After hearing this, Lin Yun felt even greater anticipation for tomorrow’s Spirit Spring Baptism.
That night, Lin Yun carried out more tests with the third Source Heart.
He discovered that, once he entered the void, the Source Heart could only sustain the concealment for a limited duration.
If the time exceeded ten minutes, he would automatically reappear.
To activate it again, he needed to wait at least one hour.
Still, for a Supreme, ten minutes was already sufficient to accomplish a great many things.
Lin Yun also wanted to test whether he could use concealment during combat to achieve unexpected strikes.
When he tried, he found that, even while concealed, wielding a weapon to attack would immediately reveal him. Attacking without a weapon did not break the concealment, but the fluctuations from the strike would still allow an opponent to pinpoint his location.
Thus, in actual combat, this ability could only be used for ambushes. He could conceal himself, then launch a sudden first blow that the enemy would find hard to defend against.
…
The next morning.
Lin Yun arrived at the palace’s grand hall to audience with the clan leader.
“Clan Leader.” Lin Yun stepped into the hall and bowed to him.
“Lin Yun, I have already given you the Star God Canon, the method our elf royal family uses to cultivate divine sense. You may now use it to train your divine sense. The canon is divided into upper and lower volumes. The lower volume is extremely difficult, so you should first attempt the upper volume. If you cannot even master that, tell me, and I will provide you with a simpler divine sense cultivation technique,” the clan leader said.
“Clan Leader, I have not yet looked at the lower volume, but after trying the upper volume yesterday, I have already mastered it,” Lin Yun replied with a faint smile.
Lin Yun naturally could not admit he had mastered it long ago. He could only claim he had done so yesterday after receiving the manual.
“Mastered it already? Boy, you are not trying to fool me, are you? Do not jest about such matters,” the clan leader said gravely.
In the clan leader’s view, the Star God Canon was inherently difficult. Moreover, as a human, Lin Yun lacked the elves’ natural aptitude for divine sense cultivation, so it would likely be even harder for him. That was why he had earlier said he would give Lin Yun a simpler method if needed.
“How would I dare deceive you?” Lin Yun said with an awkward laugh.
As soon as the words left his mouth, Lin Yun circulated his inner force and, using it, instantly sketched the Star God Diagram.
A Star God Diagram condensed from inner force floated in the air, shimmering with faint light.
“It truly is!”
The clan leader could not help exclaiming in amazement when he saw it. “Haha! Excellent, Lin Yun. To master the upper volume in just one day shows that your talent in divine sense is also exceptional. If you can cultivate your divine sense to a sufficiently high realm, you will possess an advantage that no other human Supreme expert has!”
Once divine sense reached its utmost realm, it could exert the full strength of a human Supreme.
One could imagine that if Lin Yun was both a Supreme and able to cultivate divine sense to such a level, combining the two, who among the Supremes could rival him?
“You praise me too highly, Clan Leader,” Lin Yun said with an embarrassed smile.
After all, he had not learned it in a single day.
“Lin Yun, the storage ring I gave you yesterday also contains numerous resources to aid divine sense cultivation. They will allow you to progress twice as fast with half the effort. But before that, I will first have you undergo the Spirit Spring Baptism to develop your sea of consciousness.”
The clan leader then stood up. “Now, follow me. We will go to receive the Spirit Spring Baptism.”
With that, the clan leader descended from the front of the hall and led Lin Yun out, heading toward the rear mountain of the palace.
The rear mountain lay at the very end of the palace grounds. It was a forbidden area of the palace, and no one could enter without the clan leader’s permission.
Since the clan leader was personally escorting him, Lin Yun naturally entered without issue.
The rear mountain was tranquil and serene, the air refreshing and calming.
On the path up the mountain.
“This opportunity of Spirit Spring Baptism is extremely rare even within our elf royal family. Every ten thousand years, our clan holds a grand competition, and only the genius who defeats all opponents to claim victory may enjoy the Spirit Spring Baptism. Yet you have now received it directly, bypassing the competition altogether,” the clan leader said as they walked.
“Thank you, Clan Leader,” Lin Yun quickly expressed his gratitude.
“There is no need for thanks. We are family now. Moreover, this is also to make you stronger. The stronger you become, the more powerful a force you can rally among the human race. As long as you can exert sufficient influence there, even rule the human race, then our elf clan and the human race will be able to achieve mutual peace,” the clan leader replied.
