The little white fox pondered for a while, then opened its mouth and spat out a faint white glow, which shot rapidly toward the white jade in Lin Chang'sheng's hand!

"Huh?"

Seeing the little white fox spit out that white light toward the white jade in his hand, Lin Chang'sheng was shocked and jumped back in alarm.

But it was already too late.

That pale white radiance sped forward at lightning speed and instantly burrowed into the white jade.

Immediately, Lin Chang'sheng felt the white jade in his hand become scalding hot, so he quickly tossed it to the ground.

"The little white fox can actually spit out white radiance?"

With surprise and wariness, Lin Chang'sheng looked at the little white fox a yard away, only to see that after spitting out the light, the fox instantly became listless and collapsed, its eyes dim and lifeless, but it gazed at Lin Chang'sheng with a look of comfort and contentment.

"What's going on?"

Lin Chang'sheng eyed the little white fox, and taking a hint from past experience, he didn't go near to check. Instead, he looked at the white jade on the ground, then at the little white fox, noticing the fox slowly closing its eyes, going limp against the floor.

It looked as miserable as if it had been through several setbacks.

Lin Chang'sheng gave the white jade on the ground a thoughtful look.

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly, a red light flashed across the white jade, spreading out into a fiery red screen of light that appeared right in front of Lin Chang'sheng.

This light screen was about a yard square, filled with tiny fiery red characters.

At the very top of the light screen, there were three large words.

[Fire Element Technique]

"Fire Element Technique?"

"There's a cultivation technique inside this white jade?"

Seeing the fiery red words glowing on the screen, Lin Chang'sheng's eyes widened.

He remembered that the Lei Family practiced the Blazing Fire Technique, not this Fire Element Technique.

"So this little white fox helped me activate the technique inside the jade scroll?"

"This technique was sealed in this jade scroll—even more so, this can't be just any Martial Arts Technique!"

Expectant, Lin Chang'sheng glanced at the now-unconscious little white fox, feeling a warmth in his heart. Not wasting time, he hurriedly checked out the Fire Element Technique.

"Wait? This Fire Element Technique—it's a Cultivation Immortality Technique!"

Lin Chang'sheng quickly skimmed through the technique, and seeing the backstory to this method, he took a deep breath, his heart pumping hard!

This piece of white jade was actually a jade scroll from the Cultivation Realm, intended for storing Cultivation Immortality Techniques and cultivation notes.

Cultivators used it to record their techniques and insights from training.

This Fire Element Technique was a Fire Attribute Technique.

The Lei Family ancestor had once been a Qi Refinement disciple at the Taiyan Refining Artifact Sect. Failing the breakthrough to Foundation Establishment, he moved to Min Nan City and formed a clan.

Sadly, none of the Lei Family descendants possessed any spirit root.

In the end, the ancestor could only inscribe the Fire Element Technique and his cultivation notes onto this jade scroll, hoping someday a descendant with a spirit root would appear.

The fiery red glow on this jade scroll flickered for barely a hundred breaths, then disappeared.

"That's it?"

Lin Chang'sheng stepped forward, picked up the jade scroll, then looked over at the fox, murmuring, "It seems... this little white fox isn't simple. If I want to see more of what's inside the jade scroll, I'll have to rely on it."

Lin Chang'sheng fetched a vegetable basket and a folded quilt to make a little nest. He sandwiched the little white fox between two wooden planks, placed two pears and a bowl of water beside it.

He also moved the brazier close to keep its body warm.

Right now, this little white fox was the key to opening the Fire Element Technique hidden in the scroll; he'd have to wait for it to wake up.

Lin Chang'sheng dared not touch it, worried the fox would drain his True Qi again!

"A fire attribute technique probably requires a fire spirit root. I wonder if I have a spirit root? If I do, what attribute would it be?"

Roasting by the fire, Lin Chang'sheng watched the little white fox, mind full of anticipation.

He planned to wait for the fox to wake up, get the cultivation technique, then visit the Hundred Herbs Hall.

.......

To Lin Chang'sheng's surprise—

The little white fox ended up sleeping straight through; if he hadn't seen its chest still rising and falling, Lin Chang'sheng would've thought the little fox was dead.

These few days,

He still roasted by the fire, rubbed his belly, practiced Tiger Claw—never slacking on anything.

On the fifth morning,

Lin Chang'sheng sat by the brazier, glancing at his panel: his Five Internal Organs Guiding Technique had reached perfection, as had Blazing Fire Technique and Thunder Fire Finger the day before. The Minor Circulation Breathing Method, though, needed four or five more days to reach perfection.

Tiger Roar Fist was just a sliver from perfection; actually, Iron Sand Palm could now be fused with Thunder Fire Finger. Lin Chang'sheng planned to let Tiger Roar Fist reach perfection, then fuse the three hand and finger techniques together—see what kind of Martial Arts skill he could merge!

[Detected: Perfected techniques Sun and Moon Breathing Technique, Five Internal Organs Guiding Technique, Blazing Fire Technique. You may consume 200 taels of silver to fuse them into a new technique. Proceed with fusion?]

At the instant Five Internal Organs Guiding Technique reached perfection, Lin Chang'sheng saw this red prompt pop up on his panel.

"Fuse them!"

Lin Chang'sheng instantly hit confirm.

[Sun and Moon Breathing Technique, Five Internal Organs Guiding Technique, Blazing Fire Technique, fusing... Fusion complete... Gained: Five Elements Nourishing Essence Skill!]

In barely a moment after Lin Chang'sheng confirmed, a red prompt flashed again on his panel.

"Fused into Five Elements Nourishing Essence Skill?"

"With this Divine Skill, my Cultivation Experience Points should increase faster, right?!"

Staring at the panel and the brand new fused Martial Arts Skill, Lin Chang'sheng muttered in anticipation.

[Five Elements Nourishing Essence Skill detected—consume 100 taels of silver to simplify?]

And at this moment, a new red prompt popped up on the panel.

"Simplify it!"

Lin Chang'sheng pressed confirm again.

[Great Dao is Simple: Simplifying Five Elements Nourishing Essence Skill... Simplification complete... Five Elements Nourishing Essence Skill == Drink Ginseng Soup!]

Before ten breaths passed after clicking confirm, the prompt came again.

"Five Elements Nourishing Essence Skill—simplified to drinking ginseng soup?"

Seeing the simplified effect, Lin Chang'sheng blinked in disbelief. Just drinking ginseng soup would increase experience in Five Elements Nourishing Essence Skill? This was ridiculously easy!

"Oh whatever, I'll just go buy some ginseng and make soup. Drink ginseng soup, it is!"

"And give some to the little white fox too, so it can recover quicker and help me unlock that Fire Element Technique!"

Lin Chang'sheng thought to himself.

Five days ago, when the jade scroll opened, the content flashed by too quickly. He hadn't memorized it all, leaving him itching with anticipation these past few days.

He tucked the little fox up in the blanket, locked the door, slung Dawn on his back, and rushed straight to South City.

........

Min Nan City.

The Lei Family was now a pile of ruins.

The clan's core family members had all died in that great explosion; the Lei Family had been wiped out, and their former businesses were devoured by the other four great families.

"What utter trash—they couldn't even kill that Lin Chang'sheng, and the clan went up in flames!"

Bathed in moonlight, a middle-aged scholar in scholars' robes stood amid the debris, hands folded behind his back, his face gloom-ridden. Then his eyes flickered as he muttered, "Though... it's possible the Lei Family's explosion was caused by that boy!"

"Looks like I'll have to report to the Young Master before making my next move."

The middle-aged scholar muttered to himself, then turned to leave.

.......

Drunken Land Tower, South City.

Lin Chang'sheng sat in his usual window seat.

In front of him sat two bowls of ginseng pig stomach chicken soup. Scooping up a spoonful, he blew on it, and took a sip.

Five Elements Nourishing Essence Skill Experience Points +1!

[Five Elements Nourishing Essence Skill (Entry Level 1/1000)]

"I take a sip, that's 1 EXP?"

"So to get my Five Elements Nourishing Essence Skill to perfection, how much chicken soup would I have to drink?"

Seeing the EXP bar grow on his panel, Lin Chang'sheng frowned.

By his calculations, getting Five-Star Nourishing Essence Skill to perfection would mean drinking over 781,000 sips of soup. How long would that even take?

"Wait, it just says drinking soup gives EXP—it never specified how much per sip. What if I just lick the soup?"

An idea flashed in Lin Chang'sheng's mind.

So he instantly scooped up a spoonful, and just licked a bit!

Five Elements Nourishing Essence Skill Experience Points +1!

"Ha, it really works! Just licking the soup adds an experience point!"

"Well now, that's something I can work with!"

Seeing the red prompt on his panel, Lin Chang'sheng relaxed.

Now, how long will it take to lick this bowl of soup?

How much experience can I get?

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