Cultivation: I Have a Skill Level Panel

The Wang Family had all scattered and fled long ago, leaving everything desolate.

Meanwhile, in the Wang Family’s Cultivation Chamber, Gu Yun raised an eyebrow as he stared at the metal sphere floating before him. It was covered in profound inscriptions and shimmered with a faint purple light.

’How can this be so difficult? My Spiritual Sense and Telekinesis are vast enough to rival someone at the Tongxuan Realm Early Stage, yet I can’t even open this metal sphere.’

’I’m sure a Tongxuan Realm level of Spiritual Sense and Telekinesis should be enough, so why won’t it open? What could possibly be inside?’

He sighed.

’Sitting on a mountain of gold but unable to use it... who could understand this feeling? The Wang Family held on to it for a thousand years before finally letting it go. Can I afford to wait that long?’

’How strong will I even be in a thousand years?’

’By then, would I even care about something like this?!’

In fact, even after a thousand years, having achieved the rank of Supreme Venerable and become a peerless overlord in the vast cosmos, Gu Yun would still be grateful for the immense help this item brought him.

He sighed again.

’Since I can’t open it, I’ll just leave it be.’

With that thought,

Just as Gu Yun was about to put away the purple, inscribed metal sphere, the Star Refining Soul Technique in his mind suddenly activated, operating frantically. His Spiritual Sense sharpened and his mind became crystal clear as the technique began to draw in starlight from the heavens, injecting it into the purple metal sphere.

Afterward, the profound inscriptions on the purple metal sphere began to squirm wildly. Rays of purple starlight rose and intertwined around it, casting an unprecedented, brilliant glow.

Next, the palm-sized, inscribed purple sphere bloomed outward in the air like a budding flower. Revealed within was an incredibly pure, thumb-sized, diamond-shaped Crystal Stone that pulsed with a rhythmic purple glow.

"This... this is an Inheritance Crystal Stone?"

But before Gu Yun could finish his thought, the incredibly pure, diamond-shaped Crystal Stone, glowing with a rhythmic purple light, shot forward with a WHOOSH. It tore through the air at lightning speed and plunged into Gu Yun’s forehead.

「After a long while.」

Gu Yun slowly opened his eyes, his expression one of utter shock.

The inheritance from the diamond-shaped Crystal Stone was none other than one of the Great Dream Daoist’s signature skills... the Great Dream Life Soul Technique!!

With this Technique, one could prolong their life and enhance their Spiritual Sense even while sleeping. A single dream could last a hundred years.

But that wasn’t what truly shocked him. It was... it was that the Great Dream Life Soul Technique shared the same origin as his Star Refining Soul Technique.

And then, they had spontaneously merged to become a supreme Technique: the Great Dream Star Soul Refining Technique!!

He had originally stumbled upon the Star Refining Soul Technique in the ruins of the Black Flame Sword Sect, located within the Canglan Sea Region of the Chaotic Star Sea. He had sensed that the Technique was mysterious back then, but he never imagined its origins were so incredible that it would be connected to the Great Dream Life Soul Technique.

’The Great Dream Daoist reached the Half-Step Harmonization Realm by relying on the Great Dream Life Soul Technique alone. Now that I’ve fused it with the Star Refining Soul Technique to create the complete Great Dream Star Soul Refining Technique, just how powerful will I become?!’

Without thinking, Gu Yun began to circulate the Great Dream Star Soul Refining Technique.

Suddenly, the world became clear and transparent, as if he were looking upon its very source.

He looked up, but the roof of the Cultivation Chamber was gone. In its place was a deep, vast, and endless dark, starry sky.

Beneath the endless, dark canopy, dazzling stars twinkled, converging into a river of stars that hung across the cosmos.

Then, Gu Yun began to circulate the Great Dream Star Soul Refining Technique. Wisps of Star Force seemed to travel through time and space from the boundless cosmos, crossing worlds to converge within his spiritual sea. In that moment, his soul was immensely nourished.

At the same time, Gu Yun found his thoughts racing at incredible speeds. His spiritual sea had become clearer and more transparent than ever before.

It was a miraculous sensation. Wherever his thoughts reached, he felt omnipotent, like a divine being. It was as if the entire world was in the palm of his hand, and he himself had become an incarnation of the Celestial Dao.

In this state, akin to being an incarnation of the Celestial Dao, his emotions and worldly desires rapidly faded. He became incomparably rational, utterly cold, and exceptionally heartless!!!

In this state, Gu Yun had absolute, rational control over his own mind.

"I am the Celestial Dao!"

Gu Yun’s gaze was cold enough to make one tremble. It was a look of utter indifference toward all living things, as if the entire world belonged to him.

Suddenly,

Gu Yun formed a blade with his fingers. A terrifying Dao Rhythm coiled around his hand, causing the space before him to shatter like glass and collapse, revealing an endless, pitch-black abyss.

Then, Gu Yun swiped his fingers lightly through the void.

"TSSSCH!"

A brilliant beam of Sword Qi, as bright as a star, suddenly materialized in the void and tore it asunder!!

This was none other than the Eight Desolates Star Slash, launched with his finger as a blade!!

However, compared to the immense momentum created when he used a real blade to perform the Eight Desolates Star Slash, this attack seemed utterly unremarkable and restrained. All of its power was condensed into a single point.

But it was precisely this quality that was like a thunderclap from a silent sky. With such an extremely tyrannical force condensed into a single point, its explosive eruption would unleash a vast Divine Power, its might all the more terrifying.

Gu Yun gave his fingers a light flick, and the terrifying power of the Dao Rhythm at his fingertips dissipated into the void as if it had never been there.

"So clumsy!!"

"I’m completely useless!!"

"My mastery is garbage. My burst is garbage. My control is garbage. All of it is garbage!"

"Useless!! Useless!!"

When a person gets truly harsh, they don’t even spare themselves.

Gu Yun’s gaze was indifferent, his expression icy, and his voice detached. It was as if he were perceiving and judging himself from a higher dimension, from a god’s-eye view—lofty, aloof, and aware of everything!!