Turning the Heavenly Order on Its Head

Strands of spiritual energy surged along his meridians toward his dantian.

They condensed inside his dantian, transforming into a cluster of spiritual light, then slowly flowed into his five viscera.

The transplant process was very quick, accompanied by a sensation of alternating heat and cold that was also extremely comfortable.

Perhaps it was caused by the Five Elements the spiritual root itself possessed.

At last, after quite some time, the spiritual light vanished completely. His viscera and bowels returned to calm, as if everything just now had been an illusion.

He slowly opened his eyes.

His gaze was incomparably deep, with much of that clear, foolish stupidity gone.

Only now did he feel that his body had become light and airy, his entire person as if reborn, with marrow washed and bones changed.

Main Peak · Dao Grounds (Training Ground)

Looking closely, countless disciples had gathered around.

"Well struck, well struck!"

"Senior Li and Senior Wang's sparring matches are still the most worth watching. In this year's grand competition, our Main Peak will definitely seize first place."

"That's still hard to say. Gongsun Ying of Sitting Dao Peak and Ye Tian of Fairy Cloud Peak have both stepped into Late Golden Core. Those two are like monsters, breaking through two minor realms in just half a year."

There were still people who analyzed it objectively.

The sect grand competition was held every year, and disciples from every peak could participate. On one hand, it could test the strength of each peak's disciples; on the other, it came with the division of certain benefits.

Whichever peak performed well would receive more rewards in the latter half of the year.

Last year, Fairy Cloud Peak had sent Big Senior Duan Shuyun and Mu Liuxi, and the two of them had practically hung the other six peaks up and beaten them one by one.

That was why Meng Yutong had the chance to seize the opportunity to go to the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm.

But this year, Duan Shuyun had gone out to temper herself and could not make it back, so the burden could only fall on Ye Tian, Mu Liuxi, and Yun Yao.

Lin Heng had originally only been passing by and had no intention of joining the excitement, but unexpectedly, someone recognized him.

"Hey! Look, isn't that Lin Heng?"

Lin Heng's great name had spread throughout the sect from the day he acknowledged his ancestry and returned to his clan.

Some disciples had even seen him before.

"It really is him!"

"Hey! What are you doing on Main Peak, kid? The Sect Leader is still in seclusion right now. You won't be able to see him."

The speaker was a bloated fatty.

This person was named Du Yan, the nephew of a Main Peak elder, and had landed himself the position of administrator at the Library Pavilion on Main Peak.

So it was the dead-fatty shut-in by Ye Tian's side.

Lin Heng felt rather speechless when he saw him, not understanding why there was always a fatty underling beside the protagonist.

Because they were simple and honest, reliable?

Since they had run into each other, he could not pretend he had not seen him.

In a while, when he went to the Library Pavilion to get a cultivation art, he would still have to rely on this fatty.

Lin Heng turned around and smiled faintly.

"Greetings, Senior Du. I was just about to go to the Library Pavilion. I didn't expect to meet Senior Du here."

According to the original plot, Du Yan had already begun to have some contact with Ye Tian, but had not yet reached the point of becoming his underling.

Seeing him speak so politely, Du Yan said in some surprise, "You know me?"

"I heard of Senior Du's deeds from Senior Sister. It's rare that I get to meet the person himself today."

"Oh..." Du Yan nodded. "You just said you were going to the Library Pavilion. Are you going to choose cultivation arts and manuals?"

"Exactly!"

"Do you have a secret order?"

"I do."

Lin Heng took out the wooden token Meng Yutong had given him and showed it.

At once, the spectating disciples around them sucked in a breath of cold air.

"An Elder's Secret Order! He actually obtained an Elder's Secret Order!"

"Hm? There are different kinds of secret orders?"

Lin Heng glanced at the wooden token in his hand and asked in confusion.

Du Yan coughed lightly twice, suppressed the shock in his heart, and waved his hand. "Since that's the case, follow me."

After walking for about five minutes, the two arrived at the Library Pavilion. Seeing that he still had questions, Du Yan explained:

"The Library Pavilion has a total of nine floors. Each floor corresponds to a grade of cultivation art. The higher the floor, the higher the quality of the cultivation arts, and the more complete they are."

"The Elder's Secret Order in your hand can ignore all restrictions. You may enter any floor from the first to the ninth at will."

"I have to say, your Master really dotes on her disciples the most. Even a newcomer like you can directly use an Elder's Secret Order."

"Even I can only choose cultivation arts from the first to the fourth floors right now."

Du Yan said enviously.

Lin Heng came to a realization.

So secret orders were divided into levels. Ordinary secret orders could only choose basic cultivation arts on the first floor, and the next higher grade allowed access to the first through fourth floors.

The highest grade was the Elder's Secret Order, known as an all-access pass.

Not bad. Master really handled this matter without any ambiguity!

Lin Heng looked around, then went straight to the second floor.

The Library Pavilion's structure was oval-shaped. All kinds of scrolls were arranged on desks, and fortunately, each area was marked with special writing, so one would not be blindly fumbling everywhere.

Pills, artifact forging, body techniques, attributes, miscellaneous.

They were roughly divided into five major categories, and under each category were many branches.

Body techniques, as the name implied, were related to cultivating the body. Fist arts and leg techniques were everywhere.

In the original plot, because he had no spiritual root, he could only cultivate the simplest qigong.

In actual combat, not only was the damage low, but circulating his qi for too long almost made his bones fall apart.

Now he possessed a Mutant Five Elements Root, which meant he could cultivate arts related to five elemental attributes.

In Qi Refining, cultivators drew in spiritual energy to fill the dantian, forming surging pathways within the body, and then stored the spiritual energy in the hundred bones of the limbs, achieving the purpose of washing marrow and altering the channels.

A manual placed in the wood attribute section caught Lin Heng's attention.

"Azure Emperor Spirit Devouring Art"

The Heavenly Chart flipped through his mind, but did not find any relevant information about this manual.

Azure Emperor might be the author.

But the three words "Spirit Devouring Art," he naturally understood.

Those three words often represented a cultivation art that assisted in absorbing spiritual energy.

In order to retrieve its relevant information as quickly as possible, Lin Heng threw it into the System Space without another word.

As expected, the system seemed to activate an automatic scan, directly popping up the relevant information.

Cultivation art: Azure Emperor Spirit Devouring Art

Grade: Fourth rank

Attribute: Wood

Description: This is a cultivation art that has been greatly underestimated. If one can open all one hundred and eight acupoints throughout the body, one will possess extraordinary cultivation speed.

"Why would a fourth-rank cultivation art be placed on the second floor?"

Lin Heng felt that it was a little strange.

He took out several other cultivation arts that assisted in devouring spiritual energy and threw them into the System Space. In the end, their grades were all second rank.

The descriptions even directly evaluated them as trash.

"All right, all right. I'll take this Azure Emperor Spirit Devouring Art first, then go upstairs and look at attribute-type cultivation arts."

Lin Heng put away the cultivation art and walked straight toward the third floor.

Starting from the third floor, there were no basic qi-circulation arts like Spirit Devouring Arts. Attribute-type cultivation arts occupied the overwhelming majority.

"Good heavens, the third floor obviously has twice as many cultivation arts as the second floor!"

"There are quite a few disciples too."

"They're probably all here to freeload."

The Library Pavilion had rules: each person could only take away three cultivation arts.

But that did not stop them from nesting inside the Library Pavilion and flipping through things everywhere.

Cultivation art: "Ten-Zhang Golden Body"

Grade: Third rank

Attribute: Metal

Description: A method for shaping the golden body that has been lost for a thousand years. It was originally a tenth-rank divine art, but the current fragmented volume can only cultivate up to a three-zhang golden body.

"This one isn't bad. The golden body is the utmost firmness and utmost yang. It will be a great help in improving my metal attribute and tempering the spiritual root attribute to the extreme."

"Although the levels of the Golden Wheel Art are comparatively complete, the prerequisites are harsh and would waste too much time. Even if the Ten-Zhang Golden Body is incomplete, it was once a tenth-rank divine art."

Immortal cultivation was also a process of self-comprehension. Perhaps he could rely on Heaven-Defying Comprehension to complete the latter half of the art.

Or perhaps he could push out the old and bring forth the new.

Just as he picked up the Ten-Zhang Golden Body and prepared to turn and leave, at some unknown point, a person was standing behind him.

Holy crap, where did this Little Potato come from?

Looking at the woman before him, who only reached his shoulder, Lin Heng was so frightened that he took a step back.

"Potato..."

"Pah, pah! I mean, little girl, how come you make no sound when you walk? If I knocked you over, don't you go trying to extort me."

"Little girl?" The woman laughed in annoyance. She had lived for several hundred years, yet she was being called little girl by a wet-behind-the-ears brat whose bone age was just over twenty.

This was truly turning the Heavenly Order on its head!