Chapter Sixteen: "North Ming Divine Merit"

  This afternoon, Hua Yun sat cross-legged on the bed as usual, with a faint and almost imperceptible breath flowing slowly through his body.

  In Huayun's perception, countless green light points were constantly surging in from all around and entering his body. The vast majority of the light points escaped after entering Huayun's body, but a portion of them merged with his body, combining with that faint breath within him.

  Taking a long breath out, Hua Yun's eyes slightly opened, and her whole person exuded a refreshing feeling.

  "That Reverse Heaven Technique is really good! I've only learned it for a few days, and yet it's increased my absorption speed of life elements by so much, it's incredible!"

  Hua Yun was doing exactly what a magician often does - meditation. Those green light spots in Hua Yun's perception were the so-called plant life elements.

  Although most of the plant life elements that Huayun had absorbed earlier had escaped during the absorption process, compared to the speed at which Huayun was absorbing before learning the Inverse Heaven Technique, there had been significant progress.

  If Hua Yun's current speed of absorbing the life element were to be seen by Saha, who had taught Hua Yun the Plant Life Magic, Saha would definitely be shocked and change his low evaluation of Hua Yun's magical talent to barely passable.

  Although the evaluation has only improved a bit, it is a huge breakthrough that ordinary people can hardly achieve in their lifetime. The Allen continent is precisely because of the low magical talent of ordinary people, which makes magicians so precious. Unfortunately, apart from Hua Yun, who is an interloper, there may not be a second person on the entire Allen continent who can learn the Reverse Heaven Technique.

  After stretching her body a bit, Hua Yun walked to the balcony, where a lush plant was growing.

  That was what Hua Yun asked him for when he left Kodo town in Sakhalin a few days ago.

  As a wandering monk, Saha could have stayed outside for as long as he wanted, but a few days ago, the capital of the Western Kingdom sent him an urgent summons. It seemed that something important had happened in the capital, so after packing up, Saha hastily left Kodo Town. Of course, before leaving, he didn't forget to tell Huayun to come find him in the capital when she was free.

  The plant on the balcony was a plant that was almost identical to grapes on Earth, whether it was the shape of the leaves, the stem and root system, they were all exactly the same as those of grapes on Earth. However, in the Allen continent, this was an extremely precious divine gift plant, which could produce fruit that looked like grapes, known as the Purple Spirit Fruit.

  Hua Yun had always been extremely curious about the divine fruits of this world, and after studying plant life magic in depth, he also gained a lot of understanding. In his view, the divine fruits of this world, apart from having some energy that could lift seals compared to those on Earth, seemed to be identical to the plants on Earth in terms of both shape and physiology.

  But in this world, the Divine Plant is quite expensive, and with Hua Yun's financial resources, it was impossible to buy one back for experimentation. So when she learned that Sa Ha was leaving, Hua Yun simply asked Sa Ha for a plant, and Sa Ha didn't hesitate, giving her a Zi Ling fruit that could produce up to seven top-grade golden divine fruits.

  It is well known that grape plants are extremely easy to cultivate on Earth, and they do not even require sowing seeds. The quality of grapes grown from seeds has always been poor. The usual methods for cultivating grapes include cutting and grafting, budding, and layering!

  All that is required is to bury a section of vigorously growing stem in the soil, and after some time, this buried stem will naturally produce roots and become a new plant. This method is called layering.

  But in this world, there is no such method, nor grafting or budding. The gods have decreed that all divine plants can only have one direct descendant to inherit the glory of the gods.

  They rely on seeds, magical seedlings!

  To verify whether the purple spirit fruit is exactly the same as the grapes on Earth, Hua Yun came up with the method of pressing the vines, finding three relatively lush vines, then finding three withered small branches, and pressing the three vines into the soil, covering them with a layer of mud. It was completely disregarded that randomly "torturing" the divine plants in the Allen continent is an illegal and taboo behavior.

  Now that several days of work had passed, Huayun felt about the same, looking at the purple spirit fruit on the balcony, Huayun carefully removed the top layer of soil and then pulled out the withered yellow branch.

  A thin, weak vine slowly emerged from the ground, and Huayun focused her attention on it. Her heart couldn't help but feel a surge of great joy. On the part of the vine that was pressed into the mud, she indeed saw some fine, fluffy roots growing out. Although they didn't fully grow into roots as Huayun had originally imagined, at least some roots had grown out.

  Hua Yun dug out two more vines from the mud, and the base of the one with the best growth had almost completely taken shape.

  Although on Earth, after these days of cultivation, the grape seedlings would generally have fully formed, now the spiritual vines only grew out a portion of their roots. Nevertheless, Huayun was overjoyed in her heart. The formation of the roots represented the applicability of the plant theory on Earth here, which made Huayun happier than anything else.

  Although Hua Yun successfully rescued Zi Ling that day, he still had some misgivings in his heart. However, today's successful experiment has completely represented the so-called divine plant here, which is actually no different from the plants on Earth in essence.

  Because the root system had not fully formed, Hua Yun once again pressed those three vines into the mud.

  Just as Hua Yun had just pressed down the vines, a knock at the door suddenly came from outside, and a pleasant voice sounded outside the door.

  "Hey Hua Yun, are you in there?"

  As soon as she heard that voice, Hua Yun knew Luna was outside the door and couldn't help but feel a thrill of excitement. She had just been about to go look for her, not expecting her to come directly.

  For the past two days, Hua Yun had been worried about cultivating the Heaven-Defying Technique.

  "This Heaven-Defying Technique is a highly advanced ultimate skill, no need to explain, it can lift the seal within a warrior's body, allowing him to use skills that are not restricted by his level, isn't that awesome?"

  Because the Inverse Heaven Technique is so powerful, it is also equally difficult to cultivate.

  The essence of the Inverse Heaven Technique is to use energy to break the seal within the human body on the Allen Continent, which has the same effect as the Divine Fruit. However, the amount of energy required to break a warrior's seal would be enormous.

  Breaking the seal of a first or second tier is fine, but if you want to break the ninth tier seal for an eighth tier mage to become a saint mage, the energy required, although not as much as the eighth tier mage's own contained energy, is absolutely not a small amount.

  If all this energy had to be cultivated by Huayun himself, it would take who knows how many years and months to cultivate it. Sheng Tianling naturally understood this point as well, so the set of Inverse Heaven Techniques he created allowed cultivators to absorb other people's energy.

  For example, to make an 8th-level mage become a 9th-level saint mage, the energy required is generally one-tenth of the energy contained in the body of an 8th-level mage. This can allow the 8th-level mage to first give one-tenth of his own energy to Hua Yun, and after Hua Yun absorbs it, use this energy to break the seal for that 8th-level mage.

  At that time, Sheng Tianling, who had cultivated the Inverse Heaven Technique to its peak, could even absorb energy from other people's released forbidden spells at will, just like Jin Yong's North Ming Divine Art, it was truly extraordinary.

  However, with Hua Yun's current body, even the energy of a 4th rank warrior would be enough to make him explode and die. Moreover, as for Hua Yun's current cultivation of the Reverse Heaven Technique, not only has he not reached the level where he can absorb energy from his opponent's attacks, but it is also difficult for him to absorb energy from magic cores or magic crystals. Currently, he can only rely on others to slowly transfer energy to him.

  After knowing all these, the first person who appeared in Huayun's mind was Luna!