Chapter 231: Undead Forbidden Arts

Aside from Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, under the enhancement of the Moonlight Breathing Method, was surprisingly on par with her sister.

This actually caught Ning Feiliu somewhat by surprise.

And apart from Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er, the improvement speed of the others was relatively average.

"I feel like I've already been very fast; this Moonlight Breathing Method is truly miraculous, but it's a pity you lied to us at the beginning and said it was an ordinary cultivation technique," Shui Bing'er said helplessly. "Such a precious thing... we don't even know how to repay you..."

"Wrong, it's not precious at all; I wouldn't be willing to give you the truly precious things," Ning Feiliu chuckled and said.

Over this past year, in fact, besides completing missions and increasing his soul power by another four levels, he had also comprehended...

Combining "Distraction Control" and the breathing method, the Normal Breathing Method was born.

That is, to go about one's normal life and activities while simultaneously operating the breathing method for cultivation at all times.

This was something he only comprehended and successfully realized about a month ago when he officially broke through to the Six Apertures As-You-Will Heart realm within Distraction Control.

This type of normal-state breathing allows Ning Feiliu to cultivate anytime and anywhere.

Although this normal-state breathing method decreases the soul power improvement speed to a certain extent, quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes, as he is cultivating every single moment.

Although the efficiency is only half that of cultivating with the breathing method while fully focused, cultivating for ten hours at half efficiency is still equivalent to five hours of normal cultivation, which naturally allows his cultivation base to improve faster.

However, this normal-state breathing method does not actually require one to reach the Six Apertures As-You-Will Heart realm of Distraction Control like he did in order to use it.

He estimated that one could probably barely use the normal-state breathing method to continue cultivation once they reached the Four Apertures Constant Heart of Distraction Control.

At the same time, maintaining the normal-state breathing method and daily activities with such distraction can continue to increase the proficiency of Distraction Control.

It belongs to the category of killing two birds with one stone: it can both increase the proficiency of Distraction Control and allow for constant soul power cultivation during daily life.

Therefore, precisely because of this, for Ning Feiliu, the Moonlight Breathing Method is not considered particularly precious now.

Because he has given the Moonlight Breathing Method to too many people, plus he himself is now using a normal-state breathing method that incorporates both sun and moon.

There is even the fact that this Moonlight Breathing Method, which he obtained from the endowment of his cheat ability, is, in the accompanying knowledge he received, actually just a basic cultivation technique that every member of the Moon Sect possesses...

That's right, it is the basic cultivation technique that every member of the Moon Sect on the Rune Continent possesses.

It is not like Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Skill, which is some supreme cultivation technique of the Tang Sect that is never passed on to outsiders.

Naturally, Ning Feiliu did not care much about it at the beginning for this reason.

So it didn't matter if he taught it to Shui Bing'er and the others; after all, they had helped him quite a bit.

And as for truly precious items, Ning Feiliu indeed had not given them away, such as Immortal Herbs, Mysterious Water Pills, and the like.

But Shui Bing'er and the others did not think so; after experiencing the miraculous nature of the Moonlight Breathing Method firsthand, they were all very surprised.

In fact, it is not that there were no cultivation techniques on the Douluo Continent itself, it is just that those cultivation techniques were very crude. (In the original work, Master found several methods to cultivate soul power from Notting Academy for Tang San, so it is not that the Douluo Continent lacks cultivation techniques.) Still, the same point remains: the main reason for the Douluo Continent is that it relies too much on Soul Rings and soul skills.

Many self-created soul skills and cultivation techniques are not as simple and easy to use as directly obtaining a Soul Ring, so gradually no one tried to do such things.

Therefore, Gangzi's saying, "There are no useless martial souls, only useless Spirit Masters," is a joke in most situations.

The reason it is said to be in most situations is because there are still a small number of cases like Tang Chen, a peerless genius who created the Great Sumeru Hammer.

That is indeed a top-tier genius Spirit Master, no doubt about it.

Although his martial soul was also the top-tier martial soul, the Clear Sky Hammer.

But judging by his track record of being able to create the Great Sumeru Hammer and the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, and leading the Clear Sky Sect to the throne of the number one Spirit Master sect on the continent, he likely would have made a name for himself even if his martial soul were not the Clear Sky Hammer.

As long as one is not disabled like Gangzi, who had an innate soul power of half a level and was shackled by an innate cultivation limit.

On the Douluo Continent, only the cultivation technique created by Tang Chen, the Great Sumeru Hammer, is that powerful; however, even the Great Sumeru Hammer cannot actually increase a Spirit Master's cultivation speed, but rather increases a Spirit Master's combat power.

Otherwise, the Great Sumeru Hammer would not have been passed down by Tang Chen across generations only to Tang Hao.

Because under the limitations of talent, only Tang Hao was suitable within the Clear Sky Sect.

Therefore, the effect of the Moonlight Breathing Method in accelerating cultivation would indeed be enough to shock people if it were made public.

Shui Bing'er and the others also knew this point, so they felt even more moved by Ning Feiliu's selfless behavior.

"It is already very precious..." Shui Bing'er said hurriedly, "Feiliu, you are just too kind-hearted; others would never teach this kind of cultivation technique to anyone else."

Ning Feiliu gave a helpless smile and said, "Sigh, why are you all... forget it."

He shook his head; from the perspective of a gentleman judging by deeds rather than intentions, he was indeed being too much of a "good guy."

But what else could he do? This was all forced by missions that could increase his strength.

Although he could choose "not to accept" these missions, if he didn't grasp the opportunity to become stronger, wouldn't he be an idiot?

And it just makes him look like a bit of a pushover; being able to do some good deeds while becoming stronger can also be considered accumulating virtue...

"Sigh! Feiliu! We've finished setting up the camp! Come and cook!" Just then, Xue Wu and the others, who had finished setting up the camp in the distance, shouted toward Ning Feiliu's side.

Ning Feiliu had clearly become the team's designated chef during this period.

However, Shui Bing'er and the others were actually embarrassed to keep ordering Ning Feiliu to cook, so they didn't often ask him to do so.

Instead, everyone took turns, but they tended to ask Ning Feiliu to cook during holidays and times that were obviously more joyous.

Ning Feiliu did not refuse, either.

Perhaps because they liked him, the girls appeared exceptionally sensible; they worked together regardless of gender during daily tasks.

After all, when men and women work together, the work is less tiring.

And when you truly like someone, you actually won't lose your temper with that person.

The night passed without incident. After Ning Feiliu and Shui Bing'er and the others finished a relatively sumptuous dinner, they agreed to take turns standing guard for the night, and then those who were on guard stood guard, while those who were cultivating used the Moonlight Breathing Method to cultivate.

Ning Feiliu was the first to stand guard, but he looked at the moonlight in the sky and did not start cultivating just like that.

He even deactivated the cultivation state of the normal-state breathing method, and instead began to test with his whole heart...

The Undead Forbidden Arts and Ochen Language Proficiency he had obtained not long ago.

There are many types of Undead Forbidden Arts; some are very simple. Most of these simple Undead Forbidden Arts, like the previous Spirit Communication Spell, only require chanting the incantation in Ouchen Language to be cast.

These simple Undead Forbidden Arts are not even worth mentioning.

There are also higher-level Primary Undead Forbidden Arts, Advanced Undead Forbidden Arts, and... the true Forbidden Spell Level Undead Forbidden Arts.

Ning Feiliu suddenly felt a bit strange. By doing this... wouldn't he become that cheap teacher of Huo Gua, the Necromancer Saint? However, it shouldn't be as comprehensive as Yi Lai Ke Si; all of these Undead Forbidden Arts from Mordekaiser add up to only sixty-eight types.

After all, although he was the Iron-Armored Revenant who ruled the world of the dead on the Rune Continent, he was not a wizard proficient in necromancy.

Therefore, most of what he had learned were simple Undead Forbidden Arts that could be cast using only the Ouchen Language, the language of the undead; there were forty-nine of them in total, all very simple and lacking in lethality.

The remaining sixteen Advanced Undead Forbidden Arts were powerful and lethal, requiring not only the Ouchen Language but also powerful mental strength or the drawing of blood curses. Finally, there were only three Forbidden Spell Level Undead Forbidden Arts.

And the three forbidden spells were Nether Soul Descent, Death Scourge, and the Resurrection Curse.

"Destiny, Domination, Deceit..." Ning Feiliu suddenly whispered in the Ouchen Language.

No wonder Mordekaiser would mutter this phrase in the game; it turned out these were his three most powerful Undead Forbidden Spells.

Of these three forbidden spells, the Nether Soul Descent forbidden spell required the sacrifice of ten thousand lives to bring the world of the dead down into reality, effectively opening the gate between the dead and the living.

And in the story of the Rune Continent, once Mordekaiser opened the gate, it was easy to imagine that it would be the time he ruled the world.

The Death Scourge forbidden spell was a forbidden spell for enslaving the undead; the stronger one's mental power and Spirit Soul, the more undead one could enslave, but the user of the forbidden spell had to ensure the enslaved undead were satisfied in the end.

Otherwise, the price would be the undead army turning against the user of the forbidden spell! However, this so-called satisfaction was actually just an energy supply; theoretically, it was just a labor contract that included room and board.

It meant: I work for you, you must provide me with energy, otherwise I will demand my wages... and if you get beaten to death, you deserve it!

But the Death Scourge forbidden spell also had a workaround; once you could not provide a massive energy supply to the undead, then... drive the army to devour the flesh and blood of living beings in reality and convert it into energy! So this was also a very evil Undead Forbidden Spell.

There was another one... the seemingly simple Resurrection Curse; in reality, resurrection... this word itself was the greatest blasphemy against life and death!

However...

"Does this mean I have to say something like 'Resurrect, my lover'?" Ning Feiliu's expression was strange.

This Resurrection Curse... using the forbidden spell did not require paying too high a price; first, the body and Spirit Soul of the resurrected had to remain intact, and second, it required... enough blood.

Using a ratio of 1:10 of the resurrected's body weight to blood weight, one had to soak the resurrected's body in blood.

That would resurrect them, but the resurrected's body would suffer some side effects, for example... it would become as cold and pale as a dead person's body, and the physical state would only be seventy percent of what it was before death.

However, the most interesting part of this Resurrection Forbidden Spell was... if the resurrected's body was damaged, besides repairing it to be complete before casting the Resurrection Forbidden Spell.

One could also just find a body to house the Spirit Soul, whether it was the corpse of another dead person, or... like Mordekaiser, simply find a body cast from steel armor.

Casting the Resurrection Forbidden Spell could likewise resurrect them.

It was just that after resurrection, it was not considered a true resurrection, but merely... an undead inhabiting that body.

You would have no heartbeat, no pulse, no breath; no signs of life would manifest on this body of yours, and it would even cause you to fear fire, light, and sacred things and spells.

Obviously, apart from a madman like Mordekaiser and those necromancers, no one would be willing to turn themselves into such a neither-human-nor-ghost creature.

Ning Feiliu only sighed at this moment, saying, "Suddenly giving me this kind of forbidden spell, why does it feel like a flag? Won't I have to shout 'Resurrect! My lover' later on?"

If that were the case, it would be truly laughable.

However, these sixty-eight Undead Forbidden Spells could be considered as adding a few more means to Ning Feiliu's arsenal.

It was almost equivalent to giving him a little Yi Lai Ke Si as a mentor, though, of course, it certainly could not compare to Yi Lai Ke Si himself.

This was only sixty-eight Undead Forbidden Arts; the light-type necromancy created by the Necromancy Saint Mage Yi Lai Ke Si was more than just these.

But the power of the final three forbidden spells was certainly beyond doubt.

Although he teased the Resurrection Forbidden Spell, teasing was just teasing; he would still use it when he could.

Ning Feiliu's main approach was to follow his heart.

The night passed without incident; when it was time to change guard duty, he switched with the girls directly.

That was how they spent the night.

However, when the next day arrived...

"Rip—" Ning Feiliu snapped out of his full-concentration cultivation state, then looked toward the place where the sound and pressure were coming from.

The girls had all stood up, except for... Shui Bing'er.

She was still closing her eyes and focusing, the soul power aura on her body still fluctuating up and down, and a sound like tearing cloth gradually emanated from within her body.

This is...

A sign of breaking through! Suddenly, the girls all dared not speak loudly, all nervously watching Shui Bing'er.

Until...

After more than ten minutes, Shui Bing'er suddenly opened her eyes, and then her soul power pressure surged instantly! "Click—"

Then her soul power aura instantly broke through a membrane-like barrier, and finally slowly stabilized.

"I succeeded!" Shui Bing'er said, her beautiful eyes filled with joy.

She was now... having broken through to level 40 soul power, she only needed to obtain a Soul Ring to officially become a Soul Ancestor-level powerhouse.

This was something she had never thought of a year ago.

After all, a year ago she had just broken through to level 36 soul power!

She didn't expect that in this year... no, in about ten months, she had broken through four levels of soul power consecutively!

"Yay! Bing'er has broken through to Soul Ancestor!" The girls were all genuinely happy for Shui Bing'er.

Shui Bing'er looked at Ning Feiliu; she knew that without Ning Feiliu teaching her the Moonlight Breathing Method, without that miraculous Moonlight Breathing Method, she might have needed another two or three years to break through to the Soul Ancestor realm.

But now she had broken through to Soul Ancestor in just one year; of course, she had to thank Ning Feiliu.

"Congratulations, Bing'er." Ning Feiliu also smiled and congratulated her at this time.

"Thank you, Feiliu." Shui Bing'er said to him gratefully in a low voice at this moment.

Some book readers are really unreasonable... saying things like the original work is trash and so are you, what's the point of writing fanfiction if you don't follow the original settings; the settings in the original work regarding soul power and Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring common sense are like that, so of course I can only write it that way.

I am not someone who is never unreasonable and never admits mistakes, only thinking I am right; you should at least state your reasons instead of directly cursing people.

Regarding the soul power settings, the original work mentioned that tournament, with an age limit of 25, so surely those top-tier genius Spirit Masters basically competed between the ages of 20 and 25; after all, in this fantasy world that discusses cultivation, it is certain that with equal talent, the older you are, the higher your cultivation and the more advantage you have, so if we say becoming a Soul Ancestor at 20, isn't being a Soul Elder at 15 very normal? This is still the top-tier genius Spirit Master talent; there are over a dozen 20-year-olds in the Five Elements Academies teams who are still Soul Elders, are they also trash?

Is it because you've read too much fanfiction and think that if you don't become a Soul Ancestor at 15 and a Soul King at 20, you're trash? You have to follow the logic of the original work when reading fanfiction.

The protagonist of my book is set to start as a loser, an Auxiliary System Spirit Master with ordinary talent, so the starting point is very low.

I even added an introductory note at the beginning, and I'm puzzled why so many people still run in and say things like the protagonist is too weak, this cultivation level is unreasonable, it's unreasonable that even a Title Douluo doesn't know about the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring setting, and so on.

I write books more for my own pleasure; I don't rely on this for a living.

Still the same thing: if you write fanfiction entirely based on your own headcanons and show zero respect for the original work's settings, why are you even writing fanfiction?

(End of this chapter)