Staring blankly at the system interface before his eyes, Shen Yuan found himself dumbfounded.
One moment he was stuck navigating the beginner's guide, and the next, after simply placing his name on a scroll using charcoal, he inexplicably became the Sect Master of the Falling Clouds Sect. The disparity was so shocking to Shen Yuan that he found it hard to believe.
Moreover, the last message on the system notification that he had completed the newbie guide task by becoming the Sect Master of the Falling Clouds Sect, plunged Shen Yuan into a lengthy silence.
"Well, after all, the Sect Master of the Falling Clouds Sect is also a member of the Falling Clouds Sect. So, completing the task in this way makes logical sense... Bullshit! This is completely different!"
Forcibly ignoring the flawed logic of the Artificial Intelligence System, Shen Yuan moved his gaze from the system interface to the shining golden scroll in front of him.
He had managed to decipher the meaning of the "Sect Masters Directory" earlier, but he never expected such a simple scroll to exert such enormous influence over the sect leader's inheritance.
Based on this, the last blank entry on the list likely referred to the Sect Master of Falling Clouds who, despite having reached the realm of Earth Immortal, attempted to ascend to heaven with the entire sect.
Due to the Great Schism, the Sect Master responsible for the ascension attempt got his name wiped out, leaving a blank spot in the "Sect Masters Directory" and giving an unexpected advantage to Shen Yuan.
Normally, in addition to having one's name in the "Sect Masters Directory", to become the Sect Master it was also required to notify the Ancestral Hall, Elders Temple, and True Teachings Palace, and one could only succeed if no one is opposed.
If this had occurred ten thousand years ago, it would without a doubt have been an extremely difficult task. Only with the support of all major factions and compelling strength could one become the Sect Master.
But for today, ten thousand years later, it presents a completely different concept.
The Falling Clouds Sect had been annihilated ten thousand years ago, hence no one could crawl out of their grave to oppose Shen Yuan's succession.
In this way, Shen Yuan, in an inexplicable turn of events, managed to bypass the newbie's guide gridlock and became the Sect Master overnight.
Having sorted out the cause and effect, Shen Yuan looked at his crooked handwriting, his mouth twitching subconsciously.
"So, did I just beat a system bug with another bug?"
"Indeed, you can't apply normal judgement when dealing with an Artificial Intelligence System."
Just after a few complaints, Shen Yuan shifted his attention to the rewards he had gained from completing the tasks.
As for this so-called Sect Master identity, Shen Yuan did not hold any expectations. The Falling Clouds Sect had been annihilated for tens of thousands of years and not a shred of inheritance was left behind, making his title of Sect Master an empty one.
In contrast to the empty title of Sect Master, Shen Yuan was more interested in the rewards of this task.
The "Purple Clouds Elemental Qi Refinement Method" was the long-awaited follow-up cultivation method for Shen Yuan and needed no further elaboration.
Compared to the entire cultivation journey, Cloud Mist Breathing Method could only be considered a basic technique. Despite cultivating it to the peak stage, one could only achieve a physical condition several times stronger than ordinary people and possess a powerful Essence Element. If confronted with modern firearms, it would still be powerless.
But if Shen Yuan cultivated the "Purple Clouds Elemental Qi Refinement Method" and progressed to the Qi Transformation Stage, he could display the true capabilities of a cultivator and enter a domain that ordinary people could not reach.
Of course, when compared to another reward he obtained, the insignificant "Purple Clouds Elemental Qi Refinement Method" wasn't worth mentioning.
At this thought, Shen Yuan extended his right hand and a jade gourd, as if illusionary, fell into his palm. The palm-sized gourd encapsulated a vast expanse of space within.
On the system interface in front of Shen Yuan, a few large characters were clearly displayed.
Pot's Heaven (16th of the 72 Earthly Destroyers Divine Power): "In drunken stupor, I embrace the universe; in the pot much time hath gone." This Divine Skill allows one to create space using spirit objects as the foundation according to the principle of the mustard seed and Mount Meru coexisting. When cultivated to the peak stage, this technique can develop into grotto heavens blessed land, achieving the status of an Earth Immortal. (Subsequent promotion direction... unable to query due to insufficient realm status).
Although Shen Yuan had already anticipated this upon seeing the Earthly Destroyer Divine Power, he still couldn't help but show joy when he truly saw this Pot's Heaven Technique.
The 36 Heavenly Generals, 72 Earthly Destroyers, these 108 Divine Skills are not ordinary council spells, but originated from the immortal world's immortality Divine Skills. Many spells in the world have the shadow of Heavenly General and Earthly Destroyer Divine Power, which can be said to be the source of all laws.
What's more crucial is that Divine Skills, unlike spells that require Mana to drive, even ordinary people can cast them once they master them. However, the effect they can exert is far from being comparable to that of an advanced cultivator.
With his right hand slowly holding the emerald gourd in his hand, countless pieces of information emerge in his heart, and the Divine Skill law is already integrated into Shen Yuan's memory. It seems to have become a part of Shen Yuan's body.
He casually picked up a hard plastic water bottle for drinking water from the ground and lightly touched it with his right index finger.
The Divine Sense follows the Pot's Heaven Divine Power into the bottle. The originally small space is like being forcibly ripped apart by an invisible giant hand, and then the nested space begins to extend continuously.
The appearance of the bottle has not changed, but the internal space has expanded several times in an instant, and its internal space volume is still increasing.
Suddenly, the bottle in Shen Yuan's hand made a crunchy sound, and cracks appeared all over the outside of the plastic water bottle. Seeing this, Shen Yuan quickly threw the bottle away.
The next moment space fractures crawled all over the bottle, the collision of internal and external spaces easily tore the ordinary object apart, and then a large amount of violent space rift completely swallowed the bottle.
Shen Yuan looked at the place where the bottle disappeared, his brows slightly furrowed and he muttered to himself:
"Although I know ordinary objects cannot establish stable spaces, this is too unstable. This space rift even if a cultivator at the Qi Transformation Realm recklessly touches it, they can only perish. The power of space isn't something that low-level cultivators can withstand."
Shen Yuan's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Wait. I can use ordinary objects to create unstable spaces, and then use them as space hand grenades to detonate. Although the damage range is limited, if it hits a low-realm cultivator, they will surely be seriously injured if they do not die."
With this thought, Shen Yuan showed a satisfied smile on his face.
If other great cultivators saw Shen Yuan creating unstable spaces as hand grenades, they might curse him as a wasteful person on the spot.
It should be noted that ordinary cultivators who want to obtain a storage magical treasure, want to use the precious void stone to create space, many advanced cultivators do not have access to storage magical treasures.
As for the Pot's Heaven Divine Power, a top-level spatial Divine Power that can help people advance and achieve the Earth Immortal, it is almost all in the hands of rare great powers in the world. Absolutely no one would be bored enough to use it to create unstable spaces and play with them as hand grenades.
He made another unstable space hand grenade with an empty bottle and casually threw it at a hillside not far away.
The small space rift has an astonishing destructive power that ignores defenses, directly tearing the solid hillside in front of him. The broken fractures spread from the center of the space hand grenade to all directions like a spider web.
In the following time, Shen Yuan made several attempts to study the relationship between the size of space created and the explosion time. While he was surprised and delighted, he also began to feel a sense of mental fatigue.
Although the Pot's Heaven Divine Power has no level or mana restrictions, every time a space is opened, it consumes a lot of Divine Sense, which Shen Yuan can't use many times as he just entered the Essence Refining Stage.
After anxiously eating some compressed food he brought, Shen Yuan turned and went back to the tent, running the Cloud Mist Breathing Method under the moonlight in this mountain and took a rest.
The whole Cloud Mist Mountain Range fell into silence as the night deepened, but outside the mountain range, a bigger storm was just about to begin.