Chapter 591 - 408: Technique Transmission and Mission

The recent incident in the distant Awakening Lion Valley had, for the moment, no connection to the Qingyuan Sect in Southern White Mountain. At this time, Fang Qingyuan was in conversation with Tu Dai’Er.

Seeing Fang Qingyuan’s slightly weary appearance, the corners of Tu Dai’Er’s lips curled up. She had been in the Qingyuan Sect when he took five new Concubines in quick succession and had seen it all clearly. Thus, his current expression told her everything she needed to know.

But she had completely misunderstood him. The reason Fang Qingyuan looked so weary was entirely because of his cultivation technique. Deducing the next stage of the *True Scripture of the Five Spirits Transforming Baleful Qi and Refining Form* had consumed a vast amount of his mental energy. Lately, while he had paid some attention to his new Concubines, most of his focus had been on the technique. Thus, the look on Tu Dai’Er’s face revealed that she was completely underestimating his physical constitution.

Now, having hit a bottleneck with his cultivation, Fang Qingyuan had to admit that he wasn’t some peerless genius capable of innovation. His comprehension wasn’t that high. Just like his initial Spirit Root aptitude, Fang Qingyuan’s insight was merely average.

He could quickly grasp a cultivation technique, but he could only practice it step-by-step. The realm of drawing inferences and creating innovations was still beyond his current reach.

With the path forward for the *True Scripture of the Five Spirits Transforming Baleful Qi and Refining Form* blocked, Fang Qingyuan’s cultivation speed slowed abruptly. Because he couldn’t see the path ahead, he had to probe for a long time with every step he took just to increase his Magical Power by a sliver.

This was the consequence of a primary cultivation technique not matching one’s actual situation. Because of the Immortal Mansion, Fang Qingyuan had already altered the original *True Scripture of the Five Spirits Transforming Baleful Qi and Refining Form* beyond recognition during his Golden Core Stage.

This couldn’t be considered a dead end, for Fang Qingyuan had embarked on a different Great Dao. But without the experience of predecessors to draw upon, his progress was exceptionally slow. If Fang Qingyuan had the patience to devote immense energy to perfecting this technique, he might one day be able to create a Heavenly Rank Technique. However, Fang Qingyuan admitted to himself that he currently had neither the patience nor the time.

The affair with Bear Wind had greatly broadened Fang Qingyuan’s horizons, but this wasn’t entirely a good thing. Maneuvering among tiers of power far exceeding his own, one careless misstep could lead to being utterly crushed.

Therefore, more than ever before, Fang Qingyuan wanted to quickly break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.

To achieve this goal, he had to change his primary cultivation technique. It would be best to switch to a fundamental Heart Method that led directly to the Divinity Transformation Stage, so he wouldn’t have to scramble for a new technique in the late-stage Nascent Soul or Divinity Transformation Stage.

In the current Cultivation Realm, there were probably twenty or thirty such techniques that could satisfy Fang Qingyuan’s needs. However, the only one he truly had access to at the moment was through Tu Dai’Er.

Perhaps the Confucian Cultivation Techniques from the Great Zhou Academy were another path. As long as he accumulated enough military merits from pioneering wars, anything could be redeemed. Fang Qingyuan could just keep fighting in pioneering wars in the future and slowly gather all the techniques he needed.

But it came back to the same problem: it was too slow. Fang Qingyuan craved power—power that he himself could control.

"The *Six Desires Celestial Demon Transformation* is a technique that leads directly to the Divinity Transformation Stage. Is that still not enough to satisfy you?"

Tu Dai’Er’s expression was one of disbelief. Fang Qingyuan had just explicitly rejected the terms she offered. Within Black Wind Valley, the *Six Desires Celestial Demon Transformation* was considered a third-tier scripture, yet Fang Qingyuan had just refused it so bluntly.

Countless Cultivators in the outside world would dream of obtaining this scripture, and if it weren’t for having earned Tu Wuzhao’s favor, Fang Qingyuan wouldn’t even have a chance to practice it.

But Fang Qingyuan had his own reasoning. "If I’m going to switch my cultivation technique, of course I should practice the most profound one. Why would I choose the *Six Desires Celestial Demon Transformation* when I could be practicing the *Sovereign Celestial Demon Soul Capturing Scripture*?"

Tu Dai’Er was so incensed she started to laugh. She actually bent over, laughing uncontrollably. She looked at Fang Qingyuan as if he were an ignorant child. "Even I can’t practice the *Sovereign Celestial Demon Soul Capturing Scripture*! How could a Golden Core Cultivator from the Beast Taming Sect possibly learn it? One of the conditions for practicing it is to have a clean background. Your ancestors for the past ten generations must have been true-blue Cultivators from my Black Wind Valley! Without passing a thousand years of tests, how dare you even dream of obtaining a fundamental scripture of the sect?"

Fang Qingyuan smiled confidently. Rules are made by people, and from the day they are made, they are waiting to be broken. Tu Dai’Er didn’t know about the conversation Fang Qingyuan had with Tu Wuzhao on the flying shuttle to Celestial Gate Mountain to see Yue’e. She didn’t know how highly Tu Wuzhao regarded him.

Because of Jinbao, in Tu Wuzhao’s eyes, Fang Qingyuan wasn’t just some minor Golden Core Cultivator. If the weight of Bear Wind was added to the equation, his importance was even greater.

Based on his analysis of her past behavior, Fang Qingyuan knew Tu Wuzhao was a reckless and willful person. Her personality was obvious—audacious and daring. Stealing the Wind Stabilizing Pearl from the Land of Trial was a perfect example; it proved Tu Wuzhao was someone who refused to abide by any rules.

Judging from how Tu Wuzhao had wanted to teach him the *Six Desires Celestial Demon Transformation* back then, Fang Qingyuan believed he had at least a thirty to forty percent chance of success in learning the *Sovereign Celestial Demon Soul Capturing Scripture*.

For something like this, a thirty to forty percent chance of success was already frighteningly high. What reason did Fang Qingyuan have not to take the gamble?

The Immortal Mansion could only make him rich for now, but a sect’s fundamental technique wasn’t something that could be bought with Spirit Stones. The sooner he obtained a fundamental Heart Method, the better. If he waited until the Late-stage Golden Core to switch, it would likely be even more difficult.