Chapter 51: The Second Floor of the Immortal Registry Pavilion

  After finishing the ranking of the Jade Token, Luo Qingming elder said: "Originally during the Qi Refining stage, you can only go to the first floor of the Xianji Pavilion. The fourth benefit of being an inner disciple compared to an outer disciple is that you can go to the second floor of the Xianji Pavilion. On the second floor, there are Xuanjie Secret Tomes. You can find a few to practice with. The Xuanjie Secret Tomes will be much better than the Huangjie Secret Tomes you're currently practicing."

  Yan Zhen nodded in agreement and said, "Let's go to the Xianji Pavilion and take a look. If there are any good secret manuals, we can exchange them. If not, then so be it."

  Yan Zhen followed Luo Qingming's back straight to the Xianji Pavilion.

  Xianji, Xianjia shu.

  The Xianji Pavilion was built near the top of the Fengyun Mountain. The pavilion has five floors, with flying eaves and glazed tiles, bright windows and wooden corridors. Surrounding it are scattered immortals, floating white mist, a true abode of the immortals, a blessed land.

  Yan Zhen is now an inner disciple, so he can easily go to the second floor of the Xianji Pavilion.

  Entering the second floor, Yan Zhen looked around and found that the second floor was divided into four categories: the east side was swordsmanship, the west side was mental methods, the south side was footwork, and the north side was qimen (a category of miscellaneous skills that did not belong to swordsmanship, mental methods, or footwork).

  Yan Zhen thought to himself, his swordsmanship didn't need to be chosen, he had already mastered the superior sword technique. The strange gates didn't need to be chosen either, even if he wanted various strange gates and ghostly techniques, they wouldn't be of much use. In terms of footwork, Yan Zhen chose a heavenly ladder-like footwork, his previous eight-step hurry-chase footwork was used horizontally, whereas the heavenly ladder footwork was used vertically, stepping upwards continuously. When practiced to the extreme, he could take nine consecutive steps in mid-air and jump to an extremely high position.

  ……

  Finally, it's the Western Heart Method class. Yan Zhen is selecting the Xuanjie Heart Method. Yan Zhen is very casual in his selection, scanning through them quickly, and finds that most of the Xuanjie Heart Methods here are not great, with only three being barely decent.

  The first book is the mysterious "Listening to the Wind Heart Method". This set of secret books cultivates wind-based magical powers. These wind-based magical powers are extremely swift and agile. After practicing this "Listening to the Wind Heart Method", your swordsmanship will become slightly faster in the future.

  The second one is the Xuanjie Secret Manual's "Barbaric Cow Great Strength Technique". This set of secret manuals cultivates earth-based magical powers. With that magical power infused into a giant body, it can transform into enormous strength. When practiced to the top level, every move and stop has 2-3 thousand catties of strength, extremely powerful.

  The third one is the "Fantasy Water Technique" of the Xuanjie Secret Book. This set of secret books cultivates water-based magical powers. Once this secret book is cultivated to the top level, every sword carries the power of water, and the power of water is extremely soft, making the opponent's attack speed slow down.

  Apart from these three books, there aren't many others of value.

  Yan Zhen was deep in thought, he could only practice the Xuanjie secret manual now, whether it was one of the three manuals or some Xuanjie secret manuals from his previous life. However, the Xuanjie secret manuals were not much different, they were all about the same.

  Yan Zhen didn't rush to find it, and continued to search randomly in the Xianji Pavilion. Finally, a secret book with a fiery red color caught Yan Zhen's eye. The cover of this secret book was written with four words: "Pure Yang True Classic".

  Wait!

  Yan Zhen rubbed her eyes, no mistake, it was "Pure Yang True Classic".

  The great name of this "Pure Yang Scripture", Yan Zhen has indeed heard it before and remembers it very clearly.

  "The Pure Yang True Classic" is a stageless secret book. What is meant by a stageless secret book is that there are no conditions or restrictions, and it can be cultivated at any stage. For example, the Earth Stage Secret Book requires a great master of the Dan-forming period to cultivate, but the stageless secret book can be cultivated even in the Qi-refining period. However, this kind of secret book is also extremely polarized - either it's extremely powerful and extraordinary, or it's extremely bad, so bad that nobody wants to touch it.

  It's precisely because of the unique properties of Wu Jing Secret Manual that it is placed on the first floor of Xian Ji Pavilion, which is also quite normal.

  "The Pure Yang True Classic" should have been unearthed 1,500 years ago. It is said to be a heart method left behind by a Taoist with the title of "Pure Yang True Man" from ancient times. This set of heart methods caused a stir throughout the Daji Kingdom when it was first unearthed, because it described things too fiercely. In the Daji Kingdom, no, the entire world, it is a situation where the righteous and evil are at odds with each other. The righteous Taoist cultivators absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to cultivate their bodies, while the demonic cultivators also absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but then go through a process of being contaminated by demonic or evil energy to elevate their bodies.

  For millions of years, the number of cultivators who died at the hands of demon cultivators has been extremely high, making cultivators also wary of the methods used by demon cultivators.

  The "Pure Yang True Classic" describes this mental technique as follows - it can break through all demons and slash all monsters, the pure yang is infinite, extremely big and strong. This sentence sounds too awesome.

  The person who originally obtained the "Pure Yang Scripture" was a cultivator whose family was killed by an evil cultivator and vowed to take revenge. When he first got it, he was overjoyed, but he spent a full 130 years without successfully cultivating the "Pure Yang Scripture", wasting 130 years in vain.

  After that person died, the "Pure Yang Scripture" fell into the hands of a second person. The second person spent a full 70 years studying it but still couldn't figure out its meaning.

  Then, the third person who obtained the "Pure Yang Scripture" spent a full 50 years without being able to study it thoroughly and didn't even manage to cultivate the "Pure Yang Scripture".

  Then the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth. The first ten masters of the Pure Yang True Classic did not even practice it. The eleventh master of the Pure Yang True Classic was Qing San Zhen Ren, a sect leader from the Da Ji Guo Xian Jian. After reading the Pure Yang True Classic, Qing San Zhen Ren said: "This classic requires pure yang and wuji, there are only two ways to obtain this classic, one is to not practice it at all, and the other is to be burned by yang fire and die. The principles in this classic are almost unsolvable, it's impossible to practice." At that time, several Xian Jian masters from Da Ji Guo were present, and they all deeply agreed with him. As a result, the Pure Yang True Classic became a joke, and no one practiced it.

  The previous master of the Qingfeng Xianmen had also obtained this "Pure Yang True Classic" by chance. He casually scanned it and found that the Pure Yang True Classic indeed did not have any cultivation methods, so he carelessly placed it in the Xianji Pavilion. Later on, there were inner disciples of the Qingfeng Xianmen who saw the majestic description of the "Pure Yang True Classic" and were moved to cultivate it. However, since the third generation, no one had successfully cultivated it. These disciples practiced for several years or over a decade without achieving anything, then switched to cultivating other mind methods, abandoning the "Pure Yang True Classic".

  "The Quanyang True Classic" This book describing the unparalleled majesty of the true classic is left here to gather dust, and no one even touches it.

  But Yan Zhen had the experience of his past life and clearly knew that the "Pure Yang True Classic" was not a waste book at all. In his past life, someone had practiced it successfully. The person who practiced it successfully in his past life was called Guo Cong. After practicing the "Pure Yang True Classic", he subdued all demons and was one of the demon-killing stars, shaking the world for a time.

  So, this "Pure Yang True Classic" can be practiced. Once it is successfully practiced, it will reach the ultimate and strongest state of pure yang without limits, subduing all demons.

  Yan Zhen finally made up her mind and chose this book "Pure Yang Scripture".

  When Yan Zhen walked out of Xianji Pavilion, Luo Qingming elder said, "Which one did you choose? Heart method? Footwork? Swordsmanship?"

  Yan Zhen replied, "The sword technique was not chosen, the footwork is the Heavenly Ladder, and the heart technique chosen is the Pure Yang True Classic."

  Yan Zhencai finished answering and saw Luo Qingming's elder frowning and saying: "This is a useless scripture. From the time it was unearthed 1,500 years ago to now, no one has ever successfully cultivated it. Even the great master of the Xianmen sect, Qing Sanzhenren, evaluated this scripture as unpracticable. Our Qingfeng Xianmen already has many inner disciples who have practiced this heart method, but none of them succeeded. No one has ever succeeded in cultivating it. I personally suggest that you'd better change to another heart method, so as not to waste a few years on this method for nothing. Cultivators are racing against time, and every second counts."

  Yan Zhen shook his head: "No, I've decided to choose this Pure Yang True Classic." In a world where the demonic path dominates half of the land, having a technique that can counter demons is quite valuable. Moreover, those who cultivate the Pure Yang True Classic have extremely powerful and unyielding magical abilities, and many people in the same realm are far inferior. Once mastered, its power is boundless.

  It's settled then.