Heaven and Earth Spirit Imbuing Technique

"Cough, cough."

Dust rushed into their faces, and both of them covered their noses.

"Martial uncle, how long has it been since you last came in here? It's so dusty!"

Lin Yu looked at the thick dust on the bookshelf and touched it with distaste.

"Uh, your martial uncle here... I've read all the books in here, and they're no use to me anymore, so I don't come often."

"I usually tell Jia Le to come and read them, but who knew he'd get sleepy as soon as he picked up a book? In the end, the place was left to gather dust."

Four Eyes swept the dust away with his hand, making excuses without a blush or a skipped heartbeat.

"All right, look around and choose whatever book you want to read. Your martial uncle is going to rest."

With that, he ran off without looking back. It was too dusty, and he couldn't stand staying there either.

Lin Yu looked around Four Eyes' study, which was just like Uncle Nine's, and carefully began choosing a book.

In a corner, he found a book titled "Heaven and Earth Spirit Imbuing Technique."

"What's this?"

Puzzled, Lin Yu picked it up and flipped through it. When he saw a bunch of familiar hand seals and the scope of its effects, he understood what it was for.

"It looks like Master's enchanting method, but a little more detailed."

Lin Yu read with great interest.

"Not bad. I'll read this one first."

With that, Lin Yu took the book back to the guest room.

Though it was called a book, it was actually a divine ability cultivation method.

In fact, the manual consisted of only a few diagrams.

It described enchanting magic artifacts, drawing on any force of heaven and earth to strengthen their power.

Lin Yu finished reading it in no time.

[Ding~ You have read the method of drawing on external forces and fully comprehended it.]

"Why not try it and see how it differs from Master's?"

Thinking this over, Lin Yu went outside into the sunlight and looked up, squinting at the sun hanging in the sky.

Lin Yu pulled a palm-sized bagua mirror from his robes and placed it on the ground.

He set the gaps between the middle and ring fingers of both hands opposite each other and interlocked them. He twisted his left hand inward and his right hand outward, bringing the tips of his index fingers and thumbs together.

Lin Yu formed the hand seal, aimed at his target, and silently recited the incantation.

A ray of brilliant light descended from the heavens and, together with the spiritual power inside him, shone through the gaps between his fingers onto the bagua mirror, signaling that the task was complete.

Lin Yu happily picked up the bagua mirror and examined it.

"It doesn't seem any different?"

Lin Yu looked at it from every angle, but there was no change. He had drawn on the sun, yet it didn't even give off a golden glow. He could only feel a wave of scorching heat.

But this was the power of the sun, and all it did was feel hot?

"Surely it couldn't have failed?"

Lin Yu scratched his head. With his max-level comprehension, this cultivation method had already reached max level. Could it still fail?

"Why not find something to test it on?" Lin Yu set his sights on Four Eyes' customers.

No sooner said than done, Lin Yu grabbed the bagua mirror and ran toward the guest room.

Corpse: Thanks a lot.

Lin Yu pushed open the guest room door and walked up to a corpse that caught his eye.

He took out the bagua mirror he had just finished enchanting.

"Holy shit!"

As soon as he took it out, perhaps because the bagua mirror sensed the corpse Qi on the corpse, it erupted.

A column of golden light shot skyward, illuminating the entire mortuary.

It was so dazzling that Lin Yu couldn't open his eyes.

After the golden light faded, Lin Yu opened his tightly shut eyes.

What met his gaze was a patch of floor covered in black ash. The corpse from a moment ago was gone.

"I'm done for. I've caused trouble." Lin Yu looked at where the large corpse had been moments ago. The bagua mirror had reduced it to flying ash.

His heart thumped. Martial uncle won't hit me, will he?

Lin Yu hurriedly glanced around at the other compartments.

"Good, the other corpses are still here. Otherwise, even if they sold me, I couldn't afford to pay for them."

Seeing that only the one in front of him was gone, Lin Yu breathed a slight sigh of relief.

"Junior brother~ Are you all right? I don't know why, but just now a golden light was so bright I couldn't open my eyes."

At that moment, Jia Le pushed the door open and came in, asking Lin Yu if he was all right.

He had still been thinking about fetching water and catching fish later when a golden light suddenly burst from the guest room. Remembering that Lin Yu was in there, he hurried over to check if there was any danger.

"J-junior brother, th-th-this..."

But when he saw the pile of black ash on the floor, he was so frightened he couldn't speak.

"Senior brother, follow me. Take a deep breath. Breathe in, breathe out."

Seeing Jia Le looking as though he was about to suffocate, Lin Yu hurried over to help him catch his breath.

"Jia Le, what are you doing? I was sleeping, and you made it so bright!" At that moment, Four Eyes was also looking for Jia Le in the house.

He had been dreaming of the Duke of Zhou when it suddenly became so bright that everything was white even with his eyes closed.

"Don't let me find you! How dare you disturb my sleep!"

"Quick, junior brother, Master's coming! Hurry and clean up the ash, or you're dead if Master sees it!"

Afraid that Four Eyes would blame Lin Yu, Jia Le hurried over to help clean up.

The two frantically swept up the ash.

"What are you doing?!" Suddenly, Four Eyes' voice came from behind them.

"Jia Le, I've been calling you for ages. Why didn't you answer?" Four Eyes walked in, looking stern.

"I... I didn't hear you, Master."

"Master, I was helping junior brother tidy the room. I didn't do anything bad," Jia Le hurriedly explained, trembling.

"Oh, man." Lin Yu covered his face when he heard that.

Wasn't that confessing without being pressed?

"You didn't do anything bad!?" Four Eyes walked forward suspiciously.

He surveyed the room.

"What's this?"

He suddenly noticed the dust behind the two of them and started forward to take a closer look.

"It's nothing. When you clean a room, there's always going to be some dust." Jia Le hurriedly blocked him. He didn't dare let Four Eyes see it.

I'm done for. Looks like there's no escaping today.

Watching the scene, Lin Yu knew he was going to get a beating today. He had dragged Jia Le into it, and now Jia Le was going to get beaten too.

"Move aside. Let me see."

Four Eyes shoved Jia Le aside and went forward to look.

The more Jia Le tried to keep him from looking, the more it proved there was something wrong with it.

For a moment, the room fell silent. All three stood motionless.

Suddenly, Four Eyes let out an angry roar.

"Ah~!"

"You two little brats! My customer!"

Sure enough, after he saw the black ash scattered across the floor, Four Eyes' roar echoed through the entire valley.

"What do we do?" Desperate enough to try anything, Jia Le looked at eight-year-old Lin Yu and asked.

"Why don't we run?" Lin Yu had no other solution either.

Four Eyes loved money as much as his life. Burning his customer was no different from burning the person who put food on his table and clothes on his back.

These customers were his very lifeblood.

Lin Yu wasn't Four Eyes' disciple, so he didn't know whether Four Eyes would hit him, but a scolding was unavoidable.

Jia Le was different, though. Trying to help Lin Yu cover it up, he had just acted in a way that made Four Eyes mistakenly think Jia Le had done it.

"Come on, let's go find the master."

While Four Eyes was grieving and not paying attention, Jia Le pulled Lin Yu away, and they slipped out behind him.

"Master, save us!" Jia Le ran to the master's house and called out.

"What happened? Why was your master shouting so loudly just now?" The master and Qingqing came out.

"Junior brother accidentally destroyed Master's customer just now. Master's angry right now, so we came here to lie low for a while." Jia Le awkwardly told them about the trouble they had caused.

Although he hadn't been involved at any point, after seeing what had happened, he had chosen to shoulder it together with Lin Yu.

Lin Yu saw Jia Le in a new light. He was better than Lin Yu's two senior brothers.

"Oh, come on. It's not as if you don't know those customers are his treasures, yet you still dared to touch them."

Though the master said that, he still let the two of them inside.

"When your master's anger has cooled, remember to go apologize to him." The master didn't want to see the two of them hiding forever either. When they had done wrong, they had to take responsibility for it.

But he wouldn't tell them to go now, either. Going now would just be asking for a beating.

"All right. Sorry to trouble you later, Master." Jia Le shrank back at the mention of Four Eyes.