A Stirring II

"Ultimately, I still lack a primary cultivation technique." Helpless, Lu Sheng left the room and sat beneath a tree in the courtyard.

The night wind carried a faint dampness, bringing over the vapor from the nearby river.

Mixed within that mist was a light fragrance, perhaps drifting over from passing Flower Boats.

Lu Sheng took out some candied fruit and flower nectar from the Overturning Sea Pearl. He mixed the nectar with water and ate it with the candied fruit, the flavor possessing a unique charm.

He sat on a stone bench with his back against the stone table, beginning to sort through the possible ways he could obtain a primary cultivation technique.

"Among the Red Moon Disciples, as long as one has money, one can buy one. That is one path. But anything obtained there can only serve as reference—there are certainly plenty of backdoors in it. It cannot be used as a primary cultivation technique." Lu Sheng temporarily set this path aside.

"The second path is taking a master. That would make it easy to obtain a sufficiently comprehensive and perfected primary cultivation technique. The drawback is that finding a master is difficult, but if it succeeds, this is the best route.

"The cultivation methods outside differ from those on Yellow Springs Star. Here, primary cultivation is balanced, raising both the physical body and the divine soul. In Great Yin, they cultivate only the divine soul and pay no heed whatsoever to anything else."

Lu Sheng understood this perfectly. This was the orthodox path of the Celestial Devil. After all, once one reached the Lord of War level, one needed to continually descend upon Small Worlds, devour and absorb one's external selves, and attain a state where all worlds returned to one.

With that being the case, the