Chapter 414 - 263: A Display of Skills, Five Realms Cultivation

Chapter 414: Chapter 263: A Display of Skills, Five Realms Cultivation

The upgrade to my spatial talent granted me two new abilities.

Beacons, which granted the ability of instant movement, and Teleportation, which granted the ability to cross between realms.

After studying them carefully for two days, Yu Fei discovered that their underlying principles were not the same.

He had initially assumed that Teleportation was just a more advanced application of the Beacon ability, but after in-depth research, he found that they were completely different.

With a Beacon, Yu Fei could sense its aura and then instantly move to its location.

If space were a sheet of white paper, a Beacon would be like a dot drawn on it. Yu Fei could then fold the paper—that is, space itself—to change his position.

He didn’t need to take any extra action himself.

Teleportation, however, was vastly different. Yu Fei gradually came to understand this as he researched and crafted world anchors.

If a world were a sheet of paper, then different worlds would be different sheets. To teleport, Yu Fei would first need to break free from one sheet and then follow an anchor point to enter another.

This process would require him to expend a massive amount of energy.

After two days of research, studying the vast quantities of materials in his storage space, Yu Fei finally discovered that a low-grade transcendent jade called Fog Pine Stone was the most suitable material for storing long-term Beacons.

Once he inscribed a Beacon onto one, its aura could be preserved for several hundred years, as long as the Fog Pine Stone itself wasn’t destroyed.

The key was that while Fog Pine Stone did possess a transcendent aura, it was so weak as to be almost useless. The average Martial Artist would barely give it a second glance.

He recalled that there was actually quite a lot of this stuff in the [Golden Stone Gang Realm]. Over in the Huan Cui Mountain Range, he remembered a vein of it at the foot of a mountain.

Fog Pine Stone had a cyan-white exterior. When cut, its interior revealed faint, mist-like patterns. The stone was fairly hard but rather brittle.

Yu Fei cut the Fog Pine Stone into palm-sized chunks. He then took one, and with a slight squeeze of his hand, kneaded it like clay into an oval. After a little more work, it looked no different from an ordinary stone.

He could sense this stone from anywhere within the same world and instantly move to it.

With the Beacons sorted out, Yu Fei turned his attention to the world anchors.

This was far more complex. After ruining a considerable amount of material, Yu Fei finally succeeded in crafting one from a piece of high-grade jade.

Upon completing the world anchor, Yu Fei had a vague sense that at his current stage, he could create a maximum of four anchors; any more would be ineffective.

During the crafting process, he clearly felt that the vessel for each anchor seemed to occupy a portion of some intangible capacity he possessed. Perhaps if his talent were to advance further, this unknown capacity would also expand.

He placed the anchor for his current world inside the Geometric Pyramid Realm.

He sensed that even though it was made from high-grade jade, the anchor’s "shelf life" was only about ten years.

There was still no word from Ye Shuping, so he processed all the Fog Pine Stone he had into Beacons, ending up with over two hundred of them. It wasn’t a huge number, but it was enough for the time being.

Once everything was settled, he would also need to make a trip to the [Golden Stone Gang Realm] to create an anchor there.

In truth, Yu Fei still had many questions about the applications of his spatial talent. ’For example, how is "the same world" even defined?’

’Take my home planet, for instance. Does the vast, boundless expanse of the universe count as being in the same world as my home planet?’

Yu Fei didn’t know, nor was he in any position to conduct such an experiment.

He then proceeded to practice the instant movement ability of his Beacons. In the process, Yu Fei discovered that he could only add a very limited number of Beacons to his Sword Qi at the moment of its release.

’Simultaneously adding Beacons to thousands of streams of Sword Qi with a single thought is simply impossible at my current level of strength.’

However, with the help of the Void Clearing Mirror, he could continuously add Beacons to a dozen or so streams of Sword Qi. He experimented for a long time, discovering that this limit was related to the strength of his Spiritual Power and Sword Intent. He was completely pinned down by the constraints of his current realm, unable to make a breakthrough.

Just as Yu Fei was manically absorbed in his practice, Ye Shuping sent him a message. He was to come over; the potion to enhance his absorption of the Violet Qi from the East was ready.

In the Great Hall of Returning to Truth, a cup of some unknown tea was once again brewing on the familiar wooden table. Its fragrance was crisp and refreshing, and a single glance made Yu Fei feel thirsty.

Perhaps sensing Yu Fei’s eagerness, Ye Shuping smiled and advised, "Don’t be hasty. This Mist Mountain Small Leaf needs to steep a while longer. It can temper one’s divine sense."

"Temper my divine sense?"

Yu Fei was confused.

"It’s good you’ve come. I was just going to tell you about cultivating in the Divine Realm. But first, why do you look so mentally exhausted?"

As Yu Fei invested more and more into his spatial talent and it continued to advance, Ye Shuping found he could no longer perceive Yu Fei’s aura as clearly as he once could.

Possessing a thirty-kilometer storage space and being the master of his own dimension, Yu Fei’s aura now seemed perfectly whole, extraordinary, and transcendent to Ye Shuping. Yet, on closer inspection, it was illusory and left no trace.

If every talent were a seed, then different seeds would grow into plants of vastly different final value.

Yu Fei had discovered early on that some talents, despite their low grade, could have incredibly powerful effects.

The spatial talent was a prime example.

Though Yu Fei looked exhausted, his spirits were high. He said excitedly:

"Teacher, watch me perform a technique!"

He then summoned a stream of Sword Qi and, with a flick of his finger, sent it piercing through space to appear abruptly at the main gate.

Ye Shuping was puzzled. ’Isn’t this the Spatial Penetration Skill that Yu Fei showed me before? It doesn’t seem any different.’