56: New system ability, the stars in the dome of the cave!
One main shadow and eight sub-shadows formed nine ten-zhang Golden Body Avatars.
In the Gu Cavern, they continuously bombarded the crawling human-Gu, while Li Yan held the treasure lotus lamp in his left hand and formed hand seals with his right.
The immense pressure from multitasking forced him to challenge his physical potential.
His entire Bloodline was mobilized, continuously injecting into the shadows beneath his feet, a process that also allowed him to perceive the flow of his Bloodline throughout his body with increasing clarity.
He had touched that threshold!
Just as he felt like he was about to burn out, a flash of inspiration struck him.
Blood Shadow Immortal Art—Great Perfection.
The eight sub-shadows directly expanded to sixteen, doubling again.
As the number of shadows increased, the consumption of Bloodline also doubled.
But Li Yan could clearly feel his Meridians being forcefully opened.
Tearing, healing, tearing, and healing again.
It was like a piece of steel, hammered and refined under heavy blows, making his Meridians wider, thicker, and more solid!
“Sixteen Golden Bodies, rise!”
As Li Yan uttered these words, the eight newly added sub-shadows rose from the ground, transforming into Golden Body Avatars.
The sixteen sub-shadow Golden Body Avatars formed a golden rampart deep within the cavern, firmly blocking the human-Gu that continuously surged from below.
Looking at so many Golden Body Avatars, Li Yan felt a deep sense of security.
Thus, these sixteen plus one, a total of seventeen Golden Body Avatars, could build a small fortress on the spot at any time.
Just as Li Yan was looking at these sub-shadows with great satisfaction, a System prompt appeared before his eyes.
“The Host has for the first time Cultivated an ancient Cultivation Technique, the “Blood Shadow Immortal Art,” to the Great Perfection Realm.”
“New System ability unlocked: Side Effect Suppression.”
Hmm?
When Li Yan saw this new ability, he felt completely confused.
“Side Effect Suppression? What’s it for?”
He had the function of converting side effects to positive effects, which allowed him to be completely immune to side effects, and even absorb them.
This new ability, Side Effect Suppression, seemed rather useless, like tasteless chicken ribs.
Li Yan reached out and clicked on the virtual screen in the air, a screen only visible to him.
When he clicked to view the new ability, he instantly understood.
“Side Effect Suppression: Allows normal use of all items with side effects, such as [Spells], [Potions], [Mind-Cultivation Techniques], while suppressing their side effects.”
“Suppression, not conversion to positive.”
“In other words…”
Li Yan had an idea and silently chanted, “Blood Shadow Immortal Art, Side Effect Suppression.”
“The Host has changed the Blood Shadow Immortal Art to: Convert to Positive → Suppress.”
“The Blood Shadow Immortal Art loses its side effect conversion to positive effect and is changed to side effect suppression.”
“All side effects of this ancient evil Cultivation Technique are suppressed within a safe range.”
Instantly.
Li Yan’s seventeen Golden Body Avatars gradually began to turn dark red.
The Golden Body Avatars originally exuded a vast and righteous Qi that shook all directions.
But after changing the ability, the Golden Body Avatars gradually transformed into Bloodline Yin Demons!
The bronze-colored Golden Bodies became evil gods with twisted faces, bared fangs, and wide, furious eyes.
The seventeen Avatars were like red Rakshasas from the Nine Nether Abyss.
“This is the original Blood Shadow Immortal Art…”
“Suppressing side effects can prevent evil Cultivation Techniques from eroding my mind, yet still allow me to use these evil Spells. Interesting!”
Li Yan’s eyes lit up as he looked at the seventeen Bloodline Yin Demons before him.
In the current Immortal Cultivation World, where everyone was like a demon, his single Golden Body Avatar seemed somewhat out of place.
If he needed to make a move, he couldn't hide it.
However, by activating this Side Effect Suppression effect, he could openly use Spells in front of others.
“Wonderful, truly wonderful.”
Looking at the seventeen fierce demonic shadows before him, Li Yan sighed, realizing how much he had gained from this practical combat experience.
However, the Bloodline Yin Demons were not strong in restraining evil creatures.
If the Golden Body Avatar was an Immortal Art, then the Bloodline Yin Demon was pure brute force.
Smash!
They smashed their fists onto the ground, flattening the human-Gu into paste, and the demonic shadows occasionally muttered something.
Li Yan deeply experienced what it meant to have demonic sounds fill his ears. The Bloodline Yin Demons chanted resentful curses, which could disturb people's minds and erode their souls with demonic sounds.
He silently chanted again, “Blood Shadow Immortal Art, Convert to Positive.”
The Bloodline Yin Demons, which had been fierce just a second ago, transformed back into Golden Body Avatars radiating Holy Light the next second.
Switching between the same Spell was also very smooth.
A single thought, a god or a demon, gave a very intuitive feeling.
Corpse Puppet Su Mo, who was by Li Yan’s side, parted her pink lips slightly, her eyes filled with admiration and disbelief.
“Master, immortal, demon, so amazing.”
Her small mind couldn't find more words.
But even a child with Su Mo's intelligence could understand how powerful the Golden Body Avatar's back-and-forth switching was.
Li Yan, with his hand forming a Spell seal, curled his lips upward: “I truly achieved two birds with one stone, the same Spell with two completely different effects.”
While he was exploring his new abilities, Li Yan noticed that the number of human-Gu was slowly decreasing.
His sixteen Golden Body Avatars' killing speed had more than doubled.
The human-Gu crawling out from the bottom were clearly not enough to kill.
Eventually, there were only a few scattered human-Gu remaining, with no excess.
Li Yan mused, “After a Cultivation Technique reaches Great Perfection, it undergoes a qualitative change.”
“Now that I’ve finally touched the threshold of qualitative change, is it over?”
With ample magical power, Li Yan still wanted to continue stimulating his comprehension through practical combat.
Only practical combat could bring about a qualitative change in the Blood Shadow Immortal Art, and he urgently needed to slay more evil creatures.
“Go, continue deeper into the cavern.”
“Quiet Void Taoist placed so many Gu in this cavern, there must be something good hidden at the bottom.”
Li Yan made up his mind to explore further down.
Currently, his Storage Ring was filled with venom, enough to replenish his magical power.
With sixteen sub-shadows scouting ahead and one main shadow protecting himself, his safety was also guaranteed.
“Ten sub-shadows lead the way, six sub-shadows bring up the rear, go!”
Cautious Li Yan naturally valued his life greatly.
He ensured that shadows surrounded him both front and back, protecting him thoroughly.
After making these arrangements, Li Yan finally set off, walking deeper into the Gu Cavern.
Along the way, there were only traces of crawling.
Li Yan raised the blood glass treasure lotus lantern in his hand, illuminating his surroundings.
The stone slab path beneath his feet and the stone walls around him were stained red with blood from years of contamination.
Everywhere, he could see withered bones and cracked skulls, severed hands and feet, casually piled in corners, left to rot.
Li Yan had 10 shadows leading the way, while he observed the environment inside the Gu Cavern.
“Did I already kill all the human-Gu?”
Looking at the bottomless stairs, no new evil creatures were crawling out from below.
It seemed that Quiet Void Taoist had invested a lot of resources to build a ten-thousand-step long staircase that went straight to the depths of the earth.
Li Yan held the treasure lotus lamp, counting every step he took.
Until he reached the very last step underground, a total of nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine steps.
He looked up, stunned by the starry sky above his head.
“Why is there a dome of stars beneath the ground?!”