Longevity: My Talents Are a Bit Abundant

Chapter 962: Chapter 703: Wind and Thunder Spirit Wings

Shen Xuan’s figure solidified, standing where he was, his breathing slightly ragged, yet his eyes were shining brilliantly.

He sank his mind into his sea of consciousness and looked toward that Mysterious Jade Talisman.

[Lifespan: 234/890]

[Talent: Wind Escape Technique Minor Success (18/800)]

[Dao Rhyme: 4296688]

"Cultivating the Wind Escape Technique really is much smoother than Thunder Escape."

He mused inwardly.

This was perhaps related to the more balanced and gentle nature of Wind Spirit Power.

However, along with his joy, a heavy pressure surfaced.

The Cultivation Techniques he needed to practice were simply far too many.

His main Cultivation, the [Nine Revolutions Fiery Sun Technique] and the [Pure Yang True Flame Art], were his foundation and could not be neglected for even a single day.

The nurturing and tempering of [True Sun Flame] was even more crucial, tied to the might of his natal fire source.

The [Five Thunders True Method] originating from the ancient Daoist Sect was broad and profound; just the methods of the Water and Fire Thunders alone required him to expend endless effort in comprehension.

In addition, studying Artifact Refining techniques and deducing Tier Three Puppet designs also took up a vast amount of time.

And now, he had added this [Wind Escape Technique] as well.

"Grasping too much, I’ll chew none of it well! Still, Escape Techniques are life-preserving means; they must be honed to perfection."

Shen Xuan’s gaze fell on the "Dao Rhyme" number, his thoughts turning.

"The Wind Escape Technique is relatively easy to raise; the Dao Rhyme it requires should be bearable. Might as well give it a try."

He sat cross-legged, facing the morning sun rising in the east.

His mind calmed; he stirred his Divine Thought, gently touching the "Dao Rhyme" number within the Jade Talisman.

In that instant, a vast amount of Dao Rhyme began to burn, the value dropping at a speed of thousands at a time.

At the same time, countless insights, experiences, and Spiritual Light regarding the [Wind Escape Technique] surged into his sea of consciousness like a river bursting through a dike.

How to sense air currents more exquisitely, how to merge into the wind with less effort, how to leverage the environment in different situations to perform flying escape—thousands of techniques, ten thousand kinds of comprehension.

It was as if countless "him" were, in countless scenes, casting this Escape Technique tens of millions of times.

After the time it took to burn one stick of incense, the Dao Rhyme burning ceased.

Shen Xuan slowly opened his eyes; deep within his pupils, it seemed a clear breeze flowed, and his body was three parts lighter than before.

He looked again to the Jade Talisman:

[Dao Rhyme: 3276688].

He had consumed a full million points!

[Talent: Wind Escape Technique Great Success (2/1600)]

"Worth it!"

Joy rose in Shen Xuan’s heart, and his body shifted slightly.

This time, he didn’t even need to deliberately form hand seals; the moment his thought moved, his person was as if swept up by a gale on a mountaintop, appearing a hundred zhang away in an instant!

His escape speed was faster, his traces fainter, and the consumption had also lessened.

"This alone is still not enough."

Shen Xuan was not satisfied.

Wind was wind, thunder was thunder; alternating between them was wondrous, but in the end they were two separate Techniques.

"Can they truly be fused?"

He once again sat cross-legged; this time, he fully activated the Nine-Colored Treasure Lotus within his Dantian.

The lotus slowly rotated, shedding clear radiance that enveloped his Divine Soul, plunging it into an unprecedented state of emptiness and focus.

He did not rely on Dao Rhyme, but purely on his own comprehension, to repeatedly savor, disassemble, and reconstruct every trace of Dao Rhyme within Wind Escape and Thunder Escape.

Within the lotus’s phantom, it was as though another Shen Xuan continuously alternated between casting the two Escape Techniques.

The lightness of wind, the swiftness of thunder—two utterly different forms of "speed" and "movement"—in countless repetitions, their essential patterns began to faintly emerge and intertwine...

This time, he remained in meditation for nine days and nine nights.

When the morning light of the tenth day pierced through the sea of clouds, Shen Xuan abruptly opened his eyes.

There was no exhaustion in them, only a soul-seizing brilliance and an irrepressible delight.

He immediately looked inward to the Jade Talisman.

[Talent: Wind Escape Technique Great Success (36/1600)]

[Talent: Thunder Escape Technique Great Success (1600/1600)]

And beneath the two, a brand-new line of text had appeared:

[Talent: Wind and Thunder Escape Technique Minor Success (2/800)]

It had succeeded!

Shen Xuan rose to his full height, an unprecedented feeling of smooth ease surging through his whole body.

He no longer separated his hand seals. His hands lifted, and as his ten fingers flew, he formed a single, seamlessly unified, incomparably profound new hand seal.

Like wind, like thunder, wind and thunder giving birth to each other!

"Om!"

The aura around his body abruptly changed.

The left half of his body was wreathed in clear breeze, condensing into a pale-cyan, semi-transparent Wind Spirit Wing.

The right half of his body had arcs of lightning wildly dancing, gathering into a purple-white Thunder Light Wing that crackled noisily.

One wind, one thunder—two vast spiritual wings, unreal yet solid, suddenly unfurled behind his back!

The wings merely beat lightly once.

There was no sound of wind, no peal of thunder.

On the cliff top, only a slowly fading afterimage remained, interwoven with strands of azure and violet light.

And three hundred zhang away, at the edge of the sea of clouds, Shen Xuan’s figure appeared out of thin air.

Behind him, the light shadows of the wind and thunder twin wings slowly folded and sank back into his body.

Fast!

Utterly fast!

Far surpassing the nimbleness of Wind Escape, and greater than the ferocity of Thunder Escape!

A subtle feeling that combined speed and transformation into a brand-new Realm filled his heart.

Shen Xuan stood atop the billowing clouds, looking down at the vast mountains below, and a heroic spirit welled up in his chest.

From today on, with heaven so high and earth so broad, where could he not go?

Even faced with a thousand perils, with this [Wind and Thunder Escape Technique], he now had several more degrees of confidence to come and go as he pleased.

This was the most important trump card!

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