Starting My Cultivation With Time Management

If he were to evaluate it from a sensory perspective, Yuqing View was undoubtedly the sect within the Three Cults that offered the best treatment.

The master was generous, fellow disciples were kind and loving, and the salary was exceptionally generous.

If you include the elixirs, talisman scripts, and other benefits, the monthly stipend that Luo Yan received even surpassed what Qiu Changtian got.

One could only say that the Heavenly Craft Workshop was really rich.

If there was anything less than perfect about it, it would probably be that a certain young lady always clung to him, preventing him from focusing on his work.

Get lost! Women only affect the speed of my cultivation!

“Little Junior Brother!” Shi Liuli pinned a hairpin to her head, “How do I look wearing this?”

Today, Miss Shi, as always, bore a natural face void of makeup, dressed in a cyan-green long skirt, looking charming and cute, her hair tied into a lively bun at the back of her head, with a hairpin inserted on top.

Luo Yan was somewhat speechless. Your hairpin is dull in color, devoid of spiritual energy, obviously not even a magical treasure, what’s there to comment on?

“Ah, the hairpin really suits Senior Sister well,” he said with a beaming smile, “The shape of the hairpin itself is fine, delicate and graceful, but the touch of dark green jade is what brings it all together, elevating Senior Sister’s jade-like charm to the pinnacle.”

[False persona, Synchronization Value +1.]

“Does it really look that nice?” Shi Liuli asked in surprise.

She held a bright and clear bronze mirror, admiring herself with the hairpin from every angle.

“Of course,” Luo Yan assured her solemnly.

Having deceived the elated Miss Shi to leave, Luo Yan sighed softly.

Alas, it can’t be helped.

Such is the power of personal charm; even if I don’t seek her out, she would actively seek me. She does so tirelessly, impossible to stop.

While I can use her to brush up the Synchronization Value, the Synchronization Value is merely a bonus to innate talent for comprehension, not as though knowledge would directly pop into my mind.

After all, I still need to find time to study.

But, with her coming over seven or eight times a day, I’m almost out of time to study.

Hmm, wait a second…

Is there a possibility that Shi Liuli comes to me so frequently not because she’s attracted by my charm but simply wants to hear me say some pleasing flattery?

After thinking for a moment, Luo Yan quickly discarded this conclusion.

The reason is nothing else but his full confidence in his own charisma.

If Miss Shi fancied Qiu Chang Tian, then Luo Yan, sharing a similar appearance, would naturally fit her aesthetic preferences, which made perfect sense.

With that in mind, Luo Yan promptly slipped away from Yuqing View while Shi Liuli had not come to find him again.

You should know, the Postnatal Five Elements Ultimate Extermination Divine Light could be cultivation technique enough to become a mainstay Immortal Law of the Clarify Cult.

During the process of refining the Five Elements True Veins with the magnetism of the primordial energy, bizarre celestial phenomena would occur, so it absolutely must not be allowed to be known easily.

He must find an utterly safe place for his practice.

Flying eastward over the vast sea with his sword control technique, Luo Yan closely scanned the waters below with his gaze, on guard for any demonic beasts that might surge out at any time.

In this world, east of the Divine Land Continent lies the boundless ocean, and the further east one goes, the more formidable the monsters in the sea become.

It is said that at the easternmost point, at the edge of the ocean, lies the Dragon Palace where the Dragon Clan resides, a place that only immortals can reach — from this saying, one can infer that continuing to fly east would eventually lead to encountering demonic beasts of Golden Core rank.

As a result, when Luo Yan noticed that the demonic beasts in the surrounding waters were generally at the Refining Mansion rank, he stopped going any deeper east and began to head south in search of uninhabited islands.

Finally, after flying for about half an hour, he found a deserted island.

There were no man-made structures on the island, its center was hilly, surrounded by dense jungle, while the coastline was formed of sandy beaches.

Luo Yan descended on the beach with his sword light and headed into the island’s jungle, bringing out the Heaven-flipping Seal as well, just to be cautious.

After passing through the woods and using the Heaven-flipping Seal to kill a few beasts that resembled cheetahs, Luo Yan finally found a natural cave near the central hills.

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He circulated his Qi Refining Technique, pulling out the “Universal Pure Tone Minor Illumination Technique” with his left hand, but instead of releasing it, he just gripped it as a light source in his hand; his right hand formed a Daoist formula, manipulating the Heaven-flipping Seal, ready to smash it forward at any moment.

Delving deeper into the cave, after dozens of breaths, the air remained remarkably fresh, but the surroundings grew increasingly dim.

Suddenly, Luo Yan noticed the path ahead sloping downward, which had become roughly hewn stone steps.

Was there someone here?

He immediately went on high alert, continued forward for a few dozen steps, turned around a corner, and entered a small stone chamber.

The stone chamber was quite small, about thirty square meters, with nothing else inside except for a stone bed against the wall.

There was a skeleton sitting on the stone bed in the lotus position, its bones grayish-white indicating it had died a long time ago.

Next to the skeleton, there was a jade slip.

Luo Yan silently backed up a few steps, retreated outside the stone chamber, pulled out the Green Duckweed Sword from within his body with his right hand, and pinched a Jade Pivot Thunder in his palm with his left hand.

If the long-dead person’s Primordial Spirit was hiding under the jade slip, ready to pounce and attempt a soul possession, he would instantly release the Jade Pivot Thunder and then flee through the passage without looking back.

The Green Duckweed Sword shot out, flicking the jade slip into the air, but there was nothing underneath it.

So he controlled the Green Duckweed Sword to turn into a sword light and rolled the jade slip back, but didn’t use his hands to pick it up. Instead, he wiped it on the corpse of the demonic beast.

Hmm, the corpse did not react unusually, it seemed that there was no contamination of flesh and blood poison on the jade slip.

Eventually, he picked up the jade slip, and inwardly called out:

“Ah Jing, scan this jade slip and see if there’s any trap inside.”

“You’re being overly cautious,” the Kunlun Mirror commented. “It’s not very likely that there’s a trap inside a jade slip.”

“This is called being prudent,” Luo Yan said impatiently. “Just help me confirm!”

The Kunlun Mirror sighed and then scanned the jade slip.

“No problem, it’s just a last message left by the body.”

Thus Luo Yan immersed his Divine Sense into it, and indeed discovered a message:

“I am Tai Yi of the Intercepting Cult, a true person of Tong Xuan, who was ambushed near Moon Island in the East Sea by a sly dog from Clarify Cult with white eyebrows, destroying all my cultivation and might. Having escaped to this place, my physical body in ruins and my Primordial Spirit exhausted, I had no choice but to undergo physical dissolution and be reborn.”

“Here I leave a letter, if a fated individual should see this, please bury me in an abandoned tomb, and go to the Intercepting Cult to find the Sect Leader of the Tong Xuan Gate, and inform him of my death.”

“The Tong Xuan Gate is the sect I established, continuing my Daoist legacy, with the secret phrase ‘Tai Yi Tong Xuan, Myriad Laws Break the Path,’ known by all successive Sect Leaders.”

“After passing on the message, tell him the secret phrase to prove the truth, and you may join my Tong Xuan Gate as a Direct Disciple of the Sect Leader. Any cultivation techniques or secret arts can be imparted to you!”

“If you already have a master and do not wish to join my sect, you may still receive a Qi Refining Technique.”

“This technique is called ‘Devil Purging Uplifting Spirit Splitting the Clear and Turbid Scripture,’ it is the essence of my being and should not be carelessly passed on.”

“Be aware: Qi is the vessel of the divine; the origin of clarity and turbidity exists in the mystery, as in the heavens so clear, as in the body so alive. Life and death, surplus and deficiency, truly follow between absorption and control…”

Luo Yan read the message with an odd expression, thinking that this Tai Yi of Tong Xuan truly had bad luck.

The will was well-written: bury his body, then tell his disciples of his death, and upon proving the message’s authenticity with a secret phrase, the reward was an opportunity to join the Tong Xuan Gate he founded, in addition to receiving a Qi Refining Technique.

The request was not difficult, and the promised reward was quite generous.

The only problem… was that not only were Tai Yi’s Daoist lineage gone, but the entire Intercepting Cult had also vanished, right?

After feeling wistful about the vicissitudes of life for a while, Luo Yan silently memorized the ‘Devil Purging Uplifting Spirit Splitting the Clear and Turbid Scripture,’ then activated his Thunder Method to turn the jade slip into fine powder.

The ‘Devil Purging Uplifting Spirit Splitting the Clear and Turbid Scripture,’ as a Qi Refining Technique, could only be described as “average,” with an efficiency far inferior to the ‘Nine Heavens Clear Entrance True Mantra.’

Its sole advantage was its ability to freely convert clear and turbid Qi. If one was originally cultivating low-grade Demonic Techniques, this technique could be used to transform the dirty Demonic Qi into true Daoist Yuan, and vice versa.

Since the Intercepting Cult had a diverse array of disciples, some may have already been practicing Demonic Techniques before joining the sect, this Qi Refining Technique could be used for “resetting their points,” but Luo Yan clearly didn’t need it at this point.

Therefore, Luo Yan went out and dug a pit several meters deep where he buried the remains of the Tai Yi of Tong Xuan.

He then returned to the underground cavern, inside the stone chamber, and sat down cross-legged on the bed, ready to begin refining the Postnatal Five Elements True Veins with Magnetization Qi.

Since the remains of a true person from the Intercepting Cult have been undiscovered here for over ten thousand years, it proved that this place was indeed rarely visited by man.

It was the perfect place to cultivate the Five Elements Ultimate Extermination Divine Light!