Chapter 1: Refining the Spirit and Pounding the Bones

  I gazed at the magnificent formation before me, which could be said to be the greatest in the Qinglong Continent. I let out a regretful sigh and apologized, "Sorry, but for my plan, I have no choice but to destroy yours."

  I activated my true yuan power, and my hands were flat, with ten fingers either curved or stretched or clenched or trembling. A stream of true yuan power shot out from the tips of my fingers, flying towards the large array in front of me... In an instant, my ten fingers returned to calmness, and I saw that the houses had already appeared before my eyes. I felt that my ability to set up arrays had not retreated at all. Now, the entire manor only had the backyard and nearly a hundred rooms within it still trapped in the eight arrays, while the other main buildings could be freely entered. Of course, my secret room was still underground in the backyard, with double insurance. Who could penetrate the eight array formations set up with true yuan power and find the passage to the underground secret room?

  After finishing my own affairs, I can only go to the hall and wait for their return. The whole manor is full of dust now, how can people rest? I turned around and walked towards the hall.

  As I entered the hall, I was surprised to find that Wang Ge had already returned, but not a single servant was present. I couldn't help but feel very strange, but I still trusted Wang Ge's abilities, so I walked forward.

  Wang Ge saw me and immediately bowed his head, saying: "Young Master, the matter has been taken care of." Oh, I was even more surprised, I furrowed my brow and said:

  "Brother Wang, since it's already been taken care of, why isn't there a single servant here now?"

  "Master, don't you know what an introduction agency is? Just now, I went to the introduction agency with Lin to register. We provided the number of servants we need and our requirements for them. By tomorrow morning, many servants will come." Yuxiang said with a smile.

  I'm so depressed! I'm only six years old, how would I know these things? I smiled and told them something I had long wanted to do:

  "Come with me to the backyard today, there's something very important to take care of." Forget it, let's just go to the secret room and talk carefully with them, otherwise they'll ask too many questions again.

  "Master, it's getting late now, time for bed." That Li Da is against me again.

  I glared at him and said, "Today it's still a mess here, there's no way to fall asleep." I gave my big apprentice a threatening look. My obedient apprentice immediately quieted down, but his eyes still showed a hint of grievance.

  "Ah, my wise nephew! We're back, and today's harvest is huge! I've already bought two top-quality jade stones with the 100,000 silver tickets you gave me. Who would have thought that no one was willing to pay more than 50,000 silver tickets for these top-quality jade stones? So I bought them both! I just told the person in charge of the auction house in the capital city that I'll buy them at a price of 50,000 silver tickets per piece. With this, I've saved you 20,000 silver tickets right off the bat, and there will be more savings to come! How are you going to thank me, my wise nephew?" Uncle Zhang said loudly as he walked in from outside, followed by Lang Feng and Zhang Yu entering the hall.

  "Alright, Uncle Zhang, take half of the 20,000 taels of silver that were saved. Now that everyone is here, let's all follow me into the backyard, remember to stay behind me." I said and hastily turned around to head towards the Eight Trigrams Formation. I didn't even notice the 20,000 taels of silver, nor did I have time to think about how much it was worth!

  Everyone else followed me to the Eight Trigrams Formation, only Zhang Da Shu was still in a daze. He had just said it casually earlier and didn't expect me to give him such a big reward. Suddenly I remembered that I wanted to create Wu Yu Bi Yu, it seems that now everyone is going to the back garden, it's all for the birth of Wu Yu Bi Yu. As soon as I thought of this, the 10,000 taels were already clean and tidy. Zhang Da Shu immediately ran forward, following Li Da's back towards the Eight Trigrams Formation.

  I stood in front of the Eight Trigrams Formation, which was now filled with my True Yuan Force and completely under my control. I stretched out my right hand, and a thread of True Yuan Force shot out from my index finger into the formation, creating a narrow, visible pathway before my eyes.

  Zhang Yu was stunned, this is the legendary Eight Trigrams Formation's formation ah, Master actually emitted a green light and broke that eight trigram formation, and only appeared a passage, other places of the formation are still normal operation, this is much more difficult than simply destroying the entire formation! En, must learn Master's move. Zhang Yu secretly decided in his heart.

  I turned around and said, "You guys follow me closely in the passage, don't go outside the passage, got it?" After glancing at everyone with a look of understanding, I took the lead and walked forward. Behind me, everyone followed one by one, after Zhang Yu's explanation earlier, they all knew how formidable the formation was now, looking at the vast white expanse beside them, each of them carefully followed me step by step, fearing that they would fall into the formation.

  This passage I calculated is just right to reach the underground secret room passage, which is the place of that fake mountain. Turning back to see everyone arrived here, with a wave of my right hand, the passage disappeared again, and the whole situation continued to operate as if nothing had happened, ignoring those surprised guys, I walked to the front of the fake mountain.

  I gently rotated the stone with my right hand. After five rotations, I heard a faint "click", and I knew that the bolt had come out completely.

  I exerted some effort and pushed the stone door open. I turned around to look at the crowd, who were all shocked, and said loudly: "Come on in quickly! Don't just stand there stunned, this is the secret passage of the former Wang Fu, and there are still many secret rooms below. Brother Wang, you don't have to worry about building underground secret rooms anymore." After I finished speaking, I ignored them and entered the secret room directly. The crowd only came to their senses at this point and immediately followed me into the secret passage.

  I stood in front of a relatively large secret room, which might have been the original palace's array master exchange place. It was much larger than other places and had more than a dozen stone chairs, as well as a longer stone table.

  I looked at the stone chair and stone table that were already covered in dust, and couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh. I'm still a young master after all, yet I have to do manual labor again. No choice, don't want to do it, but have to do it, make them do it, don't know when it will end.

  With a hand seal, I lightly shouted "Rain", and instantly the entire secret room was filled with rainwater, washing away those dust. Ah, it's almost done, I beckoned with my hand, and the water in the secret room immediately flew into my hands. Behind me, a burst of exclamations sounded, I knew it was that group of inexperienced guys again, this is just the most ordinary "Prayer for Rain" technique in the Cultivation world, it doesn't have any real power at all.

  The "Heart Classic" technique circulating in my body was immediately replaced by the Xuan Yang technique, and a scorching energy shot out from my hand. The water evaporated in an instant, leaving behind only dust. I casually tossed the dust to the ground and strode into the secret room. Those guys must have been driven crazy by me, but this time they reacted quickly and also entered the secret room immediately.

  I sat on the main seat and looked at everyone who was taking their seats one after another. I saw that everyone was looking at me, so I said:

  "Now, I'm going to tell you something very important, and you mustn't speak of it afterwards. Do you know why I have such abilities at the age of six?"

  Everyone stared at me with wide eyes, this was something that had always puzzled them. Zhang Da Shu, since being with us, also knew I wasn't the immortal he imagined, and was always curious where my abilities came from.

  Looking at everyone's eager faces, I smiled and said:

  "That's because I knew the memories of my past life since I was born, and in my previous life, I was extremely powerful and knew many powerful secrets. That's why I could start practicing martial arts from a very young age. And when I got angry and left home last time, I learned the skill of transformation. Today, I'm going to teach you my martial arts too, but before that, I'll help you cleanse your mind and spirit so that you can learn more easily. Back in the Zhang family era, I had already passed on this method to Wolf Fang Big Brother, and he should know how powerful it is by now. But what I'm teaching you today only has nine levels, and once you reach the ninth level, you'll become a top-notch master of the Green Dragon Continent. However, even if you reach the ninth level, that's just the starting point for another set of methods I have. After practicing those, you can achieve immortality and even become an immortal being. Think carefully about it yourselves - are you willing to practice this method?"

  I finished speaking, then lay back in the chair, closing my eyes to rest. I knew that what I had just said would give them a huge shock. A top-notch master, or another kind of magical technique's starting point, eternal life, immortality... all these were things they didn't even dare think about...

  After a long time, Zhang Yu was the first to wake up from his shock. He looked at me with a determined gaze and said: "Master, I will follow you for my entire life. I believe that only you can help me reach the pinnacle of array techniques."

  Uncle Zhang heard Zhang Yu's answer and immediately said, "Xian nephew, I will of course advance and retreat with my son. Moreover, isn't it good to study carving for a few more days? I want to see how many miracles you can create!"

  "Second brother, from the day I decided to become sworn brothers with you, it was destined that we would spend our lives together. No matter who you are or what you want to do, I will always support you."

  The old lady said at this time: "I can have a few more days to see my son and you create miracles together, isn't it a good thing?"

  Li Da and Li Er immediately stood up and said loudly: "Whatever Master asks us to do, we will do it. We are your disciples forever!"

  "Brother Wang pulled Rain's hand and stood up, saying: 'Young master, since we left the Zhang family, we decided to always be with you, doing some trivial things for you.'"

  I looked at each and every one of my real "family" standing up. I smiled, everyone else did too, we all knew that from now on we were one.

  I stood up and said loudly: "Well, from today on, we are all the masters of Xingfeng Manor. We have moved all the core things of our manor to the backyard. Tomorrow, I will let Zhang Yu tell you how to enter the formation."

  Zhang Yu said: "Master, I don't understand these eight formations, how can I tell them?"

  I answered him by taking out the "treasure of the century" that I had worked hard to get that day from my bosom and presenting it to him.

  "Bagua diagram, Zhenwu's Seven-Cut Array! Ah!" Fortunately, the blows he had received today were too many, and this peerless treasure could only make him slightly surprised.

  "Alright, now let's start with the marrow washing ceremony. Everyone please sit down on the floor, and I'll help each of you one by one." I said loudly to everyone.