Who taught him to practice swordsmanship like this?

The Supreme Lord of Goodness is now troubled by a problem: how should he teach his disciples who are of varying abilities?

These four are all his good grand-disciples; he can't let them go astray.

He decided to create a detailed cultivation plan for each of his disciples, but this was not something that could be completed in a short time.

After a moment's thought, he said, "Very well, I will first teach you a secret technique derived from the 'Mysterious Yin Qi Technique.' Watch carefully..." As soon as he finished speaking, Shangshan Daojun held his hands in front of his chest, and then the Mysterious Yin Qi quickly condensed, forming a sphere with frost on the outside and solid Yin on the inside.

The immense power it contains is enough to make one's heart tremble.

"This technique is called 'Condensing Yin and Destroying Qi,' which I developed during my years of seclusion. It can be considered a complementary secret technique to the 'Mysterious Yin Qi Technique.' This secret technique can be said to have brought the characteristics of Mysterious Yin spiritual energy in breaking qi and breaking magic to the extreme, specifically breaking a person's protective true qi and protective magic treasures. If you learn it, it can be considered a pretty good self-defense skill."

Su Baichen and his fellow students listened attentively.

The difficulty of this skill lies in the precise and complex control of the Xuan Yin spiritual energy.

Su Baichen discovered that this was not a simple condensation of Xuan Yin spiritual energy, but rather a dynamic condensation of Xuan Yin spiritual energy using a special trajectory similar to runes.

His first reaction was that it was complicated; this secret technique was extremely complicated.

This was evident from the confused expressions on his senior brothers' and sisters' faces; their grandmaster had left them with an extremely difficult task. However, Su Baichen wasn't discouraged. After all, it was a secret technique. In the cultivation world, it was common to spend years or even decades mastering a powerful secret technique, so he simply kept a calm mindset and listened attentively.

As his master explained, Su Baichen gradually understood that this secret technique could actually be roughly divided into three parts.

The first step is frost congealing, which is fundamental and crucial for ensuring that the profound yin spiritual energy can be compressed.

The lower the temperature of the Xuan Yin Condensed Qi, the higher the amount of spiritual energy that can be compressed and circulated.

The second is to split, dividing the Xuan Yin spiritual energy into many bundles and controlling them simultaneously, which tests the ability to multitask.

Finally, there is the knotting, which intertwines the previously separated spiritual energy to form a spiritual energy knot. This is also the final guarantee of the strength of "Condensing Yin and Destroying Qi". However, this step requires extremely high control and precision over the Xuan Yin spiritual energy. In fact, the final power of this secret technique is determined by how many bundles of spiritual energy can be controlled at the same time, rather than simply outputting brute force.

After these three steps are completed, it becomes the frost-bound spirit ball that Shangshan Daojun presents to everyone.

The sphere is a frosty, translucent light blue, with intricate patterns inside. Staring at it is like looking at a slowly rotating kaleidoscope, with a different pattern every moment.

This is a very beautiful and powerful secret technique, which also motivates everyone to learn it.

However, even the simplest first step, Frost Condensation, requires a long period of practice to reach the threshold of secret technique cultivation.

Yang energy is intensely hot while Yin energy is icy cold; these are the outward characteristics of Yin and Yang energies.

In fact, Su Baichen felt that mastering "Frost Condensation" would be a form of strengthening and tempering of Xuan Yin spiritual energy, something that would benefit him for a lifetime. This is how advanced secret techniques work; once mastered, it's not just the technique itself that matters, but also a significant boost to one's overall strength.

The day's teaching stopped when it got dark. After explaining the three main steps, Shangshan Daojun also talked about some ways to increase the efficiency of frost condensation.

After a day of teaching, the disciples went home.

Su Baichen also returned to his own courtyard.

As soon as he entered the room, a little fox climbed up his trouser leg and onto his shoulder.

The fluffy tail tickled the base of Su Baichen's neck.

He pulled Xiangxiang off his shoulder, then looked at a stone fox sculpture about half a meter tall in the corner of the yard and asked, "Was everything alright while I was away?"

The stone sculpture suddenly emitted a deep male voice: "The house is fine, except that the princess was a bit playful and broke a vase in the room." This stone sculpture was clearly the transformed form of the great fox beast.

Su Baichen nodded and replied, "That's not important."

"But you, don't you get tired of maintaining this state?"

Quan replied, "This is my cultivation method. In this petrified state, I can eliminate the interference of the physical body and concentrate on the cultivation of the primordial spirit." "You humans can cultivate the primordial spirit and the body at the same time at any time, but we beasts are easily interfered with by our instinctive beastly nature when we cultivate the body, making it difficult to cultivate the primordial spirit."

It seemed to be complaining to Su Bai.

But isn't this also a form of showing off?

After all, it said itself that it is very difficult for normal beasts to cultivate both physical body and primordial spirit, but isn't it cultivating primordial spirit right now?

Su Baichen rolled his eyes and didn't respond. He didn't go into the courtyard either, but simply sat down with Su Xiangxiang in his arms.

He was pondering how to achieve the "condensation of yin and destruction of qi" requirement in terms of frost formation.

Meanwhile, Su Xiangxiang continued to greedily absorb the death energy from Su Baichen's body.

Having pondered for a long time without finding the right approach, Su Baichen simply decided to try it himself.

A wisp of profound Yin energy appeared in his palm. As the Yin energy gathered, a frosty chill naturally arose.

To amplify this chill, he began to condense the yin energy...

It did have an effect, but not as good as he had imagined.

Coldness, as a manifestation of Yin energy, seems to require special methods to fully exert its effects.

Just then, Su Xiangxiang, who had been watching Su Baichen try for a while, suddenly made an unexpected move.

It burped at the wisp of Yin energy that had condensed in Su Baichen's palm...

What it spewed out of its small mouth was actually a breath of condensed death energy.

This mass of death energy collided with the concentrated yin energy, unexpectedly creating a small storm that was extremely cold and bone-chilling!

Su Baichen suddenly realized: This is the chilling presence of death!

Su Xiangxiang had enlightened him. He had been stubbornly believing that the more yin energy was purified, the better, but he hadn't expected that death energy could actually be a medium that could stimulate the coldness within yin energy.

No, when Shangshan Daojun demonstrated the Frost Formation steps, he didn't use any death energy. He simply mobilized spiritual energy to complete the ultimate Frost Formation.

So it's actually just that certain characteristics similar to death energy can fully unleash the cold properties of yin energy...

Su Baichen understood what it was after a moment's thought: a cold heart!

Just as Yang Sect disciples give the impression of being cheerful and enthusiastic, Yin Sect disciples give the impression of being withdrawn and cold. This is not due to the cultivators' inherent personality, but rather the influence of Xuan Yin spiritual energy... Conversely, the cultivator's inner state can also affect the characteristics displayed by Xuan Yin spiritual energy.

He should have realized this sooner. In fact, everything in cultivation is related to "intention". So he only needs to comprehend a "intention" related to frost and cold, and this problem will be solved.