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Snow Treading Art

After breaking through to the Harmonious Spirit realm, Ning Fan went into isolated cultivation for more than ten days to completely solidify his foundation.

He also dual cultivated with Zhihe during these ten days. Perhaps it was because Ning Fan broke through to the Harmonious Spirit realm and the gap between the two’s cultivations was too great, so during their session, outside of the Yin Yang Locket empowering its blood paths, there was no increase to cultivation. On the contrary, Zhihe received many benefits as her cultivation quickly grew all the way to the sixth level of Vein Opening after a few short days using dual cultivation. By cultivating wisely, she was already an expert within the Vein Opening realm…

Ning Fan felt quite helpless as dual cultivation was only reciprocally effective for both parties when their cultivation was the same. This situation occurred because his cultivation was much higher than Zhihe, and it couldn’t be helped.

The Yin Yang Locket’s jade body was covered with more than twenty blood lines at this moment. Ning Fan estimated that once the locket completed ninety-nine blood lines, this was when he would finish the Yin Yang Transformation’s first level. Then, he could open a few magical techniques through the Yin Yang Locket.

An Immortal Emperor’s heritage treasure’s magical techniques will not be weak.

But conversely, was dual cultivation with Zhihe really not beneficial for Ning Fan? A beauty in his embrace with a natural jade fragrance. Even if his cultivation didn’t increase, it was still a matter blessed by endless fortune…

Normally, cultivators going from early-stage Harmonious Spirit to intermediate-stage Harmonious Spirit would need several dozen years if fast, or their whole life if slow.

If Zhihe was a Harmonious Spirit realm cultivator, then Ning Fan could absolutely reach intermediate-stage Harmonious Spirit within just a year through dual cultivation.

This was already an extremely frightening speed. Vein Opening was easy, but Harmonious Spirit was very arduous. And the Gold Core realm after Harmonious Spirit was severely backbreaking.

The Sinister Sparrow School had 100,000 Vein Opening disciples, but only 35 Harmonious Spirit elders, and only one Gold Core School Master. The higher the realm, the harder it was to move up.

Since his cultivation couldn’t increase, Ning Fan decided to practice his techniques.

Regarding his offensive attacks, his one sword, Fire Transformation, was more than enough to kill an intermediate-stage Harmonious Spirit realm cultivator.

Regarding sword techniques, with his Immortal Emperor’s memories, his sword techniques had an air of a master even if it was not outside the boundary of common sense.

Ning Fan took out the mysterious scabbard from the auction and tried to comprehend its sword intent, but it was too difficult to grasp.

This was not because his understanding of the Sword Dao was lacking, but because the sword excluded the fact that he was a man.

This sword intent seemed that it could only be activated by women.

However, this scabbard was not completely useless. Ning Fan could use his Fire Transformation Sword’s intent to combat the scabbard sword intent and improve his own sword intent, increasing his Sword Dao cultivation.

And Ning Fan faintly sensed that inside this scabbard was an extremely powerful technique. Once he destroyed this scabbard, he would be able to force this technique out.

Ning Fan couldn’t be sure of the exact powerful technique inside this scabbard. This could only be known after taking it out.

Ning Fan could now be considered a powerful cultivator after reaching the Harmonious Spirit realm. He needed to learn many techniques in order to protect himself.

He decided to cultivate a new magical technique named the “Snow Treading Art” — a technique of the ice element. Once cultivated, not only will it increase one’s ice magical power, but they could also borrow the power of the ice spirit to perform the ultimate Markless Snow Treading Escape Art!

This was not considered a high ranked technique in the Immortal Emperor’s memories, but it was a highest existence in the land of Yue.

The one requirement to cultivate this technique was that the body must grasp an ice element magic power. Ning Fan just happened to have this prerequisite after dual cultivating on the cold ground.

At night, after putting Zhihe to sleep, he opened the door to leave and bravely cultivated in the cold snow and wind.

This was a painful process. In order to harmonize with the power of the ice spirit, one must use his own body to withstand the cold without activating any magical power to defend.

The night flew by as he cultivated in the cold and wind. After every hour, he would become frozen to the point where his lips became purple and had to stop practicing. But after a little rest, he quickly resumed. Ning Fan was able to endure hardship because of his childhood experience. He had always been a responsible person with rock-solid willpower.

He had a brother to save, and he needed more power. Such hardship was trivial.

Like a shadow in the night, Ning Fan treaded over and over through the snow, leaving behind many footsteps. These footsteps became fainter and shallower as his speed became faster. In the end, he almost turned into a blur and, with one jump, he could leap dozens of zhang away like a ghost.

However, he couldn’t cultivate this Snow Treading Art to the highest level; not because his ice power was not enough, but because he was missing a little something.