Cultivation through Skin Making novel Chapter 14

Chapter 14: 14. Time is up

[You spent one hundred years continuing to comprehend the ’Killing Arrow Technique’.

This time, you aimed at ’improving range and enhancing accuracy’.

In the seventy-fifth year, you comprehended the ’Slaughter Crossbow Skill’.

This technique could not undergo a third mutation, returning the remaining twenty-five years’]

[You spent two hundred years continuing to comprehend the ’Killing Arrow Technique’.

This time, you aimed at ’increasing power’.

In the ninety-ninth year, you comprehended the ’Evil Gun Technique’.

You then spent twenty years combining the ’Evil Needle Technique’, ’Slaughter Crossbow Skill’, and ’Evil Gun Technique’.

You comprehended the ’Torrential Rain Evil’.

This magic has mutated to perfection and cannot mutate further, returning the remaining eighty-one years’]

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...

Magic cultivation completed, no further enhancement possible.

Song Yan continued to advance his realm.

[You spent one hundred years cultivating the full version of the ’Profound Qi Guiding Technique’.

In the forty-fifth year, you successfully cultivated 900 strands of mystical energy, merging into nine springs, along with the previous one spring, each flowing into the ten meridians within your body.

Your physical strength further increased, and your perception also improved to some extent.

You entered the Refining Profound Second Layer.

Due to lack of subsequent cultivation techniques, returning the remaining fifty-five years of lifespan]

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...

Song Yan attempted to conceal the ten springs of mystical energy using ’Condensing Evil and Controlling Profound Technique’, successfully.

He glanced at the panel: [Lifespan: 17/3469].

’Magic cannot be further enhanced, cultivation techniques, spirit root, seem fine...’

’Let’s try again.’

The young man was full of patience.

In this dangerous world, he tirelessly pursued the enhancement of power.

[You spent one hundred years deducing and cultivating the ’Profound Qi Guiding Technique’.

No matter how you tried, you found the mystical energy within was full.

You vaguely felt that some external medicine might be needed, but you... didn’t have such medicine.

As for cultivation technique, the ’Profound Qi Guiding Technique’ seemed to be the best method for inferior Profound Root in the Refining Profound level.

A hundred years passed, you gained nothing]

[You spent one hundred years deducing ’Inferior Ghost Spirit Root’.

You lay on a lonely cliff, but ghosts were no longer entering your body.

You vaguely felt that improving the spirit root wasn’t easier than creating something from nothing, and this time you didn’t have the luck to succeed inadvertently, you needed some opportunity.

A hundred years passed, you gained nothing]

’Gained nothing, huh? Indeed, it’s not that easy.’

Song Yan thought silently in his heart.

This was his first time using the panel comprehensively.

Soon, he summarized some rules, or rather, experiences:

First, his lifespan deducing panel cannot create something from nothing, cannot conjure medicine when there isn’t any. From this, it’s deduced that as long as he prepares the medicine, he can likely cultivate by completely consuming the medicine. Similarly, he can also utilize the environment. Different environments impact cultivation differently. His ’Inferior Ghost Spirit Root’ was a result of the fishy mist on the cliff of the Tannery.

Second, the magic itself has a potential limit, cannot mutate infinitely. And each mutation requires a significant increase in time spent, with the increase seemingly being an extra half of the first comprehension time. To achieve perfect mutation, all mutations of the same level must be completed and fused, which requires far more time than cultivating the magic itself.

In other words... cultivating existing magic is far easier than comprehending it oneself.

As for the remaining 3269 years of lifespan, Song Yan wasn’t surprised.

After all, the cultivation techniques he practiced were low-level, spending more than six hundred years in total was already quite remarkable, and this included two hundred years of fruitless effort.

After fully digesting the power, Song Yan finally took a long breath of relief.

He looked outside, the originally hazy red mist became much clearer, and the twisted mist meshed into more lines, as if a mentally disturbed artist made chaotic sketches with blood on a black curtain;

He listened attentively, the sounds outside, originally almost mute, entered his ears once again—wind sounds, the sound of the leaves in the forest at the cliff bottom, the terrifying howling of skin and bone ghosts half-awake, the crisp rolling sound of a small stone on the cliff, and even the light conversation between two people in the suspended room next door, he could already hear them.

It was called conversation, but in fact, there was no discussion.

Just some indescribable humming sounds.

This was the only time the servants could escape.

After the humming, the female servant in the adjacent room asked, "When will you do what you mentioned?"

Next, the male servant said, "In two more days."

The female servant said, "I’ve saved 10 contribution points, you also have 10. Can you ask Master Zhang who passed on the skills if giving him all 20 points can let us leave? If 20 points aren’t enough, we can save more... as long as we can leave, it’s all good."

The male servant sighed and said, "I’m afraid it won’t work."

The female servant said, "This doesn’t work, that doesn’t work, what should we do then?"

Then, she began to complain.

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