Switching Cultivation Methods

Another hour passed.

By another bookshelf, Su Yu frowned as he looked at the ancient book in his hands. It was neither an immortal cultivation technique nor a body refining technique, but a strange method.

It could even be called a Pseudo Divine Ability.

It was a method created by imitating the innate divine abilities of ancient great powers.

This method was called the Blood Whale Swallowing Moon Art.

It imitated an ancient Great Demon Powerhouse and complemented body refining techniques.

The ancient book recorded that one could use the bloodline of the Sky Swallowing Whale demonic beast tribe as a foundation to create a Pseudo Divine Ability Origin within the body.

This Pseudo Divine Ability Origin possessed the power to swallow the heavens.

It devoured the essence of heaven and earth, storing it within the origin.

When the Pseudo Divine Ability was unleashed, it could instantly erupt with more than double one's strength.

In ancient times, the Sky Swallowing Whale demonic beast tribe had once been a great clan. But with the decline of the Demon Race, coupled with this Pseudo Divine Ability, countless cultivators hunted the Sky Swallowing Whale demonic beast tribe one after another. Today, this ancient Sky Swallowing Whale demonic beast tribe had long since gone extinct.

Naturally, this Blood Whale Swallowing Moon Art had become as useless as the Azure Wood Age Wheel Art—tasteless to eat, yet a pity to throw away.

"Enough."

Upon seeing this method, Su Yu immediately took the two ancient books to the counter.

Behind the Heavenly Script Pavilion counter sat an old man with mottled white hair. After settling the bills for the customers ahead of him, he saw the two ancient books Su Yu had brought over.

The old man could not help but glance at Su Yu, somewhat surprised. "Two ancient books. Fifty Low-grade Spirit Stones each. Other than reading them yourself, you may not pass them on to anyone else. Once sold, this shop accepts neither returns nor exchanges."

"Understood."

With some pain in his heart, Su Yu took out one hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones from his Cosmos Bag and exchanged them with the old man for two clearly newly copied books.

After flipping through them, Su Yu frowned slightly.

The Azure Wood Age Wheel Art recorded in the book had only three wheels, for a total of twenty-seven revolutions.

The Blood Whale Swallowing Moon Art, meanwhile, was only the first volume and was divided into five realms.

Each realm mastered could double one's strength, up to a maximum of five times.

Most importantly, it recorded that those cultivating the Blood Whale Swallowing Moon Art needed exceptionally powerful bodies. Otherwise, they might be unable to endure the force released by the Pseudo Divine Ability and explode to death before harming anyone else.

In short, the greater the power you erupted with, the stronger your body had to be in order to withstand it.

Otherwise, even if you did not die, you would still suffer grievous injuries.

Seeing that Su Yu had paid, the old man from the Heavenly Script Pavilion beamed. "Young man, if you master these two ancient extraordinary arts, there will surely be a place for you in the Great Qian Cultivation World in the future."

"Of course, even if you fail to master them, don't lose heart. You must believe that in this vast world, there will always be an extraordinary art suited to you. And my Heavenly Script Pavilion has collected many immortal arts and extraordinary arts, so remember to come often in the future."

Su Yu: "..."

Listening to him, Su Yu bared his teeth, feeling like biting someone.

This old fellow had his eyes on his money pouch.

Or did he simply think Su Yu was easy to fool?

Su Jingbang came to Su Yu's side. When he saw that Su Yu had spent one hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones on two useless books, his expression immediately became rather strange.

He looked at Su Yu as though he were a gullible fool. No wonder the shopkeeper welcomed him to visit again.

"Forget it. This thing looks good, but it's useless. Remember this lesson after taking a loss." Su Jingbang shook his head.

He did not say much more. Once he saw that Su Yu had settled the bill, he led Su Yu out of the Heavenly Script Pavilion.

Su Yu put the two methods into his Cosmos Bag and left happily.

The Heavenly Script Pavilion might have appeared to make a huge profit, but with the Proficiency Panel, Su Yu certainly was not at a loss either.

Both sides were delighted.

Afterward, Su Jingbang led Su Yu to a shop specializing in demonic beast materials.

"This is a shop belonging to the Black Rock Mountain Yu Family. Their demonic beast materials are fairly reasonably priced," Su Jingbang said.

Su Yu knew of the Black Rock Mountain Yu Family.

It was an immortal cultivation family far stronger than the Su Family. Rumor had it that the Yu Family had five Foundation Establishment cultivators and specialized in beast taming.

Black Rock Mountain itself was a blessed land, with a second-grade Spirit Vein beneath it.

Besides this shop, the Yu Family had another shop in the market, one that specialized in selling spirit pets.

Here, Su Yu purchased thirty-five drops of late-stage Rank 1 demonic beast essence blood. Their prices ranged from two to three Low-grade Spirit Stones each, costing him nearly one hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones.

The stronger the demonic beast essence blood, the more expensive it was.

Afterward, the two of them made another round through the market.

There truly were many good things here. Su Yu's eyes burned with desire at the sight of many items, and he wanted to buy them, but he no longer had many Low-grade Spirit Stones in hand.

After making a round, the two returned to the Alchemy Pavilion.

That night.

Su Yu spent three Low-grade Spirit Stones on a jug of spirit wine and treated Su Jingbang and the others. After eating and drinking his fill, he returned to a small room arranged by the Second Elder.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Su Yu took out the Azure Wood Age Wheel Art and the Blood Whale Swallowing Moon Art from his Cosmos Bag.

The main one was the Azure Wood Age Wheel Art. Though it only had three wheels and twenty-seven revolutions, at least it would pose no problem for Su Yu to cultivate it all the way to Core Formation.

Looking at this cultivation technique, Su Yu felt delighted. If I can successfully switch cultivation methods, I'll make this technique my primary cultivation method from now on.

The Wutong Greenwood Art was far too ordinary. Before, he simply had no other choice.

Now that he had the better Azure Wood Age Wheel Art, Su Yu naturally hoped to switch cultivation methods.

"I'll give it a try."

Su Yu began to attempt it.

Entering the Azure Wood Age Wheel Art required the Azure Wood Origin Aura. Naturally, Su Yu could not possess such a special power.

He could only try slowly, to see whether he could use the Proficiency Panel to get started with the cultivation technique.

A night passed.

Su Yu gained nothing.

Yet after attempting to cultivate the Azure Wood Age Wheel Art for an entire night, he felt exceptionally refreshed the next day. His vigor and vitality seemed far more active than before.

This gave Su Yu a glimmer of hope, filling his heart with joy.

That afternoon.

Su Yu followed Su Jingbang and the others out of Cloud Mountain Market and began their return journey.

After leaving the market.

Not far down the road, Su Jingbang glanced at several places, his expression indifferent. Soon afterward, the hidden auras in those places fled into the distance.

Places such as the outskirts of the market were where bandits loved to lurk.

However, most of those bandits were not particularly strong.

"Move quickly."

Su Jingbang spoke in a low voice and was the first to accelerate away.

Their return journey was equally smooth, and they encountered no attacks. Even when they returned near Jiang City, they did not find any ambush from the hostile Lin Family.

After returning safely to the Medicine Garden, Su Changyu saw him back and knew that Su Yu's heart was not in the Medicine Garden. After pondering for a moment, he said, "After another year of study, you should be able to try apprenticing yourself to learn alchemy."

"You have mastered the Spirit Infusion Art, which gives you an advantage over others. But your cultivation is your weakness."

"Most people only begin learning alchemy at the fourth layer of Qi Refining. Otherwise, their spiritual power is difficult to sustain."

Su Yu smiled when he heard this. "Teacher, I'm not in a hurry."

"Let's talk about it after I reach the fourth layer of Qi Refining."

Su Changyu sighed and patted Su Yu's shoulder. "Then cultivate well. You have more promise than I do. Aside from knowledge related to being a medicine master, there is little else I can help you with."

In the days that followed, aside from his daily cultivation, Su Yu mainly focused on attempting to switch to the Azure Wood Age Wheel Art.

After a month of such attempts, the aura around Su Yu finally began to change.

He had successfully switched to the Azure Wood Age Wheel Art and entered its beginner stage.