Though Xu Yi recognized none of the people currently occupying the crystal screens, he could easily tell from their clothes that they were merely the various households' young attendants and servants.
Securing a direct-selection spot and earning enough Merit Points had become an urgent matter for Xu Yi.
He would rather waste three whole days than let this golden opportunity slip away.
He immediately stopped in front of an apparatus near the corner. At a thought, a table and chair appeared before him.
Then a pot of fruit wine and four kinds of exquisite pastries appeared on the table.
Though he was waiting, Xu Yi wasn't foolish enough to sit there doing nothing.
Ignoring the strange looks from the other servants present, he took out the jade token Elder Bai had given him. He stirred his divine sense and sent it into the token, and a sea of text immediately flooded his mind.
Only after the entire text had been imprinted in his mind did Xu Yi put away the jade token and begin carefully savoring its contents.
The first words to lodge in his mind were "Three-Five-Seven Sword."
That was the name of the entire cultivation technique.
It wasn't exactly an impressive-sounding name; if anything, it sounded a little awkward.
Whether Elder Bai had created it himself or selected it from the vast collection of techniques in the Cultivation Technique Building, the fact that it had been handed down by Elder Bai made Xu Yi regard it highly.
After reading the entire text, Xu Yi was deeply shaken.
Without this text, Elder Bai would have seemed to him nothing more than a foul-tempered, eccentric old man.
This so-called expert still needed Xu Yi to teach him even the most basic principles of numerology.
Deep down, Xu Yi certainly hadn't