Hermit in the Mountains

With a direction in mind, Gu Changsheng began to construct two new spiritual runes capable of bearing the "Power of Withering" and identifying the two spirit runes.

As Gu Changsheng's cultivation and spiritual power improved, his comprehension also improved significantly. In addition, with the ability to guide and identify spiritual patterns that he had already comprehended, he quickly constructed the Nine Withered Spiritual Patterns.

As his mind moved, Gu Changsheng unconsciously opened his hands in front of him, forming a circle with the left and right hands in a crescent shape.

An invisible grayish-brown spiritual pattern appeared in the void between his hands, and then the number of grayish-brown spiritual patterns rapidly increased to nine.

Gu Changsheng slid his hands up and down slightly in opposite directions with a very small amplitude, and nine gray-brown spiritual patterns in the void began to slowly rotate in reverse.

The Nine-Dry Spirit Pattern rotated at high speed, generating a rotational force. A miniature eye of wind appeared in the palm of his hand, and an invisible pulling force spread outwards.

The Nine-Dry Spirit Pattern rotated faster, and the invisible traction wave expanded its coverage area. All the surrounding five elements spiritual energy particles, wind spiritual energy particles, water molecules, etc., converged towards Gu Changsheng's palm along the wave.

Having successfully initiated the first step, Gu Changsheng used his divine sense to inscribe identification patterns on the Nine Withered Spirit Patterns.

The sun above the wooden house had moved to the west, and the dense bamboo shadows in the bamboo forest stretched long and long to the east.

A cloud of white mist and pale blue light spots gathered between Gu Changsheng's palms, forming a line that appeared and disappeared intermittently.

In half a day, the Nine-Dry Spirit Pattern was engraved with two major patterns: traction and recognition. The traction force ripples were enhanced several times, and the recognition ability was improved several times.

Gu Changsheng imitated the principle of "the unity of flourishing and decay" and engraved the intertwined patterns of attraction and recognition together. The traction force ripples are accompanied by preliminary recognition ability, which can accurately capture the required spiritual energy particles, and the attraction efficiency is multiplied.

Over the next few days, Gu Changsheng cultivated at night and perfected the Withering and Flourishing Spirit Gathering Technique during the day.

Three days passed in a flash, and Gu Changsheng finally created a brand-new spirit-gathering spell. It shouldn't be called a spirit-gathering spell, because the new spell's spirit seal is a universal spirit seal, which allows him to condense whatever kind of spirit liquid he wants.

The new spell seal consists of three layers of spirit patterns: outer, middle, and inner.

The outer spirit pattern is the Nine Withered Spirit Pattern, engraved with two major patterns: traction and recognition, realizing automatic traction and recognition functions.

The central spirit pattern is the Nine Glory Spirit Pattern, engraved with two major patterns: compression and fusion. It abandons the cooling and condensation method and directly fuses the spirit energy particles into larger particles until they form liquid spirit liquid.

The inner spiritual pattern is the withering and flourishing spiritual pattern, engraved with two major patterns: transmission and control. It realizes two major functions: mind control and energy supply, which can reduce the consumption of spiritual consciousness and spiritual power.

The drawn spiritual energy particles are divided into three parts: one part is injected into the Nine Dry Spirit Pattern as a reference for identifying the pattern, and the other part provides the energy required for the operation of the entire spiritual seal through the transmission pattern. These two parts account for a small proportion and do not affect the efficiency of condensing spiritual liquid.

Due to the characteristics of the power of decay and flourishing, the new spirit seal is covered with a layer of armor, and no matter what spiritual energy particles are condensed, they cannot be eroded by the spirit seal, allowing the new spirit gathering spell to be activated for a long time.

Gu Changsheng glanced out of the corner of his eye at the afterglow of the setting sun scattering through the woods outside, the bamboo forest shimmering with golden light.

He slowly got up and walked to the edge of the vegetable field. He slowly raised his right hand and stretched it forward, with his five fingers spread and his palm facing down in an upside-down position.

With a thought, he recited the incantation word by word.

"Gather them..."

Spiritual patterns appeared in the void of his palm, forming in sequence the Nine Withering Spiritual Pattern, the Nine Flourishing Spiritual Pattern, and the Withering and Flourishing Spiritual Pattern.

Under the observation of divine sense, the patterns on the Nine Withering and Nine Flourishing Spirit Pattern were illuminated, and the eighteen spirit patterns began to operate, with the patterns on the Withering and Flourishing Spirit Pattern connecting with the external spirit patterns to complete the closed loop.

"Rain is coming—"

As the words "Rain Comes" rang out, the palm-sized spiritual seal instantly transformed into a spiritual seal with a diameter of twenty meters.

Before long, a white mist vortex formed at the location of the spirit seal, and more and more water molecules gathered. When the mass of the water molecules after merging exceeded the buoyancy limit, they turned into raindrops and fell.

A light drizzle began to fall from a cloud three meters above the vegetable garden.

It drizzled for a full five minutes before Gu Changsheng withdrew the 'rainfall spell'. He then went to the nearby medicinal field and cast the 'spiritual rain spell' without any problems.

He also figured out how to use the spirit seal with his body, but it consumed a lot of spiritual power, and the spirit seal would collapse if he wasn't careful, rendering the spell ineffective.

Gu Changsheng returned to the wooden house and tried to condense the Five Elements Spiritual Liquid again, but the spiritual seal was not eroded by the Five Elements Spiritual Energy.

He sat cross-legged on the wooden bed in the bedroom, his eyes closed, concentrating his mind and taking the final step.

Erase the "Taiyin Gathering Spirit Seal" engraved in the Dao Seed and engrave a new spirit seal.

The divine sense transformed into a blade, scraping away the spiritual patterns on the Dao Seed bit by bit. The moment the first blade struck, it felt as if a cut had been made on the body, as if the skin had been slashed by a blade.

There was no real pain, but the feeling was indescribably uncomfortable.

When Gu Changsheng scraped off all of the 'Taiyin Gathering Spirit Seal', he breathed a sigh of relief, glad that he had only engraved one spirit seal and had not engraved the Gathering Rain Seal and the Spirit Rain Seal on the Dao Seed, otherwise he would have suffered three times over.

He made up his mind that he would not casually brand magical seals in the future, unless he branded a general-purpose seal once.

Gu Changsheng regained his senses, cleared his mind, and focused on imprinting the new spiritual seal.

Once the new spiritual imprint was complete, Gu Changsheng opened his eyes and murmured to himself, "It's done!"

He raised his right hand and spread his five fingers. With a thought, the spiritual seal was instantly projected onto his palm, directly eliminating the need to construct the spiritual seal.

It truly achieved instant casting of spells.

It's amazing how quickly you can cast spells in battle; the faster you can do so, the more advantageous you are, and sometimes a single move can decide the outcome.

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Even when the enemy is halfway through casting their spell, his spell has already hit them. Even when facing a physical cultivator, he can still use his spell to defend himself when the enemy attacks.

Gu Changsheng looked at the palm print and said, "Let's call it - Gathering Word Technique."

"Gathering words, gathering spiritual liquid, gathering spiritual rain, gathering rainwater..."

The word "gather" encompasses everything.

Gu Changsheng was already looking forward to deducing the spirit seals such as 'attack', 'defense', 'speed', 'elixir', 'weapon', 'array', and 'talisman' in the future.

His idea was to deduce all laws using the "spiritual seal".

They set out to use the heavens and earth as the array's core, as the brush, ink, and furnace, to perform void array formations, draw talismans, refine elixirs, and forge weapons.

Gu Changsheng knew in his heart that it would be very difficult, hundreds or thousands of times more difficult than the "Gathering" technique. It was precisely because it was difficult that it was challenging.

Thinking that someone would be visiting tomorrow, Gu Changsheng made a plan. The real big spender was coming, and he could use the spender's resources to deduce the alchemy spirit seal.

The success rate of alchemy was not something he could control, and no one could say anything when the furnace would explode from time to time.

Gu Changsheng was in a great mood and gathered his thoughts to enter a state of cultivation.

The next day, at 10 a.m., Zhang Tianhu led a five-person team to the foot of Changsheng Peak.

The five men following behind Zhang Tianhu glanced around from time to time. They all had buzz cuts, were burly, wore suits, and had bulges at their lower backs as if they had something on them.

Zhang Tianhu, who was walking at the front, saw a person standing in the wooden house ahead. He went up to greet him, "Hello, we arranged to visit Mr. Gu today."

"My name is Zhang Tianhu. Mr. Zhang Yuanfu mentioned you to me. You must be called Yang Dashan."

Zhang Tianhu was humble and did not act like a bureau chief.

The five members of the National Spirit Bureau's enforcement team behind him changed their expressions; they all knew the director's strength and status.

They had visited many practitioners with the bureau chief before, but they had never seen him so humble.

They belonged to the National Spirit Bureau's Enforcement Team and knew that the bureau chief was visiting a practitioner today, but they didn't know the practitioner's name or had never heard of any practitioners in this area.

They didn't know because their status wasn't high enough, and they didn't have the authority to know about Gu Changsheng's existence.

Only the director and deputy director of the National Spirit Bureau, as well as the nine elders of the Purple Gold Pavilion, knew about Gu Changsheng.

Through extensive data analysis, Gu Changsheng was determined to be the most mysterious and unique cultivator, whose methods were unknown to anyone. He was locked in the highest-level top-secret file of the National Spirit Bureau, and even the branch director could not find out Gu Changsheng's specific information.

Zhang Tianhu's visit was to gather information.

Yang Dashan looked at Zhang Tianhu and his group of six. "Mr. Zhang, only you can go up the mountain to see the peak master. The others can only wait here."

Zhang Tianhu was stunned for a moment. Zhang Yuanfu hadn't actually spoken much to him. Last night, when he met Zhang Yuanfu and introduced himself as the director of the National Spirit Bureau, the other party gave him an address to find someone named Yang Dashan without saying a word.

He originally wanted Zhang Yuanfu to pass on a message to Gu Changsheng, but the other party seemed to have guessed that he would come. They ended the conversation hastily after only a few words, and he didn't get any useful information out of him.