Bian Weiying quickly regained her composure as well. "Help me give it a try?"
Shi Chun glanced at the faint blue mist slowly descending overhead. "Do you know the detailed process for refining Immobilizing Talismans?"
Bian Weiying said, "From beginning to end, the refining is divided among disciples at different levels in the sect. I know almost the entire process, except for one stage that no one but my grandfather and father knows. That hidden stage is the closely guarded secret never taught to outsiders. It's also the part I'm missing."
Shi Chun asked, "Could you demonstrate the entire refining process for me?"
Bian Weiying said, "I told you I can't demonstrate the complete process."
Shi Chun said, "Demonstrate the parts you know, and just tell me where the missing stage is."
Bian Weiying was dubious. "That would let you discover the missing Refining Secret Art?"
She didn't quite believe it. Most of the refining process passed through too many hands and had long since leaked. The incidents involving infiltrators, spies, and traitors leaking secrets at Mount Wukang were too numerous to count on both hands. If the Refining Secret Art were that easy to deduce from the process, it wouldn't have remained a secret to this day.
Shi Chun said, "Let's give it a try."
Bian Weiying thought it unnecessary, but faced with his insistent gaze, and with the abilities he had displayed at the Skyfall Meteor Assembly giving her a little hope, she hesitated briefly before deciding it didn't matter. She could treat it as the two of them having fun together. She nodded. "Then let's start now."
She pointed at the Deep Blue Bamboo spread out everywhere before them. "This stage is called 'mystic gathering,' the second step of internal refining. The first is purchasing Deep Blue