Chapter 00102: Breaking the Oath to Pass on the Dao
# Breaking the Oath to Pass on the Dao
Chapter 102
Novel: After the Myth
Chapter 102: Breaking the Oath to Pass on the Dao
When Ding Huan saw Qi Xin Yue reaching for the cloth bag, he knew something was wrong.
Without hesitation, he slashed out more than a dozen wind blades and then lunged towards Zuo Shan Yi.
Zuo Shan Yi was not surprised when he saw the net enveloping Qi Xin Yue.
If Qi Xin Yue could dodge this time, he would leave without hesitation.
If she could dodge this time, it meant that the first time wasn't a coincidence, but that Qi Xin Yue had the ability to contend with him.
Just as he was about to retract the net, an intense sense of unease washed over him.
Zuo Shan Yi didn't even think before retreating frantically.
He would never allow himself to face even the slightest threat.
Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!
More than a dozen blade lights, which he hadn't even seen, slashed at the spot where he had just been standing.
The concrete ground where he had stood was now marked with deep gashes.
Zuo Shan Yi broke out in a cold sweat.
If he hadn't retreated just now, he would have been chopped into countless pieces.
Given Zuo Shan Yi's caution and careful nature, he immediately realized that Qi Xin Yue had been pretending earlier.
There was a powerful expert behind Qi Xin Yue, and this expert had lured him out.
At this moment, Zuo Shan Yi had no intention of fighting Ding Huan.
With his cautious personality, even if he wasn't afraid of Ding Huan, he didn't want to engage in a fight.
The invisible and colorless blade lights that Ding Huan had unleashed earlier had frightened him.
The moment Ding Huan unleashed the blade lights, he lunged towards Zuo Shan Yi.
But even though he saw Zuo Shan Yi clearly, when he tried to grab him, Zuo Shan Yi suddenly disappeared.
Earth escape? Or some other method of fleeing?
Ding Huan wasn't surprised.
This guy had managed to disappear under the noses of many powerful experts like Zhong Chi.
It would be strange if he were easy to deal with.
Ding Huan didn't even bother to continue searching for Zuo Shan Yi.
He knew very well that it would be extremely difficult to find traces of someone like this once they had escaped.
It was better to collect the spoils first.
At this moment, Ding Huan wildly unleashed wind blade techniques.
In just three breaths, he had slashed out hundreds of wind blades.
His wind blades almost completely enveloped the space where Qi Xin Yue was.
At the same time, Ding Huan punched the ground around Qi Xin Yue more than a dozen times, forming a circle.
Ding Huan hadn't sensed anything, but he believed that someone as cunning and patient as Zuo Shan Yi wouldn't just leave behind a bag of Divine Crystals and the net.
Even if he were to flee, he would definitely take the net and the bag of Divine Crystals he had thrown to Qi Xin Yue.
After all, Ding Huan had been through similar situations himself.
Back when he was in the Changyi Continent, he had done the same.
So, even though Ding Huan's divine sense hadn't detected anything, he decided to strike first.
Even if he missed, he would only lose a bit of his true essence.
Crack! Crack! The sound of something being torn apart echoed in the air, as if some invisible thing had been sliced open by Ding Huan.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The more than a dozen punches Ding Huan had unleashed earlier had created deep craters in the ground around Qi Xin Yue.
In the next moment, a gray shadow disappeared from the edge of Ding Huan's divine sense like a flash of lightning.
Impressive, Ding Huan thought to himself as he watched the direction where the gray shadow had disappeared.
He was secretly shocked.
This guy had somehow hidden here, and even his divine sense hadn't detected him at first.
At this moment, Ding Huan felt a lingering fear.
Fortunately, he knew that this guy's personality was cautious and sinister.
When his divine sense failed to detect the other party, he had immediately attacked.
As long as he remembered to be cautious, he wouldn't make any big mistakes.
Otherwise, with this guy's methods, not only would he have taken the net and the small bag, but Qi Xin Yue's life would have been in danger as well.
Ding Huan didn't believe that Zuo Shan Yi would spare Qi Xin Yue's life.
With Zuo Shan Yi's strength, he could have easily killed Qi Xin Yue with a single thread before leaving.
Thinking of that thread, Ding Huan carefully scanned the surroundings with his divine sense.
Although he had used his wind blades to cut dozens of them earlier, he hadn't been able to see what they were.
Even his divine sense couldn't detect them.
"Did Zuo Shan Yi escape?" Qi Xin Yue asked, still shaken.
"He's gone. That guy is really something," Ding Huan said as he collected the net.
Although it had been spread out into a large net, when rolled up, it was completely invisible in his hand.
He had no idea what material it was made of.
Knowing that he couldn't catch up with this guy, Ding Huan didn't bother to chase.
In fact, even if he did catch up, with Zuo Shan Yi's abilities, he probably wouldn't be able to kill him.
With a sweep of his divine sense, the cloth bag also landed in Ding Huan's hand.
To his surprise, there were indeed Divine Crystals inside.
A quick scan with his divine sense revealed a total of twenty-one Divine Crystals.
"He probably also obtained the Divine Concealment Technique. Only those with divine bloodlines have the chance to learn divine techniques. The Divine Concealment Technique requires divine power to use," Qi Xin Yue said.
"Divine Concealment Technique?" Ding Huan repeated, thinking to himself that this thing was really powerful.
Even his divine sense couldn't detect it?
Among the techniques he had cultivated, there was also a concealment technique, but it was just a minor spell, not worth mentioning.
In front of even a Houtian or Earth-level expert, it probably wouldn't be able to conceal him.
Seeing Ding Huan frowning as he thought about the Divine Concealment Technique, Qi Xin Yue gritted her teeth and said, "Big brother, I'll teach you the Divine Concealment Technique."
Before she had cultivated divine power, she had sworn not to pass on divine power to outsiders, or else she would be hunted down by the divine race.
Previously, she had thought that she would never pass on divine power to an outsider, but in her eyes, Ding Huan wasn't an outsider.
Not only had Ding Huan saved her, but he had also taught her the Luo Shi Scripture.
In Qi Xin Yue's heart, the Luo Shi Scripture was no less valuable than divine power.
Ding Huan didn't mind.
He had already passed on his cultivation method to Qi Xin Yue.
If he could learn the Divine Concealment Technique, it would be even better.
Otherwise, if Zuo Shan Yi used the Divine Concealment Technique to ambush him next time, he really wouldn't be able to defend against it.
This technique seemed to be able to evade even divine sense.
It was indeed impressive.
"When I was cultivating the Divine Concealment Technique, my master told me that power and intent are actually interconnected. Only crude cultivators think that power is the most important, and everything else is secondary..."
As Qi Xin Yue began to teach Ding Huan the Divine Concealment Technique, Ding Huan felt as if another door had opened before him.
He had always thought that the cultivation method he practiced was the true Daoist technique, far superior to the ordinary gene cultivators.
Now he realized that his understanding of cultivation was only slightly better than theirs.
No, it was more like he was just one step ahead of them.
He had cultivated divine sense, and as his cultivation level increased, his divine sense became stronger and stronger.
Naturally, he began to think that what he was cultivating was extraordinary.
Not only that, but because he had cultivated divine sense, he could even use it in conjunction with his true essence to unleash wind blades, greatly increasing their power.
From Qi Xin Yue, Ding Huan now understood that divine sense and true essence could be completely fused together.
Those who cultivated divine power didn't have the concept of divine sense, but they did have the concept of spiritual power.
The stronger the spiritual power, the stronger the divine power user.
The Divine Concealment Technique fused spiritual power and divine power together, and by using specific divine incantations, it allowed the user to merge with their surroundings.
This had similarities to his concealment technique.
His concealment technique also required incantations to activate, making it a type of spell.
His divine sense was still in its early stages, which was why he hadn't been able to detect Zuo Shan Yi's Divine Concealment Technique earlier.
But if he could completely fuse his divine sense and true essence, he would be able to easily sense Zuo Shan Yi's presence, and even detect the aura of his movements.
Thinking of this, Ding Huan suddenly thought of another problem.
Fusing divine sense and true essence was good, but it would lose the essence of divine sense.
True divine sense was formless.
If his divine sense already contained the ability to attack with true essence, why would he need to fuse it with true essence?
This way, he could not only easily detect Zuo Shan Yi's hiding place, but also use his divine sense to attack.
It was like when he had thought about using wind blades through the plane earlier.
The more Ding Huan thought about it, the more feasible it seemed.
He wanted to use his divine sense to continuously form attacking blade lights.
But he hadn't succeeded even once.
Qi Xin Yue didn't know that Ding Huan was already trying to use his divine sense to attack.
She was still explaining the techniques and methods of the Divine Concealment Technique, even going over the divine incantations word by word.
Not only that, but she even began to explain the teleportation techniques that used divine power.
It took a full two hours before Qi Xin Yue had finished explaining the basics of what she had cultivated to Ding Huan.
Although Ding Huan still couldn't use his divine sense alone to unleash wind blades, he could now use his divine sense fused with true essence to sense everything around him.
This technique wasn't very meaningful to Ding Huan, because even without using true essence, he could still sense everything around him.
The only useful thing was that by fusing true essence, he could sense those who were hiding using divine power.
Ding Huan suspected that Zuo Shan Yi wouldn't give up so easily.
If this guy hid somewhere and ambushed him again, it would be a huge loss.
Those invisible, colorless threads were even more terrifying than his wind blades.
Before he could develop the ability to attack with his divine sense alone, he would use his fused true essence to scan his surroundings.
"Let's go. We'll head back to the hotel first," Ding Huan said, signaling Qi Xin Yue to walk ahead.
Ding Huan walked behind Qi Xin Yue, his divine sense covering a radius of five hundred meters.
As a seventh-level gene cultivator, his divine sense alone could cover over a thousand meters.
The reason he only covered five hundred meters now was because he had fused his true essence with his divine sense, mainly to guard against Zuo Shan Yi's sneak attacks.
Qi Xin Yue walked quickly, and in just an hour, they were approaching the hotel.
At the edge of Ding Huan's divine sense, a shadow appeared.
He clearly saw Zuo Shan Yi waiting for them about four hundred meters away.
This guy was hiding inside a tree, his entire body seemingly merging with the tree.
If Ding Huan hadn't scanned with his divine sense, he would never have thought that there was someone inside the tree.
When Ding Huan retracted his true essence and used only his divine sense to sense the surroundings, he could still see Zuo Shan Yi.
But Ding Huan knew that this was only because he already knew that Zuo Shan Yi was inside the tree.
Otherwise, his divine sense would have easily overlooked him.
Ding Huan pretended nothing was wrong, chatting with Qi Xin Yue as they walked.
When they were about five meters away from the tree, Ding Huan suddenly rushed forward without warning, slashing out with his Starry Sky Blade.
(That's all for today's update.
Goodnight, friends!)
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