Yellow Court Inner Landscape Origin-Returning Technique

After Jiang Ling said this, without waiting for Luo Bin to ask, he rose and walked deeper into the courtyard.

Two minutes later, Luo Bin followed Jiang Ling to the door of a side room. From the outside, he could see the elegant furnishings inside, the clean floor, and the complete set of bedding and pillows.

It was clearly a room prepared in advance.

Seeing this, Luo Bin's doubts deepened. What kind of magic did someone who could master the "Primordial Stance" possess, to make the Chen Family treat him with such an attitude?

"From now on, you'll stay in this room. If you need anything else, just tell the maids or servants in the courtyard."

Luo Bin nodded, then noticed a few charming young maids standing outside the door near the reception hall, smiling sweetly in their direction.

Damn feudalism...

Then the two walked to an open space beside the courtyard pavilion. Jiang Ling said, "Your name is Luo Bin?"

"Yes."

"Good. You were selected from the Black Sheath Hall's elite, and because you can master the 'Primordial Stance,' you're being valued. It's natural to feel uneasy—after all, similar legends circulate in the martial world.

For instance, some evil techniques require finding a scapegoat to practice first, to explore the cultivation experience... But you don't need to worry."

Jiang Ling paused slightly, looking at Luo Bin. "The Primordial Stance is an upright and honorable stance technique. It's just that this technique is the prerequisite for one of the eight great techniques of the previous dynasty—the 'Yellow Court Inner Landscape Origin-Returning Technique.'

What you learned during the selection was very basic. You'll need to go deeper in the future..."

Luo Bin suddenly understood. That abrupt stop he felt when cultivating the Primordial Stance back then matched exactly what Jiang Ling was saying.

He now said in a panicked tone, "This junior is of low standing and little influence—how could I possibly cultivate such a superior technique!"

Jiang Ling laughed heartily and waved his hand. "Not everyone can master the Primordial Stance. Among all the Chen Family's descendants, only the eldest son has barely achieved minor success.

He's still far from going to Tianhai to obtain that eight great technique."

Luo Bin's heart stirred, and he asked, "Then..."

He had only spoken one word when Jiang Ling cut him off. "This technique—the Chen Family's descendants won't be able to obtain it. When you go to Tianhai in the future and master it, just bring it back and share it with the Chen Family.

That's why the Chen Family wants you to train under me."

The reason was that simple. Luo Bin breathed a slight sigh of relief. After all, there's no such thing as love without cause. Being valued for a bit of talent out of nowhere felt terrible.

In his past life, Luo Bin had read widely. In one story, the protagonist was valued by his master, thinking he was about to live a celestial life roaming the heavens, only to realize his master was just raising a gu worm.

Now, he quietly buried that worry deep in his heart.

"Thank you, Elder Jiang, for telling this junior the reason."

"No need to be so formal. I may be a guest elder of the Chen Family, but I don't have all their tedious rules. Just call me Uncle Jiang.

Old man Chen Shuo just passed away, and the Chen Family is in chaos. Just focus on training with me—no need to wear mourning clothes." Jiang Ling instructed.

Luo Bin was somewhat shocked. This Elder Jiang's status was truly high. The death of the Chen Family's patriarch didn't affect him at all.

"Uncle Jiang."

"Show me the Primordial Stance. Let me see what's so mysterious about a body that can bear a 'great technique.'"

Luo Bin immediately assumed the stance posture, adjusted his breathing rhythm, and began practicing the stance technique.

After returning from the selection day, he had specifically studied it. This technique actually had four steps: first, "setting the posture"; second, "raising yang and inhaling qi"; third, "circulating qi through the meridians"; and finally, "descending yin and exhaling qi."

Drawing a wisp of qi into the body and circulating it through more than five full cycles could mobilize the entire body's blood and qi. In this stance technique, that alone surpassed countless people.

But this threshold was what had stumped the vast majority of the hall's members on the training ground that day.

Jiang Ling sensed Luo Bin's qi circulation—steady yet not lacking in aggression. He quickly stirred his entire body's blood and qi into a boil, like sizzling hot oil.

"Not bad. Strong bones and tendons, a solid foundation, but your body is too depleted. If this continues, you might develop hidden injuries."

Jiang Ling began to circle around Luo Bin, correcting his movements. He explained how to exert force from the whole body when assuming a horse stance, or how to guide the qi to permeate the entire body.

Things like rooting the stance, bending the knees and relaxing the hips, straightening the body and pulling the back, holding the ball posture... Luo Bin was a bit dazed listening.

"After pondering for so long, I finally understand today why the Primordial Stance doesn't show up in the Crimson panel's skill list..."

"Turns out I never even got started..."

Relying on the slightly improved memory from his first Crimson enhancement, Luo Bin barely managed to remember the cultivation details, then couldn't help asking:

"Uncle Jiang, can the second young master and the eldest young lady really not cultivate the Primordial Stance?"

Jiang Ling patted his lower back, signaling him to tighten it. "That kid Chen Jing is only fourteen. His bones haven't even grown properly, and he's already lost his virginity—can't practice. As for that girl Manqing... girls can't practice it either."

"That strict?!"

Fortunately, his own virginity was still intact. But just as this thought brought a flash of joy to Luo Bin's face, it quickly turned sour. He turned his head to look at Jiang Ling's old face, only to see the elder grinning without a hint of dignity:

"Once the Primordial Stance is mastered, you can indulge however you want. The foundation is solid—matters between men and women won't matter."

A flicker of delight crossed Luo Bin's face. As long as he didn't have to become a eunuch, it was fine. After all, in this chaotic society, who among those with power didn't want to take a few concubines?

He liked the type that was cold on the outside but warm on the inside.

If it was only to be admired from afar and not touched, what was the point?

But then Jiang Ling's face turned serious, and he scolded softly, "For now, you must train hard."

Luo Bin sheepishly reined in his thoughts.

Time slipped by minute by minute. During that span, Jiang Ling changed his tea leaves four or five times, occasionally correcting Luo Bin's cultivation issues, occasionally flipping through the Great New News newspaper on the stone table in the pavilion.

Meeting Jiang Ling for the first time, through this profound and torturous Primordial Stance, Luo Bin finally understood why some people were called great martial artists.

Because the gap with ordinary wild practitioners was simply too vast. Though he had studied the intricacies of the Primordial Stance a few days earlier, he still struggled to fully grasp it.

Yet under Jiang Ling's guidance, in less than two hours of standing in the stance, what he learned was enough to serve him for a long time.

"Huff—huff—"

Gradually, Luo Bin's breathing grew heavier. Jiang Ling waved his hand, and a group of delicate maidservants behind him rushed forward to support the youth.

Luo Bin wasn't trying to take advantage; he was genuinely sore all over and unable to stand upright, so he simply collapsed limply.

Jiang Ling's face remained as calm as an ancient well. For an old thing like him who had lived nearly a century, few things could spark his interest. At most, he would show appreciation and excitement only when meeting someone of compatible temperament.

Luo Bin saw no approval in his eyes.

But none of that mattered, because Crimson had already changed:

[Luo Bin]
[Realm:]
[Techniques: White Ape Through-Arm Fist (Second Layer, 0/6), Primordial Stance (First Layer, 1/10)]
[Modification Points: 0]
[Spiritual Essence: 11]

The Primordial Stance had entered the threshold. Eleven points of Spiritual Essence were enough to break it through to the next layer.

But what Luo Bin hadn't expected was that this stance technique calculated cultivation progress by layers. He couldn't help asking, "Uncle Jiang, when is the Primordial Stance considered complete?"

"The seventh layer counts as completion. Right now, you're only at the starting stage of the first layer," Jiang Ling explained, then called out to the maidservants:

"Carry this kid to the bath barrel in the back. I've sprinkled some medicinal herbs in there that can relieve pain."