Eternal Life: I Can Sell Everything

Chapter 236: Chapter 232: Divination, the Battle of Celestial Secrets

Song Ciwan was filled with joy and quickly memorized the entire Great Derivation Birth Skill.

The great derivation is fifty, but only forty-nine are used, for one has escaped!

This Great Derivation Birth Skill was a proper divination technique.

It could divine the heavens, the earth, and human fortune. At its High Depths, it could perceive the flow of mountains and rivers, the lay of ley lines, the past and future, and even the fate of great clans!

Of course, that was still a distant prospect. The more profound a Daoist Skill, the more difficult it was to cultivate.

Although Song Ciwan had obtained the complete Great Derivation Birth Skill in one go, she couldn’t even begin to think about cultivating the content beyond the First Layer. Just looking at it made her dizzy and her vision blur, rendering it incomprehensible.

Currently, the First Layer of the Great Derivation Birth Skill had two simple abilities: one, perceptive divination; and two, aura concealment.

Song Ciwan immediately sat cross-legged and began to cultivate. She enhanced herself with the Dao Rune Technique and used the Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting to boost her comprehension, but the experience for the Great Derivation Birth Skill still grew at an extremely slow pace.

The Insight Technique panel displayed: Great Derivation Birth Skill, First Layer (Beginner 3/100)

Just reaching the Beginner level had taken her the better part of the day, and night soon fell.

Song Ciwan’s mind cleared, and she promptly sold another ball of Mysterious Ghost Spirit from Gao Xiaolang.

[You have sold a Small City Level Mysterious Ghost Spirit—melancholy, confusion, relief—weighing seven taels and three maces. You have received the Marvel: Yin Yang Inversion Mirror.]

It wasn’t Cultivation feedback, but a Marvel!

’Sure enough, once I’m out of the Deceitful Realm, selling a Mysterious Ghost Spirit no longer gives Cultivation feedback, only Marvels.’

However, back in the Inverted Deceitful Realm, Song Ciwan had already sold almost all the Mysterious Ghost Spirits she had obtained in order to cultivate the Thunder Fire Body Devouring Technique. The ones she was selling now were provided by Gao Xiaolang after he had left the Deceitful Realm.

So there was no need to regret missing out on a large amount of Cultivation feedback.

Song Ciwan inspected the Yin Yang Inversion Mirror, and the Heaven and Earth Scale displayed its appraisal and description.

Yin Yang Inversion Mirror: A Three-star Level Marvel, usable three times.

When infused with Magical Power, any living being illuminated by this mirror will randomly have its form inverted and transformed. While this inverted form persists, all inversions are real. The duration of this state is limited, generally determined by the target’s Cultivation and the strength of the caster’s Magical Power.

’Heh! This is an interesting item.’

Song Ciwan couldn’t help but smile. She stored the Yin Yang Inversion Mirror away in the Heaven and Earth Scale, then immediately sold a batch of "qi" from Xie Yunxiang.

[You have sold human desires—the joy, pleasure, and sorrow of a Qi Transformation Stage Cultivator—weighing two catties and one tael. You have received two years and one month of cultivation time.]

Time leaped forward in the void. Song Ciwan immediately entered the special Cultivation Space and began to cultivate the Great Derivation Birth Skill with all her might!

Two years passed in the blink of an eye. During her Cultivation, Song Ciwan seemed to witness the beginning of the world, the separation of primal chaos, and drifted as if through a long, drawn-out dream.

In the dream, a great river of time flowed, containing a myriad of worldly phenomena.

Tides rose and fell, creating countless splashes of spray.

Then, in an instant, Song Ciwan awoke.

In a daze, she felt as if she hadn’t seen anything at all. Only a single point of Spiritual Light flickered in her heart, linking with the deity in her Sea of Consciousness, her own Spiritual Sense, her Body of Impermanence, and her physical Dharma Body.

In that moment, Song Ciwan felt a sudden perception.

She opened her Insight Technique panel. It displayed: Great Derivation Birth Skill, First Layer (Beginner 37/100)

After two years of arduous Cultivation, without a single moment of distraction, her Great Derivation Birth Skill had only progressed by this tiny amount of experience!

Song Ciwan looked down at her right wrist. Although her Great Derivation Birth Skill was only at 37 experience points in the Beginner level, it was enough to break through the veil of confusion and allow her to abruptly recall something. Back when she had first entered Illusory Nether City, countless green leaves had fallen from the sky.

Each leaf had floated toward a Cultivator about to enter Illusory Nether City, and Song Ciwan had received one as well.

At the time, she had even placed the leaf in a small pouch and hung it from her right wrist.

But later, after entering Illusory Nether City, she had somehow, unknowingly, completely forgotten about the leaf on her wrist!

’It probably wasn’t just me who forgot. Many people, a great many Cultivators, must have forgotten about this leaf.’

It wasn’t because they were forgetful. It was because there was something strange about the leaf! Something wrong!

So, where was the leaf now?

Where did it go?

Song Ciwan saw that her right wrist was completely bare. There was nothing on it.

’Was the leaf destroyed by the Celestial Thunder when the Deceitful Realm collapsed?’

’Or... is it still hidden on my body, and I just can’t see it?’

A cold sweat broke out on her skin for no apparent reason. A strong sense of alarm rose in her heart, compelling her to continuously activate her Great Derivation Birth Skill, divining herself from the inside out.

But there was nothing. Absolutely nothing!

She couldn’t divine a single thing!

Song Ciwan took out three Ancestral Dragon Coins and, borrowing their power, used the Six Divination Method to divine again.

CLINK, CLINK, CLANG. The copper coins fell—one yin, two yang.

They fell again—one yang, two yin.

They fell again—three yin...

They fell again—three yang...

Song Ciwan continued her Divination without stopping, pushing her Great Derivation Birth Skill to its absolute limit. On the Insight Technique panel, the experience for this Strange Technique slowly crept up.

On the sixth Divination, a thought struck Song Ciwan. In that instant, she bit the tip of her tongue and spat out a mouthful of heart’s blood, sacrificing her lifespan to divine again!

PFFT!

Fresh blood sprayed onto the Ancestral Dragon Coins. The three ancient copper coins leaped up. Song Ciwan raised her right hand, and the coins fell toward her wrist. There, a small, embroidered pouch flickered in and out of existence.

Song Ciwan immediately raised her other hand. A combination of the Blazing Flame Technique and the Heart Sutra Fire ignited, and a sharp ray of red-white light shot forward, aiming for the pouch!

BOOM! The flames erupted.

The small pouch was instantly incinerated. Then, with a flash of green light, the phantom of a green leaf leaped into the air, about to tear through space and vanish before Song Ciwan’s eyes.

Song Ciwan’s left hand moved, unleashing a Palm Thunder into the air!

This was no ordinary Palm Thunder. Because Song Ciwan had absorbed so much Celestial Thunder Power while cultivating the Thunder Fire Body Devouring Technique, this Palm Thunder carried an aura like the wrath of heaven itself.

HISS!

Thunder and fire ignited on the green leaf, but at that exact moment, Song Ciwan violently coughed up several more mouthfuls of blood.

Faintly, she seemed to hear a distant voice, suddenly alarmed and furious. "Who?"

In the void, the Celestial Secret roiled, and an intense feeling of being watched descended upon her.

Song Ciwan activated her Great Derivation Birth Skill and raised a hand to shield herself, as if pulling a curtain over her head.

The Celestial Secret was temporarily obscured, but Song Ciwan knew this was by no means a long-term solution.

Her Great Derivation Birth Skill was still at the beginner level; she couldn’t maintain this for long. This was no place to linger.

Song Ciwan immediately flicked her sleeves and rose to her feet. She cast several rounds of the Ganlin Spell on herself. In the aftermath of this confrontation, she had lost thirty years of her lifespan.

But Song Ciwan knew in her heart that this was only the beginning, not the end!

She had to find a way to resolve this matter once and for all!