Chapter 631: Various Nascent Soul Cultivation Methods

Chief Jin was dumbfounded too, looking left and right but failing to recognize the disguised Daoist Buyu. "You know me?"

He had traveled countless miles to the Great Xia Empire just to find its most legendary storyteller. How could the man possibly know him?

Was his fame truly that widespread?

Chief Jin grew wary, his spiritual energy surging as a chilling aura tore through the hem of his robe, making him suspect the man was a creditor—though upon second thought, the only ones he currently owed money to were the Meng family.

"It’s me, Daoist Buyu," the Daoist whispered softly, unafraid of revealing his identity, as he harbored no personal enmity against the Qiongqi clan.

Buyu operated with a sense of principles; his swindling was highly selective, as he never cheated the impoverished, and since the Qiongqi clan was already destitute enough, there was no need to torment them further.

As for Chief Jin’s accidental entanglement with the Nine Nether Cult, that had been the doing of the Eighth Elder, so what did it have to do with him?

Nor did he fear any malice from Chief Jin.

Could someone with malicious intent ever remain this desperately poor?

"Daoist Buyu?" Chief Jin’s eyes widened, and then reality clicked; no wonder the storytelling was *The Legend of the Dao Sect*. It turned out their own sect master was performing it, which made perfect sense.

"Wait a moment, how did you find me?"

"Oh, that was simple. In my earlier years, I used to dodge debts and hide all over the place. With plenty of experience in hiding, one naturally gains plenty of experience in finding others."

Daoist Buyu: "..."

"You wish to take me as your master and learn the art of storytelling?" Daoist Buyu hesitated slightly, as this was the very first time a disciple had proactively sought him out at his doorstep.

Chief Jin was also somewhat hesitant; Daoist Buyu possessed a terrible reputation, and becoming his disciple might drag his own reputation down as well.

Yet looking at it from another perspective, Daoist Buyu was indeed an excellent teacher with superb eloquence and brilliant deceitful arts—precisely the qualities Chief Jin lacked, embodying the very concept of mending one's shortcomings by learning from another.

Grit-tearingly, he reminded himself that wealth and honor are found within danger, so how could one acquire great skills without taking risks?

It was worth the gamble.

"Yes, I have come to formally request you to be my master!"

Daoist Buyu seemed to feel the resolute heart of Chief Jin and was deeply moved.

Although he had heard that the Qiongqi clan possessed a bizarre destiny that constantly invited disaster, to the point where even the Golden Currency Chamber of Commerce dared not shelter them, he had always acted with extreme caution, so surely nothing would go wrong.

"There is no need for a formal master-disciple bond. You are nearly a thousand years old, and our Dao Sect does not recruit disciples of such an advanced age, but you may stay by my side to learn."

Having sold out his master, Lu Yang peacefully and clear-consciencedly continued to study cultivation methods within the Scripture Library.

Jiang Lianyi was in no hurry to seek out Daoist Buyu either; after all, he could not escape the Great Xia Empire, and the most pressing matter at hand was to learn about the transformations within the cultivation world over the past three hundred thousand years.

Should she encounter anything perplexing, she could simply ask Elder Tao directly.

Faced with the inquiries of the Phoenix Ancestor, Elder Tao naturally concealed nothing, having no desire to pry into how Jiang Lianyi had arrived at the Dao Sect; since Little Yun had allowed her here, she clearly possessed Little Yun's trust, and as a retired fellow, he only needed to manage his own small plot of the Scripture Library, leaving the future of the Dao Sect to the younger generations.

Furthermore, by answering the Phoenix Ancestor's doubts, the Phoenix clan could also recount ancient secrets, making it a mutually beneficial arrangement.

The cultivation methods within the Scripture Library encompassed everything; the last time Lu Yang visited, he was only at the early Golden Core stage and had found the few Nascent Soul stage methods rather obscure, but now that his cultivation and perspective had caught up, those Nascent Soul methods were no longer difficult to comprehend.

"The *Pure Yang Cultivation Method*... oh, it's the ancestral method for the Single Spiritual Root, no need to read it." Based on Lu Yang's understanding of the *Pure Yang Cultivation Method*, it either contained encouraging words left behind by Single Spiritual Root seniors, serving as a sort of chicken soup for the soul.

Or it consisted of gentle cultivation methods, such as dousing oneself with cold water and living in an ice cellar when the body grew feverish, or aggressive cultivation methods, such as consuming aphrodisiacs to increase Yang energy, destroying to rebuild.

The latter method could effectively accelerate the cultivation speed of a Single Spiritual Root, but the risks were monumental; he had heard that several Single Spiritual Root seniors failed to withstand the medicinal potency.

Old Meng possessed the blessing of the Nirvana True Flame, so even those aphrodisiac-consuming Single Spiritual Root seniors would call his methods far too aggressive upon seeing him.

"The *Mountain-Moving Art*, a body-tempering method; when practiced to great completion, one can achieve the ultimate limit of physical strength at the Nascent Soul stage, making the moving of mountains and filling of seas a trivial matter." Lu Yang gasped softly, for this Mountain-Moving Art was truly formidable, and Old Meng could certainly practice it.

As for himself, he would pass, since he was not a body-tempering cultivator and could not practice such arts.

"If you wish to temper your body, there is a shortcut you can take." Seeing Lu Yang enticed by this type of method, the Immortal Fairy offered some well-meaning advice.

"What shortcut?"

"Getting struck by lightning. If you can survive a lightning tribulation, it can effectively enhance your physical strength. Before Immortal Yingtian attained immortality, he did this constantly; if it weren't for his immense luck and a never-ending supply of pills, he would have been struck to death long ago."

"But to say it works means it truly works; during that period, Immortal Yingtian could completely suppress Immortal Qilin in battle. Later, Immortal Qilin grew desperate and underwent lightning tribulations as well to restore the stalemate, and their mutual improvement through competition became a beautiful tale of the era, which countless geniuses rushed to imitate, resulting in many being struck to death."

It was not only during breakthroughs that one needed to face a lightning tribulation; if one wished to face one, there were plenty of ways to draw the tribulation down.

"I am only at the Nascent Soul stage, wouldn't getting struck by lightning be very dangerous?"

The Immortal Fairy waved her hand, her calculations flawless as she had long since devised a solution: "What are you afraid of? Have you forgotten your Invincible Nascent Soul? If you truly encounter a lightning tribulation you cannot survive, the Invincible Nascent Soul will flee as a warning, making it perfectly safe."

"...The Invincible Nascent Soul is safe, but what about me?"

This question was rather difficult, and the Immortal Fairy could not think of a good solution for the moment.

"Uh, how about this Immortal shows her face to make the lightning tribulation turn back?"

"Are you certain the lightning tribulation will give you face?"

"Hard to say. A formidable lightning tribulation would give me face, like the Nine Heavens Profound Lightning or something, but you are only at the Nascent Soul stage, so it will definitely be some low-tier, insignificant lightning tribulation that might not have ever seen me."

Lu Yang shook his head, tossing the Immortal Fairy's suggestion to the back of his mind as he continued to research the methods.

"The *Myriad Tribulations Imperishable Art*, a cultivation method specifically designed to forge the Nascent Soul; if practiced to great completion, the Nascent Soul becomes immortal and imperishable, existing eternally, so that even if great stars collapse and ten thousand tribulations fall upon the body, it will not suffer the slightest damage."

Lu Yang gasped softly, astonished that such a formidable, top-tier cultivation method was just casually placed on the bookshelf; if one could master this, it felt even more powerful than his own Invincible Nascent Soul.

He looked up to confirm this was not the "Yun Zhi Section" before continuing to flip through, examining how this method was cultivated.

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

"...Damn it, so this is just a theoretical cultivation method." Lu Yang felt powerless to complain, remembering that such a category of methods existed.

There was a class of methods known as theoretical methods, which were feasible in theory, but strictly limited to theory, as no one in practice had ever accomplished them.

Such methods were either used to deceive outsiders, or were the whimsical, eccentric thoughts of great cultivation masters.

"Who wrote this... Tao Ran? Never heard of this name."

As if remembering something, Lu Yang turned his head to look not far away at Elder Tao, who was currently explaining modern cultivation concepts to Senior Lianyi, seemingly having found the true master of the cultivation method.