Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo' Chapter 1272 606: Cloud Gate Skill

Li Banfeng returned to Xiaoyao Lodge. He didn't go to find Ma Wu, nor did he go to find Zhang Xiuling. He returned to his room, placed the Judge's Pen on the bed, propped it up with a pillow, and covered it with a quilt. In a gentle tone, he asked, "Ah Bi, this is the highest Lazy Cultivator etiquette. Can you tell me again, how did you leave a part of yourself in the heavens?"

Ever since he learned that the Judge's Pen was the Flowers God, Li Banfeng felt he had a new understanding of Puluo State.

"Haven't I already told you?" the Judge's Pen turned over in the quilt, yawning.

Li Banfeng circled to the front of the Judge's Pen: "What you said was too hard to understand. Splitting yourself into two, sending half to the heavens, and leaving half on the earth, what kind of idea is that?"

"That's all I remember." The Judge's Pen turned again, continuing to face away from Li Banfeng.

Li Banfeng got angry: "Either you tell me how to split into two, or you tell me how to ascend to the heavens. Otherwise, you won't sleep today."

"How to ascend... in dreams." The Judge's Pen sat up from the bed.

"Are you playing tricks on me?" Li Banfeng prepared to throw off the quilt.

"I remember now, it's in dreams!" The Judge's Pen's tone was very serious; he wasn't deceiving Li Banfeng.

Li Banfeng pondered for a long time and asked, "Are you using a technique's heavens?"

"Yes! Split half in the dream."

"How do you split half in a dream?" Li Banfeng, neither a Dream Cultivator nor a Lazy Cultivator, truly couldn't grasp this concept.

Ah Bi rolled on the bed, seemingly recovering some memory: "First, imagine the scene in the heavens."

"Alright!" In Li Banfeng's mind, images of the sky and clouds appeared, "Then what?"

"Dream."

"After dreaming, then what?"

"Make the dream come true."

"How can a dream come true?"

"I can't remember!" The Judge's Pen burrowed into the quilt and fell asleep.

Forgetting means forgetting; in such a situation, no one can be harsh with the Judge's Pen.

Although the concept wasn't fully explained, Li Banfeng could gather quite a bit of information from the Judge's Pen's statements.

The key to leaving part of the power in the heavens is to place oneself in the scene.

Perceiving oneself in the heavens in a dream is an almost real feeling, which perhaps Meng De could achieve.

Li Banfeng brought Meng De out from home: "I want to have a dream of flying to the heavens."

Meng De patted her chest: "That's easy!"

She took Li Banfeng into the dream realm, stepping up a staircase made of clouds, rising step by step onto the clouds.

The clouds consisted of gas, yet had a somewhat solid texture, exactly like the clouds Li Banfeng imagined.

The problem lay in it being exactly the same.

Li Banfeng sat on the cloud, looking at Meng De: "This cloud is fake, right?"

Meng De lowered her head slightly, somewhat embarrassed: "Master, this is a dream."

This sentence pulled Li Banfeng back to reality, and the feeling of truly being there disappeared completely.

The Judge's Pen could ascend to the Cloud Frontier in the dream, but this method was unsuitable for a Dream Cultivator.

Because a Dream Cultivator cleaves dreams and reality very distinctly, just like Meng De, she knew the cloud was her creation, so acquiring a true sense of being there was impossible.

The Judge's Pen's method wasn't suitable for a Dream Cultivator and probably wouldn't be suitable for Li Banfeng either. He needed to find his own way.

What method can achieve the feeling of truly being there?

Mind Traverse Thousand Mountains!

Li Banfeng sat on the bed, constructing an image of being above the clouds in his mind.

The technique wasn't being used smoothly because Li Banfeng hadn't truly been above the clouds. According to the fundamentals of the Mind Traverse Thousand Mountains Technique, constructing an unknown place requires using the Fake Moving Skill.

During the cultivation level of the Earth Skin, Li Banfeng rarely used the Mind Traverse Thousand Mountains Technique, the Fake Moving Skill had to be used above the clouds to freely apply; the concept of fake move was still very vague for Li Banfeng.

Hong Ying talked about the fundamentals of the technique, focusing on imagination, a perfect opportunity to refine it.

After much refinement, Li Banfeng still did not succeed once, and he couldn't pinpoint what had gone wrong.

Returning to his Portable Residence, his wife was still making ropes, currently lacking one material, Water Snake Grass.

Water Snake Grass is a rare medicinal herb that can't be found in the Outside Provinces and is also quite scarce in Puluo State. Li Banfeng's trip to Greenwater City wasn't only for the Hundred Flowers Gate matters; he also needed to investigate the market for Water Snake Grass.

Li Banfeng spent some intimate time with his wife, then hurried to ask Hong Ying: "What other fundamentals are there for the Fake Moving Skill within Mind Traverse Thousand Mountains?"

Hong Ying exclaimed, "Don't you already know the fundamentals? I've told you several times."

"Please explain one more time."

"Fake moving relies on imagination; the more vivid the imagination, the more real the move will be. Think about it repeatedly, and you'll naturally master it, won't you?"

Hong Ying's rough guidance was difficult for Li Banfeng to accept.

Miss Jiufang seems to be a Traveling Cultivator as well, so it might be worth asking her about this.

Li Banfeng went into the Ninth Room, Red Lotus was flying up and down, seemingly brawling with Miss Jiu.

Li Banfeng first persuaded Red Lotus, then asked Miss Jiu for advice about the Fake Moving Skill.

Miss Jiu asked Li Banfeng, "Why do you want to learn fake moving? Isn't mastering real moving enough?"

"It's not enough," Li Banfeng admitted, "I want to truly experience the feeling of being above the clouds."

"What's the point of this experience? Aren't you going to Greenwater City to find Water Snake Grass?" Miss Jiu still didn't quite understand.

This girl has many good qualities, but she asks too many questions.

Red Lotus chimed in: "The Fake Moving Skill, I know a bit about it. The hardest part is that some things are tough to imagine."

Li Banfeng nodded: "This imagination part is indeed too difficult."

Red Lotus said: "If you promise to get me a different room, I can teach you some tips."