Xu Tong found the old man rather interesting. "You've talked all this time, and you still haven't brought out the real stuff?"
"Don't be impatient. We have to go from the shallow end into the depths." As he spoke, the old man took two cultivation manuals out from behind his back.
One was called Ultimate Intent Body Technique, and the other was Phoenix Shadow.
"Ultimate Intent Body Technique is for you, Xu Tong! Phoenix Shadow is for the young lady."
Xu Tong took the book. Judging by the title alone, it looked like a good one!
He opened it and found nothing but cultivation fundamentals, the basics of qi training, movement techniques, and so on. Much of it was repeated, too.
However, the entire book was handwritten.
"That's it?" Geng Shu asked. "We spent two hundred taels of silver, and this is the real stuff you promised? A handwritten book full of repeated passages? Are you kidding me?"
The old man chuckled. "As the saying goes, a flurry of wild punches can beat an old master to death. Don't underestimate the basics. It took me hundreds of years to finally understand that truly powerful techniques don't need to be flashy at all."
"They only need to be focused and practical."
Geng Shu tilted her head as she looked at him. "Old man, you're just scamming us, aren't you? Dress it up however you like, but you're just repeating a few theories and putting them into a book to cheat people. Will practicing this make us deviate into demonic cultivation?"
"Besides, you don't even look sixty, and you're claiming hundreds of years? Do you think we're children?"
Seeing that she had switched into nonstop nagging mode, Xu Tong hurried to stop her with a smile. "All right, Geng Shu, just take