Capítulo 42: To the Scripture Hall!
"Fellow apprentice brother, isn't this too much?!" Looking up at the endless amount of stairs that lay before them, Xiaoyi was extremely surprised.
Shu Yidan gazed up with nostalgia. At the end of this path was the Scripture Hall, the collection of the sect's knowledge, archived from the time the Founding Ancestor established the sect.
"Tough it up for now. Remember to take up a good footwork technique after this." Saying this, Shu Yidan began the long walk up the stairs.
There was only the sound of him and Xiaoyi shuffling up the stairs, but Xiaoyi opened her mouth once more.
"Fellow apprentice brother, can I ask you a question?" Xiaoyi's voice pressed on his ears.
Shu Yidan ignored it.
"Elder brother Shu, listen to me!?" Xiaoyi didn't stop her attempts.
Shu Yidan lightly hummed, without paying attention to her.
"Geez! Senior brother Shu!" Xiaoyi finally gave in.
"Ah, my junior sister Xiaoyi! What do you wish to ask?" Shu Yidan finally said with an easy smile.
"This is unfair! I trained for longer under Master's guidance!" Pouting, Xiaoyi glumly said.
"Ah yes my little junior sister, you certainly trained for longer under Master's guidance." Shu Yidan's teasing caused her to flash her teeth like a cat, as if raring to bite him. "So what did you want to ask me?"
"Well… Is it truly possible for me to battle Nascent Souls at the Qi Refining Realm?" Xiaoyi's question was filled with disbelief. While her fellow apprentice had said that it was possible, even suggesting a clear-cut way to do so, it still seemed hard to think of.
"Well, not with that attitude." Shu Yidan smirked before seriously replying, "I'll repeat this:
"A truly ridiculous amount of requirements need to be fulfilled before you can even think of battling a Nascent Soul."
"First, in terms of cultivation… You need to cultivate the apex of all qi cultivation techniques from the very start of Qi Condensation Realm.
Next, you need to reach mastery with using your Three Energies of Essence, Qi and Spirit. Meaning, you need to master physique-based essence attacks, energy-based qi attacks and mentally-based spirit attacks.
Finally and most importantly, you need to master a Domain.
But that isn't all.
In terms of treasures… You need an extremely strong and extremely compatible Natal Artifact.
Moreover, all the other treasures you carry to battle cannot be lacking either."
"…Does the Heaven-Wind Two Trigram Divine Law qualify as the apex of qi cultivation techniques? Master taught me a simplified version of the technique for my earlier cultivation, and I only learnt the true teachings today." Xiaoyi asked him.
"Certainly. It is the best cultivation technique in this Sect by far. It refines Essence, Qi and Spirit together, and harmonizes them to bring forth supreme power!" Shu Yidan immediately replied.
"…So all I need to choose is Essence, Qi and Spirit based attacks, huh? The Heaven-Wind Two Trigram Divine Law has a domain technique within it as well." Xiaoyi asked him questioningly.
"Heaven-Wind Apocalypse Domain isn't a technique you can use before Divine Transformation, though." Shu Yidan felt strange saying this… he had been relying on that as his signature technique with his Golden Core cultivation in the past timeline!
"…Oh. Then what do you suggest?" Xiaoyi asked him.
"I know a good Divine Ability that can grant you the ability to cast a Sword Domain at Qi Refining Realm." Shu Yidan said with a smile.
"Senior brother, aren't Divine Abilities restricted to Nascent Souls?" Xiaoyi seemed to be wary.
"Oh, Divine Abilities are what they used to call Bloodline Techniques in the past era. It is a Sword Immortal Bloodline Technique, to be more exact. You should be capable enough to learn it." Shu Yidan clarified.
"Sword Immortal Bloodline Technique?! There are some in the memories that my ancestor gave me as inheritance, but they all are incomplete! So what kind of technique is it? Hundred-Step Sword Unparalleled? Falling Sword Mountain Descending?" Xiaoyi grew more enthusiastic on hearing it.
"You'll know when we reach the Scripture Hall. It isn't something supreme, but it is one of the few techniques capable of forming a wide-area domain without requiring understanding the Dao. So, just shut up and keep walking…" Hearing Shu Yidan's rude end to their conversation, Xiaoyi pouted yet nevertheless kept walking.
Like this, the pair made their way towards their destination.
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"T-there are so many books…" Gazing at what seemed to be an endless cascade of shelves, Xiaoyi seemed intimidated.
"I know it is certainly large… but first, let's get your library card." Shu Yidan dragged the dazed Xiaoyi by hand to the only counter in the library.
Upon the counter, a beauty wearing a white robe sat reading a book. Long black hair, fair complexion and an impressive chest – a beauty. But what stood out was her Peak Nascent Soul cultivation!
"Oh, the young master has come over to meet me after so long! How have you been?" The cheery greeting from the librarian lady was uplifting to Shu Yidan.
"It's been a while, senior sister Mu Rengxue. You took up the Scripture Hall Attendant's post?" Shu Yidan glanced at his most faithful and useful subordinate from his past life.
"Didn't expect you to be so nice in our first meeting after these many years, huh… Well, the access privileges are good enough. That's mostly my reason." With an expression saying 'so-so', the woman replied.
"At that time… I unthinkingly chased you out of the Azurewind Peak. I was so distraught over my parent's deaths, I couldn't think straight." The Azurewind Peak's formations and arrays were built with a Nascent Soul in mind, and Mu Rengxue was supposed to occupy his cultivation residence. If Mu Rengxue was there last night, Xiaoyi would have no way to enter!
"I understand. Master's death… it came so quickly." This Peak Nascent Soul Mu Rengxue was also the only personal disciple of Shu Yidan's father. Shu Yidan could have approached her last night to gain her protection, but he chose Feng Shiyao because she would suck his dick.
"Though, you seem to have gotten over it remarkably well during these years. Even that snappiness of yours is gone." Praising him, this senior sister's tone was as flat as ever.
Shu Yidan smiled in response. "That said, I still can't accept you back into the Cultivation Residence. I have a Dao Companion now, so…"
"Oh, is little Dandan embarrassed?" Shu Yidan couldn't help but cringe at the nickname. "Elder Sister Rengxue won't peek at all!"
"Sorry but at the least, I'll need a Ten Direction Soul Cancelling Array that can bar divine sense…-" Shu Yidan's further words were interrupted.
"Senior brother, we have to get my manuals! Why are you chatting up the librarian!" Seeing Xiaoyi's teeth flash like a cat's, Shu Yidan couldn't help but chuckle.
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