9 Chapter 9 - The strongest auxiliary skill

After Xu Feng left the restaurant after hearing this news, he already started his scheming. He knew that with his background, having a high cultivation base is suspicious, the last thing he wants now is stupid hypocrites chasing on his tail due to his awesome advancement speed. But he can't beat opponents with a high cultivation base with a lower cultivation base, this would draw much more attention, as such a thing was rare even in the immortal realm. So Xu Feng decided to go sky high and show his high talent in the first talent and strength test. Then these sects would think he is a genius that's worth nurturing and not suspect him of bring in possession of a heaven destroying cultivation technique. This method has 4 thing he has to do to stay alive, after all the competition in sects are no joke: 1: He has to at least break through the Daitan opening realm to make it seem like he only has slightly higher than average battle strength 2: Avoid the other idiotic "geniuses" that get jealous of talent 3: Find a good backing to not get bullied 4:Staying low key after finding a good backer and to refrain from killing those that insult me.

To Xu Feng the 4th thing is the hardest to do. There's no way he can tolerate being bullied. He's a god for f*** sake. Soon Xu Feng collected himself. It didn't matter when the idiots that offend him die, it only matters whether or not they feel pain and prefer death or living. His mouth arched into an evil grin. All those who offend me will die, it just a matter of time... patience is a life saver, and for Xu Feng a monster who's thousands of years old, this is an easily understandable concept...

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Back in his shabby house, Xu Feng finished absorbing all of the materials he had stolen. Then he rapidly circulated the Transcending the heaven's scripture and started to open his daitan. Opening a daitan is difficult for beginners, however for Xu Feng it was a breeze, even then it took him a month to fully complete the process.

Bang!

A whirlpool of Qi could be seen, and inside it was Xu Feng. This was the moment he broke through to the Daitan Opening realm. When he went inside his daitan, what the saw shocked him. Inside his daitan was a pool of Qi he had absorbed, but what he absorbed didn't even fill in 1 billionth of the space within his daitan. After pondering the reason behind this absurd change, Xu Feng soon found the answer.

The daitan is a compressed space within the body that stores Qi and various other forms of energy ( depending on the cultivation technique). The space within the Daitan is linked with ones soul force, as Xu Feng has a ridiculously high soul force, his daitan is naturally bigger. This has advantages and disadvantages for example as his daitan is really huge he can store lots of energy within, but when he uses up his energy, to fill it up again with Qi will take a lot of spirit stones...

When one opens their Daitan, often times cultivators choose to cultivate another technique, usually a auxiliary technique. Such techniques were rare and even when found it might not be compatible with the main cultivation technique. However, in Xu Feng's past life, he had stumbled across the inheritance of a senior who had managed to break through the heavenly shackled and ascend to the true god realm, entering the realm of ancients. In his possession was a half completed auxiliary soul skill. This skill was unique, in that way that it was compatible with everyone. It managed to achieve this by altering the technique to suit the soul of the cultivator. The technique could only be considered as half finished, so in Xu Feng's later life, he modified it and improved the technique. When he was finished what he had was a complete product, a combination of the strongest auxiliary soul techniques in the universe personally customised for his soul.

Taking in a deep breath, Xu Feng started to cultivate his Myriad soul technique. In a blink of an eye, one whole month has already passed. Then Xu Feng opened his eyes. Inside his pupils could be seen a crimson sky with glittering stars within. This was the symptom to know that he had achieved the first level of his auxiliary soul technique. These starry eyes, is what gave him the title of the greatest fortune divinator in the realm of the gods. With these eyes he could do many thing like: Numerous varieties of soul attack 2: Allows him to see the enemies strengths and weaknesses and talent as long as their cultivator doesn't surpass himself by a huge margin 3: Enhances his instinct and senses, allowing him to literally sense danger before it occurs, but this only happens if the enemy is weaker than himself. This helps him guard against ambushes but doesn't help him when dealing with stronger enemies and finally 4: allows the cultivator to temporarily increase their strength by up to 10,000 times depending on the strength of the cultivators body and soul.

In the past, Xu Feng had the battle strength of a normal late daitan opening realm expert when he broke through. However, in this life, Xu Feng had the capabilities to go head to head with a early core formation expert. Why? Well his body was as strong as those in the mid core formation realm, he could store up a billion times more Qi than others in the same realm, and his auxiliary technique is unbelievably effective during fights. In fact, Xu Feng believed that if he were to fight against the true geniuses of big clans and families in the god realm, all under peak Daitan opening will loose to him...

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Concealing his aura with one of the techniques in his auxiliary skill, Xu Feng went towards the weapon forging association. This is a place where weapon forgers will forger their weapons and talk to each other about their ideas and ask questions. Xu Feng made his way inside and changed his voice to that of a middle aged man. Going to the counter, he spoke " I want to borrow a weapon forgery of the highest quality "

The young lady behind the counter then said in a monotonous voice " It'll cost 20,000 gold for every day spent"

Xu Feng then took out 60,000 gold coins, allowing him 3 days of forgery. Then with the formation card he was escorted towards a large room. Inside it was a crappy refined steel furnace, the bellows were made out of cheap quality rubber, the flames were that of a Core formation beast - presumably the fiery leopard.

Walking into this room, Xu Feng then inserted the card into the array formation, and when he walked inside a monotonous voice said you have 3 days left starting from now...

Without any signs of haste, Xu Feng took out his spatial ring and started to melt it in high temperatures...

After a few hours of constantly fanning the beast flames, this low quality crap finally started to soften, using his Qi as the hammer, Xu Feng used his divine skill in forgery to reshape the spatial ring into a triangle shaped ring. After cooling it in oil, Xu Feng once again entered the inner space and used his comprehension of the laws of space as well as his soul force to expand the ring's inner space.

Soon the 5 cubic meter space started to expand ....

10, 20,100....1000.....10,000.....28599!

Bang!

The inner space of the ring stopped expanding. Exhausted Xu Feng immediately fell asleep. The next day, he woke up and started to secretly absorb the yang energy with in beast flames. Soon a day passed, and Xu Feng's cultivation rose slightly from a rank 1 to a rank 2 Daitan opening realm expert.

Xu Feng expanded the space of the spatial ring, however the originally sturdy inner space, now became much more unstable, with his experience Xu Feng knew that this ring would be useless in less than 10 years...

But it was worth it. Spending over 20% of his remaining soul force as well as reducing the stableness of the inner space, allows Xu Feng to "stock up" on all the materials he needs.

Laughing evilly, Xu Feng returned back to the inn. He knew that this night was going to be a long one...

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Like usual, various rumours an theories behind the cause of the robberies have spread. Now there are more guards in just about any shop. However this only increases the casualties. It's the same old drill, Xu Feng started off with the less guarded shops and stole and much as he wanted. Laughing non stop at how these idiots would react, Xu Feng stole everything, shops, stores, furnaces (after breaking through the crap array defence system), pill cauldron, pills, herbs, clothes, weapons, armour and various other materials and resources.

Falling asleep, waiting for the start of the tournament, Xu Feng fell asleep with a satisfied smile. He stole from every major family, all the stores were now in his spatial ring... There were some prised resources that has tracking formations and thief detection formations, some even had self destruct formation, too bad for these shop keepers and their array masters, all defences they could think of, have already been countered by Xu Feng innumerable times in his past life...

When one has no backing, no resources, the best way to get it is through stealing. There are others ways Xu Feng could use, he could sell his top quality pills, sell martial techniques, or give new array formations, create really good weapons but, he doesn't do this crap. If the did, the first people to be greedy enough to use him like a slave to make profit, would undoubtedly be the stinking imperial family, and other hypocritical great families that "serve" the kingdom and it's people.

If they could be greedy enough to make him a slave, Why can't he be greedy enough to steal time till they're like beggars in the street? So until Xu Feng has enough strength to make money without being manipulated like a slave, he would transverse on the great path of divine robbery.