Fusang Sword Heart Diagram

Chapter 289 Cultivation Insights
However, Ning Fusang suggested that the Eternal Sound could be lent to Bai Ni first.

Bai Ni narrowed her eyes, not believing she was being so kind. "Speak, what are your conditions?"

Although they are allies, they do not talk about feelings, only about interests.

Bai Ni and Ning Fusang are both more used to this way of getting along.

She already had an idea in mind, and without much thought, she said, "I want your insights on dream cultivation."

Bai Ni crossed her arms and said irritably, "How could I possibly have such a thing!"

Ning Fusang's eyelashes trembled slightly, she raised her eyelids, and said in a calm tone, "If there isn't one, I can write one on the spot."

Bai Ni: ...

After thinking for a while, she said, "I've never written this before, so it might be very fragmented. You can't be too harsh on me."

It wouldn't be right for her to spend so much time and effort writing her cultivation experience, only to have Yao Ling glance at it and find it unsatisfactory, thus rendering her efforts futile, would it?
Bai Ni wasn't stupid. There were very few Dream Dao inheritances in the entire Zhongling World, and without a senior to guide her, cultivation in this path would be extremely arduous. Therefore, her Dream Dao cultivation insights were actually very valuable, a significant bargaining chip, which allowed her to make her demands.

Ning Fusang nodded and said, "Okay."

Bai Ni then said, "Once we divide up the royal treasure and the Eternal Echoes Zither, you can give it to me, and you can choose three of the treasures I have. How about that?"

Ning Fusang had no objections, and the two left the underground palace of the mausoleum. The torrent outside, affected by something, became even more rapid, with countless coral branches and broken stones crashing towards them.

A sword can only be used at most 40% of its power in water. Both its speed and strength are greatly reduced. Ning Fusang swung her sword to split a boulder and clearly felt the effect of the water flow on her.

In the land of the Water Silk Clan, turbulent currents surged and roared like a savage beast.

Unfortunately, Ning Fusang's Fubo technique was no match for such a large-scale event, and the raging torrent trapped the two at the entrance of the cemetery.

"Lend me the Yiyin Qin (a type of zither)."

Ning Fusang didn't ask any further questions and directly gave the zither to Bai Ni.

Zheng——

A clear and melodious zither rang out, and Bai Ni's eyes lit up. She thought to herself, "As expected of the spirit zither of the Emperor's Bow. It has been sealed for many years, yet its sound is still clear and melodious. There is not a trace of the dullness caused by dust. Its sound quality is beautiful and rare in the world."

Bai Ni was so enamored with it that she immediately played a section of "Fu Bo Qu".

The zither music was ethereal and graceful, seemingly floating in the clouds, yet delicate and gentle, like waves on the sea. Ning Fusang listened for a moment and realized that Bai Ni's zither skills were superb, no less than those of Qingyang Zhenren in the sect. With the blessing of the Yiyin Zither, she was even better.

The rapids slowed, and the raging torrent gradually subsided. Bai Ni, even more reluctant, returned the zither.

After returning to her cave, Bai Ni secluded herself for three months and finally finished writing her cultivation notes.

Ning Fusang glanced at the first few paragraphs and looked at her, "Are you writing an autobiography?"

From the moment his intelligence was first awakened and he came into contact with the art of music, the first time he wove a dream, it caused the human cultivators' ferry to crash into a reef and sink into the sea.

In the year of Jiazi, he ventured into the cave of an ancestor and discovered a dream world. He spent thirty years immersed in the dream, deciphering its secrets and achieving mastery of the art of dreams.

Bai Ni retorted, "This is how I cultivate." Ning Fusang stuffed the scroll into her arms, "The key to cultivation is what you gain." She had only seen Bai Ni's daily cultivation routine, but not her insights.

If she had nothing better to do, she would just read this as a biography to pass the time. But Ning Fusang wasn't so bored as to want to know about Bai Ni's past.

Bai Ni blinked. "I need to rewrite it?"

"Otherwise what?" Ning Fusang asked calmly. Bai Ni was speechless for a moment. Holding the jade slip she had painstakingly written over three months, she glanced at it and realized that it did indeed resemble her autobiography.

She was writing furiously at the time, writing down whatever came to mind, and didn't even look at it after she finished. Now that Ning Fusang had pointed it out, Bai Ni realized that it was indeed unbearable to look at.

She hurriedly left the main hall, locked herself in her room, and began to polish her work.

Half a month later, Bai Ni emerged from seclusion again and handed Ning Fusang a rectangular jade piece.

"All my insights into the cultivation of the Dream Path are contained within this." To protect her image, Bai Ni also revealed a little more, saying that the mysteries of the Dream Path were hidden inside.

She wasn't afraid that Ning Fusang would discover the essence of her cultivation; Bai Ni wasn't that foolish. She wouldn't write down anything about the origins of her own Dao.

The contents of the jade tablet are all trivial details, but it would take an average person two or three years to fully understand them.

For Yu Ningfusang, what she needs to understand is the most basic thing about the Way of Dreams. Whether it is the Dream Way inheritance of Lianzhu Sanren or the "Xiaomeng Xinjing" (Dawn Dream Heart Sutra), these are all contents to be cultivated in the later stage. However, she has not even laid a solid foundation yet. It is only with the help of the Soul Dream Pearl that she can guide people's souls into dreams one by one.

Ning Fusang knew that he could not create vast dreamscapes or dream creations like Bai Ni.

This requires at least the level of a Dream Master.

As agreed, Ning Fusang lent the Yiyin Qin to Bai Ni. In the following days, she could often hear faint sounds of the qin in the palace.

Bewitched by the music, the sea beasts willingly came to her door, only to have their bellies cut open and their cores extracted. Bai Ni's palace was filled with the corpses of various sea beasts and their cores.

Her recovery speed was much faster than Ning Fusang's. Her internal injuries were basically healed, but the scars left by the Dragon Transformation Pool water faded very slowly and were still conspicuous.

Bai Ni even went into seclusion and, following ancient methods, shed her skin and transformed her body several times, but the effect was minimal.

Seeing that Bai Ni had been working on it for so long without any significant changes, Ning Fusang stopped focusing on it.

Bai Ni's method is actually effective, but it is used too infrequently. Unless she can withdraw from worldly affairs, seclude herself for a hundred years, and completely transform herself and start anew, but obviously, this is impossible.

If she were to go into seclusion for a hundred years and then emerge, who knows how many times the world would have changed. What use would she have for the royal court's secret collection then?
After the fourth secret technique, Bai Ni stopped dwelling on the matter. She turned to Ning Fusang and said, "It's been almost two years since the battle at the Dragon Transformation Pool. Kong Yeqing and the rest of the demons have mostly returned to the demon realm. The Hundred Flowers Sect has also lost contact with us and won't be pursuing us anymore. Now is the perfect time. Shouldn't we head to the Termite Pass?"

Ning Fusang slowly opened her eyes and said, "Three days ago, I sent Qianyuan ahead to scout the way."

"Alright, let's pack up and go."

Although Shuixiaohai was Bai Ni's former residence, she had nothing to be attached to, especially given the current harsh environment of the sea area.

They are a mirage tribe, and they have always been nomadic, going wherever the water quality is good.

To the west lies the Salt Sea, close to the dwellings of mortals. There are soldiers of the dynasty, warriors of the human world, mountain sorcerers, and sects, all kinds of forces intertwined. Ning Fusang and Bai Ni did not go that way, but took a detour.

These people are not to be feared, but the forces behind them are complex. The sects of Zhongling Tianxia are not completely hidden from the world; they all have some entanglement of interests with the secular world. The sect's agents are responsible for handling these matters.