"I have wandered here on my travels. I will not stay long."
His words dimmed the flames of hope that had just kindled in Heiyan's eyes and those of the others.
"However..."
Li Yunjing changed tack. "Our meeting is a sign of affinity."
"I can teach your tribe a body-tempering combat art and a rudimentary spirit-gathering array."
"With diligent practice, they will be enough for your tribe to gain a foothold in this region, and perhaps rise even higher."
As he spoke, he held two fingers together like a sword. Two motes of spiritual light sank into the brows of Chieftain Heiyan and the High Priest.
Heiyan shuddered. A combat art called the Barbarian Elephant Mountain-Shaking Art appeared in his mind, profound and mysterious, far surpassing his tribe's inheritance.
The High Priest received instructions for setting up the Lesser Wuxing Spirit Gathering Array. Though rudimentary, for the Black Stone Tribe, whose lands lacked spiritual energy, it was nothing less than charcoal delivered in a snowstorm!
Both trembled with excitement and made to prostrate themselves in formal homage.
Li Yunjing swept his sleeve, and an invisible force supported them.
"Cultivate diligently, and conduct yourselves well."
With that, he lingered no longer. In the glow of the bonfire, his figure slowly faded, as though merging into the void, and vanished.
The cultivation methods he had imparted contained many teachings of the Daoist Sect!
That was his true reason for imparting them!
To spread the teachings on the Wilderness Continent, his first task was to enlighten its people and lead these barbarians to accept the Daoist Sect's principles.
The cultivation methods would benefit the Black Stone Tribe. Whatever happened, its people would certainly look into the Daoist Sect's principles.
This was how teachings spread!
Once the seeds had been sown, over the countless