For the past month, Li Xiaoyao had been diligently practicing the Five Manor Immortal Arts taught to him by his master, Annie—the Flame Immortal. They were the pure, orthodox arts passed down from the Ancestor of Earth Immortals, Great Immortal Zhenyuan.
Perhaps he was exceptionally gifted. Or perhaps that Flat Peach, which ripened once every three thousand years, had done the trick?
At any rate, he had recently been studying the Zhouyi, and by following the examples in the text, he had learned how to exorcise demons and drive out corpses. Perhaps because he had practiced his "no sword is better than having a sword" wooden-sword style for over a decade, he had grasped the Xiaoxiang Immortal Rain the best. The Misty Rain Sword Style and the Ethereal Form were the first moves he had mastered, and he was improving in them by leaps and bounds.
But...
He could "read" the sections on the Qiankun Sleeve, Immortal Cultivation, Primordial Dao Fruit, and Cultivating the Mind and Body, but he couldn't make heads or tails of what they meant. For now, he had no choice but to set them aside. As for the various immortal arts described within, he hadn't grasped a single one.
Likewise, Li Xiaoyao had been unable to learn the Seven-Star Escape, another of the Five Manor Immortal Arts.
Still, unlike the other arts he didn't understand at all, he had managed to grasp the Seven-Star Escape in a very rough way. He could make himself light as a swallow and leap from the ground to a rooftop in a single bound. He could even sneak a peek at Xianglan and Xiulan bathing without worrying that they would catch him.
But if he wanted to master it and learn the supreme art of "shifting stars and turning the