Looking at the panel in his mind, visible only to him, he saw:
[Cultivation art: Profound Intent Calamity-Extinguishing Finger (unpracticed)]
Yi Yang knew he had already recorded the cultivation art in his cheat ability. He decided to master its basics while the Wu Family's property was being confiscated.
He sorted the remaining pill bottles into categories and tucked them into the cloth pouch he wore close to his body, returned the spirit crystals to the Deerskin Bag, and took the treasure-artifact saber and sword with him as well. These counted as his spoils and did not need to be handed over.
He stored the Runic Bronze Ring he had obtained from the Ebony Box at Benevolent Temple separately, deep inside an inner pocket.
Once everything was put away, he picked up the manual for the Profound Intent Calamity-Extinguishing Finger, with its Beastskin Cover, last and rubbed its cover.
After confirming that he had packed everything properly, Yi Yang tucked the manual close to his body and headed out through the Wu Family's main gate with all his belongings.
It was almost dawn when he reached the Pacification Guard camp.
Yi Yang returned to his spacious room and bolted the door.
After a whole night of fighting, his injuries were not particularly serious. The self-healing properties of his wood-nurturing astral force had already stopped his superficial wounds from bleeding. What had truly suffered was the Golden-Furred Ape in his sea of consciousness-it had yet to fully recover from the cost of reflecting Ding Xiang's Soul Attack.
But Yi Yang had no intention of resting.
He spread the Profound Intent Calamity-Extinguishing Finger manual on the table and read through it page by page by the light of the oil lamp.
The cultivation art had five stages.
The first stage, "Astral-Breaking,"