Switching Cultivation to [Cold Blood Art]

This clause was simply jaw-dropping, but since it existed, it had to have its reasons. Demonic cultivators were not fools; they would never willingly let themselves be exploited.

If it could endure, that meant it was more profitable than taking commissions from the Mission Hall.

Wang Yu naturally thought of well-connected people securing positions. He knew that all too well—this was exactly the flavor of it!

A True Inheritor's authority was equivalent to that of an elder, and its reach was incredibly broad. It was not limited to that one person alone; Ice Snow Tower was a product of such privilege.

If both sides benefited, then it made sense.

When he arrived on the Tenth Floor, he found it essentially full, with only the twenty-ninth room vacant. Wang Yu moved in without hesitation.

The room's environment was quite nice, and it was fairly spacious as well.

The Purple Paulownia Bed was large enough for five people to lie on it vertically; laid sideways, it could fit more than ten without issue. The bedding was smooth as water, cool and moist to the touch, made from superior material.

The tables and chairs were all present, carved with many landscapes.

The Emerald Screen Embroidery featured ink-wash paintings of immortal cranes dancing above lotus ponds, as well as vivid Red Dust scenes of an old man climbing mountains to gather firewood.

Even the arch corners of the room were inlaid with gold and silver—utterly luxurious.

And it was far larger than he had imagined.

A round arched curtain doorway led to a resting couch, while the main hall opened in all directions. There was also a small balcony with a railing and rippling-seat arrangement, enough to take in the beautiful scenery of Little Ten District.

There was even a sealable quiet room to meet a cultivator's needs for secluded cultivation.

Thus, Wang Yu's first day as an outer disciple came to a perfect end.

The next day.

He Encountered his first Difficult problems after officially becoming a disciple.

Food!

Cultivators needed to eat too. Before breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, Qi Refining Cultivators could not yet treat Spirit Qi as food. Without someone feeding him at regular intervals, Wang Yu actually felt somewhat unaccustomed to it.

He could either go outside to buy food or head to the Alchemy Hall to purchase Fasting Pills. A single pill could last Three months and meet the body's daily needs.

The problem was that Wang Yu had no Spirit Stones at all. He did have a few taels of Spirit Sand Remaining, though; after all, during the last Three months of his life as a Spirit Slave, he had not turned in any Spirit Sand.

The Inverse Spirit Blood Sect did not have any concept of disciple stipends either. It was good enough if they did not exploit you—how could they possibly pay you "wages"? Keep dreaming.

After flipping through the small booklet Zhao Shang had given him, he discovered that Ice Snow Tower offered meal delivery services. They mainly served all kinds of Spirit Food, which were beneficial to cultivation.

As for the prices, Wang Yu recoiled at the sight of them.

There were currently two problems before him: making money and switching cultivation arts. The Blood Burning Art was, after all, a quick-success demonic art with no follow-up technique. Sooner or later, he would have to replace it.

The sooner, the better.

As for making money, aside from Self-damaging Cultivation to condense Spirit Sand or going out to rob people, he had no skill that could earn Spirit Stones.

"First, solve the problem of survival. Then I'll make a trip to the Scripture Pavilion in Central Halls District and settle the cultivation art issue."

Having made up his mind, Wang Yu left early in the morning.

Within the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect, Contribution Points and Spirit Stones were the two circulating currencies. The two were essentially equal in value, but could not be converted into each other.

Spirit Food with special effects was almost always traded for Contribution Points. Ordinary food, on the other hand, was not expensive. Now that he had a Storage Bag, there was no need to worry about food spoiling.

Wang Yu bought three hundred large meat buns in one go, spending half a tael of Spirit Sand.

After casually eating some, the Scripture Pavilion came into view.

This place was more like a catalog hall. Once one had decided which cultivation art or spell technique to learn, one had to take the catalog to the Technique Transmission Hall to receive the corresponding Technique Transmission Jade Slip.

It could not be taken out, nor could it be passed on to Others. An Inner Demon Oath had to be sworn.

There were not many people in the Scripture Pavilion. Perhaps the proper period for recruiting disciples had already passed. The ten peaks of the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect corresponded to different Demonic Path inheritances.

Wang Yu went to the section corresponding to Cold Blood Peak. As an Outer Disciple of Cold Blood Peak, his free opportunity to switch cultivation arts could only be used here.

The other benefit True Inheritor Su had given him, however, came without restrictions.

"Cold Blood Art, Yin Underworld Art, Heavenly Cold Strategy, Ice Marrow Scripture..."

Without exception, they were all ice-cold attribute cultivation arts. They were all first-tier high-grade as well, allowing normal cultivation all the way to Qi Refining Great Perfection and even a smooth breakthrough into the Foundation Establishment Stage before one needed to switch cultivation arts.

Every one of them had follow-up techniques, but their upper limit was only the Third Tier. There were no Fourth Tier Nascent Soul cultivation arts.

[Those who cultivate the Ice Marrow Scripture possess Stability of mind and a clear spiritual platform. After death, their corpses may produce Ice Marrow, an excellent material for nurturing frost corpses.]

[Those who cultivate the Heavenly Cold Strategy wield frost spells of formidable power, far surpassing Ordinary People. After death, their corpses can serve as excellent materials for Refined Corpses.]

[Those who cultivate the Cold Blood Art possess formidable physical bodies and yin-cold blood and qi. They have greater affinity with yin-cold attribute Spirit Qi and can slightly improve their aptitude. After death, their corpses are premium materials for refining Frost Corpses.]

Wang Yu: "???"

Were they really this brazen about it?!!

They might as well have written outright that one's corpse belonged to the sect after death. But that was more or less what these descriptions meant.

The only one that attracted Wang Yu was the description of the [Cold Blood Art]. Its claim that it could slightly improve one's aptitude was likely true—though the improvement was probably exceedingly minute.

But for him, there was no aptitude worse than Useless Spiritual Roots. Every tiny improvement, under the effect of the Placement Slots, would be magnified severalfold.

That was quite considerable.

"Cold Blood..."

Moreover, he had a feeling that this thing paired extremely well with the [Corpse Demon Secret Art]!

After pondering for a long while, Wang Yu took down the catalogue and headed next door to the Technique Transmission Hall. After passing the verification of the Inner Demon Oath, he successfully obtained this new cultivation art. Without another word, he tossed it into a Placement Slot to inspect it.

[Placement Slot 1: Cold Blood Art]

"Cold Blood Art (0/100): Forty-eight practices per day; mastery in one year."

It was worth mentioning that the Ice Sword Technique was one of this art's accompanying spells. There was also a mid-grade spell called [Ice Shield Technique], which Wang Yu likewise took for himself.

The accompanying First-Tier Magical Artifact blueprint, [Cold Blood Needle], and the First-Tier Alchemy Recipe, [Cold Blood Pill]—this was a complete cultivation art inheritance!

With an entire set prepared, he only needed to refine it slowly to become a qualified Qi Refining Cultivator.

If he could advance to the second tier in the future and become a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, there would be even more accompanying spells, magical artifacts, alchemy recipes... and so on.

Wang Yu returned to Ice Snow Tower, thoroughly satisfied.

As for the token worth a thousand Contribution Points that could be exchanged for anything, he had yet to decide how to use it.

His next priorities, aside from breaking through to the Qi Refining Fourth Layer, were to bring all the spells he had accumulated to perfection.

The high-grade spell [Night Concealment Spell], the mid-grade spell [Ice Shield Technique], and the fragmentary Nascent Soul Secret Art [Corpse Demon Secret Art]—three in total.

He had already decided to cultivate this secret art, but first he needed to determine their order of priority.

Breaking through to the Qi Refining Fourth Layer was still a distant prospect, so freeing up one Placement Slot would not have much impact.

[Placement Slot 2: Night Concealment Spell]

"Night Concealment Spell (1/100): Practice for twelve hours a day; mastery in three months."

Seeing this, Wang Yu replaced it with the Ice Shield Technique.

[Placement Slot 2: Ice Shield Technique]

"Ice Shield Technique (0/100): One hundred forty-four practices per day; mastery in one month."

After weighing it in his heart, he decided to place the Night Concealment Spell first.