At dawn, the sky was already bright.
Inside the thatched cottage, spiritual energy gathered and dispersed in time with a certain rhythm.
"This Little Formless Scripture truly is profound."
He slowly exhaled a stream of white vapor that lingered unbroken for three feet. Jiang Chen opened his eyes. After cultivating through the night, he had already gained an initial grasp of the Little Formless Scripture's mysteries, and the true qi within him had transformed into genuine Formless True Qi.
"With Formless True Qi achieved, all that remains is steady cultivation step by step. But if I want to rapidly improve my cultivation, resources are of paramount importance. In an age when heaven and earth were brimming with spiritual energy, the foundation of my superior-grade true qi would have let me sit quietly in the mountains and breathe in and out in silence. But that is no longer possible now."
A wisp of cloud-white true qi manifested in his palm. Scattered, it became vapor; gathered, it became cloud. Jiang Chen could not help sinking into thought.
After a while, he took out his storage pouch and removed everything inside.
Though White Crane Daoist had been a Qi Refinement cultivator who had lived for over a hundred years, he had left behind very little. Aside from the Little Formless Scripture and his cultivation insights, there was only a Qi Refinement-level inheritance, the Clear Wind Formula, a copy of the Crane-Raising Secret Record, and two magical artifacts.
The Crane-Raising Secret Record contained the fruits of his lifelong efforts in raising demon cranes. As for the two magical artifacts, they were the Thousand-Crane Feather Robe and the Crane-Cry Immortal Needle, each with its own wonders.
The Thousand-Crane Feather Robe had been refined primarily from the feathers of Qi Refinement-level white cranes. It contained twenty-four