Minor Five Elements Art

"Build up experience little by little as apprentices. Given enough time, as long as you're all willing to put in the effort, you'll have a chance to learn this legacy and master it!"

"Don't you agree?"

Lu Wanyuan looked at Lu Wanshan and the others.

"Mhm, you're right, husband. It'll just take a long time, so we'll have to take it one step at a time!"

Baili Qiuyue nodded.

"Founding a great Cultivation Family is no easy task. It takes generation after generation of family members striving together, risking everything. As our ancestors, we must set an example!"

"We have one advantage over rogue cultivators: we now possess so many legacies, while they have nothing!"

"These legacies would surely fetch a good number of Spirit Stones if taken outside. So they can only be studied here in the residence. You must not take them outside!"

"The main reason is that everyone's current Cultivation Realm is low, and you're weak. I'm afraid something might happen!"

"Does everyone understand what I mean?"

Lu Wanyuan smiled at Lu Wanting and the others.

"Eldest Brother, I understand. I'll choose a legacy, then find an apprentice position in the market and learn as much as I can!"

Lu Wanting nodded at once.

"Good. Xiao Ting, that's the right idea. I'll set up a Library Pavilion at home, where I'll keep these legacies and the spells I've collected. Anyone who needs them can study them freely."

"Commit them to memory. Then, when you're working in a workshop, you'll surely find them useful. Be clever about it, and don't let the family's legacies slip. You'll be able to get what you want. The key is practice makes perfect..."

Only after Lu Wanyuan had patiently explained everything did the others understand what they each needed to do.

Eldest Brother wanted them to study the legacies thoroughly at home first and familiarize themselves with the market. Then they could find work as apprentices at a workshop. After all, no free teacher was going to show up at their door.

They could only learn by watching at the workshops, helping with the work as they studied. They had the legacies, but only theoretical knowledge and no practical experience. At the workshops, they would have plenty of chances to practice, so they would surely get the hang of things much faster than the other apprentices.

Now, of course, the siblings had to choose their own fields and make long-term plans.

This was especially true if they wanted to establish a Cultivation Family. Why hadn't so many rogue cultivators founded Cultivation Families? Because the family members had no long-term goals or plans. Their efforts couldn't pull together, and that was the root cause of a family's failure to thrive.

Four months later, each of them had found an apprenticeship.

Lu Wanshan was now an apprentice at the Heavenly Craft Workshop, Lu Wanhe had become an attendant at the Spirit Talisman Pavilion, and Lu Wanting had become an attendant at the Myriad Pills Pavilion.

Wanhe and Wanting were still young, so they could only work as attendants for now, helping out in the shops. Even so, they were overjoyed. They were that much closer to their goals, and if they performed well, they would surely become apprentices. Becoming an apprentice was relatively easy.

The hard part was progressing from apprentice to master. That took time, and of course, skill. But both of them had legacies, so becoming masters would be a natural progression. They weren't worried at all. Eldest Brother, Lu Wanyuan, had already planned everything out for them and prepared them for this.

During this time, Lu Wanyuan had discarded his old low-tier Cultivation Technique. It was as common as dirt and not worth much.

So he exchanged the "Minor Five Elements Art" Entry.

The Minor Five Elements Art was a Cultivation Technique that could take one to Foundation Establishment. It could also absorb spiritual energy of all five attributes, and, more importantly, it seemed to be a simplified version of a Cultivation Technique.

Still, this Cultivation Technique suited him perfectly. He had no other profound techniques; all he had were common ones. After cultivating for so many years, he had found nothing particularly special about them, and his progress had been painfully slow. He had wanted to abandon them for a long time.

He had been cultivating the Minor Five Elements Art for four months now, and had only just gotten his foot in the door. He hadn't expected it to be so difficult to master. Four whole months, and he had only just gotten started.

He had also used up three bottles of Qi Gathering Pills. Fortunately, he later discovered something astonishing: his Dantian was much larger than an ordinary cultivator's, and the strands of spiritual power within it were exceptionally condensed.

This meant he could wield far more magical power than cultivators of the same rank.

A cultivator's strength was rooted in the amount of spiritual power in their Dantian. The more spiritual power their Dantian held, the stronger they were, and the more powerful their spells and attacks.

Lu Wanshan felt that the Minor Five Elements Art had been made for him. After all, he had a five-element spiritual root, making this Cultivation Technique a perfect fit. It let him absorb the surrounding spiritual energy with ease, drawing it into his body regardless of its attribute.

The longer he cultivated, the more he found that his meridians had widened and grown more resilient, and that he could refine the spiritual energy in his body much faster.

He cultivated at more than twice his usual speed. Don't underestimate that increase; over the years, it would add up to a terrifying advantage!

After realizing all this, Lu Wanyuan was certain he had struck gold!

By now, he had exchanged almost all the Entries in his mind. Only a few remained, and he couldn't use them yet:

Three "Concealment 2 Hours" Entries and four "Fire Attribute Magic Power Amplification 2x" Entries.

He had exchanged the rest of the items and finished refining the Storage Ring, too. Its space was far larger than the Storage Bag's—at least as large as several rooms, with a volume of at least a hundred cubic meters.

Of course, he didn't dare flaunt it. A Storage Ring with such a large space was something only Golden Core Cultivators could obtain; even among Foundation Establishment Cultivators, not everyone could own one.

So he strung it up like a necklace and wore it around his neck. For appearances, he still wore a gray Storage Bag at his waist, befitting a Qi Refining cultivator like him. It held everyday necessities and a few unimportant items.

The Storage Ring held the important things: four first-tier legacies, three of them obtained by exchanging Entries—Artifact Refining, Spiritual Talismans, and Alchemy. The Spirit Planting Legacy had been given to him by his mother.

The Thorn Spell, Earth Shield Spell, ten thousand Spirit Stones, and six High-grade Magic Tools had also come from exchanged Entries.

He had originally wanted to give each of his brothers a High-grade Magic Tool, but then he remembered how weak they were. Such a tool would probably become a death warrant for them, so he decided against it.

After finishing his cultivation, Lu Wanyuan immediately came out of seclusion.

As soon as he stepped outside, he saw Baili Qiuyue approaching with her pregnant belly, and she asked happily,

"Hubby, you've finished your seclusion!"

"Yeah, I'm done cultivating. I think if I work a little harder, I'll reach Qi Refining Layer Four!"

He reckoned that his current strength was already comparable to that of a Qi Refining Layer Four cultivator.

He hurried over and embraced Baili Qiuyue. Her belly had grown noticeably rounder. That made sense—it had been at least six or seven months. In a few more months, he would be a father. He could hardly wait.

Thinking of this, he crouched down at once and put his ear against her belly, as if hoping to feel the baby move.

"Wow, this little one is so mischievous in there. I wonder if you'll be able to keep the baby in line once it's born?"

Baili Qiuyue smiled sweetly.

"Haha, even if it's the Monkey King, I'll be able to keep it in line!"

Lu Wanyuan laughed.

"Who's the Monkey King? My baby isn't a monkey, so don't say silly things!"

Baili Qiuyue scolded him playfully.