Law Technique Creation Function

Lin Yun swallowed. No, he didn't quite understand.

Old immortals and eternal life-weren't those things only found in opera scripts? How had they actually come true for Erlang?

Lin Dayou, being an adult, was steadier. After taking some time to digest what Lin Xiao had said, he merely frowned and asked him:

"Are you telling the truth?"

Lin Xiao shrugged.

"Would I dare lie to you? Besides, you can go up the mountain and see for yourself tomorrow, and then you'll know whether I'm telling the truth. There's no point in lying to you."

Lin Dayou glared at him.

"Haven't you told enough lies growing up?"

Then he rolled his eyes at him and said in a low voice:

"Don't let the villagers know about this for now, or there'll be no end to the damn trouble. Like you said, wait until you've made something of your cultivation and gained enough ability that you don't have to fear that kind of crap and trouble. Then let them know."

After all, Lin Xiao had built his sect on a mountain in the village. It would be impossible to keep it hidden forever.

Lin Xiao readily agreed. That was exactly what he had in mind.

Keeping a low profile and developing in the early stages was the way to go!

With Lin Dayou saying that, how could he possibly disagree? He immediately nodded again and again.

Lin Dayou picked up his bowl and resumed eating, talking to Lin Xiao between mouthfuls.

"This immortal cultivation of yours, does it have any good farming methods we could use? Something to improve the harvest in our fields? One of these days, we could be rich landlords too, eating rice at every meal."

Lin Xiao hurriedly patted his chest. "Just wait till I've made progress in my cultivation. I'll get right on researching it!"

Hearing this, Lin Yun chewed his mixed-grain bun while imagining the day when they could eat rice at every meal.

Night fell.

After dinner, Lin Xiao helped his family tidy up for a while. Only after washing up did he return to his room by moonlight.

Now he finally had time to look at his First Layer of Qi Refining.

He opened his panel to check:

[Host: Lin Xiao (automatic cultivation enabled)]

[Aptitude: a dragon or phoenix among men]

[Gender: male]

[Bone age: 12]

[Cultivation: 21/300 (First Layer of Qi Refining-Qi Refinement Second Layer)]

[Core cultivation technique: "Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction" (comprehension 1/100)]

[Cultivation Method: none]

On his way down the mountain earlier, Lin Xiao had distinctly felt that his physique seemed to have improved somewhat.

He hadn't even gotten out of breath on the whole trip down the mountain and back home.

He even felt he could sprint back and forth another eighty or a hundred times.

Aside from that, he felt a little warmth in his Dantian.

There was nothing else.

He tried imagining a few minor Law Techniques, like a dust-removal Technique and fetching things from a distance.

Nothing happened.

Lin Xiao lay lazily on his bed.

"Could it be that cultivators in this world don't have any Law Techniques to use?"

[Ding-congratulations, host. You have successfully unlocked the Law Technique Creation Function.]

Hehe.

[Would you like to begin creating a Law Technique?]

Lin Xiao naturally chose yes.

The familiar little squares appeared before him again, four of them.

As before, the first and second slots required paper material and ink.

The third slot required a Spirit Stone, and the fourth required Lin Xiao's idea for a Law Technique.

Unfortunately, Lin Xiao didn't have any paper mulberry bark at the moment.

He resolved to strip off a whole pile of paper mulberry bark tomorrow and store it in his private stash. The stuff looked like it had plenty of uses.

Tonight, he could only go to sleep with this small regret.

The night passed in a flash.

The first faint light of dawn appeared.

The neighbor's rooster opened its eyes and prepared to get up and crow.

As Lin Xiao slept, his dreams were filled with the contents of the core cultivation technique he and Fuzi had read during the day.

Then, somewhere between sleep and waking, he seemed to hear the system's voice.

[Ding-congratulations, host. You have gained insight in your dreams. Core cultivation technique comprehension +5. The effectiveness of automatic cultivation has increased significantly. You have successfully advanced to the Qi Refining Second Layer.]

Lin Xiao sleepily stirred his eyelids, but didn't open them. He turned over and sank back into a deep sleep.

He didn't know how much time passed.

Dawn had barely broken.

Lin Xiao was sleeping soundly when Lin Dayou suddenly grabbed him and hauled him out of bed.

Without even waiting for him to put on his outer clothes, Lin Dayou shoved several newly made straw mats and a bundle wrapped in old cloth into his arms, along with his outer clothes, and tossed him out of the house.

He left him with just one instruction-"Go up the mountain and cultivate. Don't come back until the sun goes down"-before shutting him outside the front gate.

Still bleary-eyed, Lin Xiao stood disheveled in the morning breeze.

He was so sleepy. He wanted to sleep, not cultivate this early. He could cultivate automatically.

But Lin Xiao knew his father. If he went back to bed now, Lin Dayou would whip him with a fire poker for half an hour.

Resigned to his fate, Lin Xiao clutched the things Lin Dayou had shoved into his arms, turned around, and went to the Jiang Household to drag Jiang Youfu out of bed.

He couldn't be the only one denied a lie-in.

Good brothers had to share hardships.

By the time the two reached the sect, the sun had only just peeked over the horizon.

They laid the straw mats in the thatched shelter. Today, they wouldn't have to sit on the ground.

Lin Xiao opened the bundle and looked inside. There were two buns, four sweet potatoes, and a water bottle made from a large bamboo tube. The tube wasn't properly sealed and leaked a little, leaving a wet patch on the wrapping cloth.

Grandma Jiang had also stuffed a few buns into Jiang Youfu's arms.

Lin Xiao glanced around the thatched shelter.

Starting today, the two of them would officially begin cultivating halfway up this mountain.

Seeing Jiang Youfu relish his bun with plain water, Lin Xiao suddenly remembered something.

He still didn't know what Fuzi's aptitude was like.

The system should be able to check, right?

[Ding-the Disciple Panel Function has been unlocked.]

Lin Xiao was already getting used to the system appearing whenever called.

He found the disciple information and opened it. For now, Jiang Youfu was the only one listed.

[Name: Jiang Youfu]

[Gender: male]

[Bone age: 12]

[Aptitude: not as good as those above, but better than those below]

[Cultivation: mortal-Drawing Qi into the Body]

[Sect status: outer disciple (can be changed)]

[Sect position: none (can be changed)]

Not as good as those above, but better than those below?

What kind of aptitude rating was that?

Lin Xiao thought it over. Forget it. Since the system had rated him a dragon or phoenix among men, he wouldn't quibble with it.

The rating probably meant Jiang Youfu was somewhere in the middle among humans.

The cultivation entry was a little different from his own, though. It had no numerical value.

But after seeing "can be changed" next to outer disciple and sect position, Lin Xiao decided to make a change.

He opened the option, only to find it was empty.

There was nothing but a bunch of plus signs.

In other words, he had to set up all the sect positions himself.

Lin Xiao paused.

Well, wouldn't he have to draw up a detailed organizational chart and carefully define and divide the responsibilities of each position...

Forget it. There were only two of them right now, so he would just create a common, all-purpose position first.

And so Lin Xiao entered the words "sect elder."

As for the sect elder's specific responsibilities at the moment, there were none.

Those were things he would only need later. He would deal with them when the time came.