Demon Taming: Start by synthesizing a Lantern Ghost with Divine and Demonic Talents

Chapter 49: Flash
Upon seeing this martial arts combat technique seed, Li Chunfeng couldn't help but rub his eyes.

Martial arts flourish in the Earthly Realm, with powerful martial artists comparable to high-level cultivators. Li Chunfeng had some doubts about this before. Now, seeing that the path of martial arts also has such divine skills, capable of using the power of martial arts qi and blood to unleash miraculous combat techniques comparable to magic, he realizes that the path of martial arts is truly no weaker than the path of the soul.

In particular, when the [Instant Step] is used, it also has the effect of almost becoming invisible and shielding the perception of mental power. This is similar to the cultivator's 'escape technique' and is even more precious in some ways.

After all, once martial arts techniques are fully mastered and cultivated to a high level, there is no cooldown period.

As long as one's physique is strong enough, one can unleash this combat technique repeatedly.

Of course, when a cultivator's spells are mastered to the extreme, the cooldown can be ignored.

Unfortunately, refining the [Instant Step] requires the cultivation level of the Blood Refining Realm in Martial Arts, which is the fourth realm of Martial Arts, and Li Chunfeng is still far from achieving that. The beastman hero 'Sword Saint' was able to use this combat technique with his third-tier physique, which was also due to the naturally strong physique of the beastman race.

With his small frame, Li Chunfeng would need to build up his physical strength before he could use such combat techniques.

The other [Mirror Image] combat skill has similar conditions.

All of them require at least the Blood Refining Realm to refine.

'Mirror Image' is somewhat similar to 'Phantom Clone', but it can only create a maximum of three Mirror Image clones, a significant difference from the number of 'Phantom Clone' clones. However, the strength of a Mirror Image clone can reach 50% of the original body's strength at the Profound Rank, making it slightly stronger than a 'Phantom Clone'.

Furthermore, 'Mirror Image' is a martial arts combat technique. As long as one has a strong physique, one can use their vital energy to cast this cunning clone. It can serve as a supplement to the 'Phantom Clone' spell, enhancing one's own foundation.

In addition, the Earth-rank spell upgrade stones awarded this time are also rare items.

Aside from the Xuan-rank spell advancement stone he gave to Lu Yun'er, Li Chunfeng now possesses two Xuan-rank and one Di-rank spell advancement stones.

Keep it; you might need it someday.

besides……

Li Chunfeng returned to his private stone house, and with a wave of his hand, a huge, battered, and nearly dismembered corpse was thrown out.

It was in his haste that he collected the corpse of the orc hero, the Blademaster.

"I hope it's not too late."

Li Chunfeng immediately used the [Authority of Night] divine power, and a dark magic circle enveloped the corpse. "Get up..."

Within the dark magic circle, the soul chains hummed and trembled a few times. Layers of black mist enveloped the Sword Saint's massive body. A moment later, the soul chains suddenly shuddered and broke free, and the dark magic circle slowly disappeared.

Summoning failed!

The sword saint's corpse began to decompose rapidly, leaving only a demon core in place.

[Beast Blood Demon Core: A third-tier demon core, containing immense life energy and negative evil will.]

At least something was left.

Oh, and that ridiculously long broadsword.

[Fireblade Holy Sword: Orc Fireblade Tribe Holy Sword, Tier 3 Divine Weapon. Special Effects: Sword Aura, Shockwave.]

It can be either a knife or a sword; in many worlds, there isn't much difference between them. But in China, weapons with a single blade are still conventionally called knives rather than swords.

In terms of power, this orc holy sword is stronger than the first-tier Chaotic Ancient Demon Axe, but unfortunately, this sword is taller than Li Chunfeng, so it is not very handy.

Li Chunfeng put away the divine weapon and took out several blue-green crystal fragments from the ring, which were Kongqing Stone.

There's also a reward from Archmage Hegson: a Magic Seed Soul Crystal.

[Blink: A Xuan-rank spell seed, spatial attribute. Allows the caster to teleport a short distance instantly, usable for quickly traversing space and escaping danger. Requires refinement in conjunction with Skystone.]

This is clearly a better spatial attribute spell than 'Phantom Charge'.

Although it needs to be combined with azurite to be successfully refined.

This rare item, which I had searched for everywhere before but could not find, I actually obtained after going to the Boundary Abyss.

However, it was truly not easy for Li Chunfeng to obtain these few Azure Stones. Not to mention facing a third-tier opponent alone, without a teleportation gate, no Azure Stones would have fallen.

If obtaining Kongqing Stone is this difficult, then his idea of ​​buying it in Yuan City is probably just wishful thinking.

Even if someone has a collection, they will most likely keep it for themselves.

Li Chunfeng also had a limited number of Kongqing stones, only thirteen fragments of varying sizes, and he didn't know if that would be enough.
He immediately took out the 'Phantom Charge' spell seed, intending to refine the easier ones first.

After a while, having consumed three fragments, he successfully refined the human-rank magic seed.

The broken jade disc revealed brand-new magical markings.

【Phantom Charge: Human-rank spell, Level 1 (1/1000)】

Features: Leaves a phantom image in place and dashes across space.

……

Feeling the mysterious silver rune in the small inner landscape, Li Chunfeng couldn't wait to try it out.

Using his divine sense to communicate with the talisman and cast spells, his figure flashed in an instant, leaving behind a lifelike phantom in place, while his true body had already traversed several feet of space and rushed out.

With a loud "bang," it crashed straight into the wall.

Li Chunfeng was not injured in the collision, but he felt a sudden surge of blood and qi, his face turned red, his neck swelled, and he felt nauseous and wanted to vomit.

He gagged for a while before he managed to suppress the churning of his blood and qi.

As expected of a technique meant to be used in conjunction with martial arts, if one's physique is not strong enough, one might perish after using it a few more times.

As a human-level technique, 'Phantom Charge' consumes a considerable amount of spiritual power, requiring over a hundred strands of soul power. Even at his current level, the distance he can cover with the teleportation charge is not far, between eight and ten zhang.

This distance can be crossed in a few steps by someone with excellent agility, so it seems to be of little use.

It's usable for surprise attacks, and a surprise attack might inflict a heavy loss on the enemy. However, the cooldown of 'Phantom Charge' at level 1 is quite long, making it impossible to perform continuous flash-charge. In short, its limitations are considerable.

It's wishful thinking for Li Chunfeng to think he can improve his movement skills by relying on "Phantom Charge" in a short period of time.

If Li Chunfeng hadn't possessed the incomplete jade disc, this business deal would likely have ended in failure.

No wonder someone would sell it off.

Those who sell probably know all the inside stories, but it's useless to them, so they put it into the trading center.

Li Chunfeng felt neither sorrow nor joy, placing more hope on the [Blink] spell seed.

He then prepared to refine the [Blink] seed in one fell swoop.

With experience this time, the refining process went much more smoothly. However, the difficulty of refining a Xuan-rank magic seed is several times greater than that of a Ren-rank magic seed. He used up all the remaining Kongqing stone fragments and almost failed to refine it, but fortunately, he finally succeeded.

[Blink: Mystic-rank spell, Level 1 (1/1000)]

Feature: Instantaneous movement over short distances.

……

As soon as Fang Yi communicated with the silver, mysterious runes representing 'flickering' in the small inner realm, Li Chunfeng immediately sensed something he had never felt before. The void in front of him rippled like water, as if he could cross it at any moment.

He was eager to try.

Stepping out of the stone house, I chose a direction and instantly activated my spell.

With a sway of his body, he appeared more than a hundred meters away, truly as if he were walking through space.

And this time there was no annoying feeling of blood surging.

Consuming 300+ units of divine soul power is well within an acceptable range.

The fact that 'Blink' had such an effect finally relieved Li Chunfeng.

Thus, as long as these two spells are mastered, the deficiency in movement technique can be temporarily compensated for.

He couldn't wait to go to the Dharma Hall for a practice session.

Just then, the key sent a notification that someone was calling out, which also stopped him.

A moment later, a brisk, antler-clad girl rushed over and punched him in the shoulder. "You! Why did you come out so early? You didn't even tell me you were coming out! I was so worried about you for nothing. Humph! You're disloyal, heartless, and not even a friend! I don't want to talk to you anymore!"

The girl stood with her hands on her hips, her eyes filled with resentment.

You worried about him for nothing, huh!

Li Chunfeng was taken aback by the punch, then chuckled and said, "Thank you for your concern. This tribulation went relatively smoothly, so I came out a few days early. I just came out myself."

A girl's temper comes and goes in a hurry. Lu Yun'er knew that was her nature. After venting for a while, her anger subsided, but her tone was still irritable: "Fine, when is your next tribulation?"

"Five months later."

"That's good. Your luck has finally turned around a bit this time. I also have three months left before my second tribulation. What's your assessment of me this time? Did you use a memory bead?"

Li Chunfeng didn't say anything, and casually handed over the image-recording bead.

"It's useful! I'll have to observe and learn from it. Don't worry, I won't share it with anyone."

Li Chunfeng smiled and said, "It's alright to spread the word. My situation is an isolated case and probably can't be used as a reference. There seem to be quite a lot of people in Yuancheng today."

"The final rankings for the Sword Debate Arena are coming up, and everyone's vying for a higher ranking, so naturally there are a lot of people. Even more people are in the Sword Debate Arena's Illusionary Realm for matchmaking battles."

"What end times?"

Lu Yun'er explained, "It's the final ranking of the entire list. This is a year-end final settlement, not a monthly summary. After this final settlement, everyone will be on the same starting line again, and we'll all start sprinting towards the next ranking. This time we lost because we entered too late, and ultimately fell too far behind those at the top. But the next ranking update will be our time to climb the rankings again."

Li Chunfeng understood.

His gaze fell on the top of the Tribulation Ranking. After scanning it up and down, he indeed found that there was a countdown on the Super God Tribulation Ranking. There were now less than three days left.

At this point, each of the top ten players had tens of thousands of victory points.

It is highly unlikely that newcomers will be able to break into the top ranks.

Despite Lu Yun'er's frequent appearances on the Sword Debate Stage, her ranking remains outside the top 600. Moving up even one more spot is extremely difficult, suggesting that the top ranks are now filled with formidable opponents.

Lu Yun'er was having a bad day on the charts, so she decided to change her mood and check out Li Chunfeng's current strength. Seeing that he had survived the tribulation safely, she quickly left him and went back.

Li Chunfeng had just made a fortune and went to the trading center.

As expected, no one paid any attention to the advertisement I posted about buying empty bluestone stalls.

I am increasingly grateful for this achievement.

After leisurely strolling around, Li Chunfeng entered the Dharma Hall, practiced diligently for a while, and then returned to Canyon City.

"Boom~"

As soon as I stepped out of the room, I saw dark clouds covering the sun and thick black fog billowing in the sky.

A colossal hand, capable of blotting out the sky, descended from the heavens, heading straight for Canyon City.

An immense pressure from heaven and earth pressed down, and Li Chunfeng, caught completely off guard, was forced to the ground.

"what's the situation?"

(End of this chapter)