Chapter 21: Spellcasting Rules

  Ye Feng suppressed the excitement in his heart, and once again entered that mysterious cultivation space under the power of the Spatial Law's law. He learned and mastered the upgraded version of the Star Cloud Step and the Air Control Technique.

  After coming out of the practice space, he carefully put the Space Concealment Stone and the Refining Soul Pearl back into their original grid frames.

  These two treasures are at least currently unusable and unnecessary for Ye Feng, and cannot be brought into reality. The best choice is to put them back in their original place, and if he wants to use them in the future, he can enter the space to retrieve them at any time.

  Finally, Ye Feng held his breath and took out the basic spell and jade box on the top layer of the grid frame.

  This set of basic spells includes three kinds, one of which is the soul-capturing spell that Ye Feng has been longing for. Another is called the wall-penetrating spell, as its name suggests, after learning it, you can pass through walls. The last one shocked Ye Feng even more, and it's actually called the invisibility spell, which allows him to instantly hide his figure and not be seen or detected by anyone.

  Every kind of magic, to Ye Feng, was a mythical existence. If he wasn't standing here, holding this set of basic magic in his hands, Ye Feng really wouldn't dare believe that all of this was real.

  The nine-star space has greatly changed Ye Feng's worldview and values.

  Ye Feng couldn't wait to let the spatial law send him into the cultivation space, and soon he would learn these three sets of spells. The aftertaste was incredibly wonderful, and once learned, the previous shock disappeared, as if he was born to be so.

  After coming out of the cultivation space again, Ye Feng, who was in a state of extreme excitement, was about to open the jade box to take a look at this last piece of superior-grade heaven and earth treasure when the law suddenly gave him a few prompts in his consciousness, causing his excited mood to cool down instantly.

  The law prompt said: "To use the three spells of Soul Capture, Wall Penetration and Invisibility, you must have a true yuan, otherwise, you cannot cast spells."

  This sentence almost made Ye Feng blurt out a curse, wasn't this playing with people? It's just like someone who has climbed up a tall tree with great difficulty, plucked a big and juicy fruit, and just as they were about to take a bite, someone suddenly tells them that the fruit is poisonous and can't be eaten.

  It's still too early for Ne Zha to achieve inner energy and outer release, let alone turn his inner energy into liquid and form the true yuan, when will that be?

  Just as Ye Feng was about to explode in anger, the law gave him a second hint: "If the space master does not have true yuan for the time being, it can also be replaced with four values."

  Ye Feng really wanted to curse, can't the law just finish speaking in one breath? This back and forth, good and bad, is really unbearable for people.

  But grumbling aside, the hint at the end of the law suddenly made Ye Feng's cooled-down heart heat up again.

  Ye Feng immediately used his consciousness to ask the law: "How can this be used as a substitute?"

  "The space master replied: 'If the space master wants to use Soul Capture, they need 10 points of soul value or any one of the three values of merit, charm, and evil; using Wall Penetration requires 10 points of soul value or any one of the three values of merit, charm, and evil; using Stealth requires 20 points of soul value or any two of the three values of merit, charm, and evil.'"

  Ye Feng tidied up the rules and replied, "So you're saying that to use the Soul Capturing Technique, I need 10 points which is equivalent to 10 souls to exchange for it, right?"

  "That's right, indeed."

  "So what you just said about the three values of morality, charm and evil, any one or two points, what does it mean? Why are these three values only one or two points, while the soul value is ten points?"

  "It means that if the space master wants to use soul-capturing or wall-penetrating techniques, they can either exchange 10 points of soul energy or a small amount of merit value, charm value, or evil value. Similarly, if the space master wants to use a slightly higher level of stealth technique, they can either exchange 20 points of soul energy or 2 points of merit value, charm value, or evil value. As for why soul energy requires exactly 10 or 20 points to be exchanged, it's because among these four values, soul energy is the simplest and easiest to collect, with an energy value equivalent to only one-tenth of the other three values."

  I'm going to... Ye Feng patted his forehead, and after messing around for half a day, he found out that the soul value was the cheapest of the four values. The ratio between it and the other three values was as high as 10:1. In other words, he had painstakingly accumulated 500 points of soul value to push his cultivation progress to 90% of the total progress. If he were to exchange it for one of the other three values, only 50 points would be needed.

  But to be honest, the law is also right, the soul value can actively sense and collect, but the other three values are not easy to come by, especially the evil value. To get this value, you have to go kill people and do evil things, which is almost impossible for Ye Feng.

  Ye Feng couldn't see the invisible and intangible law, otherwise he would have given it a fierce stare. So Ye Feng couldn't help but complain to it: "Why didn't you tell me this earlier? Why didn't you inform me of the unequal proportion relationship between soul value and the other three values?"

  The law quickly replied to Ye Feng: "Because the space master did not actively ask, I can say it or not, but the main reason is that the space master's subjective consciousness has never considered other three values, and has never obtained any value from the other three values, so I don't need to make a detailed explanation to you, the space master."

  Ye Feng continued to pat his forehead, and for the law's answer, he was speechless. Can't you tell me on your own without me asking? Does the law also have a temper like humans do?

  No matter what, being able to cast spells with four elemental exchanges is absolutely a fortunate thing for Ye Feng who has not yet fully achieved the initial stage of second-order cultivation.

  Ye Feng asked Fa Ze again, "Ten points of soul can be exchanged for casting the Soul Capture Technique once. Are there any other restrictions, such as how many objects can be cast at one time and how long it can last?"

  "Ten points of soul value can be exchanged for casting the Soul Capture Technique once. The object of the space master's Soul Capture Technique is unrestricted, as long as it is a cultivator or ordinary person with a lower cultivation level than yours. Currently, the sustainable time after the space master casts the Soul Capture Technique is one incense stick. Although there is no limit to the number of people who can be cast with this technique, each person requires ten points of soul value or one point of merit, charm, or evil value. If the space master casts the Soul Capture Technique on ten people at the same time, it would require one hundred points of soul value or ten points of merit, charm, or evil value."

  The principle is not difficult to understand, the number of objects that can be targeted by Soul Capture Technique is unlimited. If Ye Feng has a huge amount of soul value or four values, then as long as he is willing, he can cast Soul Capture Technique on tens of thousands of people at the same time. As for the duration of each casting, if calculated according to the principle's one incense stick time, referring to the incense sticks on the high platform that will regrow after burning out, one incense stick time is approximately equal to fifty minutes in reality.

  This time was enough for Ye Feng.

  In fifty minutes, Ye Feng had already gotten Liu Yong and Liu Mei to confess the truth about killing the villa owner and how Liu Yong was forced by the police to make a false confession. Moreover, the power of the soul-capturing technique lay in the fact that ordinary people would not remember what they had done or said after waking up.

  Liu Yong has in his hands a lot of crucial evidence, such as the surveillance video after he entered the villa area, and the treasures under the bathroom of the villa owner's house. Even if Liu Yong can destroy the video, he absolutely cannot destroy those diamonds and jewels. The villa owner's will clearly mentions the treasures hidden under the bathroom, but Liu Yong framed Ye Feng for murder and theft, while the treasures are in his own hands. Later, no matter how many mouths he has, he won't be able to talk his way out of it.

  Next, it was time to take out this last piece of top-grade heaven and earth treasure. Ye Feng excitedly opened the last jade box.