Chapter 8 Divine Wood Pure Yang Skill, Position of Eldest Senior Brother
Gu An did not immediately invest his life span in cultivation and training, afraid the movement might be too great with the precedent of the Dragon Strength Divine Primordial Skill.
Wait until tonight!
By then, even if there was a big movement, Cheng Xuandan and Zhang Chunqiu would probably be too scared to come out of their rooms.
Night quickly fell.
Gu An waited until Meng Lang went inside to rest before he pulled up his attribute panel.
He focused his attention on the Spring Origin Art and chose to invest a thousand years of life span to evolve it.
Heavenly gods bless, do not waste my thousand-year life span!
Gu An prayed silently while rubbing the White Spirit Rat, hoping to get some luck from it.
[You have invested one thousand years of life span in the 'Spring Origin Art' to evolve and cultivate it]
[You practiced the Spring Origin Art for a year, but due to your mediocre comprehension and qualifications, your cultivation growth is weak]
[You practiced the Spring Origin Art for ten years and reached a new realm of understanding in it]
[You practiced the Spring Origin Art for a hundred years and developed more ideas about it by sensing the earth and forests]
[You practiced the Spring Origin Art for two hundred years, and your Spring Origin Art advanced to the Withered Wood Spring Birth Skill]
[You practiced the Spring Origin Art for five hundred years and reached the Transformation Realm understanding of the Withered Wood Spring Birth Skill, your Wood Spirit Root improved]
[You practiced the Spring Origin Art for eight hundred years, and by comprehending nature, your Withered Wood Spring Birth Skill advanced to the Divine Wood Pure Yang Skill]
[You practiced the Spring Origin Art for a thousand years and reached mastery in the Divine Wood Pure Yang Skill, your Wood Spirit Root improved]
Seeing the notifications line by line, Gu An caught a few key points and suddenly burst with joy, as a flood of memories surged into his mind.
His consciousness immersed in the inheritance, his whole body radiated green light as wisps of forest-green spiritual energy emerged from the ground inside the room.
Meanwhile.
Zhang Chunqiu, who was practicing in his room, opened his eyes and looked at his windowsill. The sudden strong wind outside made his window shudder.
He quickly got up and walked to the window, took a quick glance outside, and promptly closed it.
He hurried to the table, blew out the oil lamp, and hid in bed.
"No, I need to leave sooner, this Medicine Valley is getting weirder and weirder..."
Also frightened was Meng Lang, who lay under the covers shivering. Xiaochuan, already exhausted from the day's efforts, slept like a log, snoring thunderously.
Cheng Xuandan meditated in front of his pill furnace, sensed the movement outside the window, and looked out at the night sky with deep eyes, showing neither fear nor curiosity, as calm as a secluded well.
For a long time.
Gu An finally woke up, opened his eyes, and felt a different world.
He could distinctly feel the wood attribute spiritual energy in the air and sense the vitality of the flowers, grasses, and trees. This feeling was very wonderful.
At the movement of his thoughts, the previous notifications reappeared before him. Seeing his Wood Spirit Root improve, he was delighted.
Cultivation techniques could actually improve spirit roots, so no need to gamble hard on spirit root qualifications anymore. This thing was practically a bottomless pit; Gu An had only tried it once but already had a psychological shadow.
He tried circulating the Divine Wood Pure Yang Skill, and unlike before, he could instantly absorb the wood spiritual energy between heaven and earth. After entering his body, the wood spiritual energy flowed into his Dantian and transformed into wood attribute spiritual power.
The whole process was smooth and slick!
Just one breath outperformed half a year's effort before!
Gu An suddenly felt like he was dreaming, feeling as if he had become a genius all of a sudden.
If so, there was no rush to improve his cultivation level.
When his life span broke through a thousand years, he gained the ability to detect life span. Perhaps when his life span broke through ten thousand years, new abilities would appear.
Besides, with his current cultivation speed, he felt he could rely on cultivation to improve his level.
Although there was no rush to improve his cultivation level, his attack methods needed enhancement!
The Dragon Strength Divine Primordial Skill was a supporting skill and had no techniques. His gaze fell on the Residual Wind Leg.
The Li Family Seven Sword techniques were swordsmanship; he didn't have a treasure sword, and swordsmanship relied heavily on cultivation level.
The Residual Wind Leg was different; it relied on his legs. His physical strength could already easily crush a Foundation Establishment Realm Demon of Greed. If combined with the Residual Wind Leg, the power would surely increase significantly.
How much life span to invest?
Gu An was torn, afraid that too little would be meaningless, and too much would be distressing.
Forget it, round it up, invest five hundred years!
Gu An excitedly invested five hundred years of life span into evolving and training the Residual Wind Leg.
[You practiced the Residual Wind Leg for a year, but due to your mediocre comprehension and qualifications, your leg technique, although smooth, did not display the power of the Residual Wind Leg]
[You practiced the Residual Wind Leg for ten years, and years of hard training brought your Residual Wind Leg to peak perfection]
[You practiced the Residual Wind Leg for a hundred years, and your Residual Wind Leg returned to its original simplicity, resulting in new insights. Your Residual Wind Leg advanced to the Wind Shadow Leg]
[You practiced the Residual Wind Leg for two hundred years, and your Wind Shadow Leg became perfected; your understanding of physical techniques increased]
[You practiced the Residual Wind Leg for four hundred years, and your Wind Shadow Leg advanced to the Gale Shadowless Leg]
[You practiced the Residual Wind Leg for five hundred years, and your Gale Shadowless Leg reached the Integrating Realm. Your understanding of physical techniques and movement techniques increased]
The understanding of physical techniques and movement techniques, could it be comprehension?
Gu An had just conceived this idea when his mind was immediately flooded with the memories of the Gale Shadowless Leg.
...
At dawn, the first ray of sunlight skimmed over Medicine Valley. Before it even touched the threshold of Gu An's house, the door opened.
Gu An walked into the courtyard, faced the morning sun, and stretched lazily, his entire essence energy completely different.
He wore a bright smile, still excited.
He silently brought up his attribute panel:
[Name: Gu An]
[Life span: 19/1862]
[Spirit Root: Top-tier Wood Spirit Root, Four Improved Spirit Roots (can invest life span for evolutionary training)]
[Cultivation Level: Energy Cultivation Realm Second Layer (can invest life span for evolutionary training)]
[Cultivation Technique: Fire Control Art (not mastered), Divine Wood Pure Yang Skill (mastery), Dragon Strength Divine Primordial Skill (mastery) (can invest life span for evolutionary training)]
[Ultimate Skill: Gale Shadowless Leg (Integrating Realm), Li Family Seven Swords (not mastered) (can invest life span for evolutionary training)]
Energy Cultivation Realm Second Layer!
Last night, during the inheritance of the Divine Wood Pure Yang Skill, his spiritual power increased significantly, and after a night of Qi Absorption Cultivation, he smoothly broke through to the Energy Cultivation Realm Second Layer.
He was no longer a useless person without spiritual power!
The feeling of gambling life span was truly satisfying!
Gu An had more thoughts about his immortal cultivation path.
He had no intention of adventuring out; capturing longevity by slaying demons might make his life span increase faster, but the risk of death would also soar.
He thought of the Valley Master of Medicine Valley!
Cheng Xuandan had only a few years left, and Zhang Chunqiu had intentions of descending the mountain. The position of Valley Master would be his for sure!
By then, he could recruit a batch of servant disciples to cultivate medicinal herbs for him while he only harvested them. It was simply marvelous.
Gu An put his hands on his hips and looked towards the surrounding peaks.
The mountain might still grow more medicinal herbs!
Cheng Xuandan didn't expand Medicine Valley because it might be meaningless to him, as he was just a worker of the Supreme Sect.
But for Gu An, it was different. He didn't need to share more herbs; he just wanted to capture their life spans.
The more Gu An thought, the more excited he became, and he began to kick his legs and stretch his body on the spot.
He displayed the Residual Wind Leg technique, sharp and powerful, with each kick creating a fierce wind.
Not long after, Meng Lang walked out from the neighboring house, just in time to see Gu An's leg technique, and his eyes widened.
Nineteen-year-old Gu An's body had fully matured, and his legs swung like whips. Although he did not move his position, the strong wind already hit Meng Lang's face, leaving him surprised.
Meng Lang couldn't help but rub his eyes, thinking he had mistake Gu An for someone else.
Since when did Gu An become so powerful?
Feeling Meng Lang's gaze, Gu An retracted his leg, turned to him, and smiled: "Did I wake you up?"
Meng Lang quickly moved closer and looked at him carefully before saying: "How did you suddenly become so powerful? The demonic wind last night, did you sense it? It wasn't related to you, was it?"
Gu An rolled his eyes at him and said: "That's right, it was me. I practiced the Residual Wind Leg my master taught me last night, causing the heavenly Dao to shake and the earth to tremble. It frightened the heavens and the ghosts. Since you heard the commotion, why didn't you come out to see my prowess?"
Meng Lang would never admit his embarrassment. He snorted: "Your leg technique is sharp, but without spiritual power support, how could it have raised the wind last night? Moreover, last night there was not only wind but also spiritual energy fluctuations. Either a demon was absorbing nature's spiritual energy, or a great cultivator was breaking through."
Gu An chuckled and kicked him gently on the buttocks.
"You dare kick me, are you rebelling? Li Ya is gone; don't you want to acknowledge me as your elder brother?" Meng Lang shrieked.
"If I acknowledged you, wouldn't you have to stay here with me forever? Don't you want to become an Outer Disciple?"
"You have a point, you're right. I'm not like you."
The two began to play fight.
An ancient hour later, Zhang Chunqiu found Gu An and took him around Medicine Valley, pointing out every inch of land and medicinal herb.
Gu An listened attentively, but as he listened, he sensed something was off.
This seemed like a farewell tour.
Was last night's commotion enough to scare him to death?
Gu An wanted to console him, but on second thought, that Zhu Moyan was no good. He probably assisted the great cultivator behind the Demon of Greed through dirty work, and once Chu Jingfeng dealt with the matter, Zhang Chunqiu might be implicated.
After all, they were good friends.
Better for him to leave the mountain early!
Gu An swore he wasn't aiming to be the head disciple; he was genuinely thinking about Zhang Chunqiu's welfare.
After mastering the Divine Wood Pure Yang Skill, Gu An wasn't in a hurry to contact Chu Jingfeng. First, he already had self-preservation ability. Secondly, he didn't want to alert the enemy.
He had just returned to Medicine Valley; if Chu Jingfeng arrived the next day, it would be hard to clear suspicion.
Gu An wasn't wary of Zhu Moyan but the person behind him. According to Zhang Chunqiu, that person's status was very high; the weight of everyone in Medicine Valley combined couldn't shake him.
Just as well, he could improve his cultivation level during the waiting period!
Zhang Chunqiu took Gu An around for an ancient hour. They even went up the surrounding mountains, and after talking himself hoarse, Zhang brought Gu An to Cheng Xuandan.
Gu An stared curiously at the pill furnace in front of Cheng Xuandan.
He had long heard of Cheng's proficiency in the Alchemy Technique and wondered if he could learn it.
After learning it, he could then gamble life span to instantly become an Alchemy Grandmaster!
Cheng Xuandan stood up and looked at Gu An, saying: "From now on, you are the head disciple of Medicine Valley."
At these words, Gu An was shocked and instinctively looked at Zhang Chunqiu, panicking as he asked: "Head disciple, what's wrong with you?"