The Programmer Cultivator

This was because the Skill involved splitting off a piece of one’s own Dao to implant in a junior. It wasn’t about packaging a Technique as a life-saving tool; it was about giving them a part of your very Dao.

In other words, once you split off a part of your Dao, you could no longer use it, but the recipient would be able to use it to a certain degree.

Furthermore, if something happened to the recipient and the Dao Mark wasn’t retrieved in time, the split-off Dao seed would be lost along with them. This would result in a permanent, irreversible injury to your Dao. Therefore, it must be used with extreme caution.

’Looking at the description of this Technique, the price to cultivate it just to protect a junior Disciple was clearly too high. To be blunt, it was downright idiotic.’

Therefore, this Skill was classified as a malignantly mutated Technique, a semi-failed development with extremely few cultivators. However, the moment he read the Technique’s description, Zhang Deming was captivated.

’Right now, while my Bean Soldiers can persist after leaving my vicinity or that of a Light Pointer Dao Mark, they can’t cast any Techniques. They’re basically just super soldiers.’

’Once they leave a certain range, the Bean Soldiers have no other abilities, and the Light Point Mirror Images dissipate completely.’

’But this Splitting Skill before me gives me hope. I could totally split off a few Magic Rune Balls and give them to my Bean Soldiers, allowing them to function as incarnations!’

’In terms of effect, it would only be a tiny bit weaker than the One Qi Transformed into the Three Pristine Ones.’

’Er... okay, a lot weaker. The ultimate bootleg version of One Qi Transformed into the Three Pristine Ones, maybe?’

’But at least this way, I can deploy my Bean Soldiers and completely break free from the anchor point and the ten-kilometer distance limit.’

’Plus, with the transfer effect of my Spirit Nurturing Space, I can quickly split and reclaim my Dao. This means I can even circumvent the Skill’s severe side effects to a certain extent.’

’All in all, this Skill has its pros and cons, but when combined with my Spirit Nurturing Space, the pros absolutely outweigh the cons.’

’With this Skill, I can truly use my Bean Soldier Skill to overcome distance limitations and the restriction on using my Main Body’s Techniques. To a certain extent, I’ll be able to replicate the effects of High Tier Daoist Techniques like a second Incarnation or One Qi Transformed into the Three Pristine Ones.’

Zhang Deming pored over the Technique for a long while before putting away the Splitting Skill with a joyful expression. He placed it together with a few Cultivation Techniques instead of immediately tossing it back onto the shelf.

After putting away that Technique, Zhang Deming made a point to search the Dao Mark Technique section and found a Tier Two Technique called Dao Mark Summoning.

’After learning this Skill, every Summoning Object I create with a Summoning Technique can become one of my Dao Marks.’

This Skill was the most common type of Dao Mark creation method within the Summoning Path, considered its most fundamental Dao Mark skill.

’With this Skill, combined with the Splitting Skill... heh heh... I don’t necessarily need an Outer Body Incarnation, a second Incarnation, or One Qi Transformed into the Three Pristine Ones to pull off the advanced feat of defeating enemies from a thousand li away!’

’I don’t need a deluxe Daoist Technique set! With a combo of Low-Level Techniques, I can still pull off the advanced feat of turtling at home while defeating enemies from a thousand li away!’

’My Main Body can just sit at home while my Incarnations roam the world!’

After stowing away the two Skills, Zhang Deming went back to burying his head in his ”shopping spree.” Watching the Energy in his repository increase bit by bit, Zhang Deming, who had a slight obsession with stats, felt time fly by.

By the time he came to his senses, he had already finished sweeping through all the Techniques below Tier Three. He didn’t have the authority to touch the remaining Tier Four and above Techniques this time.

However, the Sect didn’t actually have that many Techniques at the Law Level and above—at least not a massive amount. Therefore, having already gotten the lion’s share, Zhang Deming was no longer in a hurry.

He checked his repository. Merit: 78.4, Qi Fortune: 36.5, Karma: 1.4.

This was a huge harvest. He had scraped together about thirty-five or thirty-six points of both Merit and Qi Fortune. As expected of an Upper Sect with a history stretching back tens of millions of years; this one Main Pavilion alone had let him strike it rich.

Especially the thirty-plus points of Merit. In all the years since his ’golden finger’ had activated, he had never harvested so much Merit in one go.

He glanced around the great hall with a lingering look. It was a shame that this ”wool” was a one-time shearing. Compared to a repeatable sheep like Li Shifan, it lacked a certain reusable value.

To ”shear” this place again, he had no idea how many years it would take. Of course, he might be able to shear the Law Level techniques of Tier Four and above once more, but he estimated the amount would probably be equivalent to his harvest from the Wood Dao Region back then.

He was no longer in a hurry for that; he’d just ”shear” it if the opportunity arose. Having already taken the lion’s share, and aside from the inaccessible Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends Skill at the back of the catalog, he could now maintain a prolonged ’Wise Man’s Time’ in this Main Pavilion.

This was because he already had more than enough Secret Level Techniques. Unless something was truly unique, he no longer needed to supplement his collection.

Well, with the exception of Transformation Techniques. However, any ordinary Transformation Techniques found here in the Celestial Spirit Scripture Pavilion Main Pavilion would also be available back at the Spirit Nurturing Peak Sub-Pavilion.

Therefore, having entered his ’Wise Man’s Time,’ Zhang Deming casually picked a few Transformation Techniques unique to the Main Pavilion to make up a total of ten books before turning and leaving the hall.

The two people outside had witnessed Zhang Deming’s entire change in demeanor from start to finish. The shift was so obvious that it even piqued the curiosity of the two old ’salted fish’.

”Pavilion Master, what’s with that expression? Is he displeased? Did he not find what he was looking for?” Dang Mengfu asked, his curiosity uncharacteristically piqued.

Zhao Yuan shook his head and said, ”How should I know? It’s not like I’m using empathy on him. You want me to try? If something goes wrong and we offend him, and your Second Grand-uncle comes looking for trouble, are you going to take the blame?”