"Finally." It took him all his effort to wipe that grin off his face as he breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that the new mission was going to be something as ridiculous as before. If that were the case, he would have to kiss goodbye to his newly merged item.

But now…

Yang Ze couldn't help but imagine just how heaven-defying the new item was going to be.

In his excitement, he merely paced back and forth in his room for a while before sitting on his bed once again to meditate.

Days passed in the blink of an eye. And even though Cang Yue was the saintess of the Duality Sect as well as one of the Grand Elders, the news about her marriage didn't leak out. The few people who knew about it didn't even pay any attention to this matter. After all, a woman marrying a man wasn't such a big event in their eyes who had lived for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

Inside his room, Yang Ze, who was still sitting on his bed with his eyes closed, suddenly shuddered for a moment before his body began to twitch uncontrollably.

But it didn't just stop there; with every passing second, Yang Ze's body would tremble even more violently than before, as if going through unimaginable pain.

This state of his lasted for a good ten minutes when his body was suddenly lifted up into the air by an invisible force.

Yang Ze seemed completely oblivious to the changes inside his body or the world outside. At the moment, he was still in his sitting position with his eyes closed.

As Yang Ze's body floated above the bed, a dim blue light slowly enveloped his body. Earlier, it was just a thin translucent layer, but over time, the intensity of light increased until his body disappeared completely, leaving behind an egg-shaped blue ball of light.

On the other hand, Yang Ze, who was completely unaware of it, found himself standing in an endless void.

As far as his eyes could see, there was only darkness and emptiness.

"Where is this?" Yang Ze looked around in confusion for a while. He looked at his body and found himself to be a transparent blob of light.

"Sea of consciousness?" This was the first thought that came to his mind, but he then shook his head. It didn't give him that feeling. Instead, it felt more foreign.

He knew that it wasn't his true body but his consciousness in this void. And with every passing moment, he felt the pressure on him increase tremendously. It was as if the void itself wanted to crush him into nothingness.

And just when the pressure reached a crushing level, and Yang Ze's consciousness was about to dissipate, he finally saw a small speck of light falling out from his illusory conscious body.

"This is?" Looking at the item, his eyes narrowed into slits, and his breathing almost stopped.

"A stone?" He couldn't help but mutter softly while looking at the stone made out of blue light silently hovering there.

With the appearance of the stone, the pressure on Yang Ze reduced by a notch, but it didn't stop. On the contrary, it kept on increasing.

'What the hell.' Feeling the increasing pressure on him again, Yang Ze couldn't help but complain. And just when he felt like his consciousness was going to be crushed again, another speck of light fell from his body. Except this time it was a leaf.

"....." For a moment, Yang Ze couldn't understand what was going on, but when this process repeated for the third time and he saw a gold coin appear, he instantly understood what was going on.

Weren't these the things that he had visualised using the Mystic Nether Art? Although he didn't know what was going on, he had a rough idea.

After he received the Mystic Nether Art from Lin Yue, who wanted him to visualise a puppet that resembles Lin Wan, he had been reading it for almost every single day.

By now, he could recall its content even with his eyes closed.

The Mystic Nether Art was a technique that increases one's mental energy. It lets anyone visualise a mortal object and manifest it for their personal use.

Although Mystic Nether Art wasn't a secret or rare cultivation manual, almost no one in the entire Azure Dragon Continent practices it because of its absurd difficulty. Cultivators have spent years just to visualise one mortal object. Even the most dazzling record was that of a genius tens of thousands of years ago who managed to visualise sixty mortal objects before his death, and even that feat took him almost two thousand years.

And even after visualising so many mortal objects, she was far cry from reaching the very first realm of the Mystic Nether Art.

It was no wonder that this cultivation technique was discarded unanimously. Even if someone threw it on the road, no one would bother to pick it up. That's just how worthless this technique was in the eyes of the people of this world.

The majority of people even believed that this technique was a sham, created by the evil cultivators to waste everyone's time and effort.

But now, for the first time in the history of Azure Dragon Continent, someone was finally going to break this curse and step into the very first stage of Mystic Nether Art…

Realm Of Mortal

Inside the endless void, the process kept on repeating. Yang Ze would feel a crushing pressure, and every time he felt like he couldn't hold back any longer, an object that he manifested would fall from his illusory body.

This process went on till a pair of gloves dropped, and with it, the entire space seemed to tremble.

In that instant, Yagn Ze felt the pressure upon him disappear completely.

"Huh!?" Yang Ze watched with wide eyes as the objects that were floating around aimlessly suddenly gathered in front of him automatically before rotating at a rapid pace.

*Zzzzzzzzzzzz…

A sharp sound, like a burst of electricity, sounded in Yang Ze's ears as he watched the objects in front of him slowly float above his head while spinning at a rapid pace, making a blue circle.

And the moment Yang Ze looked at it, he knew in his heart what he was looking at…

The first ring.

Clenching his fists, he stared intently at the ring in front of him that looked unstable and could fall apart at any time.

Yang Ze didn't need anyone to tell him what he needed to do. The moment he saw the ring, he already knew what he had to do next.

Without any hesitation, he raised his hand, and in the next instant, a small cracked teacup appeared in his hand.

Yang Ze's eyes went into a daze as he looked at the old, cracked teacup for a moment before regaining clarity.

With a gentle smile, he slowly pushed it towards the ring in front of him and the moment the teacup finally came in contact with the ring, the ring, which seemed like it was about to collapse, began to stabilise at an incredible pace.

Yang Ze watched intently as the items spinning around slowed down before coming to a stop. But at the moment, instead of floating around aimlessly like before, they were held tightly in place by a dark blue light, forming a complete circle with an ordinary cracked teacup in the middle that acted as the balance, keeping everything in its place.

And with it, Yang Ze's illusory body finally dissipated.

Back in the real world, Yang Ze, who was still floating in mid-air, suddenly opened his eyes, and with it, the ring that he saw in the void previously manifested behind him. The only difference was that the objects in it were all gone.

The only object was a cracked teacup that was surrounded by innumerable dense lines, connecting to the blue circle around it.

"This is the Realm Of Mortal?" Feeling the changes in him, Yang Ze couldn't help but mutter in a soft voice.

The first thing he noticed was the monstrous amount of mental energy in his body.

Compared to before, it was the difference between a bucket and a pond. There was just no comparison.

Closing his eyes, he felt the changes in his body. After stepping into the Realm of Mortal, he had gained some new abilities that caught him by surprise.

The first ability he gained was the ability to fly in the air using his mental energy.

Although the current him could now use the talent Windborn to fly in the air, it was still a handy ability nonetheless.

The second and most important ability he gained was the ability to manifest any mortal object that he sees. It means he no longer has to visualise the item first and then manifest it.

Taking a deep breath, he glanced at the pillow before raising his hand, and then the next moment, a similar pillow appeared out of nowhere in his hand.

"This…" Yang Ze carefully touched it, felt it and even squeezed it. If not for the fact that he had manifested this thing by himself, he wouldn't have been able to tell them apart.

But that wasn't all. He raised his hand, and this time, a gold coin dropped from his hand.

Yang Ze didn't stop but used his mental energy, and the next moment, one after another gold coin began to drop on the ground like drops of rain.

In less than thirty seconds, the entire ground beneath him was filled to the brim with gold coins.

"Hiss…" Looking at the ground beneath him, covered in gold coins, Yang Ze's brain almost stopped working. With these many gold coins, there was nothing that he couldn't buy. All those precious treasures… all those precious herbs and cultivation techniques that he didn't buy before to save money… now, he could buy them all.

It wouldn't be wrong to say that he was the richest person in the entire world.

Yang Ze closed his eyes to feel the changes in his mental energy, but even after summoning tens of thousands of gold coins, only a fraction of his mental energy was used, and even less to sustain them in the real world. It wouldn't be a lie to say that as long as he wished to, they could exist indefinitely.

It took a moment for Yang Ze to calm himself, and he finally focused on the third and final ability he gained after constructing his first mental ring.

Walking out of the house, he rushed to the cliffside and, after making sure he was alone there, took a deep breath.

The next instant, a blue ring appeared behind his back with a cracked teapot in the middle.

Yang Ze raised his hand, and a simple stone appeared on it.

He then pulled his hand back and, with some force, threw it forward.

The moment the stone left his hand, Yang Ze used his third ability and in the next instant, the stone split into many fragments, each one sharper and much faster than before.

"So, the first item that one visualises decides the characteristics of the visualised items!" Yang Ze couldn't help but mutter to himself.

His first visualised item was the cracked teapot; this gave him the ability to shatter his manifested items into sharp pieces for attacks.

If he had chosen a sharp weapon like a sword or spear, he would have gotten the ability to make his visualised item sharp for slashing or stabbing.

"What a miraculous technique." The more Yang Ze understood the Mystic Nether Art, the more he was in awe of it.

Any technique that could let others manifest things out of nothing was far more precious than any attack or defence technique.

Yang Ze raised his right hand as a glove appeared on it before he punched forward, this time using the shatter characteristic.

In the next instant, he felt something breaking off from his fist that shot towards the ground before leaving a fist mark there.

"HOLY." Yang Ze couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. He could use his internal energy to do the same, but the distance was much shorter, and he had to use his internal energy, unlike now, when he used just a negligible amount of mental energy to attack.

Yang Ze kept on using his mental energy to try different skills, from illusions to the Enlightenment state, which could now last for an entire day… every skill has been alleviated by one way or another.

But the biggest change was to the skill Sevenfold Illusion.

Earlier, he could at most control two clones before a splitting headache overwhelmed his mind, but now… Now he could easily take control of all seven illusions at once.

Although he felt a little uncomfortable at the start, under the massive influx of Mental energy, he got used to it pretty quickly.

After playing around for a good hour or so, Yang Ze finally patted the dust off his clothes and walked towards his house.

Without him even realising it, it was already the day of his marriage…

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