Chapter 7: "Dragon Catcher"

After choosing the main cultivation method, Su Ming went straight to the bookshelf where the jade slips of the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation were stored, and took out the second-level formation and second-level talisman inheritance from it.

Su Ming's talisman cultivation was previously limited by the strength of his spiritual consciousness and remained at the first-level upper grade, but he was not far from the second-level talisman master. With the help of the sect inheritance, he would definitely be able to break through the second level.

As for the formation inheritance, he would use the Luoshu to record it all after returning to the cave.

With the heaven-defying effect of the River Map and Luoshu, Su Ming would be able to advance to the second-level upper-grade formation master in a short time by simulating and deducing the River Map space.

Putting the copied jade slips of the Hundred Arts inheritance in his hand into the storage bag, Su Ming walked to the area on the sixth floor of the Sutra Pavilion that collected spells and secrets.

The Guiyuan Sect did not specifically restrict the cultivation of ordinary second-level spells from the foundation-building period. They only needed to go to the third floor to copy a copy of the second-level spell collection and take it away.

But rare secrets were different.

In the current world of immortal cultivation, cultivators are used to calling some extremely powerful or special spells as secret methods.

This means that the inherited cultivators are hiding these methods and will never teach them easily.

These methods that can be called secret methods are extremely precious, and some are even the preconditions for some magical methods. They are extremely rare even in the Yuanying Sect, such as Guiyuan Sect.

When ordinary cultivators break through the foundation-building stage, the sect will only let them choose one secret method for free. If they want to choose more, they need to spend a lot of sect contributions.

Due to the difficulty and conditions of practicing secret methods, Fang Yuechan did not give any special instructions on the selection of secret methods, but only asked Su Ming to choose a spiritual consciousness secret method.

Even the specific spiritual consciousness secret method was not said, and Su Ming was allowed to choose it himself.

Walking to the bookshelf where the secret methods were stored, Su Ming swept his spiritual consciousness and found that there were only more than 30 secret jade slips stored in the entire sixth floor of the Sutra Pavilion.

Among them, there are only nine secrets of spiritual consciousness.

These jade slips are all restricted, and only the opening part of the secret can be seen before the restriction is removed.

Su Ming did not use the token to remove the restriction, but his spiritual consciousness probed into the nine secret jade slips of spiritual consciousness, checking the conditions for practice and the mystery after the secret practice.

Among the nine secrets of spiritual consciousness, Su Ming first excluded the six that were completely unsuitable for him to practice.

These six secrets of spiritual consciousness either have too harsh conditions for practice, or will affect the mood of the cultivator after practice, or simply require some special spirit body to practice.

The remaining three secrets of spiritual consciousness are: "Ice Heart Sutra", "True Soul Flame", and "Exquisite Pagoda Visualization Method".

As usual, Su Ming took out Fang Yuechan's token, removed the restrictions of the three secrets of spiritual consciousness, copied all of them, and prepared to return to the cave to study them carefully.

After copying the secrets of spiritual consciousness, Su Ming looked at the rest of the secrets.

Although top-level methods like "Heavy Water Mysterious Art" and "Guishui Sutra" have powerful protective spells, Su Ming decided to take a look at the remaining secret inheritances out of curiosity.

Maybe there is a secret method that is particularly suitable for him to practice?

In about a cup of tea, Su Ming used his spiritual sense to roughly read through the remaining secret inheritances of the entire sixth layer.

After reading it, Su Ming finally understood why Fang Yuechan and Ding Qiuyu both did what they could and did not bite off more than they could chew, and were dazzled by the secret inheritances.

Every method that can be called a secret method has extremely powerful power as long as it is successfully practiced.

For example, a secret method called "Blood Spirit Evil Body" can condense a blood spirit body in the foundation-building period after practicing it. It is invisible and intangible, and it is extremely difficult to detect it with the spiritual sense of the foundation-building cultivator.

As long as the blood spirit gets close to the foundation-building cultivator, even if it is in the late stage of foundation-building, the blood and qi of the flesh will be instantly transformed and die on the spot.

Or it could be a secret technique called "Breaking the Blue Sky". According to the description on the jade slip, if a foundation-building cultivator succeeds in cultivation, he can refine a trace of the third-level Yimu Divine Thunder into his body. Once activated, cultivators of the same level will be terrified and unstoppable.

"No wonder after reaching the foundation-building stage, the strength of the foundation-building cultivators of the big sects is far superior to those of the small sects..."

Su Ming's eyes flickered, and he thought to himself, the foundation of the Yuanying big sects is not comparable to those of the small sects, and any of these secret techniques that can be cultivated at will are enough to dominate the foundation-building stage.

Facing so many rare secret techniques, Su Ming's eyes were always calm and did not waver at all.

There is a price to pay behind being powerful. None of the secret techniques in the Sutra Library are easy to practice. Either the cultivation process is extremely dangerous, and you will die on the spot if you are not careful.

Either it requires extremely high comprehension, and ordinary people can't even get started. Some of them require some special spirit bodies to practice.

For example, "Blood Spirit Evil Body" requires a spiritual body called Blood Spirit Body to practice, otherwise, before successfully practicing Blood Spirit, the essence and blood in the body will be drained.

The minimum requirement for "Breaking Blue Sky" is to have a thunder element spiritual root or a wood element spiritual root. It is best to have a thunder or wood attribute spiritual body, otherwise when you practice a trace of the third-level Yimu Divine Thunder, the physical body will easily be unable to withstand it and will be directly turned into charcoal.

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"This method seems to be quite suitable for my practice..."

Su Ming took a secret method called "Dragon Capture Hand" from the bookshelf, and a hint of joy flashed in his eyes.

"Dragon Capture Hand" is an ancient cultivator method, which requires extremely high comprehension of the cultivator, but after practicing it, it can attack and defend, and it also has the characteristics of suppression. It is extremely powerful. With one palm, it can block the mana of the same level cultivator and capture him.

Su Ming is not an arrogant person. He knows his own comprehension level. Among many cultivators, he can only be regarded as an average person, and he definitely cannot reach the level of extremely high comprehension.

However, according to the description of the jade slip of "Dragon Catching Hand", this method is a precondition for the "Innate One Qi Great Handprint", an ancient cultivator's supreme supernatural power.

If Su Ming remembers correctly, in the biographies and legends of the immortal cultivation world, once the "Innate One Qi Great Handprint" is used, it will instantly turn into the world in the palm of the hand and refine all things. It is an absolute great supernatural power of the formation.

Since "Dragon Catching Hand" is the precondition for "Innate One Qi Great Handprint", it must be in line with the true meaning of the formation. As a second-level formation master, Su Ming naturally cannot miss it.

"With the River Map and Luoshu, I am definitely a genius in the art of formation. Maybe I can really practice this "Dragon Catching Hand"..."

Su Ming took out the token given by Fang Yuechan and copied a copy of "Dragon Catching Hand".

As for other rare secret techniques, Su Ming was not very interested. After copying "Dragon Catching Hand", he walked out of the Sutra Library.

What's the point of reading a secret technique that you can't learn? It just adds trouble.

After copying the jade slip, Su Ming went to the management counter on the third floor of the Sutra Library to register.

All inheritances in the Sutra Library are not allowed to be passed on to others. Only cultivators can practice by themselves, even Jindan stage cultivators.

After copying the skills and secret techniques, the foundation-building cultivators need to swear a Taoist oath that they will never actively pass them on. If they violate it, at the least, they will have frequent demons in their future practice, and at the worst, they will be possessed by demons and die on the spot.

Although this method cannot completely prevent the inheritance from being leaked, it can also make most of the cultivators put away their crooked thoughts.

After registering, Su Ming walked out of the Sutra Library and disappeared into the sky as a beam of light.

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