Su Xinghe silently put away the weighty gift.
He noticed a palm-sized booklet still inside the package.
"Baleful-Breaking Gold-Severing Formula!"
"Wasn't this what Kong Yuan had been researching?"
He remembered seeing Kong Yuan study this secret art in the administrative office on the day he reported to the Demon Suppression Bureau last year.
He had asked about it later, when the two of them shared a meal.
As its name suggested, Baleful-Breaking Gold-Severing was a secret art needed at the Fourth-Rank Realm. It could also be called a skill, since only Martial Warriors who had awakened Psychic Power could cultivate it.
But because it involved internal secrets, Kong Yuan had only given him a brief introduction back then. Now that Su Xinghe had the art in hand, he read it carefully.
Five neat characters on the cover spelled "Baleful-Breaking Gold-Severing Formula."
The handwriting looked a little familiar.
He turned to the first page, where two lines of delicate, lively writing appeared.
"Written by Liaoyuan in Zhou Martial Year One. Copied by Piaoxue in year 512."
"Warning! Anyone practicing this secret art must first awaken Psychic Power."
Sure enough, it had been copied by that senior named Piaoxue again.
He just didn't know which faction she belonged to.
He turned to the next page and found an introduction to the secret art.
"Heaven and earth divide into yin and yang; all things nurture the Five Elements..."
"..."
As time slowly passed,
the Baleful-Breaking Gold-Severing Formula shed its former veil of mystery. It turned out that a Martial Warrior needed to condense Blood Baleful Qi to break through to Grandmaster after reaching the peak of Core Embrace.
This qi existed only in the Outer Realm. Not a single wisp could be absorbed in the Great Zhou Small World.
But even in the