Pang Yu withdrew his aura, his expression somewhat awkward. "Young Master Xu, Young Master Meng, they're just like that. Don't take their words too seriously.
"That lunatic only recently cultivated and researched a secret technique, and nearly crippled himself with it. I've been worried sick over them.
"They really don't value their lives at all. They're simply fooling around!"
Xu Yan looked at the Martial Scholars. Several of them were limping, their injuries not yet healed. He guessed they had all been injured by accidents while cultivating the martial arts they had researched themselves.
"They're all warriors worthy of admiration!"
Xu Yan sighed.
He admired those fellows a little now. They had actually dared to personally test the martial arts techniques they had cobbled together through wild research.
They had not sought outsiders to test the martial arts techniques they had researched. That mindset alone was worthy of recognition.
Xu Yan even suspected that if he randomly fabricated a cultivation method, they would probably begin cultivating it without a second thought.
"The martial arts techniques they researched were all derived from studying numerous martial arts cultivation methods. They had a basis for them, which was why they dared to cultivate them. They weren't fabricated out of thin air.
"If a cultivation method were fabricated from nothing, no one in this world would cultivate it, much less succeed in cultivating it."
Xu Yan laughed inwardly.
How could anyone cultivate a fabricated cultivation method? It would be even less possible to succeed.
The Scholarly Pavilion's collection was much smaller than the Archives Pavilion's, but every text contained core secrets. They covered a broader range of martial arts and contained more secret techniques. In particular, there were insights and summaries left behind by generations of Martial Scholars.
Xu Yan and Meng Chong browsed