Baiyu has already deeply realized the effects of Scholar Secret Technique.
Purification is a Divine Skill for Martial Artists.
Martial Artists and Extraordinaries, whether cultivating or studying, accumulate negative emotions in their hearts, and releasing these emotions is a huge challenge.
Drinking, indulging, killing.
Praying, self-flagellation, and so on.
Because long-standing negative emotions are difficult to dissipate, they lead to quirks.
Some even suffer mental breakdowns, go insane, or become deformed, not a few.
Purification perfectly solves this problem.
Baiyu looks forward to seeing what surprises this second Scholar Secret Technique will bring him.
He arrives in front of the small cabinet.
He pulls open the drawer.
Inside is another bottle of True Knowledge Sprite.
Without hesitation, Baiyu gulps it down, and then an indescribable stream of information once again merges into his mind.
[Scholar Secret Technique: Energy Perception!]
[Description: The secret technique enhances its effect as the corresponding academic level advances, with no more than two Scholar Secret Techniques per academic field.]
[Effect: By activating the Scholar Secret Technique, you will see the flow direction of Martial Artists’ Blood Qi strength and mechanical kinetic progression, understanding this world more clearly. Each activation increases Spiritual Contamination Level by one to ten points, growing higher the longer it is used.]
[Note: Use your eyes reasonably, always have eye drops on hand. Otherwise, seeing too many eye-irritating scenes can cause styes.]
Baiyu directly ignores the note.
"Purification" and "Energy Perception," these two Scholar Secret Techniques are deeply ingrained in his mind and can be activated at any time.
Baiyu decides to test the effects first.
After all, his current Spiritual Contamination Level is zero, so activating it for a while shouldn’t be a problem.
He silently activates it in his heart.
Baiyu stands in place, and the scenery in the room becomes different at that moment.
The walls remain the walls.
But the entire air is filled with transparent, colorless gases that should be invisible to the naked eye, yet Baiyu is certain he can see them.
Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide...
He can clearly distinguish them.
And there’s one gas that fills the space all over, beyond his chemical knowledge, indescribable.
"Could this be Spiritual Qi?"
This is a world of Spiritual Qi Revival.
Ordinary people can also absorb Spiritual Qi, even without intentional Blood Qi training, their physical fitness is much stronger than those humans from Earth where he originally was.
And they rarely get sick.
Colds, flu, such minor illness, are rarely contracted by people in this world.
Thus, pharmacies are rare.
Instead, the pharmaceutical industry providing Medicinal Pills for Martial Artists is thriving.
Baiyu looks at his own body.
All over his body is filled with a pale red energy, though it’s very thin, but it’s constantly flowing through the body.
The Blood Qi within the human body!
Clenching his fists, those pale red energies transfer to his fists.
He can clearly see their transfer process within the body.
This means that in future conflicts, Baiyu will be able to roughly anticipate what kind of offensive the opponent will adopt based on the direction of Blood Qi flow.
"This is a combat-oriented secret technique, unlike the Purification support type."
Baiyu makes a judgment in his heart.
After verifying the effects of the secret technique, he immediately turns off Energy Perception.
But at the moment of turning off.
A strange, indescribable sense of surveillance arises in his heart.
Instantly, a blurry picture appears in Baiyu’s mind.
It’s a pitch-black cell, inside is an ugly monster, half-human, half-tentacle, emitting pure and extreme evil.
Baiyu shouted coldly, immediately withdrawing from that feeling.
Aside from him, the empty room has no one else, and the dozen mechanisms and alarm devices set in the basement haven’t been triggered, he’s alone here.
"That monster is peeping at me through special means."
"Because I’m handsome? No, with those monsters’ aesthetics, a bizarre appearance is considered handsome. Daniel Wu must be hideously ugly in their eyes."
"I live alone, the only Extraordinary event I’ve been involved in is the Demon Paper incident, either the person is the mastermind behind Demon Paper, or a participant in the Demon Paper plan."
Excluding all impossible answers, what remains is the correct answer.
The only Extraordinary event he has contacted is Demon Paper, which is definitely related.
Recalling the scene just now, Baiyu thinks:
"It’s never-ending now, like a swarm of flies.
I just want to live a peaceful life, but these flies’ ghostly souls never leave.
It seems it’s not enough to ruin your plan once.
Don’t let me catch you."
Panicking now will only lead to self-chaos.
The other party is only spying on him, and such cross-space surveillance usually doesn’t provide accurate information to either side.
It’s taught in the Mystical Manifesto.
That monster should only have noticed Baiyu through special methods, knowing he disrupted their plan, but can’t confirm Baiyu’s identity.
Danger hasn’t gone away, it’s quietly building strength in the dark!
If Baiyu hadn’t activated Energy Perception this time, accidentally running into this monster, and accidentally discovering it.
He wouldn’t have known there’s such a thing secretly watching him.
"Need to boost the cultivation and study progress."
"Also actively pay attention to all Extraordinary news in Linjiang City, since the other side is hiding like rats, then I’ll actively draw you out."
Recently in Linjiang City, there’s always a sense of impending storm.
As a steady man, he absolutely cannot tolerate this underlying threat.
A monarch does not stand under a dangerous wall.
So Baiyu decides to proactively dismantle this wall.
The eighth level of Hades Prison.
Kaz, whose body is penetrated by alloy chains, suddenly lets out a painful howl, on the half-human side of his body, the skin constantly surges as if a monster is about to burst out.
Tentacles flying in the air strike the electrified cell door, exacerbating his pain.
It’s a monster covered in tentacles thrashing and going berserk in limited space.
He slowly stops, blood and tears flow from his single eye filled with bloodshot veins.
"This human can actually perceive and retaliate against my True Knowledge gaze, heavily injuring me."
"Moreover, his fate is a chaos of tangled mess, impossible to pry, unable to see even a bit of his past or future."
"Imperceivable fate human, disrupted the Demon Paper plan."
"Is he the reincarnation of one of the peak Martial Dao old monsters? But none of them has been rumored to fall, or the current stalemate would have broken."
Kaz slowly closes his eyes, feeling inexplicably irritated.
The Demon Paper layout has been ongoing for three years.
From the moment he was captured, he began secretive slow layout using an S Level Sealing Object, controlling the ones from the Abyssal Ascetic Association’s Blood Lord faction, plotting big events in Linjiang City.
That S Level Sealing Object has merged with him.
In essence, he now is a Sealing Object, with thoughts of its own.
This is why the East Prosperity Imperial has kept him until now.
The plan he laid is about to conclude successfully.
Yet there appeared inexplicable twists.
"Destiny is not entirely untraceable, every intersecting point surely has reason."
Ignoring the backlash wounds, Kaz channels all strength into his single eye.
A strange picture forms in his mind...