章節 45: Eight Choices!

"You know, I wanted to ask how you were planning to guide her on her choice being a man who hasn't touched a sword in his life, but… Well I didn't expect that. You are good…" Mu Rengxue stared at the black and white dome that was the Eight Trigrams Arcane Divination Array.

A wave of magical energy burst out from the array, and a few books were drawn into it. Shu Yidan saw a few jade slips fly as well.

"Yeah, I focused on understanding arrays after chasing you away. Without a Nascent Soul, keeping the formations at full force was a challenge…" Shu Yidan sighed.

"What kinds of arrays have you mastered? I was thinking of having a few arrays constructed for my cultivation." Mu Rengxue asked him, having understood his skill was real.

"You name the array, I can arrange the array. Arrays with treasures as focus, arrays with talismans as focus, arrays with trigrams as focus and arrays with humans as focus… I can cast them all and more. You want a sword formation array diagram, I can do it. A Qi Vortex cultivation array, I can set it as well. You name it, I can set it!" Hearing Mu Rengxue's interest, Shu Yidan immediately entered salesman mode.

"…An easy-to-set Dragon Vein Draining Array with hiding and stealth functions. Can you get me that?" Mu Rengxue asked with an utterly serious expression.

Shu Yidan was surprised at her request. A Dragon Vein was a natural energy point, and could be compared to the meridians of the world. The reasons why a Peak Nascent Soul would require such a tremendous amount of energy were few… but it wasn't any of Shu Yidan's business either.

"…Well, it is good as long as you don't deploy it the Sect's territory.

If you want me to prepare it with my own materials, 10,000 top-grade Spirit Stones.

If you are providing the materials, 2,500 top-grade Spirit Stones.

I'll take a month to set it up, but if you want me to fast-track it in a week, add 1,500 extra. If you want it in 24 hours, 3000 extra.

And don't ask for a discount, the only reason it is THIS cheap is me taking our relationship into account!" Shu Yidan rapidly fired off a quotation.

In response, Mu Rengxue immediately flicked a golden Space Ring at him. The ring held 30,000 top-grade Spirit Stones.

"As if I would use my relationship to undercut YOU of all people. You can take a week to make it, big sis just wants your best work!" Mu Rengxue gave him a pat on the head saying this.

"Yeah, I certainly won't decline your generosity. As usual, if you can give me the geomantic alignments and information on the Spirit Vein, I can optimize it for you. Also, your preferences on the spell sequences on the array will be good as well." Shu Yidan's question got him a small jade slip. He put it away in the space ring gifted by Mu Rengxue, before putting it on his left index finger.

"Eight minutes have passed, the array is opening up…" As he said this, the dome of black and white light disappeared, and Xiaoyi sat alone in the center with her eyes closed, surrounded by 64 manuals floating around her.

Looking at her serene expression as she breathed in and out, Shu Yidan and Mu Rengxue couldn't help but praise her poise and grace within their hearts.

Finally, she opened her eyes and stood up to look at the floating manuals surrounding her.

Shu Yidan immediately began, "Remember, you can only choose 8 out of the 64 books.

You need Essence, Qi and Spirit-based attacking techniques, defensive techniques and fleeing techniques. Try to pick techniques that can be complemented by the Heaven-Wind Two-Trigram Divine Law!

As for domains, any domain-based spell will be useless against a Nascent Soul, only a Dao Domain formed by accumulated comprehension of the Dao is of any worth.

Now about sword techniques, you already possess Mountbatten's sword technique inheritance and the Sectmaster's sword technique inheritance. Try to pick up techniques that are complementary to them…"

Xiaoyi only nodded. With that gesture, she immediately began picking up manuals.

<<Heaven-Wind Small Accumulation Divine Sword>>, <<Lu Dongbin's Heaven Evasion Sword Law>>, <<Sword Light Mystical Evasion>>, <<Nine Revolutions Sword Forged Body>>, <<Ox-Might Boulder Shattering Sword Secrets>>, <<Spirit Execution Sword Scroll>> and <<Record of Sword Immortal Mountbatten's Thousand Year Ascension>>…

Xiaoyi had quickly chosen seven manuals. For better or worse, all their titles were self-explanatory.

The first two were sword technique manuals that were focused on refining the power of Heaven and Wind.

<<Heaven-Wind Small Accumulation Divine Sword>> was made by an Elder of the Sect using the Heaven-Wind Two-Trigram Divine Law as foundation.

<<Lu Dongbin's Heaven Evasion Sword Law>> was the famous swordplay technique of the mighty Lu Dongbin, modified to suit the Eight Trigrams style from the Ten Heavenly Stems style it was originally from.

The next two were sword-based escaping and body strengthening techniques.

<<Sword Light Mystical Evasion>> transformed the body into sword light for high speed evasion while <<Nine Revolutions Sword Forged Body>> tempered the body with sword intent. The two techniques were highly complementary.

The two manuals after that were Essence and Spirit-based sword techniques.

<<Ox-Might Boulder Shattering Sword Secrets>> used the power of strength to attack while <<Spirit Execution Sword Scroll>> used the power of the spirit to attack.

The seventh book though…

"Record of Sword Immortal Mountbatten's Thousand Year Ascension is a folk biography of your ancestor's adventures! Are you sure you want to choose that?" Shu Yidan called out a warning.

Xiaoyi's only response was a nod. Without saying a word, she was looking around to choose her eighth and final book.

Xiaoyi had skipped Qi-based attacking techniques due to having quite a few of them, and Domain techniques due to Shu Yidan's advice. Shu Yidan thought that apart from the folk biography, Xiaoyi had made all-around good choices, so he quietly waited for her to make her choice.

Finally, she decided on a simple white page. When she moved to grasp it, it floated away into the air. Fortunately, the power of the array locked it into place and after a few minutes of chase, Xiaoyi seized it. The page immediately burst into light and disappeared, and with the eighth choice done, the array collapsed.

"Senior brother, I am done!" Holding the eight books with perfect steadiness, Xiaoyi ran towards Shu Yidan.

"Rengxue, can you check out Xiaoyi's manuals?" Mu Rengxue couldn't help but twitch at Shu Yidan calling her name, but she immediately began work. Taking out a crystal card, she asked Xiaoyi to drip her blood.

After a few taps and spells, Mu Rengxue muttered, "And done."

Handing over the card to her, she opened her mouth to ask something. But Shu Yidan interrupted.

"Please don't ask about the white page. And please keep its disappearance a secret." Hearing Shu Yidan, Mu Rengxue twitched her eyebrows before nodding. "And Xiaoyi, never tell anyone about that page. Not even me."

Xiaoyi couldn't help but ask, "Why not, senior brother?"

Shu Yidan smirked, "All cultivators should keep their fortuitous chances secret. Publicize it and it could arouse the greedy.

… Well, that page doesn't seem to be much of a fortuitous chance, but it is a good start to the many, many secrets you are going to keep to yourself."

Shu Yidan's tone became serious as he spoke, "On the path of immortal cultivation, a single mistake can lead to everlasting regret. Never forget this!"