"If I upgrade ’Derivation Skill’ to Level Four, there’s a high chance I can gain two more task slots."

After all, previously, each level up added two more task slots.

In this way,

With Yan Chuan’s current frequency of martial arts lectures and efficiency in researching Absolute Skills, two task slots can allow him to increase his Experience and Spiritual by at least 100,000 each day.

’Derivation Skill’!

Not only can it assist Yan Chuan in independently researching one Absolute Skill after another, but more importantly, the ’Experience’ and ’Spiritual’ gained through it—

More ’Experience’ can enhance the levels of ’Derivation Skill’, ’Treasure Rock’, ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’, and ’Daoist Cushion’.

More ’Spiritual’ can further fortify Exotic Treasures.

’Derivation Skill’!

Crucial!

But ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’ is also not insignificant—

"Level Three ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’ can improve a Listener’s comprehension efficiency by 100%. This time, if it upgrades to Level Four, it might increase it to 125%."

Improve comprehension efficiency by 1.25 times!

With Level Four ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’, listeners can understand more easily and provide more thoughts and insights back to Yan Chuan, which is the foundation of cultivation. Moreover, Yan Chuan always looks forward to new changes after ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’ is upgraded.

So,

Who to choose?

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[’Derivation Skill’ (Level Three): You can establish research tasks, gain inspiration, research martial arts, and upon task completion, receive ’Experience’ and ’Spiritual’. You can choose to settle the task early, and based on the inspiration progress, you may achieve varying degrees of Enlightenment. The eventually developed ’martial arts’, and the settled ’Experience’ and ’Spiritual’ will be reduced at different levels according to the task completion. Current task slots available: 6.]

(To upgrade to the next level, you need to consume 1000W Experience.)

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[’Derivation Skill’ (Level Four): You can establish research tasks, gain inspiration, research martial arts, and upon task completion, receive ’Experience’ and ’Spiritual’. You can choose to settle the task early, and based on the inspiration progress, you may achieve varying degrees of Enlightenment. The eventually developed ’martial arts’, and the settled ’Experience’ and ’Spiritual’ will be reduced at different levels according to the task completion. You can gain corresponding inspiration from certain traces, items, or environments. Current task slots available: 8.]

(To upgrade to the next level, you need to consume 1E Experience.)

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"Derivation Skill!"

"Level Four!"

After much deliberation, Yan Chuan still chose to upgrade ’Derivation Skill’.

Sharpening the axe does not delay the work of chopping firewood.

By upgrading ’Derivation Skill’ early, whether it’s ’Experience’ or ’Spiritual’, both can be accumulated faster, which is the right path.

However—

[You can gain corresponding inspiration from certain traces, items, or environments.]

"What does it mean?"

Yan Chuan immediately thought of the ’Third-level Cultivation Cave Mansion’ mentioned in the Genius Contract of Wanxiang Pavilion: "It is a cave mansion where Sixth Rank Divine Generals have cultivated for a long time. Sixth Rank Divine Generals comprehend the impression realm; as they practice within, their every move leaves a faint impression over time, leaving traces in the cave mansion, and those below Sixth Rank have a greater chance to comprehend the impression when they enter and cultivate."

Imprint of Intent Realm!

Cultivation Cave Mansion!

Are these ’traces’, ’items’, or ’environments’?

Hard to say.

But—

"Through Level Four ’Derivation Skill’, if I enter such a Cultivation Cave Mansion in the future, can I gain more inspiration?" Yan Chuan thought of his friend Zhang Tao in Heavenly Ladder City, who practiced the True Skill ’Tiger Soul Divine Spear’, entering the corresponding Cultivation Cave Mansion in his family, a place where one generation after another practiced and ascended to Sixth Rank, where Zhang Tao could better perceive the impression and comprehend ’Tiger Soul Divine Spear’—

"And if I can enter, through ’Derivation Skill’, I could more easily research martial arts similar to ’Tiger Soul Divine Spear’ from those impressions, traces, items, and environments."

"Even independently research ’Tiger Soul Divine Spear’?"

Yan Chuan pondered and gradually understood.

Since True Skills like ’Tiger Soul Divine Spear’ and ’Wave Cutting Saber Technique’ greatly assist Yan Chuan in researching the True Skill ’Washing Marrow Scripture’, might the Imprint of Intent Realm in Cultivation Cave Mansion also assist in his research of True Skills?

"Cultivation Cave Mansion!"

"Imprint of Intent Realm!"

"Level Four Derivation Skill!"

"Perhaps, I should quicken my pace, acquire Level Four strength faster, and obtain the ’Genius Contract’ from Wanxiang Pavilion!"

The new changes after upgrading ’Derivation Skill’ to Level Four made Yan Chuan increasingly look forward to the ’Third-level Cultivation Cave Mansion’ in the Genius Contract of Wanxiang Pavilion. Perhaps not only could it help him cultivate better, but it would also be a treasure ground for his research on true skills!

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With ’Derivation Skill’ upgraded, ’Experience’ ran dry, and Yan Chuan returned to a state of poverty.

However—

[Task One: Washing Marrow Scripture (Ji★)]

[Task Two: 72 Transformations (Ji★)]

[Task Three: Beiming Divine Skill (Geng★★★★★)]

[Task Four: Star Shifting (Geng★★★★★)]

...

The Level Four ’Derivation Skill’ has a total of eight task slots, even if two slots are taken up by Self Martial True Skills, the remaining six slots can each research a Geng One Absolute Skill daily, with a daily total income minimum of 300,000 Experience, 300,000 Spiritual—

"At this rate, in just over a month, I’ll be able to save up again to 10 million Experience, then I’ll be able to upgrade ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’."

And there’s Spiritual.

Yan Chuan already has 7 million Spiritual at hand, with his current pace, in at most ten more days, Spiritual can also break ten million, and the first Immortal Stone of Level Four ’Treasure Rock’ is within reach.

"Everything is improving!"

The first Immortal Stone in ’Treasure Rock’ is about to be created, and then Yan Chuan will have two more miracle item enhancement slots, allowing him to enhance two more miracle items.

"I need to prepare the Exotic Treasures that need enhancement in advance."

"Have to let Exotic Treasures wait for Immortal Stones and Spiritual."

"Don’t wait for the Immortal Stones and Spiritual to be ready and I can’t produce the Exotic Treasures that need to be enhanced!"

Yan Chuan currently has no Exotic Treasures ready to be enhanced.

Lu Yuru’s ranks are too low; Yan Chuan doesn’t care for any of them.

However.

Feiyu Trading Company!

Wanshan Trading Company!

Trading houses operating across countries and even continents sell plenty of Exotic Treasures, ranging from gorgeous to high rank, absolutely able to meet Yan Chuan’s needs.

"I won’t go to Golden Talisman City temporarily."

"But I have other destinations—"

...

Woo wawa~

In the wild frontier, ’Monkey King Avatar’ opened its mouth and spat out Yan Chuan.

"Old Yan."

"Up ahead is ’Five Blessings City’, one of the eighteen large cities in Danhu Realm, within the city, there’s a notable figure, a renowned Array Master in Jinze Region, named ’Zhonghang Lu’."

Wang Zhengyi introduced the city ahead to Yan Chuan.

Actually, Yan Chuan already had significant knowledge of the six great royal cities in Jinze Region corresponding to Guangling County, although he had been in Hunxi Territory before.

This includes the eighteen large cities within Danhu Realm.

Among them, the most famous in Five Blessings City is the Array Master ’Zhonghang Lu’, not just for her array attainments, but also because of her father—

"Zhonghang Guangming."

"’Zhonghang Lu’ is the daughter of the Family Head of the War God lineage from one of the Thirteen Royal Families, ’Zhonghang Family’, in Danhu Royal City. Due to differing ideals with Zhonghang Guangming, she was unwilling to stay in the family, so she left to establish ’Sixth Sense Sword Sect’ in Five Blessings City."

Yan Chuan recalled information about Danhu Realm, Five Blessings City, and the Zhonghang Family.

Unlike Hunxi Territory’s ’Four Families and Three Sects’, Danhu Realm has no ’Sects’, only ’Families’. The Thirteen Royal Families rule over a vast territory with nearly ten million citizens, with no sects existing in the realm, except for the ’Sixth Sense Sword Sect’ established by Zhonghang Lu in Five Blessings City, which is an exception.

However, decades ago, it wasn’t like this.

Decades ago, there were two great sects in Danhu Realm, both with War God level ancestors oversee, supporting each other, capable of standing equal to the twelve Royal Families.

Unfortunately, one of these two sects underwent ’Peaceful Evolution’, and the newly risen War God ’Zhonghang Guangming’ united with the four families of Gold, Liu, Huan, and Sheng from the Twelve Royal Families, ambushed the ancestors of the sect, transforming the ’sect’ into a ’family’, changing the vast sect from ’sect master-disciple inheritance’ to ’family bloodline inheritance’, thus Zhonghang Family became the Thirteenth Royal Family in Danhu Realm.

Afterward,

Zhonghang Family spearheaded by the Seven Royal Families destroyed the last big sect within Danhu Realm.

Since then, the Thirteen Royal Families dominated Danhu Realm.

And the ’Sixth Sense Sword Sect’ established by ’Zhonghang Lu’ is actually a lineage from the original ’Destruction God Sword Sect’ of the Zhonghang Family. Disdainful of father’s actions, ’Zhonghang Lu’ severed ties with Zhonghang Guangming, ending their father-son relationship, and established her own in Five Blessings City.

But Zhonghang Lu was the most talented and temperamentally similar to Zhonghang Guangming among over ten of his children; initially the most favored, even after the fallout, her status remained special.

Protected by an array personally set by the Array Master in charge, and with a War God’s attention, Five Blessings City, where Zhonghang Lu is situated, naturally became solid as a rock, virtually the most prosperous among the eighteen cities in Danhu.

"Feiyu Trading Company and Wanshan Trading Company both have bases in Five Blessings City. In terms of commercial prosperity, it even surpasses Golden Talisman City." This became Yan Chuan’s chosen temporary dwelling place.

Yan Chuan dared not return to Hunxi Territory or Golden Talisman City for now.

In Danhu Realm and Five Blessings City, he could still spend as he wished.

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"Five Blessings City."

"Danhu Realm."

In ’North Mansion’, the vision suddenly opened up, and Ding Xiang was meditating and practicing in a stone room. Suddenly raising her head, she saw a majestic city ahead, with the words ’Five Blessings’ written on the city gate, and her heart stirred with instant joy, "Five Blessings City! Zhonghang Lu! Array Master!"

Ever since achieving Innate Dao, Ding Xiang’s ’Mind Reading Technique’ had changed; from only binding one person, one period of three years, it became capable of binding two people, one permanent, another per year.

That is—

"I can bind another person besides my brother’s Lightweight Body Technique permanently, and change it every year, and it is no longer limited to ’Inner Strength’, ’Lightweight Body Technique’, ’Saber Skill’, ’Swordsmanship’, but includes ’Alchemy’, ’Artifact Refining’, and array techniques, all of which can be bound and ’Mind Reading Stealing’, including arrays."

After achieving Innate Dao, Ding Xiang urgently wanted to find someone to bind. She wanted to earn money, most wanted to bind masters or Grandmasters in the field of ’Alchemy - Artifact Refining - Talisman - Array’, but in Golden Talisman City, in Tan Valley, there was no suitable candidate. With a period of one year per change, Ding Xiang didn’t want to randomly bind a half-baked practitioner, so she waited and searched anxiously.

Finally.

Today,

"Five Blessings City."

"Zhonghang Lu."

"Array Master."

Ding Xiang’s eyes brightened: "It’s decided, it’s her!"

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