Not long after, the fourth floor of the Myriad Laws Pavilion.
Inside a stone room, Zhang Ling respectfully addressed an old woman in black robes.
"Thank you for your guidance, Senior."
The old woman in black robes had snow-white hair and appeared quite old, but Zhang Ling dared not show the slightest disrespect towards her. This was the guardian of the fourth floor, a Nascent Soul cultivator.
The old woman was holding the Myriad Direction Token in her hand, examining it. Then, with a flash of spiritual light, she put the token away. She glanced at Zhang Ling, waved her hand, and said,
"You may leave. Remember, you can only choose one, whether it's cultivation insights or a secret technique."
"Yes, this junior will take his leave," Zhang Ling bowed and retreated out of the stone room. Outside the room stood a boy of seven or eight years old.
This boy was also a cultivator, but to Zhang Ling's surprise, he had already reached the late stage of Qi Refining at such a young age.
"Senior, please follow me," The boy gave him a quick glance, pointed to a passage ahead, and led the way without waiting.
Following the boy through several passages, they arrived at a space about a hundred zhang in size. It contained only a few rows of shelves and appeared very empty.
"Senior may choose freely."
The boy stood at the entrance of the cave, bowed, and then sat down cross-legged to meditate.
Zhang Ling couldn't help but take another look at the boy. At such a young age, he not only possessed considerable cultivation but also a good temperament. It seemed likely that he was a descendant of the Nascent Soul cultivator from before.
This made him sigh inwardly. When he was this age, he was still playing in the mud in the mountains. He also remembered some of his life in Qing Tian Village and his only relative, his grandfather.
A hundred years had passed in a flash. He had not only become a cultivator but had also reached the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm. Many people envied him, but the road ahead was uncertain, and he had no confidence in advancing further.
Zhang Ling sighed and walked towards the rows of bookshelves. Reaching the shelves, he suppressed his sudden thoughts, calmed his mind, and looked at the jade scrolls, books, and other items.
A white jade scroll caught his eye, and as his divine sense scanned it, a stream of information flowed into his mind.
"Water Spirit Core Formation Art, a secret technique passed down by the Water Spirit Sect, suitable for Water attribute cultivators to form a Golden Core, with a success rate of about 30%..."
The hundreds of words of introduction allowed Zhang Ling to instantly understand that the secret technique on this jade scroll was actually an art for forming a Golden Core. He seemed to have heard of the Water Spirit Sect somewhere.
After a brief thought, he remembered that the Water Spirit Sect was a sect with a long heritage, but it seemed to have lost its lineage thousands of years ago.
Subsequently, he examined several other jade scrolls and books. They were all protected by forbidden spells, enveloped in a layer of spiritual light. As long as divine sense touched the spiritual light, the general information of the cultivation techniques and secret arts would flow into the mind, which was very convenient.
They mostly contained powerful cultivation techniques or secret arts of various types, covering a wide range.
A significant portion of them were secret methods from sects that had disappeared in the river of time, including Xuanmen cultivation techniques, as well as secret arts from demon refiners, the Demonic Path, and the Ghost Path. There were also inheritances in formations, alchemy, artifact refinement, and other myriad arts of cultivation.
Although not every one of them was rare and hard to find, they all had some unique features, either possessing great power upon successful cultivation or capable of cultivating special divine abilities.
In addition, there were also cultivation insights engraved by Nascent Soul elders. Seeing these insights, Zhang Ling couldn't help but feel excited and immediately decided to choose one to take away.
When he broke through to the Golden Core stage, he had received insights from high-level cultivators. These insights had given him a lot of help in successfully breaking through to the Golden Core stage.
Cultivation insights were very mysterious, being the cultivators' own understanding of the cultivation process. Although they might not be applicable to all cultivators, the insights of Nascent Soul cultivation would definitely be of some help to Golden Core cultivators.
Zhang Ling kept checking these secret arts and cultivation techniques.
He also saw a yellow jade scroll that actually recorded the Xuanling Sect's cultivation technique, the Yuanling Art, but it was only a fragment and could only be cultivated to the late stage of the Golden Core realm.
Attached to it was a small section of secret incantation. He carefully read it and found that it was actually a cultivation incantation for the Xuanling Shield secret technique. This also confirmed that the Earth Element True Spirit Art he was currently cultivating was indeed the inherited cultivation technique of the ancient Xuanling Sect.
In the blink of an eye, he had spent more than an hour on the fourth floor of the Myriad Laws Pavilion, roughly reviewing the information in the jade scrolls and books.
But at this moment, his brows furrowed, and he stopped in front of a rosewood shelf, holding a black jade scroll in his hand, and couldn't help but ponder.
After a long while, Zhang Ling finally made up his mind and walked out with the black jade scroll. Under the guidance of the boy, he once again saw the white-haired old woman of the Nascent Soul stage. After successfully copying a copy of the jade scroll's information and casting a secret spell to prevent it from being spread, he left the Myriad Laws Pavilion.
Back at the inn where he was staying, Zhang Ling sat in his room, closed his eyes, and examined the information in the jade scroll. In the Myriad Laws Pavilion, the last thing he chose was not cultivation insights, but a secret technique called the Thunder Essence Spirit Nurturing Art.
This technique was said to be a secret technique of the ancient Yunxiao Sect. The Yunxiao Sect was a famous super sect in ancient times.
It seemed to be even more famous than the Xuanling Sect. The Yunxiao Sect was proficient in thunder techniques and formations. If it weren't for the cataclysmic changes in the world, the collapse of the continent, and the appearance of the desolate turbid Qi, this sect might still exist today.
Several of the existing sects proficient in thunder techniques are said to be branches of the Yunxiao Sect. Among them, the most powerful Thundercloud Gate is one of the Ten Great Sects.
The reason for choosing this Thunder Essence Spirit Nurturing Art was that this secret technique was a special secret technique that combined formation and cultivation. The introduction stated that it could increase the cultivator's success rate of forming a Nascent Soul, but it did not explicitly state by how much.
But it seemed to be able to increase it by at least 10%. It should be known that the Nascent Soul stage, even in the ancient times when spiritual power was abundant, was a major bottleneck. In today's cultivation world, cultivators who can reach the Nascent Soul stage are even rarer, each being a dragon or phoenix among men with great opportunities.
To reach the Nascent Soul stage, not only must the cultivator's spiritual power be abundant, but they must also overcome the inner demon.
Spiritual objects and secret methods that increase the probability of forming a Nascent Soul are very rare in the cultivation world. On the fourth floor of the Myriad Laws Pavilion, he only saw three or four types, and the Thunder Essence Spirit Nurturing Art was one of them.
Most of the other types had very high requirements for aptitude and were not something he could cultivate.
The Thunder Essence Spirit Nurturing Art is divided into three layers. It uses thunder techniques to condense the true essence spiritual power in the cultivator's body, making the spiritual power more pure in order to increase the chances of forming a Nascent Soul. However, as long as the second layer is successfully cultivated, it can increase the chances of forming a Nascent Soul.
He is now in the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, and the spiritual power in his body is already very abundant. The cultivation technique he cultivates is also an ancient technique, making his spiritual power much more condensed than that of cultivators of the same rank.
If he wants to refine his spiritual power further, ordinary methods will not work. For example, the Earth Spirit Bee Honey that he still takes from time to time no longer has much effect on him.
However, thunder techniques are powerful and most restrain Yin and evil. Using this powerful and violent spiritual power to stimulate the spiritual power in the body can achieve some effect.
Originally, this technique was not created for the purpose of condensing the Nascent Soul, but because of the characteristics of the thunder attribute, it was classified as a secret technique that could increase the chances of forming a Nascent Soul.
