Chapter 476: True and False Cultivation Methods

He immediately took out a Rejuvenation Pill and fed it to her. Soon after, barely clinging to life, she regained her vitality. However, the pain all over her body made her gasp continuously.

"Senior Sister Wu, I saved your life. You wouldn't refuse to repay me, would you?" Jiang Fan squatted beside her and asked with a half-smile.

Wu Manyue felt like beating Jiang Fan to death. He had almost crushed her, and now he had the nerve to ask for a reward? But she was severely injured all over. She couldn't move a single finger. She gritted her teeth and said, "A reward? What kind of reward?"

"How about I spend a night with you?"

"If you dare, I wouldn't mind."

"Heh." Jiang Fan wouldn't dare touch such a femme fatale. She might pull a dirty trick, and even if he saved his life, he'd suffer greatly or lose something very precious to a man.

"Not at all, not at all!" Jiang Fan quickly dismissed the idea. "How could I make things difficult for Senior Sister?" He took out three small black flags and said, "I just want to know the method for controlling these three small black flags. If you tell me, I'll release you today. Additionally, I'll give you ten demonic pills as a token of my sincerity."

The first two sentences alone made Wu Manyue's blood pressure soar. Demanding her core secret technique, and he called that *not* making things difficult? When she heard the last sentence, she was absolutely furious! She laughed furiously, "Your sincerity is truly overwhelming! I'm practically moved to tears!" Ten demonic pills for her secret technique? Even a beggar wouldn't be dismissed with such an insult!

Jiang Fan gave an awkward smile. "The terms are negotiable, of course. If you think it's too little, then... I'll add one more."

Wu Manyue clutched her stomach, a pained expression on her face. It wasn't her wounds hurting. It was her stomach hurting! She was so angry her stomach ached! "You!" Wu Manyue gritted her teeth. "Don't even think about it..."

But then she had a thought. Jiang Fan wanted this manipulation method so badly. Then she might as well give it to him! She'd give him a fake one and let him make a fool of himself! She immediately pretended to negotiate. "I admit defeat for being captured by you today! But if you want my puppet manipulation technique, you must show proper sincerity. Give me fifty demonic pills!"

Fifty? Liang Feiyan couldn't stand it anymore and exclaimed, "Haven't you understood your situation yet? It's already Junior Brother Jiang's mercy that he spared your life. And you still dare to ask for such an exorbitant price!" Jiang Fan had only acquired a little over sixty demonic pills in Duan Tian Canyon himself. And this woman immediately demanded fifty! She was truly absurd.

"I'll consider it," Jiang Fan said, his eyes flashing. Then he silently activated the Heart-Illuminating Ancient Mirror and shone it at Wu Manyue. Her thoughts immediately appeared in his mind.

*Hmph! He wants to learn my secret technique? I wouldn't teach it for five hundred demonic pills, let alone fifty! Besides, what if I did teach him the secret technique? Could he even learn it?*

Just as she was thinking this, Jiang Fan seemed to make a difficult decision, gritting his teeth and saying, "Alright! Fifty it is! However, you'll have to teach me first so I can test if it's genuine."

Wu Manyue sneered inwardly, *Fool, he's already taken the bait? I don't care about your measly fifty demonic pills! I just want to make you lose face badly!* She immediately said, "Bring me paper and a brush. I'll teach you this technique."

Jiang Fan immediately got her paper and a brush. Wu Manyue picked up the brush and began to write, thinking inwardly: *Change this part like so! This spot is crucial, change it too. And here, all the important steps, change them all.*

Jiang Fan, listening to her thoughts, couldn't help but chuckle inwardly. As she contemplated where to falsify the instructions, she had already mentally reviewed the genuine content, and all of it was perfectly imprinted in Jiang Fan's mind.

Soon after, Wu Manyue said, "Done! Take it!" She handed the written technique to Jiang Fan. She sneered inwardly, *If you forcibly cultivate this, your meridians will reverse, and you'll spit blood on the spot.* She was very satisfied with her masterpiece!

Jiang Fan nodded, took the scroll, and said, "Senior Sister Wu is indeed generous! Allow me to try it out first!"

Wu Manyue's eyes gleamed with cunning. "Go ahead and cultivate with confidence! I, Wu Manyue, still have some credibility."

Seeing that Jiang Fan was actually about to cultivate, Xia Chaoge and the others grew uneasy. "Uncle, are you going to cultivate it right away? Isn't that too reckless?" She was somewhat confused. Her uncle was usually very cautious; how could he be so reckless as to cultivate a technique provided by Wu Manyue?

Liang Feiyan also advised, "Junior Brother Jiang, think this through! You can't easily get the better of this woman." Xie Liushu's mouth twitched. "He just told me to take it easy, and then he turns around and jumps right in?" Fu Chaojun was also somewhat speechless. "This woman is clearly not someone easy to deal with. How could he dare to cultivate a technique she provided so casually?"

Jiang Fan, however, acted as if he hadn't heard them. He sat cross-legged and immediately began to cultivate silently.

Half an hour passed. Wu Manyue had recovered significantly and couldn't help but marvel secretly at the miraculous healing power of the pill. Still, she wouldn't forgive Jiang Fan for it. What puzzled her was this: He had been cultivating for half an hour; logically, his meridians should have been in disarray, and he should have been spitting blood non-stop by now, right? Why was he still acting as if nothing was wrong?

At that moment, Jiang Fan slowly opened his eyes, a hint of satisfaction on his face.

Wu Manyue was startled. "You've finished cultivating?"

Jiang Fan nodded. "Thank you for the technique, Senior Sister Wu. I've practically mastered it. Controlling the three formation flags should be no problem."

Wu Manyue didn't believe a word of it. What she had written was a fake technique, devoid of any crucial content. Unless Jiang Fan hadn't cultivated it at all, as soon as he tried, problems were bound to occur. Realizing this, she asked teasingly, "Is that so? Then Junior Brother Jiang might as well give a live demonstration. Let your Senior Brothers and Sisters see how you learned to control the formation flags so quickly."

Xia Chaoge looked at Wu Manyue's expression and knew that the technique certainly had major flaws. Most likely, Jiang Fan hadn't cultivated it. So she tried to save him face, saying, "Uncle, there's no need for a demonstration. With your talent, we all believe you've learned it." Liang Feiyan and the others then realized what was going on. They all tried to give Jiang Fan an out.

Wu Manyue, however, wouldn't miss a chance to make Jiang Fan lose face. "Since everyone believes, then what's the harm in a demonstration?" She looked at Jiang Fan with a half-smile. "Could it be that you haven't even learned such a simple puppet technique? No way? I wrote the key points of the technique very clearly. Even a fool should have been able to cultivate it by now. Surely you haven't failed to learn it, have you?"

Jiang Fan stroked his chin. His original intention for seizing the three formation flags wasn't to genuinely covet Wu Manyue's technique. Rather, what could be safer than using puppets to scout ahead? He could simply control the puppets from a distance to approach the army of corpses. If he encountered real danger, he could even have the puppets cover his retreat while he escaped first. As for the puppets getting damaged, they weren't his, after all. He wouldn't feel bad about it.

Now that he had just finished cultivating, he did need to try out whether the puppets could be controlled as well as he expected.

"Alright, I'll give it a try," Jiang Fan said readily.

This, ironically, threw Wu Manyue off. This guy, so confident? Could it be that he actually learned it? But how was that possible? She had given him a fake technique!