When Chen Jing's cultivation reached the Blood Realm Perfection and he mastered all the spiritual energy in his body, he clearly found that his control over various abilities had significantly improved.
For example, "Noise Invisibility" no longer consumes Chen Jing's spiritual power and can be used freely. The ability to "create small illusions" obtained through the Body Refinement Elixir is actually a miniature version of the "Light Effect Illusion" ability gained after reaching the Blood Refinement Perfection. The full version of "Light Effect Illusion" can create illusions that are farther and larger. The effective range of the illusions has increased to a little over ten meters, and the upper limit of the size of the illusions has reached the level of human size.
Of course, these abilities were all named by Chen Jing himself. He did not learn the names of these abilities from the spiritual energy, but only their power and how to use them.
Light illusions can only create optical illusions visible to the naked eye; they cannot create sound, smell, touch, or heat. Chen Jing suspects that the ability to create more realistic illusions should fall under the category of the abilities of the Dao Qi of the Dan Realm.
Based on his ability of "light illusion magic", Chen Jing also learned three spells naturally.
Chen Jing named it "Phantom Clone," which can create an identical phantom at the original location of its body. The phantom can mimic the movements of the original, confusing the enemy's vision. However, the phantom clone does not make footsteps, and careful observation can distinguish the real from the fake.
An illusion spell called "Dark Veil" creates a dark curtain around the enemy, effectively blocking their vision. The drawback is that the enemy can escape the effect simply by leaving the curtain's area.
The Dark Curtain appears to be even more ferocious than the Phantom Clone, but in reality, it is limited in size, cannot be controlled or moved, and will also obscure Chen Jing's vision.
Another technique is the opposite of the Dark Curtain, which Chen Jing calls "Flash Blast." The principle of this technique is to create a powerful optical illusion in the enemy's eyes, causing them to become dazzled and blinded. Its power is not high, and it requires precise creation of the light illusion in front of the eyes. It is also difficult to maintain a sustained effect even on cultivators with strong physiques, making it difficult to use.
Chen Jing's original small illusions could not create light sources, but after he reached the Blood Realm Perfection, he could. He could not only create instantaneous flashes of light, but also create less intense but longer-lasting bright orbs of light and the illusion of candles.
Aside from the improvement in his cultivation level, the increase in his spiritual power, and the acquisition of new abilities, Chen Jing also discovered that the Source of Darkness had given him very obvious feedback.
The source of darkness has been used a full three times this time.
Without hesitation, Chen Jing used it once to acquire "knowledge".
"How can I stop the blood sacrifice in Ash City?" Chen Jing wondered to himself.
In his meditation, the source of darkness suspended above his head began to writhe, and images arose and vanished in Chen Jing's mind.
In the end, all the images vanished like bubbles, and not a single one was clearly presented.
This means that the source of darkness has not provided any way to end the blood sacrifice.
No matter what you do, you can't stop the blood sacrifice.
Chen Jing did not despair; he carefully considered and analyzed the situation:
"This contradicts the image I obtained from using the Dark Source... Could it be that I mishandled Mei Moke, causing me to lose my last chance?"
"No, no, the two questions were different."
"What I asked before was how to protect myself and those I know in this disaster... This does not imply the assumption of 'ending the blood sacrifice'."
But the path guided by the source of darkness led me here...
This means that there is something beneath the arena that allows me to save many people in this disaster, but cannot stop the blood sacrifice?
Chen Jing seized this thought and used the Source of Darkness to acquire knowledge.
What is the greatest adventure I can have outside the arena?
This time, a flood of knowledge poured into his mind, causing Chen Jing to instinctively cover his forehead to suppress the swelling and pain caused by the cramming of knowledge.
It seems that because the previous question was not answered, the power of the source of darkness accumulated, and this time the knowledge given to Chen Jing was particularly detailed and abundant.
That knowledge manifested as a series of intermittent, visible images:
Chen Jing arrived at the obelisk outside the window of the underground prison and pressed four specific positions. The obelisk moved and revealed the hidden passage below.
Chen Jing descended along the hidden passage...
The screen flickered and jumped, and Chen Jing was covered in bloodstains of unknown origin.
In the middle of the room, there was a wooden board covered with red cloth, on which was placed a statue of a deity.
In the scene, Chen Jing is chanting different incantations that he himself cannot understand. He picks up a calligraphy brush from the table and chants incantations again.
Then, he took out a talisman, lit it with a match, poured in water and cinnabar to mix it into a special ink, and wrote winding, crooked, sometimes straight and sometimes swirling symbols on a mirror.
After finishing writing, Chen Jing saw himself in the image chanting incantations again. As he chanted, he raised the mirror with the incantations written on it and pointed it at the statue of the deity on the red cloth table.
The scene then ended.
Immediately afterwards, a series of pieces of knowledge were transmitted into Chen Jing's mind.
That was a peculiar ritual called "Communication with the Gods"! It was the ritual that Chen Jing performed after entering the hidden passage in the scene.
The ritual has only one effect: when the "Bai Ze Scroll" beneath Meijing City breaks free from its seal and revives to a certain extent, it establishes some form of connection with it, allowing one to use its power to do certain things.
The divine ritual that suddenly flooded Chen Jing's mind included a series of knowledge, such as how to chant incantations, how to draw talismans, the timing of inputting spiritual power, what items are needed, the timing of starting the ritual, and so on.
This knowledge was imprinted in Chen Jing's mind, just like the knowledge he had repeatedly studied and memorized.
"Phew... I've gained so much knowledge from just two questions, what a bargain!" Chen Jing thought with a hint of delight.
"I just don't know what the outcome of the ritual will be..."
"It's always a good outcome, I asked about the greatest adventure, not the greatest disaster."
"Well, now we need to gather the Bagua mirror, talisman paper, brush, cinnabar and other items needed for the ceremony... Their locations were also told to me in those broken images. Most of them can be found in the sealed area under the arena, while the Bagua mirror needs to be obtained from the Meijing Taoist Temple."
"From the footage, I can see that I was covered in blood after I entered the area beneath the obelisk."
"This means there might be some dangers underground in the arena, but not much, and it's the kind of danger I can handle."
“Mei Moke wasn’t lying to me before, there really is a divine artifact called the ‘Bai Ze Scroll’…”
"That's true. His goal was to lower my guard, so most of what he said is probably true. I have evidence to corroborate many of what he said, so the possibility of him lying is very low..."
Chen Jing dissolved a Golden Turtle Sea-Diving Pill into the water in his water bag and applied it to the burned areas on his hands to accelerate the healing process. The pain in Chen Jing's hands immediately subsided considerably.
Chen Jing couldn't bear to throw away the remaining water, so he kept it with him.
After recovering somewhat from his injuries, Chen Jing rushed to Meijing Taoist Temple to retrieve the Bagua mirror necessary for the ceremony.
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