Nine-Turn Heavenly Art

After thinking for a long time, Bai Yixin still felt that something was off.

But considering he was about to become incredibly wealthy, Bai Yixin decided to set this question aside for the moment.

When selling items to the shop, especially those containing certain knowledge, one could choose to sell only the knowledge recorded within or sell the physical medium along with it.

Obviously, the latter would fetch a much higher price than the former.

However, Bai Yixin hadn't even learned the techniques yet, so how could he possibly sell the precious arts along with their animal skins?

If he didn't, and the shop suddenly added a zero to the price tag when he tried to buy them back later, he would be devastated.

Bai Yixin placed the animal skins inscribed with the precious arts and scriptures into his inventory space one by one, selling them to the shop individually.

Within the inventory space, the shop would carry out the transaction process according to Bai Yixin's wishes, which naturally included the step of copying and extracting.

"Hou Technique, copy successful, sale successful, money +10,000,000."

"Holy crap! Σ(っ°Д°;)っ That much??! Ten million!"

"Luan Bird Method, copy successful, sale successful, money +10,000,000."

"Woohoo! Instant riches!"

"..."

In the blink of an eye, only the last two animal skins remained to be copied and sold.

His total income so far was eighty million!

"Save the best for last." Bai Yixin glanced at the animal skin inscribed with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art, then picked up the tattered Suanni Method skin and tucked it into his inventory.

"Suanni Method (damaged), copy fail... success, sale successful, money +10,000."

"Tch, as expected, even with the runes almost completely worn away, getting 10,000 for it is already absurd..."

"Wait, I..."

Bai Yixin was stunned by the long string of zeros that suddenly appeared.

"Grass Sword Art, copy successful, sale successful, money +100,000,000,000,000."

"Ten strands of supreme sword energy separated."

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"???"

"I... fourteen zeros??! Good heavens, so the Grass Sword Art was hidden inside this! I thought I remembered it wrong!"

"I'm rich! One hundred trillion... haha (ಡωಡ) hiahiahia, are the Ten Fiends' techniques really this valuable!"

Bai Yixin laughed heartily, but when he noticed those ten strands of supreme sword energy, a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back.

"Thank goodness I don't have Divine Sense yet and only took a rough look; otherwise, if these ten strands of sword energy had been triggered, I would have been reduced to dust!"

"It's a good thing I was cautious enough to conduct the transaction inside the inventory space."

Opening his inventory, Bai Yixin sent a wisp of consciousness inside. The animal skin inscribed with the Suanni Method had turned to ash, leaving behind only a silver metal page covered in patterns and mysterious symbols.

It was radiating sword energy—peerless and unmatched!

The ten separated strands of supreme sword energy floated not far from this silver metal page.

"I suppose I have a trump card now, don't I?" Bai Yixin muttered to himself.

"When I encounter a powerful enemy I can't beat, I can just throw this supreme sword energy at them. Even if it doesn't kill them, it will be effective and make them wary."

"I should find an opportunity to test its power so I can feel more confident."

Bai Yixin pondered for a moment, withdrew his consciousness, placed the final animal skin inscribed with the Six Paths of Reincarnation into his inventory space, and began the final copy transaction.

"Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art, copy successful, transaction successful, money +100,000,000,000,000."

"Does this mean the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art is on the same level as the Grass Sword Art? I wonder what criteria the shop uses for its buyback prices."

Bai Yixin's face was filled with extreme joy. With 200 trillion, he had to think about how to spend it first.

If nothing else, he had to buy a cultivation technique.

Bai Yixin opened the shop and filtered his search.

"Cultivation technique, immortal cultivation, price range, 100 million to 100 trillion."

"If I'm going to buy, I'll buy the best. I'm rich now!"

"Let me see..."

"Heaven and Earth Profound Art, 100 trillion, can be cultivated up to Golden Immortal."

"Primordial Profound Art, 100 trillion, can be cultivated up to Golden Immortal."

"Earth Immortal Golden Scroll, 1 trillion, can be cultivated up to Earth Immortal."

"Great Grade Heavenly Immortal Art, 10 trillion, can be cultivated up to Earth Immortal."

"Hmm, I get the feeling something isn't quite right. Are these selling a bit cheap? And the Great Grade Heavenly Immortal Art, can it only reach the Earth Immortal realm?"

Bai Yixin found it hard to wrap his head around things; he felt something was off compared to the novels he had read in his past life.

The cultivation realms were roughly divided into Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Severing, Tribulation Transcendence, Great Vehicle, Human Immortal, True Immortal, Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, Golden Immortal, Daluo Golden Immortal, Quasi-Saint, and Saint...

The Grass Sword Art should be an Immortal King technique, and its corresponding power range ought to be between Heavenly Immortal and Golden Immortal (Taiyi to Hunyuan)...

If one viewed it this way, then it was reasonable—or so it seemed—that the money he earned could buy a cultivation technique capable of reaching the Golden Immortal realm.

"Hiss, my head hurts from looking at this. My indecisiveness is acting up again." Bai Yixin scratched his head, feeling as if his brain were about to overload.

"I'll just choose slowly. Regardless of which technique I pick, once I become an immortal, there's a high probability I'll have to switch to cultivating the Nine Revolutions Profound Art anyway..."

"Wait a minute, the Nine Revolutions Profound Art seems to lean more toward tempering the physical body, following the path of proving the Dao through strength."

"Then I'll choose this one!"

"Nine-Turn Heavenly Art, one hundred trillion, upon completion of the nine turns, one attains the True Immortal Dao."

Bai Yixin chose it for two reasons: first, the "Nine Turns" caught his eye, and he had no idea what relationship it had with the Nine Revolutions Profound Art or the Nine Revolutions Origin Art; second, since it could only cultivate one to the True Immortal realm yet was priced so exorbitantly, there had to be a reason for its high cost.

As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. Since the shop dared to display it for sale, there must be a logic behind it.

Of course, there was no guarantee that the shop wouldn't overcharge its customers.

But in essence, the relationship between Bai Yixin and the shop was one of mutual benefit; he collected items unique to this world for the shop, and the shop provided Bai Yixin with items from other worlds. The transactions should be equal and fair.

"Heaven attains the One, and the sun, moon, and stars remain clear; Earth attains the One, and pearls and jade remain peaceful; Man attains the One, and spirit, qi, and essence remain eternal."

"The One is the root."

"The root is the body of the Dao."

"The Dao has no body; to call it a body is a forced description."

"A body that has a body is not the true body."

"..."

Finding a safe cave, Bai Yixin began to switch his cultivation to the Nine-Turn Heavenly Art.

"Heavenly Gold Flowing Lustre, Meridian Expanding Flower, Spirit Concealment Grass, ..., Qi of the Great Dao, top-grade Foundation Establishment Pill, ..."

The Nine-Turn Heavenly Art, where each turn is a new heaven, is both a technique for cultivating the Dao and a method for tempering the body.

To lay a more perfect and powerful foundation for immortality, Bai Yixin did not hesitate in the slightest; he prepared to disperse his current cultivation and restart from Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment.

"BOOM!!"

Bai Yixin sat cross-legged inside a large cauldron, with various precious spiritual materials floating around him.

These were the auxiliary materials required to switch to the Nine-Turn Heavenly Art. In his pursuit of perfection, Bai Yixin had ensured every single one was of superb quality; these auxiliary materials alone had cost him several million.

The true bulk of the expense was that wisp of Qi of the Great Dao, which could also be called Grandmist Purple Qi—the foundation of attaining the Dao!

It was not a complete strand, but merely a wisp—perhaps one part in tens of thousands—yet it had cost Bai Yixin the remaining one hundred trillion.

Since the money came too easily, Bai Yixin didn't feel the pinch; he still had tens of millions left, which would last him for a long time.

Once he used this wisp of Qi of the Great Dao to build his Dao Foundation, his future path to immortality would be a smooth road; he was destined to become an immortal!

Furthermore, having been tainted by the Qi of the Great Dao, combined with the Heavenly Dao Qi from before, Bai Yixin's natural talent and fortune would become exceptionally astonishing. He would be favored by heaven and earth, much like a Son of the Great (Heavenly) Dao.

From this moment on, regardless of how much of a "trash" he had been before, he would become one of the most exceptionally gifted individuals in this world.