A breakthrough in cultivation

"Brother Chu, you're far too polite to people like that." As they walked along the path to the Supervisor's Office, Jiang Kuo still looked indignant.

"He hardly matters." Chu Bai's expression remained unchanged. To him, Li Han was merely a speck of dust on the road of cultivation. Once brushed away, his heart remained perfectly clear.

He glanced at the deepening dusk and told the three of them, "I still have something important to do today, so I'll take my leave."

Chu Bai would not fall behind on his three daily cultivation sessions at different locations.

More than twenty days later.

Chu Bai stepped through the doors of the Scripture Repository again.

This time, he did not linger before the miscellaneous offensive spell arts on the first floor, but headed straight for the shelves of defensive spell arts.

After his grueling battle with Zhang Shan, he understood all too well the importance of defensive measures.

[Origin Guard Shield]

This was the spell art Chu Bai had chosen after repeated comparisons.

Unlike those cumbersome stone wall spells, the Origin Guard Shield condensed pure spell power from the Origin Return Formula into a palm-sized round shield that could move anywhere within three feet of his body at his will.

The spell's greatest advantage lay in its compatibility.

Origin-returning spell power was inherently balanced and gentle, capable of mimicking various attributes.

This meant that when the Origin Guard Shield faced a fire attack, its surface could turn cold and dense in an instant; against a metal attack, it could become supple and ever-shifting.

More importantly, the Origin Guard Shield's defensive strength increased with the purity of its wielder's spell power. For someone like Chu Bai, who had mastered his cultivation method, it was practically tailor-made.

*Spirit Water Needle for offense, Formless