CHAPTER 250: 0168 BEST CANDIDATE (TWO-IN-ONE)

Although Xu Chang’an didn’t know Li Zhibai’s true power, he had great confidence in her. At least, so far, she had resolved all the cultivation difficulties he had encountered.

Xu Chang’an looked at the Daoist nun in front of him in confusion.

She explained so many things about cultivation, but wasn’t the key in the Cultivation Technique to guide Spiritual Qi to open the Lower Elixir Field? Why then... did she say she couldn’t teach him?

"Is there a problem with the Cultivation Technique?" Xu Chang’an asked.

Perhaps it’s because ordinary people don’t need this method to open up their Elixir Field, so Li Zhibai didn’t have it.

"This is Muyu Peak. Those cultivation techniques are no longer recorded, there are no grades, but the Daoist Sect does have related things, I do know a bit..." Li Zhibai’s eye twitched slightly, a ruler flashed in her hand, then she put it away after thinking.

One who is unaware is innocent; it’s hard to blame.

Li Zhibai hesitated, a difficult expression briefly surfacing in her eyes.

She suddenly realized that she didn’t quite know how to start a conversation with Xu Chang’an, it wasn’t exactly shyness... just awkwardness.

If it were an ordinary woman from Muyu Peak, not to mention the Yin Yang Dual Cultivation technique, even opening with some colored jokes would be commonplace.

But Li Zhibai just secluded herself on Muyu Peak, having no real connection with Muyu Peak or the Hehuan Sect, except for a good relationship with Zhu Tongjun in Beisang City.

Actually, before today, she would have spoken freely with Xu Chang’an, without thinking much of gender differences.

And that was also the image of Li Zhibai in Xu Chang’an’s heart.

However... today she happened to meet Yun Qian and entered a unique "Refining Heart" state, where long-suppressed memories of her teenage years surged back, allowing her to regain some lost emotions.

As a result, the person standing beside Xu Chang’an became a Li Zhibai with a "girlish heart" and no emotional experience, making it difficult for her to speak about such matters to Xu Chang’an now.

This was quite normal; she considered herself a senior, but precisely because of that, it was even harder to start the conversation.

Such matters, even a mother cannot pass on to her child.

At this moment, this fake Daoist nun couldn’t speak Natural Daoist Laws, and besides... feeling awkward was also a kind of ’natural’.

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Outside, rainwater rushed across the ground, the messy pitter-patter causing Li Zhibai a bit of disorder.

"?"

Seeing Li Zhibai’s "Celestial Being’s struggle" appearance, a small question mark floated above Xu Chang’an’s head.

Was it because ordinary people couldn’t use such Cultivation Technique that it was especially precious?

The teacher said it was an unrated Cultivation Technique, he also knew some.

Either it’s the already eliminated "Ancient Technique," or it’s a particularly precious Secret Technique, but from what Li Zhibai just said, it shouldn’t be anything particularly precious on Muyu Peak.

However, speaking again.

He was very clear about his teacher’s "poverty," and perhaps indeed couldn’t afford even low-level items.

Despite his doubts, thinking of Yun Qian’s cultivation, Xu Chang’an said earnestly: "Teacher, I haven’t chosen the two Cultivation Techniques after opening the source... whatever you want, I can get it from the Library Pavilion."

"You haven’t exchanged them? It’s been so long since opening the source." Li Zhibai raised her head instinctively, then said: "Yes, these days the Black Stone Tower collapsed... but you don’t need to exchange in the Library Pavilion, save the opportunity for later use."

Running to the Library Pavilion to publicly exchange for an Ancient Technique of the Hehuan Sect, wouldn’t this student of hers have any face left?

"That’s right." Li Zhibai suddenly remembered something, her eyes lit up, and her fingers traced a mysterious mark in the air, as if entwined with a few strands of soft golden thread.

Facing Xu Chang’an’s puzzled gaze, Li Zhibai gently pressed her fingertip against Xu Chang’an’s brow, and the soft golden threads smoothly drilled in.

"Teacher?" Xu Chang’an didn’t move, his expression wrote "perplexed" more clearly as he met Li Zhibai’s gaze.

Li Zhibai: "..."

After a long silence, she came back to her senses.

The moment the golden threads touched Xu Chang’an’s skin, they disintegrated into nothingness, disappearing completely from this world.

Li Zhibai looked at Xu Chang’an’s brow, subtly inhaled, and said: "Your Sea of Consciousness hasn’t opened yet, has it."

"Mm." Xu Chang’an nodded.

The Sea of Consciousness is the Upper Elixir Field, also called the Primordial Spirit Mansion, the Palace of Nature. Having just listened to Li Zhibai’s explanation, he naturally knew he only opened the Lower Elixir Field’s Qi Sea, nowhere near the Upper Elixir Field.

"Teacher, what happened?"

"Nothing."

Li Zhibai waved her hand.

With her perception, she could of course sense that Xu Chang’an’s focused area remained undeveloped, Mingtang Palace was dark, and the entire Purple Mansion wide open without the slightest sign of cultivation, full of flaws in her eyes.

For a top cultivator, faced with the current Xu Chang’an, breaking his Sea of Consciousness, extracting his Three Souls and Seven Spirits, or even destroying his Mingtang Palace’s Spirit Platform, Divine Soul would be easy.

Of course, Li Zhibai wouldn’t do such things, which is why she intended to imprint her thought into Xu Chang’an’s mind.

To avoid the awkwardness of speaking herself, in case he asked questions he didn’t understand... what then.

But without any warning, her magic seemed to hit an indestructible barrier, and dispersed completely clean.

"I’ve heard that you can ignore the Inner Realm of the Mingxin Realm." Li Zhibai gave Xu Chang’an a complex look.