Chapter 291: The Fourth Skill (1/2)

Please read author note at end.

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Lin Mu opened his eyes and found himself in front of the ethereal altar within the mysterious ring.

The last thing he remembered was the stream of liquid spirit qi filling into his dantian and his total stores reaching about one thousand eight hundred drops of liquid spirit qi. He knew that he had refined a lot of drops of liquid spirit qi but had never expected that it had reached such a large amount.

This was completely incomprehensible to him, and he did not know how he had even done this. When he was looking at the stream of liquid spirit qi before it looked much smaller to him, being only eighty times bigger than a normal drop in size.

But when that very stream had been added to his dantian, it turned out to be three hundred drops in total instead. This had instantly pushed him through the bottleneck between the late stage and peak stage of the qi refining realm.

Lin Mu had expected that the mysterious ring would do something the moment broke through the late stage of the qi refining realm into the peak stage, and now that he was in the mysterious ring his expectations were fully confirmed.

~Huu~

Lin Mu took a deep breath and relaxed his tense body. While he could finally perceive the changes in his body, he knew that it was not the right time to explore them. Right now he needed to see what the mysterious ring had called him here for.

He looked around but could not see Senior Xukong nearby. But he could also see a faintly glowing barrier in the distance that surrounded him and the altar completely.

”So this is the barrier senior Xukong was speaking about before. Looks like it separates the altar from the rest of the ring and has a special function.” Lin Mu muttered to himself as he walked to the altar in the very middle.

He reached there in a minute and saw that it was thrumming with waves of energy. He found them to be similar to before and now knew what he was going to receive.

Lin Mu placed his hand on the altar as it was beckoning to him and closed his eyes. A flurry of runes appeared out of the altar, turning into streaks of light entering into Lin Mu's head. Soon information started etching itself in Lin Mu's memories. What Lin Mu was receiving right now was none other than the next skill.

Lin Mu had received the first skill 'Flicker' and the second skill 'Blink' when he first became a qi cultivator. He then obtained the third skill 'Phase' when he broke through the late stage of the qi refining realm.

From the consumption of spirit qi that these skills required, Lin Mu could estimate that every new skill was only granted to him when he satisfied a certain condition. For the first two skills, all he needed was spirit qi wisps, thus they were directly granted to him at the very start when he became a cultivator.

Lin Mu then received the third skill 'phase' when he satisfied the condition which was none other than liquid spirit qi. Once that condition was fulfilled, he obtained the third skill.

But according to this logic, it didn't seem right that he was getting a fourth skill now. If liquid spirit qi was a requirement, he should have received it a long time ago. There was perhaps another condition that was needed.