Male Inferiority and Female Supremacy in the World of Immortal Cultivation
Chapter 409: 409: The Distant Bi An

Chapter 409: Chapter 409: The Distant Bi An

Fang Zhou didn’t know that Xiao Yin and Ming Aoshuang thought he might run away.

Even if he did know, he would scoff at the idea. If he really wanted to escape, he’d just flee directly. Why use such a clumsy excuse?

Once out of their sight, Fang Zhou immediately slipped into the gourd and adjusted the time flow there to the fastest, 35:1.

Fang Zhou asked for a half-hour break, so speeding up to 35 times would only give him a few hours, which wasn’t enough for cultivation at all.

He pinned his hopes on the two unused cards. If he couldn’t draw something suitable, he would have no choice but to risk trying the Sword Slash.

A Purple Card and a White Card.

The Purple Card was a reward for defeating the Poison Fire Ghost Crow, while the White Card was from defeating the Poison Lady Xu Xian.

Since obtaining them, Fang Zhou hadn’t used these cards, mainly wanting to accumulate some luck. Drawing cards after a long interval often results in a high probability of obtaining a Golden Legend.

But now he couldn’t wait any longer; otherwise, not only would he fail the mission, but the humanoid Purple Card outside might also escape.

Fang Zhou didn’t want to see Ming Aoshuang’s smug face after her victory, either.

Chanting his luck incantation once, Fang Zhou exhaled a breath, rubbed his hands, and drew the Purple Card.

The Purple Card spun around, with a familiar transition animation playing in his mind.

Unfortunately, Fang Zhou was disappointed as no golden light appeared; indeed, his luck accumulation was insufficient.

The Purple Card revealed a Skill Fusion Card.

[Advanced Skill Fusion Card: Allows you to specify two skills to merge into a new skill, with a level no lower than the highest level of the fused skills. There’s a chance of obtaining a super-high-level skill, determined by the compatibility of the skills.]

This Advanced Skill Fusion Card was exactly what Fang Zhou needed, as many of his skills were no longer useful. Without upgrades, they had no combat effectiveness.

But according to the description on this Fusion Card, it seemed that not just any skills could be fused at will.

He opened his skill panel, thought for a moment, and chose the skill substitute, which had the highest potential and could be upgraded first.

Placing the substitute into the Advanced Skill Fusion Card, and selecting another skill to put in, the Fusion Card then displayed the success rate of an upgraded fusion.

The compatibility between substitute and Big Fireball Skill★ was the lowest, with only a 10% success rate.

Other skills fluctuated between 10% and 50%, except for Hu Lai’s Left Hand, which had a compatibility rate with substitute exceeding 90%.

The two were very similar; both were intangible, invisible, and impossible to touch. Fang Zhou even suspected for a time that Hu Lai’s Left Hand was related to the substitute.

Fang Zhou hadn’t used Hu Lai’s Left Hand skill for a long time, as its power was far behind Fang Zhou’s progress and had become a useless skill.

Now it’s just right for fusion with the substitute, a perfect case of waste utilization.

Fang Zhou placed both substitute and Hu Lai’s Left Hand into the Advanced Skill Fusion Card and chose to fuse them.

The Fusion Card immediately turned pure white, emitting a dazzling light, as if a small sun appeared in Fang Zhou’s hand, making it almost impossible for him to open his eyes.

The transition animation alone felt like it was expensive, raising Fang Zhou’s expectation to the highest.

In the skill bar, both substitute and Hu Lai’s Left Hand disappeared, replaced by a completely new skill.

[Substitute Other Shore★★★: A fully awakened substitute with innate abilities, possessing formidable melee capabilities and terrifying potential for unlimited evolution. Innate skill: Other Shore]

“Holy sh*t!”

Fang Zhou couldn’t help but curse when he saw the emergence of this new skill, not out of fear, but out of immense joy.

His mouth curled up wildly, and finally, he couldn’t help but throw his head back and laugh out loud, his arrogant laughter echoing in the gourd space.

“Hahaha, Heaven helps me!”

Fang Zhou had been troubled by the inability of the substitute to awaken its abilities, and he didn’t expect a single fusion card to solve this headache.

Not only did it fuse, but it also upgraded, turning the substitute into a three-star skill.

This was the first three-star skill Fang Zhou possessed, and just from the description alone, it felt invincible.

Fang Zhou eagerly summoned the substitute, deciding it couldn’t be called something as childish as Golden Flash anymore. It should be renamed to Other Shore.

Substitute Other Shore made a grand entrance, and Fang Zhou was taken aback the moment it appeared.

It was no longer just a vague humanoid figure but a complete and clear form, a nearly two-meter-tall, robust young man with a 90% resemblance to Fang Zhou, as if it were him grown up.

Other Shore had short hair, wore blue and white battle armor, and carried two crossed longswords on its back. Its face looked resolute, and its gaze was firm.

So handsome!

Fang Zhou couldn’t help but praise internally. This substitute Other Shore perfectly matched his aesthetics, seeming built right according to his taste.

After admiring it for a while, Fang Zhou eagerly tried out the substitute’s awakened innate ability—Other Shore.

The innate ability of the awakened substitute wasn’t specified, but its effects were already etched in Fang Zhou’s mind. It needed constant practice to be mastered and used skillfully, and both the ability and the substitute possessed evolutionary potential.

With a slight change in thought, Fang Zhou had the substitute enveloped in a nearly transparent space layer, as if an elongated eggshell enveloped the substitute, sealed tightly.

This was the substitute’s ability—Other Shore, signifying a distant world.

It was a spatial skill that created a faraway space completely isolated from reality around the substitute.

Fang Zhou raised his hand, sending a golden ripple towards the substitute.

As soon as the ripple touched the space enveloping the substitute, it immediately passed through from the back of the space without hitting anything.

This was normal; the substitute was still here, only as a spatially overlapping image.

Its true body was situated in the distant Other Shore, unaffected by any attack here in this world.

This was stronger than any absolute defense since it simply couldn’t be hit unless someone could pull the substitute back from the distant Other Shore, achieving which would mean being comparable to an Immortal.

This innate ability was nearly perfect defensively, with the only flaw being its short duration, lasting only five seconds, with a cooldown of five seconds as well.

And during the use of the ability, it was impossible to attack from within the Other Shore.

But the ability of Other Shore wasn’t limited to just this effect.

With a slight thought, Fang Zhou and the substitute in the Other Shore instantly switched places as if teleporting, with Fang Zhou entering the Other Shore and the substitute appearing outside.

This way, Fang Zhou could hide in the Other Shore while the substitute attacked enemies outside.

However, this also had a flaw, as any injury the substitute suffered would be shared with Fang Zhou, and this was something the Other Shore couldn’t block.

After familiarizing himself with the abilities of the Other Shore in the gourd space, Fang Zhou casually drew the White Card.

Golden light sparkled!

Fang Zhou: (＃°Д°)