I Can Upgrade My Talent Infinitely

Chapter 408: Chapter 311: Burning Spirit Clear Flame

「More than half a day later.」

Fang Yun was already very close to the place Gao Tianxing had mentioned.

’I should be arriving soon.’

Fang Yun observed the surrounding environment, slightly increasing his speed.

He hadn’t been advancing for long when he felt the pressure Gao Tianxing had spoken of.

’It really is like the pressure of a Core Formation Cultivator.’

For him, a Late-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator, this pressure had a greater effect than it would on a cultivator at the Peak of Foundation Establishment.

However, this only affected him in his non-combat state. Once he entered combat, the pressure would be mitigated to varying degrees depending on his combat star-rating.

If a Cultivator were using their pressure on him, he could instantly enter his combat state. But this pressure originated from the Secret Realm itself, which prevented him from doing so directly. He couldn’t even voluntarily enter his combat state without a target.

’The closer I am to the ground, the weaker the pressure. The higher I fly, the stronger it gets...’

Fang Yun was constantly trying to deduce the rules of this place.

The pressure increased as he drew nearer and decreased as he moved away.

In terms of distance, the pressure didn’t increase much as he advanced horizontally, but it grew exceptionally fast when he ascended.

Having slowed his pace, Fang Yun continued to approach his destination.

Suddenly, he snapped into his combat mode.

The danger came from below.

In the next instant, his best move was to shoot into the air.

In his combat state, decisions made by instinct were almost never wrong—unless his opponent was so overwhelmingly powerful that no decision would matter.

The earth and stones below formed a gaping maw that tried to swallow him whole. By shooting into the air, he had already put more than thirty feet between himself and the spot where it snapped shut.

’Good thing the pressure is weakened so much in my combat state.’

Any other cultivator at the Peak of Foundation Establishment might have been caught in that trap.

This truly was a high-danger zone.

Fang Yun didn’t know much about the mission the four Purple Mist Sect disciples had undertaken, only that the team-based missions they performed were always in high-danger zones.

In the Land of No Master Secret Realm, these kinds of areas also meant high rewards.

Fang Yun was thankful his Combat Talent was high enough, having reached the six-star level. If it were only at the four-star level, his Late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation would have been woefully inadequate in the Land of No Master.

Once the danger had passed, Fang Yun exited his combat state, and the pressure surged back.

It was the pressure from the aura. At his current altitude, it was exceptionally strong—at least on par with the pressure from a mid-stage Core Formation Cultivator.

Fang Yun moved to a different spot, descended slowly, and continued forward.

The rest of the journey went relatively smoothly. Whenever he encountered one of the Secret Realm’s traps, he almost always made the optimal decision.

The traps and the monsters that spawned from them in the Land of No Master Secret Realm reminded Fang Yun of a human body purging itself of harmful substances.

As Fang Yun continued forward, he could finally see his objective with his own eyes.

The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Object that could cleanse one’s Spirit Root: the Burning Spirit Clear Flame!

It was a mass of blue flame. It could enter a person’s body and go straight to their Spirit Root, burning away any impurities. This would purify the Spirit Root, achieving the cleansing effect.

When Fang Yun was three hundred feet away from the Burning Spirit Clear Flame,

he found that the surrounding pressure had vanished.

’What’s going on?’

He would have been less worried if the pressure hadn’t disappeared. Its sudden absence made Fang Yun tense up.

Given the treacherous nature of the Land of No Master Secret Realm, the Burning Spirit Clear Flame would never be this easy to obtain. The fact that the pressure was gone likely meant an even greater danger was brewing.

At this moment, Fang Yun stopped in his tracks. Instead of advancing, he began to survey his surroundings.

Compared to other places, the area in a three-hundred-foot radius around the Burning Spirit Clear Flame was conspicuously empty.

Beneath the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Object, the Burning Spirit Clear Flame, lay what looked like a piece of wood. Fang Yun couldn’t identify it.

As far as he knew, the Burning Spirit Clear Flame wasn’t supposed to have a Companion Spiritual Object like this.

「Ten breaths later.」

Unable to spot anything unusual, Fang Yun prepared to move forward again.

’Staying put forever isn’t an option. Besides, I have the massive advantage of my combat state, which others don’t.’

Of course, having an advantage didn’t mean he could be reckless—that had always been Fang Yun’s creed. As he began to approach the Burning Spirit Clear Flame, he moved even more slowly than before.

Two hundred and fifty feet.

Two hundred feet.

One hundred and fifty feet.

He closed the distance bit by bit, until he was only one hundred feet away.

The ground began to tremble, and Fang Yun instantly snapped into his combat state.

He saw the piece of wood beneath the Burning Spirit Clear Flame wrench itself free from the ground as countless vines erupted from the earth, shooting straight for him.

Fang Yun instantly created some distance and watched as the vines plunged into the exact spot where he had just been standing.

While advancing, he had already maxed out the concealment effect of his Half-Hidden Spirit Boots. The fact that it reacted when he was still one hundred feet away meant this creature was different from a Mirror Beast.

Whether his concealment was effective or not, this thing at least had something akin to eyes.

With its first strike having missed, the ground began to shake even more violently. Fang Yun could now see the full form of the creature that had emerged from the earth.

He had read several Cultivation Miscellaneous Books about the Burning Spirit Clear Flame, and normally, such a creature would never appear near one. This had to be a product of the Land of No Master Secret Realm; such creatures were all sustained by the realm’s power.

Fang Yun had read his fair share of Cultivation Miscellaneous Books, but none of them mentioned a creature like the one before him.

If he had to find a term to describe it, the creature before him resembled a Tree-man.

A hybrid of tree and man.