Mortal: My divine sense has mutated.

Chapter 10 Xin Ruyin

It wasn't until Chen Liang had roughly tallied up their spoils that Xin Xuji and Qi Xinliang finally snapped out of their daze. However, possessing such a precious treasure as the Yuan Dan, they dared not step out of the Xuanwu Formation, but instead bowed to Chen Liang and thanked him through the formation's light barrier.

"This humble old man, Qi Xinliang, thanks you, fellow Daoist."

"I am Xin Xuji, from the Tianxing Sect. I thank you for your help, fellow Daoist. May I ask your esteemed name and which sect you belong to?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Liang turned to them and said, "Yellow Maple Valley, Chen Liang."

Xin Xuji said, "So it is Fellow Daoist Chen from Huangfeng Valley. I am deeply grateful for your kindness today, and I will surely repay you handsomely in the future. However, for my own safety at this moment, I must be impolite."

Chen Liang waved his hand casually and said, "It's alright, fellow Daoist's caution is indeed as it should be. However, I find your formation quite exquisite and would like to commission one from you. Is that possible?"

Xin Xuji: "Of course, fellow Daoist, you can come to Xin's Array Shop in Tianxing Sect Market three months later to pick up the array."

Chen Liang: "Then it's settled."

Afterwards, Chen Liang gathered the five corpses together, collected their remnant souls with the Soul Gathering Bowl, and then burned them to ashes with a fireball spell.

This made Qi Xinliang and Xin Xuji, who were standing nearby, feel somewhat uncomfortable. Although they were not exactly good people, they still found it hard to accept Chen Liang's blatant demonic behavior.

Yuanwu Kingdom is different from Yue Kingdom. The sects here are divided into righteous and demonic paths, and Tianxing Sect is a righteous sect.

The seven major sects of Yue are all neither purely righteous nor purely evil, and there is no distinction between the righteous path and the demonic path.

After cleaning up the mess, Chen Liang turned and left on his flying sword, leaving Xin Xuji and Qi Xinliang looking at each other in bewilderment.

After a long while, reinforcements from the Tianxing Sect finally arrived, and Xin Xuji and Qi Xinliang dared to step out of the formation.

Meanwhile, Chen Liang had returned to the Tianxing Sect's market town. He planned to sell some of his spoils there to buy the resources he needed.

First, Chen Liang arrived at the secret shop he had visited before.

In front of that alluring woman, Chen Liang took out the magical artifact he intended to sell.

Aside from the old man in the Confucian robe's incomplete jade ruler magic weapon, top-grade jade pendant magic artifact, and top-grade flying boat magic artifact, as well as the strong man's top-grade flying knife magic artifact and top-grade shield magic artifact, Chen Liang planned to sell all the precious and top-grade magic artifacts.

So, a total of nine exquisite and top-grade magical artifacts were placed before the alluring woman, who was completely stunned. Especially since several of the nine artifacts had been sold from her shop.

The alluring woman who called herself Madam Wang gave Chen Liang a strange look. She really didn't expect that Chen Liang, who had just entered the Foundation Establishment stage, was such a ruthless character. Even several Tribulation Cultivators who had dominated the Tianxing Sect's market for many years had fallen into his hands.

However, this had nothing to do with her. In the end, Madam Wang acquired the nine magical artifacts at a price 10% lower than the market price.

This wasn't because Madam Wang was exceptionally capable or Chen Liang was particularly kind; it was simply that these magical artifacts needed to be cleansed of their aura and redesigned before they could be resold.

This 10% price is the transaction fee that is generally accepted in the buying and selling market.

After dealing with the spoils of war, Chen Liang rushed back to his cave dwelling and began his path of creating new techniques.

When discussing the creation of cultivation techniques, one point must be mentioned. Due to the limitations of spiritual root aptitude, most cultivation techniques in the world only involve a portion of the twelve primary meridians, while the Ren and Du meridians are universally applicable.

However, for Chen Liang, his five spiritual roots meant that when he created his cultivation technique, he had to make full use of all fourteen meridians, including the twelve regular meridians and the Ren and Du meridians.

That's why Chen Liang's Qi Refining Stage Foundation Technique—"Little Hunyuan Gong"—is so special.

Now, Chen Liang plans to create a top-tier cultivation technique that combines physical and magical cultivation, capable of absorbing all the energy of heaven and earth.

This brings us to the most peculiar of all cultivation methods in the world of immortality: body cultivation.

Body cultivation exercises require utilizing all the major and minor meridians of the human body, including the twelve regular meridians and the eight extraordinary meridians.

Therefore, the first step Chen Liang needs to take is to refer to body cultivation techniques and learn how to utilize all the major meridians in the human body.

Furthermore, Chen Liang had to gradually learn to utilize the small meridians in the human body.

Time passed slowly, and the sun and moon continued to revolve outside the cave. Inside the cave, Chen Liang was either engrossed in books or trying out various techniques and tricks.

His only companions were the ever-flowing Spirit Eye Spring and Xiao Wu, so apart from feeding Xiao Wu, he rarely had time to rest.

Three months later, Chen Liang, with disheveled hair, emerged from the cave once more. His once bright eyes were now bloodshot, and he sighed with some irritation.

"Sigh! I should have just bought the Xuanwu Formation. Although the name doesn't sound good, it's still a derivative formation of the Xuanwu Formation, so its defensive power is not bad."

It's not that bad; I don't need to make a trip now. My cultivation technique... I haven't even finalized the basic framework yet...

Chen Liang muttered to himself, while Xiao Wu, perched on his shoulder, patiently tidied his disheveled hair.

After a while, Chen Liang composed himself, boarded the top-grade flying boat, and headed towards the Tianxing Sect.

With the top-grade flying boat artifact, Chen Liang's travel speed was indeed much faster. Before that, he only had two ordinary top-grade artifacts: a silver flying sword and a black gold shield.

If it weren't for the fact that the Primordial Spiritual Power could greatly enhance the power of magical artifacts, coupled with the terrifying suppression of the Five Elements Techniques by the Five-Colored Spiritual Light, he would probably have had to use the Five Elements Escape Technique to escape when he encountered the raiding cultivators outside the Tianxing Sect's market.

That was Chen Liang's last trump card, which he had already mastered during the Qi Refining stage.

After all, in the world of cultivation, the most important principle for survival is to fight if you can win and run if you can't.

Not long after, Chen Liang returned to the Tianxing Sect's market. At the Xin Clan's array shop, Chen Liang finally obtained the Xuanwu Array he had longed for.

Although it cannot compare to a high-level formation like the Inverted Five Elements Formation, the Xuanwu Formation is no worse than the incomplete Inverted Five Elements Formation.

In addition, Chen Liang also met Xin Ruyin, whom he had been talking about for a long time.

She was a remarkable woman whose appearance was not outstanding, but who possessed a unique and ethereal quality.

Beside her stood a pretty young girl, lively and adorable. She was Xin Ruyin's maid, named Xiaomei.

The appearance of these two women eased the tension that had been building up in Chen Liang's heart for the past three months.

So he stayed at the Xin family's array shop for a while longer, tasting a kind of cloud tea made by Xin Ruyin while chatting with everyone.

During this time, Chen Liang took the opportunity to ask Xin Ruyin for some basic knowledge about formations.

His original plan was to prepare for learning formations in the future, but it was these basic knowledge of formations that gave Chen Liang a lot of new inspiration in creating his own cultivation techniques.

It was only then that Chen Liang was startled awake.

The original purpose of formations is to borrow the power of heaven and earth and draw upon its strength; and since the human body is a small world of its own, isn't the cultivation method also about borrowing the power of the human body and drawing upon its strength?

So, in the days that followed, Chen Liang stayed in the Tianxing Sect market for a while, learning formations from Xin Ruyin and Xin Xuji.

Once his inspiration had accumulated to a certain point, Chen Liang would temporarily return to his cave dwelling. While setting up the Xuanwu Formation, he would create the cultivation technique he needed.