Exposed Secrets

"The first version of the technique couldn't be mastered by anyone below the sixth level! Now this evolved version looks several times stronger than the first to me, so how can we learn it?" He Dazhi was very suspicious of his little junior brother's not-so-reliable way of doing things.

There was still no clue about the simplified version, but the evolved version of the technique was something even Zhang Xiaofan could cultivate; it just had no attack effect at all. To a certain extent, however, it avoided the side effect of suffering spiritual-energy backlash when a spell failed to be cast successfully.

"The evolved version of the technique can control the output of spiritual energy. If the spiritual-energy output is small, then the power is small. Anyway, with your current fourth- and fifth-level cultivation, you can cultivate it now! It's just not as powerful as when I use it!"

The evolved version's requirements for spiritual energy had been lowered by a lot, but its power was still considerably stronger than the very first version. Otherwise, it would hardly be worthy of the word "evolved"!

"Didn't you say before that only the simplified version was something we could cultivate?" He Dazhi was still somewhat doubtful.

"This technique's power really isn't small, but relatively speaking, its flaws are also very big!" Luo Yunji thought for a moment, then said.

"What flaws?" Old Six and the others had not noticed anything bad about the new technique, and they all looked toward Luo Yunji.

"Didn't you see that you have to do so many preparatory movements? The charging time is too long! If you really got into a fight with someone, who would give you time to charge up?" Luo Yunji glared at Old Six with a look of contempt.

After hearing that, everyone thought about it, and that was true!

Could you really ask your opponent to wait while you finished dancing a whole dance in the middle of a fight?

Thinking of it that way, the practicality of this new technique was greatly reduced.

"That's why I have to create a simplified version! The kind of technique where you wave your hand and a great dragon comes out!" Seeing that everyone's enthusiasm for the evolved version of the technique had dropped a little, Luo Yunji hurriedly pouted and said.

Everyone was stunned by the little fatty's idea!

Imagining the sight of waving a hand and blasting away a mountain, imagining a fight where they casually waved and several great dragons appeared, blasting the opponent into the sky—the scene was so beautiful that everyone could not help revealing a face full of silly smiles.

The future was worth looking forward to!

Seeing He Dazhi's mouth about to move again, Luo Yunji angrily cut him off first. "Then just treat this evolved version as the simplified version! The evolved version of the technique has already lowered the cultivation requirement by a lot! He Old Four! Practice it if you want, don't if you don't! Hmph!" Seeing that someone was actually questioning his technique, the little fatty immediately grew anxious.

"Yo-ho! He Old Four?" Old Six chuckled, squinting sideways at He Dazhi beside him. "Fourth Senior Brother! If it were me, I absolutely wouldn't put up with that!"

"Hmph, hmph! Du Old Six with rotten gambling luck!" Seeing Old Six fanning the flames, Luo Yunji immediately shouted at him.

"Yo-ho! Rotten gambling luck! Du Old Six! Ah! Would you put up with that?" Wu Dayi and the other senior brothers who had not been dragged in all imitated Du Bishu's earlier expression and movements, glancing at him together and laughing in strange voices.

Provoked by several of his senior brothers, Du Bishu wanted to recover face from Luo Yunji, but unfortunately, he knew he could not beat the little guy. He stood there with his face flushed red, not knowing what to do.

Just as everyone was egging Old Six on to go make trouble for their little junior brother, He Dazhi suddenly jumped in front of the little fatty, clamped his little fat head under his arm, and knocked on his head a few times.

"Respect your senior brothers!" he scolded as he knocked.

"Ah! He Old Four! You bad person!" The little fatty struggled with all his might.

Seeing this, the other senior brothers all ran up, taking advantage of the chance while Luo Yunji was trapped by He Dazhi to give him a thorough and fierce rubbing.

"Ah! You're all bad people!" At this moment, Luo Yunji had already forgotten the fact that his cultivation was higher than all of theirs, and instead struggled desperately with that weak bit of strength he had.

Su Ru, who had been staying to the side, really could not bear to watch anymore, and went up to rescue him.

"You're all bad people!" Protected in Su Ru's arms, Luo Yunji shouted angrily at the senior brothers gathered together.

As he shouted and shouted, he discovered that there was still such a thing as his cultivation.

When the senior brothers saw that their family's little junior brother suddenly stopped yelling, and that the corner of his mouth had even lifted slightly, vigilant Old Four hurriedly warned, "Run!"

As he spoke, he flashed away and ran.

"You bad people!" Seeing someone flee, Luo Yunji hurriedly waved both hands in succession, and dozens of water arrows appeared out of thin air in front of him.

"Mother!" Du Bishu let out a strange cry and ran for it behind his senior brothers.

Bang! Bang! Bang!...

Fortunately, Luo Yunji still had some sense in his heart and did not really let the water arrows hit He Dazhi and the others. It was just...

Tian Buyi looked at the pockmarked ground, then thought of the houses that had yet to be fully repaired, and his face grew darker and darker.

Tian Linger, off to the side, was the first to notice Tian Buyi's abnormal state. "Mother! I'm going with the senior brothers to cultivate!"

After saying that, she also ran off.

With a dark face, Tian Buyi looked around and saw only one little disciple whose discipline had failed, and one seventh disciple who had been standing in place the whole time, waging an ideological struggle. He did not know where he ought to vent his anger.

He flicked his sleeve!

"I've remembered all of this! You all just wait!" Tian Buyi left in a huff.

The few who had run far away laughed and joked the whole way, then found an open place and each began to practice the new technique.

A few days later, apart from Zhang Xiaofan, everyone else could indeed use the new technique. The technique's power was truly impressive.

The several disciples of Big Bamboo Peak were so excited they lost sleep for an entire night.

Seeing this, Tian Buyi and Su Ru also smiled for a long time in satisfaction and relief.

Only Zhang Xiaofan watched everyone with some envy, laughing and making a racket with them. He even specially made a table full of sumptuous dishes to celebrate!

"Seventh Senior Brother, are you unhappy?" At night, Luo Yunji lay on his side on the bed, looking at Zhang Xiaofan, who was lying on the outside, and asked.

"No." Zhang Xiaofan found it a little strange and did not know why his little junior brother had suddenly asked him this question.

"You haven't been cultivating for long, and what you cultivate is also two kinds of incomplete techniques..."

"You... how do you know!" Zhang Xiaofan was so frightened that he fell straight off the bed. After climbing up, he looked at Luo Yunji with a face full of terror.

When he had been learning to read and write from He Dazhi, He Dazhi had once told him about some of the taboos between sects, and secretly learning another sect's cultivation method was the most serious of them all.

"Little Senior Brother! What's wrong?" Luo Yunji had absolutely no idea why Zhang Xiaofan was panicking so badly. Was it just because he knew Zhang Xiaofan had cultivated two kinds of techniques? And both of them were incomplete, too!

He curled his lip, disgusted!

"Will... will you tell Master?" Zhang Xiaofan was so flustered he did not dare look at Luo Yunji.

At that moment, his heart was tangled in a mess. He did not know whether he hoped Luo Yunji would go tell Master, or hoped he would help him hide it.

"Does it make any difference whether I tell Master or not?" Luo Yunji blinked curiously again, gazing at the back of Zhang Xiaofan's head as he sat on the floor leaning against the edge of the bed.

"You... you don't know? You... you can't cultivate another sect's techniques!" Zhang Xiaofan lowered his head in some terror, leaning against the bed, curled up on the floor.

"Why?" Luo Yunji really could not quite understand.

"Cultivation methods are the foundation of a sect. If another sect learns them, then once they spread far and wide, that sect loses its foundation. If a technique can be learned anywhere, why bother joining that sect? You might as well join some other sect and learn one more technique besides," Zhang Xiaofan explained.