Nine-Turn Heavenly Art

After thinking it over for a long while, Bai Yixin still felt that something was off.

But thinking of how he was about to strike it rich, Bai Yixin set the question aside for the time being.

When selling things to the shop, especially items that recorded some kind of knowledge, he could choose to sell just the knowledge recorded on them or sell the objects carrying it as well.

Obviously, selling the latter would fetch quite a bit more than the former.

But he hadn't even learned the techniques himself yet. How could he possibly sell both the Treasure Techniques and the Beast Skin they were written on?

What if, when he tried to buy them back, the shop suddenly added another zero to the price? He'd be ruined.

Bai Yixin put the Beast Skin sheets inscribed with Treasure Techniques and cultivation arts into Backpack Space one at a time, then sold them to the shop one by one.

Inside Backpack Space, the shop carried out transactions according to Bai Yixin's wishes, which naturally included copying and extracting the knowledge.

"Hou Technique: Copy successful. Sale successful. Money +10,000,000."

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

"Luan Bird Method: Copy successful. Sale successful. Money +10,000,000."

"Woohoo! I'm rich!"

"..."

In the blink of an eye, only the last two sheets of Beast Skin remained to be copied and sold.

His total earnings so far were eighty million!

"Save the good stuff for last." Bai Yixin glanced at the Beast Skin inscribed with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art, then picked up the tattered sheet inscribed with the Suanni Method and put it into his Backpack.

"Suanni Method (fragment): Copy fai...successful. Sale successful. Money +10,000."

"Tsk. The Runes are almost completely worn away, so even getting 10,000 for it is ridiculous..."

"Wait, I..."

Bai Yixin was dumbstruck by the long string of zeroes that suddenly appeared.

"Grass Sword Art: Copy successful. Sale successful. Money +100,000,000,000,000."

"Extracted ten strands of supreme Sword Qi."

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"I... Fourteen zeroes??! Holy crap, the Grass Sword Art was hidden in here! I thought I'd remembered it wrong!"

"I'm rich! A hundred trillion... Hahaha (ಡωಡ)hiahiahia, are the Ten Fiends' arts really worth this much?"

Bai Yixin laughed uproariously, but when he noticed the ten strands of supreme Sword Qi, a cold sweat broke out across his back.

"Good thing I don't have Divine Sense yet. I only took a quick glance just now. Otherwise, if those ten strands of Sword Qi had been triggered, I'd have been reduced to dust!"

"Good thing I was careful enough to move the transaction into Backpack Space."

He opened his Backpack and sent a wisp of consciousness inside. The Beast Skin sheet inscribed with the Suanni Method had crumbled to ash, leaving behind only a silver metal page covered in patterns and mysterious symbols.

It radiated Sword Qi, peerless and unrivaled!

The ten extracted strands of supreme Sword Qi floated not far from the silver metal page.

"Does this mean I've got a trump card now?" Bai Yixin murmured to himself.

"If I run into an enemy I can't beat again, I can aim these strands of supreme Sword Qi at them and throw them out. Even if they don't kill the enemy, they'll do some damage and make them think twice."

"If I get the chance, I should test their power. That way, I'll feel more confident."

After thinking it over, Bai Yixin withdrew his consciousness, put the last Beast Skin sheet inscribed with the Six Paths of Reincarnation into his Backpack Space, and began the final copy-and-sell 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 standards the shop uses when buying things back."

Bai Yixin's face lit up with delight. Even with two hundred trillion, he still had to think about how to spend it.

For starters, he should buy a cultivation art.

Bai Yixin opened the shop and set some filters.

"Cultivation arts, immortal cultivation, price range: from one hundred million to a hundred trillion."

"If I'm buying one, I'm getting a good one. I'm loaded now!"

"Let's see..."

"Heaven and Earth Profound Art, one hundred trillion, can cultivate up to Golden Immortal."

"Primordial Profound Art, one hundred trillion, can cultivate up to Golden Immortal."

"Earth Immortal Golden Scroll, one trillion, can cultivate up to Heavenly Immortal."

"Great Grade Heavenly Immortal Art, ten trillion, can cultivate up to Heavenly Immortal."

"Hmm, something feels off. Aren't these a little cheap? And the Great Grade Heavenly Immortal Art can only cultivate up to Heavenly Immortal?"

Bai Yixin couldn't quite figure it out. It didn't seem to match the novels he'd read in his previous life.

The stages of immortal cultivation roughly went: 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, Saint...

The Grass Sword Art should be an Immortal King art, with a corresponding range from Heavenly Immortal to Golden Immortal (Taiyi to Primordial Chaos)...

If that was right, then it made perfect sense that the money he'd earned could buy cultivation arts capable of reaching Golden Immortal. Probably.

"Ugh, thinking about this gives me a headache. My indecisiveness is acting up again." Bai Yixin scratched his head, feeling like his brain was about to overload.

"I'll take my time choosing. No matter which art I pick, I'll probably switch to the Nine Revolutions Profound Art after becoming an immortal anyway..."

"Hold on, the Nine Revolutions Profound Art seems more geared toward cultivating the physical body, and taking the path of proving the Dao through strength."

"Then I'll go with this one!"

"Nine-Turn Heavenly Art, one hundred trillion. Complete nine turns and attain the Dao of a True Immortal."

He chose it for two reasons. First, he liked the sound of "Nine-Turn," though he had no idea what it had to do with the Nine Revolutions Profound Art or the Nine Revolutions Origin Art. Second, since it could only take him to True Immortal yet cost so much, there had to be a good reason for the price.

As the saying went, you got what you paid for. If the shop dared to list it at that price, there had to be a reason.

Of course, he couldn't guarantee the shop wasn't ripping him off.

But essentially, Bai Yixin and the shop had a mutually beneficial relationship. He collected things unique to this world for the shop, and the shop provided Bai Yuxin with items from other worlds. Their transactions should be fair and equal.

"Heaven receives the One, and the sun, moon, and stars shine clear forever. Earth receives the One, and pearls and precious stones remain serene forever. Man receives the One, and spirit, qi, and essence endure forever."

"The One is the root.

"The root is the substance of the Dao.

"The Dao has no substance, yet we force the name 'substance' upon it.

"A substance that has form is not the true substance.

"..."

After finding a safe cave, Bai Yixin began cultivating 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 had nine turns, each one a new heaven. It was both a method of cultivating the Dao and a body-tempering technique.

To lay the most perfect and powerful foundation for becoming an immortal, Bai Yixin didn't hesitate to disperse his cultivation and start Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment all over again.

"Boom!!"

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

These were the supplementary materials needed to cultivate the Nine-Turn Heavenly Art. Bai Yixin was striving for perfection, so every one of them was of exceptional quality. The materials alone had cost him several million.

The real expense was that single wisp of the Qi of the Great Dao. It could also be called Grandmist Purple Qi, the foundation of attaining the Dao!

It wasn't a complete strand, but merely one wisp out of an unknown number of tens of thousands. Even so, it had cost Bai Yixin the hundred trillion he had left.

The money had come too easily, so Bai Yixin didn't feel bad about spending it. He still had tens of millions left, enough to last him a long while.

Once he used this wisp of the Qi of the Great Dao to build his Dao Foundation, the path to immortality would be smooth sailing. He was certain to become an immortal!

And with the Qi of the Great Dao staining him, along with the Heavenly Dao Qi he'd obtained earlier, Bai Yixin's talent and fortune would become astonishing. He would be favored by heaven and earth, like the child of the Great (Heavenly) Dao.

From that moment on, no matter how useless Bai Yixin had been before, he would become one of the most gifted people in the world.