Demonic Cultivation Method

After inventorying storehouse after storehouse and confirming that all valuables and books had been properly arranged, Lin Fan turned and walked toward the study at the side of the courtyard.

Once inside, he closed the door behind him, shutting out the night and its faint rustling sounds from the courtyard. Lin Fan raised a hand and lit the oil lamp, whose dim yellow glow instantly illuminated the entire broad desk.

During the day, he had been occupied with affairs and had not had time to study them carefully. Now that the night was deep and still, it was the perfect time to examine them in detail. Lin Fan sat before the desk and took several stacked booklets from his robe, laying them out gently on the tabletop one by one.

Lin Fan activated the 1,000-fold cultivation acceleration effect and began reading through the books. A thousandfold acceleration was already enough to grant him photographic memory. Reading something once was equivalent to another person reading it a thousand times.

After quickly reading and memorizing the several Inner Qi Circulation Methods he had collected during the day, along with the Thousand Forms Technique, his gaze finally fell upon the thin booklet the Flower Thief had kept close to his body, wrapped in oil paper.

Lin Fan gently opened the outer layer of oil paper, revealing the booklet inside. Its cover was rough, its corners faintly creased, as though it had been carried on someone's person for many years. Pinching the page between his fingertips, Lin Fan slowly turned it open.

The pages were slightly yellowed, covered in writing and diagrams. Yet this booklet was not an ordinary martial arts manual.

The oil lamp flickered, firelight reflecting across Lin Fan's face. He leaned forward slightly, his gaze fixed tightly upon the pages. The