In the practice room.
"Master, you didn't give me a storage ring before, why not?" Yang Feilong couldn't help but ask. He used to think it was difficult to get one, but after going to the Spirit World, he realized that storage rings were very common. His master had been to the Spirit World for a long time, and could even go anytime. It should be easy to get some storage rings. He didn't believe his master only had one.
"The main reason is that your cultivation was too low at the time. If you wore a storage ring and were seen by someone knowledgeable, it would lead to a life-threatening disaster, and I couldn't always be by your side... To avoid you missing it, I said I only had one storage ring. Is this hard to understand?" Bai Yidie said lightly.
Yang Feilong: "..."
Alright, that's very honest!
Yang Feilong completely understood. It was like before, he already had quite a few storage rings, but he only gave them to a few of his women. Why? Because some of his women were not strong enough, and he was worried that if some powerful individuals without storage rings saw them, they would become greedy and try to kill for treasure.
When he descended the mountain, his cultivation was only at the second level of Qi Refining, and his combat power was at most comparable to an ordinary third-level Qi Refining or Xuanwu Realm cultivator. Giving him that item was indeed not a good thing!
As the saying goes:
A jade is innocent, but possession of it is a crime!
Yang Feilong took the storage ring containing a massive amount of ability secret manuals handed to him by his master.
"By the way, Master, I went to the Spirit World this time..." Then, Yang Feilong briefly recounted his previous trip to the Spirit World, focusing on the situation within the Five Elements Bagua Formation and how he killed Xiao Tengyun and was cursed by him.
"Soul curse?" Bai Yidie's expression changed slightly upon hearing this.
"I set up a vacuum formation in my soul to isolate the aura fluctuations of the curse mark!" Yang Feilong said. "This way, I avoided being hunted like a target by the Xiao family!"
"Vacuum formation?" Bai Yidie looked at Yang Feilong with admiration. "I didn't expect you to come up with such a method!"
"Does Master have a better solution? Although the curse mark's energy is slowly decreasing under the isolation of the vacuum formation, it will take a long time. Having such a thing in my mind feels like a ticking time bomb. Who knows if the Xiao family can still sense the fluctuations if they are close?" Yang Feilong looked at his master with anticipation and asked.
"There is a way, of course. The best way is to find cultivators who practice witchcraft and sorcery, especially those who are somewhat accomplished witches. They have ways to remove this curse mark," Bai Yidie said.
"Find a witch?" Yang Feilong frowned. "Is that easy to find?"
"There are many witches in the Miao ethnic group of Western Hunan," Bai Yidie said.
"Is that so?" Yang Feilong stroked his chin. "So, I need to go there?"
"If you feel uncomfortable, you can go. Of course, even without the help of a witch, if you isolate it with the vacuum formation, the curse mark may dissipate completely in three to five years due to lack of energy!" Bai Yidie said.
"Three to five years? Then forget it!" Yang Feilong shrugged and said, "When I have time, I'll go to the Miao ethnic group and find a witch to help!"
Bai Yidie nodded. "Alright, go spend time with your two girlfriends!"
"Okay!" Yang Feilong nodded.
That evening, Yang Feilong cooked a grand meal.
The four of them spent New Year's Eve together.
Of course, that night, Yang Feilong spent several hours on the phone. He couldn't reach them in the Spirit World, but now that he was back, he naturally had to contact his other women. However, he also told them that he wouldn't be visiting this year, and would go to Blue Sea City in a few days and stay there for some time.
This was not because Yang Feilong had obtained what he wanted and no longer cared, but because he didn't want to waste time on travel. After the Lantern Festival, he would head to the Miao ethnic group in Western Hunan to remove the curse mark on his body, and then go to the Spirit World. He didn't have much time to waste on travel.
This made his women both surprised and delighted, because Yang Feilong had said before he left that it might take two to three years, but now he was back in just a few months, which naturally made them happy.
Drinking with the three women, Yang Feilong was in a good mood. This time last year, he was cultivating three disciplines, each at the seventh or eighth level of the first realm. Today, the three disciplines were merged into one, and his cultivation had reached the second realm, the eighth level of the Yin-Yang Realm.
His combat power was comparable to a cultivator in the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm.
For some reason, Yang Feilong felt an urge to practice swordsmanship. While the three women drank, Yang Feilong, holding his sword, began to practice under their puzzled gazes. His sword strokes were like a long rainbow piercing the sun, and his sword intent was like snowflakes, fluttering down.
Snowflakes fell, looking beautiful and mysterious.
But within them lay a sharp intent that made people tremble.
"Second-order Sword Intent!" Bai Yidie's eyes flashed with joy as she watched Yang Feilong's sword dance.
"Second-order Sword Intent?" Murong Qingxue and Murong Qiuyue were stunned. The aunt and niece had not even grasped sword intent, yet Yang Feilong, who was younger than them and had not yet reached the Golden Core Realm, could contend with Golden Core cultivators, and now he had even reached the second stage of sword intent?
It was known that many Golden Core Realm cultivators could not comprehend a Dao, and only some top-tier Golden Core Realm cultivators could grasp Dao such as sword intent. Yang Feilong had grasped second-order sword intent before the Golden Core Realm? What kind of cultivation talent was this!
Yes, Yang Feilong's sword intent had broken through to the second order. He hadn't expected it himself. He had only wanted to practice swordsmanship at first, and hadn't expected his sword intent to break through as he practiced!
Only when the second-order sword intent reached a bottleneck did Yang Feilong sheath his sword, with a look of satisfaction and regret on his face.
He was satisfied with the breakthrough of his sword intent, but he regretted that his sword intent was still only at the introductory level of the second order, just a little short of minor accomplishment. This required time and comprehension to break through!
Each order of sword intent had four levels: introductory, minor accomplishment, major accomplishment, and perfection.
Once one broke through a level, although the qualitative change of sword intent was not as dramatic as breaking through a major realm, it could be similar to the effect of breaking through from the first to the second level of the Golden Core Realm.
"My current strength might be considered formidable among cultivators in the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm!" Yang Feilong mused to himself. Of course, if he used the top-grade spiritual artifact, the Shan Hai Sword, his combat power might be able to dominate among cultivators in the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm!
Yang Feilong originally wanted to give the top-grade spiritual artifact, the Shan Hai Sword, to his master, but his master refused, which made Yang Feilong somewhat regretful.
Although the top-grade spiritual artifact, the Shan Hai Sword, was precious, he would not regret giving it to his master, and would even be happy, because he knew his master had many worries, and he wanted to help his master, but his master was not yet willing to open up to him.