Passing on the Method!

"Mm, something very important."

Liu Yunlan did not press him for details. She merely nodded and reminded him, "Don't keep your grandfather waiting too long," before letting him go.

The study door was half-open.

Qing Mufeng knocked on the door, and Qing Zhengyue's voice came from inside. "Come in."

Pushing the door open, Qing Mufeng saw Qing Zhengyue sitting behind his desk, holding a yellowed ancient book in his hands.

Seeing his grandson enter, the old man put down the book, a flicker of surprise crossing his eyes.

"Finished with the medicinal bath?"

"Finished."

"Then why aren't you cultivating? What are you here to see me for?"

Qing Mufeng walked up to the desk, hesitated for a moment, then said, "Grandpa, when I was in the medicinal bath just now, I entered my dantian."

Qing Zhengyue's hand froze.

"You entered your dantian?" The old man's voice rose slightly. "How did you get in?"

"I used the Azure Dragon Pupil for inner vision while circulating Soul Power with the Green Snake Meditation Method." Qing Mufeng answered truthfully. "When I did both at once, my consciousness was pulled into a... small azure world."

Qing Zhengyue fell silent for a moment, then slowly leaned back in his chair, looking at his grandson with a complicated expression.

"What did you see there?"

"I saw the Azure Dragon."

Those four words fell into the study like a stone dropped into still water, sending ripples outward.

Qing Zhengyue lightly tapped the tabletop twice with his fingers, a habit of his whenever he was thinking.

"What did it say to you?"

Qing Mufeng organized his words and relayed the Azure Dragon's words to his grandfather.

About the Azure Dragon Method, about the Nine Layers corresponding to the Nine Rings, about Innate Divine Abilities, about the God Realm.

He held nothing back.

After listening, Qing Zhengyue remained silent for a long time.

The only sound in the study was the rustling of bamboo leaves outside the window.

After a long while, the old man spoke, his voice somewhat hoarse. "It said the Azure Dragon Method can be passed on to us?"

"Yes." Qing Mufeng nodded. "The Azure Dragon said that the Azure Dragon Method evolved from the Green Snake Meditation Method. It is the elevation of the Qing Clan's century of painstaking effort. You taught me the meditation method, and I repay you with a better one. That is karma."

Qing Zhengyue's Adam's apple bobbed.

The old man lowered his eyes. After a long silence, he murmured, "It's more reasonable than some people."

Qing Mufeng saw his grandfather's eyes redden slightly, but he did not point it out.

"Grandpa, I can pass the Azure Dragon Method on to you right now. Though you may not be able to cultivate it completely, you can still draw out its essence and improve the Green Snake Meditation Method."

Qing Zhengyue raised his head and looked into his grandson's calm eyes. Suddenly, he smiled.

"Good." The old man said, "How will you pass it on?"

"Through spiritual power, directly into your mind. But my spiritual power still isn't very strong, so it might be a little slow."

Qing Mufeng explained.

"It doesn't matter. Begin."

The old man said.

The two sat cross-legged, and the transmission of the method officially began.

Qing Mufeng condensed a strand of spiritual power and sent it into his grandfather's mind, slowly inscribing the words within.

The process was slow but steady. He carved every stroke with care, verifying each word was correct before writing the next.

This could also be considered a form of training for his spiritual power.

The contents of the Azure Dragon Method were far too vast and complex: meridian routes, Soul Power circulation, the threefold cultivation method, introductions to auxiliary professions...

He wrote for an entire hour before finally transcribing the core portion of the technique.

Within the Sea of Consciousness Space, Qing Zhengyue's spiritual power followed every word from beginning to end without missing a single one.

The more the old man read, the more alarmed and shaken he became.

It was not as though he had never seen high-grade meditation methods before.

He had read every ancient text in the Qing Clan Library.

Yet the profound intricacy of the Azure Dragon Method far surpassed any technique he had ever encountered.

Soul Power, the physical body, and soul spiritual power—all three cultivated together.

The three paths echoed one another and cycled without end.

This was not a meditation method. This was the Great Dao.

At the same time, it contained a unique genetic lock built into the Azure Dragon Method.

Outsiders would be unable to examine it.

If they tried to inspect it by force, the memories would immediately seal themselves away.

"Grandpa, I'm done."

Qing Mufeng's face was pale, and his forehead was drenched in sweat. He looked exhausted.

"Are you all right?"

Seeing his precious grandson like this, the old man showed a pained expression and was the first to ask after him.

Qing Mufeng shook his head. "I'm fine. I just used up a lot of spiritual power. But with the Azure Dragon Method's help, I'll recover quickly."

"That's good."

Qing Zhengyue let out a breath of relief.

He stared at the dense words in his mind, his gaze so fervent it seemed as if he wanted to carve them into his bones.

After a long while, the old man took a deep breath.

"Do not tell your grandmother or your parents about this yet," Qing Zhengyue said.

Qing Mufeng was startled. "Why?"

"It's not that we won't tell them. It's that we won't tell them now."

Qing Zhengyue turned around and looked at his grandson.

"The value of the Azure Dragon Method is far beyond what you can imagine. If word gets out, it won't just be Spirit Hall. Every force on the entire continent will come knocking."

Qing Mufeng understood.

"I'll find an appropriate time and personally pass it on to your grandmother and parents."

"Okay."

Qing Mufeng nodded.

"There's one more thing."

Qing Zhengyue looked at him.

"You said earlier that the Azure Dragon Method has Nine Layers, corresponding to the Nine Rings. Each time you awaken a ring, you awaken an Innate Divine Ability."

"Yes."

"The first layer is Azure Dragon Armor, and the second is Azure Dragon Pupil."

Qing Zhengyue's gaze sharpened. "You are not to use either of those abilities in front of anyone in the future."

Qing Mufeng nodded again.

He had not planned to use them anyway.

"You must hide the abilities you gain after your third soul ring even more carefully."

Qing Zhengyue's voice was as heavy as iron. "Until you become a Titled Douluo, every one of your abilities will be your trump card. And trump cards cannot be shown to others."

"I understand, Grandpa."

Looking into his grandson's calm eyes, Qing Zhengyue suddenly felt that this child did not seem like a six-year-old at all, but more like an old fox who had lived for decades.

What he did not know was that Qing Mufeng really had lived before.

Just in another world.

After leaving the study, Qing Mufeng did not return to his room. Instead, he went to a small bamboo grove behind the manor.

This was the most secluded corner of the Qing Family Manor, and hardly anyone came here.

Deep within the bamboo grove, he found a flat stone, sat cross-legged upon it, and closed his eyes.

Soul Power began to circulate.

Not according to the Green Snake Meditation Method's route, but the Azure Dragon Method's route.

Soul Power started from the baihui acupoint and flowed down along the Conception Vessel, nearly twice as fast as under the Green Snake Meditation Method.

When it reached the danzhong acupoint, it did not split into three, but four tributaries.

One more than the Green Snake Meditation Method.

The additional branch led straight to his heart.

It connected to the physical body.

The instant Soul Power entered his heart, Qing Mufeng felt his heartbeat suddenly accelerate. Blood surged through his veins, and a warm force spread from his heart into every cell of his body.

That was vitality.

The vitality of the Origin of Wood.

At the same time, the other three paths opened as well.

One led to his dantian, nourishing his martial soul;

One led to the space between his brows, nourishing his soul;

One led to his limbs, tempering his physical body.

The four paths circulated in unison, neither interfering with one another nor failing to resonate together.

Feeling that unprecedented cycle within his body, Qing Mufeng was struck by a realization.

The Green Snake Meditation Method was like a small stream, while the Azure Dragon Method was like a great river.

It was not a matter of quantity, but of quality.

Immersed in that wondrous cycle, he forgot the passage of time.

Outside the bamboo grove, Qing Zhengyue stood with his hands behind his back.

The old man did not enter to disturb his grandson. He simply stood at the grove's edge, silently watching that small figure from behind.

Watching the words in his mind.

Qing Zhengyue lowered his head and murmured to himself.

"A century of the Qing Clan's painstaking effort, exchanged for an Azure Dragon Method."

"Worth it."

"This is the Qing Clan's true step toward rising to prominence in a hundred years."

"Cultivate it to mastery, and one can transform into a dragon!"

"It truly makes one look forward to it!"

Recalling the contents of the Azure Dragon Method, he was particularly obsessed with Dragon Transformation.

A moment later, he turned and left, his steps far lighter than when he had arrived.