Heavenly Connection, Wise Heart Nurtures Dao Seed, Impersonating Fu Tongjun

Little Sixth?

Fu Xiangfeng's heart skipped a beat. He turned to look at Fu Henghua, but managed to hold himself back.

Heng Hua, covering his face with a feather fan, was also completely baffled.

How did my name become known even to the Xuanwei Sect?

The Jinfang Waters and Yanlong Waters are separated by Yan Water and Baiqiang.

So, he waved his feather fan and said softly, "Senior, do you know my younger brother? I am Fu Tongjun. I am close in age to Brother Heng Hua, and we grew up together. We are the closest."

Fu Xiangfeng, Howling Fish, and Eternal Longevity all fell silent.

Hold it in, hold it in. Don't reveal your weakness. You can't let your guard down.

Just hearing Fu Henghua falsely claim to be "Fu Tongjun" made the three of them feel both annoyed and amused.

Fu Tongjun was the daughter of Fu Henghua's seventh uncle. She was born on the same day, month, and year as Fu Henghua. However, due to their birth order, they often quarreled as children and had a very bad relationship.

Now, he was actively using her name to lie?

Zhou Xiao: "I don't know him. I only heard someone in the sect mention that he possesses the Fu Family's inherited 'Heavenly Connection Wise Heart'."

Cultivation families always benefited from their bloodlines. Besides common bloodline secret arts like "Wind Sound," the descendants of the Fu Family would occasionally awaken some of the talents of their ancestors.

Considering Baihuang Hall alone, there were six types: Wise Heart, Sword Bone, Dragon Speech, Phoenix Speech, Spiritual Vision, and Double Pupils.

Heng Hua said coldly, "Wise Heart? Heng Hua's awakened innate talent is Phoenix Speech, commonly known as 'Bird Language.' It's usually not very useful."

Fu Xiangfeng, who had truly awakened Phoenix Speech, felt offended.

What's wrong with Phoenix Speech? Although it's true it's not very useful, I can understand the speech of all sorts of Spirit Birds. It was because of this that I obtained a Phoenix Destiny back then.

"Little brother, don't be on guard. I have no ill intentions towards you. Regarding the Wise Heart, only three people in our Xuanwei Sect know about it."

That's not a small number, okay!

Fu Xiangfeng's expression darkened, and he secretly became wary.

Although the six talents had no inherent ranking, the family clearly valued Wise Heart and Spiritual Vision more.

Wise Heart represented wisdom and comprehension. Those with it were adept at deducing techniques and calculations, making them excellent candidates for cultivating the Heluo Calculation Scripture. Legend has it that if one could deduce the Eight Trigrams from the Great Dao of Heluo, they could achieve Ascension to Immortality on the spot.

Spiritual Vision was the ability to sense and divine. Those with it could perceive the past and future, observe the stars, and enter dreams. They were also excellent candidates for cultivating the Heluo Calculation Scripture for deduction and divination.

Among the sixth generation of the Baihuang Hall, besides Fu Henghua who possessed the Heavenly Connection Wise Heart, only Fu Yaozhen, who ranked fourth, had awakened "Spiritual Vision." It was also because of this talent that Fu Yaozhen was taken away by an otherworldly expert to cultivate at a very young age.

Heng Hua recalled that a Xuanwei Sect elder had come to their home to recruit disciples, and had inquired about him.

Zhou Xiao chuckled, "That was my senior brother, the head disciple of the Xuanwei Sect. The reason he went to your family to recruit disciples was indeed for the 'Wise Heart'."

"That's strange. Before that senior came to Panlong Island to recruit disciples, Heng Hua spent his days in the library and never left the island. How did your sect know about the Wise Heart?"

The Fu Family had kept Fu Henghua's Wise Heart a closely guarded secret, outwardly claiming he was proficient in "Phoenix Speech." When Heng Hua was young, he had even learned some rudimentary bird language from Fu Xiangfeng.

"He once helped a Cultivator from our Xuanwei Sect."

Did that happen? Why don't I remember? Did I meet anyone from the Xuanwei Sect before that senior came to Panlong Island?

Fu Henghua muttered to himself, but his expression remained unchanged as he continued to probe.

Zhou Xiao: "Dong Moyang, do you remember this name, young friend?"

Fu Xiangfeng and Fu Henghua exchanged glances, seeing the confusion in each other's eyes.

Who is that? We don't know him.

"Senior Brother?" Fu Xuanxing interjected, "Did Senior Brother come to the Yanlong Waters?"

The Fu brothers still looked bewildered.

It wasn't until Fu Xuanxing gestured and said, "Senior Brother has a red Heavenly Horse, he likes to wear colorful clothes, and his sword is named 'Yunli'—"

Heng Hua: "That naked guy who ran around Panlong Island three times with Yunli Sword on his back?"

Fu Xiangfeng: "Big Brother's drinking buddy?"

Heng Hua and Fu Xiangfeng suddenly remembered.

Decades ago, someone had indeed visited Panlong Island. He was said to be a friend of Fu Xuanhe, and because he lost a bet to Fu Xuanhe, he ran around the island naked, attracting quite a crowd.

"It was him. So his name was Dong Moyang?" Heng Hua's expression was complicated.

"I remember him. Back then... Heng Hua had just started reading and reciting incantations, and he spoke to him a few words. Later, he suddenly went into seclusion."

"Nephew Moyang encountered a fortunate opportunity and glimpsed the door to the Golden Core. Not long after returning to the sect, he forged the Great Dao Golden Core. It was also he who informed us about the Wise Heart and asked Senior Brother to go recruit him. However, the Fu Family obstructed him, and it ultimately fell through."

Zhou Xiao said, "According to Nephew Moyang, Fu Henghua has very high comprehension. The Fu Family intends to cultivate him as a Technique Evolution Master. If he hasn't wasted his talent over the years and obtains a large number of Nascent Soul Cultivation Methods, he might be able to help Brother Fu create a Nascent Soul Secret Method."

Deduce it himself? Indeed, if he had a large number of Nascent Soul Cultivation Methods, it's not impossible to consider.

Heng Hua suddenly stood up: "Brother, you and Howling Fish entertain Senior. I'll be right back."

He ran to the stern of the boat, took out a Red Copper Coin, and began to divine.

Zhou Xiao's realm was high, and he possessed a Devilish Creature. Heng Hua couldn't divine his calamity, but he could divine his own fate and the fates of those around him.

"What... what is he doing?"

Fu Xuanxing watched Heng Hua's fiddling with a look of confusion.

"He's divining good or ill fortune. This technique... 'Nine Profound Heavenly Yi Calculation Art'?"

Zhou Xiao's eyes held a strange glint.

Where did this kid learn the Heavenly Yi Sect's deduction methods?

The Heavenly Yi Sect was founded by disciples of the Profound Heaven Sect who had left. This lineage inherited the Profound Heaven Sect's secret deduction arts and, like the Xuanwei Sect which excelled in Yin-Yang True Essence and Qi Gong, was located in the Jinfang Waters. The two were considered brother sects and maintained a very close relationship.

Fu Xiangfeng stood to the side. "Little Sixth likes to read and has an excellent relationship with... with Heng Hua. What's so strange about him knowing a deduction technique?"

Zhou Xiao mused silently: Heavenly Yi Calculation Art wasn't much, it was just one of the Heavenly Yi Sect's signature divination arts. It held the potential to cultivate the Profound Heaven Sect's secret "Profound Heaven Star-Fixing Fate Reversal Art," which could defy fate and revive the dead.

Two quarters of an hour later, Heng Hua had figured something out.

"The 'trouble' on Senior Zhou Xiao's person is absolutely not something we should take on. But we can travel with him for a stretch."

If they accepted that trouble, Fu Xiangfeng and Heng Hua would surely die.

But as long as Zhou Xiao lived, and he himself bore the brunt of the trouble, those traveling with him would face much less danger.

"If we're traveling together, before I go into Buried Turtle Reef to avoid this tribulation, I'll face several groups of pursuers--Howling Fish, fetch me a dou of millet!"

His voice carried on the wind, and Howling Fish hurriedly retrieved a dou of millet from the boat.

Heng Hua sliced his finger, drawing a circle with his blood. Then he grabbed the millet, sprinkled it towards the sky, and exhaled a breath of Creation True Qi.

"Set!"

The millet scattered in the wind, and seven grains landed within the circle.

"Another strange and peculiar method for fortune-telling? It seems to carry the flavor of blessings and prayers."

Zhou Xiao watched Heng Hua's divination and secretly thought: Is this kid truly an undercover disciple taken in by the Heavenly Yi Sect? How does he know all sorts of bizarre fortune-telling methods? Wasn't it said that the Fu Family's fundamental divination method was the Heluo Calculation Scripture?

Seeing the seven grains of millet, Heng Hua was still uneasy. He scooped up a handful of clear water from the lake and performed the "Water Divination Technique."

It still showed seven paths of pursuers.

Finally, he retrieved a begonia flower from inside the cabin and used the Flower Divination Method to verify.

"Seven groups of people, confirmed. And they're intertwined with my Foundation Establishment tribulation, a fifty-fifty chance of fortune or disaster."

Half life, half death.

Should he take the gamble?

Just then, a piercing roar erupted from behind the Spirit Boat.

Heng Hua looked up. A purple lightning ball streaked through the air, about to catch up to the Spirit Boat.

He drew a talisman in the air with his right hand and pointed downwards towards the water.

"Water Mist Illusion, Dew Drops Hang Down From Sky."

Water light surged, and a hazy mist and dew formed a large net, blocking the lightning ball.

Simultaneously, Heng Hua used Sky Wind Sword Qi with his other hand. It was softer than Fu Xiangfeng's, a sword qi completely devoid of offensive power, which attached itself to the mist and dew net.

The cultivator within the lightning ball stopped abruptly, cautiously observing the water net.

He could sense faint traces of gang wind sword qi hidden within the water net.

"Though weak, the wind spirit power attached to the water net is extremely pure. If I were to carelessly crash into it, wouldn't I be pierced by ten thousand swords? Better to be cautious."

The cultivator revealed himself and looked at the water net, which hung from the sky into the water, stretching endlessly. He gave up on trying to go around and unleashed his full power, casting a lightning spell.

"Open for me!"

The lightning surged like a fierce tiger, tearing the water net apart with a single claw.

So easy? Wait, where was that wind spirit sword qi?

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew. The shattered water net stirred up the hazy mist, and three identical Spirit Boats sailed on the water.

Seeing the three boats, the cultivator hesitated.

He could tell it was an illusion, but which boat was real?

"Mirage Illusion Method."

Zhou Xiao watched Heng Hua perform the technique at the stern of the boat and praised, "Using the water net and mist as a medium, taking advantage of the opponent breaking the water net to set up the mirage. Young friend, your timing is exquisite, and you know many techniques."

"Senior."

Heng Hua returned to the bow. "Senior's injuries have not healed. Of course, I don't have the ability to heal you. All I can do is alleviate your pain and seal the scattered Core Essence within your body into your hidden acupoints. This entire process will take about three days. After three days, Senior will be able to retain his Foundation Establishment, perhaps even the True Fire Realm. No, according to your Jinfang Waters' terminology, it would be fluctuating between the third and fifth layers of Foundation Establishment."

The classification systems of the major waters differed.

The Yanlong Waters preferred to divide the nine layers of Foundation Establishment into three realms, while the Jinfang Waters favored dividing them from one to nine layers.

"Of course, if you have any secret techniques that can preserve you until Foundation Establishment Great Perfection and allow you to cultivate back to Golden Core yourself, then I take back my words."

Zhou Xiao gave a wry smile. "If I had such a secret technique, I wouldn't have ended up in this state."

The old man looked at the golden needles on his body and mused, "The Seven Stars Stabilizing Yuan Qi Recovery Method is indeed exquisite, but it can only help me lock my Golden Core Qi. It cannot truly heal me or prolong my life. My condition is more serious than you imagine, young brother."

"Understood. Your meridians are severed, and your Dantian is destroyed. Fortunately, you are a Golden Core Cultivator and have already formed a Yin God. It is your Yin God that is forcibly controlling your physical body; otherwise, you would have already fallen unconscious and waited for death."

Heng Hua: "Whoever injured you to this extent must be at least a Nascent Soul stage Cultivator, if not higher. In short, my brother and I cannot afford to offend them.

"But we can travel with you for these three days. After three days, I have another method to help you prolong your life. Roughly speaking..."

Heng Hua estimated, "The Nine Heavens should be enough to accomplish it."

"I am a dying man, and you can extend my life for another twelve days?"

"Twelve days at the very least."

Zhou Xiao lowered his head in thought.

Twelve days was enough time for him to personally go to Huomen Island and destroy the Devilish Creatures.

However, could this kid really help him live for twelve days? Even a direct disciple of the Tianyi Sect couldn't do that, could they?

"You are going to such lengths, do you have any requests?"

"I will help you with acupuncture for three days, and you will teach me three chapters of the Nascent Soul Secret Method each day, for a total of nine chapters. I will then pass them on to Heng Hua, hoping that with his intelligence, he can deduce Cultivation Methods for Grandfather."

Heng Hua slipped into the "Tong Jun" persona with great ease, not revealing the slightest flaw.

"Three chapters a day?"

Zhou Xiao shook his head, "That's too few. I only have a few days left anyway, so I'll teach you as much as I can. Whatever you can learn is your own skill, but I will not teach you the core techniques of the Xuanwei Sect."