Chapter 152

"Friend, keep this safe."

In the ancestral hall of Song Mountain’s Forbidden Area, Chen Yang was studying Talisman Technique when an unfamiliar voice suddenly echoed through his mind, startling him.

Clang!

He immediately summoned dark protective armor, sharpening his senses to survey the surroundings.

This abrupt action frightened Yang Liuqing, who had been meditating to Draw Qi in the hall. Believing her cultivation mistake had angered the Immortal Master, she dropped to her knees. "This foolish Yang Liuqing begs forgiveness! Please calm your wrath, Immortal Master…"

Yang Lingqing detected the disturbance and rushed to the hall within moments.

"Immortal Master, has an intruder breached our grounds?"

Chen Yang swept his awareness across the mountain—from peak to foot—but found only undisturbed peace. Then understanding came through his soul fire’s connection.

"This… it’s Lingrui’s acquired Dao of cultivation insight!"

Assuring Yang Lingqing of safety through Thought Transmission, Chen Yang dismissed his armor. "Li Yuande… the Li Family Elder. Let’s examine this."

The insight manifested as a condensed awareness sphere. As Chen Yang unraveled it, four clear teachings emerged:

1. Secrets of Ascending the Twelve Levels of Gathering Qi

2. Discussion on the Practice of Various Techniques

3. Method for Cultivating Calmness of Mind and Soul

4. Five Secrets for Condensing Essence and Dan Creation

Though vast, Li Yuande’s deathbed-organized knowledge flowed seamlessly into Chen Yang’s mind. For human cultivators, these teachings would require decades to master. But Chen Yang—a natural spiritual item—absorbed them effortlessly, bypassing human limitations.

After fifteen minutes, Chen Yang emerged from the trance with a heavy sigh. "What tragedy! Such genius confined lifelong to the Gathering Qi realm…"

Li Yuande’s life-essence insights now shone as a peerless treasure for Gathering Qi practitioners.

Behind Yang Lingqing, Yang Liuqing peeked at the glowing Immortal Master. "Master," she whispered, "is he truly not displeased with me?"

Yang Lingqing patted her hair and reassured, “Of course not. The Immortal Master merely had an epiphany during cultivation earlier. It wasn’t about you.”

The light around Chen Yang faded.

He glanced at Yang Lingqing and experimentally sent her the Secrets of Ascending the Twelve Levels of Gathering Qi through Thought Transmission.

“Hn!”

Yang Lingqing grunted as her head suddenly felt heavy. She swiftly activated the spirit pearl in her sea of consciousness, clearing her mind.

“The Immortal Master’s teachings!”

As the cultivation method unfolded in her mind, she glimpsed its contents and immediately sat cross-legged on the mat to meditate.

Noticing this, Yang Liu also sat down and began practicing the Drawing Qi method from the Book of Seeking the Spirit in Darkness after calming herself.

Yang Lingqing had reached the fourth-level Gathering Qi nearly two years prior, but managing family affairs left her less cultivation time than Yang Lingrui and Yang Lingshu. Even with spirit liquid and the Immortal Master’s aid, she estimated needing another year to reach the Fourth Level’s peak.

Yet this secret text brought sudden enlightenment. Spiritual energy now flowed like milky-white rain into her Qi Palace as she practiced. Within two hours, she reached the fourth-level’s peak!

Opening her eyes, she bowed to Chen Yang. “Yang Lingqing thanks the Immortal Master for this teaching!”

Chen Yang checked her cultivation level and confirmed no side effects. The secret text had granted her enlightenment.

“It works!”

Delighted, he realized insights could be shared through the Yang Family’s mind-soul connection. Future disciples would benefit greatly, avoiding countless detours in the Gathering Qi realm.

However, recalling Yang Lingqing’s initial dizziness, he noted such transmissions required strong divine awareness. Without her spirit pearl, she might’ve fainted. Future teachings needed splitting into smaller portions.

He observed Yang Liu meditating. Though average in talent, her steady gradual progress since starting Drawing Qi three days ago impressed him. She’d already opened her first Qi channel and might condense her Qi Palace within two months – far faster than Zhao Qi’s year-long effort with inferior methods.

Chen Yang cast green light over Yang Liu’s scraped knees from her earlier startled kneeling. Yang Lingqing shot him a grateful look before consolidating her breakthrough gains.

“If Lingqing succeeded, the old man might too.”

Facing Sanglu Valley’s direction, Chen Yang extracted the latter half of the Secrets of Ascending the Twelve Levels of Gathering Qi and sent it via soul fire.

Old Yu had just finished instructing Dai Wei on the Body Refining Record of Hundred Bones when the transmission struck. “Immortal Master’s message!”

Initially fearing disaster, he steadied himself upon receiving the teaching. “Secrets of Ascending…Gathering Qi?”

Reading calmly at first, his hands soon trembled with excitement. This text suggested his cultivation path – blocked for twenty years after injury – might reopen! No cultivator who’d tasted such despair could remain composed. After decades resigned to fate, the Immortal Master offered redemption.