Repairing, Shedding the Shell

Inside the spirit chamber, a little over ten days passed in the blink of an eye.

During these days, Fang Shu did not begin his breakthrough.

Instead, he ate and drank well every day. In his spare time, he read Daoist books and even flipped through a few storybooks he had brought along for amusement.

Until this day, the Dao Register in his mind gave a slight tremor, and words emerged:

[Cordyceps Parasitism Technique mastered]

All manner of profound text and Spirit Root Atlas diagrams rushed into his mind with a whoosh, leaving his gaze unfocused for a moment.

That was right. Over these days, apart from continuing to temper his cultivation, he had also used the Dao Register to analyze the spirit root method.

Compared to ordinary spells, spirit root methods had more specific procedures and concerned only the planting of spirit roots. They did not need to be learned from scratch, and many of their principles were connected to immortal disciplines such as the Gu Dao.

Yet for ordinary people, they still required several months of contemplation. In particular, immortals without a foundation in immortal learning would need one or two years, perhaps even four or five years, to fully grasp them—much like cultivating a spell from the beginning.

Perhaps that was why Senior Sister Fang Lu had served as a menial for two years.

Fang Shu himself had a foundation in Gu refinement, as well as the Dao Register to assist him. In less than fifteen days, he had already thoroughly comprehended it. By rights, this time could have been even shorter.

The reason it had taken this long was that he had blended his own understanding of spirit roots, along with the outlines of the twenty-four methods he had gleaned from the Jin Family