Chapter 51：Refining The Spirit Sense (1/2)

Xukong was impressed by the skills that Lin Mu had received from the ring. Just the two skills 'Flicker' and 'Blink' were already enough for any person in this world to become powerful in their own right.

Although the two skills seemed simple, but they actually were not. Those two skills employed the high-level concepts from the spatial laws. A cultivator could only comprehend the preliminary laws once they reached the Dao treading realm and formed a Dao embryo.

But it was nearly impossible for a cultivator to comprehend even a sliver of spatial laws, as they were one of the most complex and top-level Daos.

By now Xukong had an idea of how the mysterious ring worked. The ring worked as a conduit and a catalyst that helped Lin Mu manipulate the spatial laws. He also felt that the ring was sentient and was tailoring the skills according to Lin Mu's caliber.

As for the ability to open spatial rifts, Xukong only understood it when he started absorbing the pure spatial energy from the ring. For an artifact that could produce such pure spatial energy, it was a child's play to exploit the weak points in the space. It was even easier for the ring to tap into a teleportation channel and hijack it.

When Lin Mu was telling senior Xukong about how some spatial rifts felt different from others, he explained why.

The spatial rifts which felt like still water were just gates into the lesser void. But the ones which felt like a flowing river were actually teleportation channels created by teleportation formations.

Teleportation formations were used for long-distance movement and transportation. Objects as well as people could be moved a long distance within a short time with the help of such formations.

Though the ones that Lin Mu accessed were minor teleportation formations used for transporting objects. when Lin Mu accessed the two before he had basically stolen the four vessels restoration pills and the spirit stones from someone unknown.

The good thing was the person who used the formation to send the items would not know that they were stolen either.

”Will the person whose items I took come after me?” Lin Mu asked with a wary tone.

”That would be impossible. While sending items through teleportation formations is a safe method, it is not flawless. Any accident or disturbance in the spatial channel would cause the object to be lost in the void.” Xukong answered.

Lin Mu felt relieved that he won't have to keep looking over his back for the owner of the items coming back for payback.

”Demonstrate the two skills you got from the ring for me. I want to see your proficiency in it.” Xukong ordered.

Lin Mu nodded in response and demonstrated the first skill 'Flicker'. He first executed it while standing normally and then showed its ability to turn his body immaterial. He held his short sword and demonstrated his control over the technique.

”Next one.” Xukong spoke.

Lin Mu took a deep breath and used the second skill 'Blink'. He disappeared from the place he was standing and then appeared in a location 10 meters away from there.

”Enough.” Xukong said.

”Yes senior.” Lin Mu promptly responded.

Xukong went silent for a minute as he thought and then spoke again.

”You will need to increase your accuracy while using Flicker. If you are to use it for dodging strikes, you will need to judge the exact moment to use the skill or you will just hurt yourself.” Xukong spoke and then took a pause.

”As for the second skill Blink, you are highly inefficient in its use. You will need to understand the skill's true potential and from what I can see, you can only teleport to a location in your field of vision. This is the first flaw you need to amend.” Xukong chided.

Lin Mu already knew that he had to learn to judge the timing of the activation of Flicker, but did not expect that he was this bad with the second skill Blink.

”How can I resolve the flaw, senior?” Lin Mu asked.

”The reason you can't teleport to a location behind you is that you haven't learned one of the most basic abilities of a cultivator. You haven't refined your spirit sense.” Xukong answered.

Lin Mu had heard about spirit sense before when senior Xukong asked him if he could see his body. senior Xukong then mentioned that he could not see it as he did not have spirit sense.