Chapter 610: Chapter 392: Hatred

"What should I choose?"

Bidding Jin Yu farewell, Xu Yang fell into thought.

His first choice was undoubtedly a Spirit Bone Martial Technique. With his Spirit Bone, he couldn’t unleash its full power without an accompanying Spirit Bone Martial Technique. But he wasn’t in urgent need of one right now. The Eight Ferocious Hidden Dragon Strength and the Extreme Prison Heaven-Slaying Technique were still sufficient for his current needs.

His physical body had the Azure Dragon Dominating Body, and his Spirit Bone had the Dragon Symbols Heart Scripture. However, when it came to his Heart Spirit, he still lacked a suitable Cultivation Technique. At his current Realm, it wasn’t that the Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture was useless, but its effect on refining his Heart Spirit had greatly diminished. What he needed most urgently was a Cultivation Technique for his Heart Spirit.

"Forget it. I’ll wait until I go to the Hidden Skills Hall to look at the subsequent Heart Methods of the Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture and the Spirit Bone Martial Techniques. I’ll just choose whichever requires the highest credits," he thought.

After pondering for a moment, he found it difficult to decide. It was better to simply choose the most expensive one—that way, there would be nothing left to agonize over.

"Huang Yi must know exactly what kind of scum Luo Zhao was, yet she still came to cause trouble for the teacher. I’m afraid she’s going to be difficult to deal with; I’ll have to be careful in the future."

He recalled that woman, Huang Yi. Once the wrath of a desperate widow erupted, she could be capable of anything. He couldn’t afford to ignore her. But this was his first time hearing her name. Knowing nothing about her, he felt completely in the dark.

"I’ll have to ask someone to look into her."

As he thought this, he felt a gaze full of venomous resentment land on him. Xu Yang looked up and saw a woman dressed in mourning clothes glaring at him with murderous intent. A man stood beside her.

"Huang Yi?" Xu Yang thought to himself, raising an eyebrow.

Their gazes clashed in the air. She didn’t speak, nor did he. He simply continued to stride away.

"From the look of him, Jin Yu must have believed his words," Peng Lianyun said.

Huang Yi remained silent and walked briskly toward where Jin Yu was. "Mr. Jin Yu, my husband died in battle for the Academy, yet Xu Yang continues to slander him. Why haven’t you expelled someone with such a corrupt moral character?"

Jin Yu looked up, his gaze calm. "I questioned him both times. Every word Xu Yang spoke was the truth, without a single slanderous remark. This matter ends here. You are not to pester him any further."

"The dead cannot testify! On what basis are his words considered the truth?" Huang Yi questioned.

Since Jin Yu was Xu Yang’s teacher, and given Xu Yang’s talent, Jin Yu was definitely showing favoritism.

"Are you questioning me?" Hearing her accusation, Jin Yu’s eyes turned slightly cold as a terrifying aura flashed past.

"I wouldn’t dare!" Huang Yi shuddered all over, finally remembering that Jin Yu was no ordinary teacher in the Celestial Strategy Academy. As a mentor to those Spirit Bone Celestial Prides, his strength ranked among the absolute elite of all the Academy’s teachers.

"For the sake of your late husband, I won’t hold this against you. I believe you know what kind of person Luo Zhao was better than I do. It is already a mercy that the Academy isn’t pursuing the matter. If you continue to pester us about this, you won’t be able to bear the consequences. Leave." Having said that, Jin Yu waved his hand dismissively to drive her out.

Huang Yi’s face turned deathly pale. Not daring to say another word, she had no choice but to retreat with her tail between her legs.

"Xu Yang, you animal!"

She didn’t dare vent her resentment on Jin Yu, but in her heart, she wished she could swallow Xu Yang—the main culprit who caused all this—alive. If it weren’t for him, she would have received a large pension.

Now, she had nothing. Her genius junior brother was gone, her husband was gone, and the pension was gone. Her dead husband was even mocked as having deserved to die, while she had to kiss the boots of anyone with status. A monstrous hatred almost burst from her chest.

"Don’t do anything rash. This is the Celestial Strategy Academy," Peng Lianyun reminded her. Even he was startled by Huang Yi’s appearance. Her hatred was almost palpable.

"The Celestial Strategy Academy is unjust. I will seek justice myself." Huang Yi’s voice carried a chill that made one feel as if they had plunged into an ice cellar.

In the Logistics Hall!

"Teacher, I am here to claim the credit reward for the Celestial Strategy Wind and Cloud List."

Xu Yang had come straight to the Logistics Hall. Handing over his Waist Token, he quickly received his fifty credits. As for the Battle Tower, the Spirit Tower, and the Martial Tower, there was no need to claim anything here; he only needed to bring his Waist Token there directly.

"I’ll go to the Hidden Skills Hall to choose a Cultivation Technique first, and head to the Spirit Tower after I’m done."

The Spiritual Qi inside the Spirit Tower was always ten times that of the outside world, making it the optimal Holy Land for cultivation. Yet, in the more than seven months he had been at the Celestial Strategy Academy, he hadn’t visited it once, reluctant to spend his hard-earned credits.

"Ten times the Spiritual Qi... Given the speed at which my Spirit Bone devours Spiritual Qi, going all out in cultivation for three days would be almost equivalent to a month of arduous cultivation outside, if not exactly the same."

The better one’s talent, the greater the value of cultivating in the Spirit Tower. It was just like eating at a buffet in his previous life—the more you could eat, the more you got your money’s worth, even to the point of eating the restaurant into a loss.

Turning around, he soon arrived at the Hidden Skills Hall and began searching among the various Cultivation Techniques. It didn’t take long for Xu Yang to find a Spirit Bone Martial Technique that caught his eye.

"The Taichu Dragon Symbols Fist. A Spirit Bone Martial Technique recorded in the Dragon Symbols Heart Scripture. It cannot be cultivated unless one has mastered the Dragon Symbols Heart Scripture or is a Spirit Bone Celestial Pride. Cost: one thousand eight hundred credits."

It was actually a Spirit Bone Martial Technique recorded in the Dragon Symbols Heart Scripture!

"What a bunch of scumbags. The Spirit Bone Martial Technique recorded in the Dragon Symbols Heart Scripture was actually separated to be sold individually," he muttered internally. He had wondered before how the senior expert who passed down the Dragon Symbols Heart Scripture could only pass down a Heart Method without an accompanying martial art. It turned out it had been separated.

Xu Yang continued reading. Right next to the Taichu Dragon Symbols Fist were two other Spirit Bone Martial Techniques.

"The Eight Desolates Demon Suppression Fist. A Fist Technique recorded in the Eight Desolates Spirit Bone Scripture. It cannot be cultivated unless one has mastered the Eight Desolates Spirit Bone Scripture or is a Spirit Bone Celestial Pride. Cost: one thousand eight hundred credits."

"The Infinite Godslaying Palm. A Palm technique recorded in the Infinite Bone Forging Scripture. It cannot be cultivated unless one has mastered the Infinite Bone Forging Scripture or is a Spirit Bone Celestial Pride. Cost: one thousand eight hundred credits."

The requirements for all three Spirit Bone Martial Techniques were exactly the same. Unless one was a Spirit Bone Celestial Pride, they could only be cultivated by someone who had mastered the corresponding Spirit Bone Technique. There was no difference in the credit cost either; they were all one thousand eight hundred credits.

Xu Yang quickly ruled out the other two. Although he met the conditions for all of them, the Taichu Dragon Symbols Fist was obviously the most suitable. Since he practiced the Dragon Symbols Heart Scripture, it didn’t make sense to cultivate a Fist Technique recorded in a different Spirit Bone Technique. That would be an awkward mismatch and wouldn’t allow him to unleash the Fist Technique’s maximum power.

Shifting his gaze away, he began looking for the subsequent portions of the Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture.

The Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture was a Cultivation Technique that refined the Heart Spirit and Sword Intent. Its profundity was no less than that of a Spirit Bone Technique, but it required exceptionally high Comprehension, making it impossible for ordinary people to practice. Even with his Perfection of Comprehension, it had still taken him several months back then to reach the Entry Level of the Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture.

The portion for the Celestial Essence Realm would only be more profound. However, with his previous foundation, achieving Entry Level shouldn’t be too difficult.

In the Saber Technique category, he didn’t see the Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture. He didn’t know if the Celestial Strategy Academy simply didn’t have its subsequent portions, or if it wasn’t classified as a Saber Technique at all.

"Could it be considered a Secret Technique?"

Xu Yang found the Secret Technique category and browsed through every single one from beginning to end, but he still couldn’t spot it.

"Does even the Celestial Strategy Academy not have the subsequent portions of the Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture?"

He remembered when he first obtained it at the Purple Sun Sect, he had heard that it was a Supreme Technique. Unfortunately, because the latter half was missing, it had been placed in the Outer Disciple Hidden Skills Hall. He hadn’t expected to find it missing even here at the Celestial Strategy Academy.

Of course, it was also possible that it wasn’t missing, and he just hadn’t seen it. The Celestial Strategy Academy’s Hidden Skills Hall was all-encompassing, housing thousands of Cultivation Techniques. Perhaps he had just overlooked it.

"What Cultivation Technique are you looking for, Brother Xu? I saw you searching for a long time without finding it. Why don’t you tell me, and I’ll help you look? I come here often. While I wouldn’t say I know the Cultivation Techniques in the Hidden Skills Hall inside out, I do know most of the powerful ones."

Xu Yang turned around and found his classmate, Wu You. If he remembered correctly, Wu You and Wan He were good friends. This guy probably wasn’t here to help; he was likely hoping to watch Xu Yang make a fool of himself. After all, this was the Hidden Skills Hall, not a place for eating, drinking, and chatting. Everyone came here to look for Cultivation Techniques; who would pay attention to anyone else? People who went out of their way to watch others usually had ulterior motives.

"Ah, it’s Brother Wu. May I ask if you have ever heard of the Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture?" he asked politely. He didn’t care what mindset the other party had. They hadn’t had a falling out yet, so naturally, he wouldn’t give him the cold shoulder just because he was close with Wan He. Xu Yang wasn’t the type to turn hostile to someone’s face for no reason.

"The Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture?" Wu You smiled. "So that’s the Cultivation Technique you’re looking for. No wonder you couldn’t find it after searching for so long. This technique is neither a Secret Technique nor a Saber Technique. The Celestial Strategy Academy categorizes it as a Heart Method. Look! There’s the Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture."

Xu Yang followed the direction Wu You was pointing and, indeed, spotted the Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture among the dense array of Cultivation Techniques in the Heart Method category.

"To think it was categorized as a Heart Method. Thank you, Brother Wu," Xu Yang said, clasping his hands in a polite gesture. Giving it some thought, the Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture could indeed be classified as a Heart Method. After all, it wasn’t exactly a Saber Technique or a Secret Technique, but rather a Cultivation Technique meant to enhance the Heart Spirit.

"The Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture: Marrow Cleansing Chapter. A Heart Method to refine the Heart Spirit and Sword Intent. It requires incredibly strong Comprehension and Heart Spirit to cultivate successfully. Cost: six hundred credits."

"The Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture: Celestial Essence Chapter. A Heart Method to refine the Heart Spirit and Sword Intent. It requires incredibly strong Comprehension and Heart Spirit to cultivate successfully. Cost: two thousand credits."

The combined credits required for the Marrow Cleansing Chapter and the Celestial Essence Chapter were already comparable to a Spirit Bone Technique like the Dragon Symbols Heart Scripture.

"It was just a piece of cake. There’s no need to thank me. Are you planning to exchange for the Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture, Brother Xu?" Wu You asked with a smile.

"I am considering it," Xu Yang replied.

Since the credits required for the Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture exceeded those for the Spirit Bone Martial Technique, he would choose it based on his previous reasoning. Wu You would see him exchange for the Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture shortly anyway, so there was no need to hide it.

"Even exchanging for just the First Layer of the Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture requires two hundred credits. You actually have that many?" Wu You revealed a look of mild surprise. He had assumed Xu Yang was just looking and wouldn’t be able to afford the technique at all. Who would have thought Xu Yang genuinely had the means?

Two hundred for one layer, and two thousand for the Ninefold.

This was no small sum. Xu Yang’s ranking on the Celestial Strategy Wind and Cloud List only yielded fifty credits a month. It would take a full forty months of credits to gather two thousand. Forty months—that was over three years. Even if many people coveted this Cultivation Technique, they didn’t dare pull the trigger on it. After all, over the span of three years, it was impossible to use all one’s credits solely for exchanging Cultivation Techniques.

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