Chapter 620: Various Nascent Soul Techniques

Chief Jin was also stunned. He looked left and right, not recognizing Daoist Buyu in disguise. "You know me?"

He had traveled thousands of miles to Great Xia, seeking the nation's top storyteller. How could this person possibly recognize him?

Was he that famous?

Chief Jin became wary, his aura flowing out, a chilling killing intent tearing through his clothes. He suspected the person was one of his creditors, but then he reconsidered – his only current creditor was the Meng family.

"It's me, Daoist Buyu," Daoist Buyu whispered, unafraid of revealing his identity. He held no grudge against the Qiongqi tribe.

Daoist Buyu had a code of conduct; his deceptions were selective. He wouldn't swindle the poor, and the Qiongqi tribe was already impoverished enough, there was no need to cause them more trouble.

As for Chief Jin's accidental entanglement with the Nine Nether Cult, that was Eighth Elder's deception, what did it have to do with him?

He also wasn't worried about Chief Jin harboring any ill intentions.

Could someone with bad intentions be this poor?

"Daoist Buyu?" Chief Jin's eyes widened. He then understood. No wonder the storytelling performance was "The Legend of the Dao Seeking Sect"; it made perfect sense that their own sect leader was telling the tale.

"Wait, how did you find me?"

"Oh, that's simple," Daoist Buyu replied. "Years ago, I defaulted on debts and hid everywhere. With so much experience hiding, I gained a lot of experience finding people too."

Daoist Buyu was speechless.

"You want to become my disciple and learn storytelling?" Daoist Buyu hesitated. This was the first time he'd encountered a prospective student who actively sought him out.

Chief Jin also felt some hesitation. Daoist Buyu had a poor reputation; would becoming his disciple also tarnish his own standing?

However, on second thought, Daoist Buyu was indeed a good teacher. His eloquence and deceptive skills were precisely what Chief Jin lacked. This was truly a case of leveraging strengths to compensate for weaknesses.

He gritted his teeth. As the saying goes, "fortune favors the bold." How could he learn such skills without taking risks?

He'd gamble on it.

"Yes, I've come to ask to be your disciple!"

Daoist Buyu seemed to sense Chief Jin's resolute heart and was greatly moved.

Although he had heard that the Qiongqi tribe had peculiar destinies, prone to attracting misfortune, and even the Falling Gold Chamber of Commerce wouldn't take them in, Daoist Buyu had always been cautious in his actions, so nothing bad should happen.

"There's no need for formal apprenticeship," Daoist Buyu said. "You're nearly a thousand years old; our Dao Seeking Sect doesn't recruit disciples of such an advanced age. However, you can stay by my side and learn."

After selling out his master, Lu Yang continued to study cultivation techniques in the Scripture Pavilion with a clear conscience.

Jiang Lianyi wasn't in a hurry to find Daoist Buyu; he couldn't escape Great Xia anyway. The most crucial task now was to learn about the changes in the cultivation world over the past three hundred thousand years.

If she encountered anything she didn't understand, she could simply ask Elder Tao.

Facing the Phoenix Ancestor's questions, Elder Tao naturally answered everything he knew. He had no intention of investigating how Jiang Lianyi came to the Dao Seeking Sect; since Xiaoyun had sent her, she was clearly trusted by Xiaoyun. As a retired individual, he only needed to manage his small plot of land in the Scripture Pavilion. The affairs of the Dao Seeking Sect were for the younger generation to handle.

Furthermore, by answering the Phoenix Ancestor's queries, the Phoenix Clan could also share ancient secrets, making it a win-win situation.

The cultivation techniques in the Scripture Pavilion were comprehensive. When Lu Yang last visited, he was only in the early Core Formation stage, and found some Nascent Soul stage techniques difficult to grasp. Now that his cultivation and perspective had advanced, those Nascent Soul techniques were no longer hard to understand.

"'Pure Yang Cultivation Method'... Oh, it's an ancestral technique for those with lonely spiritual roots. No need to look at that." Based on Lu Yang's understanding of the "Pure Yang Cultivation Method," it either contained motivational words left by predecessors with lonely spiritual roots, akin to self-help platitudes.

Or it offered mild cultivation methods, such as dousing oneself with cold water or living in an ice cellar when feeling overheated, or it prescribed radical methods, like consuming aphrodisiacs to boost Yang energy, embodying the principle of "no destruction, no construction."

The latter method could effectively accelerate the cultivation speed of lonely spiritual roots, but the risks were immense. It was said that several predecessors with lonely spiritual roots couldn't withstand the medicinal effects.

With Old Meng's Phoenix Nirvana True Fire, even lonely spiritual root predecessors who took aphrodisiacs would deem his methods too radical.

"'Mountain-Moving Art,' a body-refining technique. Once mastered, a Nascent Soul cultivator can reach the pinnacle of strength, capable of moving mountains and filling seas with ease." Lu Yang gasped, this Mountain-Moving Art was truly formidable. Old Meng could try practicing it.

As for himself, he wouldn't. He wasn't a body cultivator and couldn't practice body-refining techniques.

"If you want to cultivate your body, there's a shortcut you can take," Immortal Fairy whispered, seeing Lu Yang's interest in such techniques and kindly offering advice.

"What shortcut?"

"Being struck by lightning. If you can survive the lightning tribulation, your physical strength will significantly increase. Immortal Yingtian often did this before achieving immortality. If it weren't for his immense fortune and abundant elixirs, he would have been struck dead long ago."

"But it really works. During that period, Immortal Yingtian could overpower Immortal Qilin. Later, Immortal Qilin became desperate and also underwent lightning tribulations, and only then did they fight to a draw again. The two improved each other through competition, and it became a widely circulated tale, with various prodigies imitating them, leading to many deaths by lightning."

Lightning tribulations weren't only necessary when breaking through cultivation stages; if one wished to undergo them, there were many ways to summon them.

"I'm only at the Nascent Soul stage. Wouldn't getting struck by lightning be very dangerous?"

Immortal Fairy waved her hand. Always having a plan, she had already thought of a solution: "What's there to be afraid of? Have you forgotten Invincible Baby? If you truly encounter a lightning tribulation you can't overcome, Invincible Baby will flee as a warning, making it very safe."

"...Invincible Baby is safe, but what about me?"

This was a difficult question, and Immortal Fairy couldn't immediately think of a good solution.

"Uh, perhaps I could show my face and make the lightning tribulation retreat?"

"Are you sure the lightning tribulation will respect you?"

"Hard to say. Powerful lightning tribulations, like the Nine Heavens Profound Lightning, might respect me. But you're only at the Nascent Soul stage, so you'll definitely encounter minor, unremarkable lightning tribulations that might not have seen me before."

Lu Yang shook his head, pushing Immortal Fairy's suggestion out of his mind, and continued to study the cultivation techniques.

"'Myriad Tribulations Indestructible Art,' a technique specifically for tempering the Nascent Soul. If cultivated to mastery, the Nascent Soul becomes immortal and indestructible, eternally present. Even if a great star were to fall or myriad tribulations were to strike, it would not suffer the slightest damage."

Lu Yang gasped. He hadn't expected such a powerful, top-tier cultivation technique to be so casually placed on a bookshelf. If he could master this, he felt it would be even stronger than his own Invincible Baby.

He looked up, confirming this wasn't the "Yunzhi Zone," and continued flipping through the pages to see how this technique was cultivated.

"To forge a Myriad Tribulations Indestructible Nascent Soul, one must first guide the Nascent Soul through ten thousand types of tribulations."

"...Damn, so this is a theoretical technique," Lu Yang muttered, too exasperated to say more. He then remembered there was such a category of cultivation methods.

There was a type of cultivation technique called a theoretical technique. Theoretically, they were feasible, but only in theory; no one had ever achieved them in practice.

These techniques were either used to deceive outsiders or were the whimsical creations of powerful immortal cultivators.

"Who wrote this... Tao Ran? I haven't heard that name."

Lu Yang seemed to recall something and turned to look at Elder Tao, who was explaining modern cultivation concepts to Senior Lianyi nearby. He seemed to have found the technique's author.