Chapter Twenty-Three: The Passing of the Ancients

The world of Faeron is a world created by magic, from the large to the surface of the universe, the sun, the moon and the stars, as small as a brick and tile, a leaf, all infiltrated with magic, in this high magic environment, the consciousness and choice of intelligent beings can greatly affect reality, distort reality, their beliefs and cognition itself form a huge collection of rules, and the natural laws of the world itself, widely existing in the world and affecting the operation of the world.

For Dugufeng, such a world is a rare opportunity to provide an opportunity to continuously strengthen and expand the law from small to large, from weak to strong, and it is an excellent testing ground for how to improve and expand the law of experimentation. Therefore, Dugufeng is not in a hurry to cheat, but follows the rules of this world step by step, farming monsters to upgrade, and improving his influence. In the killing journey of the unity of knowledge and action, it subtly affects the cognition of the inhabitants of this world, constantly engraves their own cognition of killing into this world, and pulls the Force closer to itself.

Dugu Feng meditated quietly, and the killing force surrounded her like a tide, and gradually began to form another core outside the original mainstream.

The temperature of the water in the barrel gradually cooled down, and at this moment, the door behind Dugu Feng suddenly opened silently, and a vague figure crept in without making a sound.

"Shi Ji, you sneaked out again. It seems that the guards of the Duke's Mansion have not looked at you again. Dugufeng didn't need to look back to know who the person who came in. Except for her sister, Shi Ji, another daughter of Grand Duke Anta Silvershield, no one dared to sneak in at this place at this time.

"Oops, I'm so tired!" The petite girl lurked in like a cat, spread coquettishly on Dugufeng, hugged her neck and said affectionately: "Father always asks me to participate in some dances, I'm so tired!" I'd rather go on adventures with you, sister, to fight the ogres in the wilderness than to wear those uncomfortable tunics and talk about boring topics with those hypocritical nobles all day long! ”

"Sister, let me go on an adventure with you!" Shi Ji rubbed her sister like a cat, and while being coquettish, she said in an extremely longing tone: "I, I've long wanted to go on an adventure like my sister!" The rocks at the foot of the mountain lapped by the waves, the elves dancing under the ancient trees of the forest, the fields bathed in the blue moonlight - these are so desirable! ”

"No way!"

Dugufeng did not hesitate to refuse Shi Ji's request, although due to her changes, Shi Ji is not as pampered as in the original story, but she still yearns for the adventurous life outside.

"Why!"

Once again, her sister rejected her adventure request, Shi Ji couldn't help but pout, and hummed and said, "Why did my sister refuse me?" Sister, do you also want me to concentrate on becoming a vase like my father, so that I can prepare for the marriage of the great cause of the Yindun family in the future? ”

"You're too slow to keep up with me." Ignoring Shi Ji's complaints, Dugufeng directly said the most direct reason for his refusal.

Dugu Feng went out to farm monsters, all of them were directly open and hung on the whole map, and when he saw clearly where the monsters were the most, he rushed directly to put Wushuang inside, this kind of efficient monster farming progress, not to mention Shi Ji, who didn't have any adventure experience, even a team of experienced adventurers couldn't keep up at all. In order to ensure his monster farming efficiency, Dugufeng will not deliberately slow down the progress in order to wait for others.

"My sister looks down on me again, I'm also very powerful! Look, look, I sneaked out this time, and the guards in the duke's mansion didn't notice me! Shi Ji pursed her mouth and showed off her achievements: "Besides, I have also trained well according to your sister's teachings, many adventurers are not my opponents!" They are all able to go on adventures everywhere, why can't I! ”

"Oh, so tell me what training you've done and what homework you've done?" Dugu Feng finally turned around, looked at Shi Ji, and said with a smile.

"Didn't my sister find out? I was able to sneak out, but it was all thanks to it! Shi Ji said with a slight smugness, and with a flip of her right hand, there was already a gray dagger in her hand.

It was an extremely ordinary dagger at first glance, like the one that a beginner usually takes to take his first martial arts exam. It's just that although its appearance is relatively ordinary, when you look closely, you will notice that it is almost completely non-reflective, and even one step of attention will completely ignore it.

"Look, that's what I did!" Like a child eager to show off her collection of candy to her parents, Shi Ji smiled proudly, and suddenly activated her ability, only to see a hazy shadow covering her face, and in the blink of an eye, she disappeared and quietly blended into the shadow of the room.

"Haha, sister, I'm amazing! This is my ancient weapon: Shadow! Although Shi Ji was hidden in the shadows, her triumphant tone could not be hidden.

Shi Ji has a good talent, a lively personality, a flexible mind, and a lot of curiosity, and is a good wanderer seedling. However, because of Dugufeng's influence and teaching, she did not follow the career path of a wanderer like the original book, but followed Dugufeng to learn the martial arts of the shadow hand stream in the genre known as the "Nine Swords" and became a martial artist.

"That's right, not only did you improve your level by one level, but you also completed the ancient transmission ceremony and obtained the exclusive ancient transmission weapon of the Shadow Hand Stream, which is very good, it seems that you have indeed trained well for a period of time." Dugu Feng nodded slightly, recognizing Shi Ji's performance.

The so-called ancient weapons are the exclusive weapons of this profession created by the martial artists of the Nine Swords School for countless generations, each school has its own exclusive ancient weapons, and each ancient weapon has its own history and heritage. Martial artists of the Nine Swords School who have been passed down can combine weapons with special rituals, procedures, or ceremonies.

The Ancient Weapon may not look any different from a normal magic weapon, but its most valuable feature is its ability to grow with the user, and its abilities increase with the user's level. In fact, this kind of profession-exclusive ancient weapon is almost equivalent to a cultivator's magic weapon in Dugu Fengfeng's opinion.

The ancient weapon of the Shadow Hand Stream is called "Shadow Mang", and the first condition for obtaining it is to perform a ceremony called "Shadow Touch". The content of the ritual is also very simple, that is, it must withstand the touch of the ghost energy, and complete the entire ritual in the process of the body being eroded by the energy. During the whole process, he could not be interrupted, could not be treated, and could only survive the erosion of the ghost energy with his own will and body.

This kind of ritual, in Dugu Feng's view, is actually a special method to carry out "heaven and man sympathy", but the erosion characteristics of ghost energy are too harmful to the human body, and they have to use rituals and natal weapons as a medium of touch to indirectly reduce the damage of ghost energy.

A martial artist who has completed the "Shadow Touch" can basically be equivalent to comprehending the realm of "Sympathy between Heaven and Man", and can gradually adopt the innate master of the essence of heaven and earth. In a sense, the path taken by the martial artists of the Nine Swords School in this world is basically very similar to that of the innate martial artists in the East.

It's just that the world of Feilun is a high magic world created by magic power, and the whole world is infiltrated by magic power, but all the magic power of the main plane is already under the control of the magic network, and it already has a complete operation order, and it is not at all like the Eastern Martial Arts Xianxia World that has the aura of heaven and earth that can be used freely and without a director.

In the main material world of Faerun, the "sympathy between heaven and man" is carried out, and the natural energy of heaven and earth is communicated, and what is basically contacted is the magic net. This is also the source of power for most casters of mages, warlocks, and so on. As for the warriors, if they can't touch the magic net because of the wrong channel, in fact, the extraordinary power exerted by all their move skills comes from the natural magic power in their own bodies and souls.

This is also one of the reasons why pure warriors look very dick, after all, manpower is poor, purely relying on their own body and will, it's not that they can't progress, but the strength itself can only be limited to their own flesh, and in the battle of the same level, they are naturally abused by various masters.

Of course, rules are dead, people are alive. The warriors of this world are not fools, and in the long time and long civilization, they can naturally find a way to break out of this limitation. And there are many ways to skip the restrictions, they have such as tempering their bodies and wills through penance and fighting, gaining strong magic resistance and various supernatural powers, they have the power to tap the mind through meditation, and gaining power similar to that of psionic warlocks, they use their perception to touch the power beyond the magic web, or accept the power of the gods and become a holy warrior who practices a certain belief, or touch the power of other planes and become a martial artist like the nine swords.

However, because of the existence of the magic net, there is basically no ownerless energy that can be freely called in the main material world. Therefore, martial artists who take the path similar to the "unity of heaven and man" of the Eastern martial artists can only choose to touch the worlds such as the astral plane, the shadow world, the four elemental planes, and the positive and negative energy planes. Among them, because of the particularity of the astral and shadow worlds, as well as its close connection with the main material world, the martial arts school chose to call the astral and shadow worlds the source of power.

The ancient ritual of "Shadow Hand Flow" is the most typical representative of this choice. Generally speaking, the "shadow hand flow" martial artists before level 5 can only rely on their own will and talent at most, and carefully guide the shadow power to wrap themselves or attack the enemy, which is also because of the particularity of the high magic world, the concentration and activity of energy are relatively high, and it is very easy to be pulled by the will and spirit to produce various special effects that change reality, and do not need to be like some low magic worlds, often need to reach extremely high levels and realms to produce extraordinary abilities.

After level 5, the "Shadow Hand Flow" martial artist can gradually touch the shadow through the ancient ritual and borrow the ancient weapon as a medium, and channel the extremely dangerous shadow energy into his soul and body, so as to gain the ability to blend into the shadow, jump in the shadow, and even directly turn into the shadow.

Shi Ji has only completed a simple low-level ancient transmission ritual, and then there is a secondary ancient transmission ritual that involves spreading negative energy throughout the body at the risk of permanent damage to his soul and body, and level dropping, completing a process similar to the Great Cycle of True Qi Zhou Tian, as well as a high-level ancient transmission ritual that directly infiltrates the Shadow Realm, receives the injection of dimensional energy, and almost transforms into a ghost creature.

These three levels of ancient rituals are basically similar to the three realms of the innate martial artists of the Tang world, such as the sympathy between heaven and man, the unity of heaven and man, and the transformation of heaven and man.