On the third day after leaving Heiyan City, Qin Yu found a somewhat familiar scroll while sorting through his Storage Ring.
A low-level Mystic Tier Water Attribute cultivation technique, Thousandfold Waves.
Qin Yu froze when he saw the technique. Wasn't this something belonging to Jia Lie Nu, the Jia Lie Clan's second elder?
After killing Jia Lie Nu that day, he had casually stripped the Storage Ring off the corpse and swept everything inside into his own possession.
Later, however, he had been busy with other matters and never properly taken stock of it.
"What is it?"
Seeing him suddenly stop, Xiao Yi Xian glanced back.
"Found some old loot."
Qin Yu stared at the scroll in his hand, his brows twitching slightly.
Ever since that wisp of wood energy in his dantian had taken root in Heiyan City, it had remained in a half-dead state.
It was stable, certainly, but it refused to grow, like a seed buried in dry soil, lacking water.
It was not that Qin Yu had never considered using water to nourish that wood energy. The problem was, what if the wood, once nourished by water, began drawing upon his Earth-Attribute Battle Qi as sustenance?
And now, Qin Yu had an idea.
What he wanted was to merge the Wood Attribute within his body with his soul force, allowing him to wield it freely.
But who said the water had to be poured directly onto the wood?
The fusion of wood and soul force required both sides to participate. Couldn't he introduce water into the process of their fusion instead?
"What are you thinking about now?"
"Figuring out how to be a gardener."
Xiao Yi Xian looked utterly baffled, but Qin Yu had already entered a meditative state.
Over the following days, they continued traveling