The White Sand Gang leader was slightly taken aback. After a brief moment of thought, he hurriedly bowed and replied, "In answer to Lord Lin, most of the gang's arts are crude external techniques for fighting on the river. Inner Qi methods are rather rare. The previous gang leader happened to obtain a manual in his early years, and it has been locked in a wooden box at the deepest part of the Scripture Repository ever since. This subordinate will fetch it for you at once."
With that, he strode to a wooden cabinet at the very back of the Scripture Repository, opened a dust-covered blackwood box, carefully took out a yellowed thread-bound ancient book, and presented it to Lin Fan with both hands.
"This is the River Inner Qi Art."
Lin Fan accepted it, his fingertips brushing over the rough, aged pages. He lowered his head and flipped through several pages, finding that it was indeed a cultivation method for circulating Inner Qi. This cultivation method was fairly decent.
Back when he was at the Raging Tide Gang, Lin Fan had used his Inner Qi to carefully search every book in the Scripture Repository. Even the books locked away in the deepest parts of the bookcases could be detected by his Inner Qi. He had also questioned the Raging Tide Gang leader, and they truly had no Inner Qi circulation methods. After all, unless one intended to break through to the Bright Force Realm, ordinary people would not bother preparing such a cultivation method.
And if one wished to obtain such a cultivation method, it was not particularly difficult. The imperial court did not prohibit the circulation of such methods. As long as one prepared around one hundred thousand taels of silver, one could bring back a copy from