Chapter 356 - 236: Formless Divine Skill (2)

He hadn’t gotten close at all. He had simply unleashed the Five Poison Heart-Burning Palm from a distance.

And with the Poison Burial Illusory Prison empowering it, the Five Poison Heart-Burning Palm’s effect was similar to the Phoenix Illusionary Demon Fist, causing its victim to experience all sorts of exaggerated hallucinations.

At that moment, Yuchi Jue was, in fact, lost in his hallucinations, locked in a battle of wits with thin air.

Even Zou Feng, the instigator, couldn’t help but sigh in admiration. ’The Martial Dao of the True Qi Realm is truly no different from an Immortal Technique.’

Before long, Yuchi Jue’s battle with the air caused his injuries to flare up, leaving him exhausted and gasping for breath.

The reason he had fallen for the trick so easily was due to his severe injuries, which had already left him a spent force.

Seeing that the time was right, Zou Feng used his Snake Skin Movement to circle behind the exhausted Yuchi Jue.

The Bone-Softening Palm, merged with his Five Poison Palm, slammed viciously into Yuchi Jue’s back.

"BLARGH—"

Yuchi Jue let out a wretched cry, stumbling forward before collapsing.

Unwilling to accept his fate, he slowly turned his head and stared at Zou Feng, as if to burn his image into his mind and lay the most vicious curse upon him before dying.

"Impressive... Truly worthy of being hailed as a once-in-decades Poison Cultivator..."

"A pity... you’re nothing more than Su Qingyu’s Great Medicine..."

Having said his piece, Yuchi Jue’s head lolled to the side, and he breathed his last.

’Trying to sow discord between me and Su Qingyu even as he died?’

Zou Feng snorted coldly and silently opened the List of Gods.

Su Qingyu’s name did not appear on it.

’So, at least for now, Su Qingyu doesn’t see me as some kind of Great Medicine.’

’On the other hand, Su Qingyu’s Hundred Poison Sacred Body is an extremely rare Great Medicine for me...’

’But now that I’ve successfully completed the mission to kill Yuchi Jue, I should be able to lick... ahem! No, I mean, I’ll be able to use my hands for the Refinement of the reward Su Qingyu bestows.’

’But first, time to take stock of the loot.’

Zou Feng chose not to perform Refinement on Yuchi Jue, nor did he let Xiaolv convert his corpse.

The reason was simple: Su Qingyu’s instructions had specifically requested that he bring back Yuchi Jue’s body if possible.

This meant that Su Qingyu likely coveted Yuchi Jue’s corpse as well.

But of course, Zou Feng wasn’t about to obediently follow Su Qingyu’s instructions.

So he used his True Qi to inspect Yuchi Jue’s corpse, wanting to see what was so special about the man’s body.

However, the investigation revealed nothing.

It was just a heavily damaged corpse, already in a state of ruin.

’It’s not that it’s completely useless, but there’s not much value in its Refinement. Better to take it back in exchange for a bigger reward.’

’Of course, it’s also possible that I’m just not on Su Qingyu’s level yet, so I can’t detect what’s so special about his body.’

He soon stopped worrying about it and began to loot the entire underground crypt.

Since Yuchi Jue had been hiding here for so long, he must have moved a lot of his belongings with him.

As for the remaining Ten Directions Cultists, some had fled, others had gone mad, and not a single one capable of fighting was left.

With the fall of Yuchi Jue, the original Sect Leader had returned to his essential work as a Licking Dog, and the Ten Directions Sect was thus completely and utterly finished.

After a thorough search, Zou Feng successfully found four Immortal Treasures.

A short sword emitting a green fluorescent glow, a White Jade Bowl, a string of cinnabar-colored prayer beads, and a pitch-black ring.

’All very common items, the kind that could easily serve as a protagonist’s cheat item in a novel.’

’The reason I can tell they’re Immortal Treasures is because they have an aura very similar to my own small vial.’

"Only four?"

After confirming there were no other Immortal Treasures nearby, Zou Feng couldn’t help but frown.

’According to my previous estimates, the Ten Directions Sect should have had around ten or so Immortal Treasures.’

’Were they taken by the Celestial Essence Sword Sect? Or did that Licking Dog Sect Leader already take some of the Immortal Treasures and offer them to Su Qingyu?’

’Still, I definitely can’t keep all these Immortal Treasures for myself.’

’Even if I handed them all over, given Su Qingyu’s indifference toward Immortal Treasures, she might just casually toss me one or two if I ask.’

But just in case, after observing it carefully for a while, Zou Feng decided to pocket the White Jade Bowl first.

’This thing is the most likely one to produce Spiritual Liquid like my vial, so it’s naturally my first choice.’

’As for the other three Immortal Treasures, I don’t mind handing them over.’

He would hand them over not only because he truly couldn’t keep them all, but also because Zou Feng had always kept his distance from that so-called Glazed Immortal Palace.

’Anyway, I don’t believe in free lunches.’

’Being able to skim a bit of Spiritual Liquid is enough for me.’

Besides the Immortal Treasures, there was another surprise.

Zou Feng had actually discovered the manual for the "Formless Divine Skill"!

After just a rough glance at the introduction, Zou Feng decided he absolutely had to learn it.

It wasn’t for the Disguise; the truly formidable part of this Cultivation Skill wasn’t some clumsy Disguise technique anyway.

Take Yuchi Jue, for example. Even when he used this Skill for Disguise, a True Qi Realm Martial Artist could still see through it.

In many situations, the Disguise was basically useless.

So that particular function wasn’t very useful.

The true strength of this Skill was its ability to create an extremely sharp Spiritual Attack!

Yuchi Jue was severely injured and couldn’t unleash the original effects of this Skill.

Otherwise, if he were at his peak and used this Skill, it would have been a completely different story.

For example, if Zou Feng were to attack Yuchi Jue and was just about to land a blow, he would find that the Yuchi Jue before him had suddenly transformed into Tian Yun!

Or into another person he cared about.

This wasn’t an instantaneous Disguise, but a mental influence that would make one see Yuchi Jue as Tian Yun.

Even if one knew it was fake, for it to happen suddenly in the heat of a fierce battle, it would be impossible to remain completely unaffected.

’So if I can integrate the Formless Divine Skill into the Great Universal Hand, then both my Poison Domain and any new techniques I develop will definitely be stronger than the Five Poison Heart-Burning Palm.’

In addition, the side effects of cultivating this Skill were massive.

Although it wasn’t as extreme as "To learn this skill, one must first castrate oneself," it was pretty close.

After all, this Skill pursued a dual "formlessness" of both body and mind, which would affect even the practitioner, occasionally making them unable to tell who they really were.

In serious cases, they might even become unable to distinguish their own gender.

They might see themselves as a woman trapped in a man’s body, or a man trapped in a woman’s body.

They might even think they can be male or female, a top or a bottom, switching freely...

’Normally, seeing such a ball-aching side effect, who the hell would practice this?’

’But I don’t have to worry. No matter how much of a ball-ache the side effects are, my dear brothers and sisters will be the ones to bear them.’

’Besides, the thought of forcing those ’brothers’ who want to kill me down the irreversible path of what is essentially self-castration is pretty amusing.’

’I’ll learn it!’

Besides the manual for the Formless Divine Skill, there were some other Ten Directions Sect Cultivation Skills, but after a rough look, Zou Feng felt they wouldn’t be much help to him and weren’t worth wasting time on.

There were quite a few Evil Pills, but Zou Feng only found two bottles that were actually useful.

One bottle contained the "True Self Pill," used as an aid when cultivating the Formless Divine Skill.

The other contained the "Bliss Pill," which could make you see "little people" dancing around you just by sniffing it.

Zou Feng had a gut feeling that the Bliss Pill would provide a significant boost to his Cultivation of the Drunken Immortal Moon Chasing Step.

With that, Zou Feng finished taking stock of his spoils.

He felt no guilt about pocketing these things for himself.

’Whose fault was it that those two cowards, Zhong Zhe and Leng Jing, couldn’t see that Yuchi Jue was just a paper tiger and chose to run for their lives?’

’In any case, I killed the traitor Zeng Xiuyuan, and I also took down Yuchi Jue. I deserve at least ninety percent of the credit.’

Only then did Zou Feng use the Communication Jade Talisman to notify Zhong Zhe and Leng Jing.

The two cowards hadn’t actually gone far.

They were lurking in the waters outside the crypt, planning to wait and see how things developed.

But when things went quiet inside the crypt, they had assumed Zou Feng was done for, swallowed whole and skinned alive by Yuchi Jue.

So when they received the message from the Jade Talisman and returned to the crypt to find Zou Feng completely unharmed, the expressions on their faces were quite a sight to behold.

When Leng Jing spoke to Zou Feng again, his tone was far more polite than before.

He was on the verge of calling him "Brother Feng."

However, when he saw the Immortal Treasures, the greed in Leng Jing’s eyes was plain to see, and his breathing began to quicken.

It was only because the guy was wary of Zou Feng’s strength, plus the fact that Zhong Zhe was also there, that he didn’t just attack and try to snatch them.