Secret Art

Luo Feng stared at Babata in shock.

A Soul Imprint of Inheritance? He hadn't felt a thing!

"Why are you so surprised!" Babata waved a hand, and a lounge chair appeared beside him. Babata then lay on it, rocking back and forth comfortably, like a baby's cradle. "My master is an Undying being. The Soul Imprint of Inheritance he created merged silently into your soul. If you could detect it... would he still be an Undying? With my master's achievements in the art of 'Soul Imprint', even if he ambushed a Realm Lord, the Realm Lord wouldn't notice, let alone a little Planetary-level guy like you."

Luo Feng felt helpless. Against the 'teacher' who had paved the way for him before his death, he truly had no power to resist!

"Luo Feng!" Babata propped up his legs on the lounge chair, waved a hand, and a large, common Earth apple appeared in his grasp. He munched on it with crunching sounds. "From now on, after entering this virtual space, your main focus will be cultivating in this training room! And today, we're going to determine your future path!"

"You should know... no matter what you do, first set a path, then advance step by step. Only then can you go far. Blindly cultivating without a clear goal or plan is a waste of time," Babata said. "I can only give you advice, not make decisions for you!"

Luo Feng nodded: "I understand. What are your suggestions?"

"First, you must prioritize your Warrior cultivation; you cannot neglect it!"

"Second, the 'Control Chapter' and 'Illusion Chapter' left by my master are both foundational; you must learn them all. As for the 'Miscellaneous Chapters', they are the essence of my Yunmo Star lineage. You are a successor of the Yunmo Star, so you absolutely must learn these precious secret arts! You can choose whether to follow the 'Controller' path or the 'Illusionist' path in the future!"

"Third, set aside some time to learn the 'Cosmic Common Language' with me."

Luo Feng couldn't help but laugh. Of Babata's three suggestions, the first and third were 'must-dos', and the second merely offered a choice between the 'Controller' path and the 'Illusionist' path.

"This Cosmic Common Language?" Luo Feng just started, "Aren't there translation software?"

Earth even has translation software, so how could the cosmos not? Was it really necessary to painstakingly learn a language? To be honest, Luo Feng disliked learning languages the most. During his school days, in cultural classes, despite twelve years of studying English, he could mostly understand it and speak it haltingly. But compared to his other classmates, foreign languages were Luo Feng's weakness. Fortunately, the college entrance exam didn't solely test foreign languages. Still, Luo Feng's college entrance exam was a tragedy.

"You absolutely must learn it," Babata insisted. "In the vast cosmos, while you can use translation software, if someone doesn't understand the Cosmic Common Language, they'll be looked down upon! People will say you came from some barbaric, backward place. Anyone with a bit of status speaks fluent Cosmic Common Language, don't they? You're a successor of the Yunmo lineage, how can you not speak the Cosmic Common Language?" Babata's blood-red eyes seemed ready to pop out of their sockets.

"Uh, alright, I'll learn it!" Luo Feng nodded repeatedly.

"Good." Babata nodded in satisfaction.

"Babata, regarding Warrior cultivation, I'm a spiritual force user. Isn't it enough to just cultivate a powerful body? For other aspects... at most, I'd practice movement techniques. The rest isn't necessary, right?" Luo Feng asked.

"Short-sighted!" Babata was so angry he threw the half-eaten apple in his hand to the ground.

"Let me tell you!" Babata said solemnly. "In the cosmos, there are mainly two factions: Warriors and spiritual force users! There's no definitive conclusion on which is stronger or weaker; it's just that spiritual force users have more complex and mysterious methods. Warriors who want to break through and improve must focus on 'spirit and will', and spiritual force users who want to improve must also focus on 'body and genetic energy'."

"It might not be obvious now! But at the Cosmic level, especially for Domain Lords and Realm Lords, requirements are high in all aspects: spirit, will, genetic energy, body, and realm!" Babata stated. "A wooden bucket can only hold as much water as its shortest plank! Therefore, Warrior cultivation absolutely cannot fall behind. Your Warrior aspect is far too weak right now; your physical strength amplification is only 3.5? And your blade techniques and movement techniques are still at the basic level?"

Luo Feng quickly replied: "My blade technique is already at the 'Proficient' level, and my movement technique is 'Perfect'!"

"That's how you Earthlings describe it!" Babata scoffed, raising his head. "According to cosmic classifications, your blade technique and movement technique are only considered 'Basic Realm', the lowest possible realm. Your physical strength amplification is only 3.5? That's pitifully low. On my Yunmo Star, the average standard for Apprentice-level Nine is to achieve a strength amplification of 10!"

"10?" Luo Feng was somewhat surprised. That was even higher than Lei Shen!

"And your Earth's cultivation methods have big problems!" Babata said. "For example, if your brute strength is 1 million kilograms, and your strength amplification is 3 times, your attack impact force is 3 million kilograms, and your speed can also greatly increase! So why can't defense be amplified?"

Luo Feng frowned slightly. Attack and speed could both be amplified, but for defense... Earth's Warriors had been researching it, yet they had never been able to achieve amplification in defense.

"As for Warrior cultivation, you can research it yourself later. Ask me if you don't understand anything." Babata waved a hand, and a magnificent rectangular glass table immediately appeared before Luo Feng, with six chairs beside it. All the books suitable for Luo Feng's 'Warrior cultivation' at the Planetary level, which were on a distant bookshelf, flew onto the table.

"You can study these at your leisure." Babata waved his hand again, and all the books concerning spiritual force users also flew over.

"Your main focus, of course, is these!" Babata said. "Especially the Miscellaneous Chapters! The Miscellaneous Chapter books must be studied diligently... each one has a golden cover, very conspicuous."

Luo Feng's gaze swept over them. Indeed, more than ten books in the pile had golden covers, while the others had black covers.

He casually picked up a book with a golden cover—"Soul Imprint"! Above the title were two inconspicuous small characters: 'Miscellaneous Chapter'.

He picked up another golden book—"Tower of the Void"! Beside it also were the small characters 'Miscellaneous Chapter'.

The third book—"Body Seizure".

The fourth book—"Six-Pointed Star".

The fifth book...

"Each book is profound and extensive. For example, 'Soul Imprint'. The reason my master could control nine Undying servants was through this 'Soul Imprint' secret art. The 'Soul Imprint of Inheritance' he left for you also relies on this secret art. The path of 'Soul Imprint' is extremely abstruse and mysterious; what you have is just the basics. Once you learn it, I'll give you the second volume of 'Soul Imprint'," Babata said.

"This is a unique secret art of my Yunmo lineage, absolutely not to be passed on to outsiders," Babata stated proudly.

Luo Feng couldn't help but pick up the "Soul Imprint" book again. This was a treasure! Controlling servants, and allowing them to have their own consciousness and even cultivate themselves—that was incredible!

"'Tower of the Void' is an even more supreme secret art for soul defense in my Yunmo lineage. Even among my master's direct disciples, only one received its teaching. When my master was alive, he rarely taught even one of these secret arts to a direct disciple, and he would never teach an entire secret art. You're lucky; you have all the secret arts, and they're complete!" Babata said.

Luo Feng was overjoyed. "Teaching the apprentice starves the master" – when his teacher was alive, he might have rarely taught a single secret art, but knowing he was about to die, he naturally left behind all of them.

A treasure! This was a true treasure!

While the 'Control Chapter' and 'Illusion Chapter' were important, other Undying beings also possessed them. However, the various unique secret arts within the 'Miscellaneous Chapters'—whether for defense, attack, illusion, desperate measures, or control and enslavement—were all incredibly profound and bizarre! In the cosmos, acquiring even one such secret art would require immense luck or countless treasures in exchange.

And Luo Feng had suddenly obtained a whole pile! From the Planetary level to the Realm Lord level, the entire Yunmo lineage's collection was complete.

After browsing the books in the virtual space for a long time. "Hmm?" Luo Feng felt a sharp pain in his consciousness. In the training room, Luo Feng's body blurred, then disappeared from the virtual space training room.

"Oh, three hours have passed. The integration has reached its final step," Babata chuckled.

In the training hall on the second floor of the temporary villa in Tianjin City, heavy snow fell outside, yet astonishing changes were occurring within Luo Feng's sea of consciousness.

Within his sea of consciousness. In the vast sea of consciousness, there was only a 'miniature planet', a miniature planet glowing with a halo. This miniature planet was formed by countless transparent pyramid crystals aggregated together! It was a perfect whole, and the entire miniature planet was emitting an invisible, strange fluctuation.

At the core of the miniature planet! A prismatic blood-red crystal was at the very center of the miniature planet! Invisible blood-red threads, with this 'prismatic blood-red crystal' as their core, spread throughout the entire miniature planet!

*Hiss, hiss~* Countless blood-red threads continuously merged into the entire miniature planet. Waves of stinging pain—that was his soul trembling!

The entire miniature planet visibly and rapidly began to change color... from its previous near-transparency, it gradually turned a faint pink, then light red, then a deep red that permeated the entire miniature planet, until finally becoming the exact same 'blood-red' as the crystal.

The miniature planet, during its transformation, seemed to have shrunk by one size.

"Hah, so comfortable." Luo Feng felt incredibly at ease.

"Luo Feng, congratulations on passing the most difficult hurdle! Ordinary spiritual force users cannot employ the secret arts of my Yunmo lineage; their spiritual force must first be transformed. In the past, on Yunmo Star, this was achieved through a very long and arduous self-effort. But you, with my master's help, have overcome this hurdle," Babata said, overjoyed.

"Babata, the blood-red crystal in my soul core hasn't disappeared yet, what's going on?" Luo Feng asked.

"That's the Soul Imprint of Inheritance! My master thought his future disciple would be stronger, but you're only Planetary-level First Tier, and the Soul Imprint of Inheritance successfully completed the transformation before it was even fully consumed!" Babata quickly explained. "Now, you've officially entered the path! However, you're still only an Apprentice-level Nine Warrior, so... without further ado, you should first step into the 'Planetary-level Warrior' tier."

Luo Feng was delighted. He was a Planetary-level First Tier spiritual force user, but only a peak Wargod Warrior.

"Your consciousness and spirit are sufficient, and your body has reached the peak of Apprentice-level Nine. It'll be very easy, done in a few breaths," Babata quickly said.