Teaching Disciples Returns Rewards, Ten-Thousand-Mile Tracking Technique

"Today, I will teach you a secret tracking technique."

Lu Changsheng took out a low-grade Mystic Stage Cultivation Method.

Though it was only a Mystic Stage Cultivation Method, it had considerable uses.

By tracking an enemy's Qi, one could wipe them out completely and eliminate future troubles forever.

Lu Changsheng separated a wisp of Spiritual Qi and attached it to a spirit ape he had "invited" over. Lian followed his example and separated a wisp of Spiritual Qi as well.

"Silently recite the Tracking Technique's Mnemonic and maintain your perception of this wisp of Spiritual Qi. Wherever the spirit ape goes, you will know."

"Go on."

At Lu Changsheng's direction, the spirit ape left the cave abode.

Being able to serve as a "teaching aid" for Lu Changsheng, who was in the Dao Palace Realm, was a tremendous stroke of fortune for it.

Many spirit beasts in Mount Shu attained the Dao not only because Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was abundant there, but also because they occasionally received guidance from Mount Shu's elders.

"Master, I can sense it! The spirit ape has reached the mountainside!"

Lian silently recited the Mnemonic and could clearly sense the spirit ape's location.

"This is the simplest Tracking Technique."

"Next, I will teach you the second level of the Tracking Technique. It can be used to search for enemies within a hundred li by scent."

"But you must understand one thing: the Tracking Technique is not completely reliable. An opponent can use other scents to mask their own, then control their breathing and focus their mind to escape pursuit. Even more formidable opponents can use formations to conceal their existence and become one with heaven and earth."

"At such times, you must employ strategy. You can double back with a surprise attack or lure the snake from its hole."

"When tracking an enemy, you must also consider the direction they are most likely to have fled and the places they are most likely to hide. Only then can you find them as quickly as possible."

"Ingenuity is also part of strength."

"Employing ingenuity is the highest realm of the Tracking Technique."

Lu Changsheng began teaching her the conceptual realms of the second and third levels of the Tracking Technique.

Lu Changsheng took out a small twig from a bird's nest on Azure Cloud Peak. He then had Lian use the scent on the twig and spread her Divine Sense across Azure Cloud Peak to search for the nest's exact location.

Lian was clumsy at first and spent half a shichen before she found the nest in a crooked-necked tree at the mountain's summit.

Once she had become proficient, Lu Changsheng took out a pinecone. This time, Lian found the squirrel's location in less than a quarter of an hour.

[Ding! You bestowed the low-grade Mystic Stage Cultivation Method "Tracking Technique" upon your disciple "Lian" and received a five-hundredfold reward for teaching your disciple: the Heavenly-Tier Low-Grade Cultivation Method "Ten-Thousand-Mile Tracking Technique."]

[Ding! Remaining bestowals for today: -1.]

A Heavenly-Tier Low-Grade Cultivation Method appeared out of thin air in Lu Changsheng's robes.

The Ten-Thousand-Mile Tracking Technique could track an enemy ten thousand li away using a faint trace of Qi. If cultivated to its highest realm, it could even reveal the scene around the person being tracked ten thousand li away.

Wasn't this clairvoyance?

Lu Changsheng rejoiced inwardly.

If he cultivated the Ten-Thousand-Mile Tracking Technique to its highest realm, then even without leaving Mount Shu, he could use the tracking Secret Art to see what his disciples were doing.

That was one of its uses.

The Ten-Thousand-Mile Tracking Technique's greatest use, however, was still hunting down enemies.

If one cut the grass without pulling out its roots, it would grow again when the spring wind blew.

Once he learned this Secret Art, it would be exceedingly difficult for an opponent to escape.

A Heaven Stage Cultivation Method was beyond Lian's comprehension at her current realm, so Lu Changsheng began cultivating the Ten-Thousand-Mile Tracking Technique first.

Three months later, Lu Changsheng separated a wisp of Divine Sense and sent it out of Mount Shu, following the Qi of his eldest disciple, Lin Qingzhi, to track his whereabouts.

"The Ten-Thousand-Mile Tracking Technique uses the Space Principle. It is an extremely difficult Principle."

Lu Changsheng guided this insignificant wisp of Divine Sense, tracking him for several thousand li.

After three days and three nights, Lu Changsheng's wisp of Divine Sense entered a vassal state called Ji Kingdom.

The Mount Shu disciple squad that Lin Qingzhi belonged to had been traveling under the guise of Rogue Cultivators, slaying demons and vanquishing evil while upholding justice. They were currently in Ji Kingdom.

Using the Secret Art, Lu Changsheng's Divine Sense searched Ji Kingdom for Lin Qingzhi's exact location.

"Found him!"

After another day, Lu Changsheng finally found his eldest disciple's location using the Ten-Thousand-Mile Tracking Technique.

"Condense!"

Inside his cave abode on Azure Cloud Peak, Lu Changsheng's main body continually changed hand signs, forcibly condensing the scene ten thousand li away.

"I can see them."

Across a distance of ten thousand li, Lu Changsheng could vaguely see the Mount Shu squad that Lin Qingzhi belonged to.

In Guangye Marsh of Ji Kingdom, hundreds of Rogue Cultivators had gathered at a local military camp in response to a recruitment call from the local authorities.

The military camp stretched for dozens of li, banners snapping in the wind as two hundred thousand mortal soldiers assembled.

A stern-faced general at the Fifth Layer of the Golden Core Realm cupped his fists toward the hundreds of Rogue Cultivators. "I am Chu Yu, great general of Ji Kingdom! We must trouble you esteemed Daoists to lend us your aid in this campaign against the bandits of Guangye Marsh. Their leader, Sima Kuang, is an Evil Cultivator at the Golden Core Realm Sixth Layer. He has gathered eight hundred highly skilled bandits and occupied the miasma-shrouded Guangye Marsh, from which they periodically raid cities, burning, killing, and looting."

"The court has long sought to wipe out this bandit, but every time troops are sent against him, those Eight Hundred Bandits hide in Guangye Marsh. They appear and vanish like ghosts, leaving the army to return empty-handed."

"Therefore, the court has spared no expense in recruiting you esteemed Daoists this time, and has also dispatched two hundred thousand troops, determined to wipe out this bandit."

"Tomorrow, the army of two hundred thousand will march into Guangye Marsh. You esteemed Daoists need only kill the bandit chief, Sima Kuang. Leave the remaining bandits to us."

"So long as you esteemed Daoists render meritorious service, our Ji Kingdom will surely reward you handsomely."

"Whoever kills the bandit chief Sima Kuang will receive a fifth-grade pill!"

Chu Yu announced the terms of the bounty to the gathered Rogue Cultivators.

At the mention of a fifth-grade pill, every Rogue Cultivator present went wild.

It was a fifth-grade pill, worth a fortune!

The Rogue Cultivators present were mostly in the Qi Condensation Realm or Golden Core Realm. They might go their entire lives without ever seeing even a fourth-grade pill, much less a fifth-grade one.

Wasn't it just a fifth-grade pill...?

Lu Changsheng watched everyone present through the Ten-Thousand-Mile Tracking Technique. Seeing them go wild over a single fifth-grade pill, he could not help muttering to himself.

Because he had diligently fleeced the system every day, Lu Changsheng had mountains of fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade pills. He even had an eighth-grade pill that could shake the Six Great Orthodox Sects and Four Great Demonic Sects.

It seemed that helping Ji Kingdom wipe out the eight hundred roving bandits of Guangye Marsh was the most important task of the Mount Shu squad's training journey down the mountain.

Sima Kuang, the leader of the Eight Hundred Bandits, was an Evil Cultivator at the Golden Core Realm Sixth Layer. His realm was lower than that of the Mount Shu disciple leading the squad, who was at the Golden Core Realm Ninth Layer, so the training task did not seem difficult.

However, Lu Changsheng knew there was something unusual about Evil Cultivators.

Evil Cultivators knew some crooked and unorthodox Dao techniques that were often impossible to guard against.

Black Tiger Dao Lord, whom Lu Changsheng had encountered in Desolate Province, knew a Dao technique called Black Tiger Heart-Devouring. It could attack an opponent's soul and scatter it to the winds.

"I have a feeling that Master seems to be watching us."

Among the Rogue Cultivators, Lin Qingzhi suddenly sensed that, somewhere in the Unseen, his master seemed to be watching over this training task.