My Master Knows It All

58: Chapter 54: You Practiced a Pirated Version_1 58: Chapter 54: You Practiced a Pirated Version_1 Great Wonders Gate Formation!

Cao Zhen looked at Yu Haitang, who continuously shifted positions, and felt a sense of admiration.

Luckily, his own formation expertise was at level one, otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to even set up the most basic version of the Great Wonders Gate Formation.

Fortunately, there was a flaw in the opponent’s cultivation technique of the Star Pointer, otherwise it wouldn’t have been so easy to counter it.

Having practiced for some time at the Hidden Dragon Immortal Palace, Yu Haitang had seen many miraculous formations but had never heard of one that could change the directional positions between heaven and earth.

The Star Pointer was a divine skill extremely difficult to cultivate but also immensely powerful.

Since her arrival at the Hidden Dragon Immortal Palace, Yu Haitang had been dedicated to mastering this skill.

Only recently had she managed to make some achievements, becoming the strongest combatant among their eight-person group.

Yet, her pride in the Star Pointer was completely ineffective!

The opponent didn’t even bother to move and was able to break her technique just by standing still!

Seeing that the other party stopped changing position, Cao Zhen also relaxed.

He had barely managed to set up the formation with his qi.

If the opponent had some formation expertise, it wouldn’t be too hard to break his qi formation.

He would have to trick Li Ke into learning the formation technique and turn this illusionary formation into a solid one.

“Star Pointer, you’ve only reached the level of borrowing the power of stars,” Cao Zhen shook his finger to indicate the opponent’s inadequacy, “standing at the death position, naturally you can’t borrow a bit of the power of stars.”

Yu Haitang knew that as long as there was a death position in the formation beneath her feet, she could not borrow the power of the stars and had to resort to her true strength to fight.

“Admit defeat?

Peak Master, I just wanted to save some energy.

Do you really think I can’t exert my own strength with the Star Pointer?” Yu Haitang’s competitive spirit was aroused.

She had practiced for many days in the Hidden Dragon Immortal Palace, how could she be defeated by a newcomer?

Even if you are a Peak Master!

Even if you have a strange formation under your feet!

But the death position of your formation cannot seal the strength within my body.

It is not a complete death position, it merely isolates the power of stars!

Yu Haitang, not caring that she hadn’t truly mastered the Star Pointer, forcibly activated the spiritual energy within her body and concentrated a Star Pointer attack, transforming it into vast star power that completely overwhelmed Cao Zhen.

With one finger, Yu Haitang’s true qi churned within her due to the backlash from the Star Pointer.

Her heart filled with joy, this finger should not be dispersed by the death position and would be enough to knock the person away!

Cao Zhen saw the Star Pointer and furrowed his brows slightly, knowing that forcing it could cause injuries to the body.

The recoil from the power of stars was hard to recover from.

He thought the opponent was acting recklessly.

Another platform was retracted from behind him, and then he released a Five-thunder Righteous Method from the sky, colliding with the power of the Star Pointer.

The two powers collided, causing airwaves to stir up dust and debris.

The green robes of the bystanders fluttered with the strong winds, and Chang Tiance and another raised their arms to protect their eyes.

When the dust settled, Yu Haitang was no longer in her original position.

Instead, at some point, she had been knocked back and slammed into the courtyard wall, fortified by a formation, looking quite wilted.

Defeated?

The crowd was puzzled.

The power of that thunder wasn’t stronger than the Star Pointer’s.

How come the Star Pointer lost?

Yu Haitang slumped to the ground, leaning against the wall, staring blankly at Cao Zhen, unable to understand how the other’s Thunder Law could hit the weak point of her Star Pointer.

“You used yourself as a star and avoided borrowing the power of stars, but ultimately you have not turned yourself into a star, never achieving the unity of person and star.” Cao Zhen pointed repeatedly through the air, sealing several of Yu Haitang’s major acupoints, and continued, “Moreover, your version of the Star Pointer is a knockoff.

It may deceive those less knowledgeable, but to the experts, its weaknesses are too obvious.”

After being touched at a few major acupoints, Yu Haitang felt the energies within her become immobile.

Fearing that controlling her power would exacerbate the injuries from forcing the Star Pointer, she was initially panicked.

However, she then found that while she couldn’t move her energy, the Thunderbolt power entering her body was rapidly and effectively healing the injuries left by the Star Pointer.

This?

How is this possible?

Yu Haitang felt that the shocks she faced today surpassed those of the entire month since entering the Hidden Dragon Immortal Palace!

The cultivation manual for the Star Pointer clearly stated that if it was forcibly executed, although powerful, it would leave behind internal damage that could only be slowly healed with the Returning Sky Star Heart Technique using the power of stars, and even then, it couldn’t be completely cured.

But!

This power that flew through the air felt like it was eradicating the injuries!

“A pirated version?

What is that?” Yu Haitang asked curiously, recovering some clarity from her daze, voicing everyone else’s curiosity.

“It simply isn’t the original work,” Cao Zhen calculated that the hidden ailments within Yu Haitang’s body should have been cleared by now, and what remained was just a matter of slow recuperation.

He flicked his finger and expelled the residual Power of Thunderbolt from her body, saying, “The Way of the Stars is the victory of void over substance, the division of the heavens and the earth, the list of Yin and Yang, with the essence as the eye.

Shouldn’t your version say the essence is the kidney?”

At that moment, Cao Zhen, having downloaded Zhang Daoling’s information to become a Cultivation Great Grandmaster, could quickly deduce where there were errors in the other party’s cultivation technique.

“You…

you…

have you practiced the minor Star Pointer?” Yu Haitang stuttered her question, unwittingly switching from the informal ‘you’ to the respectful ‘you’, confirming that her secret technique indeed stated the essence as the kidney.

“When essence is the kidney, does the Spiritual Energy circulate faster and smoother than at other times?” Cao Zhen shook his head, “Just now during the confrontation, I could feel it.

In cultivation, faster and smoother isn’t always better.

It’s a good thing you haven’t reached the stage of concealing stars within your body; otherwise, you’d have lost all your hair and eyebrows.

If you had reached Star Fusion…

no!

The cultivation technique you’re practicing cannot achieve Star Fusion.

If it could, you would be paralyzed from the waist down for life, and only able to move by flying…”

Yu Haitang quite doubted that someone from Cao Zhen’s sect had practiced the minor Star Pointer, and even advanced it to the stage of Star Fusion.

The first person of Hidden Dragon Immortal Palace’s minor Star Pointer had indeed become paralyzed from the waist down and lost all eyebrows, beard, and hair.

Seeing that Yu Haitang did not respond, Cao Zhen couldn’t be bothered to continue playing the role of a Human Teacher and stepped forward towards the other seven people blocking his path, saying, “Excuse me?”

The seven people subconsciously made way, while Yu Haitang instinctively began cultivating according to the method Cao Zhen suggested, with essence as the eye.

She discovered that even though the circulation of Spiritual Energy was not as fast as with essence as the kidney, there was an indescribable comfort.

Could the secret technique of Hidden Dragon Immortal Palace be wrong?

Yu Haitang shook her head vigorously, attempting to dismiss this dangerous thought, yet she found the doubt persistently lodged in her mind.

Supported by the others, she stood up, intending to ask senior Star Pointer for guidance.

“Are we just letting him go like that?”

Someone among the seven reluctantly questioned.

Yu Haitang looked at the questioner and said, “Otherwise, would you go?”

The person addressed very sensibly shut his mouth.

“I’m afraid the brothers in the Immortal Palace will laugh at us now…”

Someone muttered causing others to nod vigorously.

Since the establishment of Hidden Dragon Immortal Palace, there had been vigorous newcomers who could fight on par with the old-timers in the same realm, but an incident like today’s, where they got thoroughly outclassed without teaching a lesson, had never happened.

“Those exceptional talents who could fight the old-timers to a draw upon entering the Immortal Palace, weren’t they still disciplined by the instructors?

Even the Peak Masters are no exception!

Besides, the Hidden Dragon Trio is still there!”

Someone’s defiant response immediately boosted the recently dampened spirits and morale of the crowd.

That’s right!

Which one of our instructors isn’t a monstrous genius?

Even if the instructors don’t take action, any member of the Hidden Dragon Trio from Hidden Dragon Observatory is among the elite of men.

“Let’s go, we have to report this to the instructors!

When the instructors step in, let him also understand that Hidden Dragon Immortal Palace is no ordinary place of cultivation!”

Yu Haitang remained silent, not joining the conversation.

She had a feeling that this person who had come was different; could it be that she had really practiced the minor Star Pointer incorrectly?

If it was indeed a mistake, wouldn’t that indicate that this person understood it better than the instructors?

If so, what was his purpose in coming to Hidden Dragon Immortal Palace?

Xu Ruyi and Chang Tiance, seeing this scene, naturally walked happily towards the depths of Hidden Dragon Immortal Palace, but were stopped by Yu Haitang and her group.

“Just because the Peak Master let you pass doesn’t mean you have passed too,” Yu Haitang said to Xu Ruyi, “Come on, let Sister teach you the rules around here.”