Zhou Yan was completely unaware that a high-level lord had abandoned his investigation out of fear of him being a half-immortal powerhouse.
Because at this moment, Zhou Yan was examining the painting in his mind. He discovered that when he focused his attention on the painting, he finally found a new ability within it.
Zhou Yan found himself in the world within the painting, and this world was quite extraordinary. He realized he could practice skills here and also fuse many different skills into higher-level ones.
For the first time in a long while, Zhou Yan discovered that besides enhancing his cultivation techniques, this painting could now also upgrade his skill levels.
Zhou Yan began to experiment and found that by taking one skill as the main component, it would prompt him on which of his learned skills could be fused into it, which was very convenient.
First was the skill "Dou Zhuan Xing Yi". This skill could only fuse with one other skill, which was "Qian Kun Da Nuo Yi". Zhou Yan began to fuse "Qian Kun Da Nuo Yi" into "Dou Zhuan Xing Yi".
At this moment, Zhou Yan found that these two skills began to actively fuse. Everything seemed to be happening within his mind, and he could clearly see how these two skills were fusing, why they could fuse, and what changes would occur after the fusion, along with the power they could unleash.
This was a very marvelous experience, akin to creating a new skill, which left him greatly astonished.
After a long while, the skill "Dou Zhuan Xing Yi" completed its fusion with "Qian Kun Da Nuo Yi", transforming into a new skill, and he could even name this skill.
"What should I call it?" After thinking for a moment, Zhou Yan decided to name this skill "Dou Zhuan Qian Kun".
[Learned Skill "Dou Zhuan Qian Kun"!]
Looking at the quality of this skill, it had surprisingly upgraded from R-grade to RR-grade, which was excellent. If there were similar skills, he could continue to improve this skill's quality.
With the success of this skill, Zhou Yan decided to learn more skills, but for now, he would first upgrade the skills he already possessed.
Zhou Yan looked at his "Tai Ji Jian Fa" and found that this skill could fuse with "Yu Jian Shu" and "Qi Xing Jian Fa". Zhou Yan immediately began the fusion and upgrade.
"Tai Ji Jian Fa" was a very magical sword technique that could overcome strength with gentleness, neutralizing domineering attacks.
However, Zhou Yan had never encountered an attack more domineering than his own, so he hadn't had many opportunities to fully utilize it.
After fusing the three skills, he found that they began to branch out, as if informing him which aspects of the sword techniques were important and which were lacking.
The three skills began to retain the essence of swordplay, discarding the useless parts, preserving the power of overcoming strength with gentleness, and adding the wide-ranging attack capability and mastery of swordsmanship from "Yu Jian Shu".
Moreover, it could control sword techniques to form a sword formation, which was something he had never expected.
As the three skills fused, Zhou Yan evolved a brand new skill, and he was very satisfied with this skill. He began to name it, and after a while, he named it "Tai Ji Qi Xing Yu Jian Shu".
[Learned Skill "Tai Ji Qi Xing Yu Jian Shu"!]
With two successful fusions, Zhou Yan became even more confident about the subsequent skill fusions. The quality of the "Tai Ji Qi Xing Yu Jian Shu" skill had surprisingly increased to RR-grade!
He looked at his "Ba Tian Qiang Fa" and then at his other skills. It seemed several skills could be fused with it: one was "Feng Zhou Shu", and the other was "Huan Ying Dao Fa".
This made Zhou Yan very curious. "Ba Tian Qiang Fa" was a spear technique, and it could even fuse with "Feng Zhou Shu". He was quite intrigued.
As the three skills began to fuse, the domineering essence of the spear technique was preserved, enhanced by the wind element's power from "Feng Zhou Shu", and integrated with the illusory transformation characteristics of "Huan Ying Dao Fa".
Finally, another brand new skill appeared in Zhou Yan's mind. These skills felt as if he had created them himself, and he could clearly understand their characteristics, which was very important.
"Then it shall be called 'Ba Tian Huan Feng Qiang'!" Zhou Yan chuckled.
[Learned Skill "Ba Tian Huan Feng Qiang"!]
The skill quality of "Ba Tian Huan Feng Qiang" reached R-grade.
Several successful fusions allowed him to merge many unnecessary skills into higher-level ones. Moreover, these skills were like his own creations; he didn't need to train them further.
He simply needed to coordinate them with other skills when using them.
He looked at his "Tai Ji Quan" and found that two skills could be fused into it: "Bao Lei Shu" and "Lie Shan Zhang".
Another spell skill could be fused, which made Zhou Yan realize that many skills were actually interconnected.
After the fusion of the three skills, the profound essence of Tai Ji boxing was retained, with the addition of the explosive lightning power from "Bao Lei Shu" and the force of "Lie Shan Zhang".
A new skill was born, and Zhou Yan named it "Tai Ji Lei Bao Zhang"!
[Learned Skill "Tai Ji Lei Bao Zhang"!]
He looked at the skill quality of "Tai Ji Lei Bao Zhang", which had reached RR-grade.
Zhou Yan then looked at his recently frequently used spell skill "Bing Tian Xue Di". This spell could fuse "Bing Feng Wan Li" and "Liu Xing Huo Yu" into it.
Ice and fire, capable of coexisting! The power of these three fused skills would surely increase greatly.
With "Bing Tian Xue Di" as the core, the power of ice and snow was enhanced, and the explosive force of fire was added. Once this skill was activated, it would first freeze the enemy, then generate a massive fiery explosion, possessing immense power.
Moreover, after this skill fused, it immediately reached RR-grade. The increased skill power from fusing different skills varied.
He named this skill "Bing Feng Yan Bao".
[Learned Skill "Bing Feng Yan Bao"!]
With this, he didn't have many skills left.
There was still "Ying Fen Shen". He looked at it and found it could be fused into "Ling Bo Wei Bu". During the fusion, "Ling Bo Wei Bu" gained some phantom abilities, which could be used to confuse enemies. However, the skill quality did not change, nor could the name be modified.
After all, "Ling Bo Wei Bu" was already an RRR-grade movement technique. To improve this skill's quality, a mere SS-grade "Ying Fen Shen" was far from enough.
He had also learned several formations previously and planned to try and see if they could be fused.
He discovered they could be fused, and the fusion process was very interesting, as if these formations were being dismantled in his mind, broken down into the most basic formation knowledge.
Subsequently, these formations were reassembled into a brand new formation, which also significantly improved his formation knowledge, allowing him to learn very profound formations.
After all these formations were fused, it directly transformed into a new talent called "Grandmaster Level Formation Master".
These formations had all been integrated into his formation mastery, which greatly surprised Zhou Yan.
However, this formation was different from other things, and he accepted it willingly.
At this point, to improve his formation mastery was very simple. He just needed to learn more formations and then dismantle them to incorporate them into his own formation knowledge.
This was akin to cheating.
His talents now had an additional entry: "Grandmaster Formation Master".
He still had an F-grade "Qing Gong Skill" which he directly fused into "Feng Lei Shuang Yi", slightly increasing his flying speed.
With this, he was left with only eight skills.
Besides an S-grade "Cai Ji Shu", the rest were all R-grade or higher skills.
Furthermore, these skills could all be fused into top-tier skills. He would definitely learn more skills in the future for this purpose.
After all, there were so many skills in the [Scripture Pavilion], so improving the quality of these skills would not be difficult.