Calabash Fairy

Qingfeng Secret Realm.

After an unknown amount of time, Fang Yan slowly opened his eyes on the stone bed, his gaze quickly regaining its clarity.

"The Underworld... Wei Zheng... Daoist Qingxuan..."

Fang Yan's eyes flickered slightly as he sat up and looked at the jade ring he had been holding in his palm.

This contains a complete set of divination techniques.

Its name is: Plum Blossom Divination.

"Plum Blossom Divination is based on the Eight Trigrams of the Earlier Heaven. It has no time or space restrictions and can generate hexagrams based on all the changes in the world."

"This supernatural power can be used to calculate heavenly secrets, destiny and the future, and to deduce the terrain of spiritual veins, etc. Its wide range of uses is too numerous to describe."

Fang Yan immersed his consciousness into the jade ring, examining the vast amount of knowledge within, and his expression gradually became somewhat helpless.

The Plum Blossom Divination method does not require the money, tortoise shells, or other materials needed for ordinary divination.

This supernatural power can be used to generate divination simply by visualizing the heavens and earth, such as when stars twinkle, plum blossoms fall, or rivers surge.

However, the difficulty of this supernatural power is closely related to whether one can understand the Eight Trigrams of the Primordial Heaven.

Daoist Qingxuan was willing to help others achieve their goal and left many annotations in the ring. Regarding the Eight Trigrams of the Primordial Era, he also explained that he had comprehended them in a spiritual place called Huitian Valley in the Southern Region.

However, Fang Yan currently has no plans to leave the Ten Thousand Mountains.

During this time, his horizons gradually broadened, and he was no longer limited to the Qingfeng Mountain area as before. He also developed a longing for the area beyond the Ten Thousand Mountains.

But to travel to the North Sea in the morning and to Cangwu in the evening, one must first have the ability, which he is still far from possessing.

"It seems I won't be able to learn the Plum Blossom Divination technique for the time being..."

Fang Yan was quite envious of this supernatural power. Qingxuan Daoist was meticulous and had recorded many of the things Fang Yan had done using the Plum Blossom Divination in the ring for Fang Yan to refer to.

What Fang Yan found particularly interesting was that this person seemed to use this supernatural power most often to divine people's marriage prospects, calculate auspicious days, and choose names...

...This Plum Blossom Divination technique truly lives up to its reputation for being widely applicable and difficult to fully describe.

"Although I cannot learn Plum Blossom Divination for the time being, there is also a divination technique called 'Shooting the Shoes' in the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Techniques. I wonder if there are any similarities between them?"

Fang Yan pondered, but somewhat helplessly realized that he had only just begun to learn swordsmanship, and although his progress in alchemy had gradually slowed down, there was still room for improvement. He was also quite interested in the talisman water inheritance.

Besides, his daily cultivation, condensing the Chaos Seed, nurturing the Pure Yang Sword Qi, and cultivating the spiritual materials in the spiritual field also take up a lot of his time.

"My years of cultivation are still too short. What I need now is not to learn new traditions, but enough time for me to settle down and solidify my foundation..."

After figuring all this out, Fang Yan's somewhat chaotic thoughts gradually calmed down, and the surrounding spiritual energy rapidly gathered around him...

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Outside Xiahe Village, Yang Xiaochuan looked solemnly at the group of people in front of him and cupped his hands in greeting:

"I'll be troubling you all for this trip to Jinzhi Village to move the looms and other items."

"Brother Xu, the spring snow has just begun to melt, and the mountain roads are difficult to travel. Please be careful."

He was supposed to lead the team, accompanying Su Xueyi and the rest of Jinzhi Village, but unexpectedly, Brother Xu Hu came to help.

With Xu Hu joining the group, everyone felt much more at ease. Over the past year, they had truly witnessed the immense strength of this number one strongman; his ability to fight a bear was no joke...

Yang Xiaochuan understood that with Xu Hu accompanying them, everyone would feel much more at ease, so he gave up his position as team leader to Xu Hu and stayed in the village to help.

"Don't worry, Brother Xiaochuan, I know what I'm doing. Besides, Chief Xueyi is with us on this trip."

Xu Hu's tall and muscular physique gave people a sense of security. He grinned, patted Yang Xiaochuan on the shoulder, and turned to walk towards Su Xueyi.

On this trip to Jinzhi Village, Su Xueyi led a group of people from Jinzhi Village, and the other five villages sent a group of strong men to help. They drove a number of horse-drawn carriages and oxcarts, preparing to move all the remaining looms from the village back.

Like Yang Sheng, Xu Hu grew to respect the village chief Xueyi more and more the more they interacted with him, and dared not underestimate him.

People in the village always say that Su Xueyi is a fairy descended from heaven, otherwise how could she be so beautiful?

But Xu Hu and Yang Chuan both knew that these people could only see the surface; the other party's abilities and wisdom were perhaps those of a true deity descended to earth...

Qiu'er, that girl, has only been with this man for a little over a year, but the changes she has undergone are obvious to all.

"Miss Xueyi, we will have to trouble you with this trip."

Seeing Xu Hu's serious expression, Su Xueyi smiled and said:

"Brother Xu Hu, you're too kind. It's us who have troubled you all with moving the looms."

In the Six Villages, there are elders like Yang Sheng, as well as young people like Xu Hu and the three Yang brothers. Even if she leaves, there is nothing to worry about in the Six Villages.

Furthermore, the six village chiefs have already discussed it, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, the six villages will be merged into one this year, with no distinction between them. At that time, all major and minor affairs in the village will be handed over to Yang Sheng for overall coordination.

At that time, she can concentrate on her cultivation and guide Qiu'er.

Before she left, her master had instructed her to treat the mountain god with the respect due to an elder when she went to the mountain god temple in the future. He also told her that she should take Qiu'er to offer incense again after she returned.

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Half a month later.

Within the dimly lit space where sword techniques were passed down, the crisp sounds of metal clashing echoed continuously.

Fang Yan sat cross-legged in mid-air, protected by the illusory image of the purple-gold gourd around his body, sensing the six crimson-gold sword lights and the pale white sword lights that would clash dozens of times in the blink of an eye.

Among them, the two crimson-gold sword lights originated from the pure yang spirit sword condensed by Fang Yan, while the four pale white sword lights originated from four cold-light longswords.

As Fang Yan's understanding of the Pure Yang Sword Intent deepened, the number and power of the Cold Light Longswords in his swordsmanship inheritance also continued to increase, revealing more of the Sword Immortal's Way to him.

No matter how many changes the enemy may make, I will cut them down with a single sword!

This is Fang Yan's deepest realization now.

Just like the sword strike Fang Yan used to kill the Painted Skin Ghost, the opponent was already dead before he could even react. Even a demon of the White-Faced Ghost's cultivation level, who used escape techniques to flee, was still caught up by the Pure Yang Spirit Sword in an instant and killed in one blow.

During this time, he practiced swordsmanship every day and gained more insights into the way of the sword, realizing that each kind of sword intent has its own unique characteristics.

The sword intent on the cold-light longsword was the ultimate sharpness and speed, while his pure yang sword intent was grand and righteous, extremely yang and strong.

Despite his current progress in swordsmanship, Fang Yan knew that if he continued down this path, merely trying to comprehend and imitate the sword intent on the Cold Light Longsword, he would inevitably go astray.