Chapter 51: A World With A Cold, Crimson Sun
The days spent in Crimson Snow Sect began to pass in a blur as Han Xuhan fully immersed himself into reaching the first layer of his Mystic Art—The Skeleton Monarch Technique.
Although Elder Cai had claimed that his potential on the Mystic Path was on the verge of ruination, Han Xuhan didn’t take it to heart. Because he didn’t have any hopes for the other two paths either.
Elder Long’s Martial Cultivation lessons were not accessible to him. The mysterious Elder who taught Monasticism never taught them a single word.
In the few classes Xuhan attended later on, he trapped the disciples in an illusion twice, made the guest hall disappear completely one time, scared off everyone by summoning a thunderstorm on the mountain peak three times, and even asked them to submit essays over their understanding of his lessons.
After gaining some idea of what monasticism was about, Han Xuhan knew that each of these lessons had some merit somehow, but relying on them to make headway in the path of Monastic cultivation would be too difficult.
No wonder nobody in the sect had any interest in this orthodox path! Han Xuhan came to learn later that the situation was no different in other big sects. Only a small number of hyper-religious organizations were pursuing monastic progress seriously.
Hence, he took his cultivation of the Skeleton Monarch Technique very seriously. The deadline set by Elder Kong Ye was just a week away. And today, he felt some barely discernible changes inside himself.
It was hard to describe. From what he had learned so far, crossing the first layer of a Mystic Art was a big step. The juvenile spiritual world inside him, having been nurtured and stimulated until now, would open up the moment he tapped into the full potential of the first layer and stepped on the door of the next layer.
The manner of cultivating the Skeleton Monarch manual was actually quite fun.
At each layer, the cultivator had to use his qi cycles to conjure and construct pieces of human bones.
Each bone would have to be accurately merged in a skeleton structure, alongside the joints and ligaments.