Cultivation Starts from Farming-Chapter 575 - 288: Slay and Reap_3

The next instant.

The majestic sword light suddenly split into ten slender and sharp beams, like a nimble dragon.

These ten beams of sword light resembled ten silver bolts of lightning tearing through the darkness, charging fiercely toward Xiang Hong’s puppet array with overwhelming force from all directions.

"Sword Rainbow Splitting Light!??"

Xiang Hong witnessed this scene, his eyes wide open like bronze bells, eyes filled with terror almost overflowing.

How could a Golden Core Cultivator comprehend a Nascent Soul level Sword Dao??

"Spare me..."

Xiang Hong’s plea for mercy was cut short as he was engulfed by the all-encompassing sword light.

Boom boom boom...

Earth-shattering explosions echoed through the skies, as if to shatter the very world.

The ten beams of sword light crashed into the puppet array with a series of deafening roars.

All the puppets, in the face of this unparalleled sword light, were as fragile as thin paper, instantly dismembered, metal fragments flying everywhere.

"No!"

In Xiang Hong’s desperate gaze, the most fierce beam of sword light sliced through the void like lightning.

Pshh!

Like a ripe watermelon being sliced open by a sharp blade, his head flew high, blood gushing out from his neck like a fountain.

Xiang Hong’s headless corpse lost its mana support and plummeted from the sky.

The battlefield was suddenly plunged into silence.

Yet Xu Ping, who had slain Xiang Hong with a single sword, slightly furrowed his brow, looking somewhat displeased.

"The might is indeed strong, but the consumption is substantial as well!"

This full-force strike had surprisingly consumed nearly half of his mana, a terrifying expenditure, only to be used as a last resort.

However, its power was truly astonishing.

With just one strike, Xiang Hong’s proud puppet array was reduced to ashes, and even Xiang Hong himself met his end.

"Time to leave."

Xu Ping quickly tidied up the battlefield, removed Xiang Hong’s storage ring, and transformed into a cyan light, swiftly departing.

...

A day later.

In a newly established cave dwelling.

All around was silent, with only the occasional gentle breeze.

"I wonder if Xiang Hong’s storage ring contains the skill for the puppet array. If it does, it would be a tremendous gain."

Sitting cross-legged on the stone bed, Xu Ping looked at the storage ring in his hand with anticipation.

Since the other party was a senior of the Seed Puppet Sect, he might actually possess it.

With this thought, Xu Ping no longer hesitated, channeled his mana, and easily cleared the divine sense imprint left by Xiang Hong on the storage ring.

Subsequently, his divine sense invaded it without hesitation.

The first thing that caught his eye was a pile of shimmering Spirit Stones.

"So many Spirit Stones?"

Xu Ping was slightly surprised, the sheer amount far exceeded his expectations, numbering at least three or four hundred thousand.

But on second thought, it made sense.

After all, as an elder of the Seed Puppet Sect and possibly here on an important mission for the auction, carrying a large number of Spirit Stones in case of an emergency was quite normal.

However, now all these Spirit Stones came cheap to him.

Aside from the Spirit Stones, the storage ring was a dazzling array of magical artifacts, puppet materials, and various minerals.

These plentiful items greatly enriched Xu Ping’s wealth.

Xu Ping continued to carefully search through the storage ring, and at the depths of the ring, he discovered a wooden box filled with intricate restrictions.

The surface of the wooden box was carved with intricate runes, the runes glimmering with a faint light.

"Could it be that the puppet array skill is inside here?"

With joy on his face, Xu Ping speculated that the wooden box, wrapped in such security, might indeed contain the puppet array skill.

He took it out, broke the restrictions on the wooden box, and the box slowly opened, revealing a seemingly unremarkable, gray jade slip quietly lying inside.

He picked up the jade slip and immersed his divine sense into it.

Instantly, the words ’Thousand Mechanism Skill’ stood out vividly in his mind.

"Not the puppet array!"

A trace of disappointment involuntarily crossed Xu Ping’s mind.

Nevertheless, he still calmed himself down and thoroughly read through the entire content of the ’Thousand Mechanism Skill’.

A quarter of an hour later.

Xu Ping slowly withdrew his divine sense from the jade slip, and the previously slightly disappointed expression on his face was replaced by a barely suppressible excitement.

"Didn’t expect an unexpected surprise!"

As it turned out, although the ’Thousand Mechanism Skill’ was not the puppet array skill, it was an exquisite skill capable of effectively enhancing divine sense.

Considering his previous experience with the Spirit Platform Cyan Clarity Skill, he had long been eager for any secret technique that could enhance divine sense.

Xu Ping quickly realized that the value of this ’Thousand Mechanism Skill’ for him was in no way inferior to the puppet array skill, possibly even surpassing it in certain aspects.

The ’Thousand Mechanism Skill’ consisted of three levels.

The first level corresponded to the Foundation Establishment Realm, mainly laying a solid divine sense foundation for novice cultivators.

The second level corresponded to the Golden Core Realm, allowing Golden Core cultivators to achieve a qualitative leap in divine sense.

The third level pertained to the Nascent Soul Realm, reportedly bringing divine sense to an astounding level when perfected.

Even allowing a Golden Core cultivator to reach the threshold of a Nascent Soul cultivator’s divine sense strength was not impossible.

The one Xu Ping had in hand was the second level of the ’Thousand Mechanism Skill’.

"Truly a good thing!"

Xu Ping gripped the jade slip, a trace of fervor flashing in his eyes.

Once his Spirit Platform Cyan Clarity Skill reached perfection, he planned to begin cultivating this technique.

Once he achieved perfection in the second level of the ’Thousand Mechanism Skill’, his divine sense strength would undoubtedly be comparable to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator, giving him a significant advantage over cultivators of the same rank.

The only regret was that he hadn’t found the third level of the ’Thousand Mechanism Skill’.

"It seems like there is now an unavoidable reason to target the Seed Puppet Sect!" Xu Ping muttered to himself, a glint of coldness in his eyes.

To achieve Nascent Soul status, one must indeed have great opportunities.

For ordinary cultivators, it might be immensely difficult to obtain divine sense secret techniques, but for these Nascent Soul powerhouses, the difficulty was relatively lower.

Hence, the divine sense strength of a Nascent Soul cultivator often exceeded the standard threshold of the same realm.

In order for his divine sense strength to continue overwhelming cultivators of the same realm after advancing to Nascent Soul, the third level of the ’Thousand Mechanism Skill’ was an absolute must-have.