Unexpected Gains (Part 2)

It turns out that the one who recorded this "Heaven Escape Needle Art" was a female immortal named "Shen Shuiyan".

She grew up in a brothel and by the age of sixteen, she was already a renowned courtesan.

Later, she met a man, and she devoted her whole heart to him.

However, the man was a cultivator from a large tribe, and after spending several months with Shen Shuiyan, he left without saying goodbye.

Overwhelmed with grief, Shen Shuiyan, in her ordinary mortal form, traveled thousands of miles to find that tribe, just to see her lover one last time.

However, the man's relationship with Shen Shuiyan was merely a fleeting affair, and he already had a Daoist partner at home. When Shen Shuiyan came looking for him, he naturally avoided her. When the man's Daoist partner found out, he became extremely jealous and wanted to secretly kill Shen Shuiyan.

Just as Shen Shuiyan was about to perish, she was saved by Patriarch Lü.

Patriarch Lü loved to travel among humans and left behind legends in many worlds of the Three Realms. He especially liked to act as a matchmaker and could not stand to see such heartless and ungrateful behavior.

After rescuing Shen Shuiyan, Patriarch Lü took her under his wing, not only teaching her cultivation methods but also modifying his Heaven Escape Sword Art into a needle technique based on the acupuncture skills that women were good at, and passed it on to Shen Shuiyan.

It wasn't until three years later that Patriarch Lü said their fate had run its course and then departed.

At this time, Shen Shuiyan received cultivation methods from Patriarch Lü and embarked on the path of immortality. She also received the Heaven Escape Needle Art personally taught to her, so she quickly rose to prominence.

In just a few decades, Shen Shuiyan reached the Myriad Phenomena True Person realm, and eventually cultivated all the way to the Earth Immortal level.

"He truly is a direct disciple of Patriarch Lü!" Zhou Hao exclaimed.

The inscription on the tree bark did not record how the female immortal Shen Shuiyan dealt with the unfaithful man from back then, but since she was able to reach the Earth Immortal realm later, it is likely that the unfaithful man and his Daoist partner did not have an easy time.

Zhou Hao shook his head and continued reading.

Next is information on cultivating the <Heaven Escape Needle Art>.

The "Heaven Escape Needle Art" is called a needle technique, but in essence it still retains the shadow of the original Patriarch Lü Sword Technique. It is simply to condense flying needles into a sword shape to increase their power, making it more suitable for controlling magical flying needles.

Furthermore, when first practicing the acupuncture technique, one begins with the Dao of the Gale. Upon reaching a higher level, one will gradually comprehend the Heaven and Earth Great Dao, which is the Way of Space that only Loose Immortal Earth Immortal can understand.

Once you reach that level, when you unleash the Heaven Escape Needle Art, the magical needles you control seem to teleport through the void. Ordinary people are killed before they can even react. It is truly a profound and secret art.

That's right.

Patriarch Lü's "Heaven Escape Sword Art" is a famous flying sword secret technique among the Dao Sect sword techniques, and it is in no way inferior to the complete "Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light".

"Although this acupuncture technique only reaches the Earth Immortal realm, it's still a great fortune!" Zhou Hao couldn't help but laugh. "It seems that Tong You didn't discover the acupuncture technique on this tree bark. Otherwise, with this technique alone, Master Jingzhi wouldn't have been able to kill him so easily."

As the saying goes, opportunity is determined by fate.

Tong You obtained this piece of bark by chance. The writing on it was originally drawn by Shen Shuiyan using a secret method. If later generations wanted to see it, they would need divine sense to do so.

Tong You was just an ordinary Myriad Phenomena True Person. No matter how strong his divine soul was, he was only at the Divine Sense Realm, so naturally he had no chance to master this secret technique.

If Zhou Hao hadn't broken through his spiritual barrier earlier, advancing from the realm of divine thought to the realm of divine consciousness, even if he were to obtain this secret technique now, he would probably be like Tong You, sitting on a mountain of treasures without realizing it.

Zhou Hao memorized the needle technique inscribed on the tree bark, and then stored the bark in his Mustard Stone Space.

The courtyard is currently in a mess, so there's no rush to cultivate.

With this unexpected gain, Zhou Hao carefully examined the remaining miscellaneous items, even enveloping each one with his divine sense to prevent himself from making a mistake.

The Minor Teleportation Dao Talisman, the Vassal Token of that City in the Great Wild Branch...

One by one, Zhou Hao picked up strange objects from the ground, which made him sigh from time to time.

It has to be disciples of a powerful sect like the Fire Worship Sect, which is comparable to the Jade Dragon Sect, who are incredibly wealthy!

Actually, it's not surprising when you think about it. What cultivator doesn't carry their most precious possessions with them at all times?

Even if Primordial Spirit Daoist or Earth Immortal Loose Immortal, and has a Heavenly Immortal-level cave dwelling, they usually only store things they don't need.

Unless one has no successor, they would deliberately leave something for future cultivators, adding another legendary tale of a lucky boy seizing an opportunity to the Three Realms.

As for the treasures he carried with him, they were taken by his opponent after his death...

The person is already dead, why bother with all that?

As the items on the ground dwindled, a roll of animal hide caught Zhou Hao's attention.

Last time, he found a piece of animal hide of the same material in Meiji's storage magic item, thus discovering the lair of the Niehai Gorge Pirates.

As the leader of the Great Wild Branch Altar, Tong You's possession of these animal hides in his storage magic treasure suggests that they must contain some important secrets.

Zhou Hao placed the bundle of animal hide on the stone table, and with a casual wave of his hand, he condensed his Origin Power into a blade and cut the rope.

Wow!

A large stack of animal hides, numbering in the dozens, suddenly scattered across the stone table.

Zhou Hao picked up a random sheet, and his expression immediately changed after seeing the handwriting on it.

"Master, the Xiantian Battalion has been renamed the Jade Dragon Army today, and all six hundred Xiantian Lifeform have been equipped with Jade Dragon Armor. It is understood that the Jade Dragon Armor is Dao Soldier Armor used by Xiantian Lifeform, which can form Dao Soldier Formation, but its power is currently unknown. Zhou Hao has been appointed as the commander of the Fifth Squad and will soon be stationed there."

Are these intelligence letters sent to Tong You by the Fire Worship Sect spies?

Setting aside the animal hide paper in his hand, Zhou Hao picked up the second and third sheets to examine them.

"Master, I have learned that the Niehai Gorge Pirates has failed, and Zhou Hao has broken through to the Purple Mansion Realm..."

"Master, Yang Yun, the Fourth Commander of the Jade Dragon Army, will be leaving Jade Dragon City for the Hu Clan West Mansion tomorrow, accompanied by Cao Rong and Xiangcao. Xiangcao is close to Zhou Hao; if we're going to make a move, tomorrow will be the opportunity..."

Zhou Hao read through all the animal hides on the table and found that there were more than ten sheets containing information related to himself.

The information about Xiangcao, Iron Ox, Iron Pillar, and even Sister-in-law Zhamu and Sister-in-law Qingshi is recorded in detail.

As for the rest of the animal parchment, it was all about intelligence and information related to Jade Dragon City and even the Jade Dragon Army, including all sorts of events, big and small, as if there were always eyes watching Zhou Hao and his group.

"Today's unexpected gains are truly numerous..." Zhou Hao closed his eyes, and his invisible divine sense instantly enveloped the entire Jade Dragon City.

Especially that place he knew so well.

Whoosh!

Zhou Hao's figure transformed into a streak of light, heading straight for West Gate Market.

Inside the Zhu Da Restaurant, it was already late at night, and the window panels outside the restaurant had been closed.

In the darkness, a figure emerged from the back door of the restaurant.

After listening carefully to ensure there were no unusual noises from the street outside, the figure left the house and headed towards the western wasteland.

Whoosh!

The figure soared like a wisp of smoke, quickly disappearing dozens of miles away from Jade Dragon City.

At this extreme speed, a journey of thousands of miles can be completed in just half an hour! This is already at the speed level of Purple Mansion Cultivator.

At this moment, the figure was running across the wasteland with no cover around it.

Under the moonlight, he appeared to be a stout, middle-aged man with a large head and ears.

More than ten miles away, Zhou Hao rode the Wind Riding, his divine sense constantly enveloping the middle-aged man.

Zhou Hao looked at the familiar restaurant owner, Zhu Da. His once obese figure was now moving so fast. If Cao Rong, Er Hu, and others who knew him well saw this, they would definitely be dumbfounded.

"They really hid it well!"

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