「Oksy, If I need anything I will find you.」
Saluting Li Tiancheng, the 5 new inner disciples walked towards the library. Stepping through the doors, the seemingly small pagoda turned into a massive area filled to the brim with bookshelves and different books. Walking up to the counter they saw an elderly man sitting at the desk reading through a book.
「Elder, we were looking for the shadow tactics, do you know where we can find it?」
「... The new art created by the Young sect master?... He is indeed a genius, merely 7 years old...」
「Only 7!?」
「Indeed... He seems to be working on a warship at the moment... truly, he is the fortune of out [Myriad Dao Sect]. You can find what you are looking for on the second floor. The Western corner is used to store multi-level techniques... Since you are new here, I will explain the rules to you,
You can not share anything concerning the library's contents to anyone outside the sect.
You can not share anything that would normally require one to pay for it.
You can record your experiences and contribute to the sect by submitting them to the library and depending on their worth earning contribution points.
You are only able to access the floors corresponding to your status.
You are not allowed to take techniques out of the library, a jade slip containing a copy will be issued, it will automatically erase itself after either 7 days, or 3 days after you view it. If you need more time you must come back to take it out again.
Your first 3 technique or technique sets are free, the rest, you must pay contribution points for.」
「Thank you elder, may I ask who you are?」
「I am just the librarian here, now go, stop disturbing me.」
「Yes, yes, thank you for your guidance.」
Walking up to the third floor, they walked directly to the western corner and took a look at the shimmering scroll <Shadow Tacticts>
Each taking one of the slips the elder had given them before, they pressed it against the tag on the shelf and the contents were copied onto the slips. Happily walking out, they rushed off to their own residences to thoroughly memorise the contents.
--- Back at where Chen Hua was making the warship, he was installing the engines onto it.
「Levitation engines are far better than anti-gravitational arrays but they also have the issue of producing too much heat... Luckily I have the Crystal Iron which is perfect for this...」
Making and installing 5 engines, he suddenly found a huge problem...「I was too focused on the defence of the exterior of the ship! I totally forgot about the security of the interior!」
Rushing off to the main control room of the ship, Chen Hua began to fiddle with the various interfaces of the ship connecting multiple crystal cores to form one huge messy control panel. This panel was connected to all of the various functions of the ship, the spirit crystals could be said to be a far more advanced and versatile form of the AOI circuit chips in digital electronics.
Finally finishing with that, all he had to do was set various defences on the inside and a boatload of offensive cannons, gadgets, and doohickeys. Using his skills as a base for the main cannons he formed them something that could easily tear down mountains in one shot, in fact, it could easily turn a mountain into a crater, far more powerful than a nuke just without the radiation.
「Hehe, the lecture is supposed to start in the next few hours, I darest say that after I finish, no one will have the guts to attack us when I'm finished with this... In fact, I should probably make a few more.」
Thinking about ho majestic it would be to have a fleet of massive warships, he recalled the fabled Sword Sect at the Centre of the continent, The Sword Sect is a mighty force, they are able to send out millions of cultivators on flying swords to sweep through their foes. If they can ride on massive flying swords and even supposedly have their main sect as a flying sword, why can't the sect be transformed into a massive warship?
If we were to make the entire sect into a warship then who would dare mess with us in this world? Speaking of warships, should I create smaller ones, like, for the disciples who are unable to fly? I hear that some of the legendary sects are so big that they need teleportation arrays or it would be impossible to get from one side to the other in even a month... What if I were to compress the space in these warships, we could surprise the enemy by bringing 10 times the number of people that would normally be able to fit on the ship to attack...
Ding! Warning, 1 hour until the Lecture!
