Chapter 15: Testing Divine Skills, Wang Yu's Stratagem!

With experience, Gu Changge naturally did not delay at all.

He decisively chose to share the other two divine skills with Liu Qingqing!

[Host: Gu Changge]

[Root Bone: 90]

[Comprehension: 88]

[Cultivation Technique: Mystic Sky Technique (Earth Rank Mid-Grade)]

[Realm: Qi Condensation Realm Eighth Layer]

[Divine Skills: Lingfeng Nine Swords (Dark Grade Top Grade · Small Success) Shadow Concealing Step (Earth Rank Low Grade · Small Success) Heavenly Cold Finger (Earth Rank Mid-Grade · Beginner)]

As he made his selection, three divine skills appeared on his panel, just like Liu Qingqing's!

In his mind, many insights and experiences emerged as well.

He even felt he had muscle memory for these three divine skills.

He could use them effortlessly!

He originally wanted to experiment with the Shadow Concealing Step to see how effective this Earth Rank Low Grade divine skill was, but he found that his spiritual energy was somewhat insufficient...

He had just fully executed the Lingfeng Nine Swords once, and it had already drained the spiritual energy of his Qi Condensation Realm Eighth Layer!

But this was normal, after all, it was a Dark Grade Top Grade sword technique, and it was executed with a degree of Small Success.

Among other cultivators, even those in the Gu Family of his age, if there were any geniuses in the Qi Sea Realm, probably none could achieve Small Success with a Dark Grade Top Grade divine skill, at most they could only reach Beginner level!

A Dark Grade Top Grade divine skill at Small Success level really should not be executable in the Qi Condensation Realm...

After half a two hours of circulating the Mystic Sky Technique, the spiritual energy in his meridians was almost perfected, and only then was he able to test that Earth Rank Low Grade movement technique.

The courtyard was small, so he simply went outside towards the Back Mountain.

As he moved, only some afterimages could be seen with the naked eye, yet within a single breath, he appeared hundreds of meters away!

Within five breaths, he had already covered a distance of three thousand meters!

However, the consumption of spiritual energy by the Earth Rank movement technique was also terrifying, just this distance had almost drained his spiritual energy.

But compared to this speed and effect, Gu Changge was utterly satisfied!

With such a means to escape, even if he now encountered a master of the Sky-controlling Realm, he could get out of danger in a short time!

With the speed of the Sky-controlling Realm, unless it was in an open space, they really couldn't catch up to him, and even from thousands of meters away, they couldn't find him!

"The mountain road is rugged; if it were flat ground, the distance could be doubled in five breaths, escaping out five or six thousand meters."

Gu Changge silently estimated for a moment that if he broke through to the Sky-controlling Realm, the spiritual energy in his body should be enough to allow him to use the Shadow Concealing Step to cross a distance of more than ten thousand meters, his life should be secured!

Seeing all the trees around, he did not return to the courtyard but instead sat down directly on the ground and continued cultivating for half a two hours, restoring his spiritual energy to perfection.

"Heavenly Cold Finger..."

"An Earth Rank Mid-Grade attack divine skill, even Liu Qingqing has only cultivated it to the beginner level."

"I wonder how its power compares to Lingfeng Nine Swords."

He looked around and his gaze settled on a rocky mountain wall, he slowly walked up to it.

As he gave a low shout, his right hand's middle finger and index finger joined together, and all the spiritual energy in his body gathered at his fingertips at that moment, violently jabbing towards the stone wall in front of him!

The indestructible stone wall, upon contact with the fingertips, showed no resistance at all, piercing through it like a block of tofu!

And wherever his fingers touched, a thin layer of frost formed.

"Tsks... this stone wall must be much stronger than the body of a cultivator in the Sky-controlling Realm."

"Plus, with this frigidness that's enough to freeze the stone wall, I'm afraid even a cultivator at the Qi Sea Realm would be seriously injured by this Heavenly Cold Finger attack!"

"However, the energy consumption is also too great. Just now, my spiritual energy was completely drained and I couldn't even bring out the full potential of this strike, achieving only about fifty percent of its power."

Gu Changge withdrew his right hand and lightly shook off the ice shards on his fingers.

The effect of the Heavenly Cold Finger, compared to its effect on the stone wall, would be much stronger if it struck a person or a demon beast.

After all, if it could penetrate a stone wall, it could also penetrate the body of a Qi Sea Realm cultivator!

And the frigidness would be enough to freeze the blood and internal organs of a Qi Sea Realm cultivator, even affecting the spiritual energy circulation by freezing the meridians!

Now, not only did he possess the ability to escape, but he also had a means of attack!

Since his spiritual energy was drained, he practiced cultivation on the spot for about half a two-hour period before he used the Shadow Concealing Step again to return to the small courtyard from the mountain in a few breaths.

Although it wasn't very far and he could totally walk down the mountain, it was too wasteful not to use the newly learned divine skills; it was a chance to become familiar with them, and the only consequence was that he needed to cultivate again later to restore his spiritual energy!

It wasn't until his figure had left that an old man with white hair, wearing a simple cloth robe and a bamboo hat, fishing by the pond in the Back Mountain, raised his eyebrows.

"How peculiar, a divine skill from the Heavenly Cold Sect?"

The white-haired old man put away his fishing rod and with just one step, he appeared near the stone wall, nearly ten thousand meters away.

Looking at the small pit on the stone wall, where the chill had not yet dissipated.

The old man clicked his tongue in wonder; he had noticed that junior occasionally once or twice before—a junior with no cultivation talent.

Yet today, years later, upon noticing him again, he had achieved the eighth level of the Qi Condensation Realm, and the concealing effect of Gu Zhan's ring couldn't fool his old eyes.

Especially since that junior had mastered an Earth Rank movement technique at the Qi Condensation Realm, using his own Heavenly Cold Sect's attack divine skills.

That indeed piqued his interest.

Standing among the mountains, he glanced at the small courtyard at the foot of the mountain and after a brief moment, he chuckled and went back to fishing.

In the courtyard, Gu Changge hadn't noticed anything unusual but was freshly trying out the Lingfeng Nine Swords several times.

Until dusk approached, he had some food, and then sat cross-legged to start cultivating quietly with greater spiritual restoration than sleeping would offer.

...

On the other hand, Wang Yu was already nearing the borders of Qingzhou.

He hadn't received any news from the Sect about Gu Changge being able to cultivate.

He was solely focused on stopping this ridiculous marriage; Junior Sister Liu deserved better than that waste from the Gu Family!

"Hmph! Foolish thing!" Sensing a rushing wind approaching, Wang Yu casually waved his hand, shooting out a burst of spiritual energy that instantly killed a demon beast of low spirit intelligence attempting to ambush him.

The borders of Qingzhou might not have any powerful demon beasts, but it wasn't entirely a safe place without them either.

Wang Yu, planning to enter Qingzhou quickly, his gaze falling on the corpse of the beast resembling a malevolent wolf, suddenly grinned, an idea forming in his mind.

If Gu Changge, who was nothing but a cultivation-incapable waste, could be isolated, and he controlled a demon beast of low spirit intelligence to devour him...

Wouldn't that completely disrupt the marriage arrangement?

Such an accident would leave the Gu Family without any recourse or evidence.

Even if they suspected him, what then?

Would the Gu Family really turn against him, a prince, over a waste?