"Fellow Daoist, please keep this safe."
Inside the ancestral hall of Pine Mountain's Forbidden Ground, Chen Yang was studying talisman arts when an unfamiliar voice suddenly rang out in his mind, startling him sharply.
Clang!
In the next instant, he summoned his pitch-black armor for protection, focusing his mind and vigilantly scanning his surroundings.
This gave little Yang Liu, who was meditating in the ancestral hall and drawing in qi, quite a fright.
She thought she had made some mistake while performing her technique and angered the Immortal Venerable. She hurriedly knelt and apologized, "Yang Liu is dull-witted. Please calm your anger, Immortal Venerable, please calm your anger..."
Sensing something amiss, Yang Lingqing arrived at the ancestral hall a few breaths later as well.
"Immortal Venerable, have thieves broken into the family?"
Chen Yang released his consciousness and searched once, yet found nothing. Whether on the mountain or below it, everything was as peaceful and safe as usual.
Only then did a piece of information travel through the connection between the soul flame and the cultivator's true body into Chen Yang's mind, and he understood what had happened.
"This is... an insight Ling Rui obtained, an insight into cultivating the Dao!"
Realizing that no one had invaded, Chen Yang sent a Thought Transmission to Yang Lingqing while putting away his armor.
"Li Yuande... this man seemed to be that Li Family ancestor. Hmm... let me see what this insight contains."
When this insight reached Chen Yang, it took the form of a small cluster of consciousness. Once Chen Yang touched it, he could understand its contents.
Chen Yang peeled away the layers of that cluster of consciousness.
"Essential Secrets for Ascending the Twelve Floors of Qi Gathering..."
"Treatise on the Experience of Practicing All Techniques..."
"Heart and Soul Stabilization and