Chapter 2 - Spirit Arts

When night fell, Yang Junshan quietly arrived at the well beside the garden at the back of the house.

The edge of the well was made of bluestone, and the mouth of the well had a windlass. Looking at the bottom of the well, a chilling aura blew over, causing Yang Junshan, who was originally dispirited due to the night to suddenly feel refreshed.

This well was personally struck by Yang Tiangang's family when they moved to Tuqiu Village. At that time, Yang Tiangang used the power of his family to get the position of Village Head, and after the land was divided, Yang Tiangang used three wells of water in the fields they were in to water the well.

What Ling Yang Tiangang did not expect was, his luck seemed to be slowly improving after splitting up. When he was digging the third well, he suddenly felt a light Spirit Qi coming out from the well!

This was incredible!

Although the spirit energy in the well was pitifully thin, as a Spiritual Farmers who only knew how to use the grass to make a living, the value of this spirit well was immeasurably high.

The Tuqiu Village, who originally had enmity towards Yang Tiangang because of the descent of a Village Head, began a severe gang fight against this spirit well.

Relying on the fact that his martial arts realm had just advanced to the second stage, and with the help of his wife Han Xiumei who had reached the fifth stage of the Mortal Realm and cast immortal arts, as well as his two brothers of the same family, Yang Tiangang took out the High quality magical equipment canister that he had bought with half of his family's resources, and consecutively broke two people's front teeth, four people's shoulder blades, five people's arms and one person's thigh, only then did Yang Tiangang scare everyone in Tuqiu Village. Not only did he manage to keep this spirit well, but he had even erected his illustrious reputation as the number one expert in the Tuqiu Village, so no one dared to covet his position of Village Head.

After that, Yang Tiangang even placed his home next to this spirit well, guarding it day and night. This spirit well had already become the Yang family's home guarding treasure.

It was precisely because of the irrigation from this spirit well water that the spiritual valley that Yang Tiangang cultivated was always able to gather three to five more dollars more per mu of Ling Tian compared to other families.

A year ago, Yang Junshan returned to the Chenyu County to participate in the aptitude test. He had two immortal spiritual cavities in his body, and was ranked as a fourth grade aptitude.

Xiantian talent was the first threshold for a cultivator to enter the cultivation world. Even though this threshold wasn't the decisive factor for a cultivator to reach the limit in his cultivation, it was still valued highly by others.

In general, there were only two types of Innate Rankings. One was because he was born with a Spirit Aperture in his body, which allowed him to absorb the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth into his body; the other was because he did not have a Spirit Aperture in his body, so he was unable to cultivate on his own. From this point, Yang Junshan was lucky, because he had two Spirit Apertures in his body, and was able to cultivate on his own.

A person's body could only have a maximum of five spiritual cavities, and witalent like this, he would naturally be a first class talent. From this point, Yang Junshan's fourth grade talent was only a level higher than the lowest grade talent for a single spiritual cavities.

After spending a year of cultivation, Yang Junshan barely managed to catch a glimpse of the faint spirit energy in the air, and channeled it into his body. This was the first realm of Mortal Realm: Inducing spirit energy.

At this time, Yang Junshan was sitting cross-legged on a rock beside the well. He immediately closed his eyes and focused his mind, his mouth muttering some words, his mind feeling the two immortal spiritual cavities in his body. According to the memories of his previous life, he was trying to use a cultivation method to capture the faint spirit energy that was dispersing from the well to awaken the immortal spiritual cavities.

However, Yang Junshan was still far from being able to advance to the second stage of Mortal Realm. In fact, it would take a very long time for Yang Junshan's fourth stage talent to only be able to absorb spirit energy to open the second stage of Mortal Realm.

Thus, it was necessary to use celestial items to shorten the time needed for a cultivator to advance to the second level. This was also the reason why the name of the celestial spirit was called after the second level.

He trained in archery for a year and prepared to participate in the Banyan Mountain Enclosure a year later. Unexpectedly, he almost died under the charge of a wild boar, but it was not like he did not have any gains, in the end, he accidentally obtained a low rank immortal spirit and returned home. In the end, he still refined that piece of mudstone to advance into the second stage.

If Yang Junshan were to go to the Banyan Mountain this time, he would naturally not be as miserable as he was in his previous life. In fact, Yang Junshan had big plans for this trip.

Although there were only three days left, Yang Junshan still thought to increase his strength as much as possible.

The Mortal Realm was divided into five stages, which were the first stage of drawing in spirit energy, the second stage of summoning spirit energy, the third stage of the spiritual cavities, the fourth stage of laying the immortal foundation, and the fifth stage of casting immortal arts. Although Yang Junshan had already cultivated for a year, he had only mastered the first stage of summoning spirit energy, so he was still far from being able to complete it.

The technique passed down in the Yang family was called the "Overlapping Earth Spirit Art". Legend has it that it was simplified by the true inheritance technique of the Heaven-Shaken Sect, the "Overlapping Earth Treasure Art". No one knew if it was true, but many powers in the Yuxian had passed this technique down.

Because Yang Junshan was a direct descendant of the Yang family, although his cultivation talent was inferior, he could still pass on the Overlapping Earth Spirit Arts, if he was a descendant of one of the branches of the Madame Yang, he could only receive a lower grade of the Overlapping Earth Arts.

After a year of training, although Yang Junshan could not be considered diligent, he had not slacked off either. However, with his fourth grade Inherent skill, his cultivation progress was extremely slow, and he was only able to barely cultivate up to the first stage. Thus, Yang Junshan was extremely concerned with the spiritual items in the surrounding area of the Banyan Mountain.

Although innate talent was an important link in the cultivation process for the cultivators of this world, it was definitely not a decisive link. How far a cultivator could go in the cultivation world would ultimately depend on the combined influence of many factors.

However, what Yang Junshan was cultivating was not the Yang Family's cultivation technique "Overlapping Earth Spirit Arts", buechnique that he had obtained from the disciples of the Heaven-Shaken Sect from his previous life. wanted to take advantage of the former's lack of cultivation and quickly use the latter's spirit energy to gradually replace it, otherwise, after Lu Ping had passed the barrier of "Spirit Summoning Earth", it would be difficult for him to change his cultivation technique again.

As long as one cultivated in a cultivation technique, their skills would not be comparable to spirit arts. On top of spirit arts, there was even the legendary treasure arts.

After practising the Covering Earth Arts , one could even change the advanced Covering Earth Spirit Art , and then continue to change the advanced Covering Earth Treasure Arts , which was one level higher than the Wutu Spiritual Art technique that Yang Junshan was currently cultivating.

Although the Earth Shrouding Spirit Art passed down by the Yang family and the Wutu Spiritual Art that Yang Junshan was training in were both inherited from the Heaven-Shaken Sect, they were two different types of cultivation techniques that were completely unrelated to each other.

On the « Shrouding Earth Spirit Art », there was also the « Shrouding Earth Treasure Art », which was the former's advanced cultivation technique, but it was a secret of the Heaven-Shaken Sect. The Yang family had wanted it many times but couldn't get it, but the Yang family was still a family in a town.

And according to the knowledge of the cultivators who had passed down the Wutu Spiritual Art to Yang Junshan in his previous life, the Wutu Spiritual Art also contained the Wutu Treasure Arts >. Although the level of the Wutu Treasure Arts was lower than that of the "Earth Shrouding Treasure Arts" in the Heaven-Shaken Sect, it was still a secret that was not passed down in the Heaven-Shaken Sect.

The classification of cultivation techniques was based on the extreme level that one could cultivate to; however, depending on the cultivation speed and the degree of difficulty, a cultivation technique of the same grade could also be divided into different levels.

For example, take the《 Overlapping Earth Art》 and《 Wutu Treasure Arts》 for example, both of them belonged to the true inheritance cultivation methods of the Heaven-Shaken Sect, and could cultivate to the realms of life, but the former's cultivation speed was faster and the process of cultivation was easier, thus the former was ranked as a middle grade treasure.

It could be said that he was an existence that wanted to scratch his head, and thus, no one in the Heaven-Shaken Sect would be willing to cultivate this technique, since it could only be considered a low-grade treasure.

However, Yang Junshan had heard it from the Heaven-Shaken Sect disciples who had passed on the [Wutu Spiritual Art] to him in his previous life. In addition, the advanced technique of the [Wutu Spiritual Art], [Wutu Treasured Technique], was also linked tigher levelled cultivation technique in the legends of the Heaven-Shaken Sect, and this entire set of legacies was the true orthodox cultivation method of the Heaven-Shaken Sect.

However, this technique appeared when the Heaven-Shaken Sect was destroyed, and was then quickly shattered in the midst of battle, until it was completely lost.

The night wind was blowing as Yang Junshan diligently circulated the [Wutu Spiritual Art] on the bluestone next to the well. A year's worth of weak spirit energy that he had accumulated in his body from cultivating was slowly being assimilated by the spirit energy condensed by the new spirit art, and because he was cultivating a new spirit art, the originally small amount of spirit energy was now only half of its original amount after being compressed.

Yang Junshan laughed bitterly to himself, this was the reason why the Wutu Spiritual Art > was not well-liked by others, a large amount of spirit energy was condensed to the maximum, compared to other spirit arts, the speed of cultivation would naturally be greatly reduced. Cultivating a set of spirit arts was extremely difficult, so one could imagine the difficulty of cultivating that set of Wutu Treasured Technique >, no wonder no one in Heaven-Shaken Sect was willing to cultivate this set of spirit arts.

However, Yang Junshan quickly discovered that the energy gathered by the Wutu Spiritual Art was indeed much purer and heavier than before. This meant that in the future, when he fought with the enemy and the same techniques they both used, Yang Junshan would be stronger than his opponent, and his own consumption rate would be even less than his opponent's!

Of course, channeling the Wutu Spiritual Art also absorbed the spirit energy at a very fast rate. estimated that the speed at which he could cultivate the Wutu Spiritual Art was at least one-fourth faster than when he was cultivating the Overlapping Earth Spirit Art. However, after the former condensed, it was still incomparable to the latter.