Immortal Martial Saint, something's wrong with my entry.

"Uh, what am I doing...?"

Li Youan's voice woke up Bai Ze, who was sleeping nearby. Bai Ze looked at Li Youan, who was not fully awake yet, and saw some confusion in his eyes.

"You? You've been practicing too hard, you've made yourself dizzy."

Gradually, Li Youan recovered and remembered the situation before she fainted.

Li Youan looked at his hands and muttered, "What just happened to me?"

At first, Li Youan could still sense his own state, but when he devoted all his attention to setting up the formation, it didn't take long before Li Youan entered a strange state.

Without any prior arrangement, Li Youan followed Wei Zifei's actions completely, and when she woke up again, she was already in this room.

Tapping.

The waiter carried the medicinal meal into the room.

"Master Wei said that you have entered the most rare and sought-after state of flow for array masters."

"Stop thinking about it, just eat the medicinal meals that Master Wei arranged."

Li Youan nodded, stopped thinking about it, leaned against the headboard, reached out and picked up the medicinal food next to him, and began to eat it with a spoon.

As soon as he took the first bite, Li Youan felt his depleted vital energy begin to recover rapidly.

As soon as Li Youan scooped up the second spoonful, before even putting it in his mouth, he felt a cool sensation nourishing his soul.

"This is……"

Noticing Li Youan's surprise, the waiter offered an explanation.

"This is a medicinal diet to nourish the body and soothe the soul. It was specially prepared by an alchemist that Master Wei found."

After Li Youan finished eating the medicinal meal, the waiter cleared away the tableware and left the room.

Thanks to the powerful effects of the medicinal diet, Li Youan felt that he had returned to normal.

With Bai Ze on his shoulder, Li Youan returned to the large classroom.

Opening the door, the scene was still familiar. Li Youan even suspected that the scene inside would never change, because someone of Wei Zifei's strength was constantly cultivating.

"Master."

Wei Zifei opened his eyes and looked at Li Youan, who was bowing.

"You woke up quite quickly. You can stay here if you want, or go back to your own place. This time, you entered a state of flow by chance, which was too exhausting for you."

"Take a good rest these next two days and don't force yourself to cultivate. Use this time to truly understand what you've just gained and make it your own."

"Master, I'll head back now."

"Go ahead, come see me the day after tomorrow, and I'll tell you what to be careful about when you go to the outpost."

After Wei Zifei finished speaking, he closed his eyes.

Li Youan bowed slightly and turned to walk outside.

Walking down the street with Bai Ze, listening to the sounds of the vendors around them and feeling the atmosphere of life, Li Youan asked Bai Ze beside him a question.

"Brother Bai, is the cultivation technique you prepared for me ready?"

This time, Bai Ze did not hesitate or make excuses.

"It's almost done. You should first thoroughly study your 'Myriad Manifestations Ascension to Immortality Technique,' and I can give you the technique in about two days."

Li Youan nodded, casually bought some food from the side, and fed it to Bai Ze as she carried it.

The man and the beast strolled along the commercial street, stopping and starting, and tried many novel things.

By the time Li Youan got home, the things in his hands had not decreased, but rather increased considerably.

This was after Li Youan had already stored quite a few things in the ring; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to carry it all.

Li Youan placed all the food on the table on the rooftop for Bai Ze, glanced at Xiong Da and Xiong Er who were sleeping in the treehouse, and then leaped up to the top of the treehouse.

Li Youan sat cross-legged on the roof, feeling the breeze on his cheeks.

Adjusting his mindset to its best state, Li Youan began to recall the contents of the "Myriad Manifestations of Immortality".

The introduction states that this movement technique should actually be called "Myriad Manifestations Ascending to Immortality Steps," which is a fragment of the movement technique section of "Myriad Manifestations Ascending to Immortality Manual."

"Well, this is a fragment of a complete manual. No wonder no one has been able to master it."

After reading the opening, Li Youan couldn't help but start complaining.

A gentle breeze brushed against her face. Li Youan focused her mind and continued looking back.

This movement technique is an evolving one; the body is the universe, and the steps manifest all things.

The basic footwork of this movement technique is only equivalent to a regular high-level Yellow Rank movement technique.

However, the most distinctive feature of this technique is that it can evolve in different directions by absorbing the essence of heaven and earth.

The method itself does not have fixed moves or routines, but rather achieves the state of evolving all things and unifying all phenomena by perceiving, absorbing, and evolving the spirit of nature.

By absorbing the spirit of thunder from the endless thunder pool, one can advance to [Thunder Shadow Escape]. Once activated, one can transform into a bolt of lightning, teleporting short distances with a trajectory imbued with the paralyzing power of heavenly thunder.

By absorbing the essence of extreme cold from the Nine Nether Abyss, one can advance to [Mysterious Ice Illusion]. Once activated, it leaves an extremely cold afterimage when moving, which can freeze the space in the path and slow down everything.

……

"This description is far too exaggerated; it even involves the power of spacetime."

The explanation on how to integrate and absorb the spirit of heaven and earth is even simpler.

One needs to experience extreme combat or profound enlightenment in a specific environment and successfully comprehend the natural spirit within that environment.

By integrating these insights with basic movement techniques, one can naturally develop their own advanced movement techniques.

"I think the difficulty in learning this movement technique isn't that it's hard to learn, but rather that the learning method relies too much on luck and talent. Just finding the spirit of nature is difficult enough, let alone gaining further insight into it."

Then this manual ends here; there are no further details on perception, absorption, and evolution.

Li Youan took a deep breath, suppressed the agitation in her heart, and began to check her current situation.

Name: Li Youan

[Original Source: 0.34%]

[Entry: Military Training Model Soldier, One Shot Kills, Steel Bladder]

[Cultivation Level: Ninth Level of Body Tempering Realm+]

[Class: Array Master/Array Warrior]

[Techniques: Thousand-Mile Sound Transmission, Spirit Serpent Transformation (Yellow Rank, Medium+), Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix (Yellow Rank, Supreme+), Myriad Manifestations Ascending to Immortality (Mysterious Rank, Supreme+)]

[Magic Items: Heart-Protecting Mirror (Yellow Rank Supreme), Sky-Escape Shuttle (Yellow Rank Supreme), Bloodthirsty Whip (Yellow Rank Supreme), Heavenly Pivot Ring (Earth Rank Low)]

[Formation: Trapping and Killing Formation+]

"Oh, there's new content. It's just a pity that this class can't be leveled up or have its stat points allocated."

"Hmm, something's not right. Why aren't the formations I practiced with Master today showing up?"

"However, are array masters really that rich? Not counting the 10 spirit stones in the ring, the ring they gave me is a low-grade spatial magic treasure."

"Ah, how stupid. What am I even lamenting? You might not even be able to buy this ring for a mere 100,000 spirit stones."

"No, no, it's been so long since we've received any source energy. We must get to the outpost as soon as possible to absorb more. We need to spend it now; there are too many places where we need source energy."

Because of Master's instructions, I cannot rush into cultivation these two days.

Li Youan was worried about damaging his foundation, so after studying the "Myriad Manifestations Ascension Technique," he did not choose to try it.

Bored, Li Youan had already begun to fantasize about the scene of him slaying monsters, absorbing their essence, and frantically extracting their entries at the outpost.

After enjoying the breeze a while atop the treetop, Li Youan took a spirit stone from his ring and began practicing the Basic Breathing Technique, attempting to absorb its energy.

But as soon as Li Youan began to try, he found Bai Ze appearing in front of him.

"I've discovered you're really reckless; you're willing to try anything."

Bai Ze snatched the spirit stone from Li Youan's hand and immediately began to ask questions.

"What level of cultivation realm do you currently know?"

After thinking for a moment, Li Youan replied, "Body Tempering Realm, Origin Opening Realm, True Spirit Realm, Spirit Pill Realm, Spirit Sea Realm."

"How is it? Have you noticed anything unusual?" Bai Ze asked.

Li Youan muttered about the different realms again, but found nothing unusual, so he shook his head at Bai Ze.

"Fools, what do you usually cultivate? Isn't it primordial energy? Then why aren't they called True Essence Realm, Primordial Core Realm, or Primordial Sea Realm?"

Upon hearing Bai Ze's words, Li Youan realized something was amiss.

"Yes, why is that?"

Seeing Li Youan's curious expression, Bai Ze said irritably, "You idiot, it's obviously because of your world..."

"Never mind, all you need to know is that the cultivation method I've prepared for you is for cultivating spiritual energy."

"Spiritual energy is a higher form of primordial energy. If you absorb spiritual energy now, there will only be one result: your meridians will rupture and your body will explode, resulting in death."

Looking at Bai Ze's serious expression, Li Youan put the spirit stone back into his ring.

Before you come up with any more brilliant ideas, ask me first. Don't just mess around.

Bai Ze gave one more instruction and then went back to find Xiong Da and Xiong Er.

Time flies, and two days have passed in the blink of an eye.

Li Youan has now mastered the Gathering Yuan Formation and the Misty Formation. He has also learned the basic movement techniques of the "Myriad Manifestations Ascension to Immortality Technique".

After being at the front-line base for so many days, Li Youan finally arrived at the Northern Frontier War Academy, a branch of the front-line base.

Actually, the Array Hall, Alchemy Hall, and Treasure Refining Hall that I visited a couple of days ago are also part of this branch, but they were separated due to their different functions and are located in different parts of the front-line base.

"Is our department building really that small?"

Standing in front of the branch building, Li Youan looked at the ordinary six-story building and recalled the magnificent building of the Array Hall that he had seen before, and his heart was full of doubts.

"It's just a liaison office, used for distributing some academic credits. It doesn't need to be that grand. Only the first and second floors are for offices; the rest are practice rooms."

Liu Ling answered. She had just met Li Youan on the way and, knowing they were going to the same destination, they came together.

"Senior, does the Enforcement Hall also have offices here?"

Liu Ling nodded. "Of course."

"Our enforcement hall is right here, with a liaison office and a ready-made building, so why do we need to go out and look for one?"

Liu Ling waved the terminal in her hand, "Moreover, except in very rare cases, who else would personally show up?"

"Alright, junior, you can go to the rooftop lobby by yourself. We'll keep in touch about the Ping family's affairs."

Li Youan nodded, "Definitely, senior, wait for my good news."

As soon as he finished speaking, the elevator doors closed, and Li Youan watched as the numbers beside him changed from five to six.

Ding, the elevator doors open.

As Li Youan walked, he scanned the freshmen who had already arrived in the hall.

Apart from the winners of the ring matches, most of the others can last for several rounds in the ring.

After scanning the room and not recognizing anyone, Li Youan didn't approach anyone to chat. Instead, she walked to the window and looked at the scenery outside.

"Oh, what scenery are you admiring so intently?"

Li Youan pretended not to hear Dongfang Jinghong's voice and continued looking out the window.

"Hey, is this how you treat your employer? I need to think about getting a different bodyguard."

Li Youan turned around, a hint of helplessness in her voice, "I'm here to protect your safety, not to chat with you."

"If you don't chat with me, I'll be too lonely, too lonely. When I'm cultivating, I'll easily develop inner demons. If I have inner demons, I'll easily go astray in my cultivation. If I go astray in my cultivation, I'll get hurt. So you still haven't protected my safety."

"and……"

Seeing Dongfang Jinghong speaking rapidly and in rapid succession, Li Youan hurriedly tried to stop her.

"Stop, stop, stop, Miss Dongfang, please stop casting spells. You're right. How many spirit stones does this bone whip cost? I'll give it to you right now."

Dongfang Jinghong arrogantly tossed her head.

"Hmph, too late. You already agreed to the one chance you had yesterday, and I won't accept any returns or exchanges."

As she spoke, Dongfang Jinghong turned around and looked Li Youan up and down.

"I didn't realize that his talent in the Zhengzhen Dao was even higher than I imagined."

"Being accepted as a disciple by Master Wei means you're rich; he can give you spirit stones whenever he wants now."

"It seems..."

Li Youan hurriedly stopped Dongfang Jinghong from speaking further and begged for mercy repeatedly.

"Wrong, wrong! Miss Dongfang, please don't speak, and put away your supernatural powers. I will definitely protect you well until you return to the front-line base."

Seeing Li Youan clasp his hands in greeting, Dongfang Jinghong chuckled softly.

"Hmph, that's more like it. I paid for this, so your service is impeccable."

Li Youan rolled her eyes, looked out the window, and didn't want to discuss this pointless issue anymore, nor did she want to correct Dongfang Jinghong's ambiguous words.

"Come here, Little White, come to your sister."

Completely ignoring Li Youan's eye roll, Dongfang Jinghong clapped his hands at Bai Ze on his shoulder, wanting Bai Ze to come over.

But Bai Ze was still in his morning nap state and didn't want to talk to anyone. He turned his head to the other side and stopped looking at Dongfang Jinghong.

Before long, before Bai Ze could do anything, Li Youan was already annoyed enough, so she grabbed Bai Ze with her right hand and stuffed him into Dongfang Jinghong's arms.

"Here, here, take it, take it."

"Young Miss, please stop your supernatural powers and rest for a while, or your throat will get dry."

About ten minutes later, the elevator started beeping again.

Yu Chen, whom Li Youan had met in the backyard of the Oriental Treasure Pavilion, stepped out of the elevator.

As soon as Yu Chen stepped into the hall, he began to look around, as if searching for someone. When his eyes fell on the window, they lit up, and he walked towards it.

Yu Chen walked to the window and struck up a conversation with the two of them in a very familiar manner.

"Miss Dongfang, I am Yu Chen from the Yu family in the capital. I had the honor of seeing you from afar at a banquet in the capital years ago. You were truly like a fairy."

"We didn't get a chance to talk during the previous tournament, but meeting you today feels like we've known each other for ages."

"Would I have the honor of inviting Miss Dongfang to lunch?"

Li Youan glanced at the greasy young master of the family, then looked at Dongfang Jinghong with a mocking expression.

Dongfang Jinghong certainly saw Li Youan's gaze, his eyes revealing a sense of "You know this idiot?"

Dongfang Jinghong, who had been chatting and laughing with Li Youan, suddenly stopped smiling, her face turned cold, and she looked at Yu Chen.

"Thank you. I've already met you today. If I'm not fortunate enough to have you, I won't eat."

After saying that, Dongfang Jinghong held Bai Ze and looked out the window, no longer paying attention to Yu Chen.

But Yu Chen acted as if nothing had happened and continued the conversation.

"This little white animal is so cute! It perfectly suits Miss Dongfang's temperament. Why don't I buy it and give it to her?"

puff.

Hearing this, Li Youan couldn't help but burst out laughing, while Dongfang Jinghong was so angry at Yu Chen's words and Li Youan's laughter that her face turned red.

"Sorry, sorry, I couldn't help it, please continue."

Li Youan quickly patted his mouth twice.

Yu Chen's nostrils flared, and his hands, hidden in his sleeves, were clenched into fists, his nails digging into his palms.

His cheeks puffed out, and the sound of clenching teeth could be faintly heard. But Yu Chen slowly adjusted his breathing and exhaled gently.

"Phew, what made Li laugh?"

"Is this little white animal Li's? How much is it? I'll buy it for double."

Yu Chen is clearly stronger than Ping Yu, but only to a limited extent.

Li Youan tapped his chin with his finger, seemingly deep in thought.

"Oh, you want to buy Little White? Then it'll be ten million spirit stones."

"Okay, now I'll give you... what?!"

"How much did you say?"

Without paying any attention to Li Youan's price, Yu Chen answered, but soon realized something was wrong.

"You're selling this little thing for ten million spirit stones? Why don't you just rob someone?!"

Li Youan ignored Yu Chen's shouts, instead picking her ear and flicking a piece of earwax out the window.

"Go away, go away, what are you pretending to be a rich guy for if you don't have money? Trying to pick up girls here."

puff!

"Hahaha."

"Hahaha."

First, Dongfang Jinghong couldn't help but chuckle softly.

Then, the classmates who had been drawn to Yu Chen's shout also laughed after hearing Li Youan's words.

Immediately, the entire hall echoed with various kinds of laughter.

Finally, even the usually composed Yu Chen couldn't hold back any longer under these circumstances.

"You woman, what nonsense are you spouting here, playing with whips? Did you think you were showing off the other day?"

"You don't really think you're that great, do you? You're such a loner, you never come to a party, do you even know what a group is?"

Speaking of gatherings, Li Youan suddenly remembered that the winners had gathered several times in the past few days under Yu Chen's organization.

However, Li Youan had already learned through Dongfang Jinghong that, apart from himself, all the winners were members of his family.

The gathering place was a place for entertainment, which Li Youan had no interest in, so he did not participate.

"Oh, so your little group of a few people can represent all the new students? Is this a rule set by the college?"

Seeing Li Youan feigning confusion, Yu Chen pointed at her, unable to utter a word of rebuttal. After bowing to Dongfang Jinghong, he flicked his sleeve at Li Youan and walked towards the crowd.

"Ha, clown. Is this the kind of person Dongfang always encounters? How did this family rise to prominence?"

Only after Yu Chen left did Dongfang Jinghong turn back. Looking at the various small groups gathered in twos and threes not far away, Dongfang Jinghong said.

"These are just the good-for-nothing members of the family, who have no hope of inheriting the family business, and have gradually degenerated into this state."

"I heard from Aunt Zhou that their second child is doing well."

Dongfang Jinghong thought about what Aunt Zhou had said, "Every family has such spoiled brats, it's just a matter of how many."

Li Youan smiled mischievously, as if she had just thought of something, and asked, "Is your family like that too?"

Dongfang Jinghong nodded, then shook his head.

"There was one before, but my grandfather dealt with him severely. Now, the family is full of either obsessed treasure hunters or lazy pigs who just want to eat and wait to die. Nobody dares to mess around anymore."

"But I guess there will be more; that's human nature."

"Forget it, this isn't something I need to worry about right now. Let my dad and grandpa worry about it."

Li Youan thought that Dongfang Jinghong would be troubled by this issue, but he didn't expect Dongfang Jinghong to just casually throw the problem away.

That makes sense, since Dongfang Jinghong isn't in charge right now, he doesn't need to worry about these things for the time being.

Five minutes later, a person who was clearly a teacher stood on a small platform in the center of the hall.

clap clap.

The teacher clapped his hands.

"I'm your teacher, Ms. Liu. Since all the students here are either assigned or volunteered, we need to confirm with you all here."

"First, outpost number 1, Li Youan and Dongfang Jinghong. Do either of you have any questions? This is the front line and the most dangerous outpost in the war against the monsters."

Li Youan and Dongfang Jinghong exchanged a glance, both seeing the determination in each other's eyes, before turning to look at Teacher Liu in the center.

"Teacher, we're sure we want to go here."

Seeing that Li Youan and the other person had already made their decision, Teacher Liu still offered a reminder.

"Before you leave the front-line base, you can all apply to me to change your outpost."

After finishing speaking, Teacher Liu continued to talk about the allocation of the remaining people.

"Outpost No. 2, Shen Haosen, Ren tide..."

……

"Outpost No. 7, Yu Chen..."

……

After determining which outpost Yu Chen would be assigned to, Li Youan stopped paying attention to the assignments of the others.

Li Youan clearly saw the resentment deep in Yu Chen's eyes when he left.

With Pingyu as an example, Li Youan no longer underestimates any family member, let alone Yu Chen, who comes from the capital.

Soon, Teacher Liu explained where everyone was going, and at the end, she gave everyone some final instructions.

"An outpost is nothing like a frontline base or your previous training in the Ten Thousand Demon Forest. Be careful, be very careful."

"A tiny insect or an ordinary plant that you see could take your life, and that would truly mean being separated from your loved ones forever."

The freshmen, who were initially excited, became serious after being instructed by Teacher Liu.

But Teacher Liu didn't say much more afterward. Being cautious was better than losing one's life without knowing why.

Li Youan parted ways with Dongfang Jinghong in front of the building and headed towards the Array Hall, preparing to tell his master where he was going next.

See if I can get some more money from my master, or learn a few more life-saving formations from him.

Wei Zifei said, "Having you as my apprentice is truly a blessing."

Yu Chen glanced at Dongfang Jinghong walking into the distance, then looked away and stared at Li Youan's back with a sinister look.

"Kid, you're in for a world of hurt."