Am I the only good person in this cultivation world?

"Senior Brother Lin, she's run away again!"

"She was immobilized a long time ago; she was just faking it!"

Even Lin Caichi, who is usually exceptionally calm, couldn't help but slap his thigh:

"Then what are you all standing there for? Chase after them!"

Several law enforcement disciples mounted their flying swords and hurriedly gave chase. Lin Caichi didn't even have time to greet Yao Han before he mounted his familiar flying bamboo and flew off together toward the fiery red light.

Under the cover of night, colorful lights flowed among the flying islands, like shooting stars, a truly beautiful sight.

Yao Han watched the play with great interest for a while before looking down at the ashen-faced disciple surnamed Yan.

As for Fu Xiaowan's followers, they had already run away after Elder Lin disappeared.

"Still don't know your junior brother's name?"

"My name is Yan An... Sigh, what's the use of saying all this now?"

Yan An stood there dejectedly, looking at the seat behind the table that was originally his, unsure whether he should sit down or not.

"Junior Brother Yan, you are mistaken. Elder Lin must have had concerns about Xiao Wan's background, otherwise he wouldn't have specifically instructed the enforcement disciples to arrest her. He was angry at the time and couldn't be too blunt, so you, Junior Brother Yan, ended up being the 'chicken'."

"I understand what my senior brother meant. He meant 'kill the chicken to scare the monkey'... Sigh, I'm really unlucky. Why do I keep running into these kinds of things?"

Yao Han smiled slightly, then suddenly switched to telepathy:

"Junior brother, there's no need to sigh. In fact, Elder Lin's words may have been a test."

"Exam?"

Yan An was taken aback, and replied telepathically:

"What do you mean by that, Senior Brother Yao... Do you have some ideas?"

"His reprimand just now was a pretense to discipline his disciple; his real purpose was to tell us. Since he knew Fu Xiaowan had come many times before, why did he wait until the fight broke out to show himself?"

"As the chief elder of the Pill Cauldron Pavilion, he naturally has to maintain the order of the Pill Cauldron Pavilion. In the end, he didn't want to lose face, so he blamed you in public. But whether the fault lies with you or not, Elder Lin must know very well in his heart."

Yan An listened attentively to Yao Han's analysis, his eyes lighting up as he nodded repeatedly:

"Senior brother, please continue!"

"Junior Brother Yan, how about this? I won't take this Nine Yuan Pill for nothing; I'll exchange the other bottle for spirit stones."

Besides that, I also need a large quantity of other pills, which I'll also buy with spirit stones. When the time comes, you should privately explain the situation to Elder Lin, articulate your grievances, and say a few kind words. He might be pleased and forgive your punishment. Even if that doesn't work, having received these spirit stones will at least make it harder for him to say anything to you.”

Yan An's face lit up with joy, and he excitedly grabbed Yao Han's hand as if it were a lifeline:

"Okay, I'll do as you say! Senior Brother Yao Han, you're simply my savior! I really don't know how to thank you enough!"

"No need for thanks, but give me a discount on the pills."

"We must fight! Senior Brother Yao, this way please!"

With that, Yan An led Yao Han into the main building.

……

An hour later, Yao Han bid farewell to Yan An with satisfaction and left Dan Ding Pavilion.

With the other party's help, he spent less than three hundred spirit stones to buy a batch of pills needed for cultivation.

In his storage bag, besides two bottles of Nine Yuan Pills, there are also more than a dozen bottles of Spirit Strengthening Pills, Immortal Dew, and other items... The names sound nice, but they are actually just pills used by cultivators at the seventh level of Qi Refining.

Since he has chosen to continue breaking through to the "eleventh level of Qi Refining", these pills are still too few and have little effect, but they are better than nothing.

But he still had to buy it. He did want to exchange it for the Nine Yuan Pill formula, but since the materials were all out of stock, even if he got the formula, it wouldn't be of much use. You can't cook without rice.

It would be too troublesome to leave the sect and search the nearby markets. So Yao Han changed his approach. After leaving the Pill Cauldron Pavilion, he turned around and went into the Scripture Repository.

He wasn't looking for any supernatural powers or secret techniques, but rather for some classic texts related to formations.

With his current mastery of formations, he is already able to access deeper levels of formation knowledge. If he could create a more effective spirit-gathering formation in his cave, his cultivation progress would likely be greatly improved, and he wouldn't have to struggle so hard on the path of taking medicine.

The island where the Sutra Repository stands is located southeast of the Dan Ding Pavilion. The entire building has seven floors. Outer disciples can only go to the first and second floors, while only inner disciples and personal disciples can enter the floors above the second floor.

Disciples are not allowed to enter the fourth floor and above; only cultivators who have reached the rank of elder are permitted to go deeper.

The first two floors mainly contained basic training methods, historical stories, and miscellaneous arts and crafts, nothing that particularly caught his attention.

Yao Han simply turned around a few times and, taking advantage of his status as an inner disciple, went straight to the third floor.

In order to find suitable books, he stayed on the third and fourth floors for seven days.

There was no way around it; the library in the Water Moon Palace was simply too vast, filled with all sorts of magical scrolls, making him feel dizzy and overwhelmed.

Fortunately, the Sutra Repository did not restrict the time disciples could enter, so Yao Han could patiently search at his own pace.

Persistence pays off. On the morning of the eighth day, he finally selected the two most useful books from a pile of ancient scrolls and spent two spirit stones to make copies.

A book called "Records of Feng Shui in Ten Thousand Mountains" uses the famous mountains and rivers of Dongling as examples to explain the laws and principles governing the circulation of spiritual energy in the world.

Another book is called "Outline of Strange Formations", which compiles many key points and methods of setting up strange formations.

It's not that there aren't better books on formations in this library, but these two are the most helpful for his current cultivation. As for the others, he can study them later.

In particular, the book of strange formations records a formation called the "Three Talents Gathering Spirit Formation". The method of setting it up is simple, but the effect is more than three times that of a small gathering spirit formation. As long as he makes a slight modification based on the Feng Shui Record, it will be very suitable for setting up in the cave.

After obtaining the two books, he had nothing else to do on Moon Island. He took a stroll around the herb garden and the beast garden before returning home on his sword.

As he expected, although the Water Moon Palace contained rare and precious materials that could help spirit beasts advance, they had already been reserved by the elders and disciples of each lineage, and he couldn't buy them even if he wanted to.

There's nothing we can do about it. It seems we'll have to find another opportunity to help Xiao Yuan advance.

On the way, he also made a special trip to Lotus Sword Island to see Lan'er.

The topography of Lianjian Island is very different from that of Feixia Island. It is not an archipelago, but a long and narrow chain of islands. From a distance, it looks like a vast landmass in the vast waters. Only by flying high into the sky can you see its winding coastline.

The little girl was so engrossed in practicing her swordplay on a sword platform in the mountains that she didn't even notice Yao Han had arrived.

Seeing how focused she was, Yao Han didn't disturb her. He just glanced at her and then turned and left.

Before returning home, out of curiosity, he went to the Sutra Repository on Feixia Island again.

Feixia, as expected of one of the top lineages in Shuiyue Palace, possessed a collection of rare and little-known cultivation techniques in its Scripture Pavilion, all perfectly suited for his practice. Among them was a stealth technique suitable for those with a metal or water spiritual root, which Yao Han coveted immensely, wishing he could simply slip it into his own storage bag.

Let's study this after we've established our foundation.

Upon returning to his cave after several days' absence, Yao Han smiled.

Under a clear sky and with everything in order, he activated the magic array, locked the mountain gate, and began another long period of seclusion.