Chen Ye sat in his room, carefully thinking things over.
Of the martial arts he currently knew, quite a few could actually be used for Mortal Shedding cultivation.
The Foundation Cultivation Technique, the Return to Origin Art, and the Daoist Canon Spiritual Fetus Chapter were all among them.
However, the Return to Origin Art, the Hunyi Saber Technique, and several others were Cui Family arts.
Although they were hardly top-secret martial arts, he could not casually teach them to the Servant Soldiers under his command.
In the Great Jing Kingdom, secretly passing on another family's arts without its permission was especially taboo.
He had only just joined the ranks of the powerful and privileged. He needed to cherish his plumage and give no one an easy handle to use against him.
That left only the Foundation Cultivation Technique, the Daoist Canon Spiritual Fetus Chapter, and the Hunyi Bone Refining Scripture available to teach.
The Foundation Cultivation Technique hardly needed discussing. It was the art the Gao Family used to cultivate "human ingredients," raising people like medicinal vessels. Its foundations were shallow, and its hidden dangers immense.
He had suffered bitterly when cultivating it himself. Having his subordinates practice it would do more harm than good.
As for the Daoist Canon Spiritual Fetus Chapter, it was indeed profound and wondrous, derived from the legacy of the ancient Daoist schools and pointing straight toward realms beyond the Dragon Elephant Realm.
But precisely because of that, it demanded exceptional root bone and comprehension from its practitioners.
Never mind Servant Soldiers of farming stock like Zhuang Chaoyang and Wang Erli—even an ordinary Martial Master given this art would probably fail to find the doorway into it. It was simply unsuitable for most people.
What Zhuang Chaoyang and the others needed was a martial art